[Download] "Weyerhaeuser Co. V. King County" by Supreme Court of Washington ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Weyerhaeuser Co. V. King County
- Author : Supreme Court of Washington
- Release Date : January 29, 1979
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
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The question here concerns the power of a local government to regulate forest practices within its shorelines under the Shoreline Management Act of 1971. RCW 90.58. Appellant King County placed three water quality control conditions in contest here on a substantial development permit issued to Weyerhaeuser Company for construction of a logging road and bridge within the shorelines of Calligan Lake. The conditions were modified and upheld by the Shorelines Hearings Board. Respondent appealed to the Superior Court for Thurston County, which struck the conditions on the ground the County was deprived of authority to impose such conditions on forest practices by a 1975 amendment to the Forest Practices Act of 1974. In the appeal before this court we called for supplemental briefs on the question of the validity of that enactment under article 2, section 37 of the state constitution. Having carefully considered all arguments presented by the parties in their briefs and in oral argument, we conclude the 1975 amendment in question violated the constitutional requirements for amending an existing statute, and is void. We therefore reverse the order of the Superior Court and reinstate the order of the Shorelines Hearings Board.