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WA Rev Code § 39.106.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.106 - Joint Municipal Utility Services.|39.106.020 - Definitions.

RCW 39.106.020 Definitions.The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Agreement" means a joint municipal utility services agreement, among members, that forms an authority, as more fully described in this chapter.(2) "Authority" means a joint municipal utility services authority formed under this chapter.(3) "Board of directors" or "board" means the board of directors of an authority.(4) "Member" means a city, town, county, water-sewer district, public utility district, other special purpose district, municipal corporation, or other unit of local government of this or another state that provides utility services, and any Indian tribe recognized as such by the United States government, that is a party to an agreement forming an authority.(5) "Utility services," for purposes of this chapter, means any or all of the following functions: The provision of retail or wholesale water supply and water conservation services; the provision of wastewater, sewage, or septage collection, handling, treatment, transmission, or disposal services; the provision of point and nonpoint water pollution monitoring programs; the provision for the generation, production, storage, distribution, use, or management of reclaimed water; and the management and handling of stormwater, surface water, drainage, and flood waters.[ 2011 c 258 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 39.106.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.106 - Joint Municipal Utility Services.|39.106.030 - Formation of authorities—Characteristics—Substantive powers.

RCW 39.106.030 Formation of authorities—Characteristics—Substantive powers.(1) An authority may be formed by two or more members pursuant to this chapter by execution of a joint municipal utility services agreement that materially complies with the requirements of RCW 39.106.050. Except as otherwise provided in RCW 39.106.080, at the time of execution of an agreement each member must be providing the type of utility service or services that will be provided by the authority. The agreement must be approved by the legislative authority of each of the members. The agreement must be filed with the Washington state secretary of state, who must provide a certificate of filing with respect to any authority. An authority shall be deemed to have been formed as of the date of that filing. The formation and activities of an authority, and the admission or withdrawal of members, are not subject to review by any boundary review board. Any amendments to an agreement must be filed with the Washington state secretary of state, and will become effective on the date of filing.(2) An authority is a municipal corporation. Subject to RCW 39.106.040(3), the provisions of a joint municipal utility services agreement, and any limitations imposed pursuant to RCW 39.106.050: (a) An authority may perform or provide any or all of the utility service or services that all of its members, other than tribal government members, perform or provide under applicable law; and (b) in performing or providing those utility services, an authority may exercise any or all of the powers described in RCW 39.106.040(1).(3) An authority shall be entitled to all the immunities and exemptions that are available to local governmental entities under applicable law, including without limitation the provisions of chapter 4.96 RCW. Notwithstanding this subsection (3), if all of an authority's members are the same type of Washington local government entity, then the immunities and exemptions available to that type of entity shall govern.(4) Nothing in this chapter shall diminish a member's powers in connection with its provision or management of utility services, or its taxing power with respect to those services, nor does this chapter diminish in any way the authority of local governments to enter into agreements under chapter 39.34 RCW or other applicable law.(5) Nothing in this chapter shall impair or diminish a valid water right, including rights established under state law and rights established under federal law.[ 2011 c 258 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 39.106.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.106 - Joint Municipal Utility Services.|39.106.060 - Authority of members to assist authority and to transfer funds, property, and other assets.

RCW 39.106.060 Authority of members to assist authority and to transfer funds, property, and other assets.For the purpose of assisting the authority in providing utility services, the members of an authority are authorized, with or without payment or other consideration and without submitting the matter to the electors of those members, to lease, convey, transfer, assign, or otherwise make available to an authority any money, real or personal property or property rights, other assets including licenses, water rights (subject to applicable law), other property (whether held by a member's utility or by a member's general government), or franchises or rights thereunder.[ 2011 c 258 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 39.106.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.106 - Joint Municipal Utility Services.|39.106.070 - Tax exemptions and preferences.

RCW 39.106.070 Tax exemptions and preferences.(1) As a municipal corporation, the property of an authority is exempt from taxation.(2) An authority is entitled to all of the exemptions from or preferences with respect to taxes that are available to any or all of its members, other than a tribal member, in connection with the provision or management of utility services.[ 2011 c 258 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 39.106.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.106 - Joint Municipal Utility Services.|39.106.080 - Conversion of existing entities into authorities.

