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WA Rev Code § 54.04.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.130 - Employee benefit plans when private utility acquired—Rights, powers and duties as to existing private employee benefit plans.

RCW 54.04.130 Employee benefit plans when private utility acquired—Rights, powers and duties as to existing private employee benefit plans.Whenever any municipal corporation acquires by condemnation or otherwise any utility which at the time of acquisition is in private ownership and the employees of such private utility have been for at least two years and are at the time of acquisition covered by any plan for individual annuity contracts, retirement income policies, group annuity contracts, group insurance for the benefit of employees, or any other contract for the benefit of employees, such district shall, when the personnel is retained by the district, assume all of the obligations and liabilities of the private utility acquired with relation to such plan and the employees covered thereby at the time of acquisition; or the municipal corporation may by agreement with a majority of the employees affected substitute a plan or contract of the same or like nature. The municipal corporations acquiring such private utility shall proceed in such manner as is necessary so as not to reduce or impair any benefits or privileges which such employees would have received or be entitled to had such acquisition not been effected. The district may pay all or any part of the premiums or other payments required therefor out of the revenue derived from the operation of its properties.[ 1961 c 139 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 54.04.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.140 - Employee benefit plans when private utility acquired—Admission to district's employee plan—Service credit—Contributions—Benefits.

RCW 54.04.140 Employee benefit plans when private utility acquired—Admission to district's employee plan—Service credit—Contributions—Benefits.Any person affected by RCW 54.04.130 who was employed by the private utility at the time of acquisition may, at his or her option, apply to the district and/or appropriate officers, for admission to any plan available to other employees of the district. Every such person who was covered at the time of acquisition by a plan with the private utility shall have added and accredited to his or her period of employment his or her period of immediately preceding continuous service with such private utility if he or she remains in the service of the municipal corporation until such plan for which he or she seeks admission becomes applicable to him or her.No such person shall have added and accredited to his or her period of employment his or her period of service with said private utility unless he or she or a third party shall pay to the appropriate officer or fund of the plan to which he or she requests admission his or her contribution for the period of such service with the private utility at the rate provided in or for such plan to which he or she desires admission, or if he or she shall be entitled to any private benefits, as a result of such private service, unless he or she agrees at the time of his or her employment with the district to accept a reduction in the payment of any benefits payable under the plan to which he or she requests entry that are based in whole or in part on such added and accredited service by the amount of benefits received. For the purposes of contributions, the date of entry of service shall be deemed the date of entry into service with the private utility, which service is accredited by this section, and the amount of contributions for the period of accredited service shall be based on the wages or salary of such person during that added and accredited period of service with the private utility.The district may receive such payments from a third party and shall make from such payments contributions with respect to such prior service as may be necessary to enable it to assume its obligations.After such contributions have been made and such service added and accredited such employee shall be established in the plan to which he or she seeks admission with all rights, benefits, and privileges that he or she would have been entitled to had he or she been a member of the plan from the beginning of his or her immediately preceding continuous employment with the private utility or of his or her eligibility.[ 2010 c 8 § 17003; 1961 c 139 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 54.04.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.150 - Employee benefit plans when private utility acquired—Agreements and contracts—Prior rights preserved.

RCW 54.04.150 Employee benefit plans when private utility acquired—Agreements and contracts—Prior rights preserved.The municipal corporation may enter into any agreements and contracts necessary to carry out the powers and duties prescribed by RCW 54.04.130 and 54.04.140, but nothing in RCW 54.04.130 through 54.04.160 shall be so construed as requiring without consent the modification of the obligation of any contract or as requiring any third party to modify the rights, privileges or obligations acquired or incurred under a prior agreement.[ 1961 c 139 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 54.04.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.160 - Assumption of obligations of private pension plan when urban transportation system acquired.

RCW 54.04.160 Assumption of obligations of private pension plan when urban transportation system acquired.Any municipal corporation which has heretofore or shall hereafter acquire from a private owner any urban transportation system which at the time of such acquisition has or had in effect any pension or retirement system for its employees, shall assume all such obligations with respect to continued contributions to and/or administration of, such retirement system, as the private owner bore or shall bear at such time, insofar as shall be necessary to discharge accrued obligations under such retirement system to beneficiaries who are not thereafter made members of a municipal or state retirement system.[ 1961 c 139 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 54.04.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.170 - Collective bargaining authorized for employees.

