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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.29 - Municipal Elections in Code Cities. › 35A.29.130 - Notice of ballot title—Appeal.

RCW 35A.29.130
Notice of ballot title—Appeal.
Upon the filing of a ballot title as defined in RCW 35A.29.120, the county auditor shall forthwith notify the persons proposing the measure of the exact language of the ballot title. If the persons filing any local question covered by RCW 35A.29.120 are dissatisfied with the ballot title formulated by the attorney for the code city or by the county prosecuting attorney, they may appeal to the superior court of the county where the question is to appear on the ballot, as provided in RCW 29A.36.090.
[ 2015 c 53 § 56; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.29.130.]
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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.29 - Municipal Elections in Code Cities. › 35A.29.170 - Initiative and referendum petitions—Suspension of effectiveness of legislative action.

RCW 35A.29.170
Initiative and referendum petitions—Suspension of effectiveness of legislative action.
Initiative and referendum petitions authorized to be filed under provisions of this title, or authorized by charter, or authorized for code cities having the commission form of government as provided by chapter 35.17 RCW, shall be in substantial compliance with the provisions of RCW 35A.01.040 as to form and content of the petition, insofar as such provisions are applicable; shall contain a true copy of a resolution or ordinance sought to be referred to the voters; and must contain valid signatures of registered voters of the code city in the number required by the applicable provision of this title. Except when otherwise provided by statute, referendum petitions must be filed with the clerk of the legislative body of the code city within ninety days after the passage of the resolution or ordinance sought to be referred to the voters, or within such lesser number of days as may be authorized by statute or charter in order to precede the effective date of an ordinance: PROVIDED, That nothing herein shall be construed to abrogate or affect an exemption from initiative and/or referendum provided by a code city charter. The clerk shall transmit the petition to the county auditor who shall determine the sufficiency of the petition under the rules set forth in RCW 35A.01.040. When a referendum petition is filed with the clerk, the legislative action sought to be referred to the voters shall be suspended from taking effect. Such suspension shall terminate when: (1) There is a final determination of insufficiency or untimeliness of the referendum petition; or (2) the legislative action so referred is approved by the voters at a referendum election.
[ 1996 c 286 § 8; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.29.170.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.29 - Municipal Elections in Code Cities. › 35A.29.180 - Recall.

RCW 35A.29.180
Recall.
Elective officers of code cities may be recalled in the manner provided in chapter 29A.56 RCW.
[ 2015 c 53 § 57; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.29.180.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.31 - Accident Claims and Funds. › 35A.31.010 - Claims—Statement of residence required—Time for filing—Verification.

RCW 35A.31.010
Claims—Statement of residence required—Time for filing—Verification.
Claims for damages sounding in tort against any code city shall be presented and filed within the time, in the manner and by the person prescribed in RCW 4.96.020.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.31.010.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.31 - Accident Claims and Funds. › 35A.31.020 - Liberal construction.

RCW 35A.31.020
Liberal construction.
With respect to the content of such claims the provisions of RCW 4.96.020 shall be liberally construed so that substantial compliance will be deemed satisfactory.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.31.020.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.31 - Accident Claims and Funds. › 35A.31.030 - Report—Manner of filing.

RCW 35A.31.030
Report—Manner of filing.
No ordinance or resolution shall be passed allowing such claim or any part thereof, or appropriating any money or other property to pay or satisfy the same or any part thereof, until the claim has first been referred to the proper department or committee, nor until such department or committee has made its report thereon to the legislative body of the code city pursuant to such reference.
No action shall be maintained against any code city for any claim for damages until the claim has been filed in the manner set forth in chapter 4.96 RCW.
[ 1993 c 449 § 9; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.31.030.]
NOTES:
Purpose—Severability—1993 c 449: See notes following RCW 4.96.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.31 - Accident Claims and Funds. › 35A.31.050 - Charter code cities—Provisions cumulative.

RCW 35A.31.050
Charter code cities—Provisions cumulative.
Nothing herein shall be construed as in anywise modifying, limiting, or repealing any valid provision of the charter of any charter code city relating to such claims for damages, except when in conflict herewith, but the provisions hereof shall be in addition to such charter provisions, and such claims for damages, in all other respects, shall conform to and comply with such charter provisions.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.31.050.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.31 - Accident Claims and Funds. › 35A.31.060 - Accident fund—Warrants for judgments.

