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WA Rev Code § 35.87A.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.060 - Hearings.

RCW 35.87A.060 Hearings.Whenever a hearing is held under this chapter, the legislative authority shall hear all protests and receive evidence for or against the proposed action. The legislative authority may continue the hearing from time to time. Proceedings shall terminate if protest is made by businesses and residential operators in the proposed area which would pay a majority of the proposed special assessments.[ 1993 c 429 § 5; 1971 ex.s. c 45 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 35.87A.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.070 - Change of boundaries.

RCW 35.87A.070 Change of boundaries.If the legislative authority decides to change the boundaries of the proposed area, the hearing shall be continued to a time at least fifteen days after such decision and notice shall be given as prescribed in RCW 35.87A.050, showing the boundary amendments, but no resolution of intention is required.[ 1971 ex.s. c 45 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 35.87A.075 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.075 - Modification of boundaries.

RCW 35.87A.075 Modification of boundaries.(1) The legislative authority may modify the boundaries of a parking and business improvement area by ordinance, adopted after a hearing before the legislative authority. The legislative authority may modify an area either by expanding or reducing the existing boundaries. If the modification to the boundaries is to expand existing boundaries, the expansion area must be adjacent to an existing boundary. A modification to an existing boundary may occur no more than once per year and may not affect an area with a projected assessment fee greater than ten percent of the current assessment role for the existing area. If the modification of an area results in the boundary being expanded, the assessments for the new area shall be established pursuant to RCW 35.87A.080 and 35.87A.090 and any other applicable provision of this chapter.(2) The legislative authority shall adopt a resolution of intention to modify the boundaries of an area at least fifteen days prior to the hearing required in subsection (1) of this section. The resolution shall specify the proposed modification and shall give the time and place of the hearing. Notice of the hearing shall be made in accordance with RCW 35.87A.050.[ 2002 c 69 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 35.87A.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.080 - Special assessments—Legislative authority may make reasonable classifications—Assessments for separate purposes.

RCW 35.87A.080 Special assessments—Legislative authority may make reasonable classifications—Assessments for separate purposes.For purposes of the special assessments to be imposed pursuant to this chapter, the legislative authority may make a reasonable classification of businesses and multifamily residential or mixed-use projects, giving consideration to various factors such as business and occupation taxes imposed, square footage of the business, number of employees, gross sales, or any other reasonable factor relating to the benefit received, including the degree of benefit received from parking. Whenever it is proposed that a parking and business improvement area provide more than one of the purposes listed in RCW 35.87A.010, special assessments may be imposed in a manner that measures benefit from each of the separate purposes, or any combination of the separate purposes. Special assessments shall be imposed and collected annually, or on another basis specified in the ordinance establishing the parking and business improvement area.[ 1993 c 429 § 6; 1985 c 128 § 2; 1981 c 279 § 2; 1971 ex.s. c 45 § 8.]
WA Rev Code § 35.87A.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.090 - Special assessments—Same basis or rate for classes not required—Factors as to parking facilities.

RCW 35.87A.090 Special assessments—Same basis or rate for classes not required—Factors as to parking facilities.The special assessments need not be imposed on different classes of business and multifamily residential or mixed-use projects, as determined pursuant to RCW 35.87A.080, on the same basis or the same rate. The special assessments imposed for the purpose of the acquisition, construction or maintenance of parking facilities for the benefit of the area shall be imposed on the basis of benefit determined by the legislative authority after giving consideration to the total cost to be recovered from the businesses and multifamily residential or mixed-use projects upon which the special assessment is to be imposed, the total area within the boundaries of the parking and business improvement area, the assessed value of the land and improvements within the area, the total business volume generated within the area and within each business, and such other factors as the legislative authority may find and determine to be a reasonable measure of such benefit.[ 1993 c 429 § 7; 1971 ex.s. c 45 § 9.]
WA Rev Code § 35.87A.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.100 - Ordinance to establish—Adoption—Contents.

