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WA Rev Code § 35.95A.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.95A - City Transportation Authority—Monorail Transportation.|35.95A.100 - Property tax levies.

RCW 35.95A.100 Property tax levies.(1) Every authority has the power to impose annual regular property tax levies in an amount equal to one dollar and fifty cents or less per thousand dollars of assessed value of property in the authority area when specifically authorized to do so by a majority of the voters voting on a proposition submitted at a special election or at the regular election of the authority. A proposition authorizing the tax levies will not be submitted by an authority more than twice in any twelve-month period. Ballot propositions must conform with RCW 29A.36.210. The number of years during which the regular levy will be imposed may be limited as specified in the ballot proposition or may be unlimited in duration. In the event an authority is levying property taxes, which in combination with property taxes levied by other taxing districts subject to the limitations provided in RCW 84.52.043 and 84.52.050, exceed these limitations, the authority's property tax levy shall be reduced or eliminated consistent with RCW 84.52.010.(2) The limitation in RCW 84.55.010 does not apply to the first levy imposed under this section following the approval of the levies by the voters under subsection (1) of this section.[ 2015 c 53 § 46; 2002 c 248 § 11.]
WA Rev Code § 35.95A.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.95A - City Transportation Authority—Monorail Transportation.|35.95A.110 - Taxes and fees—Limitation on use.

RCW 35.95A.110 Taxes and fees—Limitation on use.All taxes and fees levied and collected by an authority must be used solely for the purpose of paying all or any part of the cost of acquiring, designing, constructing, equipping, maintaining, or operating public monorail transportation facilities or contracting for the services thereof, or to pay or secure the payment of all or part of the principal of or interest on any general obligation bonds or revenue bonds issued for authority purposes. Until expended, money accumulated in the funds and accounts of an authority may be invested in the manner authorized by the governing body of the authority, consistent with state law.If any of the revenue from any tax or fee authorized to be levied by an authority has been pledged by the authority to secure the payment of any bonds as herein authorized, then as long as that pledge is in effect the legislature will not withdraw from the authority the authorization to levy and collect the tax or fee.[ 2002 c 248 § 12.]
WA Rev Code § 35.95A.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.95A - City Transportation Authority—Monorail Transportation.|35.95A.130 - Special excise tax—Collection.

RCW 35.95A.130 Special excise tax—Collection.The special excise tax imposed under RCW 35.95A.080(1) will be collected at the same time and in the same manner as relicensing tab fees under RCW 46.17.350(1) (a), (c), (d), (e), (g), (h), (j), and (n) through (q) and 35.95A.090. Every year on January 1st, April 1st, July 1st, and October 1st the department of licensing shall remit special excise taxes collected on behalf of an authority, back to the authority, at no cost to the authority. Valuation of motor vehicles for purposes of the special excise tax imposed under RCW 35.95A.080(1) must be consistent with chapter 82.44 RCW.[ 2010 c 161 § 902; 2002 c 248 § 14.]NOTES:Effective date—Intent—Legislation to reconcile chapter 161, Laws of 2010 and other amendments made during the 2010 legislative session—2010 c 161: See notes following RCW 46.04.013.
WA Rev Code § 35.95A.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.95A - City Transportation Authority—Monorail Transportation.|35.95A.140 - Requirements for signage.

RCW 35.95A.140 Requirements for signage.Each authority shall incorporate in plans for stations along any monorail project signing that is easily understood by the traveling public, including, but not limited to, persons with disabilities, non-English-speaking persons, and visitors from other nations. The signage must employ graphics consistent with international symbols for transportation facilities and signage that are consistent with department of transportation guidelines and programs. The signage must also use distinguishing pictograms as a means to identify stations and points of interest along the monorail corridor for persons who use languages that are not Roman-alphabet based. These requirements are intended to apply to new sign installation and not to existing signs. The authority may replace existing signs as it chooses; however, it shall use the new signing designs when existing signs are replaced. All signage must comply with requirements of applicable federal law and may include recommendations contained in federal publications providing directions on way-finding for persons with disabilities.[ 2005 c 19 § 2.]NOTES:Intent—Findings—2005 c 19: "It is the intent of the legislature to promote the use of icons and pictograms that incorporate the use of commonly accepted symbols that can be understood and interpreted by a variety of people from all walks of life and different nations in order to assist them in the navigation of this state. These signs can be used on roadways and for other transportation-related facilities such as transit stations, airports, bus and train stations, and ferry terminals. Pictograms are signs that depict services, facilities, or destinations in picture form and are used throughout the world. Pictograms are useful for traveling within a transit system as well as for locating transit system stations and stops.The legislature finds that many signing methods such as icons, already in use by the Washington state department of transportation and other agencies, facilitate use of the transportation systems in the state and connections between modes. The legislature also finds that the development of pictograms for use within transit systems will assist system users, complement other signing methods, and increase transit system ridership through easier way-finding. The pictograms may reflect the unique characteristics of the facility, and those characteristics should be considered and are acceptable in icon and pictogram design. It is the intent of the legislature to have icons and pictograms in use as new systems are put into service to promote tourism and be in place by 2010 to assist international visitors coming to Washington during the Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada." [ 2005 c 19 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 35.96.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.96 - Electric and Communication Facilities—Conversion to Underground.|35.96.010 - Declaration of public interest and purpose.