RCW 35A.31.060
Accident fund—Warrants for judgments.
Every code city may create an accident fund upon which the clerk shall draw warrants for the full amount of any judgment including interest and costs against the city on account of personal injuries suffered by any person as shown by a transcript of the judgment duly certified to the clerk. Warrants issued for such purpose shall be in denominations not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars; they shall draw interest at the rate of six percent per annum, shall be numbered consecutively and be paid in the order of their issue.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.31.060.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.31 - Accident Claims and Funds. › 35A.31.070 - Tax levy for fund.

RCW 35A.31.070
Tax levy for fund.
The legislative body of the code city, after the drawing of warrants against the accident fund, shall estimate the amount necessary to pay the warrant with accrued interest thereon and may appropriate and transfer money from the contingency fund sufficient therefor, or if there is not sufficient money in the contingency fund the legislative body shall levy a tax sufficient to pay all or such unpaid portion of any judgment not exceeding seventy-five cents per thousand dollars of assessed value. If a single levy of seventy-five cents per thousand dollars of assessed value is not sufficient, and if other moneys are not available therefor, an annual levy of seventy-five cents per thousand dollars of assessed value shall be made until the warrants and interest are fully paid.
[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 27; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.31.070.]
NOTES:
Severability—Effective dates and termination dates—Construction—1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.31 - Accident Claims and Funds. › 35A.31.080 - Surplus to general fund.

RCW 35A.31.080
Surplus to general fund.
If there is no judgment outstanding against the city for personal injuries, the money remaining in the accident fund after the payment of the warrants drawn on that fund and interest in full shall be transferred to the general fund.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.31.080.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.010 - Definitions.

RCW 35A.33.010
Definitions.
Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following words as used in this chapter shall have the meaning herein prescribed:
(1) "Chief administrative officer" as used in this chapter includes the mayor of cities having a mayor-council form of government, the commissioners in cities having a commission form of government, the city manager, or any other city official designated by the charter or ordinances of such city under the plan of government governing the same, or the budget or finance officer designated by the mayor, manager or commissioners, to perform the functions, or portions thereof, contemplated by this chapter.
(2) "Clerk" as used in this chapter includes the officer performing the functions of a finance or budget director, comptroller, auditor, or by whatever title he or she may be known in any code city.
(3) "Council" as used in this chapter includes the commissioners in cities having a commission form of government and any other group of city officials serving as the legislative body of a code city.
(4) "Department" as used in this chapter includes each office, division, service, system or institution of the city for which no other statutory or charter provision is made for budgeting and accounting procedures or controls.
(5) "Fiscal year" as used in this chapter means that fiscal period set by the code city pursuant to authority given under RCW 1.16.030.
(6) "Fund", as used in this chapter and "funds" where clearly used to indicate the plural of "fund", shall mean the budgeting or accounting entity authorized to provide a sum of money for specified activities or purposes.
(7) "Funds" as used in this chapter where not used to indicate the plural of "fund" shall mean money in hand or available for expenditure or payment of a debt or obligation.
(8) Except as otherwise defined herein, municipal accounting terms used in this chapter have the meaning prescribed in "Governmental Accounting, Auditing and Financial Reporting" prepared by the National Committee on Governmental Accounting, 1968.
[ 2009 c 549 § 3032; 1969 ex.s. c 81 § 2; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.010.]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: The definitions in this section have been alphabetized pursuant to RCW 1.08.015(2)(k).
Effective date—1969 ex.s. c 81: See note following RCW 35A.13.035.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.020 - Applicability of chapter.

RCW 35A.33.020
Applicability of chapter.
The provisions of this chapter apply to all code cities except those which have adopted an ordinance under RCW 35A.34.040 providing for a biennial budget. In addition, this chapter shall not apply to any municipal utility or enterprise for which separate budgeting provisions are made by general state law.
[ 1985 c 175 § 33; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.020.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.030 - Budget estimates.

