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Timestamp: 2019-06-15 21:11:52
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 14', '§ 80', '§ 2', '§ 1', 'art; 1937', '§ 1', 'art; 1929', '§ 1', 'art; 1923', '§ 1', 'art; 1921', '§ 1', '§ 10417', '§ 80', '§ 3', '§ 1', 'art; 1937', '§ 1', '§ 10417', '§ 80', '§ 7', '§ 10417', '§ 239', '§ 36', '§ 80', '§ 6', '§ 10417', '§ 240', '§ 1', '§ 37', '§ 80', '§ 2', '§ 3', '§ 10419']

Chapter 80.24 RCW: REGULATORY FEES
RCWs > Title 80 > Chapter 80.24
Chapter 80.24 RCW
80.24.010 Companies to file reports of gross revenue and pay fees—Delinquent fee payments.
80.24.020 Fees to approximate reasonable cost of regulation.
80.24.030 Intent of legislature—Regulatory cost records to be kept by commission.
80.24.040 Disposition of fees.
80.24.050 Penalty for failure to pay fees—Disposition of fines and penalties.
80.24.060 Pipeline safety fee—Reports—Procedure to contest fees—Regulatory incentive program.
Assessment of public utilities for property tax purposes: Chapter 84.12 RCW.
Corporations, annual license fees for public service companies: RCW 23B.01.590.
Easements of public service companies taxable as personalty: RCW 84.20.010.
Public utility tax: Chapter 82.16 RCW.
RCW 80.24.010
Companies to file reports of gross revenue and pay fees—Delinquent fee payments.
Every public service company subject to regulation by the commission shall, on or before the date specified by the commission for filing annual reports under RCW 80.04.080, file with the commission a statement on oath showing its gross operating revenue from intrastate operations for the preceding calendar year or portion thereof and pay to the commission a fee equal to one-tenth of one percent of the first fifty thousand dollars of gross operating revenue, plus two-tenths of one percent of any gross operating revenue in excess of fifty thousand dollars: PROVIDED, That the commission may, by rule, set minimum fees that do not exceed the cost of collecting the fees. The commission may by rule waive any or all of the minimum fee established pursuant to this section.
The percentage rates of gross operating revenue to be paid in any year may be decreased by the commission for any class of companies subject to the payment of such fees, by general order entered before March 1st of such year, and for such purpose such companies shall be classified as follows:
Electrical, gas, water, telecommunications, and irrigation companies shall constitute class one. Every other company subject to regulation by the commission, for which regulatory fees are not otherwise fixed by law shall pay fees as herein provided and shall constitute additional classes according to kinds of businesses engaged in.
[ 2003 c 296 § 1; 1994 c 83 § 1; 1990 c 48 § 1; 1985 c 450 § 14; 1961 c 14 § 80.24.010. Prior: 1955 c 125 § 2; prior: 1939 c 123 § 1, part; 1937 c 158 § 1, part; 1929 c 107 § 1, part; 1923 c 107 § 1, part; 1921 c 113 § 1, part; RRS § 10417, part.]
RCW 80.24.020
Fees to approximate reasonable cost of regulation.
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.
[ 1961 c 14 § 80.24.020. Prior: 1955 c 125 § 3; prior: 1939 c 123 § 1, part; 1937 c 158 § 1, part; RRS § 10417, part.]
RCW 80.24.030
Intent of legislature—Regulatory cost records to be kept by commission.
It is the intent and purpose of the legislature that the several groups of public service companies shall each contribute sufficient in fees to the commission to pay the reasonable cost of regulating the several groups respectively. The commission shall keep accurate records of the costs incurred in regulating and supervising the several groups of companies subject to regulation or supervision and such records shall be open to inspection by all interested parties. The records and data upon which the commission's determination is made shall be considered prima facie correct in any proceeding instituted to challenge the reasonableness or correctness of any order of the commission fixing fees and distributing regulatory expenses.
[ 1961 c 14 § 80.24.030. Prior: 1937 c 158 § 7; RRS § 10417-5.]
RCW 80.24.040
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.
[ 1987 c 202 § 239; 1969 ex.s. c 199 § 36; 1961 c 14 § 80.24.040. Prior: 1937 c 158 § 6; RRS § 10417-4.]
RCW 80.24.050
Penalty for failure to pay fees—Disposition of fines and penalties.
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.
[ 1987 c 202 § 240; 1979 ex.s. c 198 § 1; 1969 ex.s. c 199 § 37; 1961 c 14 § 80.24.050. Prior: 1923 c 107 § 2; 1921 c 113 § 3; RRS § 10419.]