RCW 35.96.010 Declaration of public interest and purpose.It is hereby found and declared that the conversion of overhead electric and communication facilities to underground facilities is substantially beneficial to the public safety and welfare, is in the public interest and is a public purpose, notwithstanding any resulting incidental private benefit to any electric or communication utility affected by such conversion.[ 1967 c 119 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 35.96.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.96 - Electric and Communication Facilities—Conversion to Underground.|35.96.020 - Definitions.

RCW 35.96.020 Definitions.As used in this chapter, unless specifically defined otherwise, or unless the context indicates otherwise:"Conversion area" means that area in which existing overhead electric and communication facilities are to be converted to underground facilities pursuant to the provisions of this chapter."Electric utility" means any publicly or privately owned utility engaged in the business of furnishing electric energy to the public in all or part of the conversion area and includes electrical companies as defined by RCW 80.04.010 and public utility districts."Communication utility" means any utility engaged in the business of affording telephonic, telegraphic, cable television or other communication service to the public in all or part of the conversion area and includes telephone companies and telegraph companies as defined by RCW 80.04.010.[ 1967 c 119 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 35.96.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.96 - Electric and Communication Facilities—Conversion to Underground.|35.96.030 - Conversion of electric and communication facilities to underground facilities authorized—Local improvement districts—Special assessments.

RCW 35.96.030 Conversion of electric and communication facilities to underground facilities authorized—Local improvement districts—Special assessments.Every city or town shall have the power to convert existing overhead electric and communication facilities to underground facilities pursuant to RCW 35.43.190 where such facilities are owned or operated by the city or town. Where such facilities are not so owned or operated, every city or town shall have the power to contract with electric and communication utilities, as hereinafter provided, for the conversion of existing overhead electric and communication facilities to underground facilities. To provide funds to pay the whole or any part of the cost of any such conversion, either where the existing overhead electric and communication facilities are owned or operated by the city or town or where they are not so owned or operated, every city or town shall have the power to create local improvement districts and to levy and collect special assessments against the real property specially benefited by such conversion. For the purpose of ascertaining the amount to be assessed against each lot or parcel of land within any local improvement district established pursuant to this chapter, in addition to other methods provided by law for apportioning special benefits, the legislative authority of any city or town may apportion all or part of the special benefits accruing on a square footage basis or on a per lot basis.[ 1967 c 119 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 35.96.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.96 - Electric and Communication Facilities—Conversion to Underground.|35.96.040 - Contracts for conversion—Authorized—Provisions.

RCW 35.96.040 Contracts for conversion—Authorized—Provisions.Every city or town shall have the power to contract with electric and communication utilities for the conversion of existing overhead electric and communication facilities to underground facilities including all work incidental to such conversion. Such contracts may include, among other provisions, any of the following:(1) For the supplying and approval by electric and communication utilities of plans and specifications for such conversion;(2) For the payment to the electric and communication utilities for any work performed or services rendered by it in connection with the conversion project;(3) For the payment to the electric and communication utilities for the value of the overhead facilities removed pursuant to the conversion;(4) For ownership of the underground facilities by the electric and communication utilities.[ 1967 c 119 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 35.96.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.96 - Electric and Communication Facilities—Conversion to Underground.|35.96.060 - Application of provisions relating to local improvements in cities and towns to chapter.

RCW 35.96.060 Application of provisions relating to local improvements in cities and towns to chapter.Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, the general provisions relating to local improvements in cities and towns including but not limited to chapters 35.43, 35.44, 35.45, 35.48, 35.49, 35.50, 35.53 and 35.54 RCW shall apply to local improvements authorized by this chapter.[ 1967 c 119 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 35.96.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.96 - Electric and Communication Facilities—Conversion to Underground.|35.96.070 - Validation of preexisting debts, contracts, obligations, etc., made or incurred incidental to conversion of electric and communication facilities to underground facilities.

