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WA Rev Code § 53.25.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.25 - Industrial Development Districts—Marginal Lands.|53.25.090 - Conditions precedent to making improvements.

RCW 53.25.090 Conditions precedent to making improvements.No expenditure for improvement of property in an industrial development district, other than the expense of preparing and submitting a plan of improvement shall be made by a port district, and no property shall be acquired by it therefor except as provided for hereinbefore until it has been made a part of the comprehensive scheme of harbor improvements and industrial developments or amendments thereto.That said comprehensive scheme or amendments thereto shall provide for the development or redevelopment of those marginal lands acquired and a provision for the continuing of the land uses which are hereby declared to constitute public uses and the purposes for which public moneys may be advanced and provide property acquired.[ 1955 c 73 § 9. Prior: 1939 c 45 § 5; RRS § 9709-5; RCW 53.24.060.]
WA Rev Code § 53.25.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.25 - Industrial Development Districts—Marginal Lands.|53.25.100 - Powers as to industrial development districts.

RCW 53.25.100 Powers as to industrial development districts.All port districts wherein industrial development districts have been established are authorized and empowered to acquire by purchase or condemnation or both, all lands, property and property rights necessary for the purpose of the development and improvement of such industrial development district and to exercise the right of eminent domain in the acquirement or damaging of all lands, property and property rights and the levying and collecting of assessments upon property for the payment of all damages and compensation in carrying out the provisions for which said industrial development district has been created; to develop and improve the lands within such industrial development district to make the same suitable and available for industrial uses and purposes; to dredge, bulkhead, fill, grade, and protect such property; to provide, maintain, and operate water, light, power and fire protection facilities and services, streets, roads, bridges, highways, waterways, tracks, and rail and water transfer and terminal facilities and other harbor and industrial improvements; to execute leases of such lands or property or any part thereof; to establish local improvement districts within such industrial development districts which may, but need not, be coextensive with the boundaries thereof, and to levy special assessments, under the mode of annual installments, over a period not exceeding ten years, on all property specially benefited by any local improvement, on the basis of special benefits, to pay in whole or in part the damages or costs of any improvement ordered in such local improvement district; to issue local improvement bonds in any such local improvement district; to be repaid by the collection of local improvement assessments; and generally to exercise with respect to and within such industrial development districts all the powers now or hereafter conferred by law upon port districts in counties with a population of one hundred twenty-five thousand or more: PROVIDED, That the exercise of powers hereby authorized and granted shall be in the manner now and hereafter provided by the laws of the state for the exercise of such powers by port districts under the general laws relating thereto insofar as the same shall not be inconsistent with this chapter.[ 1991 c 363 § 132; 1955 c 73 § 10. Prior: 1939 c 45 § 6; RRS § 9709-6; RCW 53.24.070.]NOTES:Purpose—Captions not law—1991 c 363: See notes following RCW 2.32.180.Eminent domain: State Constitution Art. 1 § 16 (Amendment 9); Title 8 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 53.25.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.25 - Industrial Development Districts—Marginal Lands.|53.25.110 - Sale authorized in industrial development district.

RCW 53.25.110 Sale authorized in industrial development district.When a port commission deems it for the best interests of the district and the people thereof and in furtherance of its general plan of harbor improvement, or industrial development, or both, it may sell and convey any property or part thereof owned by it within an industrial district. This section shall not be limited by chapter 53.08 RCW, pertaining to powers of port districts.[ 1955 c 73 § 11. Prior: 1939 c 45 § 9; RRS § 9709-9; RCW 53.28.010.]NOTES:Harbor improvement plan: RCW 53.20.010.
WA Rev Code § 53.25.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.25 - Industrial Development Districts—Marginal Lands.|53.25.120 - Notice of hearing on sale—Hearing—Plans and specifications—Conditions—Devotion of property to public use.

