RCW 80.04.470 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 470
RCW 80.04.470: Commission to enforce public service laws—Employees as peace officers.
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the commission to enforce the provisions of this title and all other acts of this state affecting public service companies, the enforcement of which is not specifically vested in some other officer or tribunal. Any employee of the commission may, without a warrant, arrest any person found violating in his or her presence any provision of this title, or any rule or regulation adopted by the commission: PROVIDED, That each such employee shall be first specifically designated in writing by the commission or a member thereof as having been found to be a fit and proper person to exercise such authority. Upon being so designated, such person shall be a peace officer and a police officer for the purposes herein mentioned.
RCW 80.36.375 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 375
RCW 80.36.375: Personal wireless services—Siting microcells, minor facilities, or a small cell network—Definitions.
Status: in_force

(1) If a personal wireless service provider applies to site several microcells, minor facilities, or a small cell network in a single geographical area: (a) If one or more of the microcells and/or minor facilities are not exempt from the requirements of RCW 43.21C.030 (2)(c), local governmental entities are encouraged: (i) To allow the applicant, at the applicant's discretion, to file a single set of documents required by chapter 43.21C RCW that will apply to all the microcells and/or minor facilities to be sited; and (ii) to render decisions under chapter 43.21C RCW regarding all the microcells and/or minor facilities in a single administrative proceeding; (b) Local governmental entities are encouraged: (i) To allow the applicant, at the applicant's discretion, to file a single set of documents for land use permits that will apply to all the microcells and/or minor facilities to be sited; and (ii) to render decisions regarding land use permits for all the microcells and/or minor facilities in a single administrative proceeding; and (c) For small cell networks involving multiple individual small cell facilities, local governmental entities may allow the applicant, if the applicant so chooses, to file a consolidated application and receive a single permit for the small cell network in a single jurisdiction instead of filing separate applications for each individual small cell facility. (2) For the purposes of this section: (a) "Personal wireless services" means commercial mobile services, unlicensed wireless services, and common carrier wireless exchange access services, as defined by federal laws and regulations. (b) "Microcell" means a wireless communication facility consisting of an antenna that is either: (i) Four feet in height and with an area of not more than five hundred eighty square inches; or (ii) if a tubular antenna, no more than four inches in diameter and no more than six feet in length. (c) "Minor facility" means a wireless communication facility consisting of up to three antennas, each of which is either: (i) Four feet in height and with an area of not more than five hundred eighty square inches; or (ii) if a tubular antenna, no more than four inches in diameter and no more than six feet in length; and the associated equipment cabinet that is six feet or less in height and no more than forty-eight square feet in floor area. (d) "Small cell facility" means a personal wireless services facility that meets both of the following qualifications: (i) Each antenna is located inside an antenna enclosure of no more than three cubic feet in volume or, in the case of an antenna that has exposed elements, the antenna and all of its exposed elements could fit within an imaginary enclosure of no more than three cubic feet; and (ii) Primary equipment enclosures are no larger than seventeen cubic feet in volume. The following associated equipment may be located outside the primary equipment enclosure and if so located, are not included in the calculation of equipment volume: Electric meter, concealment, telecomm demarcation box, ground-based enclosures, battery backup power systems, grounding equipment, power transfer switch, and cut-off switch. (e) "Small cell network" means a collection of interrelated small cell facilities designed to deliver personal wireless services.
RCW 80.84.020 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 84 / Section 020
RCW 80.84.020: Placement of regulatory liabilities into a retirement account—Authorization—Conditions.
Status: in_force

(1) The commission may, after conducting an adjudicative proceeding under chapters 34.05 and 80.04 RCW, authorize an electrical company to place amounts from one or more regulatory liabilities into a retirement account established pursuant to RCW 80.04.350 to cover decommissioning and remediation costs of eligible coal units that commenced commercial operations before January 1, 1980. (2) Regulatory liabilities placed in a retirement account pursuant to subsection (1) of this section must: (a) Not be used for any purpose other than the funding and recovery of prudently incurred decommissioning and remediation costs for such eligible coal units; (b) except as provided in RCW 80.04.350 , not be reduced, altered, impaired, or limited from the date of commission approval of the inclusion of the regulatory liabilities in the retirement account until all prudently incurred decommissioning and remediation costs for such coal units are recovered or paid in full; and (c) provide that any remaining funds in the retirement account, after recovery by the electrical company of all prudently incurred decommissioning and remediation costs for such eligible coal units, be returned to customers.
RCW 80.04.160 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 160
RCW 80.04.160: Rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

The commission is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt, promulgate and issue rules and regulations covering the transmission and delivery of messages and conversations, and the furnishing and supply of gas, electricity, wastewater company services, and water, and any and all services concerning the same, or connected therewith; and generally such rules as pertain to the comfort and convenience of the public concerning the subjects treated of in this title. Such rules and regulations must be promulgated and issued by the commission on its own motion, and must be served on the public service company affected thereby as other orders of the commission are served. Any public service company affected thereby, and deeming such rules and regulations, or any of them, improper, unjust, unreasonable, or contrary to law, may within twenty days from the date of service of such order upon it file objections thereto with the commission, specifying the particular grounds of such objections. The commission shall, upon receipt of such objections, fix a time and place for hearing the same, and after a full hearing may make such changes or modifications thereto, if any, as the evidence may justify. The commission has, and it is hereby given, power to adopt rules to govern its proceedings, and to regulate the mode and manner of all investigations and hearings. However, no person desiring to be present at such hearing may be denied permission. Actions may be instituted to review rules and regulations promulgated under this section as in the case of orders of the commission.
RCW 80.60.020 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 60 / Section 020
RCW 80.60.020: Available on first-come, first-served basis—Interconnected metering systems allowed—Charges to customer-generator—Consumer-owned utility may develop standard rate or tariff schedule.
Status: reserved

(1) An electric utility: (a) Shall offer to make net metering, pursuant to RCW 80.60.030 , available to eligible customer-generators on a first-come, first-served basis until the earlier of either: (i) June 30, 2029; or (ii) the first date upon which the cumulative generating capacity of net metering systems equals four percent of the utility's peak demand during 1996. Not less than one-half of the utility's 1996 peak demand available for net metering systems shall be reserved for the cumulative generating capacity attributable to net metering systems that generate renewable energy; (b) Shall allow net metering systems to be interconnected using a standard kilowatt-hour meter capable of registering the flow of electricity in two directions, unless the commission, in the case of an electrical company, or the appropriate governing body, in the case of other electric utilities, determines, after appropriate notice and opportunity for comment: (i) That the use of additional metering equipment to monitor the flow of electricity in each direction is necessary and appropriate for the interconnection of net metering systems, after taking into account the benefits and costs of purchasing and installing additional metering equipment; and (ii) How the cost of purchasing and installing an additional meter is to be allocated between the customer-generator and the utility; (c) Shall charge the customer-generator a minimum monthly fee that is the same as other customers of the electric utility in the same rate class, but shall not charge the customer-generator any additional standby, capacity, interconnection, or other fee or charge unless the commission, in the case of an electrical company, or the appropriate governing body, in the case of other electric utilities, determines, after appropriate notice and opportunity for comment that: (i) The electric utility will incur direct costs associated with interconnecting or administering net metering systems that exceed any offsetting benefits associated with these systems; and (ii) Public policy is best served by imposing these costs on the customer-generator rather than allocating these costs among the utility's entire customer base. (2) If a production meter and software is required by the electric utility to provide meter aggregation under RCW 80.60.030 (4), the customer-generator is responsible for the purchase of the production meter and software. (3)(a)(i) A consumer-owned utility may develop a standard rate or tariff schedule that deviates from RCW 80.60.030 for eligible customer-generators to take effect at the earlier of either: (A) June 30, 2029; or (B) the first date upon which the cumulative generating capacity of net metering systems equals four percent of the utility's peak demand during 1996. (ii) An electrical company may submit a filing with the commission to develop a standard tariff schedule that deviates from RCW 80.60.030 for eligible customer-generators. The commission must approve, reject, or approve with conditions a net metering tariff schedule pursuant to this subsection within one year of an electrical company filing. If the commission approves the filing with conditions, the investor-owned utility may choose to accept the tariff schedule with conditions or file a new tariff schedule with the commission. (b) An approved standard rate or tariff schedule under this subsection applies to any customer-generator subject to an interconnection agreement entered into: (i) After June 30, 2029, or (ii) the first date upon which the cumulative generating capacity of net metering systems pursuant to RCW 80.60.030 equals four percent of the utility's peak demand during 1996, whichever is earlier, unless the commission or governing body determines that a customer-generator is eligible for net metering under a rate or tariff schedule pursuant to RCW 80.60.030 . (c)(i) A consumer-owned utility must notify the Washington State University extension energy program sixty days in advance of when a standard rate for an eligible customer-generator is first placed on the agenda of the governing body. (ii) Each electric utility must give notice by July 31, 2020, and semiannually thereafter, to the Washington State University extension energy program of the status of meeting the cumulative generating capacity available to net metering systems pursuant to subsection (1)(a) of this section. (iii) The Washington State University extension energy program must make available on its website a list of the following: (A) Each electric utility's progress on reaching the cumulative generating capacity available to net metering systems pursuant to subsection (1)(a) of this section; (B) Electric utilities that have provided notice of a rate or tariff schedule under this subsection; and (C) Electric utilities that have adopted a standard rate or tariff schedule under this subsection. (d) If the commission does not approve an electrical company's tariff schedule under (a)(ii) of this subsection, the commission may determine the alternative cumulative generating capacity available to net metering systems pursuant to RCW 80.60.030 . (4)(a) An electric utility must continue to credit a customer-generator pursuant to RCW 80.60.030 if: (i) The customer-generator takes service under net metering prior to the earlier of: (A) June 30, 2029; or (B) the first date upon which the cumulative generating capacity of net metering systems reaches four percent of the utility's peak demand in 1996; and (ii) The customer-generator's existing interconnection agreement for the net metering system remains valid. (b) The commission, in the case of electrical companies, and a governing body, in the case of consumer-owned utilities, must determine as part of a standard rate or tariff schedule under this subsection when customer-generators become ineligible for credit pursuant to RCW 80.60.030 . (c) Upon adoption of a standard rate or tariff schedule by the commission or governing body pursuant to subsection (3)(a) of this section, the electric utility is exempt from requirements under subsection (1)(c) of this section and RCW 80.60.030 for new interconnection agreements.
RCW 80.36.360 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 360
RCW 80.36.360: Exempted actions or transactions.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of RCW 19.86.170 , actions or transactions of competitive telecommunications companies, or associated with competitive telecommunications services, shall not be deemed otherwise permitted, prohibited, or regulated by the commission.
RCW 80.36.210 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 210
RCW 80.36.210: Order of sending messages.
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of any telegraph company, doing business in this state, to transmit all dispatches in the order in which they are received, under the penalty of one hundred dollars, to be recovered with costs of suit, by the person or persons whose dispatch is postponed out of its order: PROVIDED, That communications to and from public officers on official business, may have precedence over all other communications: AND, PROVIDED FURTHER, That intelligence of general and public interest may be transmitted for publication out of its order.
RCW 80.36.390 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 390
RCW 80.36.390: Telephone solicitation—Penalty.
Status: in_force

(1)(a) As used in this section, "telephone solicitation" means the unsolicited initiation of a telephone call by a commercial or nonprofit company or organization to a person for the purpose of encouraging the person to purchase property, goods, or services, wrongfully obtaining anything of value, or soliciting donations of money, property, goods, or services. (b) "Telephone solicitation" does not include: (i) Calls made in response to a request or inquiry by the called party. This includes calls regarding an item that has been purchased by the called party from the company or organization during a period not longer than 12 months prior to the telephone contact; (ii) Calls made by a not-for-profit organization, as defined by 26 U.S.C. Sec. 501 of the federal internal revenue code, to its own list of bona fide or active members of the organization; (iii) Calls made by a membership or labor organization to its own list of bona fide or active members of the organization; (iv) Calls limited to polling or soliciting the expression of ideas, opinions, or votes; or (v) Business-to-business contacts. (c) "Telephone call" means any communication made through a telephone that uses a live person, artificial voice, or recorded message. (2)(a) For purposes of this section, each individual real estate agent or insurance agent who maintains a separate list from other individual real estate or insurance agents shall be treated as a company or organization. (b) For purposes of this section, an organization as defined in RCW 29A.04.086 or 29A.04.097 and organized pursuant to chapter 29A.80 RCW shall not be considered a commercial or nonprofit company or organization. (3) A person making a telephone solicitation must identify him or herself and the company or organization on whose behalf the solicitation is being made and the purpose of the call within the first 30 seconds of the telephone call. (4) As used in this section, "telephone solicitor" means a commercial or nonprofit company or organization engaged in telephone solicitation. (5) If the telephone solicitor is requesting a donation or gift of money, the telephone solicitor must ask the called party whether they want to continue the call, end the call, or be removed from the solicitor's telephone lists. (6) If, at any time during the telephone contact, the called party states or indicates they want to end the call, the telephone solicitor must end the call within 10 seconds. (7) If, at any time during the telephone contact, the called party states or indicates that he or she does not want to be called again by the telephone solicitor or wants to have his or her name, individual telephone number, or other contact information removed from the telephone lists used by the telephone solicitor: (a) The telephone solicitor shall inform the called party that his or her contact information will be removed from the telephone solicitor's telephone lists for at least one year; (b) The telephone solicitor shall end the call within 10 seconds; (c) The telephone solicitor shall not make any additional telephone solicitation of the called party at any telephone number that the called party has requested be removed from the solicitor's telephone lists for a period of at least one year; and (d) The telephone solicitor shall not sell or give the called party's name, telephone number, and other contact information to another company or organization: PROVIDED, That the telephone solicitor may return the list, including the called party's name, telephone number, and other contact information to the company or organization from which it received the list. (8) A telephone solicitor shall not place calls to any person which will be received before 8:00 a.m. or after 8:00 p.m. at the call recipient's local time. (9) No person may initiate, or cause to be initiated, a telephone solicitation to a telephone number registered on the do not call registry maintained by the federal government pursuant to telephone consumer protection act, 47 U.S.C. Sec. 227 and related regulations, as currently enacted or subsequently amended. This subsection applies to all telephone solicitation intended to be received by telephone customers within the state. (10) It is unlawful for a person to initiate, or cause to be initiated, a telephone solicitation that violates 47 U.S.C. Sec. 227(e)(1), as currently written or as subsequently amended or interpreted by the federal government. This subsection applies to all telephone solicitation intended to be received by telephone customers within the state. (11) A violation of subsection (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), or (10) of this section is punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 for each violation. (12) The attorney general may bring actions to enforce compliance with this section. The legislature finds that the practices covered by this section are matters vitally affecting the public interest for the purpose of applying the consumer protection act, chapter 19.86 RCW. A violation of this section is not reasonable in relation to the development and preservation of business and is an unfair or deceptive act in trade or commerce and an unfair method of competition for the purpose of applying the consumer protection act, chapter 19.86 RCW. (13) A person aggrieved by repeated violations of this section may bring a civil action in superior court to enjoin future violations, to recover damages, or both. The court shall award damages of at least $1,000 for each individual violation of this section. If the aggrieved person prevails in a civil action under this subsection, the court shall award the aggrieved person reasonable attorneys' fees and cost of the suit. (14) The utilities and transportation commission shall by rule ensure that telecommunications companies inform their residential customers of the provisions of this section. The notification may be made by (a) annual notice in the billing statements sent to residential customers, or (b) conspicuous publication of the notice in the consumer information pages of local telephone directories.
RCW 80.60.010 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 60 / Section 010
RCW 80.60.010: Definitions.
Status: in_force

The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. (1) "Aggregated meter" means an electric service meter measuring electric energy consumption that is eligible to receive credits under a meter aggregation arrangement as described in RCW 80.60.030 . (2) "Commission" means the utilities and transportation commission. (3) "Consumer-owned utility" means a municipal electric utility formed under Title 35 RCW, a public utility district formed under Title 54 RCW, an irrigation district formed under chapter 87.03 RCW, a cooperative formed under chapter 23.86 RCW, or a mutual corporation or association formed under chapter 24.06 RCW, that is engaged in the business of distributing electricity to more than one retail electric customer in the state. (4) "Customer-generator" means a user of a net metering system. (5) "Designated meter" means an electric service meter at the service of a net metering system that is interconnected to the utility distribution system. (6) "Electric cooperative" means a cooperative or association organized under chapter 23.86 or 24.06 RCW. (7) "Electric utility" means any electrical company, public utility district, irrigation district, port district, electric cooperative, or municipal electric utility that is engaged in the business of distributing electricity to retail electric customers in the state. (8) "Electrical company" means a company owned by investors that meets the definition of RCW 80.04.010 . (9) "Irrigation district" means an irrigation district under chapter 87.03 RCW. (10) "Meter aggregation" means the administrative combination of billing net energy consumption from a designated net meter and eligible aggregated meter. (11) "Municipal electric utility" means a city or town that owns or operates an electric utility authorized by chapter 35.92 RCW. (12) "Net metering" means measuring the difference between the electricity supplied by an electric utility and the excess electricity generated by a customer-generator's net metering system over the applicable billing period. (13) "Net metering system" means a fuel cell, a facility that produces electricity and used and useful thermal energy from a common fuel source, or a facility for the production of electrical energy that generates renewable energy, and that: (a) Has an electrical generating AC capacity of not more than one hundred kilowatts; (b) Is located on the customer-generator's premises; (c) Operates in parallel with the electric utility's transmission and distribution facilities and is connected to the electric utility's distribution system; and (d) Is intended primarily to offset part or all of the customer-generator's requirements for electricity. (14) "Port district" means a port district within which an industrial development district has been established as authorized by Title 53 RCW. (15) "Premises" means any residential property, commercial real estate, or lands, owned or leased by a customer-generator within the service area of a single electric utility. (16) "Public utility district" means a district authorized by chapter 54.04 RCW. (17) "Renewable energy" means energy generated by a facility that uses water, wind, solar energy, or biogas as a fuel. (18) "Retail electric customer" includes an individual, organization, group, association, partnership, corporation, agency, unit of state government, or entity that is connected to the electric utility's distribution system and purchases electricity for ultimate consumption and not for resale.
RCW 80.98.010 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 98 / Section 010
RCW 80.98.010: Continuation of existing law.
Status: repealed

