§ 90.58.010 Short title
§ 90.58.020 Legislative findings — State policy enunciated — Use preference
§ 90.58.030 Definitions and concepts
§ 90.58.040 Program applicable to shorelines of the state
§ 90.58.045 Environmental excellence program agreements — Effect on chapter
§ 90.58.050 Program as cooperative between local government and state — Responsibilities differentiated
§ 90.58.060 Review and adoption of guidelines — Public hearings, notice of — Amendments
§ 90.58.065 Application of guidelines and master programs to agricultural activities
§ 90.58.070 Local governments to submit letters of intent — Department to act upon failure of local government
§ 90.58.080 Timetable for local governments to develop or amend master programs — Review of master programs — Grants
§ 90.58.090 Approval of master program or segments or amendments — Procedure — Departmental alternatives when shorelines of statewide significance — Later adoption of master program supersedes departmental program
§ 90.58.100 Programs as constituting use regulations — Duties when preparing programs and amendments thereto — Program contents
§ 90.58.110 Development of program within two or more adjacent local government jurisdictions — Development of program in segments, when
§ 90.58.120 Adoption of rules, programs, etc., subject to RCW 34.05.310 through 34.05.395 — Public hearings, notice of — Public inspection after approval or adoption
§ 90.58.130 Involvement of all persons and entities having interest, means
§ 90.58.140 Development permits — Grounds for granting — Administration by local government, conditions — Applications — Notices — Rescission — Approval when permit for variance or conditional use
§ 90.58.143 Time requirements — Substantial development permits, variances, conditional use permits
§ 90.58.147 Substantial development permit — Exemption for projects to improve fish or wildlife habitat or fish passage
§ 90.58.150 Selective commercial timber cutting, when
§ 90.58.160 Prohibition against seabed mining for hard minerals and surface drilling for oil or gas, where
§ 90.58.170 Shorelines hearings board — Established — Members — Chair — Quorum for decision — Expenses of members
§ 90.58.175 Rules and regulations
§ 90.58.180 Review of granting, denying, or rescinding permits by shorelines hearings board — Board to act — Local government appeals to board — Grounds for declaring rule, regulation, or guideline invalid — Appeals to
§ 90.58.185 Appeals involving single-family residences, involving penalties of fifteen thousand dollars or less, or other designated cases — Composition of board — Rules to expedite appeals
§ 90.58.190 Appeal of department’s decision to adopt or amend a master program
§ 90.58.195 Shoreline master plan review — Local governments with coastal waters or coastal shorelines
§ 90.58.200 Rules and regulations
§ 90.58.210 Court actions to ensure against conflicting uses and to enforce — Civil penalty — Review
§ 90.58.220 General penalty
§ 90.58.230 Violators liable for damages resulting from violation — Attorney’s fees and costs
§ 90.58.240 Additional authority granted department and local governments
§ 90.58.250 Intent — Department to cooperate with local governments — Grants for development of master programs
§ 90.58.260 State to represent its interest before federal agencies, interstate agencies and courts
§ 90.58.270 Nonapplication to certain structures, docks, developments, etc., placed in navigable waters — Nonapplication to certain rights of action, authority — Floating homes and floating on-water residences must be classified a
§ 90.58.280 Application to all state agencies, counties, public and municipal corporations
§ 90.58.290 Restrictions as affecting fair market value of property
§ 90.58.300 Department as regulating state agency — Special authority
§ 90.58.310 Designation of shorelines of statewide significance by legislature — Recommendation by director, procedure
§ 90.58.320 Height limitation respecting permits
§ 90.58.340 Use policies for land adjacent to shorelines, development of
§ 90.58.350 Nonapplication to treaty rights
§ 90.58.355 Persons, projects, and activities not required to obtain certain permits, variances, letters of exemption, or other local review
§ 90.58.356 Projects and activities not required to obtain certain permits, variances, letters of exemption, or other local review — Written notice, when required
§ 90.58.357 Maintenance activities performed by certain entities that do not require a substantial development permit, conditional use permit, variance, letter of exemption, or other review conducted by a local government — Notification
§ 90.58.360 Existing requirements for permits, certificates, etc., not obviated
§ 90.58.370 Processing of permits or authorizations for emergency water withdrawal and facilities to be expedited
§ 90.58.380 Adoption of wetland manual
§ 90.58.515 Watershed restoration projects — Exemption
§ 90.58.550 Oil or natural gas exploration in marine waters — Definitions — Application for permit — Requirements — Review — Enforcement
§ 90.58.560 Oil or natural gas exploration — Violations of RCW 90.58.550 — Penalty — Appeal
§ 90.58.570 Consultation before responding to federal coastal zone management certificates
§ 90.58.580 Shoreline restoration projects — Relief from shoreline master program development standards and use regulations
§ 90.58.590 Local governments authorized to adopt moratoria — Requirements — Public hearing
§ 90.58.600 Conformance with chapter 43.97 RCW required
§ 90.58.610 Relationship between shoreline master programs and development regulations under growth management act governed by RCW 36.70A.480
§ 90.58.620 New or amended master programs — Authorized provisions
§ 90.58.630 Shoreline master programs — Impact of sea level rise and storm severity
§ 90.58.900 Liberal construction — 1971 ex.s. c 286
§ 90.58.920 Effective date — 1971 ex.s. c 286

Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 90.58 - Shoreline management act of 1971

  • 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.
