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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.330 - Appeals from board's action.

RCW 36.32.330
Appeals from board's action.
Any person may appeal to the superior court from any decision or order of the board of county commissioners. Such appeal shall be taken within twenty days after the decision or order, and the appellant shall within that time serve notice of appeal on the county commissioners. The notice shall be in writing and shall be delivered to at least one of the county commissioners personally, or left with the county auditor. The appellant shall, within ten days after service of the notice of appeal give a bond to the county with one or more sureties, to be approved by the county auditor, conditioned for the payment of all costs which shall be adjudged against him or her on such appeal in the superior court. The practice regulating appeals from and writs of certiorari to justice's courts shall, insofar as applicable, govern in matters of appeal from a decision or order of the board of county commissioners.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent a party having a claim against any county in this state from enforcing the collection thereof by civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction after the same has been presented to and filed as provided by law and disallowed in whole or in part by the board of county commissioners of the proper county. Such action must, however, be commenced within the time limitation provided in *RCW 36.45.030.
[ 2009 c 549 § 4068; 1963 c 4 § 36.32.330. Prior: 1957 c 224 § 5; 1893 c 121 § 1; Code 1881 § 2695; 1869 p 308 § 29; 1867 p 57 § 29; 1863 p 545 § 30; 1854 p 423 § 24; RRS § 4076. Cf. 1879 p 143 §§ 1, 2.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 36.45.030 was repealed by 1993 c 449 § 13.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.335 - Coordination of county administrative programs—Legislative declaration.

RCW 36.32.335
Coordination of county administrative programs—Legislative declaration.
The public necessity for the coordination of county administrative programs, especially in the fields of highways and social security, be and is hereby recognized.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.32.335. Prior: 1939 c 188 § 1; RRS § 4077-2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.340 - Coordination of county administrative programs—Duties incident to.

RCW 36.32.340
Coordination of county administrative programs—Duties incident to.
The county commissioners shall take such action as is necessary to effect coordination of their administrative programs and prepare reports annually on the operations of all departments under their jurisdiction.
[ 1998 c 245 § 27; 1963 c 4 § 36.32.340. Prior: 1939 c 188 § 2; RRS § 4077-3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.350 - Coordination of county administrative programs—Coordinating agency—Agency reimbursement.

RCW 36.32.350
Coordination of county administrative programs—Coordinating agency—Agency reimbursement.
County legislative authorities may designate the Washington state association of counties as a coordinating agency in the execution of duties imposed by RCW 36.32.335 through 36.32.360 and reimburse the association from county current expense funds in the county legislative authority's budget for the costs of any such services rendered. Such reimbursement shall be paid on vouchers submitted to the county auditor and approved by the county legislative authority in the manner provided for the disbursement of other current expense funds and the vouchers shall set forth the nature of the service rendered, supported by affidavit that the service has actually been performed.
[ 1991 c 363 § 59; 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 30; 1971 ex.s. c 85 § 3; 1970 ex.s. c 47 § 1; 1963 c 4 § 36.32.350. Prior: 1947 c 49 § 1; 1939 c 188 § 3; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 4077-4.]
NOTES:
Purpose—Captions not law—1991 c 363: See notes following RCW 2.32.180.
Severability—Effective dates—Construction—1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043.
Associations of municipal corporations or municipal officers to furnish information to legislature and governor: RCW 44.04.170.
Merger of state association of counties with state association of county officials: RCW 36.47.070.
Winter recreation advisory committee, representative of association of counties as member: RCW 79A.05.255.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.360 - Coordination of county administrative programs—Attendance at conventions authorized.

RCW 36.32.360
Coordination of county administrative programs—Attendance at conventions authorized.
County commissioners are hereby authorized to take such other and further action as may be deemed necessary to the compliance with the intent of RCW 36.32.335 through 36.32.360, including attendance at such state or district meetings as may be required to formulate the reports directed in RCW 36.32.340.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.32.360. Prior: 1939 c 188 § 4; RRS § 4077-5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.370 - Land surveys.

RCW 36.32.370
Land surveys.
Except as otherwise provided in this title, the board of county commissioners, through a surveyor employed by it shall execute all surveys of land that may be required by the county. The certificate of the surveyor so employed of any survey made of lands within the county shall be presumptive evidence of the facts therein contained.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.32.370. Prior: (i) 1895 c 77 § 3; RRS § 4144. (ii) 1895 c 77 § 4; RRS § 4145.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.380 - Land surveys—Record of surveys.