The provisions of this title insofar as they are substantially the same as statutory provisions repealed by this chapter, and relating to the same subject matter, shall be construed as restatements and continuations, and not as new enactments.
RCW 80.28.410 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 410
RCW 80.28.410: Clean energy action plan—Account for and defer costs.
Status: in_force

(1) An electrical company may account for and defer for later consideration by the commission costs incurred in connection with major projects in the electrical company's clean energy action plan pursuant to RCW 19.280.030 (1)(l), or selected in the electrical company's solicitation of bids for delivering electric capacity, energy, capacity and energy, or conservation. The deferral in this subsection begins with the date on which the resource begins commercial operation or the effective date of the power purchase agreement and continues for a period not to exceed thirty-six months. However, if during such a period the electrical company files a general rate case or other proceeding for the recovery of such costs, deferral ends on the effective date of the final decision by the commission in such a proceeding. Creation of such a deferral account does not by itself determine the actual costs of the resource or power purchase agreement, whether recovery of any or all of these costs is appropriate, or other issues to be decided by the commission in a general rate case or other proceeding. (2) The costs that an electrical company may account for and defer for later consideration by the commission pursuant to subsection (1) of this section include all operating and maintenance costs, depreciation, taxes, cost of capital associated with the applicable resource or the execution of a power purchase agreement. Such costs of capital include: (a) The electrical company's authorized return on equity for any resource acquired or developed by the electrical company; or (b) For the duration of a power purchase agreement, a rate of return of no less than the authorized cost of debt and no greater than the authorized rate of return of the electrical company, which would be multiplied by the operating expense incurred by the electrical company under the power purchase agreement.
RCW 80.28.480 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 480
RCW 80.28.480: Merger of gas and thermal energy rate bases.
Status: in_force

(1) In any multiyear rate plan proposed by a natural gas company or combination utility, the company may propose a merger into a single rate base of its regulated gas operations with its operation of a thermal energy network. The commission may approve the merger of gas and thermal energy rate bases if the commission finds that such a merger is in the public interest. (2) For a natural gas company or combination utility that has merged gas and thermal energy rate bases, the natural gas company or combination utility must monetize benefits received from any applicable federal and state tax and other incentives for the benefit of customers. These benefits must be separately accounted for and amortized on a schedule designed to mitigate the rate impacts to customers after the rate bases are combined. These credits may not be used for any other purpose, unless directed by the commission.
RCW 80.04.030 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 030
RCW 80.04.030: Number of witnesses may be limited.
Status: in_force

In all proceedings before the commission the commission shall have the right, in their discretion, to limit the number of witnesses testifying upon any subject or proceeding to be inquired of before the commission.
RCW 80.04.560 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 560
RCW 80.04.560: Finding.
Status: in_force

The legislature finds that an electrical company's acquisition of coal transition power helps to achieve the state's greenhouse gas emission reduction goals by effecting an orderly transition to cleaner fuels and supports the state's public policy.
RCW 80.08.160 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 08 / Section 160
RCW 80.08.160: Small local exchange company—Chapter does not apply.
Status: in_force

Subject to RCW 80.04.530 (1), this chapter does not apply to a local exchange company that serves less than two percent of the access lines in the state of Washington.
RCW 80.98.040 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 98 / Section 040
RCW 80.98.040: Repeals and saving.
Status: in_force

See 1961 c 14 s 80.98.040 .
RCW 80.98.020 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 98 / Section 020
RCW 80.98.020: Title, chapter, section headings not part of law.
Status: in_force

Title headings, chapter headings, and section or subsection headings, as used in this title do not constitute any part of the law.
RCW 80.28.309 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 309
RCW 80.28.309: Costs as bondable rate recovery expenditures.
Status: in_force

(1) Costs incurred before May 17, 2025, by electrical, gas, or water companies with respect to events described in RCW 80.28.005 (3)(a) or energy or water conservation measures and services described in RCW 80.28.005 (3)(b) shall constitute bondable rate recovery expenditures for purposes of RCW 80.28.005 , 80.28.303 , 80.28.306 , and this section, if: (a) The commission has previously issued a rate order authorizing the inclusion of such costs in rate base; and (b) The commission authorizes the issuance of rate recovery bonds secured by rate recovery assets associated with such costs. (2) If costs incurred before May 17, 2025, by electrical, gas, or water companies with respect to events described in RCW 80.28.005 (3)(a) or energy or water conservation measures described in RCW 80.28.005 (3)(b) have not previously been considered by the commission for inclusion in rate base, an electrical, gas, or water company may apply to the commission for approval of such costs. If the commission finds that the expenditures are bondable rate recovery expenditures, the commission shall by order designate such expenditures as bondable rate recovery expenditures, which shall be subject to RCW 80.28.005 , 80.28.303 , 80.28.306 , 80.28.490 , and 80.28.500 , and this section.
RCW 80.36.520 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 520
RCW 80.36.520: Disclosure of alternate operator services.
Status: in_force

The utilities and transportation commission shall by rule require, at a minimum, that any telecommunications company, operating as or contracting with an alternate operator services company, assure appropriate disclosure to consumers of the provision and the rate, charge or fee of services provided by an alternate operator services company. For the purposes of this chapter, "alternate operator services company" means a person providing a connection to intrastate or interstate long-distance services from places including, but not limited to, hotels, motels, hospitals, and customer-owned pay telephones.
RCW 80.52.070 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 52 / Section 070
RCW 80.52.070: Approval of request for financing authority.
Status: in_force

A request for financing authority pursuant to this chapter shall be considered approved if it receives the approval of a majority of those voting on the request.
RCW 80.28.375 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 375
RCW 80.28.375: Community solar companies—Requirements to engage in business—Registration.
Status: in_force

(1) No community solar company may engage in business in this state except in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Engaging in business as a community solar company includes advertising, soliciting, offering, or entering into an agreement to own a community solar project and provide community solar project services to electric utility customers. (2) A community solar company must register with the commission before engaging in business in this state or applying for certification from the Washington State University extension energy program under RCW 82.16.165 (1). Registration with the commission as a community solar company must occur on an annual basis. The registration must be on a form prescribed by the commission and contain that information as the commission may by rule require, but must include at a minimum: (a) The name and address of the community solar company; (b) The name and address of the community solar company's registered agent, if any; (c) The name, address, and title of each officer or director; (d) The community solar company's most current balance sheet; (e) The community solar company's latest annual report, if any; (f) A description of the services the community solar company offers or intends to offer, including financing models; and (g) Disclosure of any pending litigation against it. (3) As a precondition to registration, the commission may require the procurement of a performance bond or other mechanism sufficient to cover any advances or deposits the community solar company may collect from project participants or order that the advances or deposits be held in escrow or trust. (4) The commission may deny registration to any community solar company that: (a) Does not provide the information required by this section; (b) Fails to provide a performance bond or other mechanism, if required; (c) Does not possess adequate financial resources to provide the proposed service; or (d) Does not possess adequate technical competency to provide the proposed service. (5) The commission must take action to approve or issue a notice of hearing concerning any application for registration within thirty days after receiving the application. The commission may approve an application with or without a hearing. The commission may deny an application after a hearing. (6) The commission may charge a community solar company an annual application fee to recover the cost of processing applications for registration under this section. (7) The commission may adopt rules that describe the manner by which it will register a community solar company, ensure that the terms and conditions of community solar projects or community solar project services comply with the requirements of chapter 36, Laws of 2017 3rd sp. sess., establish the community solar company's responsibilities for responding to customer complaints and disputes, and adopt annual reporting requirements. In addition to the application fee authorized under subsection (6) of this section, the commission may adopt regulatory fees applicable to community solar companies pursuant to RCW 80.04.080 , 80.24.010 , and 80.24.020 . Such fees may not exceed the cost of ensuring compliance with this chapter. (8) The commission may suspend or revoke a registration upon complaint by any interested party, or upon the commission's own motion after notice and opportunity for hearing, when it finds that a registered community solar company or its agent has violated this chapter or the rules of the commission, or that the community solar company or its agent has been found by a court or governmental agency to have violated the laws of a state or the United States. (9) For the purpose of ensuring compliance with this chapter, the commission may issue penalties against community solar companies for violations of this chapter as provided for public service companies pursuant to chapter 80.04 RCW. (10) Upon request of the commission, a community solar company registered under this section must provide information about its community solar projects or community solar project services. (11) A violation of this section constitutes an unfair or deceptive act in trade or commerce in violation of chapter 19.86 RCW, the consumer protection act. Acts in violation of chapter 36, Laws of 2017 3rd sp. sess. are not reasonable in relation to the development and preservation of business, and constitute matters vitally affecting the public interest for the purpose of applying the consumer protection act, chapter 19.86 RCW. (12) For the purposes of RCW 19.86.170 , actions or transactions of a community solar company may not be deemed otherwise permitted, prohibited, or regulated by the commission.
RCW 80.28.022 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 022
RCW 80.28.022: Water company rates—Reserve account.
Status: in_force

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In determining the rates to be charged by each water company subject to its jurisdiction, the commission may provide for the funding of a reserve account exclusively for the purpose of making capital improvements approved by the department of health as a part of a long-range plan, or required by the department to assure compliance with federal or state drinking water regulations, or to perform construction or maintenance required by the department of ecology to secure safety to life and property under RCW 43.21A.064 (2). Expenditures from the fund shall be subject to prior approval by the commission, and shall be treated for rate-making purposes as customer contributions.
RCW 80.04.360 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 360
RCW 80.04.360: Earnings in excess of reasonable rate—Consideration in fixing rates.
Status: in_force

If any public service company earns in the period of five consecutive years immediately preceding the commission order fixing rates for such company a net utility operating income in excess of a reasonable rate of return upon the fair value of its property used and useful in the public service, the commission shall take official notice of such fact and of whether any such excess earnings shall have been invested in such company's plant or otherwise used for purposes beneficial to the consumers of such company and may consider such facts in fixing rates for such company.
RCW 80.36.170 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 170
RCW 80.36.170: Unreasonable preference prohibited.
Status: in_force

No telecommunications company shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any person, corporation or locality, or subject any particular person, corporation or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever. The commission shall have primary jurisdiction to determine whether any rate, regulation, or practice of a telecommunications company violates this section. This section shall not apply to contracts offered by a telecommunications company classified as competitive or to contracts for services classified as competitive under RCW 80.36.320 and 80.36.330 .
RCW 80.20.050 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 20 / Section 050
RCW 80.20.050: Order of commission not subject to review.
Status: in_force

In view of the civil action provided for in RCW 80.20.020 through 80.20.060 any order made by the commission in determining the amount of such bill shall not be reviewable in court, but the mere absence of such right of review shall not prejudice the rights of defendants in the civil action.
RCW 80.60.040 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 60 / Section 040
RCW 80.60.040: Safety, power quality, and interconnection requirements—Customer-generator's expense—Commission may adopt additional requirements.
Status: in_force

(1) A net metering system used by a customer-generator shall include, at the customer-generator's own expense, all equipment necessary to meet applicable safety, power quality, and interconnection requirements established by the national electrical code, national electrical safety code, the institute of electrical and electronics engineers, and underwriters laboratories. (2) The commission, in the case of an electrical company, or the appropriate governing body, in the case of other electric utilities, after appropriate notice and opportunity for comment, may adopt by regulation additional safety, power quality, and interconnection requirements for customer-generators, including limitations on the number of customer-generators and total capacity of net metering systems that may be interconnected to any distribution feeder line, circuit, or network that the commission or governing body determines are necessary to protect public safety and system reliability. (3) An electric utility may not require a customer-generator whose net metering system meets the standards in subsections (1) and (2) of this section to comply with additional safety or performance standards, perform or pay for additional tests, or purchase additional liability insurance. However, an electric utility shall not be liable directly or indirectly for permitting or continuing to allow an attachment of a net metering system, or for the acts or omissions of the customer-generator that cause loss or injury, including death, to any third party. (4) Except when required under the federal public utility regulatory policies act, an electric utility may not establish compensation arrangements or interconnection requirements, other than those permitted in this chapter, for a customer-generator that would have the effect of prohibiting or restricting the ability of a customer-generator to generate or store electricity for consumption on its premises.
RCW 80.28.385 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 385
RCW 80.28.385: Renewable natural gas program.
Status: in_force

(1) A natural gas company may propose a renewable natural gas program under which the company would supply renewable natural gas for a portion of the natural gas sold or delivered to its retail customers. The renewable natural gas program is subject to review and approval by the commission. The customer charge for a renewable natural gas program may not exceed five percent of the amount charged to retail customers for natural gas. (2) The environmental attributes of renewable natural gas provided under this section must be retired using procedures established by the commission and may not be used for any other purpose. The commission must approve procedures for banking and transfer of environmental attributes. (3) As used in this section, "renewable natural gas" includes renewable natural gas as defined in RCW 54.04.190 . The commission may approve inclusion of other sources of gas if those sources are produced without consumption of fossil fuels.
RCW 80.04.330 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 330
RCW 80.04.330: Effect of unauthorized expenditure—Emergencies.
Status: in_force

Any public service company may make or contract for any rejected item of expenditure, but in such case the same shall not be allowed as an operating expense, or as to items of construction, as a part of the fair value of the company's property used and useful in serving the public: PROVIDED, That such items of construction may at any time thereafter be so allowed in whole or in part upon proof that they are used and useful. Any company may upon the happening of any emergency caused by fire, flood, explosion, storm, earthquake, riot, or insurrection, or for the immediate preservation or restoration to condition of usefulness of any of its property, the usefulness of which has been destroyed by accident, make the necessary expenditure therefor free from the operation of RCW 80.04.300 through 80.04.330 . Any finding and order entered by the commission shall be in effect until vacated and set aside in proper proceedings for review thereof.
RCW 80.28.220 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 220
RCW 80.28.220: Gas companies—Right of eminent domain—Purposes.
Status: in_force

Every corporation having for one of its principal purposes the transmission, distribution, sale, or furnishing of natural gas or other type gas for light, heat, or power and holding and owning a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the utilities and transportation commission authorizing the operation of a gas plant, may appropriate, by condemnation, lands and property and interests therein, for the transmission, distribution, sale, or furnishing of such natural gas or other type gas through gas mains or pipelines under the provisions of chapter 8.20 RCW.
RCW 80.01.110 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 01 / Section 110
RCW 80.01.110: Wholesale telecommunications services—Commission authorized to review rates, terms, conditions.
Status: in_force

The commission is authorized to perform the duties required by RCW 53.08.380 and 54.16.340 .
RCW 80.28.075 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 075
RCW 80.28.075: Banded rates—Natural gas, electric, or thermal energy services.
Status: in_force

Upon request by a natural gas company, an electrical company, or a thermal energy company, the commission may approve a tariff that includes banded rates for any nonresidential natural gas, electric, or thermal energy service that is subject to effective competition from energy suppliers not regulated by the utilities and transportation commission. "Banded rate" means a rate that has a minimum and maximum rate. Rates may be changed within the rate band upon such notice as the commission may order.
RCW 80.24.020 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 24 / Section 020
RCW 80.24.020: Fees to approximate reasonable cost of regulation.
Status: in_force

In fixing the percentage rates of gross operating revenue to be paid in any year, the commission shall consider all moneys then in the public service revolving fund and the fees currently to be paid into such fund, to the end that the fees collected from the several classes of companies shall be approximately the same as the reasonable cost of supervising and regulating such classes of companies.
RCW 80.36.250 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 250
RCW 80.36.250: Commission may complain of interstate rates.
Status: in_force

The commission may investigate all interstate rates and charges, classifications, or rules or practices relating thereto, for or in relation to the transmission of messages or conversations. Where any acts in relation thereto take place within this state which, in the opinion of the commission, are excessive or discriminatory, or are levied or laid in violation of the federal communications act of June 19, 1934, and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, or are in conflict with the rulings, orders, or regulations of the Federal Communications Commission, the commission shall apply by petition to the Federal Communications Commission for relief, and may present to such federal commission all facts coming to its knowledge respecting violations of such act or the rulings, orders, or regulations of the federal commission.
RCW 80.66.010 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 66 / Section 010
RCW 80.66.010: Scope of regulation—Filing of certain agreements.
Status: in_force

The commission shall not regulate radio communications service companies, except that: (1) The commission may regulate the rates, services, facilities, and practices of radio communications service companies, within a geographic service area or a portion of a geographic service area in which it is authorized to operate by the federal communications commission if it is the only provider of basic telecommunications service within such geographic service area or such portion of a geographic service area. For purposes of this section, "basic telecommunications service" means voice grade, local exchange telecommunications service. (2) Actions or transactions of radio communications service companies that are not regulated pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall not be deemed actions or transactions otherwise permitted, prohibited, or regulated by the commission for purposes of RCW 19.86.170 . (3) Radio communications service companies shall file with the commission copies of all agreements with any of their affiliated interests as defined in RCW 80.16.010 , showing the rates, tolls, rentals, contracts, and charges of such affiliated interest for services rendered and equipment and facilities supplied to the radio communications service company, except that such agreements need not be filed where the services rendered and equipment and facilities supplied are provided by the affiliated interest under a tariff or price list filed with the commission.
RCW 80.50.110 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 50 / Section 110
RCW 80.50.110: Chapter governs and supersedes other law or regulations—Preemption of regulation and certification by state.
Status: in_force

