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WA Rev Code § 39.102.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.102 - Local Infrastructure Financing Tool Program.|39.102.100 - Revenue development area adoption—Notice requirements.

RCW 39.102.100 Revenue development area adoption—Notice requirements. (Expires June 30, 2044.)Prior to adopting the ordinance creating the revenue development area and to meet the requirements of *RCW 39.102.150(1)(b), a sponsoring local government and any cosponsoring local government must provide public notice.(1) Notice of the public hearing must be published in a legal newspaper of general circulation within the proposed revenue development area at least ten days before the public hearing and posted in at least six conspicuous public places located in the proposed revenue development area.(2) Notice must also be sent by United States mail to the property owners, all identifiable community-based organizations with involvement in the proposed revenue development area, and the business enterprises located within the proposed revenue development area at least thirty days prior to the hearing. In implementing provisions under this chapter, the local governing body may also consult with community-based groups, business organizations, including the local chamber of commerce, and the office of minority and women's business enterprises to assist with providing appropriate notice to business enterprises and property owners for whom English is a second language.(3) Notices must describe the contemplated public improvements, estimate the public improvement costs, describe the portion of the public improvement costs to be borne by local infrastructure financing, describe any other sources of revenue to finance the public improvements, describe the boundaries of the proposed revenue development area, estimate the impact that the public improvements will have on small businesses and low-income housing, and estimate the period during which local infrastructure financing is contemplated to be used.(4) Notices must inform the public where to obtain the information that shows how the limitations, conditions, and findings required in RCW 39.102.060 through 39.102.080 are met.(5) The sponsoring local government and any cosponsoring local government shall deliver a certified copy of the proposed ordinance to the county treasurer, the governing body of each participating local government and participating taxing district within which the revenue development area is located, the board, and the department.[ 2006 c 181 § 208.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: RCW 39.102.150 was amended by 2009 c 267 § 6, changing subsection (1)(b) to subsection (1)(a)(ii).
WA Rev Code § 39.102.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.102 - Local Infrastructure Financing Tool Program.|39.102.110 - Local excise tax allocation revenues.

RCW 39.102.110 Local excise tax allocation revenues. (Expires June 30, 2044.)(1) A sponsoring local government or participating local government that has received approval by the board to use local infrastructure financing may use annually its local excise tax allocation revenues to finance public improvements in the revenue development area financed in whole or in part by local infrastructure financing. The use of local excise tax allocation revenues dedicated by participating local governments must cease on the date specified in the written agreement required in RCW 39.102.080(1), or if no date is specified then the date when the local tax under RCW 82.14.475 expires. Any participating local government is authorized to dedicate local excise tax allocation revenues to the sponsoring local government as authorized in RCW 39.102.080(1).(2) A sponsoring local government shall provide the board accurate information describing the geographical boundaries of the revenue development area at the time of application. The information shall be provided in an electronic format or manner as prescribed by the department. The sponsoring local government shall ensure that the boundary information provided to the board and department is kept current.(3) In the event a city annexes a county area located within a county-sponsored revenue development area, the city shall remit to the county the portion of the local excise tax allocation revenue that the county would have received had the area not been annexed to the city. The city shall remit such revenues until such time as the bonds issued under RCW 39.102.150 are retired.[ 2009 c 267 § 3; 2007 c 229 § 6; 2006 c 181 § 301.]NOTES:Application—Severability—2007 c 229: See notes following RCW 39.102.020.
WA Rev Code § 39.102.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.102 - Local Infrastructure Financing Tool Program.|39.102.130 - Use of sales and use tax funds.

RCW 39.102.130 Use of sales and use tax funds. (Expires June 30, 2044.)Money collected from the taxes imposed under RCW 82.14.475 may be used only for the purpose of paying debt service on bonds issued under the authority of RCW 39.102.150 or to pay public improvement costs on a pay-as-you-go basis as provided in RCW 39.102.195, or both.[ 2007 c 229 § 11; 2006 c 181 § 402.]NOTES:Application—Severability—2007 c 229: See notes following RCW 39.102.020.
WA Rev Code § 39.102.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.102 - Local Infrastructure Financing Tool Program.|39.102.160 - Use of tax revenue for bond repayment.

RCW 39.102.160 Use of tax revenue for bond repayment. (Expires June 30, 2044.)A sponsoring local government that issues bonds under RCW 39.102.150 to finance public improvements may pledge for the payment of such bonds all or part of any local excise tax allocation revenues and all or part of any local property tax allocation revenues dedicated by the sponsoring local government, any participating local government, or participating taxing district. The sponsoring local government may also pledge all or part of any revenues derived from taxes imposed under RCW 82.14.475 and held in connection with the public improvements. All of such tax revenues are subject to the use restrictions in RCW 39.102.040 through 39.102.070, and the process requirements in RCW 39.102.080(1).[ 2006 c 181 § 502.]
WA Rev Code § 39.102.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.102 - Local Infrastructure Financing Tool Program.|39.102.170 - Limitation on bonds issued.