RCW 35A.33.030
Budget estimates.
On or before the second Monday of the fourth month prior to the beginning of the city's next fiscal year, or at such other time as the city may provide by ordinance or charter, the clerk shall notify in writing the head of each department of a code city to file with the clerk within fourteen days of the receipt of such notification, detailed estimates of the probable revenue from sources other than ad valorem taxation and of all expenditures required by his or her department for the ensuing fiscal year. The notice shall be accompanied by the proper forms provided by the clerk, prepared in accordance with the requirements and classification established by the state auditor. The clerk shall prepare the estimates for interest and debt redemption requirements and all other estimates, the preparation of which falls properly within the duties of his or her office. The chief administrative officers of the city shall submit to the clerk detailed estimates of all expenditures proposed to be financed from the proceeds of bonds or warrants not yet authorized, together with a statement of the proposed method of financing them. In the absence or disability of the official or person regularly in charge of a department, the duties herein required shall devolve upon the person next in charge of such department.
[ 1995 c 301 § 51; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.030.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.040 - Classification and segregation of budget estimates.

RCW 35A.33.040
Classification and segregation of budget estimates.
All estimates of receipts and expenditures for the ensuing year shall be fully detailed in the annual budget and shall be classified and segregated according to a standard classification of accounts to be adopted and prescribed by the state auditor after consultation with the Washington finance officers association, the association of Washington cities and the association of Washington city managers.
[ 1995 c 301 § 52; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.040.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.050 - Proposed preliminary budget.

RCW 35A.33.050
Proposed preliminary budget.
On or before the first business day in the third month prior to the beginning of the fiscal year of a code city or at such other time as the city may provide by ordinance or charter, the clerk or other person designated by the charter, by ordinances, or by the chief administrative officer of the city shall submit to the chief administrative officer a proposed preliminary budget which shall set forth the complete financial program of the city for the ensuing fiscal year, showing the expenditure program requested by each department and the sources of revenue by which each such program is proposed to be financed.
The revenue section shall set forth in comparative and tabular form for each fund the actual receipts for the last completed fiscal year, the estimated receipts for the current fiscal year and the estimated receipts for the ensuing fiscal year, which shall include the amount to be raised from ad valorem taxes and unencumbered fund balances estimated to be available at the close of the current fiscal year.
The expenditure section shall set forth in comparative and tabular form for each fund and every department operating within each fund the actual expenditures for the last completed fiscal year, the appropriations for the current fiscal year and the estimated expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year. The salary or salary range for each office, position or job classification shall be set forth separately together with the title or position designation thereof: PROVIDED, That salaries may be set out in total amounts under each department if a detailed schedule of such salaries and positions be attached to and made a part of the budget document.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.050.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.052 - Preliminary budget.

RCW 35A.33.052
Preliminary budget.
The chief administrative officer shall prepare the preliminary budget in detail, making any revisions or addition to the reports of the department heads deemed advisable by such chief administrative officer and at least sixty days before the beginning of the city's next fiscal year he or she shall file it with the city clerk as the recommendation of the chief administrative officer for the final budget. The clerk shall provide a sufficient number of copies of such preliminary budget and budget message to meet the reasonable demands of taxpayers therefor and have them available for distribution not later than six weeks before the beginning of the city's next fiscal year.
[ 2009 c 549 § 3033; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.052.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.055 - Budget message—Preliminary hearings.

RCW 35A.33.055
Budget message—Preliminary hearings.
In every code city a budget message prepared by or under the direction of the city's chief administrative officer shall be submitted as a part of the preliminary budget to the city's legislative body at least sixty days before the beginning of the city's next fiscal year and shall contain the following:
(1) An explanation of the budget document;
(2) An outline of the recommended financial policies and programs of the city for the ensuing fiscal year;
(3) A statement of the relation of the recommended appropriation to such policies and programs;
(4) A statement of the reason for salient changes from the previous year in appropriation and revenue items;
(5) An explanation for any recommended major changes in financial policy.
Prior to the final hearing on the budget, the legislative body or a committee thereof, shall schedule hearings on the budget or parts thereof, and may require the presence of department heads to give information regarding estimates and programs.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.055.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.060 - Budget—Notice of hearing on final.

