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WA Rev Code § 35.21.940 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions.|35.21.940 - Failing septic systems—Connection to public sewer systems—Appeals process.

RCW 35.21.940 Failing septic systems—Connection to public sewer systems—Appeals process.(1) A city with an ordinance or resolution requiring, upon the failure of an on-site septic system, connection to a public sewer system must, in accordance with this section, provide an administrative appeals process to consider denials of permit applications to repair or replace the septic system. The administrative appeals process required by this section applies only to requests to repair or replace existing, failing on-site septic systems that:(a) Were made for a single-family residence by its owner or owners;(b) Were denied solely because of a law, regulation, or ordinance requiring connection to a public sewer system; and(c) Absent the applicable law, regulation, or ordinance requiring connection to a public sewer system upon which the denial was based, would be approved.(2) If the city has an administrative appeals process, the city may, subject to the requirements of this section, use that process. The administrative appeals process required by this section, however, must be presided over by the legislative body of the city or by an administrative hearings officer.(3) The administrative appeals process required by this section must, at a minimum, consider whether:(a) It is cost-prohibitive to require the property owner to connect to the public sewer system. In complying with this subsection (3)(a), the city must consider the estimated cost to repair or replace the on-site septic system compared to the estimated cost to connect to the public sewer system;(b) There are public health or environmental considerations related to allowing the property owner to repair or replace the on-site septic system. In complying with this subsection (3)(b), the city must consider whether the repaired or replaced on-site septic system contributes to the pollution of surface waters or groundwater;(c) There are public sewer system performance or financing considerations related to allowing the property owner to repair or replace the on-site septic system; and(d) There are financial assistance programs or latecomer agreements offered by the city or state that may impact a decision of the property owner to repair or replace the on-site septic system.(4) If the city, following the appeals process required by this section, determines that the property owner must connect the residence to the public sewer system, the property owner may, in complying with the determination and subject to approval of appropriate permits, select and hire contractors at his or her own expense to perform the work necessary to connect the residence to the public sewer system.(5) Unless otherwise required by law, a city determination requiring the owner of a single-family residence with a failing on-site septic system to connect a residence to a public sewer system is not subject to appeal.(6) For purposes of this section, "city" means a city or town.[ 2015 c 297 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 35.21.945 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions.|35.21.945 - Water storage asset management services—Procurement.

RCW 35.21.945 Water storage asset management services—Procurement.(1) Any municipality may elect to contract for asset management service of its water storage assets in accordance with this section. If a municipality elects to contract under this subsection for all, some, or one component of water storage asset management services for its water storage assets, each municipality shall publish notice of its requirements to procure asset management service of its water storage assets. The announcement must concisely state the scope and nature of the water storage asset management service for which a contract is required and encourage firms to submit proposals to meet these requirements. If a municipality chooses to negotiate a water storage asset management service contract under this section, no otherwise applicable statutory procurement requirement applies.(2) The municipality may negotiate a fair and reasonable water storage asset management service contract with the firm that submits the best proposal based on criteria that is established by the municipality.(3) If the municipality is unable to negotiate a satisfactory water storage asset management service contract with the firm that submits the best proposal, negotiations with that firm must formally be terminated and the municipality may select another firm in accordance with this section and continue negotiation until a water storage asset management service contract is reached or the selection process is terminated.(4) For the purposes of this section:(a) "Water storage asset management services" means the financing, designing, improving, operating, maintaining, repairing, testing, inspecting, cleaning, administering, or managing, or any combination thereof, of a water storage asset.(b) "Water storage asset" means water storage structures and associated distribution systems, such as the water tank, tower, well, meter, or water filter.[ 2015 c 187 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 35.21.950 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions.|35.21.950 - Final determination on state highway project permits.

RCW 35.21.950 Final determination on state highway project permits.A city or town must comply with the requirements of RCW 47.01.485 in making a final determination on a permit as part of a project on a state highway as defined in RCW 46.04.560.[ 2015 3rd sp.s. c 15 § 3.]NOTES:Effective date—Findings—Intent—2015 3rd sp.s. c 15: See notes following RCW 47.01.485.
WA Rev Code § 35.21.955 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions.|35.21.955 - Nuisance abatement—Special assessment—Notice requirements.