RCW 39.102.170 Limitation on bonds issued. (Expires June 30, 2044.)The bonds issued by a sponsoring local government under RCW 39.102.150 to finance public improvements shall not constitute an obligation of the state of Washington, either general or special.[ 2006 c 181 § 503.]
WA Rev Code § 39.102.195 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.102 - Local Infrastructure Financing Tool Program.|39.102.195 - Limitation on use of revenues.

RCW 39.102.195 Limitation on use of revenues. (Expires June 30, 2044.)To the extent that amounts received as local excise tax allocation revenues, local property tax allocation revenues, other revenues from local public sources, that are dedicated to local infrastructure financing, and revenues received from the local option sales and use tax authorized in RCW 82.14.475, are set aside in a debt service fund that is pledged to the repayment of bonds, those amounts so set aside and pledged may not be used to pay for public improvement costs on a pay-as-you-go basis after the date that the sponsoring local government that issued the bonds as provided in RCW 39.102.150 is required to begin paying debt service on those bonds, unless and until those bonds to which the amounts have been so pledged have been retired.[ 2009 c 267 § 7; 2007 c 229 § 14.]NOTES:Application—Severability—2007 c 229: See notes following RCW 39.102.020.
WA Rev Code § 39.102.200 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.102 - Local Infrastructure Financing Tool Program.|39.102.200 - Joint legislative audit and review committee reports.

RCW 39.102.200 Joint legislative audit and review committee reports. (Expires June 30, 2044.)Beginning September 1, 2013, and continuing every five years thereafter, the joint legislative audit and review committee shall submit a report to the appropriate committees of the legislature.(1) The report shall, at a minimum, evaluate the effectiveness of the local infrastructure financing tool program, including a project-by-project review. The report shall evaluate the project's interim results based on the selection criteria. The report shall also measure:(a) Employment changes in the revenue development area;(b) Property tax changes in the revenue development area;(c) Sales and use tax changes in the revenue development area;(d) Property value changes in the revenue development area; and(e) Changes in housing and existing commercial activities based on the impact analysis and mitigation plan required in RCW 39.102.080(2). (2) The report that is due September 1, 2028, should also include any recommendations regarding whether or not the program should be expanded statewide and what impact the expansion would have on economic development in Washington.[ 2006 c 181 § 601.]
WA Rev Code § 39.102.210 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.102 - Local Infrastructure Financing Tool Program.|39.102.210 - Program evaluation.

RCW 39.102.210 Program evaluation. (Expires June 30, 2044.)The department of revenue and the community economic revitalization board shall evaluate and periodically report on the implementation of the local infrastructure financing [tool] program to the governor and legislature as the department and the board deems appropriate and recommend such amendments, changes in, and modifications of chapter 181, Laws of 2006 as seem proper.[ 2006 c 181 § 701.]
WA Rev Code § 39.102.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.102 - Local Infrastructure Financing Tool Program.|39.102.220 - Administration by department and board.

RCW 39.102.220 Administration by department and board. (Expires June 30, 2044.)The department of revenue and the community economic revitalization board may adopt any rules under chapter 34.05 RCW they consider necessary for the administration of this chapter.[ 2007 c 229 § 13.]NOTES:Application—Severability—2007 c 229: See notes following RCW 39.102.020.
WA Rev Code § 39.102.902 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.102 - Local Infrastructure Financing Tool Program.|39.102.902 - Construction—2006 c 181.

RCW 39.102.902 Construction—2006 c 181.Nothing in this act shall be construed to give port districts the authority to impose a sales or use tax under chapter 82.14 RCW.[ 2006 c 181 § 705.]
WA Rev Code § 39.102.903 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.102 - Local Infrastructure Financing Tool Program.|39.102.903 - Effective date—2006 c 181.

RCW 39.102.903 Effective date—2006 c 181.This act takes effect July 1, 2006.[ 2006 c 181 § 706.]
WA Rev Code § 39.102.905 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.102 - Local Infrastructure Financing Tool Program.|39.102.905 - Expiration date—2013 2nd sp.s. c 21.

RCW 39.102.905 Expiration date—2013 2nd sp.s. c 21.This chapter expires June 30, 2044.[ 2013 2nd sp.s. c 21 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 39.104.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.104 - Local Revitalization Financing.|39.104.010 - Finding.

