§ 35.21.005 Sufficiency of petitions
§ 35.21.010 General corporate powers — Towns, restrictions as to area
§ 35.21.015 Salary commissions
§ 35.21.020 Auditoriums, art museums, swimming pools, etc. — Power to acquire
§ 35.21.030 Auxiliary water systems for protection from fire
§ 35.21.070 Cumulative reserve fund — Authority to create
§ 35.21.080 Cumulative reserve fund — Annual levy for — Application of budget law
§ 35.21.085 Payrolls fund — Claims fund
§ 35.21.086 Payrolls fund — Transfers from insolvent funds
§ 35.21.087 Employee checks, drafts, warrants — City, town may cash
§ 35.21.088 Equipment rental fund
§ 35.21.090 Dikes, levees, embankments — Authority to construct
§ 35.21.095 Bridge jumping hazard signs
§ 35.21.100 Donations — Authority to accept and use
§ 35.21.110 Ferries — Authority to acquire and maintain
§ 35.21.120 Solid waste handling system — Contracts
§ 35.21.130 Solid waste or recyclable materials collection — Ordinance
§ 35.21.135 Solid waste or recyclable materials collection — Curbside recycling — Reduced rate
§ 35.21.140 Garbage — Notice of lien — Foreclosure
§ 35.21.150 Garbage — Lien — Priority
§ 35.21.152 Solid waste handling — Agreements — Purposes — Terms and conditions
§ 35.21.154 Solid waste — Compliance with chapter 70A.205 RCW required
§ 35.21.156 Solid waste — Contracts with vendors for solid waste handling systems, plants, sites, or facilities — Requirements — Vendor selection procedures
§ 35.21.157 Solid waste collection — Rate increase notice
§ 35.21.158 Collection and transportation of recyclable materials by recycling companies or nonprofit entities — Reuse or reclamation — Application of chapter
§ 35.21.160 Jurisdiction over adjacent waters
§ 35.21.163 Penalty for act constituting a crime under state law — Limitation
§ 35.21.165 Driving while under the influence of liquor or drug — Minimum penalties
§ 35.21.175 Offices to be open certain days and hours
§ 35.21.180 Ordinances — Adoption of codes by reference
§ 35.21.185 Ordinances — Information pooling
§ 35.21.190 Parkways, park drives, and boulevards
§ 35.21.192 Urban agriculture zone
§ 35.21.194 Community gardens
§ 35.21.195 Statewide sexual assault kit tracking system — Participation by local law enforcement agencies
§ 35.21.200 Residence qualifications of appointive officials and employees
§ 35.21.203 Recall sufficiency hearing — Payment of defense expenses
§ 35.21.205 Liability insurance for officials and employees
§ 35.21.207 Liability insurance for officers and employees authorized
§ 35.21.209 Insurance and workers’ compensation for offenders performing community restitution
§ 35.21.210 Sewerage, drainage, and water supply
§ 35.21.215 Powers relative to systems of sewerage
§ 35.21.217 Utility services — Deposit — Tenants’ delinquencies — Notice — Lien
§ 35.21.220 Sidewalks — Regulation of use of
§ 35.21.225 Transportation benefit districts
§ 35.21.228 Rail fixed guideway public transportation system — Safety program plan and security and emergency preparedness plan
§ 35.21.230 Streets over tidelands declared public highways
§ 35.21.240 Streets over tidelands — Control of
§ 35.21.250 Streets and alleys over first-class tidelands — Control of
§ 35.21.260 Streets — Annual report to secretary of transportation
§ 35.21.270 Streets — Records of funds received and used for construction, repair, maintenance
§ 35.21.275 Street improvements — Provision of supplies or materials
§ 35.21.278 Contracts with community service organizations for public improvements — Limitations
§ 35.21.280 Tax on admissions — Exceptions
§ 35.21.290 Utility services — Lien for — Emergency declaration
§ 35.21.300 Utility services — Enforcement of lien — Limitations on termination of service for residential heating
§ 35.21.302 Utility services — Involuntary termination of service during heat-related alerts prohibited — Reconnection and repayment plan — Report
§ 35.21.305 Utility connection charges — Waiver for low-income persons
§ 35.21.310 Removal of overhanging or obstructing vegetation — Removal, destroying debris
§ 35.21.315 Amateur radio antennas — Local regulation to conform with federal law
§ 35.21.320 Warrants — Interest rate — Payment
§ 35.21.333 Chief of police or marshal — Eligibility requirements
§ 35.21.334 Chief of police or marshal — Background investigation
§ 35.21.335 Chief of police or marshal — Vacancy
§ 35.21.340 Cemeteries and funeral facilities
§ 35.21.350 Civil service in police and fire departments
