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WA Rev Code § 35.34.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.130 - Budget—Mid-biennial review and modification.

RCW 35.34.130 Budget—Mid-biennial review and modification.The legislative authority of a city or town having adopted the provisions of this chapter shall provide by ordinance for a mid-biennial review and modification of the biennial budget. The ordinance shall provide that such review and modification shall occur no sooner than eight months after the start nor later than conclusion of the first year of the fiscal biennium. The chief administrative officer shall prepare the proposed budget modification and shall provide for publication of notice of hearings consistent with publication of notices for adoption of other city or town ordinances. City or town ordinances providing for a mid-biennium review and modification shall establish procedures for distribution of the proposed modification to members of the city or town legislative authority, procedures for making copies available to the public, and shall provide for public hearings on the proposed budget modification. The budget modification shall be by ordinance approved in the same manner as are other ordinances of the city or town.A complete copy of the budget modification as adopted shall be transmitted to the state auditor and to the association of Washington cities.[ 1995 c 301 § 46; 1985 c 175 § 16.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.140 - Emergency expenditures—Nondebatable emergencies.

RCW 35.34.140 Emergency expenditures—Nondebatable emergencies.Upon the happening of any emergency caused by violence of nature, casualty, riot, insurrection, war, or other unanticipated occurrence requiring the immediate preservation of order or public health, or for the property which has been damaged or destroyed by accident, or for public relief from calamity, or in settlement of approved claims for personal injuries or property damages, or to meet mandatory expenditures required by law enacted since the last budget was adopted, or to cover expenses incident to preparing for or establishing a new form of government authorized or assumed after adoption of the current budget, including any expenses incident to selection of additional or new officials required thereby, or incident to employee recruitment at any time, the city or town legislative body, upon the adoption of an ordinance, by the vote of one more than the majority of all members of the legislative body, stating the facts constituting the emergency and the estimated amount required to meet it, may make the expenditures therefor without notice or hearing.[ 1985 c 175 § 17.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.150 - Emergency expenditures—Other emergencies—Hearing.

RCW 35.34.150 Emergency expenditures—Other emergencies—Hearing.If a public emergency which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of filing the preliminary budget requires the expenditure of money not provided for in the budget, and if it is not one of the emergencies specifically enumerated in RCW 35.34.140, the city or town legislative body before allowing any expenditure therefor shall adopt an ordinance stating the facts constituting the emergency and the estimated amount required to meet it and declaring that an emergency exists.The ordinance shall not be voted on until five days have elapsed after its introduction, and for passage shall require the vote of one more than the majority of all members of the legislative body of the city or town.Any taxpayer may appear at the meeting at which the emergency ordinance is to be voted on and be heard for or against the adoption thereof.[ 1985 c 175 § 18.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.160 - Emergency expenditures—Warrants—Payment.

RCW 35.34.160 Emergency expenditures—Warrants—Payment.All expenditures for emergency purposes as provided in this chapter shall be paid by warrants from any available money in the fund properly chargeable with such expenditures. If, at any time, there is insufficient money on hand in a fund with which to pay such warrants as presented, the warrants shall be registered, bear interest, and be called in the same manner as other registered warrants as prescribed in RCW 35.21.320.[ 1985 c 175 § 19.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.170 - Registered warrants—Payment.

RCW 35.34.170 Registered warrants—Payment.In adopting the final budget for any fiscal biennium, the legislative body shall appropriate from estimated revenue sources available, a sufficient amount to pay the principal and interest on all outstanding registered warrants issued since the adoption of the last preceding budget except those issued and identified as revenue warrants and except those for which an appropriation previously has been made. However, no portion of the revenues which are restricted in use by law may be appropriated for the redemption of warrants issued against a utility or other special purpose fund of a self-supporting nature. In addition, all or any portion of the city's or town's outstanding registered warrants may be funded into bonds in any manner authorized by law.[ 1985 c 175 § 20.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.180 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.180 - Adjustment of wages, hours, and conditions of employment.

RCW 35.34.180 Adjustment of wages, hours, and conditions of employment.Notwithstanding the appropriations for any salary or salary range of any employee or employees adopted in a final budget, the legislative body of any city or town may, by ordinance, change the wages, hours, and conditions of employment of any or all of its appointive employees if sufficient funds are available for appropriation to such purposes.[ 1985 c 175 § 21.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.190 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.190 - Forms—Accounting—Supervision by state.

