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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.08 - Securities. › 81.08.090 - Accounting for disposition of proceeds.

RCW 81.08.090
Accounting for disposition of proceeds.
The commission shall have the power to require public service companies to account for the disposition of the proceeds of all sales of stocks and stock certificates or other evidence of interest or ownership, and bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness, in such form and detail as it may deem advisable, and to establish such rules and regulations as it may deem reasonable and necessary to insure the disposition of such proceeds for the purpose or purposes specified in its order.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.08.090. Prior: 1933 c 151 § 8; RRS § 10439-8.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.08 - Securities. › 81.08.100 - Issuance made contrary to this chapter—Penalties.

RCW 81.08.100
Issuance made contrary to this chapter—Penalties.
If a public service company issues any stock, stock certificate, or other evidence of interest or ownership, bond, note, or other evidence of indebtedness, contrary to the provisions of this chapter, the company may be subject to penalty under RCW 81.08.110 and 81.08.120.
[ 1994 c 251 § 9; 1961 c 14 § 81.08.100. Prior: 1933 c 151 § 9; RRS § 10439-9.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.08 - Securities. › 81.08.110 - Penalty against company.

RCW 81.08.110
Penalty against company.
Every public service company which, directly or indirectly, issues or causes to be issued, any stock or stock certificate or other evidence of interest or ownership, or bond, note, or other evidence of indebtedness, in nonconformity with the provisions of this chapter, or which applies the proceeds from the sale thereof, or any part thereof, to any purpose other than the purpose or purposes allowed by this chapter shall be subject to a penalty of not more than one thousand dollars for each offense. Every violation of any such order, rules, direction, demand, or requirement of the department, or of any provision of this chapter, shall be a separate and distinct offense and in case of a continuing violation every day's continuance thereof shall be deemed to be a separate and distinct offense.
The act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or employee of any public service company acting within the scope of his or her official duties or employment, shall in every case be deemed to be the act, omission, or failure of such public service company.
[ 2013 c 23 § 293; 1994 c 251 § 10; 1961 c 14 § 81.08.110. Prior: 1933 c 151 § 11; RRS § 10439-11.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.08 - Securities. › 81.08.120 - Penalty against individual.

RCW 81.08.120
Penalty against individual.
Every officer, agent, or employee of a public service company, and every other person who knowingly authorizes, directs, aids in, issues or executes, or causes to be issued or executed, any stock or stock certificate or other evidence of interest or ownership, or bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness contrary to the provisions of this chapter, or who knowingly makes any false statement or representation or with knowledge of its falsity files or causes to be filed with the commission any false statement or representation or causes or assists to be applied the proceeds or any part thereof, from the sale of any stock or stock certificate or other evidence of interest or ownership, or bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness, to any purpose not allowed by this chapter or who, with knowledge that any stock or stock certificate or other evidence of interest or ownership, or bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness, has been issued or executed in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter negotiates, or causes the same to be negotiated, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
[ 1994 c 251 § 11; 1961 c 14 § 81.08.120. Prior: 1933 c 151 § 12; RRS § 10439-12.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.08 - Securities. › 81.08.130 - Assumption of obligation or liability—Compliance with filing requirements.

RCW 81.08.130
Assumption of obligation or liability—Compliance with filing requirements.
Any public service company that assumes any obligation or liability as guarantor, indorser, surety or otherwise in respect to the securities of any other person, firm or corporation, when such securities are payable at periods of more than twelve months after the date thereof, shall comply with the filing requirements of RCW 81.08.040.
[ 1994 c 251 § 12; 1961 c 14 § 81.08.130. Prior: 1933 c 151 § 13; RRS § 10439-13.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.08 - Securities. › 81.08.140 - State not obligated.

RCW 81.08.140
State not obligated.
No provision of this chapter, and no deed or act done or performed under or in connection therewith, shall be held or construed to obligate the state of Washington to pay or guarantee, in any manner whatsoever, any stock or stock certificate or other evidence of interest or ownership, or bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness, authorized, issued or executed under the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.08.140. Prior: 1933 c 151 § 14; RRS § 10439-14.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.08 - Securities. › 81.08.150 - Authority of commission—Not affected by requirements of this chapter.

