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RCW Sections

• 36.01.010  Corporate powers.
• 36.01.020  Corporate name.
• 36.01.030  Powers -- How exercised.
• 36.01.040  Conveyances for use of county.
• 36.01.050  Venue of actions by or against counties.
• 36.01.060  County liable for certain court costs.
• 36.01.070  Probation and parole services.
• 36.01.080  Parking facilities -- Construction, operation and rental charges.
• 36.01.085  Economic development programs.
• 36.01.090  Tourist promotion.
• 36.01.095  Emergency medical services -- Authorized -- Fees.
• 36.01.100  Ambulance service authorized -- Restriction.
• 36.01.104  Levy for emergency medical care and services.
• 36.01.105  Fire protection, ambulance or other emergency services provided by municipal corporation within county -- Financial and other assistance authorized.
• 36.01.110  Federal grants and programs -- Powers and authority of counties to participate in -- Public corporations, commissions or authorities.
• 36.01.115  Nonpolluting power generation by individual -- Exemption from regulation -- Authorization to contract with utility.
• 36.01.120  Foreign trade zones -- Legislative finding, intent.
• 36.01.125  Foreign trade zones -- Authority to apply for permission to establish, operate and maintain.
• 36.01.130  Controls on rent for residential structures -- Prohibited -- Exceptions.
• 36.01.150  Facilitating recovery from Mt. St. Helens eruption -- Scope of local government action.
• 36.01.160  Penalty for act constituting a crime under state law -- Limitation.
• 36.01.170  Administration of trusts benefiting school districts.
• 36.01.180  Zoo and aquarium advisory authority -- Constitution -- Terms.
• 36.01.190  Initial meeting of zoo and aquarium advisory authority -- Expenditure of funds -- Powers.
• 36.01.200  Federal funds designated for state schools -- Use limited to reduction of outstanding debt obligations of school districts.
• 36.01.210  Rail fixed guideway system -- Safety and security program plan.
• 36.01.220  Mobile home, manufactured home, or park model moving or installing -- Copies of permits -- Definitions.
• 36.01.225  Authority to regulate placement or use of homes -- Regulation of manufactured homes.
• 36.01.230  Cooperative watershed management.
• 36.01.240  Regulation of financial transactions -- Limitations.

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Accounts of county, examination of: RCW 43.09.260. Actions by and against    counties, limitations on: Chapter 4.16 RCW.    public corporations (counties): RCW 4.08.110, 4.08.120. Aeronautics facilities of counties to be made available to department of transportation: RCW 47.68.300. Agricultural fairs, county participation: Chapter 15.76 RCW. Aircraft excise tax, county exemption: RCW 82.48.100. Airport zoning: Chapter 14.12 RCW. Ambulance service for second class cities, county may provide: RCW 35.23.456. Armories, county may expend money for site: RCW 38.20.030. Blind made products, services, county to procure when available: RCW 19.06.020. Boarding homes, county administration, when: Chapter 18.20 RCW. Bonds, county    as insurance investments: RCW 48.13.040.    election on, vote required: Chapter 39.40 RCW.    form, sale, payment, etc.: Chapter 39.44 RCW.    sale to federal government at private sale: Chapter 39.48 RCW.    validation of: Chapter 39.90 RCW. Bonds of corporation not to be owned: State Constitution Art. 8 § 7. Bonds of federal agencies as county investment: Chapter 39.64 RCW. Cemeteries    private regulation of by county: RCW 68.20.080.    public, and morgues, in counties: RCW 68.52.010, 68.52.020. Cemeteries and burial, public, all counties: RCW 68.52.030. Cemetery districts authorized for certain counties: Chapter 68.52 RCW. Children and youth services, county participation: RCW 72.05.160. Cities and towns    agreements with county for planning, construction, etc., of streets: Chapter 35.77 RCW.    community renewal, county participation: RCW 35.81.130.    county aid on street construction, etc.: RCW 47.24.050.    L.I.D. assessment lien, application on sale by county of tax lands: RCW 35.49.160.    property held by under L.I.D. assessment lien not subject to county taxes: RCW 35.53.010. Cities may support county in which city-owned utility plant located: RCW 35.21.420 through 35.21.427. Civil service    for sheriff's office: Chapter 41.14 RCW.    status retained when on emergency service work: RCW 38.52.140. Closed burning seasons in counties: RCW 76.04.205. Combined city and county municipal corporations: State Constitution Art. 11 § 16 (Amendment 58). Combined city-county health departments: Chapter 70.08 RCW. Community centers, counties may establish: Chapter 35.59 RCW. Community work and training programs, county participation in: Chapter 74.04 RCW. Contractors, regulation of, inapplicable to counties: RCW 18.27.090. Contracts    contractor's bond on: Chapter 39.08 RCW.    county may perform work or services for department of transportation: RCW 47.01.210.    