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WA Rev Code § 81.70.350 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.70 - Passenger Charter and Excursion Carriers.|81.70.350 - Annual regulatory fee—Delinquent fee payments.

RCW 81.70.350 Annual regulatory fee—Delinquent fee payments.(1) The commission shall collect from each charter party carrier and excursion service carrier holding a certificate issued pursuant to this chapter and from each interstate or foreign carrier subject to this chapter an annual regulatory fee, to be established by the commission but which in total shall not exceed the cost of supervising and regulating such carriers, for each bus used by such carrier.(2) The fee prescribed under this section is due and payable on or before May 1st of each year, to cover operations during the calendar year in which the fee is paid.(3) Any payment of the fee imposed by this section made after its due date shall include a late fee of two percent of the amount due. Delinquent fees shall accrue interest at the rate of one percent per month.[ 2015 c 233 § 6; 1994 c 83 § 3; 1989 c 163 § 16; 1988 c 30 § 15.]
WA Rev Code § 81.70.360 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.70 - Passenger Charter and Excursion Carriers.|81.70.360 - Excursion service companies—Certificate.

RCW 81.70.360 Excursion service companies—Certificate.No excursion service company may operate for the transportation of persons for compensation without first having obtained from the commission under the provisions of this chapter a certificate to do so. For the purposes of this section, "operate for the transportation of persons for compensation" includes advertising or soliciting, offering, or entering into an agreement to provide such service.A certificate shall be issued to any qualified applicant therefor, authorizing the whole or any part of the operations covered by the application, if it is found that the applicant is fit, willing, and able to properly perform the services proposed and conform to the provisions of this chapter and the rules of the commission adopted under this chapter, and that such operations will be consistent with the public interest. Any right, privilege, or certificate held, owned, or obtained by an excursion service company may be sold, assigned, leased, transferred, or inherited as other property only upon authorization by the commission. For good cause shown the commission may refuse to issue the certificate, or issue it for the partial exercise only of the privilege sought, and may attach to the exercise of the rights granted by the certificate such terms and conditions as, in its judgment, the public interest may require.[ 2015 c 233 § 7; 1984 c 166 § 5. Formerly RCW 81.68.045.]
WA Rev Code § 81.70.370 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.70 - Passenger Charter and Excursion Carriers.|81.70.370 - Federal authority and registration for compensatory services.

RCW 81.70.370 Federal authority and registration for compensatory services.It is unlawful for any motor carrier to perform a transportation service for compensation upon the public highways of this state without first having secured appropriate federal authority from the United States department of transportation, if such authority is required, and without first having registered with the commission either directly or through a federally authorized uniform registration program.[ 2007 c 234 § 54.]
WA Rev Code § 81.70.380 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.70 - Passenger Charter and Excursion Carriers.|81.70.380 - Party buses—Alcohol consumption requirements, penalty.

RCW 81.70.380 Party buses—Alcohol consumption requirements, penalty.(1)(a) A charter party carrier or excursion service carrier operating a party bus must determine whether alcoholic beverages will be served or consumed in the passenger compartment of the vehicle. If it is expected that alcoholic beverages will be served or consumed in the passenger compartment, the permit holder must have obtained the appropriate liquor permit, provided a copy of the permit to the charter party carrier or excursion service carrier in advance of the trip, and be on the vehicle or reasonably proximate and available to the vehicle during the transportation service. The company must maintain the copy of the permit required with the contract of carriage.(b) If the charter party carrier or excursion service carrier operating a party bus is the permit holder, the carrier must have a person separate from the driver be responsible for the permit holder requirements in this section and either chapter 66.20 or 66.24 RCW.(c) The permit holder must:(i) Be on the party bus or reasonably proximate and available to the vehicle during the transportation service;(ii) Monitor and control party activities in a manner to prevent the driver from being distracted by the party activities; and(iii) Assume responsibility for compliance with the terms of the special permit, if a permit is required, including compliance with RCW 66.44.270 concerning the prohibition against furnishing liquor to minors. (2) If at any time the charter party carrier or excursion service carrier operating a party bus believes that conditions aboard the vehicle are unsafe due to party activities involving alcohol, the carrier must remove all alcoholic beverages and lock them in the party bus trunk or other locked compartment. The carrier may cancel the trip and return the passengers to the place of origin.(3) This section does not limit the right of a charter party carrier or excursion service carrier to prohibit the consumption of alcohol aboard the vehicle.(4) This section does not limit the right of a permit holder to seek indemnity from any person, corporation, or other entity other than the charter party carrier or excursion service carrier.(5) This section does not relieve a passenger of legal responsibility for his or her own conduct or the permit holder of legal responsibility for compliance with Title 66 RCW.(6) Any charter party carrier or excursion service carrier in violation of this section is subject to a penalty of up to five thousand dollars per violation.[ 2015 c 233 § 8.]
WA Rev Code § 81.70.390 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.70 - Passenger Charter and Excursion Carriers.|81.70.390 - Passenger smoking on board prohibited.

