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WA Rev Code § 35.58.530 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations.|35.58.530 - Annexation—Requirements, procedure.

RCW 35.58.530 Annexation—Requirements, procedure.Territory located within a component county that is annexed to a component city after the establishment of a metropolitan municipal corporation shall by such act be annexed to the metropolitan municipal corporation. Territory within a metropolitan municipal corporation may be annexed to a city which is not within such metropolitan municipal corporation in the manner provided by law and in such event either (1) such city may be annexed to such metropolitan municipal corporation by ordinance of the legislative body of the city concurred in by resolution of the metropolitan council, or (2) if such city shall not be so annexed such territory shall remain within the metropolitan municipal corporation unless such city shall by resolution of its legislative body request the withdrawal of such territory subject to any outstanding indebtedness of the metropolitan corporation and the metropolitan council shall by resolution consent to such withdrawal.Any territory located within a component county that is contiguous to a metropolitan municipal corporation and lying wholly within an incorporated city or town may be annexed to such metropolitan municipal corporation by ordinance of the legislative body of such city or town requesting such annexation concurred in by resolution of the metropolitan council.Any other territory located within a component county that is adjacent to a metropolitan municipal corporation may be annexed thereto by vote of the qualified electors residing in the territory to be annexed, in the manner provided in this chapter. An election to annex such territory may be called pursuant to a petition or resolution in the following manner:(1) A petition calling for such an election shall be signed by at least four percent of the qualified voters residing within the territory to be annexed and shall be filed with the auditor of the central county.(2) A resolution calling for such an election may be adopted by the metropolitan council.Any resolution or petition calling for such an election shall describe the boundaries of the territory to be annexed, and state that the annexation of such territory to the metropolitan municipal corporation will be conducive to the welfare and benefit of the persons or property within the metropolitan municipal corporation and within the territory proposed to be annexed.Upon receipt of such a petition, the auditor shall examine the same and certify to the sufficiency of the signatures thereon. Within thirty days following the receipt of such petition, the auditor shall transmit the same to the metropolitan council, together with his or her certificate as to the sufficiency thereof.[ 2009 c 549 § 2111; 1993 c 240 § 18; 1969 ex.s. c 135 § 3; 1967 c 105 § 15; 1965 c 7 § 35.58.530. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 53.]
WA Rev Code § 35.58.540 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations.|35.58.540 - Annexation—Hearings—Inclusion, exclusion of territory—Boundaries—Calling election.

RCW 35.58.540 Annexation—Hearings—Inclusion, exclusion of territory—Boundaries—Calling election.Upon receipt of a duly certified petition calling for an election on the annexation of territory to a metropolitan municipal corporation, or if the metropolitan council shall determine without a petition being filed, that an election on the annexation of any adjacent territory shall be held, the metropolitan council shall fix a date for a public hearing thereon which shall be not more than sixty nor less than forty days following the receipt of such petition or adoption of such resolution. Notice of such hearing shall be published once a week for at least four consecutive weeks in one or more newspapers of general circulation within the territory proposed to be annexed. The notice shall contain a description of the boundaries of the territory proposed to be annexed and shall state the time and place of the hearing thereon and the fact that any changes in the boundaries of such territory will be considered at such time and place. At such hearing or any continuation thereof, any interested person may appear and be heard on all matters relating to the proposed annexation. The metropolitan council may make such changes in the boundaries of the territory proposed to be annexed as it shall deem reasonable and proper, but may not delete any portion of the proposed area which will create an island of included or excluded lands and may not delete a portion of any city. If the metropolitan council shall determine that any additional territory should be included in the territory to be annexed, a second hearing shall be held and notice given in the same manner as for the original hearing. The metropolitan council may adjourn the hearing on the proposed annexation from time to time not exceeding thirty days in all. At the next regular meeting following the conclusion of such hearing, the metropolitan council shall, if it finds that the annexation of such territory will be conducive to the welfare and benefit of the persons and property therein and the welfare and benefit of the persons and property within the metropolitan municipal corporation, adopt a resolution fixing the boundaries of the territory to be annexed and causing to be called a special election on such annexation to be held not more than one hundred twenty days nor less than sixty days following the adoption of such resolution.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.58.540. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 54.]
WA Rev Code § 35.58.550 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations.|35.58.550 - Annexation—Election—Favorable vote.