RCW 54.04.170 Collective bargaining authorized for employees.Employees of public utility districts are hereby authorized and entitled to enter into collective bargaining relations with their employers with all the rights and privileges incident thereto as are accorded to similar employees in private industry.[ 1963 c 28 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 54.04.180 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions.|54.04.180 - Collective bargaining authorized for districts.

RCW 54.04.180 Collective bargaining authorized for districts.Any public utility district may enter into collective bargaining relations with its employees in the same manner that a private employer might do and may agree to be bound by the result of such collective bargaining.[ 1963 c 28 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 54.08.001 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.08 - Formation—Dissolution—Elections.|54.08.001 - Actions subject to review by boundary review board.

RCW 54.08.001 Actions subject to review by boundary review board.Actions taken under chapter 54.08 RCW may be subject to potential review by a boundary review board under chapter 36.93 RCW.[ 1989 c 84 § 47.]
WA Rev Code § 54.08.041 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.08 - Formation—Dissolution—Elections.|54.08.041 - Formation election expenses.

RCW 54.08.041 Formation election expenses.All expenses of elections for the formation of such public utility districts shall be paid by the county holding such election, and such expenditure is hereby declared to be for a county purpose, and the money paid out for such purpose shall be repaid to such county by the public utility district, if formed.[ 1969 c 106 § 2.]NOTES:Construction—1969 c 106: "The rule of strict construction shall have no application to this act. The act shall be liberally construed, in order to carry out the purposes and objectives for which this act is intended." [ 1969 c 106 § 8.]Severability—1969 c 106: "If any provision of this act, or its application to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this act, or the application to other persons or circumstances, is not affected." [ 1969 c 106 § 9.]
WA Rev Code § 54.08.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.08 - Formation—Dissolution—Elections.|54.08.050 - Validity of district, questioning of.

RCW 54.08.050 Validity of district, questioning of.The existence of any public utility district now or hereafter formed under chapter 1, Laws of 1931, cannot hereafter be legally questioned by any person except the state of Washington in an appropriate court action brought within six months from the date that the county election board shall have canvassed the returns of the election held on the proposition of creating such district. If the existence of a district is not challenged within the period above specified, by the filing and service of petition or complaint in the action aforesaid, the state of Washington thereafter shall be barred forever from questioning the legal existence and validity of such district by reason of any defect in the organization thereof, and the same shall be deemed duly and regularly organized under the laws of this state.[ 1941 c 245 § 10; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 11616-7.]
WA Rev Code § 54.08.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.08 - Formation—Dissolution—Elections.|54.08.080 - Dissolution.

RCW 54.08.080 Dissolution.Any district now or hereafter created under the laws of this state may be dissolved, as hereinafter provided, by a majority vote of the qualified electors of such district at any general election upon a resolution of the district commission, or upon petition being filed and such proposition for dissolution submitted to said electors in the same manner provided by chapter 54.08 RCW for the creation of public utility districts. The returns of the election on such proposition for dissolution shall be canvassed and the results declared in the same manner as is provided by RCW 54.08.010: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That any such proposition to dissolve a district shall not be submitted to the electors if within five years prior to the filing of such petition or resolution such district has undertaken any material studies or material action relating to the construction or acquisition of any utility properties or if such district at the time of the submission of such proposition is actually engaged in the operation of any utility properties.If a majority of the votes cast at the election favor dissolution, the commission of the district shall petition, without any filing fee, the superior court of the county in which such district is located for an order authorizing the payment of all indebtedness of the district and directing the transfer of any surplus funds or property to the general fund of the county in which such district is organized.[ 1969 c 106 § 4.]NOTES:Construction—Severability—1969 c 106: See notes following RCW 54.08.041.Dissolution of special purpose districts: Chapters 36.96 and 53.48 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 54.12.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.12 - Commissioners.|54.12.090 - President—Secretary—Rules—Seal—Minutes.

RCW 54.12.090 President—Secretary—Rules—Seal—Minutes.The commission shall elect from its members, a president and secretary, and shall, by resolution, adopt rules governing the transaction of district business, and adopt an official seal. All proceedings of the commission shall be by motion or resolution, recorded in its minute books, which shall be public records.A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum of the commission for the transaction of business. The concurrence of a majority of the whole commission in office at the time shall be necessary for the passage of any resolution, and no business shall be transacted, except in usual and ordinary course, unless there are in office at least a majority of the full number of commissioners as fixed by law.The commission may create and fill such positions and fix salaries and bonds thereof as it may provide by resolution.[ 1955 c 124 § 6. Prior: 1931 c 1 § 8, part; RRS § 11612, part.]
WA Rev Code § 54.12.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.12 - Commissioners.|54.12.100 - Oath or affirmation.

