Two additional port commissioners shall be elected at the next
district general election following the election at which voters
authorized the increase in port commissioners to five members.
The port commissioners shall divide the port district into
five commissioner districts prior to the first day of June in the
year in which the two additional commissioners shall be elected,
unless the voters approved the nomination of the two additional
commissioners from district-wide commissioner districts as
permitted in RCW 53.12.010(2). The new commissioner districts
shall be numbered one through five and the three incumbent
commissioners shall represent commissioner districts one through
three. If, as a result of redrawing the district boundaries two
or three of the incumbent commissioners reside in one of the new
commissioner districts, the commissioners who reside in the same
commissioner district shall determine by lot which of the first
three numbered commissioner districts they shall represent for
the remainder of their respective terms. A primary shall be held
to nominate candidates from districts four and five where
necessary and commissioners shall be elected from commissioner
districts four and five at the general election. The persons
elected as commissioners from commissioner districts four and
five shall take office immediately after qualification as defined
under *RCW 29.01.135.
In a port district where commissioners are elected to
four-year terms of office, the additional commissioner thus
elected receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected to
a four-year term of office and the other additional commissioner
thus elected shall be elected to a term of office of two years,
if the election is held in an odd-numbered year, or the
additional commissioner thus elected receiving the highest number
of votes shall be elected to a term of office of three years and
the other shall be elected to a term of office of one year, if
the election is held in an even-numbered year. In a port
district where the commissioners are elected to six-year terms of
office, the additional commissioner thus elected receiving the
highest number of votes shall be elected to a six-year term of
office and the other additional commissioner shall be elected to
a four-year term of office, if the election is held in an
odd-numbered year, or the additional commissioner receiving the
highest number of votes shall be elected to a term of office of
five-years and the other shall be elected to a three-year term of
office, if the election is held in an even-numbered year. The
length of terms of office shall be computed from the first day of
January in the year following this election.
Successor commissioners from districts four and five shall
be elected to terms of either six or four years, depending on the
length of terms of office to which commissioners of that port
district are elected.
[1994 c 223 § 88; 1992 c 146 § 9; 1965 c 51 § 8; 1959 c 17 § 11. Prior: 1953 c 198 § 2; 1913 c 62 § 2, part; 1911 c 92 § 3, part; RRS § 9690, part.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 29.01.135 was recodified as RCW 29A.04.133 pursuant to 2003 c 111 § 2401, effective July 1, 2004.