  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • 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.
  • Consumer price index: means , for any calendar year, that year's annual average consumer price index, Seattle, Washington area, for urban wage earners and clerical workers, all items, compiled by the bureau of labor and statistics, United States department of labor. See Washington Code 90.58.030
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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.
  • Department: means the department of ecology;
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  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Development: means a use consisting of the construction or exterior alteration of structures; dredging; drilling; dumping; filling; removal of any sand, gravel, or minerals; bulkheading; driving of piling; placing of obstructions; or any project of a permanent or temporary nature which interferes with the normal public use of the surface of the waters overlying lands subject to this chapter at any state of water level;
    • Washington Code 90.58.030
  • Director: means the director of the department of ecology;
    • Washington Code 90.58.030
  • 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.
  • Extreme low tide: means the lowest line on the land reached by a receding tide;
    • Washington Code 90.58.030
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Floodway: means the area, as identified in a master program, that either: (i) Has been established in federal emergency management agency flood insurance rate maps or floodway maps; or (ii) consists of those portions of a river valley lying streamward from the outer limits of a watercourse upon which flood waters are carried during periods of flooding that occur with reasonable regularity, although not necessarily annually, said floodway being identified, under normal condition, by changes in surface soil conditions or changes in types or quality of vegetative ground cover condition, topography, or other indicators of flooding that occurs with reasonable regularity, although not necessarily annually. See Washington Code 90.58.030
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Guidelines: means those standards adopted to implement the policy of this chapter for regulation of use of the shorelines of the state prior to adoption of master programs. See Washington Code 90.58.030
  • Hearings board: means the shorelines hearings board established by this chapter;
    • Washington Code 90.58.030
  • 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
  • Local government: means any county, incorporated city, or town which contains within its boundaries any lands or waters subject to this chapter;
    • Washington Code 90.58.030
  • Master program: means the comprehensive use plan for a described area, and the use regulations together with maps, diagrams, charts, or other descriptive material and text, a statement of desired goals, and standards developed in accordance with the policies enunciated in RCW 90. See Washington Code 90.58.030
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • 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: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, organization, cooperative, public or municipal corporation, or agency of the state or local governmental unit however designated. See Washington Code 90.58.030
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • 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.
  • Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
  • Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
  • Shorelines: means all of the water areas of the state, including reservoirs, and their associated shorelands, together with the lands underlying them; except (i) shorelines of statewide significance; (ii) shorelines on segments of streams upstream of a point where the mean annual flow is twenty cubic feet per second or less and the wetlands associated with such upstream segments; and (iii) shorelines on lakes less than twenty acres in size and wetlands associated with such small lakes;
    • Washington Code 90.58.030
  • Shorelines of statewide significance: means the following shorelines of the state:
    • Washington Code 90.58.030
  • Substantial development: means any development of which the total cost or fair market value exceeds five thousand dollars, or any development which materially interferes with the normal public use of the water or shorelines of the state. See Washington Code 90.58.030
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
  • Wetlands: means areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. See Washington Code 90.58.030