Washington Title 35 RCW: Cities and towns
Chapters
- 35.01 Municipal corporations classified.
- 35.02 Incorporation proceedings.
- 35.06 Advancement of classification.
- 35.07 Disincorporation.
- 35.10 Consolidation and annexation of cities and towns.
- 35.13 Annexation of unincorporated areas.
- 35.13A Water or sewer districts -- Assumption of jurisdiction.
- 35.14 Community municipal corporations.
- 35.16 Reduction of city limits.
- 35.17 Commission form of government.
- 35.18 Council-manager plan.
- 35.20 Municipal courts -- Cities over four hundred thousand.
- 35.21 Miscellaneous provisions.
- 35.22 First class cities.
- 35.23 Second class cities.
- 35.27 Towns.
- 35.30 Unclassified cities.
- 35.31 Accident claims and funds.
- 35.32A Budgets in cities over 300,000.
- 35.33 Budgets in second and third class cities, towns, and first class cities under 300,000.
- 35.34 Biennial budgets.
- 35.36 Execution of bonds by proxy -- First class cities.
- 35.37 Fiscal -- Cities under 20,000 and cities other than first class -- Bonds.
- 35.38 Fiscal -- Depositaries.
- 35.39 Fiscal -- Investment of funds.
- 35.40 Fiscal -- Validation and funding of debts.
- 35.41 Fiscal -- Municipal revenue bond act.
- 35.42 Leases.
- 35.43 Local improvements -- Authority -- Initiation of proceedings.
- 35.44 Local improvements -- Assessments and reassessments.
- 35.45 Local improvements -- Bonds and warrants.
- 35.47 Local improvements -- Procedure for cancellation of nonguaranteed bonds.
- 35.48 Local improvements -- Nonguaranteed bonds.
- 35.49 Local improvements -- Collection of assessments.
- 35.50 Local improvements -- Foreclosure of assessments.
- 35.51 Local improvements -- Classification of property -- Reserve funds.
- 35.53 Local improvements -- Disposition of property acquired.
- 35.54 Local improvements -- Guaranty funds.
- 35.55 Local improvements -- Filling lowlands.
- 35.56 Local improvements -- Filling and draining lowlands -- Waterways.
- 35.57 Public facilities districts.
- 35.58 Metropolitan municipal corporations.
- 35.59 Multi-purpose community centers.
- 35.60 World fairs or expositions -- Participation by municipalities.
- 35.61 Metropolitan park districts.
- 35.62 Name -- Change of.
- 35.63 Planning commissions.
- 35.64 Zoos and aquariums.
- 35.66 Police matrons.
- 35.67 Sewerage systems -- Refuse collection and disposal.
- 35.68 Sidewalks, gutters, curbs, and driveways -- All cities and towns.
- 35.69 Sidewalks -- Construction, reconstruction in first and second class cities.
- 35.70 Sidewalks -- Construction in second class cities and towns.
- 35.71 Pedestrian malls.
- 35.72 Contracts for street, road, and highway projects.
- 35.73 Street grades -- Sanitary fills.
- 35.74 Streets -- Drawbridges.
- 35.75 Streets -- Bicycles -- Paths.
- 35.76 Streets -- Budget and accounting.
- 35.77 Streets -- Planning, establishment, construction, and maintenance.
- 35.78 Streets -- Classification and design standards.
- 35.79 Streets -- Vacation.
- 35.80 Unfit dwellings, buildings, and structures.
- 35.80A Condemnation of blighted property.
- 35.81 Community renewal law.
- 35.82 Housing authorities law.
- 35.83 Housing cooperation law.
- 35.84 Utility and other services beyond city limits.
- 35.85 Viaducts, elevated roadways, tunnels and subways.
- 35.86 Off-street parking facilities.
- 35.86A Off-street parking -- Parking commissions.
- 35.87 Parking facilities -- Conveyance of land for in cities over 300,000.
- 35.87A Parking and business improvement areas.
- 35.88 Water pollution -- Protection from.
- 35.89 Water redemption bonds.
- 35.91 Municipal water and sewer facilities act.
- 35.92 Municipal utilities.
- 35.94 Sale or lease of municipal utilities.
- 35.95 Public transportation systems in municipalities.
- 35.95A City transportation authority -- Monorail transportation.
- 35.96 Electric and communication facilities -- Conversion to underground.
- 35.97 Heating systems.
- 35.98 Construction.
- 35.99 Telecommunications, cable television service -- Use of right of way.
- 35.100 Downtown and neighborhood commercial districts.