RCW 35.96.070 Validation of preexisting debts, contracts, obligations, etc., made or incurred incidental to conversion of electric and communication facilities to underground facilities.All debts, contracts and obligations heretofore made or incurred by or in favor of any city or town incident to the conversion of overhead electric and communication facilities to underground facilities and all bonds, warrants, or other obligations issued by any such city or town, or by any local improvement district created to effect such conversion and any and all assessments heretofore levied in any such local improvement district, and all other things and proceedings relating thereto are hereby declared to be legal and valid and of full force and effect from the date thereof.[ 1967 c 119 § 8.]
WA Rev Code § 35.96.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.96 - Electric and Communication Facilities—Conversion to Underground.|35.96.080 - Authority granted deemed alternative and additional.

RCW 35.96.080 Authority granted deemed alternative and additional.The authority granted by this chapter shall be considered an alternative and additional method for converting existing overhead electric and communication facilities to underground facilities, and for paying all or part of the cost thereof, and shall not be construed as a restriction or limitation upon any other authority for or method of converting any such facilities or placing such facilities underground or paying all or part of the cost thereof, including, but not limited to, existing authority or methods under chapter 35.43 RCW and chapter 35.44 RCW.[ 1967 c 119 § 10.]
WA Rev Code § 35.97.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.97 - Heating Systems.|35.97.010 - Definitions.

RCW 35.97.010 Definitions.Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.(1) "Biomass energy system" means a system that provides for the production or collection of organic materials such as wood and agricultural residues and municipal solid waste that are primarily organic materials and the conversion or use of that material for the production of heat or substitute fuels through several processes including, but not limited to, burning, pyrolysis, or anaerobic digestion.(2) "Cogeneration" means the sequential generation of two or more forms of energy from a common fuel or energy source.(3) "Cogeneration facility" means any machinery, equipment, structure, process, or property or any part thereof, installed or acquired for the primary purpose of cogeneration by a person or corporation.(4) "Geothermal heat" means the natural thermal energy of the earth.(5) "Waste heat" means the thermal energy which otherwise would be released to the environment from an industrial process, electric generation, or other process.(6) "Heat" means thermal energy.(7) "Heat source" includes but is not limited to (a) any integral part of a heat production or heat rejection system of an industrial facility, cogeneration facility, or electric power generation facility, (b) geothermal well or spring, (c) biomass energy system, (d) solar collection facility, and (e) hydrothermal resource or heat extraction process.(8) "Municipality" means a county, city, town, irrigation district which distributes electricity, water-sewer district, port district, or metropolitan municipal corporation.(9) "Heating facilities or heating systems" means all real and personal property, or interests therein, necessary or useful for: (a) The acquisition, production, or extraction of heat; (b) the storage of heat; (c) the distribution of heat from its source to the place of utilization; (d) the extraction of heat at the place of utilization from the medium by which the heat is distributed; (e) the distribution of heat at the place of utilization; and (f) the conservation of heat.(10) "Hydrothermal resource" means the thermal energy available in wastewater, sewage effluent, wells, or other water sources, natural or man-made.[ 1999 c 153 § 41; 1987 c 522 § 4; 1983 c 216 § 2.]NOTES:Part headings not law—1999 c 153: See note following RCW 57.04.050.
WA Rev Code § 35.97.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.97 - Heating Systems.|35.97.020 - Heating systems authorized.

RCW 35.97.020 Heating systems authorized.(1) Counties, cities, towns, irrigation districts which distribute electricity, sewer districts, water districts, port districts, and metropolitan municipal corporations are authorized pursuant to this chapter to establish heating systems and supply heating services from Washington's heat sources.(2) Nothing in this chapter authorizes any municipality to generate, transmit, distribute, or sell electricity.[ 1989 c 11 § 7; 1987 c 522 § 3; 1983 c 216 § 1.]NOTES:Severability—1989 c 11: See note following RCW 9A.56.220.
WA Rev Code § 35.97.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.97 - Heating Systems.|35.97.030 - Heating systems—General powers of municipalities.