(1) If any provision of this chapter is in conflict with any other provision, limitation, or restriction which is now in effect under any other law of this state, or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder, this chapter shall govern and control and such other law or rule or regulation promulgated thereunder shall be deemed superseded for the purposes of this chapter. (2) The state hereby preempts the regulation and certification of the location, construction, and operational conditions of certification of the energy facilities included under RCW 80.50.060 as now or hereafter amended.
RCW 82.16.055 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 16 / Section 055
RCW 82.16.055: Deductions relating to energy conservation or production from renewable resources.
Status: in_force

(1) In computing tax under this chapter there must be deducted from the gross income: (a) An amount equal to the cost of production at the plant for consumption within the state of Washington of: (i) Electrical energy produced or generated from cogeneration as defined in RCW 82.35.020 , as existing on June 30, 2006; and (ii) Electrical energy or gas produced or generated from renewable energy resources such as solar energy, wind energy, hydroelectric energy, geothermal energy, wood, wood wastes, municipal wastes, agricultural products and wastes, and end-use waste heat; and (b) Those amounts expended to improve consumers' efficiency of energy end use or to otherwise reduce the use of electrical energy or gas by the consumer. (2) This section applies only to new facilities for the production or generation of energy from cogeneration or renewable energy resources or measures to improve the efficiency of energy end use on which construction or installation is begun after June 12, 1980, and before January 1, 1990. (3) Deductions under subsection (1)(a) of this section must be allowed for a period not to exceed thirty years after the project is placed in operation. (4) Measures or projects encouraged under this section must at the time they are placed in service be reasonably expected to save, produce, or generate energy at a total incremental system cost per unit of energy delivered to end use which is less than or equal to the incremental system cost per unit of energy delivered to end use from similarly available conventional energy resources which utilize nuclear energy or fossil fuels and which the gas or electric utility could acquire to meet energy demand in the same time period. (5) The department of revenue, after consultation with the utilities and transportation commission in the case of investor-owned utilities and the governing bodies of locally regulated utilities, must determine the eligibility of individual projects and measures for deductions under this section.Subject to RCW 80.04.530 (1), this chapter does not apply to a local exchange company that serves less than two percent of the access lines in the state of Washington.
RCW 80.36.186 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 186
RCW 80.36.186: Pricing of or access to noncompetitive services—Unreasonable preference or advantage prohibited.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no telecommunications company providing noncompetitive services shall, as to the pricing of or access to noncompetitive services, make or grant any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to itself or to any other person providing telecommunications service, nor subject any telecommunications company to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or competitive disadvantage. The commission shall have primary jurisdiction to determine whether any rate, regulation, or practice of a telecommunications company violates this section.
RCW 80.32.050 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 32 / Section 050
RCW 80.32.050: Sale or lease of plant and franchises.
Status: in_force

Any corporation incorporated or that may hereafter be incorporated under the laws of this state or any state or territory of the United States, for the purpose of manufacturing, transmitting or selling electric power, may lease or purchase and operate (except in cases where such lease or purchase is prohibited by the Constitution of this state) the whole or any part of the plant for manufacturing or distributing electric power or energy of any other corporation, heretofore or hereafter constructed, together with the franchises, powers, immunities and all other property or appurtenances appertaining thereto: PROVIDED, That such lease or purchase has been or shall be consented to by stockholders of record holding at least two-thirds in amount of the capital stock or the lessor or grantor corporation; and all such leases and purchases made or entered into prior to the effective date of chapter 173, Laws of 1903, by consent of stockholders as aforesaid are for all intents and purposes hereby ratified and confirmed, saving, however, any vested rights of private parties.
RCW 80.50.071 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 50 / Section 071
RCW 80.50.071: Council to receive applications—Payment of costs incurred by the council—Notification requirements.
Status: in_force

(1) The council shall receive all applications for energy facility site certification. Each applicant shall pay actual costs incurred by the council in processing an application. (a) Each applicant shall, at the time of application submission, pay to the council for deposit into the energy facility site evaluation council account created in RCW 80.50.390 an amount up to fifty thousand dollars, or such greater amount as specified by the council after consultation with the applicant. The council shall charge costs against the deposit if the applicant withdraws its application and has not reimbursed the council for all actual expenditures incurred in considering the application. (b) The council may commission its own independent consultant study to measure the consequences of the proposed energy facility on the environment or any matter that it deems essential to an adequate appraisal of the site. The council shall provide an estimate of the cost of the study to the applicant and consider applicant comments. (c) In addition to the deposit required under (a) of this subsection, applicants must reimburse the council for actual expenditures that arise in considering the application, including the cost of any independent consultant study. The council shall submit to each applicant an invoice of actual expenditures made during the preceding calendar quarter in sufficient detail to explain the expenditures. The applicant shall pay the council the amount of the invoice by the due date. (2) Each certificate holder shall pay the actual costs incurred by the council for inspection and determination of compliance by the certificate holder with the terms of the certification relative to monitoring the effects of construction, operation, and site restoration of the facility. (a) Each certificate holder shall, within thirty days of execution of the site certification agreement, pay to the council for deposit into the energy facility site evaluation council account created in RCW 80.50.390 an amount up to fifty thousand dollars, or such greater amount as specified by the council after consultation with the certificate holder. The council shall charge costs against the deposit if the certificate holder ceases operations and has not reimbursed the council for all actual expenditures incurred in conducting inspections and determining compliance with the terms of the certification. (b) In addition to the deposit required under (a) of this subsection, certificate holders must reimburse the council for actual expenditures that arise in administering this chapter and determining compliance. The council shall submit to each certificate holder an invoice of the expenditures actually made during the preceding calendar quarter in sufficient detail to explain the expenditures. The certificate holder shall pay the amount of the invoice by the due date. (3) If an applicant or certificate holder fails to provide the initial deposit, or if subsequently required payments are not received within thirty days following receipt of the invoice from the council, the council may (a) in the case of the applicant, suspend processing of the application until payment is received; or (b) in the case of a certificate holder, suspend the certification. (4) All payments required of the applicant or certificate holder under this section are to be made to the council for deposit into the energy facility site evaluation council account created in RCW 80.50.390 . All such funds shall be subject to state auditing procedures. Any unexpended portions of the deposit shall be returned to the applicant within sixty days following the conclusion of the application process or to the certificate holder within sixty days after a determination by the council that the certificate is no longer required and there is no continuing need for compliance with its terms. For purposes of this section, "conclusion of the application process" means after the governor's decision granting or denying a certificate and the expiration of any opportunities for judicial review. (5)(a) Upon receipt of an application for an energy facility site certification proposing an energy plant or alternative energy resource that is connected to electrical transmission facilities of a nominal voltage of at least one hundred fifteen thousand volts, the council shall notify in writing the United States department of defense. The notification shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (i) A description of the proposed energy plant or alternative energy resource; (ii) The location of the site; (iii) The placement of the energy plant or alternative energy resource on the site; (iv) The date and time by which comments must be received by the council; and (v) Contact information of the council and the applicant. (b) The purpose of the written notification is to provide an opportunity for the United States department of defense to comment upon the application, and to identify potential issues relating to the placement and operations of the energy plant or alternative energy resource, before a site certification application is approved. The time period set forth by the council for receipt of such comments shall not extend the time period for the council's processing of the application. (c) In order to assist local governments required to notify the United States department of defense under RCW 35.63.270 , 35A.63.290 , and 36.01.320 , the council shall post on its website the appropriate information for contacting the United States department of defense.
RCW 80.40.040 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 40 / Section 040
RCW 80.40.040: Eminent domain—Application to oil and gas conservation committee prerequisite to eminent domain—Procedure.
Status: in_force

Any natural gas company desiring to exercise the right of eminent domain to condemn any property or interest in property for the underground storage of natural gas shall first make application to the *oil and gas conservation committee for an order approving the proposed project. Notice of such application shall be given by the committee to the utilities and transportation commission, to the director of ecology, to the commissioner of public lands, and to all other persons known to have an interest in the property to be condemned. Said notice shall be given in the manner provided by RCW 8.20.020 as amended. The committee shall publish notice of said application at least once each week for three successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties where the proposed underground storage project is located. If no written requests for hearing on the application are received by the committee within forty-five days from the date of service of notice of the application and publication thereof, the committee may proceed without hearing and issue its order. If a hearing is requested, a public hearing on the application will be held within the county or one of the counties where the proposed underground storage project is located. Any order approving the proposed underground storage project shall contain findings that (1) the underground storage of natural gas in the lands or property sought to be condemned is in the public interest and welfare; (2) the underground reservoir is reasonably practicable, and the applicant has complied with all applicable oil and gas conservation laws of the state of Washington; (3) the underground reservoir sought to be condemned is nonproductive of economically recoverable valuable minerals or materials, or of oil or gas in commercial quantities under either primary or secondary recovery methods, and nonproductive of fresh water in commercial quantities with feasible and reasonable pumping lift; (4) the natural gas company has acquired the right by grant, lease or other agreement to store natural gas under at least sixty-five percent of the area of the surface of the land under which such proposed underground storage reservoir extends; (5) the natural gas company carries public liability insurance or has deposited collateral in amounts satisfactory to the committee or has furnished a financial statement showing assets in a satisfactory amount, to secure payment of any liability resulting from any occurrence arising out of or caused by the operation or use of any underground reservoir or facilities incidental thereto; (6) the underground storage project will not injure, pollute, or contaminate any usable freshwater resources; (7) the underground storage project will not injure, interfere with, or endanger any mineral resources or the development or extraction thereof. The order of the committee may be reviewed in the manner provided by chapter 34.05 RCW: PROVIDED, That if an appeal is not commenced within thirty days of the date of the order of the committee, the same shall be final and conclusive.
RCW 80.04.050 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 050
RCW 80.04.050: Protection against self-incrimination.
Status: in_force

The claim by any witness that any testimony sought to be elicited may tend to incriminate him or her shall not excuse such witness from testifying, but such evidence or testimony shall not be used against such person on the trial of any criminal proceeding, excepting in a prosecution for perjury. The commissioner shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses at any place within the state.
RCW 80.36.555 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 555
RCW 80.36.555: Enhanced 911 service—Residential service required.
Status: in_force

By January 1, 1997, or one year after enhanced 911 service becomes available or a private switch automatic location identification service approved by the Washington utilities and transportation commission is available from the serving local exchange telecommunications company, whichever is later, any private shared telecommunications services provider that provides service to residential customers shall assure that the telecommunications system is connected to the public switched network such that calls to 911 result in automatic location identification for each residential unit in a format that is compatible with the existing or planned county enhanced 911 system.
RCW 80.50.040 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 50 / Section 040
RCW 80.50.040: Energy facility site evaluation council—Powers enumerated.
Status: in_force

The council shall have the following powers: (1) To adopt, promulgate, amend, or rescind suitable rules and regulations, pursuant to chapter 34.05 RCW, to carry out the provisions of this chapter, and the policies and practices of the council in connection therewith; (2) To develop and apply environmental and ecological guidelines in relation to the type, design, location, construction, initial operational conditions of certification, and ongoing regulatory oversight under the regulatory authority established in this chapter of energy facilities subject to this chapter; (3) To establish rules of practice for the conduct of public hearings pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, as found in chapter 34.05 RCW; (4) To prescribe the form, content, and necessary supporting documentation for site certification; (5) To receive applications for energy facility locations and to investigate the sufficiency thereof; (6) To enter into contracts to carry out the provisions of this chapter; (7) To conduct hearings on the proposed location and operational conditions of the energy facilities under the regulatory authority established in this chapter; (8) To prepare written reports to the governor which shall include: (a) A statement indicating whether the application is in compliance with the council's guidelines, (b) criteria specific to the site and transmission line routing, (c) a council recommendation as to the disposition of the application, and (d) a draft certification agreement when the council recommends approval of the application; (9) To prescribe the means for monitoring of the effects arising from the construction and the operation of energy facilities to assure continued compliance with terms of certification and/or permits issued by the council pursuant to chapter 90.48 RCW or subsection (12) of this section: PROVIDED, That any on-site inspection required by the council shall be performed by other state agencies pursuant to interagency agreement: PROVIDED FURTHER, That the council may retain authority for determining compliance relative to monitoring; (10) To integrate its site evaluation activity with activities of federal agencies having jurisdiction in such matters to avoid unnecessary duplication; (11) To present state concerns and interests to other states, regional organizations, and the federal government on the location, construction, and operation of any energy facility which may affect the environment, health, or safety of the citizens of the state of Washington; (12) To issue permits in compliance with applicable provisions of the federally approved state implementation plan adopted in accordance with the Federal Clean Air Act, as now existing or hereafter amended, for the new construction, reconstruction, or enlargement or operation of energy facilities: PROVIDED, That such permits shall become effective only if the governor approves an application for certification and executes a certification agreement pursuant to this chapter: AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That all such permits be conditioned upon compliance with all provisions of the federally approved state implementation plan which apply to energy facilities covered within the provisions of this chapter; and (13) To serve as an interagency coordinating body for energy-related issues.
RCW 80.36.120 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 120
RCW 80.36.120: Joint rates, contracts, etc.
Status: in_force

The names of the several companies which are parties to any joint rates, tolls, contracts or charges of telecommunications companies for messages, conversations and service to be rendered shall be specified therein, and each of the parties thereto, other than the one filing the same, shall file with the commission such evidence of concurrence therein or acceptance thereof as may be required or approved by the commission; and where such evidence of concurrence or acceptance is filed, it shall not be necessary for the companies filing the same to also file copies of the tariff in which they are named as parties.
RCW 80.36.460 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 460
RCW 80.36.460: Washington telephone assistance program—Deposit waivers, connection fee discounts.
Status: in_force

Local exchange companies must waive deposits on local exchange service for eligible subscribers and provide a fifty percent discount on the company's customary charge for commencing telecommunications service for eligible subscribers. The commission or other appropriate agency must make timely application for any available federal funds. The remaining portion of the connection fee to be paid by the subscriber must be expressly payable by installment fees spread over a period of months. A subscriber may, however, choose to pay the connection fee in a lump sum. Costs associated with the waiver and discount must be accounted for separately and recovered from the telephone assistance appropriation.
RCW 80.28.185 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 185
RCW 80.28.185: Water companies or wastewater companies within counties—Commission may regulate.
Status: in_force

The commission may develop and enter into an agreement with a county to carry out the regulatory functions of this chapter with regard to water companies or wastewater companies located within the boundary of that county. The duration of the agreement, the duties to be performed, and the remuneration to be paid by the commission are subject to agreement by the commission and the county.
RCW 80.36.200 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 200
RCW 80.36.200: Transmission of messages of other lines.
Status: in_force

Every telecommunications company operating in this state shall receive, transmit and deliver, without discrimination or delay, the messages of any other telecommunications company.
RCW 80.28.020 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 020
RCW 80.28.020: Commission to fix just, reasonable, and compensatory rates.
Status: in_force

Whenever the commission shall find, after a hearing had upon its own motion, or upon complaint, that the rates or charges demanded, exacted, charged or collected by any gas company, electrical company, wastewater company, water company, or thermal energy company, for gas, electricity, wastewater company services, water, or thermal energy, or in connection therewith, or that the rules, regulations, practices or contracts affecting such rates or charges are unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory or unduly preferential, or in any wise in violation of the provisions of the law, or that such rates or charges are insufficient to yield a reasonable compensation for the service rendered, the commission shall determine the just, reasonable, or sufficient rates, charges, regulations, practices or contracts to be thereafter observed and in force, and shall fix the same by order.
RCW 80.36.040 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 040
RCW 80.36.040: Use of road, street, and railroad right-of-way—When consent of city necessary.
Status: in_force

Any telecommunications company, or the lessees thereof, doing business in this state, shall have the right to construct and maintain all necessary telecommunications lines for public traffic along and upon any public road, street or highway, along or across the right-of-way of any railroad corporation, and may erect poles, posts, piers or abutments for supporting the insulators, wires and any other necessary fixture of their lines, in such manner and at such points as not to incommode the public use of the railroad or highway, or interrupt the navigation of the waters: PROVIDED, That when the right-of-way of such corporation has not been acquired by or through any grant or donation from the United States, or this state, or any county, city or town therein, then the right to construct and maintain such lines shall be secured only by the exercise of right of eminent domain, as provided by law: PROVIDED FURTHER, That where the right-of-way as herein contemplated is within the corporate limits of any incorporated city, the consent of the city council thereof shall be first obtained before such telecommunications lines can be erected thereon.
RCW 80.36.310 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 310
RCW 80.36.310: Classification as competitive telecommunications companies, services—Initiation of proceedings—Notice and publication—Effective date—Date for final order.
Status: in_force

(1) Telecommunications companies may petition to be classified as competitive telecommunications companies under RCW 80.36.320 or to have services classified as competitive telecommunications services under RCW 80.36.330 . The commission may initiate classification proceedings on its own motion. The commission may require all regulated telecommunications companies potentially affected by a classification proceeding to appear as parties for a determination of their classification. (2) Any company petition or commission motion for competitive classification shall state an effective date not sooner than thirty days from the filing date. The company must provide notice and publication of the proposed competitive classification in the same manner as provided in RCW 80.36.110 for tariff changes. The proposed classification shall take effect on the stated effective date unless suspended by the commission and set for hearing under chapter 34.05 RCW or set for a formal investigation and fact-finding under RCW 80.36.145 . The commission shall enter its final order with respect to any suspended classification within six months from the date of filing of a company's petition or the commission's motion.
RCW 80.28.365 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 365
RCW 80.28.365: Electric vehicle supply equipment, programs, or services—Electrification of transportation plan—Review—Issuance of acknowledgment.
Status: in_force