RCW 35.58.550 Annexation—Election—Favorable vote.An election on the annexation of territory to a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be conducted and canvassed in the same manner as provided for the conduct of an election on the formation of a metropolitan municipal corporation except that notice of such election shall be published in one or more newspapers of general circulation in the territory proposed to be annexed and the ballot proposition shall be in substantially the following form:ANNEXATION TO (here insert name ofmetropolitan municipal corporation)."Shall the territory described in a resolution of the metropolitan council of (here insert name of metropolitan municipal corporation) adopted on the . . . . . . . . . ., 19. . ., be annexed to such incorporation? YES . . . .□ NO . . . .□"If a majority of those voting on such proposition vote in favor thereof, the territory shall thereupon be annexed to the metropolitan municipal corporation.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.58.550. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 55.]NOTES:Canvassing returns, generally: Chapter 29A.60 RCW.Conduct of elections—Canvass: RCW 29A.60.010.
WA Rev Code § 35.58.560 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations.|35.58.560 - Taxes—Counties or cities not to impose on certain operations—Credits or offsets against state taxes—Refund of motor vehicle fuel taxes paid.

RCW 35.58.560 Taxes—Counties or cities not to impose on certain operations—Credits or offsets against state taxes—Refund of motor vehicle fuel taxes paid.No county or city shall have the right to impose a tax upon the gross revenues derived by a metropolitan municipal corporation from the operation of a metropolitan sewage disposal, water supply, garbage disposal or public transportation system.A metropolitan municipal corporation may credit or offset against the amount of any tax which is levied by the state during any calendar year upon the gross revenues derived by such metropolitan municipal corporation from the performance of any authorized function, the amount of any expenditures made from such gross revenues by such metropolitan municipal corporation during the same calendar year or any year prior to May 21, 1971 in planning for or performing the function of metropolitan public transportation and including interest on any moneys advanced for such purpose from other funds and to the extent of such credit a metropolitan municipal corporation may expend such revenues for such purposes.A metropolitan municipal corporation authorized to perform the function of metropolitan public transportation and engaged in the operation of an urban passenger transportation system shall receive a refund of the amount of the motor vehicle fuel tax levied by the state and paid on each gallon of motor vehicle fuel used, whether such vehicle fuel tax has been paid either directly to the vendor from whom the motor vehicle fuel was purchased or indirectly by adding the amount of such tax to the price of such fuel: PROVIDED, That no refunds authorized by this section shall be granted on fuel used by any urban transportation vehicle on any trip where any portion of said trip is more than six road miles beyond the corporate limits of the metropolitan municipal corporation in which said trip originated.[ 1971 ex.s. c 303 § 10; 1967 c 105 § 16.]
WA Rev Code § 35.58.570 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations.|35.58.570 - Sewage facilities—Capacity charge.

RCW 35.58.570 Sewage facilities—Capacity charge.(1) A metropolitan municipal corporation that is engaged in the transmission, treatment, and disposal of sewage may impose a capacity charge on users of the metropolitan municipal corporation's sewage facilities when the user connects, reconnects, or establishes a new service to sewer facilities of a city, county, or special district that discharges into the metropolitan facilities. The capacity charge shall be based upon the cost of the sewage facilities' excess capacity that is necessary to provide sewerage treatment for new users to the system.(2) The capacity charge is a monthly charge reviewed and approved annually by the metropolitan council. A metropolitan municipal corporation may charge property owners seeking to connect to the sewage facilities of the metropolitan municipal corporation as a condition to granting the right to so connect, in addition to the cost of such connection, such reasonable capacity charge as the legislative body of the metropolitan municipal corporation shall determine proper in order that such property owners shall bear their equitable share of the cost of such system. The equitable share may include interest charges applied from the date of construction of the sewage facilities until the connection, or for a period not to exceed ten years, at a rate commensurate with the rate of interest applicable to the metropolitan municipal corporation at the time of construction or major rehabilitation of the sewage facilities, or at the time of installation of the sewer lines to which the property owner is seeking to connect but not to exceed ten percent per year: PROVIDED, That the aggregate amount of interest shall not exceed the equitable share of the cost of the sewage facilities allocated to such property owners. Capacity charges collected shall be considered revenue of the sewage facilities.(3) The council of the metropolitan municipal corporation shall enforce the collection of the capacity charge in the same manner provided for the collection, enforcement, and payment of rates and charges for water-sewer districts provided in RCW 57.08.081. At least thirty days before commencement of an action to foreclose a lien for a capacity charge, the metropolitan municipal corporation shall send written notice of delinquency in payment of the capacity charge to any first mortgage or deed of trust holder of record at the address of record.[ 2000 c 161 § 1; 1996 c 230 § 1602; 1989 c 389 § 1.]NOTES:Part headings not law—Effective date—1996 c 230: See notes following RCW 57.02.001.
WA Rev Code § 35.58.580 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations.|35.58.580 - Public transportation fares—Proof of payment—Civil infractions.