RCW 53.25.120 Notice of hearing on sale—Hearing—Plans and specifications—Conditions—Devotion of property to public use.The port commission shall give notice of the proposed sale by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, and by posting in three public places in the port district at least ten days before the date fixed for the hearing thereon.The notice shall describe the property to be sold and state that at the time and place specified therein, the commission will meet at its usual meeting place, designating it, to hear and determine the advisability of the sale.The hearing shall be held not more than twenty days from the publication of notice. At the hearing the commission shall hear the reasons of any taxpayer in the port district, for or against the sale.No sales shall be made, however, of the property of any industrial development district until the purchaser thereof shall have submitted to the port commission plans and specifications for the development of the property, and the plans and specifications shall be approved in writing before the property shall be conveyed, and the conditions upon which the properties are conveyed shall be set forth in the instrument conveying title thereof with the further condition that all of the conditions set forth shall be covenants running with the land. All properties acquired in the manner herein set forth shall be devoted to the public use herein provided for.[ 1985 c 469 § 54; 1963 c 138 § 1; 1955 c 73 § 12. Prior: 1939 c 45 § 10; RRS § 9709-10; RCW 53.28.020.]NOTES:Validating—1963 c 138: "All sales made prior to the effective date of this amendatory act which are otherwise valid except for compliance with the limitation in section 12, chapter 73, Laws of 1955, which provided that the hearing shall be held not more than ten days from the publication of notice, are hereby ratified and validated.All sales made prior to the effective date of this amendatory act under the provisions of section 18, chapter 73, Laws of 1955 and RCW 53.25.180 are hereby ratified and validated." [ 1963 c 138 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 53.25.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.25 - Industrial Development Districts—Marginal Lands.|53.25.130 - Findings and determination—Record—Appeal.

RCW 53.25.130 Findings and determination—Record—Appeal.Within three days after the hearing the commission shall make its findings and determination on the advisability of making the sale and enter its determination in its records. Any aggrieved party may appeal the determination of the commission by filing appeal with the superior court of the county in which the district is located within twenty days of the entry of the determination but no appeal shall be allowed except on the grounds that the action of the commission was arbitrary, capricious, or unlawful.[ 1955 c 73 § 13. Prior: 1939 c 45 § 11; RRS § 9709-11; RCW 53.28.030.]
WA Rev Code § 53.25.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.25 - Industrial Development Districts—Marginal Lands.|53.25.140 - Action on determination—Sale by competitive bid or negotiation.

RCW 53.25.140 Action on determination—Sale by competitive bid or negotiation.If the determination is against the sale, all proceedings thereon shall terminate. If the commission determines in favor of the sale by at least a two-thirds vote of the full commission, it shall in its discretion, either enter an order fixing a period, not less than twenty nor more than thirty days from the date of the order, during which bids will be received for the property or any part thereof, and give notice thereof in the same manner as for the hearing on the proposal to sell or negotiate the sale with an appropriate purchaser, provided that in any such negotiated sale the purchase price must not be less than the fair market value of the property which shall be determined by an average of at least two independent appraisals performed by licensed real estate brokers or professionally designated real estate appraisers as defined in *RCW 74.46.020. Whether the property is sold by competitive bidding or negotiation, other real property conveyed by the purchaser to the commission may constitute all or a portion of the consideration for the sale.[ 1984 c 195 § 1; 1955 c 73 § 14. Prior: 1939 c 45 § 12; RRS § 9709-12; RCW 53.28.040.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: RCW 74.46.020 was amended by 2010 1st sp.s. c 34 § 2, deleting the definition of "professionally designated real estate appraiser."
WA Rev Code § 53.25.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.25 - Industrial Development Districts—Marginal Lands.|53.25.150 - Competitive bids—Conditions—Acceptance.

RCW 53.25.150 Competitive bids—Conditions—Acceptance.If the commission chooses to sell the property through competitive bidding under RCW 53.25.140:(1) Bids may be submitted for the property or any part of it, shall state the use which the bidder intends to make of it, and the commission may require the successful bidder to file additional information as to the intended use, and may require of him or her security as assurance that the property will be used for that purpose;(2) All sales shall be made to the best bidder, and in determining the best bid, the commission may also consider the nature of the proposed use and the relation thereof to the improvement of the harbor and the business and facilities thereof;(3) Within thirty days after the last day for submitting bids, the commission shall decide which if any bids it accepts. All sales shall be made upon such terms and conditions as the commission may prescribe.[ 2010 c 8 § 16007; 1984 c 195 § 2; 1955 c 73 § 15. Prior: 1939 c 45 § 13, part; RRS § 9709-13, part; RCW 53.28.050.]
WA Rev Code § 53.25.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.25 - Industrial Development Districts—Marginal Lands.|53.25.160 - Devotion of property to intended use—Remedy—Restraint on alienation.