(1) An electric utility regulated by the utilities and transportation commission under this chapter may submit to the commission an electrification of transportation plan that deploys electric vehicle supply equipment or provides other electric transportation programs, services, or incentives to support electrification of transportation. The plans should align to a period consistent with either the utility's planning horizon under its most recent integrated resource plan or the time frame of the actions contemplated in the plan, and may include: (a) Any programs that the utility is proposing contemporaneously with the plan filing or anticipates later in the plan period; (b) Anticipated benefits of transportation electrification, based on a forecast of electric transportation in the utilities' service territory; and (c) Anticipated costs of programs, subject to the restrictions in RCW 80.28.360 . (2) In reviewing an electrification of transportation plan under subsection (1) of this section, the commission may consider the following: (a) The applicability of multiple options for electrification of transportation across all customer classes; (b) the impact of electrification on the utility's load, and whether demand response or other load management opportunities, including direct load control and dynamic pricing, are operationally appropriate; (c) system reliability and distribution system efficiencies; (d) interoperability concerns, including the interoperability of hardware and software systems in electrification of transportation proposals; and (e) the benefits and costs of the planned actions. (3) The commission must issue an acknowledgment of an electrification of transportation plan within six months of the submittal of the plan. The commission may establish by rule the requirements for preparation and submission of an electrification of transportation plan. An electric utility may submit a plan under this section before or during rule-making proceedings. (4) The commission may require a large combination utility as defined in RCW 80.86.010 to incorporate the requirements of this section into an integrated system plan established under RCW 80.86.020 .
RCW 80.50.130 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 50 / Section 130
RCW 80.50.130: Revocation or suspension of certification—Grounds.
Status: in_force

Any certification may be revoked or suspended: (1) For any material false statement in the application or in the supplemental or additional statements of fact or studies required of the applicant when a true answer would have warranted the council's refusal to recommend certification in the first instance; or (2) For failure to comply with the terms or conditions of the original certification; or (3) For violation of the provisions of this chapter, regulations issued thereunder or order of the council.
RCW 80.24.050 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 24 / Section 050
RCW 80.24.050: Penalty for failure to pay fees—Disposition of fines and penalties.
Status: in_force

Every person, firm, company or corporation, or the officers, agents or employees thereof, failing or neglecting to pay the fees herein required shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. All fines and penalties collected under the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited into the public service revolving fund of the state treasury: PROVIDED, That all fees, fines, forfeitures and penalties collected or assessed by a district court because of the violation of a state law shall be remitted as provided in chapter 3.62 RCW as now exists or is later amended.
RCW 80.50.175 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 50 / Section 175
RCW 80.50.175: Council's powers.
Status: in_force

(1) In addition to all other powers conferred on the council under this chapter, the council shall have the powers set forth in this section. (2)(a) The council, upon agreement with any potential applicant, is authorized as provided in this section to conduct a preliminary study of any potential project prior to receipt of an application for site certification. This preliminary study must be completed before any environmental review or process under RCW 43.21C.031 is initiated. A fee of $10,000 for each potential project, to be applied toward the cost of any study agreed upon pursuant to (b) of this subsection, must accompany the agreement and is a condition precedent to any action on the agreement by the council. (b) Upon agreement with the potential applicant, the council may commission its own independent consultant to study matters relative to the potential project. In conducting the study, the council is authorized to cooperate and work jointly with the county or counties in which the potential project is located, any federal, state, local, or tribal governmental agency that might be requested to comment on the potential project, and any municipal or public corporation having an interest in the matter. The full cost of the study must be paid by the potential applicant. However, costs exceeding a total of $10,000 are payable subject to the potential applicant giving prior approval to such an excess amount. (3) All payments required of the potential applicant under this section must be deposited into the energy facility site evaluation council account created in RCW 80.50.390 . All of these funds are subject to state auditing procedures. Any unexpended portions of the funds must be returned to the potential applicant. (4) If a potential applicant subsequently submits a formal application for site certification to the council for a site where a preliminary study was conducted, payments made under this section for that study may be considered as payment towards the application fee provided in RCW 80.50.071 .
RCW 80.50.340 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 50 / Section 340
RCW 80.50.340: Preapplication—Fees—Plans.
Status: in_force

(1) A preapplicant applying under RCW 80.50.330 shall pay to the council a fee of ten thousand dollars to be applied to the cost of the preapplication process as a condition precedent to any action by the council, provided that costs in excess of this amount shall be paid only upon prior approval by the preapplicant, and provided further that any unexpended portions thereof shall be returned to the preapplicant. (2) The council shall consult with the preapplicant and prepare a plan for the preapplication process which shall commence with an informational public hearing within 60 days after the receipt of the preapplication fee as provided in RCW 80.50.090 . (3) The preapplication plan shall include but need not be limited to: (a) An initial consultation to explain the proposal and request input from council staff, federal and state agencies, cities, towns, counties, port districts, tribal governments, property owners, and interested individuals; (b) Where applicable, a process to guide negotiations between the preapplicant and cities, towns, and counties within the corridor proposed pursuant to RCW 80.50.330 . (4) Fees paid under this section must be deposited in the energy facility site evaluation council account created in RCW 80.50.390 .
RCW 80.36.270 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 270
RCW 80.36.270: Effect on existing contracts.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this title shall be construed to prevent any telecommunications company from continuing to furnish the use of its line, equipment or service under any contract or contracts in force on June 7, 1911 or upon the taking effect of any schedule or schedules of rates subsequently filed with the commission, as herein provided, at the rates fixed in such contract or contracts.
RCW 80.58.010 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 58 / Section 010
RCW 80.58.010: Nonpolluting power generation by individual—Exemption from regulation—Authorization to contract with utility.
Status: in_force

The generation of power by a nonpolluting, renewable energy source by an individual natural person not otherwise engaged in the business of power generation is declared to be exempt from all statutes and rules otherwise regulating the generation of power: PROVIDED, That such an individual is hereby authorized to provide such power to the utility servicing the property on which the power is generated and the servicing utility is hereby authorized to accept such power under such terms and conditions as may be agreed to between the parties.It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the state of Washington to provide for the people of the populous metropolitan areas in the state the means of obtaining essential services not adequately provided by existing agencies of local government. The growth of urban population and the movement of people into suburban areas has created problems of water pollution abatement, garbage disposal, water supply, transportation, planning, parks and parkways which extend beyond the boundaries of cities, counties and special districts. For reasons of topography, location and movement of population, and land conditions and development, one or more of these problems cannot be adequately met by the individual cities, counties and districts of many metropolitan areas. It is the purpose of this chapter to enable cities and counties to act jointly to meet these common problems in order that the proper growth and development of the metropolitan areas of the state may be assured and the health and welfare of the people residing therein may be secured.
RCW 80.04.410 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 410
RCW 80.04.410: Orders and rules conclusive.
Status: in_force

In all actions between private parties and public service companies involving any rule or order of the commission, and in all actions for the recovery of penalties provided for in this title, or for the enforcement of the orders or rules issued and promulgated by the commission, the said orders and rules shall be conclusive unless set aside or annulled in a review as in this title provided.
RCW 80.04.220 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 220
RCW 80.04.220: Reparations.
Status: in_force

When complaint has been made to the commission concerning the reasonableness of any rate, toll, rental or charge for any service performed by any public service company, and the same has been investigated by the commission, and the commission has determined that the public service company has charged an excessive or exorbitant amount for such service, and the commission has determined that any party complainant is entitled to an award of damages, the commission shall order that the public service company pay to the complainant the excess amount found to have been charged, whether such excess amount was charged and collected before or after the filing of said complaint, with interest from the date of the collection of said excess amount.
RCW 80.24.040 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 24 / Section 040
RCW 80.24.040: Disposition of fees.
Status: in_force

All moneys collected under the provisions of this chapter shall within thirty days be paid to the state treasurer and by the state treasurer deposited to the public service revolving fund: PROVIDED, That all fees, fines, forfeitures and penalties collected or assessed by a district court because of the violation of a state law shall be remitted as provided in chapter 3.62 RCW as now exists or is later amended.
RCW 80.36.524 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 524
RCW 80.36.524: Alternate operator service companies—Rules.
Status: in_force

The commission may adopt rules that provide for minimum service levels for telecommunications companies providing alternate operator services. The rules may provide a means for suspending the registration of a company providing alternate operator services if the company fails to meet minimum service levels or if the company fails to provide appropriate disclosure to consumers of the protection afforded under this chapter.
RCW 80.28.420 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 420
RCW 80.28.420: Gas company recovery of costs associated with replacing certain pipeline facilities—Information to be submitted to the commission—Definitions.
Status: in_force

(1) The commission must initiate a proceeding to provide conditions concerning the interim recovery between rate cases by a gas company of the costs associated with replacing pipeline facilities that are demonstrated to have an elevated risk of failure and the costs associated with measures to expedite the reduction of hazardous leaks and reduce as practicable nonhazardous leaks from the gas company's gas pipelines. (2) A gas company seeking an interim recovery between rate cases may submit to the commission, as part of a general rate case or a commission-approved interim rate treatment mechanism regarding the replacement of pipeline facilities, a description of equipment and new facilities that aid in the reduction of methane emissions and a list of projects and changes to operational procedures including, but not limited to, venting, blowdowns, and others, to expedite the replacement of pipeline facilities that present an elevated risk of failure and expedite the repairs of hazardous leaks and nonhazardous leaks. Items on the list must be ranked according to risk, severity, complexity, and impact to the environment and public health. A gas company may also include in its filing methods to implement and deploy leak detection technology capable of rapidly identifying leaks. As part of its filing, the gas company must include a cost-effectiveness analysis and propose a cap for annual expenditures recoverable through a cost recovery mechanism to be approved by the commission. The cost-effectiveness analysis must include considerations of risk and impacts to the environment and public health. A gas company may consider a percent of rate base, percent of revenues, total expenditures, or other basis for its proposed cap. As part of the proposal, the gas company must address the expected impact to ratepayers and other factors that may be required by the commission by rule. (3) The definitions in this subsection apply throughout this section unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (a) "Gas pipeline" has the same meaning as defined in RCW 81.88.010 . (b) "Hazardous leak" means a leak that represents an existing or probable hazard to persons or property and requires immediate repair or continuous action until the conditions are no longer hazardous. (c) "Nonhazardous leak" includes a leak that is: (i) Recognized as being not hazardous at the time of detection but justifies scheduled repair based on the potential for creating a future hazard; and (ii) Not hazardous at the time of detection and can reasonably be expected to remain not hazardous. (4) Nothing in this section may be construed to preempt the process by which a gas company is required to petition relevant state or local authorities when seeking to expand the capacity of the company's gas transmission or distribution lines. (5) Nothing in this section may be construed to impose requirements or restrictions on or otherwise regulate interstate pipelines.
RCW 80.70.010 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 70 / Section 010
RCW 80.70.010: Definitions.
Status: in_force

The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Applicant" has the meaning provided in RCW 80.50.020 and includes an applicant for a permit for a fossil-fueled thermal electric generation facility subject to RCW 70A.15.2210 and 80.70.020 (1) (b) or (d). (2) "Authority" means any air pollution control agency whose jurisdictional boundaries are coextensive with the boundaries of one or more counties. (3) "Carbon credit" means a verified reduction in carbon dioxide or carbon dioxide equivalents that is registered with a state, national, or international trading authority or exchange that has been recognized by the council. (4) "Carbon dioxide equivalents" means a metric measure used to compare the emissions from various greenhouse gases based upon their global warming potential. (5) "Cogeneration credit" means the carbon dioxide emissions that the council, department, or authority, as appropriate, estimates would be produced on an annual basis by a stand-alone industrial and commercial facility equivalent in operating characteristics and output to the industrial or commercial heating or cooling process component of the cogeneration plant. (6) "Cogeneration plant" means a fossil-fueled thermal power plant in which the heat or steam is also used for industrial or commercial heating or cooling purposes and that meets federal energy regulatory commission standards for qualifying facilities under the public utility regulatory policies act of 1978. (7) "Commercial operation" means the date that the first electricity produced by a facility is delivered for commercial sale to the power grid. (8) "Council" means the energy facility site evaluation council created by RCW 80.50.030 . (9) "Department" means the department of ecology. (10) "Fossil fuel" means natural gas, petroleum, coal, or any form of solid, liquid, or gaseous fuel derived from such material to produce heat for the generation of electricity. (11) "Mitigation plan" means a proposal that includes the process or means to achieve carbon dioxide mitigation through use of mitigation projects or carbon credits. (12) "Mitigation project" means one or more of the following: (a) Projects or actions that are implemented by the certificate holder or order of approval holder, directly or through its agent, or by an independent qualified organization to mitigate the emission of carbon dioxide produced by the fossil-fueled thermal electric generation facility. This term includes but is not limited to the use of, energy efficiency measures, clean and efficient transportation measures, qualified alternative energy resources, demand-side management of electricity consumption, and carbon sequestration programs; (b) Direct application of combined heat and power (cogeneration); (c) Verified carbon credits traded on a recognized trading authority or exchange; or (d) Enforceable and permanent reductions in carbon dioxide or carbon dioxide equivalents through process change, equipment shutdown, or other activities under the control of the applicant and approved as part of a carbon dioxide mitigation plan. (13) "Order of approval" means an order issued under RCW 70A.15.2210 with respect to a fossil-fueled thermal electric generation facility subject to RCW 80.70.020 (1) (b) or (d). (14) "Permanent" means that emission reductions used to offset emission increases are assured for the life of the corresponding increase, whether unlimited or limited in duration. (15) "Qualified alternative energy resource" has the same meaning as in RCW 19.29A.090 . (16) "Station generating capability" means the maximum load a generator can sustain over a given period of time without exceeding design limits, and measured using maximum continuous electric generation capacity, less net auxiliary load, at average ambient temperature and barometric pressure. (17) "Total carbon dioxide emissions" means: (a) For a fossil-fueled thermal electric generation facility described under RCW 80.70.020 (1) (a) and (b), the amount of carbon dioxide emitted over a thirty-year period based on the manufacturer's or designer's guaranteed total net station generating capability, new equipment heat rate, an assumed sixty percent capacity factor for facilities under the council's jurisdiction or sixty percent of the operational limitations on facilities subject to an order of approval, and taking into account any enforceable limitations on operational hours or fuel types and use; and (b) For a fossil-fueled thermal electric generation facility described under RCW 80.70.020 (1) (c) and (d), the amount of carbon dioxide emitted over a thirty-year period based on the proposed increase in the amount of electrical output of the facility that exceeds the station generation capability of the facility prior to the applicant applying for certification or an order of approval pursuant to RCW 80.70.020 (1) (c) and (d), new equipment heat rate, an assumed sixty percent capacity factor for facilities under the council's jurisdiction or sixty percent of the operational limitations on facilities subject to an order of approval, and taking into account any enforceable limitations on operational hours or fuel types and use.
RCW 80.86.010 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 86 / Section 010
RCW 80.86.010: Definitions.
Status: in_force

The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Carbon dioxide equivalent" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 70A.65.010 . (2) "Combined heat and power" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 19.280.020 . (3) "Commission" means the utilities and transportation commission. (4) "Conservation and efficiency resources" means any reduction in electric or natural gas consumption that results from increases in the efficiency of energy use, production, transmission, transportation, or distribution. (5) "Cost-effective" means that a project or resource is, or is forecast to: (a) Be reliable and available within the time it is needed; and (b) Reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet or reduce the energy demand or supply an equivalent level of energy service to the intended customers at an estimated long-term incremental system cost no greater than that of the least-cost similarly reliable and available alternative project or resource, or any combination thereof, including the cost of compliance with chapter 70A.65 RCW, based on the forward allowance ceiling price of allowances approved by the department of ecology under RCW 70A.65.160 . (6) "Costs of greenhouse gas emissions" means the costs of greenhouse gas emissions established in RCW 80.28.395 and 80.28.405 . (7) "Delivery system" includes any power line, pipe, equipment, apparatus, mechanism, machinery, instrument, or ancillary facility used by a large combination utility to deliver electricity or gas for ultimate consumption by a customer of the large combination utility. (8) "Demand flexibility" means the capacity of demand-side loads to change their consumption patterns hourly or on another timescale. (9) "Electrical company" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 80.04.010 . (10)(a) "Electrification" means the installation of energy efficient electric end-use equipment. (b) Electrification programs may include weatherization and conservation and efficiency measures. (11) "Electrification readiness" means upgrades or changes required before the installation of energy efficient electric end-use equipment to prevent heat loss from homes including, but not limited to: Structural repairs, such as roof repairs, preweatherization, weatherization, and electrical panel and wiring upgrades. (12) "Emissions baseline" means the actual cumulative greenhouse gas emissions of a large combination utility, calculated pursuant to chapter 70A.65 RCW, for the five-year period beginning January 1, 2015, and ending December 31, 2019. (13) "Emissions reduction period" means one of five periods of five calendar years each, with the five periods beginning on January 1st of calendar years 2030, 2035, 2040, 2045, and 2050, respectively. (14) "Emissions reduction target" means a targeted reduction of projected cumulative greenhouse gas emissions of a large combination utility approved by the commission for an emissions reduction period that is at least as stringent as the limits established in RCW 70A.45.020 . (15) "Gas company" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 80.04.010 . (16) "Geographically targeted electrification" means the geographically targeted transition of a portion of gas customers of the large combination utility with an intent to electrify loads of such customers and, in conjunction, to reduce capital and operational costs of gas operations of the large combination utility serving such customers. (17) "Greenhouse gas" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 70A.45.010 . (18) "Highly impacted community" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 19.405.020 . (19) "Integrated system plan" means a plan that the commission may approve, reject, or approve with conditions pursuant to RCW 80.86.020 . (20) "Large combination utility" means a public service company that is both an electrical company and a gas company that serves more than 800,000 retail electric customers and 500,000 retail gas customers in the state of Washington as of June 30, 2024. (21) "Low-income" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 19.405.020 . (22) "Lowest reasonable cost" means the lowest cost mix of demand-side and supply side resources and decarbonization measures determined through a detailed and consistent analysis of a wide range of commercially available resources and measures. At a minimum, this analysis must consider long-term costs and benefits, market-volatility risks, resource uncertainties, resource dispatchability, resource effect on system operation, the risks imposed on the large combination utility and its ratepayers, public policies regarding resource preference adopted by Washington state or the federal government, the cost of risks associated with environmental effects including potential spills and emissions of carbon dioxide, and the need for security of supply. (23) "Multiyear rate plan" means a multiyear rate plan of a large combination utility filed with the commission pursuant to RCW 80.28.425 . (24) "Natural gas" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 19.405.020 . (25) "Nonemitting electric generation" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 19.405.020 . (26) "Nonpipeline alternative" means activities or investments that delay, reduce, or avoid the need to build, upgrade, or repair gas plant, such as pipelines and service lines. (27) "Overburdened community" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 70A.65.010 . (28) "Overgeneration event" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 19.280.020 . (29) "Renewable resource" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 19.405.020 . (30) "Supply side resource" means, as applicable: (a) Any resource that can provide capacity, electricity, or ancillary services to the large combination utility's electric delivery system; or (b) any resource that can provide conventional or nonconventional gas supplies to the large combination utility's gas delivery system. (31) "System cost" means actual direct costs or an estimate of all direct costs of a project or resource over its effective life including, if applicable: The costs of transmission and distribution to the customers; waste disposal costs; permitting, siting, mitigation, and end-of-cycle decommissioning and remediation costs; fuel costs, including projected increases; resource integration and balancing costs; and such quantifiable environmental costs and benefits and other energy and nonenergy benefits as are directly attributable to the project or resource, including flexibility, resilience, reliability, greenhouse gas emissions reductions, and air quality. (32) "Vulnerable populations" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 19.405.020 .
RCW 80.28.260 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 260
RCW 80.28.260: Adoption of policies to provide financial incentives for energy efficiency programs.
Status: in_force