RCW 35.58.580 Public transportation fares—Proof of payment—Civil infractions.(1) Persons traveling on public transportation operated by a metropolitan municipal corporation or a city-owned transit system shall pay the fare established by the metropolitan municipal corporation or the city-owned transit system and shall produce proof of payment in accordance with the terms of use established by the metropolitan municipal corporation or the city-owned transit system. Such persons shall produce proof of payment when requested by a person designated to monitor fare payment. The required manner of producing proof of payment specified in the terms of use established by the metropolitan municipal corporation or the city-owned transit system may include, but is not limited to, requiring a person using an electronic fare payment card to validate the card by presenting the card to an electronic card reader before or upon entering a public transportation vehicle or a restricted fare paid area.(2) The following constitute civil infractions punishable according to the schedule of fines and penalties established by a metropolitan municipal corporation or a city-owned transit system under RCW 35.58.585:(a) Failure to pay the required fare, except when a metropolitan municipal corporation or a city-owned transit system under RCW 35.58.585 fails to meet the requirements of subsection (3) of this section;(b) Failure to produce proof of payment in the manner required by the terms of use established by the metropolitan municipal corporation or the city-owned transit system including, but not limited to, the failure to produce a validated fare payment card when requested to do so by a person designated to monitor fare payment; and(c) Failure to depart the bus or other mode of public transportation when requested to do so by a person designated to monitor fare payment.(3) If fare payment is required before entering a transit vehicle, as defined in RCW 9.91.025(2)(b), or before entering a fare paid area in a transit facility, as defined in RCW 9.91.025(2)(a), signage must be conspicuously posted at the place of boarding or within ten feet of the nearest entrance to a transit facility that clearly indicates: (a) The locations where tickets or fare media may be purchased; and (b) that a person using an electronic fare payment card must present the card to an electronic card reader before entering a transit vehicle or before entering a restricted fare paid area.[ 2012 c 68 § 1; 2008 c 123 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 35.58.585 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations.|35.58.585 - Public transportation fares—Schedule of fines and penalties—Who may monitor fare payment—Administration of citations.

RCW 35.58.585 Public transportation fares—Schedule of fines and penalties—Who may monitor fare payment—Administration of citations.(1) Both a metropolitan municipal corporation and a city-owned transit system may establish, by resolution, a schedule of fines and penalties for civil infractions established in RCW 35.58.580. Fines established shall not exceed those imposed for class 1 infractions under RCW 7.80.120.(2)(a) Both a metropolitan municipal corporation and a city-owned transit system may designate persons to monitor fare payment who are equivalent to, and are authorized to exercise all the powers of, an enforcement officer as defined in RCW 7.80.040. Both a metropolitan municipal corporation and a city-owned transit system may employ personnel to either monitor fare payment or contract for such services, or both.(b) In addition to the specific powers granted to enforcement officers under RCW 7.80.050 and 7.80.060, persons designated to monitor fare payment may also take the following actions:(i) Request proof of payment from passengers;(ii) Request personal identification from a passenger who does not produce proof of payment when requested;(iii) Issue a citation for a civil infraction established in RCW 35.58.580 conforming to the requirements established in RCW 7.80.070, except that the form for the notice of civil infraction must be approved by the administrative office of the courts and must not include vehicle information; and(iv) Request that a passenger leave the bus or other mode of public transportation when the passenger has not produced proof of payment after being asked to do so by a person designated to monitor fare payment.(3) Both a metropolitan municipal corporation and a city-owned transit system shall keep records of citations in the manner prescribed by RCW 7.80.150. All civil infractions established by this section and RCW 35.58.580 and 35.58.590 shall be heard and determined by a district court as provided in RCW 7.80.010 (1) and (4).[ 2016 c 95 § 10; 2008 c 123 § 2.]NOTES:Intent—2016 c 95: See note following RCW 36.62.252.
WA Rev Code § 35.58.590 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations.|35.58.590 - Public transportation fares—Powers of law enforcement authorities.

RCW 35.58.590 Public transportation fares—Powers of law enforcement authorities.RCW 35.58.580 and 35.58.585 do not prevent law enforcement authorities from prosecuting for theft, trespass, or other charges by any individual who:(1) Fails to pay the required fare on more than one occasion within a twelve-month period;(2) Fails to timely select one of the options for responding to the notice of civil infraction after receiving a statement of the options for responding to the notice of infraction and the procedures necessary to exercise these options; or(3) Fails to depart the bus or other mode of public transportation when requested to do so by a person designated to monitor fare payment.[ 2008 c 123 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 35.58.595 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations.|35.58.595 - Public transportation fares—Powers and authority are supplemental to other laws.

