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WA Rev Code § 53.57.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.57 - Port Development Authority.|53.57.030 - Governance—Organization—Management authority.

RCW 53.57.030 Governance—Organization—Management authority.(1) The affairs, operations, and funds of a port development authority must be governed by the port district or districts that created the port development authority. Each port district governing the port development authority must oversee the affairs, operations, and funds of the port development authority exclusively through the elected port commission of the port district. If the port development authority is jointly created by more than one port district under RCW 53.57.020, then the port development authority must be managed by each port district as a member of the port development authority, in accordance with the terms of this section and the charter for the port development authority. Each port district member shall act in such capacity through its own elected commissioners.(2) Any port district that creates a port development authority under RCW 53.57.020 must provide for the organization and operation of the port development authority, oversee the affairs, operations, and funds of the port development authority in order to correct any deficiency, and ensure that the purposes of each program undertaken are reasonably accomplished.(3) A port development authority, in managing maritime activities of a port district or districts under this chapter, may:(a) Own and sell real and personal property;(b) Contract with individuals, associations, corporations, the state, and the United States;(c) Sue and be sued;(d) Loan and borrow funds;(e) Issue bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebtedness;(f) Transfer funds, real or personal property, property interests, or services; and(g) Perform community services related to maritime activities managed by the port development authority.(4) Port development authorities do not have the power of eminent domain or the power to levy taxes or special assessments.[ 2015 c 35 § 4.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—2015 c 35: See note following RCW 53.57.020.
WA Rev Code § 53.57.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.57 - Port Development Authority.|53.57.050 - Powers, authorities, rights—Jurisdiction.

RCW 53.57.050 Powers, authorities, rights—Jurisdiction.Powers, authorities, or rights expressly or impliedly granted to any port district or agents of the port district under the provisions of this chapter are not operable, applicable, or effective beyond the boundaries of the port district, unless so provided by contract between the port district and a county, a city, or another port district in accordance with an agreement for joint or cooperative action under the interlocal cooperation act, chapter 39.34 RCW.[ 2015 c 35 § 6.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—2015 c 35: See note following RCW 53.57.020.
WA Rev Code § 53.57.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.57 - Port Development Authority.|53.57.060 - Applicable laws.

RCW 53.57.060 Applicable laws.A port development authority created under this chapter must comply with applicable laws including, but not limited to, the following:(1) Requirements concerning local government audits by the state auditor and applicable accounting requirements set forth in chapter 43.09 RCW;(2) The public records act, chapter 42.56 RCW;(3) Prohibitions on using facilities for campaign purposes under RCW 42.17A.555;(4) The open public meetings act, chapter 42.30 RCW;(5) The code of ethics for municipal officers under chapter 42.23 RCW; and(6) Local government whistleblower protection laws set forth in chapter 42.41 RCW.[ 2015 c 35 § 7.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—2015 c 35: See note following RCW 53.57.020.
WA Rev Code § 53.57.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.57 - Port Development Authority.|53.57.070 - Transfer of real property—Notice requirements—Approval process.

RCW 53.57.070 Transfer of real property—Notice requirements—Approval process.(1) In transferring real property to a port development authority under RCW 53.57.020, the port district or districts creating the port development authority must impose appropriate deed restrictions necessary to ensure the continued use of the property for the public purpose for which the property is transferred.(2) A port development authority must provide written notice at least thirty days prior to any proposed sale or encumbrance of real property that was transferred by a port district to the port development authority under RCW 53.57.020(1). The port development authority must, at a minimum, provide notice to:(a) The port commission of the port district that transferred the real property;(b) Each local newspaper of general circulation within the boundaries of the port district; and(c) Each local radio station, television station, or other news medium that has submitted to the port development authority a written request to receive notification.(3)(a) A port development authority may sell or encumber property transferred by a port district under RCW 53.57.020(1) only after approval of the sale or encumbrance by the port development authority at a public meeting. Notice of the public meeting must be: (i) Provided in accordance with RCW 42.30.080; and (ii) published at least twice in a local newspaper of general circulation no fewer than seven days and no more than two weeks before the public meeting.(b) Nothing in this section may be construed to prevent the port development authority from holding an executive session during a regular or special meeting in accordance with RCW 42.30.110(1)(c).[ 2015 c 35 § 8.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—2015 c 35: See note following RCW 53.57.020.
WA Rev Code § 53.57.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.57 - Port Development Authority.|53.57.080 - Insolvency or dissolution—Satisfaction of liabilities.