RCW 35.34.190 Forms—Accounting—Supervision by state.The state auditor is empowered to make and install the forms and classifications required by this chapter to define what expenditures are chargeable to each budget class and to establish the accounting and cost systems necessary to secure accurate budget information.[ 1995 c 301 § 47; 1985 c 175 § 22.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.200 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.200 - Funds—Limitations on expenditures—Transfers and adjustments.

RCW 35.34.200 Funds—Limitations on expenditures—Transfers and adjustments.(1) The expenditures as classified and itemized in the final budget shall constitute the city's or town's appropriations for the ensuing fiscal biennium. Unless otherwise ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, and subject to further limitations imposed by ordinance of the city or town, the expenditure of city or town funds or the incurring of current liabilities on behalf of the city or town shall be limited to the following:(a) The total amount appropriated for each fund in the budget for the current fiscal biennium, without regard to the individual items contained therein, except that this limitation does not apply to wage adjustments authorized by RCW 35.34.180;(b) The unexpended appropriation balances of a preceding budget which may be carried forward from prior fiscal periods pursuant to RCW 35.34.270;(c) Funds received from the sale of bonds or warrants which have been duly authorized according to law;(d) Funds received in excess of estimated revenues during the current fiscal biennium, when authorized by an ordinance amending the original budget; and(e) Expenditures authorized by budget modification as provided by RCW 35.34.130 and those required for emergencies, as authorized by RCW 35.34.140 and 35.34.150.(2) Transfers between individual appropriations within any one fund may be made during the current fiscal biennium by order of the city's or town's chief administrative officer subject to such regulations, if any, as may be imposed by the city or town legislative body. Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 43.09.210 or of any statute to the contrary, transfers, as authorized in this section, may be made within the same fund regardless of the various offices, departments, or divisions of the city or town which may be affected.(3) The city or town legislative body, upon a finding that it is to the best interests of the city or town to decrease, revoke, or recall all or any portion of the total appropriations provided for any one fund, may, by ordinance, approved by the vote of one more than the majority of all members thereof, stating the facts and findings for doing so, decrease, revoke, or recall all or any portion of an unexpended fund balance, and by said ordinance, or a subsequent ordinance adopted by a like majority, the moneys thus released may be reappropriated for another purpose or purposes, without limitation to department, division, or fund, unless the use of such moneys is otherwise restricted by law, charter, or ordinance.[ 1985 c 175 § 23.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.205 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.205 - Administration, oversight, or supervision of utility—Reimbursement from utility budget authorized.

RCW 35.34.205 Administration, oversight, or supervision of utility—Reimbursement from utility budget authorized.Whenever any city or town apportions a percentage of the city manager's, administrator's, or supervisor's time, or the time of other management or general government staff, for administration, oversight, or supervision of a utility operated by the city or town, or to provide services to the utility, the utility budget may identify such services and budget for reimbursement of the city's or town's current expense fund for the value of such services.[ 1991 c 152 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.210 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.210 - Liabilities incurred in excess of budget.

RCW 35.34.210 Liabilities incurred in excess of budget.Liabilities incurred by any officer or employee of the city or town in excess of any budget appropriations shall not be a liability of the city or town. The clerk shall issue no warrant and the city or town legislative body or other authorized person shall approve no claim for an expenditure in excess of the total amount appropriated for any individual fund, except upon an order of a court of competent jurisdiction or for emergencies as provided in this chapter.[ 1985 c 175 § 24.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.220 - Funds received from sales of bonds and warrants—Expenditure program—Federal tax law.

RCW 35.34.220 Funds received from sales of bonds and warrants—Expenditure program—Federal tax law.Moneys received from the sale of bonds or warrants must be used for no other purpose than that for which they were issued. If any unexpended fund balance remains from the proceeds realized from the bonds or warrants after the accomplishment of the purpose for which they were issued, it must be used for the payment of principal of or interest on such indebtedness consistent with applicable provisions of federal tax law. Where a budget contains an expenditure program to be partially or wholly financed from a bond issue to be authorized thereafter, expenditures of amounts anticipated to be reimbursed from the proceeds of the issuance and sale of such bonds must be made or incurred consistent with any applicable federal tax law requirements.[ 2011 c 210 § 3; 1985 c 175 § 25.]NOTES:Application to previously issued bonds—2011 c 210: See note following RCW 39.46.040.
WA Rev Code § 35.34.230 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.230 - Revenue estimates—Amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes.