RCW 35.58.595 Public transportation fares—Powers and authority are supplemental to other laws.The powers and authority conferred by RCW 35.58.580 through 35.58.590 shall be construed as in addition and supplemental to powers or authority conferred by any other law, and nothing contained therein shall be construed as limiting any other powers or authority of any public agency.[ 2008 c 123 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 35.58.600 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations.|35.58.600 - Collaboration with local coordinating coalitions to advance transportation services for persons with special transportation needs.

RCW 35.58.600 Collaboration with local coordinating coalitions to advance transportation services for persons with special transportation needs.A municipality, as defined in RCW 35.58.272, and each regional transit authority shall work collaboratively with the appropriate local coordinating coalition or coalitions as described under *RCW 47.06B.070 to advance the coordination of and maximize efficiencies in transportation services provided to persons with special transportation needs as defined in *RCW 47.06B.012.[ 2009 c 515 § 13.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: RCW 47.06B.070 and 47.06B.012 were repealed by 2011 c 60 § 51.
WA Rev Code § 35.58.610 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations.|35.58.610 - Supplemental transportation improvements.

RCW 35.58.610 Supplemental transportation improvements.If the legislative authority of a city provides or contracts for supplemental transportation improvements, as described in RCW 35.21.925 or under chapter 36.73 RCW, a metropolitan municipal corporation serving the city or border jurisdictions shall coordinate its services with the supplemental transportation improvements to maximize efficiencies in public transportation services within and across service boundaries.[ 2010 c 251 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 35.58.900 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations.|35.58.900 - Liberal construction.

RCW 35.58.900 Liberal construction.The rule of strict construction shall have no application to this chapter, but the same shall be liberally construed in all respects in order to carry out the purposes and objects for which this chapter is intended.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.58.900. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 56.]
WA Rev Code § 35.58.911 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations.|35.58.911 - Prior proceedings validated, ratified, approved and confirmed.

RCW 35.58.911 Prior proceedings validated, ratified, approved and confirmed.All proceedings which have been taken prior to the date *this 1967 amendatory act takes effect for the purpose of financing or aiding in the financing of any work, undertaking or project by any metropolitan municipal corporation, including all proceedings for the authorization and issuance of bonds and for the sale, execution, and delivery thereof, are hereby validated, ratified, approved, and confirmed, notwithstanding any lack of power (other than constitutional) of such metropolitan municipal corporation or the governing body or officers thereof, to authorize and issue such bonds, or to sell, execute, or deliver the same and notwithstanding any defects or irregularities (other than constitutional) in such proceedings.[ 1967 c 105 § 17.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: The effective date of "this 1967 amendatory act" [1967 c 105] is March 21, 1967; see preface to 1967 session laws. For codification of 1967 c 105, see Codification Tables.
WA Rev Code § 35.59.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.59 - Multi-Purpose Community Centers.|35.59.010 - Definitions.

RCW 35.59.010 Definitions."Municipality" as used in this chapter means any county, city or town of the state of Washington."Government agency" as used in this chapter means the federal government or any agency thereof, or the state or any agency, subdivision, taxing district or municipal corporation thereof other than a county, city or town."Person" as used in this chapter means any private corporation, partnership, association or individual."Multi-purpose community center" as used in this chapter means the lands, interests in lands, property, property rights, equipment, buildings, structures and other improvements developed as an integrated, multi-purpose, public facility on a single site or immediately adjacent sites for the housing and furnishing of any combination of the following community or public services or facilities: Administrative, legislative or judicial offices and chambers of any municipality, public health facilities, public safety facilities including without limitation, adult and juvenile detention facilities, fire and police stations, public halls, auditoria, libraries and museums, public facilities for the teaching, practice or exhibition of arts and crafts, educational facilities, playfields, playgrounds, parks, indoor and outdoor sports and recreation facilities. The term multi-purpose community center shall also mean and include walks, ramps, bridges, terminal and parking facilities for private vehicles and public transportation vehicles and systems, utilities, accessories, landscaping, and appurtenances incident to and necessary for such centers.[ 1967 c 110 § 1.]NOTES:Effective date—1967 c 110: "This act shall take effect on June 9, 1967." [ 1967 c 110 § 13.]