RCW 35.97.030 Heating systems—General powers of municipalities.A municipality may construct, purchase, acquire, add to, extend, maintain, and operate a system of heating facilities, within or without its limits, for the purpose of supplying its inhabitants and other persons with heat, with full power to regulate and control the use, distribution, and price of supplying heat, and to enter into agreements for the maintenance and operation of heating facilities under terms and conditions determined by the legislative authority of the municipality. The provision of heat and heating facilities and the establishment and operation of heating systems by a municipality under this chapter are hereby declared to be a public use and a public and strictly municipal purpose. However, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to restrain or limit the authority of any individual, partnership, corporation, or private utility from establishing and operating heating systems.[ 1983 c 216 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 35.97.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.97 - Heating Systems.|35.97.040 - Heating systems—Specific powers of municipalities.

RCW 35.97.040 Heating systems—Specific powers of municipalities.In addition to the general powers under RCW 35.97.030, and not by way of limitation, municipalities have the following specific powers:(1) The usual powers of a corporation, to be exercised for public purposes;(2) To acquire by purchase, gift, or condemnation property or interests in property within and without the municipality, necessary for the construction and operation of heating systems, including additions and extensions of heating systems. No municipality may acquire any heat source by condemnation. To the extent judged economically feasible by the municipality, public property and rights-of-way shall be utilized in lieu of private property acquired by condemnation. The municipality shall determine in cooperation with existing users that addition of district heating facilities to any public property or rights-of-way shall not be a hazard or interference with existing uses or, if so, that the cost for any relocation of facilities of existing users shall be a cost and expense of installing the heating facility;(3) To acquire, install, add to, maintain, and operate heating facilities at a heat source or to serve particular consumers of heat, whether such facilities are located on property owned by the municipality, by the consumer of heat, or otherwise;(4) To sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of heating facilities;(5) To contract for the operation of heating facilities;(6) To apply and qualify for and receive any private or federal grants, loans, or other funds available for carrying out the objects of the municipality under this chapter;(7) Full and exclusive authority to sell and regulate and control the use, distribution, rates, service, charges, and price of all heat supplied by the municipality and to carry out any other powers and duties under this chapter free from the jurisdiction and control of the utilities and transportation commission;(8) To utilize fuels other than the heat sources described in RCW 35.97.020 on a standby basis, to meet start-up and emergency requirements, to meet peak demands, or to supplement those heat sources as necessary to provide a reliable and economically feasible supply of heat;(9) To the extent permitted by the state Constitution, to make loans for the purpose of enabling suppliers or consumers of heat to finance heating facilities;(10) To enter into cooperative agreements providing for the acquisition, construction, ownership, financing, use, control, and regulation of heating systems and heating facilities by more than one municipality or by one or more municipalities on behalf of other municipalities.[ 1983 c 216 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 35.97.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.97 - Heating Systems.|35.97.050 - Heating systems—Authorized by legislative authority of municipality—Competitive bidding.

RCW 35.97.050 Heating systems—Authorized by legislative authority of municipality—Competitive bidding.If the legislative authority of a municipality deems it advisable that the municipality purchase, acquire, or construct a heating system, or make any additions or extensions to a heating system, the legislative authority shall so provide by an ordinance or a resolution specifying and adopting the system or plan proposed, declaring the estimated cost thereof, as near as may be, and specifying the method of financing and source of funds. Any construction, alteration, or improvement of a heating system by any municipality shall be in compliance with the appropriate competitive bidding requirements in Titles 35, 36, 53, 57, or 87 RCW.[ 1999 c 153 § 42; 1996 c 230 § 1603; 1983 c 216 § 5.]NOTES:Part headings not law—1999 c 153: See note following RCW 57.04.050.Part headings not law—Effective date—1996 c 230: See notes following RCW 57.02.001.
WA Rev Code § 35.97.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.97 - Heating Systems.|35.97.060 - Municipality may impose rates and charges—Classification of customers.

RCW 35.97.060 Municipality may impose rates and charges—Classification of customers.A municipality may impose rates, charges, or rentals for heat, service, and facilities provided to customers of the system if the rates charged are uniform for the same class of customers or service. In classifying customers served or service furnished, the legislative authority may consider: The difference in cost of service to the various customers; location of the various customers within or without the municipality; the difference in cost of maintenance, operation, repair, and replacement of the various parts of the system; the different character of the service furnished various customers; the quantity and quality of the heat furnished; the time heat is used; the demand on the system; capital contributions made to the system including, but not limited to, assessments or the amount of capital facilities provided for use by the customer; and any other matters which present a reasonable difference as a ground for distinction.[ 1983 c 216 § 6.]