(1) The commission shall adopt a policy allowing an incentive rate of return on investment for programs that improve the efficiency of energy end use if priority is given to senior citizens and low-income citizens in the course of carrying out such programs. The incentive rate of return on investments set forth in this subsection is established by adding an increment of two percent to the rate of return on common equity permitted on the company's other investments. (2) The commission shall consider and may adopt a policy allowing an incentive rate of return on investment in additional programs to improve the efficiency of energy end use including, but not limited to, tree planting programs and cool roof programs, or other incentive policies to encourage utility investment in such programs. Any tree planting program where energy reduction is a goal for which an electrical company seeks an incentive rate of return on investment under this subsection (2) should accomplish the following: (a) Reduce the peak-load demand for electricity in residential and commercial business areas during the summer months through direct shading of buildings provided by strategically planted trees; (b) Reduce wintertime demand for energy in residential areas by blocking cold winds from reaching homes, which lowers interior temperatures and drives heating demand; (c) Protect public health by removing harmful pollution from the air and prioritize in communities with environmental health disparities; (d) Utilize the natural photosynthetic and transpiration process of trees to lower ambient temperatures and absorb carbon dioxide; (e) Lower electric bills for residential and commercial business ratepayers by limiting electricity consumption without reducing benefits; (f) Relieve financial and demand pressure on the utility that stems from large peak-load electricity demand; (g) Protect water quality and public health by reducing and cooling stormwater runoff and keeping harmful pollutants from entering waterways, with special attention given to waterways vital for the preservation of threatened and endangered salmon; (h) Ensure that trees are planted in locations that limit the amount of public funding needed to maintain public and electric infrastructure; (i) Measure program performance in terms of the estimated present value benefit per tree planted and equitable and accessible community engagement consistent with the department of health's environmental health disparities map recommendations 12 and 13, and with the community engagement plan guidance appendix C of the final report of the environmental justice task force established under chapter 415, Laws of 2019; (j) Give special consideration to achieving environmental justice in goals and policies, avoid creating or worsening environmental health disparities, and make use of the department of health's environmental health disparities map to help guide engagement and actions; and (k) Coordinate with the department of natural resources urban and community forestry program's efforts to identify areas of need related to urban tree canopy and to provide technical assistance and capacity building to encourage urban tree canopy. (3) The commission shall consider and may adopt other policies to protect a company from a reduction of short-term earnings that may be a direct result of utility programs to increase the efficiency of energy use. These policies may include allowing a periodic rate adjustment for investments in end use efficiency or allowing changes in price structure designed to produce additional new revenue.
RCW 80.16.060 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 16 / Section 060
RCW 80.16.060: Summary order on nonapproved payments.
Status: in_force

Whenever the commission shall find upon investigation that any public service company is giving effect to any such contract or arrangement without such contract or arrangement having been filed or approved, the commission may issue a summary order prohibiting the public service company from treating any payments made under the terms of such contract or arrangement as operating expenses or as capital expenditures for rate or valuation purposes, unless and until such contract or arrangement has been filed with the commission or until payments have received the approval of the commission.Nothing herein shall be construed to exempt persons taxable under the provisions of this chapter from tax under any other chapters of this title with respect to activities other than those specifically within the provisions of this chapter.
RCW 80.16.070 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 16 / Section 070
RCW 80.16.070: Summary order on payments after disallowance.
Status: in_force

Whenever the commission finds upon investigation that any public service company is making payments to an affiliated interest, although the payments have been disallowed or disapproved by the commission in a proceeding involving the public service company's rates or practices, the commission shall issue a summary order directing the public service company to not treat the payments as operating expenses or capital expenditures for rate or valuation purposes, unless and until the payments have received the approval of the commission.
RCW 80.50.020 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 50 / Section 020
RCW 80.50.020: Definitions.
Status: in_force

The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Alternative energy resource" includes energy facilities of the following types: (a) Wind; (b) solar energy; (c) geothermal energy; (d) renewable natural gas; (e) wave or tidal action; (f) biomass energy based on solid organic fuels from wood, forest, or field residues, or dedicated energy crops that do not include wood pieces that have been treated with chemical preservatives such as creosote, pentachlorophenol, or copper-chrome-arsenic; or (g) renewable or green electrolytic hydrogen. (2) "Applicant" means any person who makes application for a site certification pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (3) "Application" means any request for approval of a particular site or sites filed in accordance with the procedures established pursuant to this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires. (4) "Associated facilities" means storage, transmission, handling, or other related and supporting facilities connecting an energy plant with the existing energy supply, processing, or distribution system, including, but not limited to, communications, controls, mobilizing or maintenance equipment, instrumentation, and other types of ancillary transmission equipment, off-line storage or venting required for efficient operation or safety of the transmission system and overhead, and surface or subsurface lines of physical access for the inspection, maintenance, and safe operations of the transmission facility and new transmission lines constructed to operate at nominal voltages of at least 115,000 volts to connect a thermal power plant or alternative energy facilities to the northwest power grid. However, common carrier railroads or motor vehicles shall not be included. (5) "Biofuel" means a liquid or gaseous fuel derived from organic matter including, but not limited to, biodiesel, renewable diesel, ethanol, renewable natural gas, and renewable propane. (6) "Certification" means a binding agreement between an applicant and the state which shall embody compliance to the siting guidelines, in effect as of the date of certification, which have been adopted pursuant to RCW 80.50.040 as now or hereafter amended as conditions to be met prior to or concurrent with the construction or operation of any energy facility. (7) "Clean energy product manufacturing facility" means a facility that exclusively or primarily manufactures the following products or components primarily used by such products: (a) Vehicles, vessels, and other modes of transportation that emit no exhaust gas from the onboard source of power, other than water vapor; (b) Charging and fueling infrastructure for electric, hydrogen, or other types of vehicles that emit no exhaust gas from the onboard source of power, other than water vapor; (c) Renewable or green electrolytic hydrogen, including preparing renewable or green electrolytic hydrogen for distribution as an energy carrier or manufacturing feedstock, or converting it to a green hydrogen carrier; (d) Equipment and products used to produce energy from alternative energy resources; and (e) Equipment and products used at storage facilities. (8) "Construction" means on-site improvements, excluding exploratory work, which cost in excess of $250,000. (9) "Council" means the energy facility site evaluation council created by RCW 80.50.030 . (10) "Counsel for the environment" means an assistant attorney general or a special assistant attorney general who shall represent the public in accordance with RCW 80.50.080 . (11) "Director" means the director of the energy facility site evaluation council appointed by the chair of the council in accordance with RCW 80.50.360 . (12) "Electrical transmission facilities" means electrical power lines and related equipment. (13) "Energy facility" means an energy plant or transmission facilities: PROVIDED, That the following are excluded from the provisions of this chapter: (a) Facilities for the extraction, conversion, transmission or storage of water, other than water specifically consumed or discharged by energy production or conversion for energy purposes; and (b) Facilities operated by and for the armed services for military purposes or by other federal authority for the national defense. (14) "Energy plant" means the following facilities together with their associated facilities: (a) Any fission nuclear power facility where the primary purpose is to produce and sell electricity; (b) Any nonnuclear stationary thermal power plant with generating capacity of 350,000 kilowatts or more, measured using maximum continuous electric generating capacity, less minimum auxiliary load, at average ambient temperature and pressure, and floating thermal power plants of 100,000 kilowatts or more suspended on the surface of water by means of a barge, vessel, or other floating platform; (c) Facilities which will have the capacity to receive liquefied natural gas in the equivalent of more than 100,000,000 standard cubic feet of natural gas per day, which has been transported over marine waters; (d) Facilities which will have the capacity to receive more than an average of 50,000 barrels per day of crude or refined petroleum or liquefied petroleum gas which has been or will be transported over marine waters, except that the provisions of this chapter shall not apply to storage facilities unless occasioned by such new facility construction; (e) Any underground reservoir for receipt and storage of natural gas as defined in RCW 80.40.010 capable of delivering an average of more than 100,000,000 standard cubic feet of natural gas per day; and (f) Facilities capable of processing more than 25,000 barrels per day of petroleum or biofuel into refined products except where such biofuel production is undertaken at existing industrial facilities. (15)(a) "Green electrolytic hydrogen" means hydrogen produced through electrolysis. (b) "Green electrolytic hydrogen" does not include hydrogen manufactured using steam reforming or any other conversion technology that produces hydrogen from a fossil fuel feedstock. (16) "Green hydrogen carrier" means a chemical compound, created using electricity or renewable resources as energy input and without use of fossil fuel as a feedstock, from renewable hydrogen or green electrolytic hydrogen for the purposes of transportation, storage, and dispensing of hydrogen. (17) "Independent consultants" means those persons who have no financial interest in the applicant's proposals and who are retained by the council to evaluate the applicant's proposals, supporting studies, or to conduct additional studies. (18) "Land use plan" means a comprehensive plan or land use element thereof adopted by a unit of local government pursuant to chapter 35.63 , 35A.63, 36.70, or 36.70A RCW, or as otherwise designated by chapter 325, Laws of 2007. (19) "Person" means an individual, partnership, joint venture, private or public corporation, association, firm, public service company, political subdivision, municipal corporation, government agency, public utility district, or any other entity, public or private, however organized. (20) "Preapplicant" means a person considering applying for a site certificate agreement for any facility. (21) "Preapplication process" means the process which is initiated by written correspondence from the preapplicant to the council, and includes the process adopted by the council for consulting with the preapplicant and with federally recognized tribes, cities, towns, and counties prior to accepting applications for any facility. (22) "Renewable hydrogen" means hydrogen produced using renewable resources both as the source for the hydrogen and the source for the energy input into the production process. (23) "Renewable natural gas" means a gas consisting largely of methane and other hydrocarbons derived from the decomposition of organic material in landfills, wastewater treatment facilities, and anaerobic digesters. (24) "Renewable resource" means: (a) Water; (b) wind; (c) solar energy; (d) geothermal energy; (e) renewable natural gas; (f) renewable hydrogen; (g) wave, ocean, or tidal power; (h) biodiesel fuel that is not derived from crops raised on land cleared from old growth or first growth forests; or (i) biomass energy. (25) "Secretary" means the secretary of the United States department of energy. (26) "Site" means any proposed or approved location of an energy facility, alternative energy resource, clean energy product manufacturing facility, or electrical transmission facility. (27) "Storage facility" means a plant that: (a) Accepts electricity as an energy source and uses a chemical, thermal, mechanical, or other process to store energy for subsequent delivery or consumption in the form of electricity; or (b) stores renewable hydrogen, green electrolytic hydrogen, or a green hydrogen carrier for subsequent delivery or consumption. (28) "Thermal power plant" means, for the purpose of certification, any electrical generating facility using any fuel for distribution of electricity by electric utilities. (29) "Transmission facility" means any of the following together with their associated facilities: (a) Crude or refined petroleum or liquid petroleum product transmission pipeline of the following dimensions: A pipeline larger than six inches minimum inside diameter between valves for the transmission of these products with a total length of at least 15 miles; (b) Natural gas, synthetic fuel gas, or liquefied petroleum gas transmission pipeline of the following dimensions: A pipeline larger than 14 inches minimum inside diameter between valves, for the transmission of these products, with a total length of at least 15 miles for the purpose of delivering gas to a distribution facility, except an interstate natural gas pipeline regulated by the United States federal energy regulatory commission. (30) "Zoning ordinance" means an ordinance of a unit of local government regulating the use of land and adopted pursuant to chapter 35.63 , 35A.63, 36.70, or 36.70A RCW or Article XI of the state Constitution, or as otherwise designated by chapter 325, Laws of 2007.
RCW 80.36.855 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 855
RCW 80.36.855: Extended area service program.
Status: in_force

Any business, resident, or community may petition for and shall receive extended area service within the service territory of the local exchange company that provides service to the petitioner under the following conditions: (1) Any customer, business or residential, interested in obtaining extended area service in their community must collect and submit to the commission the signatures of a representative majority of affected customers in the community. A "representative majority" for purposes of this section consists of fifteen percent of the access lines in that community; (2) After receipt of the signatures, the commission shall authorize a study to be conducted by the affected local exchange company in order to determine whether a community of interest exists for the implementation of extended area service. For purposes of this section a community of interest shall be found if the average number of calls per customer per month from the area petitioning for extended area service to the area to which extended area service will be implemented is at least five; (3) If a community of interest exists, the commission shall then calculate any increased rate that would be applied to the area which would have extended area service granted to it. This rate shall be based on the charges to a rate group having the same or similar calling capability as set forth in the tariffs of the local exchange telecommunications company involved; (4) The affected telecommunications company shall be given the opportunity to propose an alternative plan that might be priced differently and that plan shall be included in the poll of subscribers as an alternative under subsection (5) of this section; (5) After determining the amount of any additional rate, the commission shall notify the subscribers who will be affected by the increased rate and conduct a poll of those subscribers. If a simple majority votes its approval the commission shall order extended area service; and (6) Any extended area service program adopted pursuant to this section shall be considered experimental and not binding on the commission in subsequent extended area service proceedings. If an extended area service program adopted pursuant to this section results in a revenue deficiency for a local exchange company, the commission shall allocate the resulting revenue requirement in a manner which produces fair, just and reasonable rates for all classes of customers.
RCW 80.32.080 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 32 / Section 080
RCW 80.32.080: Duties of electrical companies exercising power of eminent domain.
Status: in_force

Any corporation authorized to do business in this state, which, under the present laws of the state, is authorized to condemn property for the purpose of generating and transmitting electrical power for the operation of railroads or railways, or for municipal lighting, and which by its charter or articles of incorporation, assumes the additional right to sell electric power and electric light to private consumers outside the limits of a municipality and to sell electric power to private consumers within the limits of a municipality, which shall provide in its articles that in respect of the purposes mentioned in this section it will assume and undertake to the state and to the inhabitants thereof the duties and obligations of a public service corporation, shall be deemed to be in respect of such purposes a public service corporation, and shall be held to all the duties, obligations and control, which by law are or may be imposed upon public service corporations. Any such corporation shall have the right to sell electric light outside the limits of a municipality and electric power both inside and outside such limits to private consumers from the electricity generated and transmitted by it for public purposes and not needed by it therefor: PROVIDED, That such corporation shall furnish such excess power at equal rates, quantity and conditions considered, to all consumers alike, and shall supply it to the first applicants therefor until the amount available shall be exhausted: PROVIDED FURTHER, That no such corporation shall be obliged to furnish such excess power to any one consumer to an amount exceeding twenty-five percent of the total amount of such excess power generated or transmitted by it. In exercising the power of eminent domain for public purposes it shall not be an objection thereto that a portion of the electric current generated will be applied to private purposes, provided the principal uses intended are public: PROVIDED, That all public service or quasi public service corporations shall at no time sell, deliver and dispose of electrical power in bulk to manufacturing concerns at the expense of its public service functions, and any person, firm or corporation that is a patron of such corporation as to such public function, shall have the right to apply to any court of competent jurisdiction to correct any violation of the provisions of RCW 80.32.080 through 80.32.100 .
RCW 80.04.140 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 140
RCW 80.04.140: Order requiring joint action.
Status: in_force