RCW 53.57.080 Insolvency or dissolution—Satisfaction of liabilities.(1) If a port development authority is insolvent or dissolved, the superior court of a county in which the port development authority operates has jurisdiction and authority to appoint trustees or receivers of the assets and property of the port development authority and to supervise the trusteeship or receivership.(2) All liabilities incurred by a port development authority must be satisfied exclusively from the assets and properties of the port development authority. No creditor or other person has any right of action against the port district or districts creating the port development authority on account of any debts, obligations, or liabilities of the port development authority.[ 2015 c 35 § 9.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—2015 c 35: See note following RCW 53.57.020.
WA Rev Code § 53.58.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 53 - Port Districts|Chapter 53.58 - Cargo Handling Equipment.|53.58.010 - Purchase of zero and near zero emissions cargo handling equipment.

RCW 53.58.010 Purchase of zero and near zero emissions cargo handling equipment. (Expires December 31, 2031.)(1) Moneys available to a port district or a port development authority may be used to purchase zero and near zero emissions cargo handling equipment and infrastructure supporting that equipment for the use of the port district, port development authority, or tenants or lessees thereof.(2) Moneys available to a port district or a port development authority shall not be used to purchase fully automated marine container cargo handling equipment.(3) For the purposes of this section:(a) "Fully automated marine container cargo handling equipment" means equipment that is remotely operated or remotely monitored, with or without the exercise of human intervention or control.(b) "Port development authority" means a port public development authority created by a single port district or jointly created by two port districts in accordance with RCW 53.57.020.(4) This section expires December 31, 2031.[ 2021 c 88 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 54.04.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.010 - Definitions.

RCW 54.04.010 Definitions.As used in this title "revenue obligation" or "revenue obligations" mean and include bonds, notes, warrants, certificates of indebtedness, or any other evidences of indebtedness issued by a district which, by the terms thereof, shall be payable from the revenues of its public utilities.[ 1959 c 218 § 14.]NOTES:"Wholesale power" defined: RCW 54.04.100.
WA Rev Code § 54.04.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.020 - Districts authorized.

RCW 54.04.020 Districts authorized.Municipal corporations, to be known as public utility districts, are hereby authorized for the purposes of chapter 1, Laws of 1931 and may be established within the limits of the state of Washington, as provided herein.[ 1931 c 1 § 2; RRS § 11606.]NOTES:Purpose—1931 c 1: "The purpose of this act is to authorize the establishment of public utility districts to conserve the water and power resources of the State of Washington for the benefit of the people thereof, and to supply public utility service, including water and electricity for all uses." [ 1931 c 1 § 1.]Severability—Construction—1931 c 1: "Adjudication of invalidity of any section, clause or part of a section of this act shall not impair or otherwise affect the validity of the act as a whole or any other part thereof.The rule of strict construction shall have no application to this act, but the same shall be liberally construed, in order to carry out the purposes and objects for which this act is intended.When this act comes in conflict with any provision, limitation or restriction in any other law, this act shall govern and control." [ 1931 c 1 § 11.]
WA Rev Code § 54.04.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.030 - Restrictions on invading other municipalities.

RCW 54.04.030 Restrictions on invading other municipalities.Chapter 1, Laws of 1931, shall not be deemed or construed to repeal or affect any existing act, or any part thereof, relating to the construction, operation and maintenance of public utilities by irrigation or water-sewer districts or other municipal corporations, but shall be supplemental thereto and concurrent therewith. No public utility district created hereunder shall include therein any municipal corporation, or any part thereof, where such municipal corporation already owns or operates all the utilities herein authorized: PROVIDED, that in case it does not own or operate all such utilities it may be included within such public utility district for the purpose of establishing or operating therein such utilities as it does not own or operate: PROVIDED, FURTHER, That no property situated within any irrigation or water-sewer districts or other municipal corporations shall ever be taxed or assessed to pay for any utility, or part thereof, of like character to any utility, owned or operated by such irrigation or water districts or other municipal corporations.[ 1999 c 153 § 64; 1931 c 1 § 12; RRS § 11616.]NOTES:Part headings not law—1999 c 153: See note following RCW 57.04.050.Irrigation districts: Title 87 RCW.Municipal utilities: RCW 80.04.500, 81.04.490 and chapter 35.92 RCW.Water-sewer districts: Title 57 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 54.04.037 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.037 - Annexation of territory—Coordination among county officials.