RCW 81.08.150
Authority of commission—Not affected by requirements of this chapter.
No action by a public service company in compliance with nor by the commission in conformance with the requirements of this chapter may in any way affect the authority of the commission over rates, service, accounts, valuations, estimates, or determinations of costs, or any matters whatsoever that may come before it.
[ 1994 c 251 § 13.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.12 - Transfers of Property. › 81.12.010 - Definition.

RCW 81.12.010
Definition.
"Public service company," as used in this chapter, means every common carrier subject to regulation as to rates and service by the utilities and transportation commission under the provisions of this title. It does not include common carriers subject to regulation by the federal energy regulatory commission or the United States department of transportation, household goods carriers subject to chapter 81.80 RCW, or solid waste collection companies subject to chapter 81.77 RCW. This section does not apply to transfers of permits or certificates.
[ 2007 c 234 § 19; 1981 c 13 § 4; 1969 ex.s. c 210 § 4; 1965 ex.s. c 105 § 4; 1963 c 59 § 5; 1961 c 14 § 81.12.010. Prior: 1953 c 95 § 12; 1941 c 159 § 1, part; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 10440a.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.12 - Transfers of Property. › 81.12.020 - Order required to sell, merge, etc.

RCW 81.12.020
Order required to sell, merge, etc.
No public service company shall sell, lease, assign or otherwise dispose of the whole or any part of its franchises, properties or facilities whatsoever, which are necessary or useful in the performance of its duties to the public, and no public service company shall, by any means whatsoever, directly or indirectly, merge or consolidate any of its franchises, properties or facilities with any other public service company, without having secured from the commission an order authorizing it so to do: PROVIDED, That this section shall not apply to any sale, lease, assignment or other disposal of such franchises, properties or facilities to a public utility district.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.12.020. Prior: 1945 c 75 § 1; 1941 c 159 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 10440b.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.12 - Transfers of Property. › 81.12.030 - Disposal without authorization void.

RCW 81.12.030
Disposal without authorization void.
Any such sale, lease, assignment, or other disposition, merger or consolidation made without authority of the commission shall be void.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.12.030. Prior: 1941 c 159 § 3; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 10440c.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.12 - Transfers of Property. › 81.12.040 - Authority required to acquire property or securities of company.

RCW 81.12.040
Authority required to acquire property or securities of company.
No public service company shall, directly or indirectly, purchase, acquire, or become the owner of any of the franchises, properties, facilities, capital stocks or bonds of any other public service company unless authorized so to do by the commission. Nothing contained in this chapter shall prevent the holding of stocks or other securities heretofore lawfully acquired or prohibit, upon the surrender or exchange of said stocks or other securities pursuant to a reorganization plan, the purchase, acquisition, taking or holding by the owner of a proportionate amount of the stocks or other securities of any new corporation organized to take over at foreclosure or other sale, the property of the corporation the stocks or securities of which have been thus surrendered or exchanged. Any contract by any public service company for the purchase, acquisition, assignment or transfer to it of any of the stocks or other securities of any other public service company, directly or indirectly, without the approval of the commission shall be void and of no effect.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.12.040. Prior: 1941 c 159 § 4; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 10440d.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.12 - Transfers of Property. › 81.12.050 - Rules and regulations.

RCW 81.12.050
Rules and regulations.
The commission shall have power to promulgate rules and regulations to make effective the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.12.050. Prior: 1941 c 159 § 5; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 10440e.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.12 - Transfers of Property. › 81.12.060 - Penalty.

RCW 81.12.060
Penalty.
The provisions of RCW 81.04.380 and 81.04.385 as to penalties shall be applicable to public service companies, their officers, agents and employees failing to comply with the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.12.060. Prior: 1941 c 159 § 6; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 10440f.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.16 - Affiliated Interests. › 81.16.010 - Definitions.

