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WA Rev Code § 54.24.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.24 - Finances.|54.24.050 - Covenants to secure owners of revenue obligations.

RCW 54.24.050 Covenants to secure owners of revenue obligations.Any resolution creating any such special fund or authorizing the issue of revenue obligations payable therefrom, or by such alternate method of payment as may be provided therein, shall specify the title of such revenue obligations as determined by the commission and may contain covenants by the district to protect and safeguard the security and the rights of the owners thereof, including covenants as to, among other things:(1) The purpose or purposes to which the proceeds of sale of such obligations may be applied and the use and disposition thereof;(2) The use and disposition of the gross revenues of the public utility, and any additions or betterments thereto or extensions thereof, the cost of which is to be defrayed with such proceeds, including the creation and maintenance of funds for working capital to be used in the operation of the public utility and for renewals and replacements to the public utility;(3) The amount, if any, of additional revenue obligations payable from such fund which may be issued and the terms and conditions on which such additional revenue obligations may be issued;(4) The establishment and maintenance of adequate rates and charges for electric energy, water, and other services, facilities, and commodities sold, furnished, or supplied by the public utility;(5) The operation, maintenance, management, accounting, and auditing of the public utility;(6) The terms and prices upon which such revenue obligations or any of them may be redeemed at the election of the district;(7) Limitations upon the right to dispose of such public utility or any part thereof without providing for the payment of the outstanding revenue obligations; and(8) The appointment of trustees, depositaries, and paying agents to receive, hold, disburse, invest, and reinvest all or any part of the income, revenues, receipts, and profits derived by the district from the operation, ownership, and management of its public utility.[ 1983 c 167 § 149; 1959 c 218 § 6; 1945 c 143 § 2; 1941 c 182 § 3; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 11611-3.]NOTES:Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.
WA Rev Code § 54.24.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.24 - Finances.|54.24.060 - Sale, delivery of revenue obligations.

RCW 54.24.060 Sale, delivery of revenue obligations.(1) Such utility revenue obligations shall be sold and delivered in such manner, at such rate or rates of interest and for such price or prices and at such time or times as the commission shall deem for the best interests of the district. The commission may, if it deem it to the best interest of the district, provide in any contract for the construction or acquisition of the public utility, or the additions or betterments thereto or extensions thereof, that payment therefor shall be made only in such revenue obligations at the par value thereof.(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, such obligations may be issued and sold in accordance with chapter 39.46 RCW.[ 1983 c 167 § 150; 1970 ex.s. c 56 § 78; 1969 ex.s. c 232 § 83; 1959 c 218 § 7; 1941 c 182 § 4; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 11611-4.]NOTES:Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.Purpose—1970 ex.s. c 56: See note following RCW 39.52.020.Validation—Saving—Severability—1969 ex.s. c 232: See notes following RCW 39.52.020.
WA Rev Code § 54.24.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.24 - Finances.|54.24.070 - Prima facie validity of revenue obligations.

RCW 54.24.070 Prima facie validity of revenue obligations.The state auditor need not register, certify, nor sign revenue obligations after July 26, 1981. These obligations shall be held in every action, suit, or proceeding in which their validity is or may be brought into question prima facie valid and binding obligations of the districts in accordance with their terms, notwithstanding any defects or irregularities in the proceedings for the organization of the district and the election of the commissioners thereof or for the authorization and issuance of such revenue obligations or in the sale, execution, or delivery thereof.[ 1981 c 37 § 1; 1959 c 218 § 8; 1941 c 182 § 6; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 11611-6.]
WA Rev Code § 54.24.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.24 - Finances.|54.24.080 - Rates and charges—Waiver of connection charges for low-income persons.