§ 35.21.360 Eminent domain by cities and towns
§ 35.21.370 Joint county and city hospitals
§ 35.21.380 Joint county and city buildings
§ 35.21.385 Counties with a population of two hundred ten thousand or more may contract with cities concerning buildings and related improvements
§ 35.21.390 Public employment, civil service and pensions
§ 35.21.392 Contractors — Authority of city to verify registration and report violations
§ 35.21.395 Historic preservation — Authorization to acquire property, borrow money, issue bonds, etc
§ 35.21.400 City may acquire property for parks, recreational, viewpoint, greenbelt, conservation, historic, scenic, or view purposes
§ 35.21.403 Authority to establish lake and beach management districts
§ 35.21.404 Fish enhancement project — City’s or town’s liability
§ 35.21.405 Moorage facilities — Regulations authorized — Port charges, delinquency — Abandoned vessels, public sale
§ 35.21.407 Abandoned or derelict vessels
§ 35.21.408 Transfer of ownership of a city or town-owned vessel — Review of vessel’s physical condition
§ 35.21.409 Transfer of ownership of a city or town-owned vessel — Further requirements
§ 35.21.410 Nonpolluting power generation by individual — Exemption from regulation — Authorization to contract with utility
§ 35.21.412 Hydroelectric resources — Separate legal authority — Creation by irrigation districts and cities, towns, or public utility districts
§ 35.21.415 Electrical utilities — Civil immunity of officials and employees for good faith mistakes and errors of judgment
§ 35.21.417 Hydroelectric reservoir extending across international boundary — Agreement with Province of British Columbia
§ 35.21.418 Hydroelectric reservoir extending across international boundary — Commission — Powers
§ 35.21.420 Utilities — City may support county in which generating plant located — Cities with a population greater than five hundred thousand responsible for impact payments and arrearages — Arbitration
§ 35.21.422 Utilities — Cities in a county with a population of two hundred ten thousand or more west of Cascades may support cities, towns, counties and taxing districts in which facilities located
§ 35.21.425 City constructing generating facility in other county — Reimbursement of county or school district — Reimbursement by cities with a population greater than five hundred thousand
§ 35.21.426 City constructing generating facility in other county — Notice of loss — Negotiations — Arbitration
§ 35.21.427 City constructing generating facility in other county — Additional findings — Renegotiation
§ 35.21.430 Utilities — City may pay taxing districts involved after acquisition of private power facilities
§ 35.21.440 Utilities — Additional payments to school districts having bonded indebtedness
§ 35.21.450 Utilities — Payment of taxes
§ 35.21.455 Locally regulated utilities — Attachments to poles
§ 35.21.465 Crop purchase contracts for dedicated energy crops
§ 35.21.470 Building construction projects — City or town prohibited from requiring state agencies or local governments to provide bond or other security as a condition for issuance of permit
§ 35.21.475 Statement of restrictions applicable to real property
§ 35.21.500 Compilation, codification, revision of city or town ordinances — Scope of codification
§ 35.21.510 Compilation, codification, revision of city or town ordinances — Authorized
§ 35.21.520 Compilation, codification, revision of city or town ordinances — Adoption as official code of city
§ 35.21.530 Compilation, codification, revision of city or town ordinances — Filing — Notice of hearing
§ 35.21.540 Compilation, codification, revision of city or town ordinances — Legislative body may amend, adopt, or reject adopting ordinance — When official code
§ 35.21.550 Compilation, codification, revision of city or town ordinances — Copies as proof of ordinances
§ 35.21.560 Compilation, codification, revision of city or town ordinances — Adoption of new material
§ 35.21.570 Compilation, codification, revision of city or town ordinances — Codification satisfies single subject, title, and amendment requirements of statute or charter
§ 35.21.590 Executory conditional sales contracts for purchase of property — Limit on indebtedness — Election, when
§ 35.21.630 Youth agencies — Establishment authorized
§ 35.21.635 Juvenile curfews
§ 35.21.640 Conferences to study regional and governmental problems, counties and cities may establish