RCW 81.70.390 Passenger smoking on board prohibited.(1) A charter party carrier or excursion service carrier may not knowingly allow any passenger to smoke aboard a motor vehicle regulated under this chapter.(2) For the purposes of this section, "smoke" has the same meaning as defined in RCW 70.160.020.[ 2015 c 233 § 9.]
WA Rev Code § 81.72.200 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.72 - Taxicab Companies.|81.72.200 - Legislative intent.

RCW 81.72.200 Legislative intent.The legislature finds and declares that privately operated taxicab transportation service is a vital part of the transportation system within the state and provides demand-responsive services to state residents, tourists, and out-of-state business people. Consequently, the safety, reliability, and economic viability and stability of privately operated taxicab transportation service are matters of statewide importance. The regulation of privately operated taxicab transportation services is thus an essential governmental function. Therefore, it is the intent of the legislature to permit political subdivisions of the state to regulate taxicab transportation services without liability under federal antitrust laws.[ 1984 c 126 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 81.72.210 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.72 - Taxicab Companies.|81.72.210 - Local regulatory powers listed.

RCW 81.72.210 Local regulatory powers listed.To protect the public health, safety, and welfare, cities, towns, counties, and port districts of the state may license, control, and regulate privately operated taxicab transportation services operating within their respective jurisdictions. The power to regulate includes:(1) Regulating entry into the business of providing taxicab transportation services;(2) Requiring a license to be purchased as a condition of operating a taxicab and the right to revoke, cancel, or refuse to reissue a license for failure to comply with regulatory requirements;(3) Controlling the rates charged for providing taxicab transportation service and the manner in which rates are calculated and collected, including the establishment of zones as the basis for rates;(4) Regulating the routes of taxicabs, including restricting access to airports;(5) Establishing safety, equipment, and insurance requirements; and(6) Any other requirements adopted to ensure safe and reliable taxicab service.[ 1984 c 126 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 81.72.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.72 - Taxicab Companies.|81.72.220 - Cooperative agreements—Joint regulation.

RCW 81.72.220 Cooperative agreements—Joint regulation.A city, town, county, or port district may enter into cooperative agreements with any other city, town, county, or port district for the joint regulation of taxicabs. Cooperative agreements may provide for, but are not limited to, the granting, revocation, and suspension of joint taxicab licenses.[ 1984 c 126 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 81.72.240 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.72 - Taxicab Companies.|81.72.240 - Rate adjustments—Industrial insurance, other costs—Requirement to train for hire operator.

RCW 81.72.240 Rate adjustments—Industrial insurance, other costs—Requirement to train for hire operator.(1) Any city, town, county, or port district setting the rates charged for taxicab services under this chapter must adjust rates to accommodate changes in the cost of industrial insurance or in other industry-wide costs.(2) Any business that as owner leases a taxicab licensed under this chapter to a for hire operator must make a reasonable effort to train the for hire operator in motor vehicle operation and safety requirements and monitor operator compliance. Monitoring operator compliance may include the use of vehicle operator monitoring cameras.[ 2011 c 190 § 8.]NOTES:Effective date—2011 c 190: See note following RCW 51.12.185.
WA Rev Code § 81.75.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.75 - Transportation Centers.|81.75.010 - Authorization to own and operate—Purpose.

RCW 81.75.010 Authorization to own and operate—Purpose.It is desirable to a transportation system that convenient and comfortable terminals be established and maintained with the services of all modes of public transportation available to the public at such a center to the extent feasible. It is proper that cities, towns, counties, public transportation benefit area authorities, and municipal corporations of this state be authorized to own and operate transportation centers.[ 1977 ex.s. c 217 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 81.75.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.75 - Transportation Centers.|81.75.020 - Method of acquisition and operation prescribed—Grants—Consolidation of activities.