RCW 35.21.955 Nuisance abatement—Special assessment—Notice requirements.(1) A city or town that exercises its authority under chapter 7.48 RCW, RCW 35.22.280, 35.23.440, or 35.27.410, or other applicable law to abate a nuisance which threatens health or safety must provide prior notice to the property owner that abatement is pending and a special assessment may be levied on the property for the expense of abatement. Such special assessment authority is supplemental to any existing authority of a city or town to levy an assessment or obtain a lien for costs of abatement. The notice must be sent by regular mail.(2) A city or town that exercises its authority under chapter 7.48 RCW, RCW 35.22.280, 35.23.440, or 35.27.410, or other applicable law to declare a nuisance, abate a nuisance, or impose fines or costs upon persons who create, continue, or maintain a nuisance may levy a special assessment on the land or premises where the nuisance is situated to reimburse the city or town for the expense of abatement. A city or town must, before levying a special assessment, notify the property owner and any identifiable mortgage holder that a special assessment will be levied on the property and provide the estimated amount of the special assessment. The notice must be sent by regular mail.(3) The special assessment authorized by this section constitutes a lien against the property, and is binding upon successors in title only from the date the lien is recorded in the county where the affected real property is located. Up to two thousand dollars of the recorded lien is of equal rank with state, county, and municipal taxes.(4) A city or town levying a special assessment under this section may contract with the county treasurer to collect the special assessment in accordance with RCW 84.56.035.[ 2016 c 100 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 35.21.960 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions.|35.21.960 - Removal of restrictive covenants—Hearing, notice.

RCW 35.21.960 Removal of restrictive covenants—Hearing, notice.Any city, town, or municipal corporation must hold a public hearing upon a proposal to remove, vacate, or extinguish a restrictive covenant from property owned by the city, town, or municipal corporation before the action is finalized. The public hearing must allow individuals to provide testimony regarding the proposed action. The city, town, or municipal corporation must provide notice of the public hearing at least ten days before the hearing at its usual place of business and issue a press release to local media providing the date, time, location, and reason for the public hearing. The notice must be posted on the city, town, or municipal corporation's website if it is updated for any reason before the hearing date. The notice must also identify the property and provide a brief explanation of the restrictive covenant to be removed, vacated, or extinguished. Any member of the public, in person or by counsel, may submit testimony at the public hearing.[ 2017 c 119 § 3.]NOTES:Short title—2017 c 119: "This act may be known and cited as the land covenant preservation and transparency act." [ 2017 c 119 § 1.]Finding—2017 c 119: "The legislature finds that many pieces of property are provided to government agencies as part of agreements in which the land includes restrictive covenants. There is a desire that government agencies become more transparent when they want to change the use of property that has covenants that restrict what can be done with property, especially if the property was a gift to be used for parks, open space, habitat, or environmental mitigation and conservation. The legislature declares that any local government agency that intends to remove restrictive covenants from real property owned by the agency must do so through an open process in which citizens are made aware of the agency's intent to remove or modify the restrictive covenant before the legal action occurs." [ 2017 c 119 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 35.21.965 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions.|35.21.965 - Voluntary change to electoral system.

RCW 35.21.965 Voluntary change to electoral system.The legislative authority of a city or town may authorize a change to its electoral system pursuant to RCW 29A.92.040.[ 2018 c 113 § 206.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—Short title—2018 c 113: See RCW 29A.92.005 and 29A.92.900.
WA Rev Code § 35.21.970 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions.|35.21.970 - Assessment and mitigation of negative impact on parking when constructing or operating a public facility in certain neighborhoods.