§ 35.21.650 Prepayment of taxes or assessments authorized
§ 35.21.660 Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act — Agreements with federal government — Scope of authority
§ 35.21.670 Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act — Powers and limitations of public corporations, commissions or authorities created
§ 35.21.680 Participation in Economic Opportunity Act programs
§ 35.21.682 City or town may not limit number of unrelated persons occupying a household or dwelling unit — Exceptions
§ 35.21.683 Transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, indoor emergency shelters, and indoor emergency housing
§ 35.21.684 Authority to regulate placement or use of homes — Regulation of manufactured homes — Issuance of permits — Restrictions on location of manufactured/mobile homes and entry or removal of recreational vehicles used
§ 35.21.685 Low-income housing — Loans and grants
§ 35.21.686 Tiny house communities
§ 35.21.688 Family day-care provider’s home facility — City or town may not prohibit in residential or commercial area — Conditions
§ 35.21.689 Permanent supportive housing — City may not prohibit where multifamily housing is permitted
§ 35.21.690 Authority to regulate auctioneers — Limitations
§ 35.21.692 Authority to regulate massage therapists — Limitations
§ 35.21.695 Authority to own and operate professional sports franchise
§ 35.21.696 Newspaper carrier regulation
§ 35.21.698 Regulation of financial transactions — Limitations
§ 35.21.700 Tourist promotion
§ 35.21.703 Economic development programs
§ 35.21.706 Imposition or increase of business and occupation tax — Referendum procedure required — Exclusive procedure
§ 35.21.710 License fees or taxes on certain business activities — Uniform rate required — Maximum rate established
§ 35.21.711 License fees or taxes on certain business activities — Excess rates authorized by voters
§ 35.21.712 License fees or taxes on telephone business to be at uniform rate
§ 35.21.714 License fees or taxes on telephone business — Imposition on certain gross revenues authorized — Limitations
§ 35.21.715 Taxes on network telephone services
§ 35.21.717 Taxation of internet access — Moratorium
§ 35.21.718 State route No. 16 — Tax on operation prohibited
§ 35.21.720 City contracts to obtain sheriff’s office law enforcement services
§ 35.21.730 Public corporations — Powers of cities, towns, and counties — Administration
§ 35.21.735 Public corporations — Declaration of public purpose — Power and authority to enter into agreements, receive and expend funds — Security — Special funds — Agreements to implement federal new markets ta
§ 35.21.740 Public corporations — Exercise of powers, authorities, or rights — Territorial jurisdiction
§ 35.21.745 Public corporations — Provision for, control over — Powers
§ 35.21.747 Public corporations — Real property transferred by city, town, or county — Restrictions, notice, public meeting
§ 35.21.750 Public corporations — Insolvency or dissolution
§ 35.21.755 Public corporations — Exemption or immunity from taxation — In lieu excise tax
§ 35.21.756 Tax exemption — Sales/leasebacks by regional transit authorities
§ 35.21.757 Public corporations — Statutes to be construed consistent with state Constitution
§ 35.21.759 Public corporations, commissions, and authorities — Applicability of general laws
§ 35.21.760 Legal interns — Employment authorized
§ 35.21.762 Urban emergency medical service districts — Creation authorized in city or town with territory in two counties
§ 35.21.765 Fire protection, ambulance or other emergency services provided by municipal corporation within county — Financial and other assistance by county authorized
§ 35.21.766 Ambulance services — Establishment authorized
§ 35.21.7661 Study and review of ambulance utilities
§ 35.21.768 Ambulance services — Excise taxes authorized — Use of proceeds
§ 35.21.769 Levy for emergency medical care and services
§ 35.21.770 Members of legislative bodies authorized to serve as volunteer firefighters, volunteer ambulance personnel, or reserve law enforcement officers
§ 35.21.772 Fire department volunteers — Holding public office — Definitions
§ 35.21.775 Provision of fire protection services to state-owned facilities
§ 35.21.778 Existing contracts for fire protection services and equipment not abrogated