RCW 35A.33.060
Budget—Notice of hearing on final.
Immediately following the filing of the preliminary budget with the clerk, the clerk shall publish a notice once each week for two consecutive weeks stating that the preliminary budget for the ensuing fiscal year has been filed with the clerk, that a copy thereof will be furnished to any taxpayer who will call at the clerk's office therefor and that the legislative body of the city will meet on or before the first Monday of the month next preceding the beginning of the ensuing fiscal year for the purpose of fixing the final budget, designating the date, time and place of the legislative budget meeting and that any taxpayer may appear thereat and be heard for or against any part of the budget. The publication of the notice shall be made in the official newspaper of the city.
[ 1985 c 469 § 43; 1973 c 67 § 1; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.060.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.070 - Budget—Hearing.

RCW 35A.33.070
Budget—Hearing.
The council shall meet on the day fixed by RCW 35A.33.060 for the purpose of fixing the final budget of the city at the time and place designated in the notice thereof. Any taxpayer may appear and be heard for or against any part of the budget. The hearing may be continued from day to day but not later than the twenty-fifth day prior to commencement of the city's fiscal year.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.070.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.075 - Budget adoption.

RCW 35A.33.075
Budget adoption.
Following conclusion of the hearing, and prior to the beginning of the fiscal year, the legislative body shall make such adjustments and changes as it deems necessary or proper and after determining the allowance in each item, department, classification and fund, and shall by ordinance, adopt the budget in its final form and content. Appropriations shall be limited to the total estimated revenues contained therein including the amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes and the unencumbered fund balances estimated to be available at the close of the current fiscal year. Such ordinances may adopt the final budget by reference: PROVIDED, That the ordinance adopting such budget shall set forth in summary form the totals of estimated revenues and appropriations for each separate fund and the aggregate totals for all such funds combined.
A complete copy of the final budget as adopted shall be transmitted to the state auditor, and to the association of Washington cities.
[ 1995 c 301 § 53; 1969 ex.s. c 81 § 3; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.075.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1969 ex.s. c 81: See note following RCW 35A.13.035.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.080 - Emergency expenditures—Nondebatable emergencies.

RCW 35A.33.080
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 restoration to a condition of usefulness of any public 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 damage, or to meet mandatory expenditures required by laws enacted since the last annual 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 council, 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.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.080.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.090 - Emergency expenditures—Other emergencies—Hearing.

RCW 35A.33.090
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 annual budget, and if it is not one of the emergencies specifically enumerated in RCW 35A.33.080, the city council 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.
Such 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 code city.
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.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.090.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.100 - Emergency expenditures—Warrants—Payments.

RCW 35A.33.100
Emergency expenditures—Warrants—Payments.
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 35A.21.110.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.100.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.102 - Registered warrants—Appropriations.

RCW 35A.33.102
Registered warrants—Appropriations.
In adopting the final budget for any fiscal year, the council 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: PROVIDED, That 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: PROVIDED FURTHER, That all or any portion of the city's outstanding registered warrants may be funded into bonds in any manner authorized by law.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.102.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.105 - Adjustment of wages, etc., of employees permissible budget notwithstanding.

RCW 35A.33.105
Adjustment of wages, etc., of employees permissible budget notwithstanding.
Notwithstanding the appropriations for any salary, or salary range of any employee or employees adopted in a final budget, the legislative body of any code city 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.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.105.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.110 - Forms—Accounting—Supervision by state.

RCW 35A.33.110
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 § 54; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.110.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.120 - Funds—Limitations on expenditures—Transfers and adjustments.