RCW 36.32.380
Land surveys—Record of surveys.
Except as otherwise provided in this title, the board of county commissioners shall cause to be recorded in a suitable book all surveys except such as are made for a temporary purpose. The record book shall be so constructed as to have one page for diagrams to be numbered progressively and the opposite page for notes and remarks; no diagram shall be so constructed as to scale less than one inch to twenty chains.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.32.380. Prior: 1895 c 77 § 5; RRS § 4150.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.390 - Nonmonthly employees, vacations and sick leaves.

RCW 36.32.390
Nonmonthly employees, vacations and sick leaves.
Each employee of any county in this state who is employed on an hourly or per diem basis, who shall have worked fifteen hundred hours or more in any one year may in the discretion of the board of county commissioners be given the same vacations and sick leaves as are provided for the employees of the county employed on a monthly basis.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.32.390. Prior: 1951 c 187 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.400 - Health care and group insurance.

RCW 36.32.400
Health care and group insurance.
Subject to chapter 48.62 RCW, any county by a majority vote of its board of county commissioners may enter into contracts to provide health care services and/or group insurance for the benefit of its employees, and may pay all or any part of the cost thereof. Any two or more counties, by a majority vote of their respective boards of county commissioners may, if deemed expedient, join in the procuring of such health care services and/or group insurance, and the board of county commissioners of each participating county may, by appropriate resolution, authorize their respective counties to pay all or any portion of the cost thereof.
Nothing in this section shall impair the eligibility of any employee of a county, municipality, or other political subdivision under RCW 41.04.205.
[ 1991 sp.s. c 30 § 21; 1975-'76 2nd ex.s. c 106 § 7; 1963 c 4 § 36.32.400. Prior: 1957 c 106 § 1; 1955 c 51 § 1.]
NOTES:
Effective date, implementation, application—1991 sp.s. c 30: See RCW 48.62.900.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.410 - Participation in Economic Opportunity Act programs.

RCW 36.32.410
Participation in Economic Opportunity Act programs.
The board of county commissioners of any county is hereby authorized and empowered in its discretion by resolution or ordinance passed by a majority of the board, to take whatever action it deems necessary to enable the county to participate in the programs set forth in the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (Public Law 88-452; 78 Stat. 508), as amended. Such participation may be engaged in as a sole county operation or in conjunction or cooperation with the state, any other county, city, or municipal corporation, or any private corporation qualified under said Economic Opportunity Act.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 177 § 1; 1965 c 14 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.415 - Low-income housing—Loans and grants.

RCW 36.32.415
Low-income housing—Loans and grants.
A county may assist in the development or preservation of publicly or privately owned housing for persons of low income by providing loans or grants of general county funds to the owners or developers of the housing. The loans or grants shall be authorized by the legislative authority of a county. They may be made to finance all or a portion of the cost of construction, reconstruction, acquisition, or rehabilitation of housing that will be occupied by a person or family of low income. As used in this section, "low income" means income that does not exceed eighty percent of the median income for the standard metropolitan statistical area in which the county is located. Housing constructed with loans or grants made under this section shall not be considered public works or improvements subject to competitive bidding or a purchase of services subject to the prohibition against advance payment for services: PROVIDED, That whenever feasible the borrower or grantee shall make every reasonable and practicable effort to utilize a competitive public bidding process.
[ 1986 c 248 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.425 - Juvenile curfews.

RCW 36.32.425
Juvenile curfews.
(1) The legislative authority of any county has the authority to enact an ordinance, for the purpose of preserving the public safety or reducing acts of violence by or against juveniles that are occurring at such rates as to be beyond the capacity of the police to assure public safety, establishing times and conditions under which juveniles may be present on the public streets, in the public parks, or in any other public place during specified hours.
(2) The ordinance shall not contain any criminal sanctions for a violation of the ordinance.
[ 1994 sp.s. c 7 § 504.]
NOTES:
Finding—Intent—Severability—1994 sp.s. c 7: See notes following RCW 43.70.540.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.430 - Parks, may designate name of.

RCW 36.32.430
Parks, may designate name of.
The board of county commissioners is authorized to designate the name of any park established by the county.
[ 1965 ex.s. c 76 § 3.]
NOTES:
Acquisition of property for park, recreational, viewpoint, greenbelt, conservation, historic, scenic, or view purposes: RCW 36.34.340.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.435 - Historic preservation—Authorization to acquire property, borrow money, issue bonds, etc.