RCW 39.104.010 Finding.The legislature recognizes that the state as a whole benefits from investment in public infrastructure because it promotes community and economic development. Public investment stimulates business activity and helps create jobs, stimulates the redevelopment of brownfields and blighted areas in the inner city, lowers the cost of housing, and promotes efficient land use. The legislature finds that these activities generate revenue for the state and that it is in the public interest to invest in these projects through a credit against the state sales and use tax to those local governments that can demonstrate the expected returns to the state.[ 2009 c 270 § 101.]
WA Rev Code § 39.104.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.104 - Local Revitalization Financing.|39.104.050 - Limitations on revitalization areas.

RCW 39.104.050 Limitations on revitalization areas.The designation of a revitalization area is subject to the following limitations:(1)(a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, no revitalization area may have within its geographic boundaries any part of a hospital benefit zone under chapter 39.100 RCW, any part of a revenue development area created under chapter 39.102 RCW, any part of an increment area under chapter 39.89 RCW, or any part of another revitalization area under this chapter;(b) A revitalization area's boundaries may include all or a portion of an existing increment area if:(i) The state of Washington has loaned money for environmental cleanup on such area in order to stimulate redevelopment of brownfields;(ii) The environmental cleanup, for which the state's loans were intended, has been completed; and(iii) The sponsoring local government determines the creation of the revitalization area is necessary for redevelopment and protecting the state's investment by increasing property tax revenue;(2) A revitalization area is limited to contiguous tracts, lots, pieces, or parcels of land without the creation of islands of property not included in the revitalization area;(3) The boundaries may not be drawn to purposely exclude parcels where economic growth is unlikely to occur;(4) The public improvements financed through bonds issued under RCW 39.104.110 must be located in the revitalization area;(5) A revitalization area cannot comprise an area containing more than twenty-five percent of the total assessed value of the taxable real property within the boundaries of the sponsoring local government at the time the revitalization area is created;(6) The boundaries of the revitalization area may not be changed for the time period that local property tax allocation revenues, local sales and use taxes of participating local governments, and the local sales and use tax under RCW 82.14.510 are used to pay bonds issued under RCW 39.104.110 and public improvement costs within the revitalization area on a pay-as-you-go basis, as provided under this chapter; and(7) A revitalization area must be geographically restricted to the location of the public improvement and adjacent locations that the sponsoring local government finds to have a high likelihood of receiving direct positive business and economic impacts due to the public improvement, such as a neighborhood or a block.[ 2010 c 164 § 3; 2009 c 270 § 105.]
WA Rev Code § 39.104.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.104 - Local Revitalization Financing.|39.104.060 - Use of property tax allocation revenues for revitalization financing—Opting out—Partial participation.

RCW 39.104.060 Use of property tax allocation revenues for revitalization financing—Opting out—Partial participation.(1) Participating taxing districts must allow the use of all of their local property tax allocation revenues for local revitalization financing.(2)(a) If a taxing district does not want to allow the use of its property tax revenues for the local revitalization financing of public improvements in a revitalization area, its governing body must adopt an ordinance to remove itself as a participating taxing district and must notify the sponsoring local government.(b) The taxing district must provide a copy of the adopted ordinance and notice to the sponsoring local government creating the revitalization area before the anticipated date that the sponsoring local government proposes to adopt the ordinance creating the revitalization area as provided in the notice required by RCW 39.104.040(1)(a).(3) If a taxing district wants to become a participating taxing district by allowing one or more but not all of its regular property tax levies to be used for the calculation of local property tax allocation revenues, it may do so through an interlocal agreement specifying the regular property taxes that will be used for calculating its local property tax allocation revenues. This subsection does not authorize a taxing district to allow the use of only part of one or more of its regular property tax levies by the sponsoring local government.(4) If a taxing district wants to participate on a partial basis by providing a specified amount of money to a sponsoring local government to be used for local revitalization financing for a specified amount of time, it may do so through an interlocal agreement. However, the taxing district must adopt an ordinance as described in subsection (2) of this section to remove itself as a participating taxing district for purposes of calculating property tax allocation revenues and instead partially participate through an interlocal agreement outlining the specifics of its participation.[ 2010 c 164 § 4; 2009 c 270 § 106.]
WA Rev Code § 39.104.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.104 - Local Revitalization Financing.|39.104.070 - Participating in revitalization financing—Interlocal agreement—Imposition of sales and use tax—Ordinance to opt out—Notice.

