2017 Revised Code of Washington
Title 36 - COUNTIES
36.32 County commissioners.
- 36.32.005 "County commissioners" defined.
- 36.32.010 Board of commissioners established—Quorum.
- 36.32.020 Commissioner districts.
- 36.32.030 Terms of commissioners.
- 36.32.040 Nomination by districts.
- 36.32.050 Elected by entire county.
- 36.32.055 Five-member commission—When authorized—Ballot proposition—Petition—Procedures.
- 36.32.0552 Five-member commission—Newly created positions—How filled—County divided into five districts.
- 36.32.0554 Five-member commission—Newly created positions—Terms of initially elected commissioners.
- 36.32.0556 Five-member commissions—Four-year terms—Nominations by districts—Elected by entire county—Quorum.
- 36.32.0558 Five-member commissions—Vacancies.
- 36.32.060 Conditions of official bond.
- 36.32.070 Vacancies on board.
- 36.32.080 Regular meetings—Joint regular meetings—Regular meetings held outside of the county seat.
- 36.32.090 Special meetings—Joint special meetings.
- 36.32.100 Chair of board—Election, powers.
- 36.32.110 Clerk of board.
- 36.32.120 Powers of legislative authorities.
- 36.32.121 Community revitalization financing—Public improvements.
- 36.32.122 Authority to regulate massage therapists—Limitations.
- 36.32.125 Adoption of certain regulations proscribed.
- 36.32.127 Driving while under the influence of liquor or drugs—Minimum penalties.
- 36.32.130 Postponement of action.
- 36.32.135 Official seal.
- 36.32.140 Record of proceedings.
- 36.32.150 Transcribing mutilated records.
- 36.32.155 Transcribing mutilated records—Prior transcribing validated.
- 36.32.160 Transcribing mutilated records—Auditor to direct transcribing, certify.
- 36.32.170 Transcribing mutilated records—Original records to be preserved.
- 36.32.200 Special attorneys, employment of.
- 36.32.210 Inventory of county capitalized assets.
- 36.32.235 Competitive bids—Purchasing department—Counties with a population of four hundred thousand or more—Public works procedures—Riverine and stormwater projects—Exceptions.
- 36.32.240 Competitive bids—Purchasing department—Counties with a population of less than four hundred thousand.
- 36.32.245 Competitive bids—Requirements—Advertisements—Exceptions.
- 36.32.250 Competitive bids—Contract procedure—Contracts under forty thousand dollars—Small works roster process.
- 36.32.253 Competitive bids—Leases of personal property.
- 36.32.256 Competitive bids—Multiple awards for road maintenance materials.
- 36.32.260 Competitive bids—Purchasing agent.
- 36.32.265 Competitive bids—Inapplicability to certain agreements relating to water pollution control, solid waste handling facilities.
- 36.32.270 Competitive bids—Exemptions.
- 36.32.280 Regulation of watercourses.
- 36.32.290 Regulation of watercourses—Removal of obstructions.
- 36.32.300 Regulation of watercourses—Trees may be removed from riverbanks.
- 36.32.302 Transfer of ownership of county-owned vessel—Review of vessel's physical condition.
- 36.32.304 Transfer of ownership of county-owned vessel—Further requirements.
- 36.32.330 Appeals from board's action.
- 36.32.335 Coordination of county administrative programs—Legislative declaration.
- 36.32.340 Coordination of county administrative programs—Duties incident to.
- 36.32.350 Coordination of county administrative programs—Coordinating agency—Agency reimbursement.
- 36.32.360 Coordination of county administrative programs—Attendance at conventions authorized.
- 36.32.370 Land surveys.
- 36.32.380 Land surveys—Record of surveys.
- 36.32.390 Nonmonthly employees, vacations and sick leaves.
- 36.32.400 Health care and group insurance.
- 36.32.410 Participation in Economic Opportunity Act programs.
- 36.32.415 Low-income housing—Loans and grants.
- 36.32.420 Youth agencies—Establishment authorized.
- 36.32.425 Juvenile curfews.
- 36.32.430 Parks, may designate name of.
- 36.32.435 Historic preservation—Authorization to acquire property, borrow money, issue bonds, etc.
- 36.32.440 Staff to aid in purchasing, poverty programs, parks, emergency services, budget, etc., authorized.