Whenever any order of the commission shall require joint action by two or more public service companies, such order shall specify that the same shall be made at their joint cost, and the companies affected shall have thirty days, or such further time, as the commission may prescribe, within which to agree upon the part or division of cost which each shall bear, and costs of operation and maintenance in the future, or the proportion of charges or revenue each shall receive from such joint service and the rules to govern future operations. If at the expiration of such time such companies shall fail to file with the commission a statement that an agreement has been made for the division or apportionment of such cost, the division of costs of operation and maintenance to be incurred in the future and the proportion of charges or revenue each shall receive from such joint service and the rules to govern future operations, the commission shall have authority, after further hearing, to enter a supplemental order fixing the proportion of such cost or expense to be borne by each company, and the manner in which the same shall be paid and secured.
RCW 80.01.050 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 01 / Section 050
RCW 80.01.050: Quorum—Hearings—Actions deemed those of the commission.
Status: in_force

A majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business, for the performance of any duty, or for the exercise of any power of the commission, and may hold hearings at any time or place within or without the state. A quorum of commissioners need not affirm any matter delegated under RCW 80.01.030 . Any investigation, inquiry, or hearing which the commission has power to undertake or to hold may be undertaken or held by or before any commissioner or any administrative law judge as provided in RCW 80.01.060 . All investigations, inquiries, and hearings of the commission, and all findings, orders, or decisions, made by a commissioner or administrative law judge, when approved and confirmed by the commission or allowed to become final pursuant to RCW 80.01.060 and filed in its office, shall be the orders or decisions of the commission.
RCW 80.52.010 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 52 / Section 010
RCW 80.52.010: Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the Washington state energy financing voter approval act.
RCW 80.70.060 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 70 / Section 060
RCW 80.70.060: Costs to be assessed against applicants and holders of site certification agreements.
Status: in_force

Reasonable and necessary costs incurred by the council in implementing and administering this chapter shall be assessed against applicants and holders of site certification agreements that are subject to the requirements of this chapter.
RCW 80.36.320 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 320
RCW 80.36.320: Classification as competitive telecommunications companies, services—Factors considered—Minimal regulation—Reclassification—Waiver of provisions during state of emergency.
Status: in_force

(1) The commission shall classify a telecommunications company as a competitive telecommunications company if the services it offers are subject to effective competition. Effective competition means that the company's customers have reasonably available alternatives and that the company does not have a significant captive customer base. In determining whether a company is competitive, factors the commission shall consider include but are not limited to: (a) The number and sizes of alternative providers of service; (b) The extent to which services are available from alternative providers in the relevant market; (c) The ability of alternative providers to make functionally equivalent or substitute services readily available at competitive rates, terms, and conditions; and (d) Other indicators of market power which may include market share, growth in market share, ease of entry, and the affiliation of providers of services. The commission shall conduct the initial classification and any subsequent review of the classification in accordance with such procedures as the commission may establish by rule. (2) Competitive telecommunications companies shall be subject to minimal regulation. The commission may waive any regulatory requirement under this title for competitive telecommunications companies when it determines that competition will serve the same purposes as public interest regulation. The commission may waive different regulatory requirements for different companies if such different treatment is in the public interest. A competitive telecommunications company shall at a minimum: (a) Keep its accounts according to regulations as determined by the commission; (b) File financial reports with the commission as required by the commission and in a form and at times prescribed by the commission; and (c) Cooperate with commission investigations of customer complaints. (3) The commission may revoke any waivers it grants and may reclassify any competitive telecommunications company if the revocation or reclassification would protect the public interest. (4) The commission may waive the requirements of RCW 80.36.170 and 80.36.180 in whole or in part for a competitive telecommunications company if it finds that competition will serve the same purpose and protect the public interest. (5) During a state of emergency declared under RCW 43.06.010 (12), the governor may waive or suspend the operation or enforcement of this section or any portion of this section or under any administrative rule, and issue any orders to facilitate the operation of state or local government or to promote and secure the safety and protection of the civilian population.
RCW 80.01.030 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 01 / Section 030
RCW 80.01.030: Commission to employ secretary and other assistants—Secretary's duties—Deputies.
Status: in_force

The commission shall appoint and employ a secretary and such accounting, engineering, expert and clerical assistants, and such other qualified assistants as may be necessary to carry on the administrative work of the commission. The secretary shall be the custodian of the commission's official seal, and shall keep full and accurate minutes of all transactions, proceedings and determinations of the commission and perform such other duties as may be required by the commission. The commission may deputize one or more of its assistants to perform, in the name of the commission, such duties of the commission as it deems expedient. The commission may, by rule or order, delegate to designated assistants any of the powers and duties vested in or imposed upon the commission by law except matters governed by chapter 34.05 RCW; however, a matter may not be delegated to a person who has worked as an advocate on the same docket. Delegated powers and duties may be exercised in the name of the commission. The commission by rule shall implement a process by which notice shall be provided of matters designated for delegation. Any such matter shall be heard or reviewed by commissioners at the request of any commissioner or any affected person.
RCW 80.36.260 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 260
RCW 80.36.260: Betterments may be ordered.
Status: in_force

Whenever the commission shall find, after a hearing had on its own motion or upon complaint, that repairs or improvements to, or changes in, any telecommunications line ought reasonably be made, or that any additions or extensions should reasonably be made thereto in order to promote the security or convenience of the public or employees, or in order to secure adequate service or facilities for telecommunications communications, the commission shall make and serve an order directing that such repairs, improvements, changes, additions or extensions be made in the manner to be specified therein.
RCW 80.52.050 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 52 / Section 050
RCW 80.52.050: Conduct of election.
Status: in_force

The election required under RCW 80.52.040 shall be conducted in the manner provided in this section. (1)(a) If the applicant is a public utility district, joint operating agency, city, or county, the election shall be among the voters of the public utility district, city, or county, or among the voters of the local governmental entities comprising the membership of the joint operating agency. (b) If the applicant is any public agency other than those described in subsection (1)(a) of this section, or is an assignee of a joint operating agency and not itself a joint operating agency, the election shall be conducted statewide in the manner provided in Title 29A RCW for statewide elections. (2) The election shall be held at the next statewide general election occurring more than ninety days after submission of a request by an applicant to the secretary of state unless a special election is requested by the applicant as provided in this section. (3) If no statewide election can be held under subsection (2) of this section within one hundred twenty days of the submission to the secretary of state of a request by an applicant for financing authority under this chapter, the applicant may request that a special election be held if such election is necessary to avoid significant delay in construction or acquisition of the energy project. Within ten days of receipt of such a request for a special election, the secretary of state shall designate a date for the election pursuant to RCW 29A.04.321 and certify the date to the county auditor of each county in which an election is to be held under this section. (4) Prior to an election under this section, the applicant shall submit to the secretary of state a cost-effectiveness study, prepared by an independent consultant approved by the state finance committee, pertaining to the major public energy project under consideration. The study shall be available for public review and comment for thirty days. At the end of the thirty-day period, the applicant shall prepare a final draft of the study which includes the public comment, if any. (5) The secretary of state shall certify the ballot issue for the election to be held under this section to the county auditor of each county in which an election is to be held. The certification shall include the statement of the proposition as provided in RCW 80.52.060 . The costs of the election shall be relieved by the applicant in the manner provided by RCW 29A.04.410 . In addition, the applicant shall reimburse the secretary of state for the applicant's share of the costs related to the preparation and distribution of the voters' pamphlet required by subsection (6) of this section and such other costs as are attributable to any election held pursuant to this section. (6) Prior to an election under this section, the secretary of state shall provide an opportunity for supporters and opponents of the requested financing authority to present their respective views in a voters' pamphlet which shall be distributed to the voters of the local governmental entities participating in the election. Upon submission of an applicant's request for an election pursuant to this section, the applicant shall provide the secretary of state with the following information regarding each major public energy project for which the applicant seeks financing authority at such election, which information shall be included in the voters' pamphlet: (a) The name, location, and type of major public energy project, expressed in common terms; (b) The dollar amount and type of bonds being requested; (c) If the bond issuance is intended to finance the acquisition of all or a portion of the project, the anticipated total cost of the acquisition of the project; (d) If the bond issuance is intended to finance the planning or construction of all or a portion of the project, the anticipated total cost of construction of the project; (e) The projected average rate increase for consumers of the electricity to be generated by the project. The rate increase shall be that which will be necessary to repay the total indebtedness incurred for the project, including estimated interest; (f) A summary of the final cost-effectiveness study conducted under subsection (4) of this section; (g) The anticipated functional life of the project; (h) The anticipated decommissioning costs of the project; and (i) If a special election is requested by the applicant, the reasons for requesting a special election.
RCW 80.20.060 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 20 / Section 060
RCW 80.20.060: Limitation on frequency of investigation.
Status: in_force

Expenses of a complete valuation, rate and service investigation shall not be assessed against a public service company under this chapter if such company shall have been subjected to and paid the expenses of a complete valuation, rate and service investigation during the preceding five years, unless the properties or operations of the company have materially changed or there has been a substantial change in its value for rate making purposes or in any other circumstances and conditions affecting rates and services: PROVIDED, That the provisions of this section shall not be a limitation on the frequency of assessment of costs of investigation where such investigation results from a tariff filing or tariff filings by a public service company to increase rates.
RCW 80.28.485 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 485
RCW 80.28.485: Thermal energy meters—Inspectors.
Status: in_force

The commission may appoint inspectors of thermal energy meters who shall, when required by the commission, inspect, examine, prove, and ascertain the accuracy of any and all thermal energy meters used or intended to be used for measuring and ascertaining the quantity of thermal energy, and inspect, examine, and ascertain the accuracy of all apparatus for testing and proving the accuracy of thermal energy meters, and when found to be or made to be correct, stamp or mark all such meters and apparatus with some suitable device to be prescribed by the commission. No thermal energy company may furnish, set, or put in use any thermal energy meters which have not been approved by the commission.
RCW 80.40.910 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 40 / Section 910
RCW 80.40.910: Chapter to be liberally construed.
Status: in_force

It is intended that the provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed to accomplish the purposes authorized and provided for.
RCW 80.01.090 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 01 / Section 090
RCW 80.01.090: Proceedings public records—Seal.
Status: in_force

All proceedings of the commission and all documents and records in its possession shall be public records, and it shall adopt and use an official seal.
RCW 80.52.020 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 52 / Section 020
RCW 80.52.020: Purpose.
Status: in_force

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a mechanism for citizen review and approval of proposed financing for major public energy projects. The development of dependable and economic energy sources is of paramount importance to the citizens of the state, who have an interest in insuring that major public energy projects make the best use of limited financial resources. Because the construction of major public energy projects will significantly increase utility rates for all citizens, the people of the state hereby establish a process of voter approval for such projects.
RCW 80.36.020 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 020
RCW 80.36.020: Right of entry.
Status: in_force

Every corporation incorporated under the laws of this state or any state or territory of the United States for the purpose of constructing, operating or maintaining any telecommunications line in this state shall have the right to enter upon any land between the termini of its proposed telecommunications lines for the purpose of examining, locating and surveying the telecommunications line, doing no unnecessary damage thereby.
RCW 80.36.530 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 530
RCW 80.36.530: Violation of consumer protection act—Damages.
Status: in_force

In addition to the penalties provided in this title, a violation of RCW 80.36.510 , 80.36.520 , or 80.36.524 constitutes an unfair or deceptive act in trade or commerce in violation of chapter 19.86 RCW, the consumer protection act. Acts in violation of RCW 80.36.510 , 80.36.520 , or 80.36.524 are not reasonable in relation to the development and preservation of business, and constitute matters vitally affecting the public interest for the purpose of applying the consumer protection act, chapter 19.86 RCW. It shall be presumed that damages to the consumer are equal to the cost of the service provided plus two hundred dollars. Additional damages must be proved.
RCW 80.86.901 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 86 / Section 901
RCW 80.86.901: Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be known and cited as the Washington decarbonization act for large combination utilities.
RCW 80.04.290 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 290
RCW 80.04.290: Sales of stock to employees and customers.
Status: in_force

A corporate public service company, either heretofore or hereafter organized under the laws of this state, may sell to its employees and customers any increase of its capital stock, or part thereof, without first offering it to existing stockholders: PROVIDED, That such sale is approved by the holders of a majority of the capital stock, at a regular or special meeting held after notice given as to the time, place, and object thereof as provided by law and the bylaws of the company. Such sales shall be at prices and in amounts for each purchaser and upon terms and conditions as set forth in the resolution passed at the stockholders' meeting, or in a resolution passed at a subsequent meeting of the board of trustees if the resolution passed at the stockholders' meeting shall authorize the board to determine prices, amounts, terms, and conditions, except that in either event, a minimum price for the stock must be fixed in the resolution passed at the stockholders' meeting.
RCW 80.36.440 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 440
RCW 80.36.440: Washington telephone assistance program—Rules.
Status: in_force

(1) The commission and the department may adopt any rules necessary to implement RCW 80.36.410 through 80.36.470 . (2) Rules necessary for the implementation of community service voice mail services shall be made by the commission and the department in consultation with the department of commerce.
RCW 80.04.075 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 075
RCW 80.04.075: Manner of serving papers.
Status: in_force

All notices, applications, complaints, findings of fact, opinions and orders required by this title to be served may be served by mail and service thereof shall be deemed complete when a true copy of such paper or document is deposited in the post office properly addressed and stamped.
RCW 80.40.060 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 40 / Section 060
RCW 80.40.060: Leases by commissioner of public lands.
Status: in_force

The commissioner of public lands is authorized to lease public lands, property, or any interest therein for the purpose of underground storage of natural gas. Any such lease shall be upon such terms and conditions as the said commissioner may deem for the best interests of the state and as are customary and proper for the protection of the rights of the state and of the lessee and of the owners of the surface of the leased lands, and may be for such primary term as said commissioner may determine and as long thereafter as the lessee continues to use such lands, property, or interest therein for underground storage of gas.
RCW 80.12.040 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 12 / Section 040
RCW 80.12.040: Authority required to acquire property or securities of utility.
Status: in_force

No public service company shall, directly or indirectly, purchase, acquire, or become the owner of any of the franchises, properties, facilities, capital stocks or bonds of any other public service company unless authorized so to do by the commission. Nothing contained in this chapter shall prevent the holding of stocks or other securities heretofore lawfully acquired or prohibit, upon the surrender or exchange of said stocks or other securities pursuant to a reorganization plan, the purchase, acquisition, taking or holding by the owner of a proportionate amount of the stocks or other securities of any new corporation organized to take over at foreclosure or other sale, the property of the corporation the stocks or securities of which have been thus surrendered or exchanged. Any contract by any public service company for the purchase, acquisition, assignment or transfer to it of any of the stocks or other securities of any other public service company, directly or indirectly, without the approval of the commission shall be void and of no effect.
RCW 80.50.310 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 50 / Section 310
RCW 80.50.310: Council actions—Exemption from chapter 43.21C RCW.
Status: in_force

Council actions pursuant to the transfer of the site or portions of the site under RCW 80.50.300 are exempt from the provisions of chapter 43.21C RCW.
RCW 80.86.050 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 86 / Section 050
RCW 80.86.050: Emissions baseline and projected cumulative emissions—Emissions reduction period.
Status: in_force

(1) Large combination utilities must include the following in calculating the emissions baseline and projected cumulative emissions for an emissions reduction period, consistent with reporting of greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to the Washington clean air act, chapter 70A.15 RCW: (a) Methane leaked from the transportation and delivery of gas from the gas distribution and service pipelines from the city gate to customer end use; (b) Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the combustion of gas by customers not otherwise subject to federal greenhouse gas emissions reporting and excluding all transport customers; and (c) Emissions of methane resulting from leakage from delivery of gas to other gas companies. (2) In calculating an emissions reduction target, a large combination utility must show its emissions baseline and projected cumulative greenhouse gas emissions for the applicable emissions reduction period separately and must show that the total emissions reductions are projected to make progress toward the achievement of the emissions reduction targets identified in the applicable integrated system plan. The final calculation must be presented on a carbon dioxide equivalent basis. (3) All emissions are metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent as reported to the federal environmental protection agency pursuant to 40 C.F.R. 98, either subpart W (methane) or subpart NN (carbon dioxide), or successor reporting requirements.
RCW 80.28.320 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 320
RCW 80.28.320: Regulation of battery charging facilities.
Status: in_force

The commission shall not regulate the rates, services, facilities, and practices of an entity that offers battery charging facilities to the public for hire; if: (1) That entity is not otherwise subject to commission jurisdiction as an electrical company; or (2) that entity is otherwise subject to commission jurisdiction as an electrical company, but its battery charging facilities and services are not subsidized by any regulated service. An electrical company may offer battery charging facilities as a regulated service, subject to commission approval.
RCW 80.04.380 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 380
RCW 80.04.380: Penalties—Violations by public service companies.
Status: in_force

Every public service company, and all officers, agents and employees of any public service company, shall obey, observe and comply with every order, rule, direction or requirement made by the commission under authority of this title, so long as the same shall be and remain in force. Any public service company which shall violate or fail to comply with any provision of this title, or which fails, omits or neglects to obey, observe or comply with any order, rule, or any direction, demand or requirement of the commission, shall be subject to a penalty of not to exceed the sum of one thousand dollars for each and every offense. Every violation of any such order, direction or requirement of this title shall be a separate and distinct offense, and in case of a continuing violation every day's continuance thereof shall be and be deemed to be a separate and distinct offense.
RCW 80.50.390 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 50 / Section 390
RCW 80.50.390: Energy facility site evaluation council account.
Status: in_force

The energy facility site evaluation council account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts from funds received by the council for all payments, including fees, deposits, and reimbursements received under this chapter must be deposited into the account. Expenditures from the account may be used for purposes set forth in this chapter. Only the chair of the council or the chair's designee may authorize expenditures from the account. The account is subject to allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW, but an appropriation is not required for expenditures.
RCW 80.36.710 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 710
RCW 80.36.710: Digital equity account.
Status: in_force