- 35.101 Tourism promotion areas.
- 35.102 Municipal business and occupation tax.
- 35.103 Fire departments -- Performance measures.
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| Acquisition of open space, etc., land or rights to future development by counties, cities or metropolitan municipal corporations, tax levy: RCW 84.34.200 through 84.34.240, 84.52.010. property for state highway purposes: RCW 47.12.040. real or personal property, executory conditional sales contracts for: RCW 39.30.010. Actions against Actions by in corporate name: RCW 4.08.110. Adjoining state, eminent domain for watershed: RCW 8.28.050. Airport zoning: Chapter 14.12 RCW. Airports, generally: Chapters 14.07, 14.08 RCW. Alcoholism, private establishments and institutions, prescription of standards: RCW 71.12.550. Armories, powers concerning: RCW 36.64.050, 38.20.020. Assessments and charges against state lands: Chapter 79.44 RCW. Assessor's plats: Chapter 58.18 RCW. Associations of municipal corporations or municipal officers to furnish information to legislature and governor: RCW 44.04.170. Auditing false claim, penalty: RCW 42.20.060. Bankruptcy readjustment and relief from debts: Chapter 39.64 RCW. Blind made products, purchase of by cities and towns authorized: RCW 19.06.020. Board of eminent domain commissioners, appointment of: RCW 8.12.260. Bonds Boundaries and plats: Title 58 RCW. Boundary review board, extension of water and sewer service beyond corporate boundaries to go before: RCW 36.93.090. Bribery of public officer: State Constitution Art. 2 § 30. Bridges Buildings Burial of dead, authority to provide for: RCW 68.52.030. Camping resort contracts -- Nonapplicability of certain laws to -- Club not subdivision except under city, county powers: RCW 19.105.510. Cemeteries: Title 68 RCW. Charters City and town treasurers' duties under Washington Clean Air Act: RCW 70.94.094. City attorney City council, unincorporated towns on United States land, powers of review: RCW 58.28.520. City engineer, tidelands and shorelands, records of plats filed with: RCW 79.125.040. City halls, jointly with county courthouses: RCW 36.64.010 through 36.64.040. City treasurer Civil service, generally: Title 41 RCW. Claims Classification by population: State Constitution Art. 11 § 10 (Amendment 40). Clerks Code of ethics for Commission form, nonpartisan primaries: Chapter 29A.52 RCW. Comptroller Conditional sales contracts for purchase of real or personal property: RCW 39.30.010. Continuity of government in event of enemy attack, succession to office of executive heads: RCW 42.14.050. Contractors' registration, exemption from: RCW 18.27.090(1). Contracts Conveyance of real property by public bodies -- Recording: RCW 65.08.095. Corporate stock or bonds not to be owned by: State Constitution Art. 8 § 7. Corporation counsel, eminent domain by cities, military purposes, for: RCW 8.04.170, 8.04.180. Counties, city harbor in two counties, effect upon assessments: RCW 36.08.030. County highways, open spaces in cities and towns: Chapter 36.89 RCW. County property, transfer to municipality, approval necessary: RCW 36.34.280. County roads and bridges, assistance in finances: RCW 36.76.110. County sewerage, water and drainage systems, authority, procedure: Chapter 36.94 RCW. Courthouses, jointly with city halls: RCW 36.64.010 through 36.64.040. Creation by special act prohibited: State Constitution Art. 2 § 28(8). Credit card use by local governments: RCW 43.09.2855. Credit not to be loaned: State Constitution Art. 8 § 7. Crimes Dams, ditches, etc., restrictions for purpose of fish conservation: Chapter 77.55 RCW. Diking and drainage districts: Chapters 85.05, 86.09 RCW. Drainage districts, inclusion within: RCW 85.06.230. Earthquake standards for construction: Chapter 70.86 RCW. Elective officers, recall: State Constitution Art. 1 §§ 33, 34 (Amendment 8), chapter 29A.56 RCW. Electors, qualifications of: State Constitution Art. 6 § 1 (Amendment 63). Electric Electrical Electricity, steam generation: RCW 43.21A.610 through 43.21A.642. Elevators, lifting devices, and moving walks: Chapter 70.87 RCW. Emergency vehicle, authorized, defined: RCW 46.04.040. Eminent domain Fees, special permits for motor vehicle oversize or overweight movement, fees paid to cities and towns, when: RCW 46.44.096. Ferries, joint acquisition with counties: RCW 36.54.020. Financing procedures, validation: Chapter 39.90 RCW. Fines