RCW 35.21.970 Assessment and mitigation of negative impact on parking when constructing or operating a public facility in certain neighborhoods.(1) A city with a population of more than five hundred fifty thousand that permits a public facility to be constructed or operated by another local government agency, transit authority, or public facility district in a neighborhood with a high poverty level and a high rate of ethnic diversity shall formally request that the entity that is constructing or is operating the public facility assess and mitigate the negative impacts that the facility has had on parking in the surrounding neighborhood. The entity operating or constructing the facility must consider the potential or actual disparate racial, social, and economic impacts of the public facility on residents nearby and develop a mitigation plan, which keeps the residents of the impacted neighborhood whole for the costs of the mitigation strategy, including paying for the costs of any residential parking zone necessitated by the facility causing the impact. The entity operating or constructing the facility may negotiate with other political subdivisions who have a direct interest in having created the negative impacts, but the residents must be held harmless.(2) For purposes of this section, neighborhood boundaries are defined by the boundaries of community reporting areas, as established in the most recent United States census.(3) For purposes of this section:(a) "Public facility" means a project that was completed by December 31, 2014.(b) A neighborhood has a high poverty level if twelve percent or more of the population is below the poverty level according to the most recent American community survey's five-year estimate.(c) A neighborhood has a high rate of ethnic diversity if forty percent or more of the population identifies as persons of color according to the most recent American community survey's five-year estimate.[ 2019 c 375 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 35.21.980 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions.|35.21.980 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.

RCW 35.21.980 Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married persons, and references to dissolution of marriage shall apply equally to state registered domestic partnerships that have been terminated, dissolved, or invalidated, to the extent that such interpretation does not conflict with federal law. Where necessary to implement chapter 521, Laws of 2009, gender-specific terms such as husband and wife used in any statute, rule, or other law shall be construed to be gender neutral, and applicable to individuals in state registered domestic partnerships.[ 2009 c 521 § 78.]
WA Rev Code § 35.22.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.22 - First-Class Cities.|35.22.010 - Laws governing.

RCW 35.22.010 Laws governing.Cities of the first class shall be organized and governed according to the law providing for the government of cities having a population of ten thousand or more inhabitants that have adopted a charter in accordance with Article XI, section 10 of the state Constitution.[ 1997 c 361 § 12; 1965 c 7 § 35.22.010. Prior: 1890 p 143 § 23; RRS § 8947.]NOTES:First-class city, defined: RCW 35.01.010.
WA Rev Code § 35.22.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.22 - First-Class Cities.|35.22.020 - Mode of exercising powers, functions and duties.

RCW 35.22.020 Mode of exercising powers, functions and duties.The form of the organization and the manner and mode in which cities of the first class shall exercise the powers, functions and duties conferred upon them by law, with respect to their own government, shall be as provided in the charters thereof.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.22.020. Prior: 1911 c 17 § 1; RRS § 8948.]
WA Rev Code § 35.22.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.22 - First-Class Cities.|35.22.030 - Cities having ten thousand or more population may frame charter for own government.

RCW 35.22.030 Cities having ten thousand or more population may frame charter for own government.Any city with a population of ten thousand or more inhabitants may frame a charter for its own government.[ 1965 ex.s. c 47 § 5; 1965 c 7 § 35.22.030. Prior: 1890 p 215 § 1; RRS § 8951.]NOTES:Cities of ten thousand or moremay frame charters without change in classification: RCW 35.22.195.permitted to frame charters: State Constitution Art. 11 § 10 (Amendment 40).
WA Rev Code § 35.22.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.22 - First-Class Cities.|35.22.050 - Election of freeholders to frame charter.

RCW 35.22.050 Election of freeholders to frame charter.Whenever the population of a city is ten thousand or more, the legislative authority thereof shall provide by ordinance for an election to be held therein for the purpose of electing fifteen freeholders for the purpose of framing a charter for the city. The members of the board of freeholders must be qualified electors and must have been residents of the city for a period of at least two years prior to their election.[ 1965 ex.s. c 47 § 7; 1965 c 7 § 35.22.050. Prior: 1890 p 216 § 3, part; RRS § 8953, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.22.055 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.22 - First-Class Cities.|35.22.055 - Election of freeholders in cities of three hundred thousand or more population—Designation of positions.

RCW 35.22.055 Election of freeholders in cities of three hundred thousand or more population—Designation of positions.Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the population of a city is three hundred thousand persons or more, not less than ten days before the time for filing declarations of candidacy for election of freeholders under Article XI, section 10 (Amendment 40), of the state Constitution, the city clerk shall designate the positions to be filled by consecutive number, commencing with one. The positions to be designated shall be dealt with as separate offices for all election purposes, and each candidate shall file for one, but only one, of the positions so designated.In the printing of ballots, the positions of the names of candidates for each numbered position shall be in accordance with RCW 29A.36.121.[ 2015 c 53 § 35; 1974 ex.s. c 1 § 1.]NOTES:Severability—1974 ex.s. c 1: "If any provision of this 1974 amendatory act, or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act, or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 1974 ex.s. c 1 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 35.22.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.22 - First-Class Cities.|35.22.060 - Submission of charter—Publication.