- 36.32.450 Tourist promotion.
- 36.32.460 Employee safety award programs.
- 36.32.470 Fire protection, ambulance or other emergency services provided by municipal corporations within county—Financial and other assistance authorized.
- 36.32.475 Regulation of automatic number or location identification—Prohibited.
- 36.32.480 Emergency medical service districts—Creation authorized—Composition of governing body.
- 36.32.490 County freeholders—Method of filling vacancies.
- 36.32.510 Right-of-way donations—Credit against required improvements.
- 36.32.520 Child care facilities—Review of need and demand—Adoption of ordinances.
- 36.32.525 Conditional and special use permit applications by parties licensed or certified by the department of social and health services or the department of corrections—Mediation prior to appeal required.
- 36.32.540 Settlement of Indian claims.
- 36.32.550 Conformance with chapter 43.97 RCW required.
- 36.32.560 Home rule charter counties—Residential care facilities—Review of need and demand—Adoption of ordinances.
- 36.32.570 Conservation area acquisition and maintenance.
- 36.32.580 Home rule charter counties subject to limitations on moratoria, interim zoning controls.
- 36.32.590 Building construction projects—County prohibited from requiring state agencies or local governments to provide bond or other security as a condition for issuance of permit.
- 36.32.600 Amateur radio antennas—Local regulation to conform with federal law.
- 36.32.610 Library capital facility areas authorized.
- 36.32.620 Abandoned or derelict vessels.
Air pollution control
advisory council, commissioner as member: RCW 70.94.240.
district, commissioner as member: RCW 70.94.100.
Board of law library trustees, commissioner as member: RCW 27.24.020.
Canvassing board, commissioner as member: RCW 39.40.030.
Cemeteries and funeral facilities, acquisition and operation of: Chapter 68.52 RCW.
Certified transcripts of commissioner meetings as evidence: RCW 5.44.070.
Continuity of government act, effect as to: RCW 42.14.040, 42.14.070.
County board of equalization, commissioners as: Chapter 84.48 RCW.
County board of health, commissioners as members of: RCW 70.05.030.
County canvassing board, commissioner as member: RCW 29A.60.160.
County health boards, commissioners as, duties: Chapter 70.05 RCW.
District court districting committee, commissioner as member of: RCW 3.38.010.
Duties relating to
air pollution control districts: Chapter 70.94 RCW.
assessor's plats: RCW 58.18.010.
bailiffs of the superior court: RCW 2.32.360.
basic juvenile court act: Chapter 13.04 RCW.
billiard table, pigeon-hole table: RCW 67.14.050.
bonds of public officers: Chapter 42.08 RCW.
bowling alleys: RCW 67.14.050.
cemetery districts: Chapter 68.52 RCW.
cities and towns
advancement of classification: Chapter 35.06 RCW.
agreements on planning, establishing, construction, etc., of streets: Chapter 35.77 RCW.
annexation of unincorporated areas: Chapter 35.13 RCW.
county aid on street construction, etc.: RCW 47.24.050.
disincorporation of: Chapter 35.07 RCW.
erection of drawbridges in: Chapter 35.74 RCW.
general indebtedness bonds, county tax levy to pay: RCW 35.37.120.
incorporation proceedings: Chapter 35.02 RCW.
L.I.D. assessments of county property: RCW 35.44.140, 35.49.070.
civil service for sheriff's office: Chapter 41.14 RCW.
combined city-county health department: Chapter 70.08 RCW.
county airport districts: Chapter 14.08 RCW.
county and city tuberculosis hospitals: Chapter 70.30 RCW.
county flood control: Chapter 86.12 RCW.
county road fund, illegal use of: RCW 47.08.100.
penalty: RCW 47.08.110.
county road projects if let to department of transportation where matching funds: RCW 47.08.080.
county superintendent of schools: Chapter 28A.310 RCW.
county teachers' institute: Chapter 28A.310 RCW.
court commissioner's salary: RCW 2.24.030.
dancing, license to conduct: Chapter 67.12 RCW.
detention facilities for juveniles: Chapter 13.16 RCW.
devices to protect fish in lakes: RCW 90.24.050.
diking and drainage intercounty districts: Chapter 85.24 RCW.
