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Liquor revolving fund—Definition of terms relating to border areas.
For the purposes of this chapter:
(1) "Border area" means any incorporated city or town, or unincorporated area, located within seven miles of the Washington-Canadian border or any unincorporated area that is a point of land surrounded on three sides by salt water and adjacent to the Canadian border.
(2) "Border area per-capita law-enforcement spending" equals total per capita expenditures in a border area on: Law enforcement operating costs, court costs, law enforcement-related insurance, and detention expenses, minus funds allocated to a border area under RCW
66.08.190 and
66.08.196.
(3) "Border-crossing traffic total" means the number of vehicles, vessels, and aircraft crossing into the United States through a United States customs service border crossing that enter into the border area during a federal fiscal year, using border crossing statistics and criteria included in guidelines adopted by the department of commerce.
(4) "Border-related crime statistic" means the sum of infractions and citations issued, and arrests of persons permanently residing outside Washington state in a border area during a calendar year.
NOTES:
Explanatory statement—2023 c 470: See note following RCW
10.99.030.
Effective date—1995 c 159: See note following RCW
66.08.190.
Finding—Effective date—1988 c 229: See notes following RCW
66.08.190.