(1) The digital equity account is created in the state treasury. Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation. (2) Any amounts appropriated by the legislature to the account, private contributions, or any other source directed to the account, must be deposited into the account. Funds from sources outside the state, from private contributions, federal or other sources may be directed to the specific purposes of the digital equity opportunity program or digital equity planning grant program. (3) The legislature may appropriate moneys in the account only for the purposes of: (a) RCW 43.330.412 , the digital equity opportunity program; and (b) RCW 43.330.5393 , the digital equity planning grant program.
RCW 80.01.100 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 01 / Section 100
RCW 80.01.100: Duties of attorney general.
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the attorney general to represent and appear for the people of the state of Washington and the commission in all actions and proceedings involving any question under this title or Title 81 RCW, or under or in reference to any act or order of the commission; and it shall be the duty of the attorney general generally to see that all laws affecting any of the persons or corporations herein enumerated are complied with, and that all laws, the enforcement of which devolves upon the commission, are enforced, and to that end he or she is authorized to institute, prosecute, and defend all necessary actions and proceedings.
RCW 80.28.050 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 050
RCW 80.28.050: Tariff schedules to be filed with commission—Public schedules.
Status: in_force

Every gas company, electrical company, wastewater company, water company, and thermal energy company shall file with the commission and shall print and keep open to public inspection schedules in such form as the commission may prescribe, showing all rates and charges made, established or enforced, or to be charged or enforced, all forms of contract or agreement, all rules and regulations relating to rates, charges or service, used or to be used, and all general privileges and facilities granted or allowed by such gas company, electrical company, wastewater company, water company, or thermal energy company.
RCW 80.36.370 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 370
RCW 80.36.370: Certain services not regulated.
Status: in_force

The commission shall not regulate the following: (1) One way broadcast or cable television transmission of television or radio signals; (2) Private telecommunications systems; (3) Telegraph services; (4) Any sale, lease, or use of customer premises equipment except such equipment as is regulated on July 28, 1985; (5) Private shared telecommunications services, unless the commission finds, upon notice and investigation, that customers of such services have no alternative access to local exchange telecommunications companies. If the commission makes such a finding, it may require the private shared telecommunications services provider to make alternative facilities or conduit space available on reasonable terms and conditions at reasonable prices; (6) Radio communications services provided by a regulated telecommunications company, except that when those services are the only voice grade, local exchange telecommunications service available to a customer of the company the commission may regulate the radio communication service of that company.
RCW 80.28.280 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 280
RCW 80.28.280: Compressed natural gas—Motor vehicle refueling stations—Public interest.
Status: in_force

(1) The legislature finds that compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas offers [offer] significant potential to reduce vehicle and vessel emissions and to significantly decrease dependence on petroleum-based fuels. The legislature also finds that well-developed and convenient refueling systems are imperative if compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas are to be widely used by the public. The legislature declares that the development of compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas motor vehicle refueling stations and vessel refueling facilities are in the public interest. Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, nothing in this section and RCW 80.28.290 is intended to alter the regulatory practices of the commission or allow the subsidization of one ratepayer class by another. (2) When a liquefied natural gas facility owned by a natural gas company serves both a private customer operating marine vessels and the Washington state ferries or any other public entity, the rate charged by the natural gas company to the Washington state ferries or other public entity may not be more than the rate charged to the private customer operating marine vessels.
RCW 80.80.050 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 80 / Section 050
RCW 80.80.050: Public comment—Commercially available turbines—Rate of greenhouse gas emissions—Reports—Rules.
Status: in_force

The energy policy division of the department of commerce shall provide an opportunity for interested parties to comment on the development of a survey of new combined-cycle natural gas thermal electric generation turbines commercially available and offered for sale by manufacturers and purchased in the United States to determine the average rate of emissions of greenhouse gases for these turbines. The department of commerce shall report the results of its survey to the legislature every five years, beginning June 30, 2013. The department of commerce shall adopt by rule the average available greenhouse gas emissions output every five years beginning five years after July 22, 2007.
RCW 80.08.130 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 08 / Section 130
RCW 80.08.130: Assumption of obligation or liability—Compliance with filing requirements.
Status: in_force

Any public service company that assumes any obligation or liability as guarantor, indorser, surety or otherwise in respect to the securities of any other person, firm or corporation, when such securities are payable at periods of more than twelve months after the date thereof, shall comply with the filing requirements of RCW 80.08.040 .
RCW 80.60.005 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 60 / Section 005
RCW 80.60.005: Findings.
Status: in_force

The legislature finds that it is in the public interest to: (1) Encourage private investment in renewable energy resources; (2) Stimulate the economic growth of this state; and (3) Enhance the continued diversification of the energy resources used in this state.
RCW 80.28.140 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 140
RCW 80.28.140: Inspection of gas and water meters.
Status: in_force

The commission may appoint inspectors of gas and water meters whose duty it shall be when required by the commission to inspect, examine, prove and ascertain the accuracy of any and all gas and water meters used or intended to be used for measuring or ascertaining the quantity of gas for light, heat or power, or the quantity of water furnished for any purpose by any public service company to or for the use of any person or corporation, and when found to be or made to be correct such inspectors shall seal all such meters and each of them with some suitable device to be prescribed by the commission. No public service company shall thereafter furnish, set or put in use any gas or water meter which shall not have been inspected, proved and sealed by an inspector of the commission under such rules and regulations as the commission may prescribe.
RCW 80.36.500 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 500
RCW 80.36.500: Information delivery services through exclusive number prefix or service access code.
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section: (a) "Information delivery services" means telephone recorded messages, interactive programs, or other information services that are provided for a charge to a caller through an exclusive telephone number prefix or service access code. (b) "Information providers" means the persons or corporations that provide the information, prerecorded message, or interactive program for the information delivery service. The information provider generally receives a portion of the revenue from the calls. (c) "Interactive program" means a program that allows an information delivery service caller, once connected to the information provider's announcement machine, to use the caller's telephone device to access more specific information. (2) The utilities and transportation commission shall by rule require any local exchange company that offers information delivery services to a local telephone exchange to provide each residential telephone subscriber the opportunity to block access to all information delivery services offered through the local exchange company. The rule shall take effect by October 1, 1988. (3) All costs of complying with this section shall be borne by the information providers. (4) The local exchange company shall inform subscribers of the availability of the blocking service through a bill insert and by publication in a local telephone directory.
RCW 80.04.300 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 300
RCW 80.04.300: Budgets to be filed by companies—Supplementary budgets.
Status: in_force

The commission may regulate, restrict, and control the budgets of expenditures of public service companies. Each company shall prepare a budget showing the amount of money which, in its judgment, will be needed during the ensuing year for maintenance, operation, and construction, classified by accounts as prescribed by the commission, and shall within ten days of the date it is approved by the company file it with the commission for its investigation and approval or rejection. When a budget has been filed the commission shall examine into and investigate it to determine whether the expenditures therein proposed are fair and reasonable and not contrary to public interest. Adjustments or additions to budget expenditures may be made from time to time during the year by filing a supplementary budget with the commission for its investigation and approval or rejection.
RCW 80.28.070 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 070
RCW 80.28.070: Sliding scale of charges permitted.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter shall be taken to prohibit a gas company, electrical company, water company, or thermal energy company from establishing a sliding scale of charges, whereby a greater charge is made per unit for a lesser than a greater quantity for gas, electricity, water, or thermal energy, or any service rendered or to be rendered.
RCW 80.50.085 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 50 / Section 085
RCW 80.50.085: Council staff to assist applicants, make recommendations.
Status: in_force

(1) After the council has received a site application, council staff shall assist applicants in identifying issues presented by the application. (2) Council staff shall review all information submitted and recommend resolutions to issues in dispute that would allow site approval. (3) Council staff may make recommendations to the council on conditions that would allow site approval.
RCW 80.12.050 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 12 / Section 050
RCW 80.12.050: Rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

The commission shall have power to promulgate rules and regulations to make effective the provisions of this chapter.
RCW 80.50.075 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 50 / Section 075
RCW 80.50.075: Expedited processing of applications.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person filing an application for certification of any facility pursuant to this chapter may apply to the council for an expedited processing of such an application. The application for expedited processing shall be submitted to the council in such form and manner and accompanied by such information as may be prescribed by council rule. The council may grant an applicant expedited processing of an application for certification upon finding that the environmental impact of the proposed facility is not significant or will be mitigated to a nonsignificant level under RCW 43.21C.031 and the project is found under RCW 80.50.090 (2) to be consistent and in compliance with city, county, or regional land use plans or zoning ordinances. (2) Upon granting an applicant expedited processing of an application for certification, the council shall not be required to: (a) Commission an independent study to further measure the consequences of the proposed facility on the environment, notwithstanding the other provisions of RCW 80.50.071 ; nor (b) Hold an adjudicative proceeding under chapter 34.05 RCW, the administrative procedure act, on the application. (3) The council shall adopt rules governing the expedited processing of an application for certification pursuant to this section.
RCW 80.12.045 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 12 / Section 045
RCW 80.12.045: Small local exchange company—Chapter does not apply.
Status: in_force

Subject to RCW 80.04.530 (1), this chapter does not apply to a local exchange company that serves less than two percent of the access lines in the state of Washington.
RCW 80.50.370 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 50 / Section 370
RCW 80.50.370: Clean energy product manufacturing facilities.
Status: in_force

(1) A person proposing to construct, reconstruct, or enlarge a clean energy product manufacturing facility may choose to receive certification under this chapter. (2) All of the council's powers with regard to energy facilities apply to clean energy product manufacturing facilities, and such a facility is subject to all provisions of this chapter that apply to an energy facility.
RCW 80.36.080 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 080
RCW 80.36.080: Rates, services, and facilities.
Status: in_force

All rates, tolls, contracts and charges, rules and regulations of telecommunications companies, for messages, conversations, services rendered and equipment and facilities supplied, whether such message, conversation or service to be performed be over one company or line or over or by two or more companies or lines, shall be fair, just, reasonable and sufficient, and the service so to be rendered any person, firm or corporation by any telecommunications company shall be rendered and performed in a prompt, expeditious and efficient manner and the facilities, instrumentalities and equipment furnished by it shall be safe, kept in good condition and repair, and its appliances, instrumentalities and service shall be modern, adequate, sufficient and efficient.
RCW 80.50.380 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 50 / Section 380
RCW 80.50.380: Preapplication review of a proposed project—Fees.
Status: in_force

(1) Except for the siting of electrical transmission facilities, any potential applicant may request a preapplication review of a proposed project. Council staff must review the preapplicant's draft application materials and provide comments on either additional studies or stakeholder and tribal input, or both, that should be included in the formal application for site certification. Council staff must inform affected federally recognized tribes under RCW 80.50.060 of the preapplication review. The department of archaeology and historic preservation shall coordinate with the affected federally recognized tribes and the applicant in order to assess potential effects to tribal cultural resources, archaeological sites, and sacred sites. (2) After initial review, the director and the applicant may agree on fees to be paid by the applicant so that council staff may conduct further review and consultation, including contracting for review by other parties.
RCW 80.01.075 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 01 / Section 075
RCW 80.01.075: Authority to initiate, participate in federal administrative agency proceedings.
Status: in_force

The commission shall have the authority as petitioner, intervenor or otherwise to initiate and/or participate in proceedings before federal administrative agencies in which there is at issue the authority, rates or practices for transportation or utility services affecting the interests of the state of Washington, its businesses and general public, and to do all things necessary in its opinion to present to such federal administrative agencies all facts bearing upon such issues, and to similarly initiate and/or participate in any judicial proceedings relating thereto.
RCW 80.08.100 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 08 / Section 100
RCW 80.08.100: Issuance made contrary to this chapter—Penalties.
Status: in_force

If a public service company issues any stock, or other evidence of interest or ownership, bond, note, or other evidence of indebtedness contrary to the provisions of this chapter, the company may be subject to penalty under RCW 80.08.110 and 80.08.120 .
RCW 80.08.047 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 08 / Section 047
RCW 80.08.047: Commission may exempt certain issuances—Order or rule—Public interest.
Status: in_force

The commission may from time to time by order or rule, and subject to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed in the order or rule, exempt any security or any class of securities for which a filing is required under this chapter or any electrical or natural gas company or class of electrical or natural gas company from the provisions of this chapter if it finds that the application of this chapter to such security, class of securities, electrical or natural gas company, or class of electrical or natural gas company is not required by the public interest.
RCW 80.50.140 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 50 / Section 140
RCW 80.50.140: Review.
Status: in_force

(1) A final decision pursuant to RCW 80.50.100 on an application for certification shall be subject to judicial review pursuant to provisions of chapter 34.05 RCW and this section. Petitions for review of such a decision shall be filed in the Thurston county superior court. All petitions for review of a decision under RCW 80.50.100 shall be consolidated into a single proceeding before the Thurston county superior court. The Thurston county superior court shall certify the petition for review to the supreme court upon the following conditions: (a) Review can be made on the administrative record; (b) Fundamental and urgent interests affecting the public interest and development of energy facilities are involved which require a prompt determination; (c) Review by the supreme court would likely be sought regardless of the determination of the Thurston county superior court; and (d) The record is complete for review. The Thurston county superior court shall assign a petition for review of a decision under RCW 80.50.100 for hearing at the earliest possible date and shall expedite such petition in every way possible. If the court finds that review cannot be limited to the administrative record as set forth in subparagraph (a) of this subsection because there are alleged irregularities in the procedure before the council not found in the record, but finds that the standards set forth in subparagraphs (b), (c), and (d) of this subsection are met, the court shall proceed to take testimony and determine such factual issues raised by the alleged irregularities and certify the petition and its determination of such factual issues to the supreme court. Upon certification, the supreme court shall assign the petition for hearing at the earliest possible date, and it shall expedite its review and decision in every way possible. (2) Objections raised by any party in interest concerning procedural error by the council shall be filed with the council within sixty days of the commission of such error, or within thirty days of the first public hearing or meeting of the council at which the general subject matter to which the error is related is discussed, whichever comes later, or such objection shall be deemed waived for purposes of judicial review as provided in this section. (3) The rules and regulations adopted by the council shall be subject to judicial review pursuant to the provisions of chapter 34.05 RCW.
RCW 80.50.060 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 50 / Section 060
RCW 80.50.060: Energy facilities to which chapter applies—Applications for certification—Forms—Council's duties—Potential effects to tribal cultural resources.
Status: reserved

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(1)(a) The provisions of this chapter apply to the construction of energy facilities which includes the new construction of energy facilities and the reconstruction or enlargement of existing energy facilities where the net increase in physical capacity or dimensions resulting from such reconstruction or enlargement meets or exceeds those capacities or dimensions set forth in RCW 80.50.020 (14) and (29). No construction or reconstruction of such energy facilities may be undertaken, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, without first obtaining certification in the manner provided in this chapter. (b) If applicants proposing the following types of facilities choose to receive certification under this chapter, the provisions of this chapter apply to the construction, reconstruction, or enlargement of these new or existing facilities: (i) Facilities that produce refined biofuel, but which are not capable of producing 25,000 barrels or more per day; (ii) Alternative energy resource facilities; (iii) Electrical transmission facilities: (A) Of a nominal voltage of at least 115,000 volts; and (B) located in more than one jurisdiction that has promulgated land use plans or zoning ordinances; (iv) Clean energy product manufacturing facilities; (v) Storage facilities; and (vi) Fusion energy facilities. However, such a fusion energy facility receiving site certification must also secure required licenses and registrations, or equivalent authorizations, for radiation control purposes from designated state or federal agencies. (c) All of the council's powers with regard to energy facilities apply to all of the facilities in (b) of this subsection and these facilities are subject to all provisions of this chapter that apply to an energy facility. (2)(a) The provisions of this chapter must apply to: (i) The construction, reconstruction, or enlargement of new or existing electrical transmission facilities: (A) Of a nominal voltage of at least 500,000 volts alternating current or at least 300,000 volts direct current; (B) located in more than one county; and (C) located in the Washington service area of more than one retail electric utility; and (ii) The construction, reconstruction, or modification of electrical transmission facilities when the facilities are located in a national interest electric transmission corridor as specified in RCW 80.50.045 . (b) For the purposes of this subsection, "modification" means a significant change to an electrical transmission facility and does not include the following: (i) Minor improvements such as the replacement of existing transmission line facilities or supporting structures with equivalent facilities or structures; (ii) the relocation of existing electrical transmission line facilities; (iii) the conversion of existing overhead lines to underground; or (iv) the placing of new or additional conductors, supporting structures, insulators, or their accessories on or replacement of supporting structures already built. (3) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to normal maintenance and repairs which do not increase the capacity or dimensions beyond those set forth in RCW 80.50.020 (14) and (29). (4) Applications for certification of energy facilities made prior to July 15, 1977, shall continue to be governed by the applicable provisions of law in effect on the day immediately preceding July 15, 1977, with the exceptions of RCW 80.50.071 which shall apply to such prior applications and to site certifications prospectively from July 15, 1977. (5) Applications for certification shall be upon forms prescribed by the council and shall be supported by such information and technical studies as the council may require. (6) Upon receipt of an application for certification under this chapter, the chair of the council shall notify: (a) The appropriate county legislative authority or authorities where the proposed facility is located; (b) The appropriate city legislative authority or authorities where the proposed facility is located; (c) The department of archaeology and historic preservation; and (d) The appropriate federally recognized tribal governments that may be affected by the proposed facility. (7) The council must work with local governments where a project is proposed to be sited in order to provide for meaningful participation and input during siting review and compliance monitoring. (8) The council must consult with all federally recognized tribes that possess resources, rights, or interests reserved or protected by federal treaty, statute, or executive order in the area where an energy facility is proposed to be located to provide early and meaningful participation and input during siting review and compliance monitoring. The chair and designated staff must offer to conduct government-to-government consultation to address issues of concern raised by such a tribe. The goal of the consultation process is to identify tribal resources or rights potentially affected by the proposed energy facility and to seek ways to avoid, minimize, or mitigate any adverse effects on tribal resources or rights. The chair must provide regular updates on the consultation to the council throughout the application review process. The report from the council to the governor required in RCW 80.50.100 must include a summary of the government-to-government consultation process that complies with RCW 42.56.300 , including the issues and proposed resolutions. (9) The department of archaeology and historic preservation shall coordinate with the affected federally recognized tribes and the applicant in order to assess potential effects to tribal cultural resources, archaeological sites, and sacred sites.
RCW 80.04.240 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 240
RCW 80.04.240: Action in court on reparations and overcharges.
Status: in_force