RCW 81.16.010
Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Public service company" means every corporation engaged in business as a common carrier and subject to regulation as to rates and service by the utilities and transportation commission under this title.
(2) "Affiliated interest" means:
(a) Every corporation and person owning or holding directly or indirectly five percent or more of the voting securities of any public service company engaged in any intrastate business in this state;
(b) Every corporation and person, other than those above specified, in any chain of successive ownership of five percent or more of voting securities, the chain beginning with the holder of the voting securities of such public service company;
(c) Every corporation five percent or more of whose voting securities are owned by any person or corporation owning five percent or more of the voting securities of such public service company or by any person or corporation in any such chain of successive ownership of five percent or more of voting securities;
(d) Every corporation or person with which the public service company has a management or service contract; and
(e) Every person who is an officer or director of such public service company or of any corporation in any chain of successive ownership of five percent or more of voting securities.
[ 2007 c 234 § 20; 1969 ex.s. c 210 § 5; 1961 c 14 § 81.16.010. Prior: 1953 c 95 § 13; 1933 c 152 § 1, part; RRS § 10440-1, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.16 - Affiliated Interests. › 81.16.020 - Dealings with affiliated interests—Prior filing with commission required—Commission may disapprove.

RCW 81.16.020
Dealings with affiliated interests—Prior filing with commission required—Commission may disapprove.
Every public service company shall file with the commission a verified copy, or a verified summary if unwritten, of a contract or arrangement providing for the furnishing of management, supervisory construction, engineering, accounting, legal, financial, or similar services, or any contract or arrangement for the purchase, sale, lease, or exchange of any property, right, or thing, or for the furnishing of any service, property, right, or thing, other than those enumerated in this section, hereafter made or entered into between a public service company and any affiliated interest as defined in this chapter, including open account advances from or to the affiliated interests. The filing must be made prior to the effective date of the contract or arrangement. Modifications or amendments to the contracts or arrangements with affiliated interests must be filed with the commission prior to the effective date of the modification or amendment. The commission may at any time after receipt of the contract or arrangement institute an investigation and disapprove the contract, arrangement, or amendment thereto if the commission finds the public service company has failed to prove that it is reasonable and consistent with the public interest. The commission may disapprove any such contract or arrangement if satisfactory proof is not submitted to the commission of the cost to the affiliated interest of rendering the services or of furnishing the property or service described in this section.
[ 1998 c 47 § 6; 1961 c 14 § 81.16.020. Prior: 1941 c 160 § 1; 1933 c 152 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 10440-2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.16 - Affiliated Interests. › 81.16.030 - Payments to affiliated interest disallowed if not reasonable.

RCW 81.16.030
Payments to affiliated interest disallowed if not reasonable.
In any proceeding, whether upon the commission's own motion or upon complaint, involving the rates or practices of any public service company, the commission may exclude from the accounts of the public service company any payment or compensation to an affiliated interest for any services rendered or property or service furnished, as described in this section, under existing contracts or arrangements with the affiliated interest unless the public service company establishes the reasonableness of the payment or compensation. In the proceeding the commission shall disallow the payment or compensation, in whole or in part, in the absence of satisfactory proof that it is reasonable in amount. In such a proceeding, any payment or compensation may be disapproved or disallowed by the commission, in whole or in part, if satisfactory proof is not submitted to the commission of the cost to the affiliated interest of rendering the service or furnishing the property or service described in this section.
[ 1998 c 47 § 7; 1961 c 14 § 81.16.030. Prior: 1933 c 152 § 3; RRS § 10440-3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.16 - Affiliated Interests. › 81.16.040 - Satisfactory proof, what constitutes.

RCW 81.16.040
Satisfactory proof, what constitutes.
No proof shall be satisfactory, within the meaning of RCW 81.16.010 through 81.16.030, unless it includes the original (or verified copies) of the relevant cost records and other relevant accounts of the affiliated interest, or such abstract thereof or summary taken therefrom, as the commission may deem adequate, properly identified and duly authenticated: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That the commission may, where reasonable, approve or disapprove such contracts or arrangements without the submission of such cost records or accounts.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.16.040. Prior: 1933 c 152 § 4; RRS § 10440-4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.16 - Affiliated Interests. › 81.16.050 - Commission's control is continuing.