RCW 36.32.435
Historic preservation—Authorization to acquire property, borrow money, issue bonds, etc.
Any county may acquire title to or any interest in real and personal property for the purpose of historic preservation and may restore, improve, maintain, manage, and lease the property for public or private use and may enter into contracts, borrow money, and issue bonds and other obligations for such purposes. This authorization shall not expand the eminent domain powers of counties.
[ 1984 c 203 § 4.]
NOTES:
Severability—1984 c 203: See note following RCW 35.43.140.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.440 - Staff to aid in purchasing, poverty programs, parks, emergency services, budget, etc., authorized.

RCW 36.32.440
Staff to aid in purchasing, poverty programs, parks, emergency services, budget, etc., authorized.
The board of county commissioners of the several counties may employ such staff as deemed appropriate to serve the several boards directly in matters including but not limited to purchasing, poverty and relief programs, parks and recreation, emergency services, budgetary preparations set forth in RCW 36.40.010- 36.40.050, code enforcement and general administrative coordination. Such authority shall in no way infringe upon or relieve the county auditor of responsibilities contained in RCW * 36.22.010(9) and 36.22.020.
[ 1974 ex.s. c 171 § 3; 1969 ex.s. c 252 § 3.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 36.22.010 was amended by 1984 c 128 § 2, changing subsection (9) to subsection (8); and was subsequently amended by 1995 c 194 § 1, changing subsection (8) to subsection (6).
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.450 - Tourist promotion.

RCW 36.32.450
Tourist promotion.
Any county in this state acting through its council or other legislative body shall have power to expend moneys and conduct promotion of resources and facilities in the county or general area by advertising, publicizing, or otherwise distributing information for the purpose of attracting visitors and encouraging tourist expansion.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 61 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.460 - Employee safety award programs.

RCW 36.32.460
Employee safety award programs.
The board of county commissioners may establish an employee safety award program to reward and encourage the safe performance of assigned duties by county employees.
The board may establish standards and regulations necessary or appropriate for the proper administration and for otherwise accomplishing the purposes of such program.
The board may authorize every department head and other officer of county government who oversees or directs county employees to make the determination as to whether an employee safety award will be made.
Such awards shall be made annually from the county general fund by warrant on vouchers duly authorized by the board according to the following schedule based upon safe and accident-free performance:
5
years. . . .
$
2.50
10
years. . . .
5.00
15
years. . . .
7.50
20
years. . . .
10.00
25
years. . . .
12.50
30
years. . . .
20.00:
PROVIDED, That the board may give such department heads and other officers overseeing and directing county employees discretion to purchase a noncash award of equal value in lieu of the cash award. If a noncash award is given the warrants shall be made payable to the business enterprise from which the noncash award is purchased.
However, safety awards made to persons whose safe and accident-free performance has directly benefited the county road system shall be made from the county road fund by warrant on vouchers duly authorized by the board.
[ 1971 c 79 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.470 - Fire protection, ambulance or other emergency services provided by municipal corporations within county—Financial and other assistance authorized.

RCW 36.32.470
Fire protection, ambulance or other emergency services provided by municipal corporations within county—Financial and other assistance authorized.
The legislative authority of any county shall have the power to furnish, upon such terms as the board may deem proper, with or without consideration, financial or other assistance to any municipal corporation, or political subdivision within such county for the purpose of implementing the fire protection, ambulance, medical or other emergency services provided by such municipal corporation, or political subdivision: PROVIDED, That no such municipal corporation or political subdivision shall be authorized to expend any funds or property received as part of such assistance for any purpose, or in any manner, for which it could not otherwise legally expend its own funds.
[ 1974 ex.s. c 51 § 1.]
NOTES:
Ambulance services may be provided by county: RCW 36.01.100.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.475 - Regulation of automatic number or location identification—Prohibited.

RCW 36.32.475
Regulation of automatic number or location identification—Prohibited.
No county may enact or enforce an ordinance or regulation mandating automatic number identification or automatic location identification for a private telecommunications system or for a provider of private shared telecommunications services.
[ 1995 c 243 § 8.]
NOTES:
Findings—Severability—1995 c 243: See notes following RCW 80.36.555.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.480 - Emergency medical service districts—Creation authorized—Composition of governing body.