RCW 54.24.080 Rates and charges—Waiver of connection charges for low-income persons.(1) The commission of each district which shall have revenue obligations outstanding shall have the power and shall be required to establish, maintain, and collect rates or charges for electric energy and water and other services, facilities, and commodities sold, furnished, or supplied by the district. The rates and charges shall be fair and, except as authorized by RCW 74.38.070 and by subsections (2) and (3) of this section, nondiscriminatory, and shall be adequate to provide revenues sufficient for the payment of the principal of and interest on such revenue obligations for which the payment has not otherwise been provided and all payments which the district is obligated to set aside in any special fund or funds created for such purpose, and for the proper operation and maintenance of the public utility and all necessary repairs, replacements, and renewals thereof.(2) The commission of a district may waive connection charges for properties purchased by low-income persons from organizations exempt from tax under section 501(c)(3) of the federal internal revenue code as amended prior to the July 23, 1995. Waivers of connection charges for the same class of electric or gas utility service must be uniformly applied to all qualified property. Nothing in this subsection (2) authorizes the impairment of a contract.(3) In establishing rates or charges for water service, commissioners may in their discretion consider the achievement of water conservation goals and the discouragement of wasteful water use practices.[ 1995 c 140 § 3; 1991 c 347 § 21; 1959 c 218 § 9; 1941 c 182 § 7; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 11611-7.]NOTES:Purposes—1991 c 347: See note following RCW 90.42.005.
WA Rev Code § 54.24.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.24 - Finances.|54.24.090 - Funding, refunding revenue obligations.

RCW 54.24.090 Funding, refunding revenue obligations.Whenever any district shall have outstanding any utility revenue obligations, the commission shall have power by resolution to provide for the issuance of funding or refunding revenue obligations with which to take up and refund such outstanding revenue obligations or any part thereof at the maturity thereof or before maturity if the same be by their terms or by other agreement subject to call for prior redemption, with the right in the commission to include various series and issues of such outstanding revenue obligations in a single issue of funding or refunding revenue obligations, and to issue refunding revenue obligations to pay any redemption premium payable on the outstanding revenue obligations being funded or refunded. Such funding or refunding revenue obligations shall be payable only out of a special fund created out of the gross revenues of such public utility, and shall only be a valid claim as against such special fund and the amount of the revenues of such utility pledged to such fund. Such funding or refunding revenue obligations shall in the discretion of the commission be exchanged at par for the revenue obligations which are being funded or refunded or shall be sold in such manner, at such price and at such rate or rates of interest as the commission shall deem for the best interest of the district. Said funding or refunding [revenue] obligations shall except as specifically provided in this section, be issued in accordance with the provisions with respect to revenue obligations in chapter 182, Laws of 1941 set forth.[ 1970 ex.s. c 56 § 79; 1969 ex.s. c 232 § 84; 1959 c 218 § 10; 1941 c 182 § 8; Rem. Supp. 1941 c 11611-8.]NOTES:Purpose—1970 ex.s. c 56: See note following RCW 39.52.020.Validation—Saving—Severability—1969 ex.s. c 232: See notes following RCW 39.52.020.
WA Rev Code § 54.24.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.24 - Finances.|54.24.100 - Execution of revenue obligations—Signatures.

RCW 54.24.100 Execution of revenue obligations—Signatures.(1) All revenue obligations, including funding and refunding revenue obligations, shall be executed in such manner as the commission may determine: PROVIDED, That warrants may be signed as provided in RCW 54.24.010. Any interest coupons attached to any revenue obligations may be executed with facsimile or lithographed signatures, or otherwise, as the commission may determine.(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, such obligations may be issued and sold in accordance with chapter 39.46 RCW.[ 1983 c 167 § 151; 1981 c 37 § 2; 1959 c 218 § 11; 1941 c 182 § 9; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 11611-9.]NOTES:Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.Facsimile signatures: RCW 39.44.100 through 39.44.102; chapter 39.62 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 54.24.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.24 - Finances.|54.24.110 - Laws and resolutions as contract.