RCW 39.106.080 Conversion of existing entities into authorities.(1) Any intergovernmental entity formed under chapter 39.34 RCW or other applicable law may become a joint municipal utility services authority and be entitled to all the powers and privileges available under this chapter, if: (a) The public agencies that are parties to an existing interlocal agreement would otherwise be eligible to form an authority to provide the relevant utility services; (b) the public agencies that are parties to the existing interlocal agreement amend, restate, or replace that interlocal agreement so that it materially complies with the requirements of RCW 39.106.050; (c) the amended, restated, or replacement agreement is filed with the Washington state secretary of state consistent with RCW 39.106.030; and (d) the amended, restated, or replacement agreement expressly provides that all rights and obligations of the entity formerly existing under chapter 39.34 RCW or other applicable law shall thereafter be the obligations of the new authority created under this chapter. Upon compliance with those requirements, the new authority shall be a successor of the former intergovernmental entity for all purposes, and all rights and obligations of the former entity shall transfer to the new authority. Those obligations shall be treated as having been incurred, entered into, or issued by the new authority, and those obligations shall remain in full force and effect and shall continue to be enforceable in accordance with their terms.(2) If an interlocal agreement under chapter 39.34 RCW or other applicable law relating to utility services includes among its original participants a city or county that does not itself provide or no longer provides utility services, that city or county may continue as a party to the amended, restated, or replacement agreement and shall be treated as a member for all purposes under this chapter.[ 2011 c 258 § 8.]
WA Rev Code § 39.106.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.106 - Joint Municipal Utility Services.|39.106.090 - Powers conferred by chapter are supplemental.

RCW 39.106.090 Powers conferred by chapter are supplemental.The powers and authority conferred by this chapter shall be construed as in addition and supplemental to powers or authority conferred by any other law, and nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as limiting any other powers or authority of any member or any other entity formed under chapter 39.34 RCW or other applicable law.[ 2011 c 258 § 9.]
WA Rev Code § 39.108.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.108 - Local Infrastructure Project Areas.|39.108.030 - Designation of sending areas—Inclusion of agricultural and forestland of long-term commercial significance.

RCW 39.108.030 Designation of sending areas—Inclusion of agricultural and forestland of long-term commercial significance.An eligible county must designate all agricultural and forestland of long-term commercial significance within its jurisdiction as sending areas for conservation under the eligible county's program for transfer of development rights. The development rights from all such agricultural and forestland of long-term commercial significance within the eligible counties must be available for transfer to receiving cities under this chapter.[ 2011 c 318 § 301.]NOTES:Rules—2011 c 318: See note following RCW 39.108.005.
WA Rev Code § 39.108.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.108 - Local Infrastructure Project Areas.|39.108.040 - Development rights from agricultural and forestland of long-term commercial significance.

RCW 39.108.040 Development rights from agricultural and forestland of long-term commercial significance.(1) An eligible county must calculate the number of development rights from agricultural and forestland of long-term commercial significance that are eligible for transfer to receiving areas. An eligible county must determine transferable development rights for allocation purposes in this program by:(a) Base zoning in effect as of January 1, 2011; or(b) An allocation other than base zoning as reflected by an eligible county's transfer of development rights program or an interlocal agreement with a receiving city in effect as of January 1, 2011.(2) The number of transferable development rights includes the development rights from agricultural and forestlands of long-term commercial significance that have been previously issued under the eligible county's program for transfer of development rights, but that have not as yet been utilized to increase density or intensity in a development as of January 1, 2011.(3) The number of transferable development rights does not include development rights from agricultural and forestlands of long-term commercial significance that have previously been removed or extinguished, such as through an existing conservation easement or mitigation or habitat restoration plan, except when consistent with subsection (2) of this section.[ 2011 c 318 § 302.]NOTES:Rules—2011 c 318: See note following RCW 39.108.005.
WA Rev Code § 39.108.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.108 - Local Infrastructure Project Areas.|39.108.050 - Designation of sending areas—Inclusion of rural zoned lands under certain circumstances.