RCW 36.32.480
Emergency medical service districts—Creation authorized—Composition of governing body.
(1) A county legislative authority may adopt an ordinance creating an emergency medical service district in all or a portion of the unincorporated area of the county and, pursuant to subsection (2) of this section, within the corporate limits of any city or town. The ordinance may only be adopted after a public hearing has been held on the creation of such a district and the county legislative authority makes a finding that it is in the public interest to create the district.
An emergency medical service district shall be a quasi-municipal corporation and an independent taxing "authority" within the meaning of Article 7, Section 1, Washington State Constitution. Emergency medical service districts shall also be "taxing authorities" within the meaning of Article 7, Section 2, Washington State Constitution.
An emergency medical service district shall have the authority to provide emergency medical services.
(2) When any part of a proposed emergency medical service district includes an area within the corporate limits of a city or town, the governing body of the city or town shall approve the inclusion, and the county governing body shall maintain a certified copy of the resolution of approval before adopting an ordinance including the area.
(3) The members of the county legislative authority shall compose the governing body of any emergency medical service district which is created within the county: PROVIDED, That where an emergency medical service district includes an area within the corporate limits of a city or town, the emergency medical service district may be governed as provided in an interlocal agreement adopted pursuant to chapter 39.34 RCW. The voters of an emergency medical service district must be registered voters residing within the service area.
[ 2000 c 31 § 1; 1979 ex.s. c 200 § 2.]
NOTES:
Severability—1979 ex.s. c 200: See note following RCW 84.52.069.
Levy for emergency medical care and services: RCW 84.52.069.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.490 - County freeholders—Method of filling vacancies.

RCW 36.32.490
County freeholders—Method of filling vacancies.
Vacancies in the position of county freeholder shall be filled with a person qualified for the position who is appointed by majority action of the remaining county freeholders.
[ 1984 c 163 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.510 - Right-of-way donations—Credit against required improvements.

RCW 36.32.510
Right-of-way donations—Credit against required improvements.
Where the zoning and planning provisions of a county require landscaping, parking, or other improvements as a condition to granting permits for commercial or industrial developments, the county may credit donations of right-of-way in excess of that required for traffic improvement against such landscaping, parking, or other requirements.
[ 1987 c 267 § 10.]
NOTES:
Right-of-way donations: Chapter 47.14 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.520 - Child care facilities—Review of need and demand—Adoption of ordinances.

RCW 36.32.520
Child care facilities—Review of need and demand—Adoption of ordinances.
If a county operating under home rule charter zones pursuant to its inherent charter authority and not pursuant to chapter 35.63 RCW, nor chapter 36.70 RCW, and that county does not provide for the siting of family day care homes in zones or areas that are designated for single-family or other residential uses, and for the siting of mini-day care centers and day care centers in zones or areas that are designated for any residential or commercial uses, the county shall conduct a review of the need and demand for child care facilities, including the cost of any conditional or special use permit that may be required. The review shall be completed by August 30, 1990. A copy of the findings, conclusions, and recommendations resulting from the review shall be sent to the *department of community development by September 30, 1990.
On or before June 30, 1991, each municipality that plans and zones under this chapter shall have adopted an ordinance or ordinances that are necessary to implement the findings of this review, if the findings indicate that such changes are necessary, or shall notify the *department of community development as to why such implementing ordinances were not adopted.
[ 1989 c 335 § 8.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: Powers, duties, and functions of the department of community development and the department of trade and economic development were transferred to the department of community, trade, and economic development by 1993 c 280, effective July 1, 1994. The "department of community, trade, and economic development" was renamed the "department of commerce" by 2009 c 565.
Findings—Purpose—Severability—1989 c 335: See notes following RCW 35.63.170.
Definitions for RCW 36.32.520: See RCW 35.63.170.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.525 - Conditional and special use permit applications by parties licensed or certified by the department of social and health services or the department of corrections—Mediation prior to appeal required.

RCW 36.32.525
Conditional and special use permit applications by parties licensed or certified by the department of social and health services or the department of corrections—Mediation prior to appeal required.
A final decision by a hearing examiner involving a conditional or special use permit application under a home rule charter that is requested by a party that is licensed or certified by the department of social and health services or the department of corrections is subject to mediation under RCW 35.63.260 before an appeal may be filed.
[ 1998 c 119 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.540 - Settlement of Indian claims.