RCW 54.24.110 Laws and resolutions as contract.The provisions of chapter 182, Laws of 1941 and the provisions of chapter 1, Laws of 1931, not hereby superseded, and of any resolution or resolutions providing for the issuance of any revenue obligations as herein set forth shall constitute a contract with the holder or holders of such revenue obligations and the agreements and covenants of the district and its commission under said acts and any such resolution or resolutions shall be enforceable by any revenue obligation holder by mandamus or any other appropriate suit or action in any court of competent jurisdiction.[ 1959 c 218 § 12; 1941 c 182 § 10; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 11611-10.]NOTES:Mandamus: RCW 7.16.150 through 7.16.280.
WA Rev Code § 54.24.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.24 - Finances.|54.24.120 - Obligations as lawful securities and investments.

RCW 54.24.120 Obligations as lawful securities and investments.All bonds, warrants, and revenue obligations issued under the authority of chapter 1, Laws of 1931 and chapter 182, Laws of 1941 shall be legal securities, which may be used by any bank or trust company for deposit with the state treasurer, or any county, city, or town treasurer, as security for deposits in lieu of a surety bond under any law relating to deposits of public moneys and shall constitute legal investments for trustees and other fiduciaries other than corporations doing a trust business in this state and for savings and loan associations, banks, and insurance companies doing business in this state. All such bonds, warrants, and revenue obligations and all coupons appertaining thereto shall be negotiable instruments within the meaning of and for all purposes of the negotiable instruments law of this state.[ 1959 c 218 § 13; 1941 c 182 § 11; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 11611-11.]NOTES:Investment securities: Article 62A.8 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 54.24.210 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.24 - Finances.|54.24.210 - Local improvement guaranty fund—Duties of the district.

RCW 54.24.210 Local improvement guaranty fund—Duties of the district.To comply with the requirements of setting aside and paying into the local improvement guaranty fund a proportion of the monthly gross revenues of the public utilities of a district, for which guaranteed local improvement bonds and/or warrants have been issued and are outstanding, the district shall bind and obligate itself so long as economically feasible to maintain and operate the utilities and establish, maintain and collect such rates for water and/or electric energy, as the case may be, as will produce gross revenues sufficient to maintain and operate the utilities, and make necessary provision for the guaranty fund. The district shall alter its rates for water and/or electric energy, as the case may be, from time to time and shall vary them in different portions of its territory to comply with such requirements.[ 1957 c 150 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 54.24.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.24 - Finances.|54.24.220 - Local improvement guaranty fund—Warrants to meet liabilities.

RCW 54.24.220 Local improvement guaranty fund—Warrants to meet liabilities.When a bond, warrant, or any coupon or interest payment guaranteed by the guaranty fund matures and there are not sufficient funds in the local utility district bond redemption fund to pay it, the county treasurer shall pay it from the local improvement guaranty fund of the public utility district; if there are not sufficient funds in the guaranty fund to pay it, it may be paid by issuance and delivery of a warrant upon the local improvement guaranty fund.When the cash balance in the local improvement guaranty fund is insufficient for the required purposes, warrants drawing interest at a rate determined by the commission may be issued by the district auditor, against the fund to meet any liability accrued against it and shall issue them upon demand of the owners of any matured coupons, bonds, interest payments, and/or warrants guaranteed hereby, or to pay for any certificate of delinquency for delinquent installments of assessments as provided hereinafter. Guaranty fund warrants shall be a first lien in their order of issuance upon the guaranty fund.[ 1983 c 167 § 153; 1981 c 156 § 19; 1957 c 150 § 3.]NOTES:Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.
WA Rev Code § 54.24.230 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.24 - Finances.|54.24.230 - Local improvement guaranty fund—Certificates of delinquency—Contents, purchase, payment, issuance, sale.