RCW 81.75.020 Method of acquisition and operation prescribed—Grants—Consolidation of activities.Through its council or other legislative body, any city, town, county, public transportation benefit area authority, or other municipal corporation, authorized to operate public transportation services, may construct or otherwise acquire intermodal transportation centers by donation, lease, or purchase and may operate or let for purposes of leasing space at fair market value for the services set forth in RCW 81.75.030, and to perform other functions permitted by law, the centers or portions of the centers, for public or private purposes or for compensation or rental upon such conditions as its council or other legislative body shall from time to time prescribe. The city, town, county, public transportation benefit area authority, or municipal corporation, may apply for and receive grants from the federal government for purposes of funding a transportation center and may consolidate a transportation center with other lawful city or town activities.[ 1977 ex.s. c 217 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 81.75.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.75 - Transportation Centers.|81.75.030 - Services available—Terms of usage.

RCW 81.75.030 Services available—Terms of usage.To the extent feasible, the services available to the public at any transportation center may include taxi, auto rental, passenger trains, motor buses, travel agents, restrooms, food, telegraph, baggage handling, transfer and delivery of light freight and packages, commercial airlines, air charter, place of temporary rest for citizens and travelers (but not overnight), mail, private auto parking for users of public transportation through the transportation center, local transit, limousine, and any other use necessary to the foregoing.Any city, town, county, public transportation benefit area authority, or municipal corporation, which elects to operate a transportation center shall operate the center for the general public good. The operator may establish the terms of usage for the various modes of transportation and for others that utilize its facilities, may make reasonable rules concerning public and private use, and may exclude all persons therefrom who refuse to comply with the terms or rules of use. The operator may own, operate, maintain, and manage a transportation center, but shall not engage in providing a transportation or other related service at the center unless otherwise authorized by law.[ 1977 ex.s. c 217 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 81.77.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.77 - Solid Waste Collection Companies.|81.77.010 - Definitions.

RCW 81.77.010 Definitions.As used in this chapter:(1) "Common carrier" means any person who collects and transports solid waste for disposal by motor vehicle for compensation, whether over regular or irregular routes, or by regular or irregular schedules;(2) "Contract carrier" means all solid waste transporters not included under the terms "common carrier" and "private carrier," as defined in this section, and further, includes any person who under special and individual contracts or agreements transports solid waste by motor vehicle for compensation;(3) When the phrase "garbage and refuse" is used as a qualifying phrase or otherwise, it means "solid waste";(4) "Motor vehicle" means any truck, trailer, semitrailer, tractor, or any self-propelled or motor-driven vehicle used upon any public highway of this state for the purpose of transporting solid waste, for the collection or disposal, or both, of solid waste;(5) "Private carrier" means a person who, in his or her own vehicle, transports solid waste purely as an incidental adjunct to some other established private business owned or operated by the person in good faith. A person who transports solid waste from residential sources in a vehicle designed or used primarily for the transport of solid waste is not a private carrier;(6) "Public highway" means every street, road, or highway in this state;(7) "Solid waste" means the same as defined under RCW 70A.205.015, except for the purposes of this chapter solid waste does not include recyclable materials except for source separated recyclable materials collected from residences;(8) "Solid waste collection" does not include collecting or transporting recyclable materials from a drop-box or recycling buy-back center, or collecting or transporting recyclable materials by or on behalf of a commercial or industrial generator of recyclable materials to a recycler for use or reclamation. Transportation of these materials is regulated under chapter 81.80 RCW;(9) "Solid waste collection company" means every person or his or her lessees, receivers, or trustees, owning, controlling, operating, or managing vehicles used in the business of transporting solid waste for collection or disposal, or both, for compensation, except septic tank pumpers, over any public highway in this state as a "common carrier" or as a "contract carrier"; and(10) "Vehicle" means every device capable of being moved upon a public highway and in, upon, or by which any solid waste is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, except devices moved by human or animal power or used exclusively upon stationary rail or tracks.[ 2020 c 20 § 1466; 2007 c 234 § 65; 1989 c 431 § 17; 1961 c 295 § 2.]NOTES:Reviser's note: The definitions in this section have been alphabetized pursuant to RCW 1.08.015(2)(k).
WA Rev Code § 81.77.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.77 - Solid Waste Collection Companies.|81.77.020 - Compliance with chapter required—Exemption for cities.