RCW 36.32.540
Settlement of Indian claims.
(1) The settlement of Indian land and other claims against public and private property owners is declared to be in the interest of public health and safety, orderly government, environmental protection, economic development, and the social well-being of the citizens of this state, and to specifically benefit the properties released from those claims.
It is the purpose of *this act to encourage the settlement of such Indian land and other claims lawsuits by permitting the establishment and use of local improvement districts to finance all or a portion of the settlement costs of such lawsuits.
(2) A local improvement district may be established by a county legislative authority to finance all or part of the settlement costs in an Indian land and other claims settlement related to public and private property located within the incorporated or unincorporated areas of the county. The settlement of an Indian land and other claims lawsuit shall be deemed to be an improvement that may be financed in whole or in part through use of a local improvement district.
(3) Except as expressly provided in this section, all matters relating to the establishment and operation of such a local improvement district, the levying and collection of special assessments, the issuance of local improvement district bonds and other obligations, and all related matters, shall be subject to the provisions of chapter 36.94 RCW concerning the use of local improvement districts to finance sewer or water facilities. The requirements of chapter 36.94 RCW concerning the preparation of a general plan and formation of a review committee shall not apply to a local improvement district used to finance all or a portion of Indian land and other claims settlements. The resolution or petition that initiates the creation of a local improvement district used to finance all or a portion of an Indian land and other claims settlement shall describe the general nature of the Indian land and other claims and the proposed settlement. The value of a contribution by any person, municipal corporation, political subdivision, or the state of money, real property, or personal property to the settlement of Indian land and other claims shall be credited to any assessment for a local improvement district under this section.
[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 4 § 3.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: "This act" consists of the enactment of this section, RCW 35.43.280, and an uncodified section.
Severability—1989 1st ex.s. c 4: See note following RCW 35.43.280.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.550 - Conformance with chapter 43.97 RCW required.

RCW 36.32.550
Conformance with chapter 43.97 RCW required.
With respect to the National Scenic Area, as defined in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act, P.L. 99-663, the exercise of any power or authority by a county pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to and in conformity with the requirements of chapter 43.97 RCW, including the Interstate Compact adopted by RCW 43.97.015, and with the management plan regulations and ordinances adopted by the Columbia River Gorge commission pursuant to the Compact.
[ 1987 c 499 § 8.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.560 - Home rule charter counties—Residential care facilities—Review of need and demand—Adoption of ordinances.

RCW 36.32.560
Home rule charter counties—Residential care facilities—Review of need and demand—Adoption of ordinances.
If a county operating under home rule charter zones pursuant to its inherent charter authority and not pursuant to chapter 35.63 RCW, nor chapter 36.70 RCW, and that county does not provide for the siting of residential care facilities in zones or areas that are designated for single-family or other residential uses, the county shall conduct a review of the need and demand for the facilities, including the cost of any conditional or special use permit that may be required. The review shall be completed by August 30, 1990. A copy of the findings, conclusions, and recommendations resulting from the review shall be sent to the *department of community development by September 30, 1990.
On or before June 30, 1991, each municipality that plans and zones under this chapter shall have adopted an ordinance or ordinances that are necessary to implement the findings of this review, if the findings indicate that such changes are necessary, or shall notify the *department of community development as to why such implementing ordinances were not adopted.
[ 1989 c 427 § 40.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: Powers, duties, and functions of the department of community development and the department of trade and economic development were transferred to the department of community, trade, and economic development by 1993 c 280, effective July 1, 1994. The "department of community, trade, and economic development" was renamed the "department of commerce" by 2009 c 565.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.570 - Conservation area acquisition and maintenance.

RCW 36.32.570
Conservation area acquisition and maintenance.
The legislative authority of each county may acquire a fee simple interest, or lesser interest, in conservation areas in the county and may maintain the conservation areas. The conservation areas may be acquired and maintained with moneys obtained from the excise tax under RCW 82.46.070, or any other moneys available for such purposes.
As used in this section, the term "conservation area" means land and water that has environmental, agricultural, aesthetic, cultural, scientific, historic, scenic, or low-intensity recreational value for existing and future generations, and includes, but is not limited to, open spaces, wetlands, marshes, aquifer recharge areas, shoreline areas, natural areas, and other lands and waters that are important to preserve flora and fauna.
[ 1990 1st ex.s. c 5 § 2.]
NOTES:
Purpose—1990 1st ex.s. c 5: "The purpose of this act is to provide a mechanism for the acquisition and maintenance of conservation areas through an orderly process that is approved by the voters of a county. The authorities provided in this act are supplemental, and shall not be construed to limit otherwise existing authorities." [ 1990 1st ex.s. c 5 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.580 - Home rule charter counties subject to limitations on moratoria, interim zoning controls.

RCW 36.32.580
Home rule charter counties subject to limitations on moratoria, interim zoning controls.
A charter county that plans under the authority of its charter is subject to the provisions of RCW 36.70.795.
[ 1992 c 207 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.590 - Building construction projects—County prohibited from requiring state agencies or local governments to provide bond or other security as a condition for issuance of permit.

RCW 36.32.590
Building construction projects—County prohibited from requiring state agencies or local governments to provide bond or other security as a condition for issuance of permit.
A county legislative authority may not require any state agency or unit of local government to secure the performance of a permit requirement with a surety bond or other financial security device, including cash or assigned account, as a condition of issuing a permit to that unit of local government for a building construction project.
As used in this section, "building construction project" includes, in addition to its usual meaning, associated landscaping, street alteration, pedestrian or vehicular access alteration, or other amenities or alterations necessarily associated with the project.
[ 1993 c 439 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.600 - Amateur radio antennas—Local regulation to conform with federal law.