RCW 35.87A.100 Ordinance to establish—Adoption—Contents.If the legislative authority, following the hearing, decides to establish the proposed area, it shall adopt an ordinance to that effect. This ordinance shall contain the following information:(1) The number, date and title of the resolution of intention pursuant to which it was adopted;(2) The time and place the hearing was held concerning the formation of such area;(3) The description of the boundaries of such area;(4) A statement that the businesses and multifamily residential or mixed-use projects in the area established by the ordinance shall be subject to the provisions of the special assessments authorized by RCW 35.87A.010;(5) The initial or additional rate or levy of special assessment to be imposed with a breakdown by classification of business and multifamily residential or mixed-use project, if such classification is used; and(6) A statement that a parking and business improvement area has been established.(7) The uses to which the special assessment revenue shall be put. Uses shall conform to the uses as declared in the initiation petition presented pursuant to RCW 35.87A.030.[ 1993 c 429 § 8; 1971 ex.s. c 45 § 10.]
WA Rev Code § 35.87A.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.110 - Use of revenue—Contracts to administer operation of area.

RCW 35.87A.110 Use of revenue—Contracts to administer operation of area.The legislative authority of each city or town or county shall have sole discretion as to how the revenue derived from the special assessments is to be used within the scope of the purposes; however, the legislative authority may appoint existing advisory boards or commissions to make recommendations as to its use, or the legislative authority may create a new advisory board or commission for the purpose.The legislative authority may contract with a chamber of commerce or other similar business association operating primarily within the boundaries of the legislative authority to administer the operation of a parking and business improvement area, including any funds derived pursuant thereto: PROVIDED, That such administration must comply with all applicable provisions of law including this chapter, with all county, city, or town resolutions and ordinances, and with all regulations lawfully imposed by the state auditor or other state agencies.[ 1971 ex.s. c 45 § 11.]
WA Rev Code § 35.87A.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.120 - Use of assessment proceeds restricted.

RCW 35.87A.120 Use of assessment proceeds restricted.The special assessments levied hereunder must be for the purposes specified in the ordinances and the proceeds shall not be used for any other purpose.[ 1971 ex.s. c 45 § 12.]
WA Rev Code § 35.87A.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.130 - Collection of assessments.

RCW 35.87A.130 Collection of assessments.Collections of assessments imposed pursuant to this chapter shall be made at the same time and in the same manner as otherwise prescribed by Title 35 RCW or in such other manner as the legislative authority shall determine.[ 1971 ex.s. c 45 § 13.]
WA Rev Code § 35.87A.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.140 - Changes in assessment rates.

RCW 35.87A.140 Changes in assessment rates.Changes may be made in the rate or additional rate of special assessment as specified in the ordinance establishing the area, by ordinance adopted after a hearing before the legislative authority.The legislative authority shall adopt a resolution of intention to change the rate or additional rate of special assessment at least fifteen days prior to the hearing required by this section. This resolution shall specify the proposed change and shall give the time and place of the hearing. Proceedings to change the rate or impose an additional rate of special assessments shall terminate if protest is made by businesses or multifamily residential or mixed-use projects in the proposed area which would pay a majority of the proposed increase or additional special assessments.[ 1993 c 429 § 9; 1971 ex.s. c 45 § 14.]
WA Rev Code § 35.87A.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.150 - Benefit zones—Authorized—Rates.

RCW 35.87A.150 Benefit zones—Authorized—Rates.The legislative authority may, for each of the purposes set out in RCW 35.87A.010, establish and modify one or more separate benefit zones based upon the degree of benefit derived from the purpose and may impose a different rate of special assessment within each such benefit zone.[ 1971 ex.s. c 45 § 15.]
WA Rev Code § 35.87A.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.160 - Benefit zones—Establishment, modification and disestablishment of area provisions and procedure to be followed.

RCW 35.87A.160 Benefit zones—Establishment, modification and disestablishment of area provisions and procedure to be followed.All provisions of this chapter applicable to establishment or disestablishment of an area also apply to the establishment, modification, or disestablishment of benefit zones pursuant to *RCW 35.87A.150. The establishment or the modification of any such zone shall follow the same procedure as provided for the establishment of a parking and business improvement area and the disestablishment shall follow the same procedure as provided for disestablishment of an area.[ 1971 ex.s. c 45 § 16.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: "RCW 35.87A.150" has been translated from "section 13 of this act," as the reference to section 13, herein codified as RCW 35.87A.130, was apparently erroneous.
WA Rev Code § 35.87A.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.170 - Exemption period for new businesses and projects.

RCW 35.87A.170 Exemption period for new businesses and projects.Businesses or multifamily residential or mixed-use projects established after the creation of an area within the area may be exempted from the special assessments imposed pursuant to this chapter for a period not exceeding one year from the date they commenced business in the area.[ 1993 c 429 § 10; 1971 ex.s. c 45 § 17.]
WA Rev Code § 35.87A.180 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.180 - Disestablishment of area—Hearing.