RCW 53.25.160 Devotion of property to intended use—Remedy—Restraint on alienation.The purchaser shall, within one year from the date of purchase, devote the property to its intended use, or shall commence work on the improvements thereon to devote it to such use, and if he or she fails to do so, the port commission may cancel the sale and return the money paid on the purchase price, and title to the property shall revert to the district. This remedy shall be in addition to any other remedy under the terms of the sale. No purchaser shall transfer title to such property within one year from the date of purchase.[ 2010 c 8 § 16008; 1955 c 73 § 16. Prior: 1939 c 45 § 13, part; RRS § 9709-13, part; RCW 53.28.060.]
WA Rev Code § 53.25.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.25 - Industrial Development Districts—Marginal Lands.|53.25.170 - Covenant running with the land—Forfeiture.

RCW 53.25.170 Covenant running with the land—Forfeiture.All sales made in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall have incorporated in the instrument of conveyance of title the conditions of this chapter relating to the use of the land as a covenant running with the land. Any violation of such covenant shall result in a right by the commission, as grantee, to forfeit the land.[ 1955 c 73 § 17.]
WA Rev Code § 53.25.190 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.25 - Industrial Development Districts—Marginal Lands.|53.25.190 - Eminent domain.

RCW 53.25.190 Eminent domain.All port districts of the state of Washington which have created or may hereafter create industrial development districts in the manner provided by law, in addition to all powers possessed by such port districts, be and are hereby granted power of eminent domain to acquire real property within the limits of such industrial development district which property is marginal lands as the term is herein defined. The exercise of the power granted in this section shall be exercised in the same manner and by the same procedure as in or may be provided by law for cities of the first class except insofar as such duties may be inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter and the duties devolving upon the city treasurer under said law be and the same are hereby imposed upon the county treasurer for the purposes of this chapter.[ 1955 c 73 § 19.]NOTES:Eminent domain: State Constitution Art. 1 § 16 (Amendment 9).Eminent domain by cities: Chapter 8.12 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 53.25.200 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.25 - Industrial Development Districts—Marginal Lands.|53.25.200 - Advances of general fund moneys or credit.

RCW 53.25.200 Advances of general fund moneys or credit.Port districts are hereby granted the power to advance their general fund moneys or credit, or both, without interest to accomplish the objects and purposes of this chapter, which fund shall be repaid from the sale or lease, or both, of such developed or redeveloped lands, provided, if the money advanced for such development or redevelopment was obtained from the sale of general obligation bonds of the port, then such advances shall bear the same rate of interest that said bonds bore.[ 1955 c 73 § 20.]
WA Rev Code § 53.25.210 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.25 - Industrial Development Districts—Marginal Lands.|53.25.210 - Determination that land sought by eminent domain is marginal.

RCW 53.25.210 Determination that land sought by eminent domain is marginal.The determination that property sought by eminent domain proceedings is marginal lands as herein defined is a judicial question, provided that a duly adopted resolution of the commissioners of the port district that the property sought is marginal lands as the term is herein defined, setting forth the characteristics of the lands sought to be acquired which constitutes the marginal lands as herein defined, shall be prima facie evidence that such land is marginal lands as defined in this chapter.[ 1955 c 73 § 21.]
WA Rev Code § 53.25.900 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.25 - Industrial Development Districts—Marginal Lands.|53.25.900 - Repeal and saving.

RCW 53.25.900 Repeal and saving.Chapter 53.24 RCW and chapter 53.28 RCW and chapter 45, Laws of 1939, as last amended by section 1, chapter 166, Laws of 1943 are repealed: PROVIDED, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as affecting any existing right acquired under the provisions of said act.[ 1955 c 73 § 22.]
WA Rev Code § 53.29.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.29 - Trade Center Act.|53.29.010 - Declaration of purpose.

RCW 53.29.010 Declaration of purpose.It is declared to be the finding of the legislature of the state of Washington that:(1) The servicing functions and activities connected with the oceanborne and overseas airborne trade and commerce of port districts, including customs clearance, shipping negotiations, cargo routing, freight forwarding, financing, insurance arrangements and other similar transactions which are presently performed in various, scattered physical and electronic locations in the districts should be centralized to provide for more efficient and economical transportation of persons and more efficient and economical physical or electronic facilities and services for the exchange and buying, selling and transportation of commodities and other property in world trade and commerce;(2) Unification, at a single, centrally located physical or electronic site of a facility of commerce, i.e., a trade center, accommodating the functions and activities described in subsection (1) of this section and the appropriate governmental, administrative and other services connected with or incidental to transportation and security of persons and property and the promotion and protection of port commerce, and providing a central locale for exhibiting, and otherwise promoting the exchange and buying and selling of commodities and property in world trade and commerce, will materially assist in preserving the material and other benefits of a prosperous port community;(3) The undertaking of the aforesaid unified trade center project by a port district or the Washington public ports association has the single object of preserving, and will aid in the promotion, security, and preservation of, the economic well-being of port districts and the state of Washington and is found and determined to be a public purpose.[ 2002 c 145 § 1; 1989 c 425 § 5; 1967 c 56 § 1.]NOTES:Findings—Severability—1989 c 425: See notes following RCW 53.06.070.
WA Rev Code § 53.29.015 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.29 - Trade Center Act.|53.29.015 - Definitions.