RCW 39.108.050 Designation of sending areas—Inclusion of rural zoned lands under certain circumstances.(1) Subject to the requirements of this section, an eligible county may designate a portion of its rural zoned lands as sending areas for conservation under the eligible county's program for transfer of development rights available for transfer to receiving cities under this chapter.(2) An eligible county may designate rural zoned lands as available for transfer to receiving cities under this chapter only if, and at such time as, fifty percent or more of the total acreage of land classified as agricultural and forestland of long-term commercial significance in the county, as of January 1, 2011, has been protected through either a permanent conservation easement, ownership in fee by the county for land protection or conservation purposes, or ownership in fee by a nongovernmental land conservation organization.(3) To be designated as available for transfer to receiving cities under this chapter, rural zoned lands must either:(a) Be identified by the county as top conservation priorities because they:(i) Provide ecological effectiveness in achieving water resource inventory area goals;(ii) Provide contiguous habitat protection, are adjacent to already protected habitat areas, or improve ecological function;(iii) Are of sufficient size and location in the landscape to yield strategic growth management benefits;(iv) Provide improved access for regional recreational opportunity;(v) Prevent forest fragmentation or are appropriate for forest management;(vi) Provide flood protection or reduce flood risk; or(vii) Have other attributes that meet natural resource preservation program priorities; or(b) Be identified by the state or in regional conservation plans as highly important to the water quality of Puget Sound.(4) The portion of rural zoned lands in an eligible county designated as sending areas for conservation under the eligible county's program for transfer of development rights available for transfer to receiving cities under this chapter must not exceed one thousand five hundred development rights.[ 2011 c 318 § 303.]NOTES:Rules—2011 c 318: See note following RCW 39.108.005.
WA Rev Code § 39.108.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.108 - Local Infrastructure Project Areas.|39.108.060 - Determination of total number of transferable development rights for agricultural and forestland of long-term commercial significance and designated rural zoned lands.

RCW 39.108.060 Determination of total number of transferable development rights for agricultural and forestland of long-term commercial significance and designated rural zoned lands.On or before September 1, 2011, each eligible county must report to the Puget Sound regional council the total number of transferable development rights from agricultural and forestland of long-term commercial significance and designated rural zoned lands within the eligible county that may be available for allocation to receiving cities under this chapter, as determined under RCW 39.108.040 and 39.108.050.[ 2011 c 318 § 304.]NOTES:Rules—2011 c 318: See note following RCW 39.108.005.
WA Rev Code § 39.108.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.108 - Local Infrastructure Project Areas.|39.108.070 - Allocation among local governments of transferable development rights from agricultural and forestland of long-term commercial significance and designated rural zoned lands.

RCW 39.108.070 Allocation among local governments of transferable development rights from agricultural and forestland of long-term commercial significance and designated rural zoned lands.(1) The Puget Sound regional council must allocate among receiving cities the total number of development rights reported by eligible counties under RCW 39.108.060. Each receiving city allocated share must be determined by the Puget Sound regional council, in consultation with eligible counties and receiving cities, based on growth targets, determined by established growth management processes, and other relevant factors as determined by the Puget Sound regional council in conjunction with the counties and receiving cities.(2) The Puget Sound regional council must report to each receiving city its receiving city allocated share on or before March 1, 2012.(3) The Puget Sound regional council must report each receiving city allocated share to the department of commerce on or before March 1, 2012.(4) A receiving city may become a sponsoring city by accepting all or a portion of its receiving city allocated share, adopting a plan in accordance with RCW 39.108.080, and creating one or more local infrastructure project areas to pay or finance costs of public improvements.(5) A receiving city may, by interlocal agreement, transfer all or a portion of its receiving city allocated share to another sponsoring city. The transferred portion of the receiving city allocated share must be included in the other sponsoring city allocated share.[ 2011 c 318 § 305.]NOTES:Rules—2011 c 318: See note following RCW 39.108.005.
WA Rev Code § 39.108.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.108 - Local Infrastructure Project Areas.|39.108.080 - Development plan for infrastructure.