RCW 35.22.060 Submission of charter—Publication.The board of freeholders shall convene within ten days after their election and frame a charter for the city and within thirty days thereafter, they, or a majority of them, shall submit the charter to the legislative authority of the city, which, within five days thereafter, shall cause it to be published in the newspaper having the largest general circulation within the city at least once each week for four weeks next preceding the day of submitting the same to the electors for their approval.[ 1985 c 469 § 22; 1965 ex.s. c 47 § 8; 1965 c 7 § 35.22.060. Prior: 1890 p 216 § 3, part; RRS § 8953, part.]NOTES:Submission of proposed charter, publication: State Constitution Art. 11 § 10 (Amendment 40).
WA Rev Code § 35.22.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.22 - First-Class Cities.|35.22.070 - Election on adoption of charter—Notice.

RCW 35.22.070 Election on adoption of charter—Notice.Within five days after the filing with the city clerk of affidavits of publication, which affidavits shall be filed immediately after the last publication, the legislative authority of the city shall initiate the proceedings for the submission of the proposed charter to the qualified voters of the city for their adoption or rejection at either a general or special election. At this election the first officers to serve under the provisions of the proposed charter shall also be elected. In electing from wards, the division into wards as specified in the proposed charter shall govern; in all other respects the then existing laws relating to such election shall govern. The notice shall specify the objects for which the election is held, and shall be given as required by law.[ 1965 ex.s. c 47 § 9; 1965 c 7 § 35.22.070. Prior: (i) 1890 p 216 § 3, part; RRS § 8953, part. (ii) 1890 p 223 § 6, part; RRS § 8977, part.]NOTES:Election on adoption of charter, notice: State Constitution Art. 11 § 10 (Amendment 40).
WA Rev Code § 35.22.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.22 - First-Class Cities.|35.22.080 - Conduct of elections.

RCW 35.22.080 Conduct of elections.The election of the members of the board of freeholders and that upon the proposition of adopting or rejecting the proposed charter and the officers to be elected thereunder, the returns of both elections, the canvassing thereof and the declaration of the result shall be governed by the laws regulating and controlling elections in the city.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.22.080. Prior: (i) 1890 p 216 § 3, part; RRS § 8953, part. (ii) 1890 p 223 § 6, part; RRS § 8977, part. (iii) 1890 p 217 § 4, part; RRS § 8954, part.]NOTES:Elections: Title 29A RCW.
WA Rev Code § 35.22.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.22 - First-Class Cities.|35.22.090 - Form of ballot.

RCW 35.22.090 Form of ballot.The form of ballot in the election for the adoption or rejection of the proposed charter shall be: "For the proposed charter," "Against the proposed charter." In submitting the proposed charter or amendments thereto, any alternate article or proposition may be presented for the choice of the voters and may be voted on separately without prejudice to others. In submitting such amendment, article or proposition, the form of the ballot shall be: "For article No. . . . . of the charter," "Against article No. . . . . of the charter."[ 1965 c 7 § 35.22.090. Prior: 1890 p 216 § 3, part; RRS § 8953, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.22.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.22 - First-Class Cities.|35.22.100 - Certificates of election to officers.

RCW 35.22.100 Certificates of election to officers.If a majority of the votes cast at the election upon the adoption of the proposed charter favor it, certificates of election shall be issued to each officer elected at that election. Within ten days after the issuance of the certificates of election, the newly elected officers shall qualify as provided in the charter, and on the tenth day thereafter at twelve o'clock noon of that day, the officers so elected and qualified shall enter upon the duties of the offices to which they were elected and at such time the charter shall be authenticated, recorded, attested and go into effect. When so authenticated, recorded and attested, the charter shall become the organic law of the city and supersede any existing charter and amendments thereto and all special laws inconsistent therewith.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.22.100. Prior: (i) 1890 p 223 § 6, part; RRS § 8977, part. (ii) 1890 p 217 § 4, part; RRS § 8954, part.]