RCW 35A.33.120
Funds—Limitations on expenditures—Transfers and adjustments.
The expenditures as classified and itemized in the final budget shall constitute the city's appropriations for the ensuing fiscal year. Unless otherwise ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, and subject to further limitations imposed by ordinance of the code city, the expenditure of city funds or the incurring of current liabilities on behalf of the city shall be limited to the following:
(1) The total amount appropriated for each fund in the budget for the current fiscal year, without regard to the individual items contained therein, except that this limitation shall not apply to wage adjustments authorized by RCW 35A.33.105; and
(2) The unexpended appropriation balances of a preceding budget which may be carried forward from prior fiscal years pursuant to RCW 35A.33.150; and
(3) Funds received from the sale of bonds or warrants which have been duly authorized according to law; and
(4) Funds received in excess of estimated revenues during the current fiscal year, when authorized by an ordinance amending the original budget; and
(5) Expenditures required for emergencies, as authorized in RCW 35A.33.080 and 35A.33.090.
Transfers between individual appropriations within any one fund may be made during the current fiscal year by order of the city's chief administrative officer subject to such regulations, if any, as may be imposed by the city council. Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 43.09.210 or of any statute to the contrary, transfers, as herein authorized, may be made within the same fund regardless of the various offices, departments or divisions of the city which may be affected.
The city council, upon a finding that it is to the best interests of the code city 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.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.120.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.122 - Administration, oversight, or supervision of utility—Reimbursement from utility budget authorized.

RCW 35A.33.122
Administration, oversight, or supervision of utility—Reimbursement from utility budget authorized.
Whenever any code city 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 to provide services to the utility, the utility budget may identify such services and budget for reimbursement of the city's current expense fund for the value of such services.
[ 1991 c 152 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.125 - Limitation on expenditures—Void.

RCW 35A.33.125
Limitation on expenditures—Void.
Liabilities incurred by any officer or employee of the city in excess of any budget appropriations shall not be a liability of the city. The clerk shall issue no warrant and the city council 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.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 81 § 4; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.125.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1969 ex.s. c 81: See note following RCW 35A.13.035.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.130 - Funds received from sales of bonds and warrants—Expenditures program—Federal tax law.

RCW 35A.33.130
Funds received from sales of bonds and warrants—Expenditures 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 § 4; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.130.]
NOTES:
Application to previously issued bonds—2011 c 210: See note following RCW 39.46.040.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.135 - Levy for ad valorem tax.

RCW 35A.33.135
Levy for ad valorem tax.
At a time fixed by the city's ordinance or charter, not later than the first Monday in October of each year, the chief administrative officer shall provide the city's legislative body with current information on estimates of revenues from all sources as adopted in the budget for the current year, together with estimates submitted by the clerk under RCW 35A.33.050. The city's legislative body and the city's administrative officer or his or her designated representative shall consider the city's total anticipated financial requirements for the ensuing fiscal year, and the legislative body shall determine and fix by ordinance the amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes. Upon adoption of the ordinance fixing the amount of ad valorem taxes to be levied, the clerk shall certify the same to the board of county commissioners as required by RCW 84.52.020.
[ 2009 c 549 § 3034; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.135.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.140 - Funds—Quarterly report of status.

RCW 35A.33.140
Funds—Quarterly report of status.
At such intervals as may be required by city charter or ordinance, however, being not less than quarterly, the clerk shall submit to the city'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 year 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.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.140.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.145 - Contingency fund—Creation.

RCW 35A.33.145
Contingency fund—Creation.
Every code city 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 35A.33.080 and 35A.33.090. 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 35A.33.120: PROVIDED, That 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 at such time. Any moneys in the contingency fund at the end of the fiscal year shall not lapse except upon reappropriation by the council to another fund in the adoption of a subsequent budget.
[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 28; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.145.]
NOTES:
Severability—Effective dates and termination dates—Construction—1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities. › 35A.33.146 - Contingency fund—Withdrawals.