RCW 54.12.100 Oath or affirmation.Each commissioner before he or she enters upon the duties of his or her office shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that he or she will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of his or her office to the best of his or her ability. This oath, or affirmation, shall be administered and certified by an officer of the county in which the district is situated, who is authorized to administer oaths, without charge therefor. The oath or affirmation shall be filed with the county auditor.[ 2010 c 8 § 17006; 1986 c 167 § 23; 1959 c 265 § 10.]NOTES:Severability—1986 c 167: See note following RCW 29A.16.040.
WA Rev Code § 54.12.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.12 - Commissioners.|54.12.110 - Electrical utilities—Civil immunity of commissioners and employees for good faith mistakes and errors of judgment.

RCW 54.12.110 Electrical utilities—Civil immunity of commissioners and employees for good faith mistakes and errors of judgment.Commissioners and employees of public utility districts shall be immune from civil liability for mistakes and errors of judgment in the good faith performance of acts within the scope of their official duties involving the exercise of judgment and discretion which relate solely to their responsibilities for electrical utilities. This grant of immunity shall not be construed as modifying the liability of the public utility district.[ 1983 1st ex.s. c 48 § 2.]NOTES:Severability—1983 1st ex.s. c 48: See note following RCW 35.21.415.
WA Rev Code § 54.16.005 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.16 - Powers.|54.16.005 - Definitions.

RCW 54.16.005 Definitions.The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Broadband infrastructure" means networks of deployed telecommunications equipment and technologies necessary to provide high-speed internet access and other advanced telecommunications services.(2) "Commission" means the Washington utilities and transportation commission.(3) "District commission" means the governing board of a public utility district.(4) "Retail telecommunications services" means the sale, lease, license, or indivisible right of use of telecommunications services or telecommunications facilities directly to end users.(5) "Telecommunications" has the same meaning as defined in RCW 80.04.010.(6) "Telecommunications facilities" means lines, conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, crossarms, receivers, transmitters, instruments, machines, appliances, instrumentalities and all devices, real estate, easements, apparatus, property, and routes used, operated, owned, or controlled by any entity to facilitate the provision of telecommunications services.(7) "Wholesale telecommunications services" means the provision of telecommunications services or telecommunications facilities for resale to an entity that provides retail telecommunications services.[ 2021 c 294 § 1; 2000 c 81 § 2.]NOTES:Short title—2021 c 294: See note following RCW 54.16.330.Findings—2000 c 81: See note following RCW 53.08.005.
WA Rev Code § 54.16.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.16 - Powers.|54.16.010 - Surveys, plans, investigations, or studies.

RCW 54.16.010 Surveys, plans, investigations, or studies.A district may make surveys, plans, investigations or studies for generating electric energy by water power, steam, or other methods, and for systems and facilities for the generation, transmission or distribution thereof, and for domestic and industrial water supply and irrigation, and for matters and purposes reasonably incidental thereto, within or without the district, and compile comprehensive maps and plans showing the territory that can be most economically served by the various resources and utilities, the natural order in which they should be developed, and how they may be joined and coordinated to make a complete and systematic whole.[ 1969 c 106 § 6; 1955 c 390 § 2. Prior: 1945 c 143 § 1(a); 1931 c 1 § 6(a); Rem. Supp. 1945 § 11610(a).]NOTES:Construction—Severability—1969 c 106: See notes following RCW 54.08.041.
WA Rev Code § 54.16.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.16 - Powers.|54.16.020 - Acquisition of property and rights—Eminent domain.