executory conditional sales, for purchase of property for park or library purposes: RCW 39.30.010.    public works, application to counties: Chapter 39.04 RCW.    public works, reserve from amount due contractors to cover lien for labor, material or taxes: Chapter 60.28 RCW. County airport districts: Chapter 14.08 RCW. County and district fairs as agricultural fair classification: RCW 15.76.120. County government: State Constitution Art. 11. County lands    acquisition of for state highways: RCW 47.12.040, 47.12.150.    city or town L.I.D. assessments, as subject to: RCW 35.43.130, 35.44.140, 35.49.070.    diking, drainage or sewerage improvement assessments, as subject to: RCW 85.08.500, 85.08.530.    diking and drainage intercounty districts assessments, as subject to: RCW 85.24.240.    diking district act, as subject to: RCW 85.05.080, 85.05.380, 85.05.390.    drainage district act, as subject to: RCW 85.06.350, 85.06.360.    eminent domain by cities of: Chapter 8.12 RCW.    eminent domain by public waterway districts of: Chapter 91.08 RCW.    flood control district assessments, as subject to: RCW 86.09.526, 86.09.529.    lease of for underground storage of natural gas: RCW 80.40.070.    pest district assessments, as subject to: RCW 17.12.080.    public waterway district assessments, as subject to: RCW 91.08.570, 91.08.575.    right of entry on given department of transportation: RCW 47.01.170.    rights of way over by diking districts: RCW 85.05.080.    subject to diking, drainage or sewerage improvement assessments, resale of or lease of by county: RCW 85.08.500.    weed control district assessments, as subject to: RCW 17.04.180. County office, defined for public assistance purposes: RCW 74.04.005(3). County roads: Chapter 36.75 RCW. Court house, county to furnish: RCW 2.28.139. Credit not to be loaned: State Constitution Art. 8 § 7. Debts of    apportionment on division or enlargement: State Constitution Art. 11 § 3.    limit of: State Constitution Art. 8 § 6 (Amendment 27), Art. 7 § 2 (Amendments 55, 59).    private property not to be taken in satisfaction of: State Constitution Art. 11 § 13. Dental hygienists, licensed, county may employ: RCW 18.29.050. Department of revenue, visitation to counties: RCW 84.08.010(3). Detention, house or room for, establishment of: RCW 13.04.135. Detention facilities, management of (counties with populations of one million or more): Chapter 13.20 RCW. Detention of state felons in county jails: Chapter 72.68 RCW. Diking and drainage intercounty districts: Chapter 85.24 RCW. Disinfection of county property as county duty: RCW 15.08.230. Disturbances at state penal facilities -- Reimbursement to cities and counties for certain expenses incurred: RCW 72.72.050, 72.72.060. Electric franchises and rights of way, counties may grant: RCW 80.32.010. Electrical construction regulations applicable to counties: RCW 19.29.010. Emergency management, county participation: Chapter 38.52 RCW. Eminent domain    airport purposes: Chapters 14.07, 14.08 RCW.    flood control purposes: RCW 86.12.030.    flood control purposes by counties jointly: RCW 86.13.040.    generally: Chapter 8.08 RCW.    military purposes: RCW 8.04.170, 8.04.180.    of tidelands: RCW 88.24.070.    parks, bathing beaches, public camps: RCW 67.20.010.    wharves purposes: RCW 88.24.070. Existing counties recognized: State Constitution Art. 11 § 1. Family courts in: Chapter 26.12 RCW. Federal areas in counties, generally: Chapter 37.08 RCW. Federal property, purchase of from government by counties: Chapter 39.32 RCW. Fireworks, county participation in control: Chapter 70.77 RCW. Fiscal agent for: Chapter 43.80 RCW. Flood control    county: Chapter 86.12 RCW.    county participation with          district: RCW 86.24.040.          state and federal government: Chapter 86.24 RCW.    districts (1937 act), public lands included in: RCW 86.09.013.    