RCW 35A.33.146
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 council, adopted by a vote of the majority of the entire council, 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.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.146.]
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RCW 35A.33.150
Unexpended appropriations.
All appropriations in any current operating fund shall lapse at the end of each fiscal year: PROVIDED, That this shall not prevent payments in the following year 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 year, all of which have been properly budgeted and contracted for prior to the close of such fiscal year 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 35A.33.145, shall not lapse, but shall be carried forward from year to year until fully expended or the purpose has been accomplished or abandoned, without necessity of reappropriation.
The accounts for budgetary control for each fiscal year shall be kept open for twenty days after the close of such fiscal year for the purpose of paying and recording claims for indebtedness incurred during such fiscal year; any claim presented after the twentieth day following the close of the fiscal year 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 year.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.150.]
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RCW 35A.33.160
Violations and penalties.
Upon the conviction of any city official, department head or other city employee of knowingly failing, or refusing, without just cause, to perform any duty imposed upon such officer or employee by this chapter, or city ordinance or charter, 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, he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars for each separate violation.
[ 2009 c 549 § 3035; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.160.]
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RCW 35A.34.020
Application of chapter.
This chapter applies to all code cities which have by ordinance adopted this chapter authorizing the adoption of a fiscal biennium budget.
[ 1985 c 175 § 34.]
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RCW 35A.34.030
Definitions.
Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.
(1) "Clerk" includes the officer performing the functions of a finance or budget director, comptroller, auditor, or by whatever title the officer may be known in any code city.
(2) "Department" includes each office, division, service, system, or institution of the city for which no other statutory or charter provision is made for budgeting and accounting procedures or controls.
(3) "Legislative body" includes the council, commission, or any other group of officials serving as the legislative body of a code city.
(4) "Chief administrative officer" includes the mayor of cities having a mayor-council plan of government, the commissioners in cities having a commission plan of government, the manager, or any other city official designated by the charter or ordinances of such city under the plan of government governing the same, or the budget or finance officer designated by the mayor, manager, or commissioners, to perform the functions, or portions thereof, contemplated by this chapter.
(5) "Fiscal biennium" means the period from January 1 of each odd-numbered year through December 31 of the next succeeding even-numbered year.
(6) "Fund" and "funds" where clearly used to indicate the plural of "fund" means the budgeting or accounting entity authorized to provide a sum of money for specified activities or purposes.
(7) "Funds" where not used to indicate the plural of "fund" means money in hand or available for expenditure or payment of a debt or obligation.
(8) Except as otherwise defined in this chapter, municipal accounting terms used in this chapter have the meaning prescribed by the state auditor pursuant to RCW 43.09.200.
[ 1985 c 175 § 35.]
NOTES:
"Fiscal biennium" defined: RCW 1.16.020.
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RCW 35A.34.040
Biennial budget authorized—Limitations.
All code cities are authorized to establish by ordinance a two-year fiscal biennium budget. The ordinance shall be enacted at least six months prior to commencement of the fiscal biennium and this chapter applies to all code cities which utilize a fiscal biennium budget. Code cities which establish a fiscal biennium budget are authorized to repeal such ordinance and provide for reversion to a fiscal year budget. The ordinance may only be repealed effective as of the conclusion of a fiscal biennium. However, the city shall comply with chapter 35A.33 RCW in developing and adopting the budget for the first fiscal year following repeal of the ordinance.
[ 1985 c 175 § 36.]
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RCW 35A.34.050
Budget estimates—Submittal.
On or before the second Monday of the fourth month prior to the beginning of the city's next fiscal biennium, or at such other time as the city may provide by ordinance or charter, the clerk shall notify in writing the head of each department of a city to file with the clerk within fourteen days of the receipt of such notification, detailed estimates of the probable revenue from sources other than ad valorem taxation and of all expenditures required by the department for the ensuing fiscal biennium. The notice shall be accompanied by the proper forms provided by the clerk, prepared in accordance with the requirements and classification established by the state auditor. The clerk shall prepare the estimates for interest and debt redemption requirements and all other estimates, the preparation of which falls properly within the duties of the clerk's office. The chief administrative officers of the city shall submit to the clerk detailed estimates of all expenditures proposed to be financed from the proceeds of bonds or warrants not yet authorized, together with a statement of the proposed method of financing them. In the absence or disability of the official or person regularly in charge of a department, the duties required by this section shall devolve upon the person next in charge of such department.