RCW 39.108.080 Development plan for infrastructure.(1) Before adopting an ordinance or resolution creating one or more local infrastructure project areas, a sponsoring city must adopt a plan for development of public infrastructure within one or more proposed local infrastructure project areas sufficient to utilize, on an aggregate basis, a sponsoring city specified portion that is equal to or greater than twenty percent of the sponsoring city allocated share.(2) The plan must be developed in consultation with the department of transportation and the county where the local infrastructure project area to be created is located, be consistent with any transfer of development rights policies or development regulations adopted by the sponsoring city under RCW 39.108.090, specify the public improvements to be financed using local infrastructure project financing under RCW 39.108.120, estimate the number of any transferable development rights that will be used within the local infrastructure project area or areas and estimate the cost of the public improvements.(3) A plan adopted under this section may be revised from time to time by the sponsoring city, in consultation with the county where the local infrastructure project area or areas are located, to increase the sponsoring city specified portion.[ 2011 c 318 § 401.]NOTES:Rules—2011 c 318: See note following RCW 39.108.005.
WA Rev Code § 39.108.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.108 - Local Infrastructure Project Areas.|39.108.100 - Development rights available for transfer to receiving cities.

RCW 39.108.100 Development rights available for transfer to receiving cities.Only development rights from agricultural and forestland of long-term commercial significance within the eligible counties as determined under RCW 39.108.040, and rural-zoned lands with the eligible counties designated under RCW 39.108.050, may be available for transfer to receiving cities in accordance with this chapter.[ 2011 c 318 § 403.]NOTES:Rules—2011 c 318: See note following RCW 39.108.005.
WA Rev Code § 39.108.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.108 - Local Infrastructure Project Areas.|39.108.120 - Creating a local infrastructure project area.

RCW 39.108.120 Creating a local infrastructure project area.(1) Before adopting an ordinance or resolution creating one or more local infrastructure project areas, a sponsoring city must:(a) Provide notice to the county assessor, county treasurer, and county within the proposed local infrastructure project area of the sponsoring city's intent to create one or more local infrastructure project areas. This notice must be provided at least one hundred eighty days in advance of the public hearing as required by (b) of this subsection;(b) Hold a public hearing on the proposed formation of the local infrastructure project area.(2) A sponsoring city may create one or more local infrastructure project areas by ordinance or resolution that:(a) Describes the proposed public improvements, identified in the plan under RCW 39.108.080, to be financed in each local infrastructure project area;(b) Describes the boundaries of each local infrastructure project area, subject to the limitations in RCW 39.108.130; and(c) Provides the date when the use of local property tax allocation revenues will commence and a list of the participating taxing districts.(3) The sponsoring city must deliver a certified copy of the adopted ordinance or resolution to the county assessor, county treasurer, and each other participating taxing district within which the local infrastructure project area is located.[ 2011 c 318 § 601.]NOTES:Rules—2011 c 318: See note following RCW 39.108.005.
WA Rev Code § 39.108.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.108 - Local Infrastructure Project Areas.|39.108.130 - Limitations on local infrastructure project areas.

RCW 39.108.130 Limitations on local infrastructure project areas.The designation of any local infrastructure project area is subject to the following limitations:(1) A local infrastructure project area is limited to contiguous tracts, lots, pieces, or parcels of land without the creation of islands of territory not included in the local infrastructure project area;(2) The public improvements to be financed with local infrastructure project financing must be located in the local infrastructure project area and must, in the determination of the sponsoring city, further the intent of this chapter;(3) Local infrastructure project areas created by a sponsoring city may not comprise an area containing more than twenty-five percent of the total assessed value of taxable property within the sponsoring city at the time the local infrastructure project areas are created;(4) The boundaries of each local infrastructure project area may not overlap and may not be changed during the time period that local infrastructure project financing is used within the local infrastructure project area, as provided under this chapter; and(5) All local infrastructure project areas created by the sponsoring city must comprise, in the aggregate, an area that the sponsoring city determines (a) is sufficient to use the sponsoring city specified portion, unless the sponsoring city satisfies its sponsoring city allocated share under RCW 39.108.090(1)(b)(ii), and (b) is no larger than reasonably necessary to use the sponsoring city specified portion in projected future developments.[ 2011 c 318 § 602.]NOTES:Rules—2011 c 318: See note following RCW 39.108.005.
WA Rev Code § 39.108.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.108 - Local Infrastructure Project Areas.|39.108.140 - Participating taxing districts.

RCW 39.108.140 Participating taxing districts.Participating taxing districts must allow the use of all of their local property tax allocation revenues for local infrastructure project financing.[ 2011 c 318 § 603.]NOTES:Rules—2011 c 318: See note following RCW 39.108.005.