RCW 81.16.050
Commission's control is continuing.
The commission shall have continuing supervisory control over the terms and conditions of such contracts and arrangements as are herein described so far as necessary to protect and promote the public interest. The commission shall have the same jurisdiction over the modifications or amendment of contracts or arrangements as are herein described as it has over such original contracts or arrangements. The fact that a contract or arrangement has been filed with, or the commission has approved entry into such contracts or arrangements, as described herein, shall not preclude disallowance or disapproval of payments made pursuant thereto, if upon actual experience under such contract or arrangement, it appears that the payments provided for or made were or are unreasonable. Every order of the commission approving any such contract or arrangement shall be expressly conditioned upon the reserved power of the commission to revise and amend the terms and conditions thereof, if, when and as necessary to protect and promote the public interest.
[ 1998 c 47 § 8; 1961 c 14 § 81.16.050. Prior: 1933 c 152 § 5; RRS § 10440-5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.16 - Affiliated Interests. › 81.16.060 - Summary order on nonapproved payments.

RCW 81.16.060
Summary order on nonapproved payments.
Whenever the commission shall find upon investigation that any public service company is giving effect to any such contract or arrangement without such contract or arrangement having been filed or approved, the commission may issue a summary order prohibiting the public service company from treating any payments made under the terms of such contract or arrangement as operating expenses or as capital expenditures for rate or valuation purposes, unless and until such contract or arrangement has been filed with the commission or until payments have received the approval of the commission.
[ 1998 c 47 § 9; 1961 c 14 § 81.16.060. Prior: 1933 c 152 § 6; RRS § 10440-6.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.16 - Affiliated Interests. › 81.16.070 - Summary order on payments after disallowance.

RCW 81.16.070
Summary order on payments after disallowance.
Whenever the commission finds upon investigation that any public service company is making payments to an affiliated interest, although the payments have been disallowed or disapproved by the commission in a proceeding involving the public service company's rates or practices, the commission shall issue a summary order directing the public service company to not treat the payments as operating expenses or capital expenditures for rate or valuation purposes, unless and until the payments have received the approval of the commission.
[ 1998 c 47 § 10; 1961 c 14 § 81.16.070. Prior: 1933 c 152 § 7; RRS § 10440-7.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.16 - Affiliated Interests. › 81.16.075 - Application of chapter—Solid waste collection companies.

RCW 81.16.075
Application of chapter—Solid waste collection companies.
This chapter does not apply to a determination of the base for collection rates for solid waste collection companies meeting the requirements under RCW 81.77.160(3).
[ 1997 c 434 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.16 - Affiliated Interests. › 81.16.080 - Court action to enforce orders.

RCW 81.16.080
Court action to enforce orders.
The superior court of Thurston county is authorized to enforce such orders to cease and desist by appropriate process, including the issuance of a preliminary injunction, upon the suit of the commission.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.16.080. Prior: 1933 c 152 § 8; RRS § 10440-8.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.16 - Affiliated Interests. › 81.16.090 - Review of orders.

RCW 81.16.090
Review of orders.
Any public service company or affiliated interest deeming any decision or order of the commission to be in any respect or manner improper, unjust or unreasonable may have the same reviewed in the courts in the same manner and by the same procedure as is now provided by law for review of any other order or decision of the commission.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.16.090. Prior: 1933 c 152 § 9; RRS § 10440-9.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.20 - Investigation of Public Service Companies. › 81.20.010 - Definition.

RCW 81.20.010
Definition.
As used in this chapter, the term "public service company" means any person, firm, association, or corporation, whether public or private, operating a utility or public service enterprise subject in any respect to regulation by the utilities and transportation commission under the provisions of this title or Title 22 RCW.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.20.010. Prior: 1953 c 95 § 14; 1939 c 203 § 1; RRS § 10458-6.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.20 - Investigation of Public Service Companies. › 81.20.020 - Cost of investigation may be assessed against company.