RCW 35.34.230 Revenue estimates—Amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes.At a time fixed by the city's or town's ordinance or city charter, not later than the first Monday in October of the second year of each fiscal biennium, the chief administrative officer shall provide the city's or town's legislative body with current information on estimates of revenues from all sources as adopted in the budget for the current biennium, together with estimates submitted by the clerk under RCW 35.34.070. The city's or town's legislative body and the city's or town's administrative officer or the officer's designated representative shall consider the city's or town's total anticipated financial requirements for the ensuing fiscal biennium, and the legislative body shall determine and fix by ordinance the amount to be raised the first year of the biennium by ad valorem taxes. The legislative body shall review such information as is provided by the chief administrative officer and shall adopt an ordinance establishing the amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes during the second year of the biennium. Upon adoption of the ordinance fixing the amount of ad valorem taxes to be levied, the clerk shall certify the same to the county legislative authority as required by RCW 84.52.020.[ 1985 c 175 § 26.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.240 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.240 - Funds—Quarterly report of status.

RCW 35.34.240 Funds—Quarterly report of status.At such intervals as may be required by city charter or city or town ordinance, however, being not less than quarterly, the clerk shall submit to the city's or town's legislative body and chief administrative officer a report showing the expenditures and liabilities against each separate budget appropriation incurred during the preceding reporting period and like information for the whole of the current fiscal biennium to the first day of the current reporting period together with the unexpended balance of each appropriation. The report shall also show the receipts from all sources.[ 1985 c 175 § 27.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.250 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.250 - Contingency fund—Creation.

RCW 35.34.250 Contingency fund—Creation.Every city or town may create and maintain a contingency fund to provide moneys with which to meet any municipal expense, the necessity or extent of which could not have been foreseen or reasonably evaluated at the time of adopting the annual budget, or from which to provide moneys for those emergencies described in RCW 35.34.140 and 35.34.150. Such fund may be supported by a budget appropriation from any tax or other revenue source not restricted in use by law, or also may be supported by a transfer from other unexpended or decreased funds made available by ordinance as set forth in RCW 35.34.200. However, the total amount accumulated in such fund at any time shall not exceed the equivalent of thirty-seven and one-half cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation of property within the city or town at such time. Any moneys in the emergency fund at the end of the fiscal biennium shall not lapse except upon reappropriation by the council to another fund in the adoption of a subsequent budget.[ 1985 c 175 § 28.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.260 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.260 - Contingency fund—Withdrawals.

RCW 35.34.260 Contingency fund—Withdrawals.No money shall be withdrawn from the contingency fund except by transfer to the appropriate operating fund authorized by a resolution or ordinance of the legislative body of the city or town, adopted by a majority vote of the entire legislative body, clearly stating the facts constituting the reason for the withdrawal or the emergency as the case may be, specifying the fund to which the withdrawn money shall be transferred.[ 1985 c 175 § 29.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.270 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.270 - Unexpended appropriations.

RCW 35.34.270 Unexpended appropriations.All appropriations in any current operating fund shall lapse at the end of each fiscal biennium. However, this shall not prevent payments in the following biennium upon uncompleted programs or improvements in progress or on orders subsequently filled or claims subsequently billed for the purchase of material, equipment, and supplies or for personal or contractual services not completed or furnished by the end of the fiscal biennium, all of which have been properly budgeted and contracted for prior to the close of such fiscal biennium, but furnished or completed in due course thereafter.All appropriations in a special fund authorized by ordinance or by state law to be used only for the purpose or purposes therein specified, including any cumulative reserve funds lawfully established in specific or general terms for any municipal purpose or purposes, or a contingency fund as authorized by RCW 35.34.250, shall not lapse, but shall be carried forward from biennium to biennium until fully expended or the purpose has been accomplished or abandoned, without necessity of reappropriation.The accounts for budgetary control for each fiscal biennium shall be kept open for twenty days after the close of such fiscal biennium for the purpose of paying and recording claims for indebtedness incurred during such fiscal biennium; any claim presented after the twentieth day following the close of the fiscal biennium shall be paid from appropriations lawfully provided for the ensuing period, including those made available by provisions of this section, and shall be recorded in the accounts for the ensuing fiscal biennium.[ 1985 c 175 § 30.]
WA Rev Code § 35.34.280 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.34 - Biennial Budgets.|35.34.280 - Violations and penalties.

