The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12

majority OF the Quailneo electors vOtln8
thereon. In submitting any such charter or
amendment thereto, any alternate article or
proposition may be presented for the choice
Of the voters and may be voted on separately
without prejudice to others.
Any home rule charter proposed as herein
provided, may provide for such county off,
GERS as may be deemed necessary to carry
out and perform all county functions as pro-
vided by charter or by general law, and for
their compensation, but shall not affect the
election of the prosecuting attorney, the
county superintendent of schools. the judges
of the superior court and the Justices Of the
peace. or the jurisdiction of the courts.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provision
for the calling of an election by the legis-
lative authority of such county for the cleo
ton of freeholders to frame a county char
ter. registered voters equal in number to
ten (10) per centum of the voters Of any
such county voting at the last preceding
general election, may at any time propose
by petition the calling of an election of free
holders. The petition shall be filed with the
county auditor of the county at least three
(3) months before any general election and
the proposal that board Of freeholders be
elected for the purpose Of framing county
charter shall be submitted to the vote of the
people at said general election, and Mt the
same election board of freeholders of not
five (25), as fixed in the petition calling for
the election. shall be chosen to draft the new
charter. The procedure for the nomination
of qualified electors as candidates for said
board of freeholders shall be prescribed by
the legislative authority of the county. and
the procedure for the framing of the charter
and the submission of the charter as framed
shall be the same as in the case OF a board
of freeholders chosen at an election initiated
by the legislative authority of the county.
In calling for any election of freeholders
as provided in this section, the legislative
authority of the county shall apportion the
number of freeholders to be elected in ac-
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or the county commissioner districts, if any.
within said county, the number of said free
holders to be elected from each of said dis
tricts to be in proportion to the population
of said districts as nearly as may be.
Should the charter proposed receive the
affirmative vote of the majority of the cleo
tors voting thereon, the legislative authority
Of the county shall Immediately call such
special election as may be provided for
therein, if any, and the county government
shall be established in accordance with the
terms of said charter not more than six (6)
months after the election at which the char
ter was adopted.
The terms of all elective officers, except
the prosecuting attorney, the county super
intendent of schools. the judges of the supe-
rior court, and the justices of the peace, who
are in Office at the time of the adoption OF a
Home Rule Charter Slall terminate as pro-
in office at the time the charter goes into
effect, whose positions are not abolished
thereby. shall continue until their successors
shall have qualified.
After the adoption of such charter, such
county shall continue to have all the rights,
powers, privileges and benefits then pos
sessed or thereafter conferred by general
law. All the powers, authority and duties
granted to and imposed on county officers
by general law, except the prosecuting at
torney, the county superintendent OF schools,
the judges Of the superior court and the
justices of the peace, shall be vested in the
legislative authority of the county unless
expressly vested in specific officers by the
charter. The legislative authority may by
resolution delegate any of its executive or
administrative powers, authority or duties
not expressly vested in specific officers by
the charter, to any county officer or officers
or county employee or employees.
The provisions of sections 8. 6. 2, and the
first sentence of section OF this Article as
amended shall not apply to counties in
which the government has been established
hereof The authority conferred on the
board of county commissioners by Section
Is of Article II as amended, shall be exer-
cised by the legislative authority of the
county.
And Be It Farther RESOLVED. That the
Secretary of State shall cause the foregoing
constitutional amendment to be published
for at least three go months next preceding
the election IN weekly newspaper in every
county in the state in which such a news
paper is published. .-
Passed by the Senate January %. 1947.
~-ra VICTOR A. MEYERS,
President of the Senate.
- Passed by the House February 81, 1s47.
~ HERBERT M. HAMBLEN,
Speaker of the House.