RCW 81.20.020
Cost of investigation may be assessed against company.
Whenever the commission in any proceeding upon its own motion or upon complaint shall deem it necessary in order to carry out the duties imposed upon it by law to investigate the books, accounts, practices and activities of, or make any valuation or appraisal of the property of any public service company, or to investigate or appraise any phase of its operations, or to render any engineering or accounting service to or in connection with any public service company, and the cost thereof to the commission exceeds in amount the ordinary regulatory fees paid by such public service company during the preceding calendar year or estimated to be paid during the current year, whichever is more, such public service company shall pay the expenses reasonably attributable and allocable to such investigation, valuation, appraisal or services. The commission shall ascertain such expenses, and, after giving notice and an opportunity to be heard, shall render a bill therefor by registered mail to the public service company, either at the conclusion of the investigation, valuation, appraisal or services, or from time to time during its progress. Within thirty days after a bill has been mailed such public service company shall pay to the commission the amount of the bill, and the commission shall transmit such payment to the state treasurer who shall credit it to the public service revolving fund. The total amount which any public service company shall be required to pay under the provisions of this section in any calendar year shall not exceed one percent of the gross operating revenues derived by such public service company from its intrastate operations during the last preceding calendar year. If such company did not operate during all of the preceding year the calculations shall be based upon estimated gross revenues for the current year.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.20.020. Prior: 1939 c 203 § 2(a); RRS § 10458-6a(a).]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.20 - Investigation of Public Service Companies. › 81.20.030 - Interest on unpaid assessment—Action to collect.

RCW 81.20.030
Interest on unpaid assessment—Action to collect.
Amounts so assessed against any public service company not paid within thirty days after mailing of the bill therefor, shall draw interest at the rate of six percent per annum from the date of mailing of the bill. Upon failure of the public service company to pay the bill, the attorney general shall proceed in the name of the state by civil action in the superior court for Thurston county against such public service company to collect the amount due, together with interest and costs of suit.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.20.030. Prior: 1939 c 203 § 2(b); RRS § 10458-6a(b).]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.20 - Investigation of Public Service Companies. › 81.20.040 - Commission's determination of necessity as evidence.

RCW 81.20.040
Commission's determination of necessity as evidence.
In such action the commission's determination of the necessity of the investigation, valuation, appraisal or services shall be conclusive evidence of such necessity, and its findings and determination of facts expressed in bills rendered pursuant to RCW 81.20.020 through 81.20.060 or in any proceedings determinative of such bills shall be prima facie evidence of such facts.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.20.040. Prior: 1939 c 203 § 2(c); RRS § 10458-6a(c).]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.20 - Investigation of Public Service Companies. › 81.20.050 - Order of commission not subject to review.

RCW 81.20.050
Order of commission not subject to review.
In view of the civil action provided for in RCW 81.20.020 through 81.20.060 any order made by the commission in determining the amount of such bill shall not be reviewable in court, but the mere absence of such right of review shall not prejudice the rights of defendants in the civil action.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.20.050. Prior: 1939 c 203 § 2(d); RRS § 10458-6a(d).]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.20 - Investigation of Public Service Companies. › 81.20.060 - Limitation on frequency of investigations.

RCW 81.20.060
Limitation on frequency of investigations.
Expenses of a complete valuation, rate and service investigation shall not be assessed against a public service company under this chapter if such company shall have been subjected to and paid the expenses of a complete valuation, rate and service investigation during the preceding five years, unless the properties or operations of the company have materially changed or there has been a substantial change in its value for rate making purposes or in other circumstances and conditions affecting rates and services.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.20.060. Prior: 1939 c 203 § 2(e); RRS § 10458-6a(e).]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.24 - Regulatory Fees. › 81.24.010 - Companies to file reports of gross revenue and pay fees—Exempt companies.