RCW 36.32.600
Amateur radio antennas—Local regulation to conform with federal law.
No county shall enact or enforce an ordinance or regulation that fails to conform to the limited preemption entitled "Amateur Radio Preemption, 101 FCC 2nd 952 (1985)" issued by the federal communications commission. An ordinance or regulation adopted by a county with respect to amateur radio antennas shall conform to the limited federal preemption, that states local regulations that involve placement, screening, or height of antennas based on health, safety, or aesthetic considerations must be crafted to reasonably accommodate amateur communications, and to represent the minimal practicable regulation to accomplish the local authority's legitimate purpose.
[ 1994 c 50 § 3.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1994 c 50: See note following RCW 35.21.315.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.610 - Library capital facility areas authorized.

RCW 36.32.610
Library capital facility areas authorized.
A county legislative authority may establish a library capital facility area pursuant to chapter 27.15 RCW.
[ 1995 c 368 § 8.]
NOTES:
Findings—1995 c 368: See RCW 27.15.005.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners. › 36.32.620 - Abandoned or derelict vessels.

RCW 36.32.620
Abandoned or derelict vessels.
A county has the authority, subject to the processes and limitation outlined in chapter 79.100 RCW, to store, strip, use, auction, sell, salvage, scrap, or dispose of an abandoned or derelict vessel found on or above publicly or privately owned aquatic lands within the jurisdiction of the county.
[ 2002 c 286 § 17.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2002 c 286: See RCW 79.100.901.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.33 - County Funds. › 36.33.010 - Current expense fund.

RCW 36.33.010
Current expense fund.
Every county shall maintain a current expense fund to which shall be credited all taxes levied for that purpose and all fees collected, fines assessed, and forfeitures adjudged in the county the proceeds of which have not been specifically allocated to any other purpose.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.33.010. Prior: 1945 c 85 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 5634-1.]
NOTES:
Moneys paid from for
disinfection of horticultural premises: Chapter 15.08 RCW.
public health pooling fund: RCW 70.12.040.
weed district taxes on county lands: RCW 17.04.180.
Moneys paid into from
disinfection of horticultural premises tax: RCW 15.08.170.
horticultural tax funds: RCW 15.08.260.
unclaimed property in hands of sheriff, sale of: RCW 63.40.030.
use tax on vehicles, auditor's collection fees: RCW 82.12.045.
vehicle registration filing fees: RCW 46.68.400.
vehicle use tax collection fees: RCW 82.12.045.
violations bureau funds: RCW 3.30.090.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.33 - County Funds. › 36.33.020 - Cumulative reserve fund—Purposes—Election to allow other specified use.

RCW 36.33.020
Cumulative reserve fund—Purposes—Election to allow other specified use.
Any board of county commissioners may establish by resolution a cumulative reserve fund in general terms for several different county purposes as well as for a very specific county purpose, including that of buying any specified supplies, material or equipment, or the construction, alteration or repair of any public building or work, or the making of any public improvement. The resolution shall designate the fund as "cumulative reserve fund for . . . . . . (naming the purpose or purposes for which the fund is to be accumulated and expended)." The moneys in said fund may be allowed to accumulate from year to year until the board of county commissioners of the county shall determine to expend the moneys in the fund for the purpose or purposes specified: PROVIDED, That any moneys in said fund shall never be expended for any other purpose or purposes than those specified, without an approving vote by a majority of the electors of the county at a general or special election to allow other specified uses to be made of said fund.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.33.020. Prior: 1961 c 172 § 1; 1945 c 51 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 5634-10.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.33 - County Funds. › 36.33.030 - Cumulative reserve fund—Accumulation of, current expense fund limits not to affect.

RCW 36.33.030
Cumulative reserve fund—Accumulation of, current expense fund limits not to affect.
An item for said cumulative reserve fund may be included in the county's annual budget or estimate of amounts required to meet public expense for the ensuing year and a tax levy made within the limits and as authorized by law for said item; and said item and levy may be repeated from year to year until, in the judgment of the board of county commissioners of the county the amount required for the specified purpose or purposes has been raised or accumulated. The board of county commissioners may accept gifts or bequests for the cumulative reserve fund and may make transfers from the current expense fund to the cumulative reserve fund. Any moneys in said fund at the end of the fiscal year shall not lapse nor shall the same be a surplus available or which may be used for any other purpose or purposes than those specified, except as herein provided, nor shall moneys in said fund be considered when computing the limitations on cash balances set out in section 4, chapter 164, Laws of 1923 as last amended by section 1, chapter 145, Laws of 1943 and RCW 36.40.090.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.33.030. Prior: 1961 c 172 § 2; 1945 c 51 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 5634-11.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.33 - County Funds. › 36.33.040 - Cumulative reserve fund—Permissible uses of funds in.