RCW 54.16.020 Acquisition of property and rights—Eminent domain.A district may construct, condemn and purchase, purchase, acquire, lease, add to, maintain, operate, develop, and regulate all lands, property, property rights, water, water rights, dams, ditches, flumes, aqueducts, pipes and pipe lines, water power, leases, easements, rights-of-way, franchises, plants, plant facilities, and systems for generating electric energy by water power, steam, or other methods; plants, plant facilities, and systems for developing, conserving, and distributing water for domestic use and irrigation; buildings, structures, poles and pole lines, and cables and conduits and any and all other facilities; and may exercise the right of eminent domain to effectuate the foregoing purposes or for the acquisition and damaging of such property and rights, or property of any kind appurtenant thereto, and for the purpose of acquiring the right to make physical connection with plants and plant facilities of all persons and municipalities. The right of eminent domain shall be exercised pursuant to resolution of the commission and conducted in the same manner and by the same procedure as is provided for the exercise of that power by cities and towns of the state in the acquisition of like property and property rights. It shall be no defense to a condemnation proceeding that a portion of the electric current generated or sold by the district will be applied to private purposes, if the principal uses intended are public: PROVIDED, That no public utility owned by a city or town shall be condemned, and none shall be purchased without submission of the question to the voters of the utility district. In a condemnation proceeding, the court shall submit to the jury the values placed upon the property by the taxing authority for taxation purposes, and in respect to property, plants, and facilities of persons using public highways for furnishing public service without franchises, shall consider in determining the value thereof the fact that the property, plants, and facilities are subject to be removed from the highways by reason of being so operated without a franchise.[ 1955 c 390 § 3. Prior: 1945 c 143 § 1(b); 1931 c 1 § 6(b); Rem. Supp. 1945 § 11610(b).]NOTES:Eminent domain: State Constitution Art. 1 § 16 (Amendment 9).Eminent domain by cities: Chapter 8.12 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 54.16.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.16 - Powers.|54.16.030 - Water and irrigation works.

RCW 54.16.030 Water and irrigation works.A district may construct, purchase, condemn and purchase, acquire, add to, maintain, conduct, and operate waterworks and irrigation plants and systems, within or without its limits, for the purpose of furnishing the district, and the inhabitants thereof, and of the county in which the district is located, and any other persons including public and private corporations within or without the limits of the district or the county, with an ample supply of water for all purposes, public and private, including water power, domestic use, and irrigation, with full and exclusive authority to sell and regulate and control the use, distribution, and price thereof.[ 1999 c 154 § 1; 1998 c 49 § 1; 1955 c 390 § 4. Prior: 1945 c 143 § 1(c); 1931 c 1 § 6(c); Rem. Supp. 1945 § 11610(c).]
WA Rev Code § 54.16.032 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.16 - Powers.|54.16.032 - Authority to assist customers in the acquisition of water conservation equipment—Limitations.

RCW 54.16.032 Authority to assist customers in the acquisition of water conservation equipment—Limitations.Any district is hereby authorized, within limits established by the Constitution of the state of Washington, to assist the owners of structures in financing the acquisition and installation of fixtures, systems, and equipment, for compensation or otherwise, for the conservation or more efficient use of water in the structures under a water conservation plan adopted by the district if the cost per unit of water saved or conserved by the use of the fixtures, systems, and equipment is less than the cost per unit of water supplied by the next least costly new water source available to the district to meet future demand. Except where otherwise authorized, assistance shall be limited to:(1) Providing an inspection of the structure, either directly or through one or more inspectors under contract, to determine and inform the owner of the estimated cost of purchasing and installing conservation fixtures, systems, and equipment for which financial assistance will be approved and the estimated life-cycle savings to the water system and the consumer that are likely to result from the installation of the fixtures, systems, or equipment;(2) Providing a list of businesses that sell and install the fixtures, systems, and equipment within or in close proximity to the service area of the city or town, each of which businesses shall have requested to be included and shall have the ability to provide the products in a workmanlike manner and to utilize the fixtures, systems, and equipment in accordance with the prevailing national standards;(3) Arranging to have approved conservation fixtures, systems, and equipment installed by a private contractor whose bid is acceptable to the owner of the structure and verifying the installation; and(4) Arranging or providing financing for the purchase and installation of approved conservation fixtures, systems, and equipment. The fixtures, systems, and equipment shall be purchased or installed by a private business, the owner, or the utility.Pay back shall be in the form of incremental additions to the utility bill, billed either together with use charge or separately. Loans shall not exceed two hundred forty months in length.[ 2009 c 416 § 2; 1989 c 421 § 4.]NOTES:Intent—Contingent effective date—1989 c 421: See notes following RCW 35.92.017.
WA Rev Code § 54.16.035 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 54 - Public Utility Districts|Chapter 54.16 - Powers.|54.16.035 - Provision of water service beyond district subject to review by boundary review board.

RCW 54.16.035 Provision of water service beyond district subject to review by boundary review board.The provision of water service beyond the boundaries of a public utility district may be subject to potential review by a boundary review board under chapter 36.93 RCW.[ 1989 c 84 § 48.]