RCW 35.34.280 Violations and penalties.Upon the conviction of any city or town official, department head, or other city or town employee of knowingly failing, or refusing, without just cause, to perform any duty imposed upon such officer or employee by this chapter, or city charter or city or town ordinance, in connection with the giving of notice, the preparing and filing of estimates of revenues or expenditures or other information required for preparing a budget report in the time and manner required, or of knowingly making expenditures in excess of budget appropriations, the official or employee shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars for each separate violation.[ 1985 c 175 § 31.]
WA Rev Code § 35.36.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.36 - Execution of Bonds by Proxy—First-Class Cities.|35.36.010 - Appointment of proxies.

RCW 35.36.010 Appointment of proxies.The mayor, city comptroller and city clerk of every city of the first class may each severally designate one or more bonded persons to affix his or her signature to any bond or bonds requiring his or her signature.If the signature of one of these officers is affixed to a bond during his or her continuance in office by a proxy designated by him or her whose authority has not been revoked, the bond shall be as binding upon the city and all concerned as though the officer had signed the bond in person.This chapter shall apply to all bonds, whether they constitute obligations of the city as a whole or of any local improvement or other district or subdivision thereof, whether they call for payment from the general funds of the city or from a local, special or other fund, and whether negotiable or otherwise.[ 2009 c 549 § 2071; 1965 c 7 § 35.36.010. Prior: 1929 c 212 § 1; RRS § 9005-5.]
WA Rev Code § 35.36.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.36 - Execution of Bonds by Proxy—First-Class Cities.|35.36.020 - Coupons—Printing facsimile signatures.

RCW 35.36.020 Coupons—Printing facsimile signatures.A facsimile reproduction of the signature of the mayor, city comptroller, or city clerk in every city of the first class may be printed, engraved, or lithographed upon bond coupons with the same effect as though the particular officer had signed the coupon in person.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.36.020. Prior: 1929 c 212 § 4; RRS § 9005-8.]
WA Rev Code § 35.36.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.36 - Execution of Bonds by Proxy—First-Class Cities.|35.36.030 - Deputies—Exemptions.

RCW 35.36.030 Deputies—Exemptions.Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as requiring the appointment of deputy comptrollers or deputy city clerks in first-class cities to be made in accordance herewith so far as concerns signatures or other doings which may be lawfully made or done by such deputy under the provisions of any other law.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.36.030. Prior: 1929 c 212 § 5; RRS § 9005-9.]
WA Rev Code § 35.36.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.36 - Execution of Bonds by Proxy—First-Class Cities.|35.36.040 - Designation of bonds to be signed.

RCW 35.36.040 Designation of bonds to be signed.(1) The officer whose duty it is to cause any bonds to be printed, engraved, or lithographed, shall specify in a written order or requisition to the printer, engraver, or lithographer the number of bonds to be printed, engraved, or lithographed and the manner of numbering them.(2) Every printer, engraver, or lithographer who prints, engraves, or lithographs a greater number of bonds than that specified or who prints, engraves, or lithographs more than one bond bearing the same number is guilty of a class B felony punishable according to chapter 9A.20 RCW.[ 2003 c 53 § 199; 1965 c 7 § 35.36.040. Prior: 1929 c 212 § 6; RRS § 9005-10.]NOTES:Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
WA Rev Code § 35.36.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.36 - Execution of Bonds by Proxy—First-Class Cities.|35.36.050 - Liability of officer.

RCW 35.36.050 Liability of officer.A mayor, comptroller, or clerk authorizing the affixing of his or her signature to a bond by a proxy shall be subject to the same liability personally and on his or her bond for any signature so affixed and to the same extent as if he or she had affixed his or her signature in person.[ 2009 c 549 § 2072; 1965 c 7 § 35.36.050. Prior: 1929 c 212 § 3; RRS § 9005-7.]