RCW 54.04.037 Annexation of territory—Coordination among county officials.When territory has been added to a public utility district in accordance with RCW 54.04.035, the supervisor of elections and other officers of the county in which the public utility district first operated shall coordinate elections, the levy and collection of taxes, and other necessary duties with the appropriate county officials of the other county.[ 1987 c 292 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 54.04.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.040 - Utilities within a city or town—Restrictions.

RCW 54.04.040 Utilities within a city or town—Restrictions.A district shall not construct any property to be utilized by it in the operation of a plant or system for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy for sale, on the streets, alleys, or public places within a city or town without the consent of the governing body of the city or town and approval of the plan and location of the construction, which shall be made under such reasonable terms as the city or town may impose. All such properties shall be maintained and operated subject to such regulations as the city or town may prescribe under its police power.[ 1957 c 278 § 9. Prior: (i) 1941 c 245 § 3a; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 11616-4. (ii) 1941 c 245 § 1, part; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 11616-1.]
WA Rev Code § 54.04.055 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.055 - Employee benefits—District may continue to pay premiums after employee retires.

RCW 54.04.055 Employee benefits—District may continue to pay premiums after employee retires.Any public utility district which provides for the coverage of any of its employees under any plan for individual annuity contracts, retirement income policies, group annuity contracts, group insurance for the benefit of its employees, or any other contract for the benefit of its employees, and pays all or any part of the premiums or other payments required therefor, is hereby authorized to continue to make such payments for such employees after their retirement from employment. Such payments agreed to by the public utility district shall be considered as deferred compensation. Such payments shall not be retroactive but shall only be available for those employees employed on or after August 6, 1965 provided that such payments for retired employees shall not exceed those being paid for regular employees.[ 1965 ex.s. c 149 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 54.04.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.060 - District elections.

RCW 54.04.060 District elections.The supervisor of elections or other proper officer of the county shall give notice of all elections held under this title, for the time and in the manner and form provided for city, town, school district, and port district elections. When the supervisor or other officer deems an emergency exists, and is requested so to do by a resolution of the district commission, he or she may call a special election at any time in the district, and he or she may combine or divide precincts for the purpose of holding special elections, and special elections shall be conducted and notice thereof given in the manner provided by law.The supervisor or other officer shall provide polling places, appoint the election officers, provide their compensation, provide ballot boxes, and ballots or voting machines, poll books and tally sheets, and deliver them to the election officers at the polling places, publish and post notices of the elections in the manner provided by law, and apportion to the district its share of the expense of the election.The manner of conducting and voting at the elections, opening and closing of polls, keeping of poll lists, canvassing the votes, declaring the result, and certifying the returns, shall be the same as for the election of state and county officers, except as otherwise provided herein.The district commission shall certify to the supervisor a list of offices to be filled at a district election and the commission, if it desires to submit to the voters of the district a proposition, shall require the secretary of the commission to certify it at the time and in the manner and form provided for certifying propositions by the governing board of cities, towns, and port districts.[ 2010 c 8 § 17001; 1951 c 207 § 1; 1941 c 245 § 5; 1931 c 1 § 5; RRS § 11609.]
WA Rev Code § 54.04.082 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.082 - Alternative bid procedure.

RCW 54.04.082 Alternative bid procedure.For the awarding of a contract to purchase any item, or items of the same kind of materials, equipment, or supplies in an amount exceeding thirty thousand dollars per calendar month, but less than one hundred twenty thousand dollars per calendar month, exclusive of sales tax, the commission may, in lieu of the procedure described in RCW 54.04.070 and 54.04.080 requiring public notice to invite sealed proposals for such materials, equipment, or supplies, pursuant to commission resolution use the process provided in RCW 39.04.190. Waiver of the deposit or bid bond required under RCW 54.04.080 may be authorized by the commission in securing such bid quotations.[ 2019 c 434 § 14; 2008 c 216 § 3; 2002 c 72 § 1; 1995 c 354 § 1; 1993 c 198 § 15; 1977 ex.s. c 116 § 1.]NOTES:Finding—Intent—2019 c 434: See note following RCW 35.23.352.Findings—Intent—2008 c 216: See note following RCW 54.04.070.
WA Rev Code § 54.04.085 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.085 - Electrical facility construction or improvement—Bid proposals—Contract proposal forms—Conditions for issuance—Appeals.