RCW 81.77.020 Compliance with chapter required—Exemption for cities.No person, his or her lessees, receivers, or trustees, shall engage in the business of operating as a solid waste collection company in this state, except in accordance with the provisions of this chapter: PROVIDED, That the provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the operations of any solid waste collection company under a contract of solid waste disposal with any city or town, nor to any city or town which itself undertakes the disposal of solid waste.[ 2013 c 23 § 307; 1989 c 431 § 18; 1961 c 295 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 81.77.0201 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.77 - Solid Waste Collection Companies.|81.77.0201 - Jurisdiction of commission upon discontinuation of jurisdiction by municipality.

RCW 81.77.0201 Jurisdiction of commission upon discontinuation of jurisdiction by municipality.A city, town, or combined city-county may at any time reverse its decision to exercise its authority under RCW 81.77.020. In such an event, the commission shall issue a certificate to the last holder of a valid commission certificate of public convenience and necessity, or its successors or assigns, for the area reverting to commission jurisdiction. If there was no certificate existing for the area, or the previous holder was compensated for its certificate property right, the commission shall consider applications for authority under RCW 81.77.040.[ 1997 c 171 § 4.]NOTES:Severability—1997 c 171: See note following RCW 35.02.160.
WA Rev Code § 81.77.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.77 - Solid Waste Collection Companies.|81.77.030 - Supervision and regulation by commission.

RCW 81.77.030 Supervision and regulation by commission.The commission shall supervise and regulate every solid waste collection company in this state,(1) By fixing and altering its rates, charges, classifications, rules and regulations;(2) By regulating the accounts, service, and safety of operations;(3) By requiring the filing of annual and other reports and data;(4) By supervising and regulating such persons or companies in all other matters affecting the relationship between them and the public which they serve;(5) By requiring compliance with local solid waste management plans and related implementation ordinances;(6) By requiring certificate holders under chapter 81.77 RCW to use rate structures and billing systems consistent with the solid waste management priorities set forth under RCW 70A.205.005 and the minimum levels of solid waste collection and recycling services pursuant to local comprehensive solid waste management plans. The commission may order consolidated billing and provide for reasonable and necessary expenses to be paid to the administering company if more than one certificate is granted in an area.The commission, on complaint made on its own motion or by an aggrieved party, at any time, after providing the holder of any certificate with notice and an opportunity for a hearing at which it shall be proven that the holder has willfully violated or refused to observe any of the commission's orders, rules, or regulations, or has failed to operate as a solid waste collection company for a period of at least one year preceding the filing of the complaint, may suspend, revoke, alter, or amend any certificate issued under the provisions of this chapter.[ 2020 c 20 § 1467; 2005 c 121 § 5; 1989 c 431 § 20; 1987 c 239 § 1; 1965 ex.s. c 105 § 1; 1961 c 295 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 81.77.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.77 - Solid Waste Collection Companies.|81.77.050 - Filing fees.

RCW 81.77.050 Filing fees.Any application for a certificate issued under this chapter or amendment thereof, or application to sell, lease, mortgage, or transfer a certificate issued under this chapter or any interest therein, shall be accompanied by such filing fee as the commission may prescribe by rule: PROVIDED, That such fee shall not exceed two hundred dollars.[ 1989 c 431 § 22; 1973 c 115 § 9; 1961 c 295 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 81.77.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 81 - Transportation|Chapter 81.77 - Solid Waste Collection Companies.|81.77.060 - Liability and property damage insurance—Surety bond.

RCW 81.77.060 Liability and property damage insurance—Surety bond.The commission, in granting certificates to operate a solid waste collection company, shall require the owner or operator to first procure liability and property damage insurance from a company licensed to make liability insurance in the state or a surety bond of a company licensed to write surety bonds in the state, on each motor propelled vehicle used or to be used in transporting solid waste for compensation in the amount of not less than twenty-five thousand dollars for any recovery for personal injury by one person, and not less than ten thousand dollars and in such additional amount as the commission shall determine, for all persons receiving personal injury by reason of one act of negligence, and not less than ten thousand dollars for damage to property of any person other than the assured, and to maintain such liability and property damage insurance or surety bond in force on each motor propelled vehicle while so used. Each policy for liability or property damage insurance or surety bond required herein shall be filed with the commission and kept in full force and effect and failure so to do shall be cause for revocation of the delinquent's certificate.[ 1989 c 431 § 23; 1961 c 295 § 7.]