RCW 54.24.230 Local improvement guaranty fund—Certificates of delinquency—Contents, purchase, payment, issuance, sale.Within twenty days after the date of delinquency of any annual installment of assessments levied for the purpose of paying the local improvement bonds and/or warrants of a district guaranteed hereunder, the county treasurer shall compile a statement of all installments delinquent together with the amount of accrued interest and penalty appurtenant to each installment, and shall forthwith purchase, for the district, certificates of delinquency for all such delinquent installments. Payment for the certificates shall be made from the local improvement guaranty fund and if there is not sufficient money in that fund to pay for the certificates, the county treasurer shall accept the local improvement guaranty fund warrants in payment therefor. All certificates shall be issued in the name of the local improvement guaranty fund and all guaranty fund warrants issued in payment therefor shall be issued in the name of the appropriate local utility district fund. When a market is available and the commissioners direct, the county treasurer shall sell any certificates belonging to the local improvement guaranty fund, for not less than face value thereof plus accrued interest from date of issuance to date of sale.The certificates shall be issued by the county treasurer, shall bear interest at the rate of ten percent per year, shall each be for the face value of the delinquent installment, plus accrued interest to date of issuance, plus a penalty of five percent of the face value, and shall set forth the:(1) Description of property assessed;(2) Date the installment of assessment became delinquent; and(3) Name of the owner or reputed owner, if known.[ 1957 c 150 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 54.24.240 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.24 - Finances.|54.24.240 - Local improvement guaranty fund—Certificates of delinquency—Redemption, foreclosure.

RCW 54.24.240 Local improvement guaranty fund—Certificates of delinquency—Redemption, foreclosure.The certificates of delinquency may be redeemed by the owner of the property assessed at any time up to two years from the date of foreclosure of the certificate.If a certificate is not redeemed on the second occurring first day of January, after its issuance, the county treasurer shall foreclose the certificate in the manner specified for the foreclosure of the lien of local improvement assessments in cities, and if no redemption is made within the succeeding two years, from date of the decree of foreclosure, shall execute and deliver unto the public utility district, as trustee for the fund, a deed conveying fee simple title to the property described in the foreclosed certificate.[ 1957 c 150 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 54.24.250 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.24 - Finances.|54.24.250 - Local improvement guaranty fund—Subrogation of district as trustee of fund, effect on fund, disposition of proceeds.

RCW 54.24.250 Local improvement guaranty fund—Subrogation of district as trustee of fund, effect on fund, disposition of proceeds.When there is paid out of a guaranty fund any sum on the principal or interest upon local improvement bonds, and/or warrants, or on the purchase of certificates of delinquency, the public utility district, as trustee, for the fund, shall be subrogated to all rights of the owner of the bonds, and/or warrants, any interest coupons, or delinquent assessment installments so paid; and the proceeds thereof, or of the assessment underlying them, shall become a part of the guaranty fund. There shall also be paid into the guaranty fund the interest received from the bank deposits of the fund, as well as any surplus remaining in the local utility district funds guaranteed hereunder, after the payment of all outstanding bonds and/or warrants payable primarily out of such local utility district funds. As among the several issues of bonds and/or warrants guaranteed by the fund, no preference shall exist, but defaulted interest coupons and bonds and/or warrants shall be purchased out of the fund in the order of their presentation.The commissioners shall prescribe, by resolution, appropriate rules for the guaranty fund consistent herewith. So much of the money of a guaranty fund as is necessary and not required for other purposes hereunder may be used to purchase property at county tax foreclosure sales or from the county after foreclosure in cases where the property is subject to unpaid local improvement assessments securing bonds and/or warrants guaranteed hereunder and such purchase is deemed necessary for the purpose of protecting the guaranty fund. In such cases the funds shall be subrogated to all rights of the district. After so acquiring title to real property, the district may lease or resell and convey it in the same manner that county property may be leased or resold and for such prices and on such terms as may be determined by resolution of the commissioners. All proceeds resulting from such resales shall belong to and be paid into the guaranty fund.[ 1983 c 167 § 154; 1957 c 150 § 6.]NOTES:Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.
WA Rev Code § 54.24.260 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.24 - Finances.|54.24.260 - Local improvement guaranty fund—Rights and remedies of bond or warrant holder which shall be printed on bond or warrant—Disposition of balance of fund.