§ 35.21.779 Fire protection services for state-owned facilities — Contracts with the department of commerce — Consolidation of negotiations with multiple state agencies — Arbitration
§ 35.21.780 Laws, rules and regulations applicable to cities five hundred thousand or over deemed applicable to cities four hundred thousand or over
§ 35.21.790 Revision of corporate boundary within street, road, or highway right-of-way by substituting right-of-way line — Not subject to review
§ 35.21.800 Foreign trade zones — Legislative finding, intent
§ 35.21.805 Foreign trade zones — Authority to apply for permission to establish, operate and maintain
§ 35.21.810 Hydroplane races — Providing for restrooms and other services in public parks for spectators — Admission fees — Authorized
§ 35.21.815 Hydroplane races — Levying of admission charges declared public park purpose — Reversion prohibited
§ 35.21.820 Acquisition and disposal of vehicles for commuter ride sharing by city employees
§ 35.21.830 Controls on rent for residential structures — Prohibited — Exceptions
§ 35.21.840 Taxation of motor carriers of freight for hire — Allocation of gross receipts
§ 35.21.845 Taxation of motor carriers of freight for hire — Tax allocation formula
§ 35.21.850 Taxation of motor carriers of freight for hire — Limitation — Exceptions
§ 35.21.851 Taxation of chamber of commerce, similar business for operation of parking/business improvement area
§ 35.21.855 Taxation of intellectual property creating activities — Gross receipts tax prohibited — Exceptions
§ 35.21.860 Electricity, telephone, or natural gas business, service provider — Franchise fees prohibited — Exceptions
§ 35.21.865 Electricity, telephone, or natural gas business — Limitations on tax rate changes
§ 35.21.870 Electricity, telephone, natural gas, or steam energy business — Tax limited to six percent — Exception
§ 35.21.871 Tax on telephone business — Deferral of rate reduction
§ 35.21.873 Procedure to correct erroneous mobile telecommunications service tax
§ 35.21.875 Designation of official newspaper
§ 35.21.880 Right-of-way donations — Credit against required improvements
§ 35.21.890 Boundary changes — Providing factual information — Notice to boundary review board
§ 35.21.895 Regulation of automatic number or location identification — Prohibited
§ 35.21.897 Mobile home, manufactured home, or park model moving or installing — Copies of permits — Definitions
§ 35.21.900 Authority to transfer real property
§ 35.21.905 Consultation with public utilities for water-sewer facility relocation projects
§ 35.21.910 Community athletics programs — Sex discrimination prohibited
§ 35.21.913 Comprehensive cancer care collaborative arrangements — Prohibition on regulation as state agency
§ 35.21.915 Hosting the homeless by religious organizations — When authorized — Requirements — Prohibitions on local actions
§ 35.21.920 State and federal background checks of license applicants and licensees of occupations under local licensing authority
§ 35.21.925 Supplemental transportation improvements
§ 35.21.930 Community assistance referral and education services program
§ 35.21.935 Warrant officers — Training requirements — Authority
§ 35.21.940 Failing septic systems — Connection to public sewer systems — Appeals process
§ 35.21.945 Water storage asset management services — Procurement
§ 35.21.950 Final determination on state highway project permits
§ 35.21.955 Nuisance abatement — Special assessment — Notice requirements
§ 35.21.960 Removal of restrictive covenants — Hearing, notice
§ 35.21.965 Voluntary change to electoral system
§ 35.21.970 Assessment and mitigation of negative impact on parking when constructing or operating a public facility in certain neighborhoods
§ 35.21.980 Construction — Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships — 2009 c 521
§ 35.21.990 New housing in existing buildings — Prohibitions on local regulation
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Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous provisions

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. Source: OCC
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: may be construed to include the United States, this state, or any state or territory, or any public or private corporation or limited liability company, as well as an individual. See Washington Code 1.16.080
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. Source: FDIC
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.