Fire department vehicles, lighting, plates: RCW 46.37.184 through 46.37.188 and 46.37.190. Fire fighters Fire fighters' retirement and pension acts: Chapters 41.16, 41.18, 41.24 RCW. Fire prevention, areas withdrawn from fire protection and emergency medical districts: RCW 52.08.035. Fire protection districts Fireworks, permit for: RCW 70.77.260. First class cities Flood control Food and beverage workers' permits: Chapter 69.06 RCW. Fourth class cities (see Towns, chapter 35.27 RCW). Franchises and privileges Fresh pursuit, uniform act: Chapter 10.89 RCW. Funds Gambling activities, cities or towns, as affecting: Chapter 9.46 RCW. Garbage, eminent domain by cities for garbage dumps: RCW 8.12.030. Grand jury, inquiry as to misconduct: RCW 10.27.100. Harbor areas lying in two or more counties, transfer of territory: Chapter 36.08 RCW. Harbor improvements, joint planning for by first class cities and counties: RCW 88.32.240, 88.32.250. Harbor line commission and restraint on disposition: State Constitution Art. 15 § 1 (Amendment 15). Health departments Health districts: Chapter 70.46 RCW. Hearses, authority to provide: RCW 68.52.030. Highway advertising control act of 1961 restricts placing of signs by: Chapter 47.42 RCW. Highway funds, allocation of: State Constitution Art. 2 § 40 (Amendment 18). Highways Historical materials, expenditure of funds for preservation and exhibition of authorized: RCW 27.48.010. Hospitalization and medical aid for public employees and dependents, premiums, governmental contributions authorized: RCW 41.04.180, 41.04.190. Hospitals Incorporation Indebtedness Industrial development revenue bonds: Chapter 39.84 RCW. Insurance companies, excise or privilege taxes, state preemption: RCW 48.14.020(4). Intergovernmental disposition of property: Chapter 39.33 RCW. Investment Jails Joint governmental activities: Chapter 36.64 RCW. Joint operating agencies for electric power: Chapter 43.52 RCW. Joint operations by municipal corporations, deposit and control of funds: RCW 43.09.285. Judgment against local governmental entity, enforcement: RCW 6.17.080. Judicial officers, inferior, powers: RCW 2.28.090. Labor relations consultants: RCW 43.09.230. Legal publications: Chapter 65.16 RCW. Libraries, conditional sales contracts by cities and towns for purchase of property for libraries authorized, vote required if exceeds indebtedness: RCW 39.30.010. Library service, contracts for authorized: RCW 27.12.180. Library trustees, removal of: RCW 27.12.190. Licenses, exemptions: RCW 36.71.090. Liens for Limitation of actions, application of statute of limitations to actions by: RCW 4.16.160. Limitation on tax levies: State Constitution Art. 7 § 2 (Amendments 55, 59), RCW 84.52.050. Local adopt-a-highway programs: RCW 47.40.105. Lost and found property: Chapter 63.21 RCW. Markets and marketing, eminent domain by cities for: RCW 8.12.030. Material removed for channel or harbor improvement, or flood control -- Use for public purpose: RCW 79.140.110. Mayor Meetings of governmental bodies, open to public: Chapter 42.30 RCW. Mental health and retardation services -- Interstate contracts by cities in boundary counties: RCW 71.28.010. Militia and military affairs, eminent domain for military purposes: RCW 8.04.170, 8.04.180. Minutes of governmental bodies, open to public: Chapter 42.32 RCW. Misconduct of public officers: Chapter 42.20 RCW. Motor vehicle excise fund, preemption by state: RCW 82.36.440. Motor vehicle fuel tax Motor vehicle fund, allocation of and distribution: RCW 46.68.110. Motor vehicle inspection by: Chapter 46.32 RCW. Motor vehicles, special permits for oversize or overweight movements, collection of fees: RCW 46.44.096. Municipal courts Municipalities -- Energy audits and efficiency: RCW 43.19.691. Nuisances Officers and employees Official bonds Old age and survivors' insurance: Chapters 41.47, 41.48 RCW. Ordinances Organization under general laws required: State Constitution Art. 11 § 10 (Amendment 40). Outdoor recreation land acquisition or improvement under marine recreation land act: Chapter 79A.25 RCW. Parks and recreation Peddlers' and hawkers' licenses: Chapter 36.71 RCW, RCW 73.04.050, 73.04.060. Planning commissions Plats and boundaries: Title 58 RCW. Police Pollution control Population determination, generally: Chapter 43.62 RCW. Port district must submit park or recreational plans to municipal park agency: RCW 53.08.270. Port