RCW 36.33.040
Cumulative reserve fund—Permissible uses of funds in.
No money in any cumulative reserve fund shall be used for any purpose other than that for which the fund was created except:
(1) If the purpose of the creation of a cumulative reserve fund has been accomplished by the completion of the proposed building or improvement, the balance remaining in the fund may be transferred to any other cumulative reserve fund or to the county current expense fund by order of the board.
(2) If the purpose of the creation of a cumulative reserve fund ceases to exist or is abandoned, the fund or any part thereof, may be transferred to any other cumulative reserve fund or to the county current expense fund by order of the board after a public hearing thereon pursuant to a notice by publication: PROVIDED, That if the amount to be transferred exceeds fifty thousand dollars, no transfer may be made until authorized by a majority of the voters of the county voting upon the question at an election.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.33.040. Prior: 1945 c 51 § 3; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 5634-12.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.33 - County Funds. › 36.33.060 - Salary fund—Reimbursement.

RCW 36.33.060
Salary fund—Reimbursement.
The county legislative authority of each county with a population of one hundred twenty-five thousand or more shall establish a salary fund to be used for paying the salaries and wages of all officials and employees. The county legislative authority of any other county may establish such a salary fund. Said salary fund shall be reimbursed from any county funds or other funds under the jurisdiction or control of the county treasurer or county auditor budgeted for salaries and wages. The deposits shall be made in the exact amount of the payroll or vouchers paid from the salary fund.
[ 1991 c 363 § 64; 1973 1st ex.s. c 38 § 1; 1971 ex.s. c 214 § 1; 1963 c 4 § 36.33.060. Prior: 1961 c 273 § 1; prior: (i) 1935 c 94 § 1; 1933 ex.s. c 14 § 1; RRS § 4201-1. (ii) 1933 ex.s. c 14 § 2; RRS § 4201-2. (iii) 1933 ex.s. c 14 § 3; RRS § 4201-3.]
NOTES:
Purpose—Captions not law—1991 c 363: See notes following RCW 2.32.180.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.33 - County Funds. › 36.33.065 - Claims fund—Reimbursement.

RCW 36.33.065
Claims fund—Reimbursement.
The county legislative authority of any county may establish by resolution a fund to be known as the claims fund, which shall be used for paying claims against the county. Such claims fund shall be reimbursed from any county funds or other funds under the jurisdiction or control of the county treasurer or county auditor budgeted for such expenditures. The deposits shall be made in the exact amount of the vouchers paid from the claims fund.
[ 1991 c 363 § 65; 1973 1st ex.s. c 38 § 2; 1971 ex.s. c 214 § 2.]
NOTES:
Purpose—Captions not law—1991 c 363: See notes following RCW 2.32.180.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.33 - County Funds. › 36.33.070 - Investment in warrants on tax refund fund.

RCW 36.33.070
Investment in warrants on tax refund fund.
Whenever the county treasurer deems it expedient and for the best interests of the county he or she may invest any moneys in the county current expense fund in outstanding warrants on the county tax refund fund in the following manner: When he or she has determined the amount of moneys in the county current expense fund available for investment, he or she shall call, in the order of their issuance, a sufficient number of warrants drawn on the county tax refund fund as nearly as possible equaling in amount but not exceeding the moneys to be invested, and upon presentation and surrender thereof he or she shall pay to the holders of such warrants the face amount thereof and the accrued interest thereon out of moneys in the county current expense fund.
[ 2009 c 549 § 4069; 1963 c 4 § 36.33.070. Prior: 1943 c 61 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 5545-10.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.33 - County Funds. › 36.33.080 - Investment in warrants on tax refund fund—Procedure upon purchase—Interest on.

RCW 36.33.080
Investment in warrants on tax refund fund—Procedure upon purchase—Interest on.
Upon receipt of any such warrant on the tax refund fund the county treasurer shall enter the principal amount thereof, and accrued interest thereon, as a suspense credit upon his or her records, and shall hold the warrant until it with interest, if any, is paid in due course out of the county tax refund fund, and upon such payment, the amount thereof shall be restored to the county current expense fund. The refund warrants held by the county treasurer shall continue to draw interest until the payment thereof out of the county tax refund fund, which interest accruing subsequent to acquisition of the warrants by the county treasurer shall be paid into the county current expense fund.
[ 2009 c 549 § 4070; 1963 c 4 § 36.33.080. Prior: 1943 c 61 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 5545-11.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.33 - County Funds. › 36.33.090 - Investment in warrants on tax refund fund—Breaking of warrants authorized.