maintenance, county participation with state: Chapter 86.26 RCW. Forest protection in counties: Chapter 76.04 RCW. Fruit and vegetable inspection districts, counties constituting: RCW 15.17.230. Funding indebtedness in counties: Chapter 39.52 RCW. Group life insurance, public employee associations: RCW 48.24.060. Hospitals, private, for care of mentally ill, alcoholics, county may prescribe standards: RCW 71.12.550. Housing authority    generally: Chapter 35.82 RCW.    property as exempt from county taxation: RCW 35.82.210. Housing cooperation law: Chapter 35.83 RCW. Indebtedness, county: State Constitution Art. 8. Industrial development districts, county lands may be conveyed to: Chapter 53.25 RCW. Intercounty weed districts: Chapter 17.06 RCW. Intergovernmental disposition of property, county participation: RCW 39.33.010. Irrigation districts, cancellation of county taxes against, when: RCW 87.64.060. Island counties, refund of motor vehicle license and fuel tax fees to: RCW 46.68.080. Joint aid river and harbor improvements, county participation: RCW 88.32.230 through 88.32.235. Joint planning for improvement of navigable stream, county participation: RCW 88.32.240 through 88.32.250. Juvenile detention facility as mandatory county function: RCW 13.16.030. Leases, mineral and petroleum, on county land: Chapter 78.16 RCW. Leases of property, ballot proposition    by jointly with city or town: RCW 35.42.200.    from by city or town: RCW 35.42.200. Legal aid: Chapter 2.50 RCW. Legal publications of: Chapter 65.16 RCW. Libraries: Title 27 RCW. Lien for labor, material and taxes on public works: Chapter 60.28 RCW. Limitation of indebtedness of taxing districts: Chapter 39.36 RCW. Liquor revolving fund moneys, distribution to counties: Chapter 66.08 RCW. Local milk inspection service units: Chapter 15.36 RCW. Martial law, proclamation of county under: RCW 38.08.030. Metropolitan municipal corporations    as borrowers from county: RCW 35.58.480.    county participation: Chapter 35.58 RCW. Military offenses, jurisdiction by county when: Chapter 38.32 RCW. Mosquito control    county work coordinated with: Chapter 70.22 RCW.    districts, counties where authorized: RCW 17.28.020. Motor freight carrier, county vehicle exempt as: RCW 81.80.040. Motor vehicle    accidents, peace officer's reports: RCW 46.52.070.    fund moneys for county purposes: RCW 46.68.070 and 46.68.120.    size, weight and load, local regulations: RCW 46.44.080. Municipal airports    1941 act: Chapter 14.07 RCW.    1945 act: Chapter 14.08 RCW. Old age and survivors' insurance, acceptance of for counties: Chapter 41.47 RCW. Operating agencies (electricity, water resources) to act for counties: Chapter 43.52 RCW. Park and recreation service areas: RCW 36.68.400 through 36.68.620. Parks, bathing beaches, public camps, county may acquire and operate: Chapter 67.20 RCW. Person defined to include counties for RCW code purposes: RCW 1.16.080. Pesticide application act, county as subject to: RCW 17.21.220. Police and sanitary regulations, power to enforce: State Constitution Art. 11 § 11. Port districts    contracts or leases with counties by: RCW 53.08.070, 53.08.140, 53.08.240.    motor vehicle regulation in by county authorities, procedure: RCW 53.08.230.    regulations of, adoption as county ordinance: RCW 53.08.220. Printing for counties to be done in state: RCW 43.78.130. Public assistance    as county function: RCW 74.04.040.    county participation: Chapter 74.04 RCW. Public contracts and indebtedness: Title 39 RCW. Public documents (state), distribution to counties: Chapter 40.04 RCW. Public employees    hospitalization and medical aid for: RCW 41.04.180, 41.04.190.    interchange of personnel with federal agency, rights preserved: RCW 41.04.140 through 41.04.170.    military leave for: RCW 38.40.060.    minimum wage act, public employee exclusion: RCW 49.46.010.    payroll deductions for: RCW 41.04.020, 41.04.036.    public employees' retirement system, county employees as members: RCW 41.40.062.    retirement systems, retention of rights: Chapter 41.04 RCW.    social security, federal coverage includes: Chapter 41.48 RCW. Public lands    rights of way over for county bridges, trestles, across waterways, tide or shore lands: RCW 79.110.120.    rights of way over for roads, county wharves: RCW 79.36.440.    sale of road material on to counties: RCW 79.15.320. Public officers    campaign financing, reporting: RCW 42.17.030 through 42.17.130.    code of ethics for: Chapter 42.23 RCW.    financial affairs and gifts, reporting: RCW 42.17.240.    misconduct of enumerated: Chapter 42.20 RCW.    not to receive witness fees: RCW 42.16.020, 42.16.030.    resignations: RCW 42.12.020.    terms when vacancies filled: RCW 42.12.030. Public purchase preferences: Chapter 39.24 RCW. Public works    emergency, county participation: Chapter 39.28 RCW.    department of transportation, cooperation: RCW 47.08.070.    prevailing wages to be paid on: Chapter 39.12 RCW. Publicly owned vehicles    exempt from licensing fee: RCW 46.16.020.    license plate retained when change in ownership: RCW 46.16.290.    registration of: RCW 46.16.020.    to be marked: RCW 46.08.065. Railroad grade crossings    apportionment of costs, county liability: RCW 81.53.110, 81.53.130.    counties duty to maintain: RCW 81.53.090.    