diking districts: Chapter 85.05 RCW.
reorganization of (1917 act): Chapter 85.20 RCW.
reorganization of (1933 act): Chapter 85.22 RCW.
diking, drainage and sewerage improvement districts: Chapter 85.08 RCW.
federal aid to: Chapter 85.12 RCW.
maintenance costs and levies: Chapter 85.16 RCW.
diking, drainage district benefits to roads, how paid: RCW 85.07.040, 85.07.050.
diseased animals: RCW 16.36.070.
district court
clerks, assistants: Chapter 3.54 RCW.
facilities: RCW 3.58.050.
legislative authority: RCW 3.42.040.
district courts and other courts of limited jurisdiction: Chapters 3.30, 3.34, 3.38, 3.42, 3.46, 3.50, 3.54, 3.58, 3.62, 3.66, 3.70, 3.74 RCW.
drainage districts: Chapter 85.06 RCW.
reorganization of (1917 act): Chapter 85.20 RCW.
reorganization of (1933 act): Chapter 85.22 RCW.
drawbridges, municipal: RCW 35.74.020, 35.74.030.
elections
creating new precincts: RCW 29A.16.040, 29A.16.050.
voting systems: Chapter 29A.12 RCW.
electric franchises and rights-of-way: RCW 80.32.010.
eminent domain by
counties: Chapter 8.08 RCW.
county, wharves for: RCW 88.24.070.
federal property, purchase of: Chapter 39.32 RCW.
federal tax lien index: RCW 60.68.045.
ferry system tariffs and charges, review committee: RCW 47.60.310.
fire protection district commissioner vacancy: RCW 52.14.050.
fire protection districts: Chapters 52.04, 52.08, 52.12, 52.16 RCW.
flood control by counties jointly: Chapter 86.13 RCW.
flood control districts (1937 act): Chapter 86.09 RCW.
flood control zone districts: Chapter 86.15 RCW.
funding indebtedness of counties: Chapter 39.52 RCW.
game, use of state lands for game purposes: RCW 77.12.360 through 77.12.390.
health districts: Chapter 70.46 RCW.
hospital districts: Chapter 70.44 RCW.
housing authority act: Chapter 35.82 RCW.
housing projects, cooperation: Chapter 35.83 RCW.
human remains: Chapter 68.50 RCW.
industrial development districts: Chapter 53.25 RCW.
intercounty rural library districts: Chapter 27.12 RCW.
intercounty weed districts: Chapter 17.06 RCW.
internal revenue taxes, lien for: RCW 60.68.045.
irrigation and rehabilitation district rules and regulations: RCW 87.84.090.
irrigation districts
director divisions: Chapter 87.04 RCW.
dissolution of districts with bonds: Chapter 87.53 RCW.
generally: Chapter 87.03 RCW.
joint control of: Chapter 87.80 RCW.
merger with drainage, joint drainage or consolidated drainage improvement district: RCW 87.03.720 through 87.03.745.
joint aid river and harbor improvements: RCW 88.32.230 through 88.32.235.
legal aid: Chapter 2.50 RCW.
lien foreclosure: Chapter 84.64 RCW.
liquor
retail license: RCW 67.14.040.
sale or other disposition of: RCW 67.14.020.
wholesale license: RCW 67.14.050.
medical care by state, in county hospitals: Chapter 74.09 RCW.
metropolitan municipal corporations: Chapter 35.58 RCW.
mineral and petroleum leases on county lands: Chapter 78.16 RCW.
mines, abandoned mining shafts and excavations: Chapter 78.12 RCW.
mosquito control districts: Chapter 17.28 RCW.
motor vehicle maximum speed limits outside cities and towns: RCW 46.61.400 through 46.61.425.
parks, bathing beaches, public camps, acquisition and operation of: Chapter 67.20 RCW.
pest districts: Chapter 17.12 RCW.
planning commission: Chapter 35.63 RCW.
port districts
annexation of land to: Chapter 53.04 RCW.
commissioner elections: Chapter 53.12 RCW.
consolidation of: Chapter 53.46 RCW.
formation of: Chapter 53.04 RCW.
public cemetery and morgue: RCW 68.52.010, 68.52.020.
public health pooling fund: RCW 70.12.030.