RCW 54.24.260 Local improvement guaranty fund—Rights and remedies of bond or warrant holder which shall be printed on bond or warrant—Disposition of balance of fund.Neither the holder nor the owner of local improvement bonds and/or warrants guaranteed hereunder shall have a claim therefor against the public utility district, except for payment from the special assessment made for the improvement for which the bonds and/or warrants were issued, and except as against the guaranty fund. The district shall not be liable to any holder or owner of such local improvement bonds and/or warrants for any loss to the guaranty fund occurring in the lawful operation thereof by the district. The remedy of the holder of a local improvement bond and/or warrant shall be confined to the enforcement of the assessment and to the guaranty fund. A copy of the foregoing part of this section shall be plainly written, printed, or engraved on each local improvement bond and/or warrant guaranteed hereby. The establishment of a guaranty fund shall not be deemed at variance from any comprehensive plan heretofore adopted by a district.If a guaranty fund at any time has balance therein in cash, and the obligations guaranteed thereby have all been paid off, the balance may be transferred to such other fund of the district as the commissioners shall, by resolution, direct.[ 1957 c 150 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 54.28.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.28 - Privilege Taxes.|54.28.010 - Definitions.

RCW 54.28.010 Definitions.As used in this chapter:(1) "Operating property" means all of the property utilized by a public utility district in the operation of a plant or system for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy for sale;(2) "Taxing districts" means counties, cities, towns, school districts, and road districts;(3) "Distributes to consumers" means the sale of electric energy to ultimate consumers thereof, and does not include sales of electric energy for resale by the purchaser;(4) "Wholesale value" means all costs of a public utility district associated with the generation and transmission of energy from its own generation and transmission system to the point or points of inter-connection with a distribution system owned and used by a district to distribute such energy to consumers, or in the event a distribution system owned by a district is not used to distribute such energy, then the term means the gross revenues derived by a district from the sale of such energy to consumers;(5) "Thermal electric generating facility" means a steam-powered electrical energy producing facility utilizing nuclear or fossil fuels;(6) "Placed in operation" means delivery of energy into a transmission or distribution system for use or sale in such a manner as to establish a value accruing to the power plant operator, except operation incidental to testing or start-up adjustments;(7) "Impacted area" for a thermal electric generating facility on a federal reservation means that area in the state lying within thirty-five statute miles of the most commonly used entrance of the federal reservation and which is south of the southern boundary of township fifteen north.[ 1977 ex.s. c 366 § 1; 1967 ex.s. c 26 § 22; 1959 c 274 § 1; 1957 c 278 § 7. Prior: (i) 1941 c 245 § 1, part; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 11616-1, part. (ii) 1949 c 227 § 1(f); Rem. Supp. 1949 § 11616-2(f).]NOTES:Effective date—1967 ex.s. c 26: See note following RCW 82.01.050.
WA Rev Code § 54.28.011 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.28 - Privilege Taxes.|54.28.011 - "Gross revenue" defined.

RCW 54.28.011 "Gross revenue" defined."Gross revenue" means the amount received from the sale of electric energy, which also includes any regularly recurring charge billed to consumers as a condition of receiving electric energy, and excluding any tax levied by a municipal corporation upon the district pursuant to RCW 54.28.070.[ 2010 1st sp.s. c 23 § 1001; 1957 c 278 § 12.]NOTES:Application—2010 1st sp.s. c 23 § 1001: "Section 1001 of this act applies prospectively only." [ 2010 1st sp.s. c 23 § 1718.]Effective date—2010 1st sp.s. c 23: See note following RCW 82.32.655.Findings—Intent—2010 1st sp.s. c 23: See notes following RCW 82.04.220.