district regulations, adoption as city ordinance: RCW 53.08.220. Powers of county commissioners to alter boundaries inapplicable where boundary review board created: RCW 36.93.220. Prepayment of taxes and assessments: RCW 35.21.650. Printing: RCW 43.78.130 through 43.78.160. Prisons (see Jails). Property Public buildings, provision to be made for use by aged and handicapped: Chapter 70.92 RCW. Public contracts and indebtedness, generally: Title 39 RCW. Public employment Public funds, private use prohibited: State Constitution Art. 11 § 14. Public health pooling fund: Chapter 70.12 RCW. Public lands, assessment against: Chapter 79.44 RCW. Public markets, eminent domain by cities for: RCW 8.12.030. Public utility districts Public works, liens for labor and materials performed: Chapter 60.28 RCW. Purchases Railroad Railways, street: Chapter 81.64 RCW. Recall of elective officers: State Constitution Art. 1 §§ 33, 34 (Amendment 8), chapter 29A.56 RCW. Reclamation districts: Chapter 89.30 RCW. Records Redistricting by local governments and municipal corporations -- Census information for -- Plan, prepared when, criteria for, hearing on, request for review of, certification, remand -- Sanctions when review request frivolous: RCW 29A.76.010. Referendum, electric utility transmission line construction and maintenance franchise: RCW 80.32.040. Reincorporation, under general laws permitted to cities under special charter: State Constitution Art. 11 § 10 (Amendment 40). River and harbor improvement districts, planning: RCW 88.32.240. Sanitary regulations may be enforced: State Constitution Art. 11 § 11. Sanitation, secretary of health, assistance: RCW 70.54.040. School districts, educational service districts, agreements with other governmental entities for transportation of students or the public, or for other noncommon school purposes -- Limitations: RCW 28A.160.120. Second class cities Senior citizens programs -- Authorization to establish and administer: RCW 36.39.060. Service of summons on, personal service: RCW 4.28.080(2). Sewer and water revenue bonds, mutual savings banks, investment in: RCW 32.20.070, 32.20.100. Sewerage improvement districts: Title 85 RCW. Sewerage systems Sexually transmitted disease, treatment and control: Chapter 70.24 RCW. Shorelands Soil and water conservation districts: Chapter 89.08 RCW. Solid waste collection company provisions do not apply to: RCW 81.77.020. Statewide city employees' retirement: Chapter 41.44 RCW. Streets and alleys Taverns, music permit: RCW 66.28.080. Tax lien, acquisition by governmental unit of property subject to: RCW 84.60.050, 84.60.070. Tax liens, priority of: RCW 84.60.010. Taxation Taxing district relief act: Chapter 39.64 RCW. Teletypewriter communications network, connection with, participation in: RCW 43.89.030. Tidelands Toll facilities, contributions by cities and towns for authorized, financing, reimbursement: RCW 47.56.250. Towns Trade centers -- Annual service fee -- Distribution to cities: RCW 53.29.030. Traffic schools: Chapter 46.83 RCW. Transportation centers authorized: Chapter 81.75 RCW. Transportation systems Trees, plants, shrubs or vegetation, duty to disinfect or destroy: RCW 15.08.230. Trusts for employee benefits: Chapter 49.64 RCW. Unclaimed property in hands of city police: Chapter 63.32 RCW. Uniform state standard of traffic devices, copy of to be furnished to: RCW 47.36.030. Urban arterials, planning, construction, funds, bond issue, etc.: Chapter 47.26 RCW. Utility poles, attachment of objects to, penalty: RCW 70.54.090. Vacancies in public office, causes, how filled: Chapter 42.12 RCW. Vehicle wreckers' regulation by, to conform with chapter 46.80 RCW: RCW 46.80.160. Venue of actions against public officers: RCW 4.12.020(2). Veterans' organizations, providing of meeting places for: RCW 73.04.070. Veterans preference in public employment, reemployment: Chapter 73.16 RCW. Warrants Washington clean air act: Chapter 70.94 RCW. Water distribution systems, conveyance by water districts: Chapter 57.08 RCW. Water-sewer districts Water pollution Water recreation facilities: Chapter 70.90 RCW. Water revenue bonds, mutual savings banks, investment in: RCW 32.20.070, 32.20.100. Water systems, bonds, refunding: Chapter 39.52 RCW. Watercourses and waterways Watersheds Weeds, duty to destroy, extermination areas: RCW 17.04.160. Weights and measures, city sealer: RCW 19.94.280. Wharves and landings |