public lands
rights-of-way over for roads, county wharves: RCW 79.36.440.
tidelands and shorelands, petition for replat: RCW 79.125.080.
public utility districts: Chapters 54.08, 54.40 RCW.
privilege tax: Chapter 54.28 RCW.
public waterway districts: Chapter 91.08 RCW.
railroad grade crossings: Chapter 81.53 RCW.
reclamation districts of one million acres: Chapter 89.30 RCW.
reforestation: Chapter 79.22 RCW.
county exchange of land to block up holdings: RCW 79.17.020 and 79.17.060.
right to back and hold waters over county roads: RCW 90.28.010, 90.28.020.
river and harbor improvement districts: Chapter 88.32 RCW.
river and harbor improvements by counties jointly: RCW 88.32.180 through 88.32.220.
roads, closure of: Chapter 47.48 RCW.
roads and bridges, limited access facilities: Chapter 47.52 RCW.
rural county library districts: Chapter 27.12 RCW.
rural pool halls, billiard halls and bowling alleys, licensing of: Chapter 67.12 RCW.
school district organization: Chapter 28A.315 RCW.
school districts
penalties relating to: Chapter 28A.635 RCW.
second class, expenditures: Chapter 28A.330 RCW.
validation of indebtedness: Chapter 28A.535 RCW.
school funds: Chapter 28A.545 RCW.
section and corner lines, establishment of: Chapter 58.04 RCW.
special districts in counties with a population of two hundred ten thousand or more, disincorporation of: Chapter 57.90 RCW.
state highways, acquisition of county lands for: RCW 47.12.040.
stock restricted areas: Chapter 16.24 RCW.
street railways: Chapter 81.64 RCW.
superior court special sessions: RCW 2.08.140, 2.08.150.
taxes, excise tax on real estate sales: Chapter 82.45 RCW.
property
collection of: Chapter 84.56 RCW.
levy of: Chapter 84.52 RCW.
lien foreclosure: Chapter 84.64 RCW.
listing of: Chapter 84.40 RCW.
revaluation: Chapter 84.41 RCW.
temporary gates across highways: RCW 16.60.080.
temporary quarters for court: RCW 2.28.141.
towns, uncertain boundaries: RCW 35.27.040 through 35.27.060.
traffic control devices: Chapter 47.36 RCW.
traffic schools: Chapter 46.83 RCW.
underground storage of natural gas, lease of county lands for: RCW 80.40.070.
United States reclamation areas, contracts to bring county lands into: RCW 89.12.110.
veterans, indigent, deceased, burial of: RCW 73.08.070.
veterans' meeting places, rent by county: RCW 73.04.080.
veterans' relief: Chapter 73.08 RCW.
vouchers on public funds: Chapter 42.24 RCW.
water-sewer districts
annexation of property to: Chapter 57.24 RCW.
board of commissioners, vacancies: RCW 57.12.020.
consolidation of: Chapter 57.32 RCW.
generally: Title 57 RCW.
transfer of part: RCW 57.32.160.
withdrawal of territory from: Chapter 57.28 RCW.
weed district tax on county lands: RCW 17.04.180.
weed districts: Chapter 17.04 RCW.
wharves, authorizing of and prescribing rates: RCW 88.24.020.
Flood control
district (1937 act) board, commissioner to act for absent member: RCW 86.09.292.
zone districts, commissioners as ex officio supervisors: RCW 86.15.050.
Health districts: Chapter 70.46 RCW.
Metropolitan sewer advisory committee, commissioner as member: RCW 35.58.210.
Metropolitan water advisory committee, commissioner as member: RCW 35.58.230.
Property tax advisor: RCW 84.48.140.
Public assistance as county function: RCW 74.04.040.
Rangers, commissioners as ex officio: RCW 76.04.045.
Reclamation district commission, commissioner as member of: RCW 89.30.055.
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.
Revenue, department of, to advise commissioners: RCW 84.08.020.
Review board, commissioner as member of: RCW 35.13.171.
Solid waste collection districts: Chapter 36.58A RCW.
Traffic safety commission, member of association of county commissioners appointed to: RCW 43.59.030.
United States townsite law, dedication of streets, etc., under commissioners may alienate: RCW 58.28.440.