RCW 35.87A.180 Disestablishment of area—Hearing.The legislative authority may disestablish an area by ordinance after a hearing before the legislative authority. The legislative authority shall adopt a resolution of intention to disestablish the area at least fifteen days prior to the hearing required by this section. The resolution shall give the time and place of the hearing.[ 1971 ex.s. c 45 § 18.]
WA Rev Code § 35.87A.190 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.190 - Disestablishment of area—Assets and liabilities.

RCW 35.87A.190 Disestablishment of area—Assets and liabilities.Upon disestablishment of an area, any proceeds of the special assessments, or assets acquired with such proceeds, or liabilities incurred as a result of the formation of such area, shall be subject to disposition as the legislative authority shall determine: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, Any liabilities, either current or future, incurred as a result of action taken to accomplish the purposes of RCW 35.87A.010 shall not be an obligation of the general fund or any special fund of the city or town, but such liabilities shall be provided for entirely from available revenue generated from the projects or facilities authorized by RCW 35.87A.010 or from special assessments on the property specially benefited within the area.[ 1971 ex.s. c 45 § 19.]
WA Rev Code § 35.87A.200 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.200 - Bids required—Monetary amount.

RCW 35.87A.200 Bids required—Monetary amount.Any city or town or county authorized by this chapter to establish a parking improvement area shall call for competitive bids by appropriate public notice and award contracts, whenever the estimated cost of such work or improvement, including cost of materials, supplies and equipment, exceeds the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars.[ 1971 ex.s. c 45 § 20.]
WA Rev Code § 35.87A.210 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.210 - Computing cost of improvement for bid requirement.

RCW 35.87A.210 Computing cost of improvement for bid requirement.The cost of the improvement for the purposes of this chapter shall be aggregate of all amounts to be paid for the labor, materials and equipment on one continuous or inter-related project where work is to be performed simultaneously or in near sequence. Breaking an improvement into small units for the purposes of avoiding the minimum dollar amount prescribed in RCW 35.87A.200 is contrary to public policy and is prohibited.[ 1971 ex.s. c 45 § 21.]
WA Rev Code § 35.87A.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.87A - Parking and Business Improvement Areas.|35.87A.220 - Existing laws not affected—Chapter supplemental—Purposes may be accomplished in conjunction with other methods.

RCW 35.87A.220 Existing laws not affected—Chapter supplemental—Purposes may be accomplished in conjunction with other methods.This chapter providing for parking and business improvement areas shall not be deemed or construed to affect any existing act, or any part thereof, relating to special assessments or other powers of counties, cities and towns, but shall be supplemental thereto and concurrent therewith.The purposes and functions of parking and business improvement areas as set forth by the provisions of this chapter may be accomplished in part by the establishment of an area pursuant to this chapter and in part by any other method otherwise provided by law, including provisions for local improvements.[ 1971 ex.s. c 45 § 22.]
WA Rev Code § 35.88.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.88 - Water Pollution—Protection From.|35.88.010 - Authority over sources of supply.

RCW 35.88.010 Authority over sources of supply.For the purpose of protecting the water furnished to the inhabitants of cities and towns from pollution, cities and towns are given jurisdiction over all property occupied by the works, reservoirs, systems, springs, branches and pipes, by means of which, and of all the lakes, rivers, springs, streams, creeks, or tributaries constituting the sources of supply from which the cities and towns or the companies or individuals furnishing water to the inhabitants thereof obtain their supply of water, or store or conduct it, and over all property acquired for any of the foregoing works or purposes or for the preservation and protection of the purity of the water supply, and over all property within the areas draining into the lakes, rivers, springs, streams, creeks, or tributaries constituting the sources of supply whether they or any of them are within the city or town limits or outside.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.88.010. Prior: 1907 c 227 § 1, part; 1899 c 70 § 1, part; RRS § 9473, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.88.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.88 - Water Pollution—Protection From.|35.88.020 - Enforcement of ordinance—Special police.