[ 1995 c 301 § 55; 1985 c 175 § 37.]
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RCW 35A.34.060
Budget estimates—Classification and segregation.
All estimates of receipts and expenditures for the ensuing fiscal biennium shall be fully detailed in the biennial budget and shall be classified and segregated according to a standard classification of accounts to be adopted and prescribed by the state auditor after consultation with the Washington finance officers association, the association of Washington cities, and the association of Washington city managers.
[ 1995 c 301 § 56; 1985 c 175 § 38.]
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RCW 35A.34.070
Proposed preliminary budget.
On or before the first business day in the third month prior to the beginning of the biennium of a city or at such other time as the city may provide by ordinance or charter, the clerk or other person designated by the charter, by ordinances, or by the chief administrative officer of the city shall submit to the chief administrative officer a proposed preliminary budget which shall set forth the complete financial program of the city for the ensuing fiscal biennium, showing the expenditure program requested by each department and the sources of revenue by which each such program is proposed to be financed.
The revenue section shall set forth in comparative and tabular form for each fund the actual receipts for the last completed fiscal biennium, the estimated receipts for the current fiscal biennium, and the estimated receipts for the ensuing fiscal biennium, which shall include the amount to be raised from ad valorem taxes and unencumbered fund balances estimated to be available at the close of the current fiscal biennium. However, if the city was not utilizing a fiscal biennium budget for the previous three years, it shall set forth its fiscal years' revenues to reflect actual and estimated receipts as if it had previously utilized a biennial budgetary process.
The expenditure section shall set forth in comparative and tabular form for each fund and every department operating within each fund the actual expenditures for the last completed fiscal biennium, the appropriations for the current fiscal biennium, and the estimated expenditures for the ensuing fiscal biennium. However, if the city was not utilizing a fiscal biennium budget for the previous three years, it shall set forth its fiscal years' expenditures to reflect actual and estimated levels as if it had previously utilized a biennial budgetary process. The expenditure section shall further set forth separately the salary or salary range for each office, position, or job classification together with the title or position designation thereof. However, salaries may be set out in total amounts under each department if a detailed schedule of such salaries and positions be attached and made a part of the budget document.
[ 1985 c 175 § 39.]
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RCW 35A.34.080
Preliminary budget.
The chief administrative officer shall prepare the preliminary budget in detail, making any revisions or additions to the reports of the department heads deemed advisable by such chief administrative officer. At least sixty days before the beginning of the city's next fiscal biennium the chief administrative officer shall file it with the clerk as the recommendation of the chief administrative officer for the final budget. The clerk shall provide a sufficient number of copies of such preliminary budget and budget message to meet the reasonable demands of taxpayers therefor and have them available for distribution not later than six weeks before the beginning of the city's next fiscal biennium.
[ 1985 c 175 § 40.]
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RCW 35A.34.090
Budget message—Hearings.
(1) In every city, a budget message prepared by or under the direction of the city's chief administrative officer shall be submitted as a part of the preliminary budget to the city's legislative body at least sixty days before the beginning of the city's next fiscal biennium and shall contain the following:
(a) An explanation of the budget document;
(b) An outline of the recommended financial policies and programs of the city for the ensuing fiscal biennium;
(c) A statement of the relation of the recommended appropriation to such policies and programs;
(d) A statement of the reason for salient changes from the previous biennium in appropriation and revenue items; and
(e) An explanation for any recommended major changes in financial policy.
(2) Prior to the final hearing on the budget, the legislative body or a committee thereof shall schedule hearings on the budget or parts thereof, and may require the presence of department heads to give information regarding estimates and programs.
[ 1985 c 175 § 41.]
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RCW 35A.34.100
Budget—Notice of hearing.
Immediately following the filing of the preliminary budget with the clerk, the clerk shall publish a notice once a week for two consecutive weeks stating that the preliminary budget for the ensuing fiscal biennium has been filed with the clerk, that a copy thereof will be made available to any taxpayer who will call at the clerk's office therefor, that the legislative body of the city will meet on or before the first Monday of the month next preceding the beginning of the ensuing fiscal biennium for the purpose of fixing the final budget, designating the date, time, and place of the legislative budget meeting, and that any taxpayer may appear thereat and be heard for or against any part of the budget. The publication of the notice shall be made in the official newspaper of the city if there is one, otherwise in a newspaper of general circulation in the city. If there is no newspaper of general circulation in the city, then notice may be made by posting in three public places fixed by ordinance as the official places for posting the city's official notices.
[ 1985 c 175 § 42.]