RCW 81.24.010
Companies to file reports of gross revenue and pay fees—Exempt companies.
(1) Every company subject to regulation by the commission, except those listed in subsection (3) of this section, shall, on or before the date specified by the commission for filing annual reports under RCW 81.04.080, file with the commission a statement on oath showing its gross operating revenue from intrastate operations for the preceding calendar year, or portion thereof, and pay to the commission a fee equal to one-tenth of one percent of the first fifty thousand dollars of gross operating revenue, plus two-tenths of one percent of any gross operating revenue in excess of fifty thousand dollars, except railroad companies which shall each pay to the commission a fee of up to two and one-half percent of its intrastate gross operating revenue. However, a class three railroad that does not haul crude oil must pay a fee equal to one and one-half percent of its intrastate gross operating revenue. The commission may, by rule, set minimum fees that do not exceed the cost of collecting the fees. The commission may by rule waive any or all of the minimum fee established pursuant to this section. Any railroad association that qualifies as a nonprofit charitable organization under the federal internal revenue code section 501(c)(3) is exempt from the fee required under this subsection.
(2) The percentage rates of gross operating revenue to be paid in any one year may be decreased by the commission for any class of companies subject to the payment of such fees, by general order entered before March 1st of such year, and for such purpose railroad companies are classified as class two. Every other company subject to regulation by the commission, for which regulatory fees are not otherwise fixed by law, shall pay fees as herein provided and shall constitute additional classes according to kinds of businesses engaged in.
(3) This section does not apply to private nonprofit transportation providers, auto transportation companies, charter party carriers and excursion service carriers, solid waste collection companies, motor freight carriers, household goods carriers, commercial ferries, and low-level radioactive waste storage facilities.
[ 2015 c 274 § 18; 2007 c 234 § 21; 2003 c 296 § 2; 1996 c 196 § 1; 1990 c 48 § 2; 1977 ex.s. c 48 § 1; 1969 ex.s. c 210 § 6; 1963 c 59 § 11; 1961 c 14 § 81.24.010. Prior: 1957 c 185 § 1; 1955 c 125 § 4; prior: 1939 c 123 § 1, part; 1937 c 158 § 1, part; 1929 c 107 § 1, part; 1923 c 107 § 1, part; 1921 c 113 § 1, part; RRS § 10417, part.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2015 c 274: See note following RCW 90.56.005.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.24 - Regulatory Fees. › 81.24.020 - Fees of auto transportation companies—Statement filing.

RCW 81.24.020
Fees of auto transportation companies—Statement filing.
On or before the date specified by the commission for filing annual reports under RCW 81.04.080, every auto transportation company must file with the commission a statement showing its gross operating revenue from intrastate operations for the preceding year and pay to the commission a fee of two-fifths of one percent of the amount of gross operating revenue. The commission may, by rule, set minimum fees that do not exceed the cost of collecting the fees. The commission may by rule waive any or all of the minimum fee established pursuant to this section.
The percentage rate of gross operating revenue to be paid in any period may be decreased by the commission by general order entered before the fifteenth day of the month preceding the month in which the fee is due.
[ 2003 c 296 § 3; 1997 c 215 § 1; 1961 c 14 § 81.24.020. Prior: 1955 c 125 § 5; prior: 1937 c 158 § 2, part; RRS § 10417-1, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.24 - Regulatory Fees. › 81.24.030 - Fees of every commercial ferry—Statement filing.

RCW 81.24.030
Fees of every commercial ferry—Statement filing.
Every commercial ferry shall, on or before the date specified by the commission for filing annual reports under RCW 81.04.080, file with the commission a statement on oath showing its gross operating revenue from intrastate operations for the preceding calendar year, or portion thereof, and pay to the commission a fee of two-fifths of one percent of the amount of gross operating revenue: PROVIDED, That the commission may, by rule, set minimum fees that do not exceed the cost of collecting the fees. The commission may by rule waive any or all of the minimum fee established pursuant to this section. The percentage rate of gross operating revenue to be paid in any year may be decreased by the commission by general order entered before March 1st of such year.
[ 2003 c 296 § 4; 1993 c 427 § 10; 1981 c 13 § 5; 1961 c 14 § 81.24.030. Prior: 1955 c 125 § 6; prior: 1939 c 123 § 3, part; 1937 c 158 § 4, part; RRS § 10417-3, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.24 - Regulatory Fees. › 81.24.050 - Fees to approximate reasonable cost of regulation.