RCW 54.04.085 Electrical facility construction or improvement—Bid proposals—Contract proposal forms—Conditions for issuance—Appeals.A district shall require that bid proposals upon any construction or improvement of any electrical facility shall be made upon contract proposal form supplied by the district commission, and in no other manner. The district commission shall, before furnishing any person, firm or corporation desiring to bid upon any electrical work with a contract proposal form, require from such person, firm or corporation, answers to questions contained in a standard form of questionnaire and financial statement, including a complete statement of the financial ability and experience of such person, firm, or corporation in performing electrical work. Such questionnaire shall be sworn to before a notary public or other person authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, and shall be submitted once a year and at such other times as the district commission may require. Whenever the district commission is not satisfied with the sufficiency of the answers contained in such questionnaire and financial statement or whenever the district commission determines that such person, firm, or corporation does not meet all of the requirements hereinafter set forth it may refuse to furnish such person, firm or corporation with a contract proposal form and any bid proposal of such person, firm or corporation must be disregarded. In order to obtain a contract proposal form, a person, firm or corporation shall have all of the following requirements:(1) Adequate financial resources, or the ability to secure such resources;(2) The necessary experience, organization, and technical qualifications to perform the proposed contract;(3) The ability to comply with the required performance schedule taking into consideration all of its existing business commitments;(4) A satisfactory record of performance, integrity, judgment and skills; and(5) Be otherwise qualified and eligible to receive an award under applicable laws and regulations.Such refusal shall be conclusive unless appeal therefrom to the superior court of the county where the utility district is situated or Thurston county be taken within fifteen days, which appeal shall be heard summarily within ten days after the same is taken and on five days' notice thereof to the district commission.[ 1971 ex.s. c 220 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 54.04.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.090 - Minimum wages.

RCW 54.04.090 Minimum wages.Each contractor and subcontractor performing work for a public utility district or a local utility district within a public utility district shall pay or cause to be paid to its employees on the work or under the contract or subcontract, not less than the minimum scale fixed by the resolution of the commission prior to the notice and call for bids on the work. The commission, in fixing the minimum scale of wages, shall fix them as nearly as possible to the current prevailing wages within the district for work of like character.[ 1955 c 124 § 4. Prior: 1931 c 1 § 8, part; RRS § 11612, part.]NOTES:Prevailing wages on public works: Chapter 39.12 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 54.04.092 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.092 - Application of RCW 54.04.070 through 54.04.090 to certain service provider agreements under chapter 70A.140 RCW.

RCW 54.04.092 Application of RCW 54.04.070 through 54.04.090 to certain service provider agreements under chapter 70A.140 RCW.RCW 54.04.070 through 54.04.090 shall not apply to agreements entered into under authority of chapter 70A.140 RCW provided there is compliance with the procurement procedure under RCW 70A.140.040.[ 2021 c 65 § 60; 1986 c 244 § 14.]NOTES:Explanatory statement—2021 c 65: See note following RCW 53.54.030.
WA Rev Code § 54.04.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.120 - Planning powers.

RCW 54.04.120 Planning powers.In order that the commissioners of a public utility district may be better able to plan for the marketing of power and for the development of resources pertaining thereto, they shall have the same powers as are vested in a board of county commissioners as provided in *chapter 44, Laws of 1935 (sections 9322-2 to 9322-4, both inclusive, and 9322-10 to 9322-11 inclusive, Remington's Revised Statutes, also Pierce's Perpetual Code 776-3 to -7, 776-19 and -21), entitled: "An Act relating to city, town, county and regional planning and the creation, organization, duties and powers of planning commissions." For the purposes of such act, the president of a public utility district shall have the powers of the chair of the board of county commissioners, and a planning commission created hereunder shall have the same powers, enumerated in the above sections, with reference to a public utility district as a county planning commission has with reference to a county. However, this section shall not be construed to grant the power to adopt, regulate, or enforce comprehensive plans, zoning, land use, or building codes.[ 2010 c 8 § 17002; 1985 c 95 § 1; 1945 c 130 § 4; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 10459-14.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: The portions of chapter 44, Laws of 1935 compiled as RRS §§ 9322-2 to 9322-4 and 9322-10 to 9322-11 are codified in RCW 35.63.020 through 35.63.070.Purpose—Severability—1945 c 130: See notes following RCW 54.04.100.