RCW 35.88.020 Enforcement of ordinance—Special police.Every city and town may by ordinance prescribe what acts shall constitute offenses against the purity of its water supply and the punishment or penalties therefor and enforce them. The mayor of each city and town may appoint special police officers, with such compensation as the city or town may fix, who shall, after taking oath, have the powers of constables, and who may arrest with or without warrant any person committing, within the territory over which any city or town is given jurisdiction by this chapter, any offense declared by law or by ordinance, against the purity of the water supply, or which violate any rule or regulation lawfully promulgated by the state board of health for the protection of the purity of such water supply. Every special police officer whose appointment is authorized herein may take any person arrested for any such offense or violation before any court having jurisdiction thereof to be proceeded with according to law. Every such special police officer shall, when on duty wear in plain view a badge or shield bearing the words "special police" and the name of the city or town by which he or she has been appointed.[ 2007 c 218 § 70; 1965 c 7 § 35.88.020. Prior: 1907 c 227 § 1, part; 1899 c 70 § 1, part; RRS § 9473, part.]NOTES:Intent—Finding—2007 c 218: See note following RCW 41.08.020.
WA Rev Code § 35.88.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.88 - Water Pollution—Protection From.|35.88.030 - Pollution declared to be a nuisance—Abatement.

RCW 35.88.030 Pollution declared to be a nuisance—Abatement.The establishment or maintenance of any slaughter pens, stock feeding yards, hogpens, or the deposit or maintenance of any uncleanly or unwholesome substance, or the conduct of any business or occupation, or the allowing of any condition upon or sufficiently near the (1) sources from which the supply of water for the inhabitants of any city or town is obtained, or (2) where its water is stored, or (3) the property or means through which the same may be conveyed or conducted so that such water would be polluted or the purity of such water or any part thereof destroyed or endangered, is prohibited and declared to be unlawful, and is declared to constitute a nuisance, and may be abated as other nuisances are abated.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.88.030. Prior: 1899 c 70 § 2, part; RRS § 9474, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.88.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.88 - Water Pollution—Protection From.|35.88.040 - Pollution as criminal nuisance—Punishment.

RCW 35.88.040 Pollution as criminal nuisance—Punishment.Any person who does, establishes, maintains, or creates any of the things which have the effect of polluting any such sources of water supply, or water, and any person who does any of the things in RCW 35.88.030 declared to be unlawful, shall be deemed guilty of creating and maintaining a nuisance, and may be prosecuted therefor, and upon conviction thereof may be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.88.040. Prior: 1899 c 70 § 2, part; RRS § 9474, part.]NOTES:Nuisance: Chapter 9.66 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 35.88.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.88 - Water Pollution—Protection From.|35.88.050 - Prosecution—Trial—Abatement of nuisance.

RCW 35.88.050 Prosecution—Trial—Abatement of nuisance.If upon the trial of any person for the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter he or she is found guilty of creating or maintaining a nuisance or of violating any of the provisions of this chapter, he or she shall forthwith abate the nuisance, and if he or she fails so to do within one day after such conviction, unless further time is granted by the court, a warrant shall be issued by the court wherein the conviction was obtained, directed to the sheriff of the county in which such nuisance exists and the sheriff shall forthwith proceed to abate the said nuisance and the cost thereof shall be taxed against the person so convicted as a part of the costs of such case.[ 2009 c 549 § 2129; 1965 c 7 § 35.88.050. Prior: 1899 c 70 § 3; RRS § 9475.]
WA Rev Code § 35.88.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.88 - Water Pollution—Protection From.|35.88.060 - Health officers and mayor must enforce.

RCW 35.88.060 Health officers and mayor must enforce.The city health officer, city physician, board of public health, mayor, or any other officer, who has the sanitary condition of the city or town in charge, shall see that the provisions of this chapter are enforced and upon complaint being made to any such officer of an alleged violation, he or she shall immediately investigate the said complaint and if the same appears to be well-founded he or she shall file a complaint against the person or persons violating any of the provisions of this chapter and cause their arrest and prosecution.[ 2009 c 549 § 2130; 1965 c 7 § 35.88.060. Prior: 1899 c 70 § 4; RRS § 9476.]
WA Rev Code § 35.88.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.88 - Water Pollution—Protection From.|35.88.070 - Injunction proceeding.

RCW 35.88.070 Injunction proceeding.If any provision of this chapter is being violated, the city or town supplied with the water or a corporation owning waterworks for the purpose of supplying the city or town or the inhabitants thereof with water may, by civil action in the superior court of the proper county, have the maintenance of the nuisance which pollutes or tends to pollute the said water, enjoined and such injunction may be perpetual.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.88.070. Prior: 1899 c 70 § 5; RRS § 9477.]