RCW 36.33.090
Investment in warrants on tax refund fund—Breaking of warrants authorized.
Whenever it appears to the county treasurer that the face amount plus accrued interest of the tax refund warrant next eligible for investment exceeds by one hundred dollars the amount of moneys in the county current expense fund available for investment, the county treasurer may notify the warrant holder who shall thereupon apply to the county auditor for the breaking of the warrant and the county auditor upon such application shall take up the original warrant and reissue, as of the date which the original warrant bears, two new refund warrants one of which shall be in an amount approximately equaling, with accrued interest, the amount of moneys in the county current expense fund determined by the county treasurer to be available for investment. The new warrants when issued shall be callable and payable in the same order with respect to other outstanding tax refund warrants as the original warrant in lieu of which the new warrants were issued.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.33.090. Prior: 1943 c 61 § 3; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 5545-12.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.33 - County Funds. › 36.33.100 - Investment in warrants on tax refund fund—Purchased warrants as cash.

RCW 36.33.100
Investment in warrants on tax refund fund—Purchased warrants as cash.
In making settlements of accounts between outgoing and incoming county treasurers, any county tax refund warrant in which money in the county current expense fund has been invested shall be deemed in every way the equivalent of cash and shall be receipted for by the incoming county treasurer as such.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.33.100. Prior: 1943 c 61 § 4; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 5545-13.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.33 - County Funds. › 36.33.120 - County lands assessment fund created—Levy for.

RCW 36.33.120
County lands assessment fund created—Levy for.
The boards of county commissioners may annually levy a tax upon all taxable property in the county, for the purpose of creating a fund to be known as "county lands assessment fund."
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.33.120. Prior: 1929 c 193 § 1; RRS § 4027-1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.33 - County Funds. › 36.33.130 - County lands assessment fund created—Purpose of fund.

RCW 36.33.130
County lands assessment fund created—Purpose of fund.
The county lands assessment fund may be expended by the county commissioners to pay in full or in part, any assessment or installment of assessments of drainage improvement districts, diking improvement districts, or districts formed for the foregoing purposes, or assessments for road improvements, falling due against lands in the year when such lands are acquired by the county or while they are owned by the county, including lands acquired by the county for general purposes; also lands which have been acquired by the county by foreclosure of general taxes. Payment may be made of such assessments, or installments thereof, against such lands or classes of lands, and in such districts or classes of districts as the county commissioners deem advisable. No payment shall be made of any assessments or installments of assessments falling due prior to the year in which the lands were acquired by the county, nor shall any assessments be paid in advance of the time when they fall due. Assessments for maintenance and operation of dikes, drains, or other improvements of districts falling due upon such lands while owned by the county, may be paid without the payment of assessments or installments thereof for construction of the improvements, if the county commissioners elect so to do.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.33.130. Prior: 1929 c 193 § 2; RRS § 4027-2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.33 - County Funds. › 36.33.140 - County lands assessment fund created—Amount of levy.

RCW 36.33.140
County lands assessment fund created—Amount of levy.
The amount of the levy in any year for the county lands assessment fund shall not exceed the estimated amount needed over and above all moneys on hand in the fund, to pay the aggregate amount of such assessments falling due against the lands in the ensuing year; and in no event shall the levy exceed twelve and one-half cents per thousand dollars of assessed value upon all taxable property in the county.
[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 31; 1963 c 4 § 36.33.140. Prior: 1929 c 193 § 3; RRS § 4027-3.]
NOTES:
Severability—Effective dates—Construction—1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.33 - County Funds. › 36.33.150 - County lands assessment fund created—Surplus from tax sales to go into fund.

RCW 36.33.150
County lands assessment fund created—Surplus from tax sales to go into fund.
Into the county lands assessment fund shall also be paid any surplus moneys from the sale by the county, pursuant to foreclosure of real estate taxes, of any lands lying in any district formed for diking or drainage purposes or for assessment of road improvements, over and above the amount necessary to redeem the general taxes and other assessments against them, as required by law. Any surplus from any county levy for the fund, unexpended in any year, shall be carried forward in the fund to the next year.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.33.150. Prior: 1929 c 193 § 4; RRS § 4027-4.]