RCW 53.29.015 Definitions.The definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 53.29.020 and 53.29.030 unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Person" has the same meaning as defined in the electronic signatures in global and national commerce act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 7006 (8)) in effect on June 13, 2002.(2) "Transaction" has the same meaning as defined in the electronic signatures in global and national commerce act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 7006 (13)) in effect on June 13, 2002. However, "transaction" also includes actions relating to governmental affairs.[ 2002 c 145 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 53.29.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.29 - Trade Center Act.|53.29.020 - Power to establish trade centers—Facilities authorized.

RCW 53.29.020 Power to establish trade centers—Facilities authorized.In addition to all other powers granted to port districts, any such district, the Washington public ports association, or the federation of Washington ports as described in RCW 53.06.070 may acquire, as provided for other port properties in RCW 53.08.010, construct, develop, operate and maintain all land or other property interests, buildings, structures or other improvements, and may participate in transactions necessary to provide, electronically or otherwise, facilities or to exercise powers or purposes of a trade center including but not limited to the following electronic or physical facilities:(1) A facility consisting of one or more structures, improvements and areas for the centralized accommodation of public and private agencies, persons and facilities in order to afford improved service to waterborne and airborne import and export trade and commerce;(2) Facilities for the promotion of such import and export trade and commerce, inspection, testing, display and appraisal facilities, foreign trade zones, terminal and transportation facilities, office meeting rooms, auditoriums, libraries, language translation services, storage, warehouse, marketing and exhibition facilities, facilities for federal, state, county and other municipal and governmental agencies providing services relating to the foregoing and including, but not being limited to, customs houses and customs stores, and other incidental facilities and accommodations.[ 2002 c 145 § 2; 1989 c 425 § 6; 1967 c 56 § 2.]NOTES:Findings—Severability—1989 c 425: See notes following RCW 53.06.070.
WA Rev Code § 53.29.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.29 - Trade Center Act.|53.29.030 - Cooperation with other entities—Annual service fee for support of local government.

RCW 53.29.030 Cooperation with other entities—Annual service fee for support of local government.(1) In carrying out the powers authorized by this chapter and chapter 53.06 RCW, port districts and the Washington public ports association are authorized to cooperate, act, and invest jointly with other public and private agencies and persons, including, but not limited to, the federal government, the state, other ports and municipal corporations, other states and their political subdivisions, and private nonprofit trade promotion groups and associate development organizations.(2) Port districts operating trade center buildings or operating association or federation trade centers, shall pay an annual service fee to the county treasurer wherein the center is located for municipal services rendered to the trade center building. The measure of such service fee shall be equal to three percent of the gross rentals received from the nongovernmental tenants of such trade center building. Such proceeds shall be distributed by the county treasurer as follows: Forty percent to the school district, forty percent to the city, and twenty percent to the county wherein the center is located: PROVIDED, That if the center is located in an unincorporated area, twenty percent shall be allocated to the fire district, forty percent to the school district, and forty percent to the county.[ 2002 c 145 § 3; 1989 c 425 § 7; 1967 c 56 § 3.]NOTES:Findings—Severability—1989 c 425: See notes following RCW 53.06.070.
WA Rev Code § 53.29.900 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.29 - Trade Center Act.|53.29.900 - Short title—Liberal construction—Powers cumulative.

RCW 53.29.900 Short title—Liberal construction—Powers cumulative.This chapter, which may be known and cited as the "Trade Center Act", shall be liberally construed, its purpose being to provide port districts, and their related association and federation, with additional powers to provide trade centers and to promote and encourage trade, tourism, travel, and economic development in a coordinated and efficient manner through the ports of the state of Washington. The powers herein granted shall be in addition to all others granted to port districts.[ 1989 c 425 § 8; 1967 c 56 § 4.]NOTES:Findings—Severability—1989 c 425: See notes following RCW 53.06.070.