RCW 39.104.070 Participating in revitalization financing—Interlocal agreement—Imposition of sales and use tax—Ordinance to opt out—Notice.(1) A participating local government must enter into an interlocal agreement as provided in chapter 39.34 RCW to participate in local revitalization financing with the sponsoring local government.(2)(a) If a local government that imposes a sales and use tax under RCW 82.14.030 does not want to participate in the local revitalization financing of public improvements in a revitalization area, its governing body must adopt an ordinance and notify the sponsoring local government that the taxing authority will not be a participating local government.(b) The local government must provide a copy of the adopted ordinance and the notice to the sponsoring local government creating the revitalization area before the anticipated date that the sponsoring local government proposes to adopt an ordinance creating the revitalization area as provided in the notice required by RCW 39.104.040(1)(a).[ 2009 c 270 § 107.]
WA Rev Code § 39.104.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.104 - Local Revitalization Financing.|39.104.090 - Local sales and use tax increments.

RCW 39.104.090 Local sales and use tax increments.(1) A sponsoring local government may use annually local sales and use tax amounts equal to some or all of its local sales and use tax increments to finance public improvements in the revitalization area. The amounts of local sales and use tax dedicated by a participating local government must begin and cease on the dates specified in an interlocal agreement authorized in chapter 39.34 RCW. Sponsoring local governments and participating local governments are authorized to allocate some or all of their local sales and use tax increment to the sponsoring local government as provided by RCW 39.104.070(1).(2) The department, upon request, must assist sponsoring local governments in estimating sales and use tax revenues from estimated taxable activity in the proposed or adopted revitalization area. The sponsoring local government must provide the department with accurate information describing the geographical boundaries of the revitalization area in an electronic format or in a manner as otherwise prescribed by the department.[ 2009 c 270 § 301.]
WA Rev Code § 39.104.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.104 - Local Revitalization Financing.|39.104.120 - Use of tax revenue for bond repayment.

RCW 39.104.120 Use of tax revenue for bond repayment.A sponsoring local government that issues bonds under RCW 39.104.110 to finance public improvements may pledge for the payment of such bonds all or part of any local property tax allocation revenues derived from the public improvements. The sponsoring local government may also pledge all or part of any revenues derived from taxes imposed under RCW 82.14.510 and held in connection with the public improvements. All of such tax revenues are subject to the use restriction in RCW 82.14.515.[ 2009 c 270 § 702.]
WA Rev Code § 39.104.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.104 - Local Revitalization Financing.|39.104.130 - Limitation on bonds issued.

RCW 39.104.130 Limitation on bonds issued.The bonds issued by a local government under RCW 39.104.110 to finance public improvements do not constitute an obligation of the state of Washington, either general or special.[ 2009 c 270 § 703.]
WA Rev Code § 39.104.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.104 - Local Revitalization Financing.|39.104.140 - Construction—Port districts—Authority.

RCW 39.104.140 Construction—Port districts—Authority.Nothing in this act may be construed to give port districts the authority to impose a sales or use tax under chapter 82.14 RCW.[ 2009 c 270 § 803.]
WA Rev Code § 39.104.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.104 - Local Revitalization Financing.|39.104.150 - Administration by the department of revenue and the department of commerce—Adoption of rules.

RCW 39.104.150 Administration by the department of revenue and the department of commerce—Adoption of rules.The department of revenue and the department of commerce may adopt any rules under chapter 34.05 RCW that the departments consider necessary for the administration of this chapter.[ 2016 c 207 § 3; 2009 c 270 § 804.]
WA Rev Code § 39.106.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 39 - Public Contracts and Indebtedness|Chapter 39.106 - Joint Municipal Utility Services.|39.106.010 - Short title—Purpose—Intent—2011 c 258.

RCW 39.106.010 Short title—Purpose—Intent—2011 c 258.(1) Chapter 258, Laws of 2011 shall be known as the joint municipal utility services act.(2) It is the purpose of chapter 258, Laws of 2011 to improve the ability of local government utilities to plan, finance, construct, acquire, maintain, operate, and provide facilities and utility services to the public, and to reduce costs and improve the benefits, efficiency, and quality of utility services.(3) Chapter 258, Laws of 2011 is intended to facilitate joint municipal utility services and is not intended to expand the types of services provided by local governments or their utilities. Further, nothing in chapter 258, Laws of 2011 is intended to alter the regulatory powers of cities, counties, or other local governments or state agencies that exercise such powers. Further, nothing in chapter 258, Laws of 2011 may be construed to alter the underlying authority of the units of local government that enter into agreements under chapter 258, Laws of 2011 or to diminish in any way the authority of local governments to enter into agreements under chapter 39.34 RCW or other applicable law.[ 2011 c 258 § 1.]