county participation in grants for: Chapter 81.53 RCW. Railroad signals, warning devices on county roads: RCW 81.53.261 through 81.53.291. Reclamation and irrigation districts in United States reclamation areas, contract to bring county lands into: RCW 89.12.110. Reclamation districts of one million acres, lands in more than one county: RCW 89.30.004. Reforestation    county exchange of land to block up holdings: RCW 79.17.020, 79.17.060, and 79.17.070.    grants of county lands for: RCW 79.22.040. Regional jail camps, county prisoners may be committed to: RCW 72.64.100, 72.64.110. River and harbor improvements by counties jointly: RCW 88.32.180 through 88.32.220. Rural housing projects: Chapter 35.82 RCW. Savings and loan associations, counties as member: RCW 33.20.060. Soft tree fruits commission law, counties constituting districts under: RCW 15.28.010. Soil and water conservation districts, county may cooperate with: RCW 89.08.341. State patrol retirement allowances exempt from county taxation: RCW 43.43.310. State vehicle regulations precedence over local: RCW 46.08.020. State's title to abandoned channels granted to counties: RCW 86.13.110. Steamboat companies, county right to operate ferries, boats and wharves preserved: RCW 81.84.010. Stock restricted areas in: Chapter 16.24 RCW. Street railroads in counties: Chapter 81.64 RCW. Superior court judges, each county entitled to: State Constitution Art. 4 § 5, chapter 2.08 RCW. Surplus federal property, county may purchase: RCW 39.32.010 through 39.32.060. Tax liens, foreclosure by county when city or town L.I.D. assessments on, rights of city or town: RCW 35.49.130 through 35.49.160. Taxes    B & O, counties defined as person for purposes of: RCW 82.04.030.    excise, state preempts field, which: RCW 82.02.020.    federal payments in lieu of ad valorem property taxes to counties, distribution: Chapter 84.72 RCW.    for city and town purposes: State Constitution Art. 11 § 12.    local, legislature not to impose: State Constitution Art. 11 § 12.    motor vehicle fuel           counties as subject to: RCW 82.36.240.           state preempts field: RCW 82.36.440.    property           acquisitions of county subject to lien of: RCW 84.60.050.           county by, generally: Title 84 RCW.           county held tax-title property as exempt: RCW 36.35.100.           county-interstate bridge as exempt from: RCW 84.36.230.           county lands sold on contract as taxable: RCW 84.40.230.           county property as exempt from: RCW 84.36.010.           county revaluation program: Chapter 84.41 RCW.           county right of way easements as exempt from: RCW 84.36.210.           excess levies authorized, county application: RCW 84.52.050 through 84.52.056.           limitation on levies, county application: State Constitution Art. 7 § 2 (Amendments 55, 59); RCW 84.52.050.           state, county liability for share of: State Constitution Art. 11 § 9. Taxing district    county as: RCW 84.04.120.    relief act, county application: Chapter 39.64 RCW. Teletypewriter communications network, county participation: Chapter 43.89 RCW. Toll roads, bridges and ferries (state), county participation and liability: Chapter 47.56 RCW. Township organization in: State Constitution Art. 11 § 4 (Amendment 21). Traffic    enforcement agencies, duty: Chapter 46.64 RCW.    schools, county participation: Chapter 46.83 RCW. Unfit dwellings, buildings and structures: Chapter 35.80 RCW. Uniform system of accounting: Chapter 43.09 RCW. Validation of bonds and financing proceedings: Chapter 39.90 RCW. Vehicle wreckers' licensing, county to comply with: RCW 46.80.160. Veterans    in business, peddling, county licensing limitations: RCW 73.04.050 through 73.04.060.    indigent and deceased, burial as county responsibility: RCW 73.08.070.    public officials duty as considered leave of absence: RCW 73.16.041.    scoring criteria status in county employment reemployment: RCW 41.04.010, Chapter 73.16 RCW. Veterans'    meeting hall, county may furnish free of charge: RCW 73.04.070.    meeting place, rent from county funds: RCW 73.04.080.    relief as county responsibility: Chapter 73.08 RCW. Vital statistics, county as a primary registration area: RCW 70.58.010. Wages    deductions and rebates, application to counties: Chapter 49.52 RCW.    payment and collection of, county employee exclusion: RCW 49.48.080.    rebates of on public works, penalty: RCW 49.52.090. Warrants, interest rate on: RCW 39.56.020, 39.56.030. Water pollution control, county application: Chapter 90.48 RCW. Water rights    appropriation of by counties; procedure: Chapter 90.03 RCW.    United States, county application: Chapter 90.40 RCW. Wharves, counties may authorize and prescribe rates: RCW 88.24.020. Workers' compensation, county coverage: RCW 51.12.050. World fair or exposition, county participation: Chapter 35.60 RCW.