If the public service company does not comply with the order of the commission for the payment of the overcharge within the time limited in such order, suit may be instituted in any superior court where service may be had upon the said company to recover the amount of the overcharge with interest. It shall be the duty of the commission to certify its record in the case, including all exhibits, to the court. Such record shall be filed with the clerk of said court within thirty days after such suit shall have been started and said suit shall be heard on the evidence and exhibits introduced before the commission and certified to by it. If the complainant shall prevail in such action, the superior court shall enter judgment for the amount of the overcharge with interest and shall allow complainant a reasonable attorney's fee, and the cost of preparing and certifying said record for the benefit of and to be paid to the commission by complainant, and deposited by the commission in the public service revolving fund, said sums to be fixed and collected as a part of the costs of the suit. If the order of the commission shall be found to be contrary to law or erroneous by reason of the rejection of testimony properly offered, the court shall remand the cause to the commission with instructions to receive the testimony so proffered and rejected and enter a new order based upon the evidence theretofore taken and such as it is directed to receive. The court may in its discretion remand any cause which is reversed by it to the commission for further action. Appeals to the supreme court shall lie as in other civil cases. All complaints concerning overcharges resulting from collecting unreasonable rates and charges or from collecting amounts in excess of lawful rates shall be filed with the commission within six months in cases involving the collection of unreasonable rates and two years in cases involving the collection of more than lawful rates from the time the cause of action accrues, and the suit to recover the overcharge shall be filed in the superior court within one year from the date of the order of the commission. The procedure provided in this section is exclusive, and neither the supreme court nor any superior court shall have jurisdiction save in the manner hereinbefore provided.
RCW 80.04.400 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 400
RCW 80.04.400: Actions to recover penalties—Disposition of fines, penalties, and forfeitures.
Status: in_force

Actions to recover penalties under this title shall be brought in the name of the state of Washington in the superior court of Thurston county, or in the superior court of any county in or through which such public service company may do business. In all such actions the procedure and rules of evidence shall be the same as in ordinary civil actions, except as otherwise herein provided. All fines and penalties recovered by the state under this title shall be paid into the treasury of the state and credited to the state general fund or such other fund as provided by law: PROVIDED, That all fees, fines, forfeitures and penalties collected or assessed by a district court because of the violation of a state law shall be remitted as provided in chapter 3.62 RCW as now exists or is later amended.
RCW 80.36.410 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 410
RCW 80.36.410: Washington telephone assistance program—Findings.
Status: in_force

(1) The legislature finds that universal telephone service is an important policy goal of the state. The legislature further finds that: (a) Recent changes in the telecommunications industry, such as federal access charges, raise concerns about the ability of low-income persons to continue to afford access to local exchange telephone service; and (b) many low-income persons making the transition to independence from receiving supportive services through community agencies do not qualify for economic assistance from the department. (2) Therefore, the legislature finds that: (a) It is in the public interest to take steps to mitigate the effects of these changes on low-income persons; and (b) advances in telecommunications technologies, such as community service voice mail provide new and economically efficient ways to secure many of the benefits of universal service to low-income persons who are not customers of local exchange telephone service.
RCW 80.28.240 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 28 / Section 240
RCW 80.28.240: Recovery of damages by utility company for tampering, unauthorized connections, diversion of services.
Status: in_force

(1) A utility may bring a civil action for damages against any person who commits, authorizes, solicits, aids, abets, or attempts to: (a) Divert, or cause to be diverted, utility services by any means whatsoever; (b) Make, or cause to be made, any connection or reconnection with property owned or used by the utility to provide utility service without the authorization or consent of the utility; (c) Prevent any utility meter or other device used in determining the charge for utility services from accurately performing its measuring function by tampering or by any other means; (d) Tamper with any property owned or used by the utility to provide utility services; or (e) Use or receive the direct benefit of all or a portion of the utility service with knowledge of, or reason to believe that, the diversion, tampering, or unauthorized connection existed at the time of the use or that the use or receipt was without the authorization or consent of the utility. (2) In any civil action brought under this section, the utility may recover from the defendant as damages three times the amount of actual damages, if any, plus the cost of the suit and reasonable attorney's fees, plus the costs incurred on account of the bypassing, tampering, or unauthorized reconnection, including but not limited to costs and expenses for investigation, disconnection, reconnection, service calls, and expert witnesses. (3) Any damages recovered under this section in excess of the actual damages sustained by the utility may be taken into account by the utilities and transportation commission or other applicable rate-making agency in establishing utility rates. (4) As used in this section: (a) "Customer" means the person in whose name a utility service is provided; (b) "Divert" means to change the intended course or path of electricity, gas, water, or thermal energy without the authorization or consent of the utility; (c) "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, association, or corporation or government agency; (d) "Reconnection" means the commencement of utility service to a customer or other person after service has been lawfully disconnected by the utility; (e) "Tamper" means to rearrange, injure, alter, interfere with, or otherwise prevent from performing the normal or customary function; (f) "Utility" means any electrical company, gas company, wastewater company, water company, or thermal energy company, as those terms are defined in RCW 80.04.010 , and includes any electrical, gas, system of sewerage, water system, or thermal energy system operated by any public agency; and (g) "Utility service" means the provision of electricity, gas, water, wastewater company services, thermal energy, or any other service or commodity furnished by the utility for compensation.
RCW 80.52.040 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 52 / Section 040
RCW 80.52.040: Election approval required before issuance of bonds.
Status: in_force

No public agency or assignee of a public agency may issue or sell bonds to finance the cost of construction or the cost of acquisition of a major public energy project, or any portion thereof, unless it has first obtained authority for the expenditure of the funds to be raised by the sale of such bonds for that project at an election conducted in the manner provided in this chapter.
RCW 80.04.580 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 580
RCW 80.04.580: Regulatory fee on wastewater companies regulated by the commission—Rule-making authority.
Status: in_force

(1) Every wastewater company subject to regulation by the commission must, on or before the date specified by the commission for filing annual reports under RCW 80.04.080 , pay to the commission a regulatory fee. (2) The commission must assess such regulatory fees in amounts sufficient for the commission to recover the commission's actual and reasonable costs of supervising and regulating wastewater companies. (3) Any payment of a fee assessed under this section made after the due date must include a late fee of two percent of the amount due. (4) Delinquent fees accrue interest at the rate of one percent per month. (5) The provisions of RCW 80.24.030 , 80.24.040 , and 80.24.050 apply to regulatory fees for wastewater companies. (6) The commission is authorized and empowered to adopt and issue rules and regulations to implement this section, including establishing the methodologies and procedures for developing, assessing, and collecting fees under this section.
RCW 80.04.270 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 270
RCW 80.04.270: Merchandise accounts to be kept separate.
Status: in_force

Any public service company engaging in the sale of merchandise or appliances or equipment shall keep separate accounts, as prescribed by the commission, of its capital employed in such business and of its revenues therefrom and operating expenses thereof. The capital employed in such business shall not constitute a part of the fair value of said company's property for rate making purposes, nor shall the revenues from or operating expenses of such business constitute a part of the operating revenues and expenses of said company as a public service company. For purposes of this section, the providing of competitive telephone service, as defined in RCW 82.04.065 , shall not constitute the sale of merchandise, appliances, or equipment, unless the commission determines that it would be in the public interest to hold otherwise.
RCW 80.01.070 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 01 / Section 070
RCW 80.01.070: Joint investigations, hearings, orders.
Status: in_force

The commission shall have full power to make joint or concurrent investigations, hold joint or concurrent hearings, and issue joint or concurrent orders in conjunction or concurrence with any official, board, or commission of any state or of the United States, whether in the holding of such investigations or hearings or in the making of such orders the commission functions under agreements or compacts between states or under the concurrent power of states to regulate interstate commerce or as an agency of the federal government or otherwise. When necessary the commission may hold such joint hearing or investigation outside the state.
RCW 80.04.440 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 440
RCW 80.04.440: Companies liable for damages.
Status: in_force

In case any public service company shall do, cause to be done or permit to be done any act, matter or thing prohibited, forbidden or declared to be unlawful, or shall omit to do any act, matter or thing required to be done, either by any law of this state, by this title or by any order or rule of the commission, such public service company shall be liable to the persons or corporations affected thereby for all loss, damage or injury caused thereby or resulting therefrom, and in case of recovery if the court shall find that such act or omission was wilful, it may, in its discretion, fix a reasonable counsel or attorney's fee, which shall be taxed and collected as part of the costs in the case. An action to recover for such loss, damage or injury may be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction by any person or corporation.
RCW 80.08.150 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 08 / Section 150
RCW 80.08.150: Authority of commission—Not affected by requirements of this chapter.
Status: in_force

No action by a public service company in compliance with nor by the commission in conformance with the requirements of this chapter may in any way affect the authority of the commission over rates, service, accounts, valuations, estimates, or determinations of costs, or any matters whatsoever that may come before it.
RCW 80.50.030 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 50 / Section 030
RCW 80.50.030: Energy facility site evaluation council—Created—Membership—Quorum.
Status: in_force

(1) The energy facility site evaluation council is created and established. (2) The chair of the council shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate, shall have a vote on matters before the council, shall serve for a term coextensive with the term of the governor, and is removable for cause. The chair may designate a member of the council to serve as acting chair in the event of the chair's absence. The salary of the chair shall be determined under RCW 43.03.040 . The chair is a "state employee" for the purposes of chapter 42.52 RCW. As applicable, when attending meetings of the council, members may receive reimbursement for travel expenses in accordance with RCW 43.03.050 and 43.03.060 , and are eligible for compensation under RCW 43.03.250 . (3)(a) The council shall consist of the chair of the council and: (i) The director of the department of ecology or the director's designee; (ii) The director of the department of fish and wildlife or the director's designee; (iii) The director of the department of commerce or the director's designee; (iv) The chair of the utilities and transportation commission or the chair's designee; and (v) The commissioner of public lands or the commissioner's designee. (b) The directors, administrators, or their designees, of the following departments, agencies, and commissions, or their statutory successors, may participate as councilmembers at their own discretion provided they elect to participate no later than sixty days after an application is filed: (i) Department of agriculture; (ii) Department of health; (iii) Military department; and (iv) Department of transportation. (4) The appropriate county legislative authority of every county wherein an application for a proposed site is filed shall appoint a member or designee as a voting member to the council. The member or designee so appointed shall sit with the council only at such times as the council considers the proposed site for the county which he or she represents, and such member or designee shall serve until there has been a final acceptance or rejection of the proposed site. (5) The city legislative authority of every city within whose corporate limits an energy facility is proposed to be located shall appoint a member or designee as a voting member to the council. The member or designee so appointed shall sit with the council only at such times as the council considers the proposed site for the city which he or she represents, and such member or designee shall serve until there has been a final acceptance or rejection of the proposed site. (6) For any port district wherein an application for a proposed port facility is filed subject to this chapter, the port district shall appoint a member or designee as a nonvoting member to the council. The member or designee so appointed shall sit with the council only at such times as the council considers the proposed site for the port district which he or she represents, and such member or designee shall serve until there has been a final acceptance or rejection of the proposed site. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply if the port district is the applicant, either singly or in partnership or association with any other person. (7) A quorum of the council consists of a majority of members appointed for business to be conducted.
RCW 80.36.160 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 160
RCW 80.36.160: Physical connections may be ordered, routing prescribed, and joint rates established.
Status: in_force

In order to provide toll telephone service where no such service is available, or to promote the most expeditious handling or most direct routing of toll messages and conversations, or to prevent arbitrary or unreasonable practices which may result in the failure to utilize the toll facilities of all telecommunications companies equitably and effectively, the commission may, on its own motion, or upon complaint, notwithstanding any contract or arrangement between telecommunications companies, investigate, ascertain and, after hearing, by order (1) require the construction and maintenance of suitable connections between telephone lines for the transfer of messages and conversations at a common point or points and, if the companies affected fail to agree on the proportion of the cost thereof to be borne by each such company, prescribe said proportion of cost to be borne by each; and/or (2) prescribe the routing of toll messages and conversations over such connections and the practices and regulations to be followed with respect to such routing; and/or (3) establish reasonable joint rates or charges by or over said lines and connections and just, reasonable and equitable divisions thereof as between the telecommunications companies participating therein. This section shall not be construed as conferring on the commission jurisdiction, supervision or control of the rates, service or facilities of any mutual, cooperative or farmer line company or association, except for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section.
RCW 80.54.070 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 54 / Section 070
RCW 80.54.070: Uniform attachment rates within utility service area.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a utility as defined in RCW 80.54.010 (3) and any utility not regulated by the utilities and transportation commission shall levy attachment rates which are uniform for all licensees within the utility service area.
RCW 80.04.530 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 530
RCW 80.04.530: Local exchange company that serves less than two percent of state's access lines—Regulatory exemptions—Reporting requirements.
Status: in_force

(1)(a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, the following do not apply to a local exchange company that serves less than two percent of the access lines in the state of Washington: RCW 80.04.080 , 80.04.300 through 80.04.330 , and, except for RCW 80.08.140 , chapters 80.08 , 80.12, and 80.16 RCW. (b) Nothing in this subsection (1) shall affect the commission's authority over the rates, service, accounts, valuations, estimates, or determinations of costs, as well as the authority to determine whether any expenditure is fair, reasonable, and commensurate with the service, material, supplies, or equipment received. (c) For purposes of this subsection, the number of access lines served by a local exchange company includes the number of access lines served in this state by any affiliate of that local exchange company. (2) Any local exchange company for which an exemption is provided under this section shall not be required to file reports or data with the commission, except each such company shall file with the commission an annual report that consists of its annual balance sheet and results of operations, both presented on a Washington state jurisdictional basis. This requirement may be satisfied by the filing of information or reports and underlying studies filed with exchange carrier entities or regulatory agencies if the jurisdictionally separated results of operations for Washington state can be obtained from the information or reports. This subsection shall not be applied to exempt a local exchange company from an obligation to respond to data requests in an adjudicative proceeding in which it is a party. (3) The commission may, in response to customer complaints or on its own motion and after notice and hearing, establish additional reporting requirements for a specific local exchange company.
RCW 80.50.065 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 50 / Section 065
RCW 80.50.065: Use of fully coordinated permitting process.
Status: in_force

Applicants utilizing the fully coordinated permitting process under chapter 43.158 RCW are not eligible for permitting under this chapter unless a substantial change is made to the proposed project. Prior to considering an application under this chapter from a project applicant that has previously used the fully coordinated permitting process under chapter 43.158 RCW for that project, the council must determine that the project applicant has made a substantial change to the project, relative to the project as it was proposed under the fully coordinated permitting process.
RCW 80.04.180 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 180
RCW 80.04.180: Supersedeas—Water companies seeking supersedeas.
Status: in_force

(1) The pendency of any writ of review shall not of itself stay or suspend the operation of the order of the commission, but the superior court in its discretion may restrain or suspend, in whole or in part, the operation of the commission's order pending the final hearing and determination of the suit. (2) No order so restraining or suspending an order of the commission relating to rates, charges, tolls or rentals, or rules or regulations, practices, classifications or contracts affecting the same, shall be made by the superior court otherwise than upon three days' notice and after hearing. If a supersedeas is granted the order granting the same shall contain a specific finding, based upon evidence submitted to the court making the order, and identified by reference thereto, that great or irreparable damage would otherwise result to the petitioner, and specifying the nature of the damage. A water company seeking a supersedeas must demonstrate to the court that it is in compliance with the state board of health standards adopted pursuant to RCW 43.20.050 and chapter 70A.100 RCW relating to the purity, volume, and pressure of water. (3) In case the order of the commission under review is superseded by the court, it shall require a bond, with good and sufficient surety, conditioned that such company petitioning for such review shall answer for all damages caused by the delay in the enforcement of the order of the commission, and all compensation for whatever sums for transmission or service any person or corporation shall be compelled to pay pending the review proceedings in excess of the sum such person or corporations would have been compelled to pay if the order of the commission had not been suspended. (4) The court may, in addition to or in lieu of the bond herein provided for, require such other or further security for the payment of such excess charges or damages as it may deem proper.
RCW 80.36.010 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 36 / Section 010
RCW 80.36.010: Eminent domain.
Status: in_force

The right of eminent domain is hereby extended to all telecommunications companies organized or doing business in this state.
RCW 80.04.385 — Washington Code / Title 80 / Chapter 04 / Section 385
RCW 80.04.385: Penalties—Violations by officers, agents, and employees of public service companies.
Status: in_force

Every officer, agent or employee of any public service company, who shall violate or fail to comply with, or who procures, aids or abets any violation by any public service company of any provision of this title, or who shall fail to obey, observe or comply with any order of the commission, or any provision of any order of the commission, or who procures, aids or abets any such public service company in its failure to obey, observe and comply with any such order or provision, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.