RCW 81.24.050
Fees to approximate reasonable cost of regulation.
In fixing the percentage rates of gross operating revenue to be paid by companies under RCW 81.24.010, 81.24.020, and 81.24.030, the commission shall consider all moneys then in the public service revolving fund and the fees currently to be paid into such fund, to the end that the fees collected from the companies, or classes of companies, covered by each respective section shall be approximately the same as the reasonable cost of supervising and regulating such companies, or classes of companies, respectively.
[ 1983 c 3 § 206; 1961 c 14 § 81.24.050. Prior: 1955 c 125 § 8; prior: (i) 1939 c 123 § 1, part; 1937 c 158 § 1, part; RRS § 10417, part. (ii) 1937 c 158 § 2, part; RRS § 10417-1, part. (iii) 1939 c 123 § 3, part; 1937 c 158 § 4, part; RRS § 10417-3, part. (iv) 1939 c 123 § 2, part; 1937 c 158 § 3, part; RRS § 10417-2, part. (v) 1949 c 124 § 1, part; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 10417-2, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.24 - Regulatory Fees. › 81.24.060 - Intent of legislature—Regulatory cost records to be kept by commission.

RCW 81.24.060
Intent of legislature—Regulatory cost records to be kept by commission.
It is the intent and purpose of the legislature that the several groups of public service companies shall each contribute sufficient in fees to the commission to pay the reasonable cost of regulating the several groups respectively. The commission shall keep accurate records of the costs incurred in regulating and supervising the several groups of companies subject to regulation or supervision and such records shall be open to inspection by all interested parties. The records and data upon which the commission's determination is made shall be considered prima facie correct in any proceeding instituted to challenge the reasonableness or correctness of any order of the commission fixing fees and distributing regulatory expenses.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.24.060. Prior: 1937 c 158 § 7; RRS § 10417-5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.24 - Regulatory Fees. › 81.24.070 - Disposition of fees.

RCW 81.24.070
Disposition of fees.
All moneys collected under the provisions of this chapter shall within thirty days be paid to the state treasurer and by him or her deposited to the public service revolving fund.
[ 2013 c 23 § 294; 1961 c 14 § 81.24.070. Prior: 1937 c 158 § 6; RRS § 10417-4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.24 - Regulatory Fees. › 81.24.075 - Delinquent fee payments.

RCW 81.24.075
Delinquent fee payments.
Any payment of a fee imposed by this chapter made after its due date shall include a late fee of two percent of the amount due. Delinquent fees shall accrue interest at the rate of one percent per month.
[ 1994 c 83 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.24 - Regulatory Fees. › 81.24.080 - Penalty for failure to pay fees—Disposition of fees and penalties.

RCW 81.24.080
Penalty for failure to pay fees—Disposition of fees and penalties.
Every person, firm, company or corporation, or the officers, agents or employees thereof, failing or neglecting to pay the fees herein required shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. All fines and penalties collected under the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited into the public service revolving fund of the state treasury: PROVIDED, That all fees, fines, forfeitures and penalties collected or assessed by a district court because of the violation of a state law shall be remitted as provided in chapter 3.62 RCW as now exists or is later amended.
[ 1987 c 202 § 242; 1979 ex.s. c 198 § 2; 1961 c 14 § 81.24.080. Prior: 1923 c 107 § 2; 1921 c 113 § 3; RRS § 10419.]
NOTES:
Intent—1987 c 202: See note following RCW 2.04.190.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.24 - Regulatory Fees. › 81.24.100 - Mileage fees on stages—Penalty.

RCW 81.24.100
Mileage fees on stages—Penalty.
In addition to the license fees required under RCW 46.17.355 for registering vehicles under RCW 46.16A.455, operators of auto stages with seating capacity over six shall pay, at the time they file gross earning returns with the utilities and transportation commission, the sum of fifteen cents for each one hundred vehicle miles operated by each auto stage over the public highways of this state. However, in the case of each auto stage propelled by steam, electricity, natural gas, diesel oil, butane, or propane, the payment required in this section is twenty cents per one hundred miles of such operation. The commission shall transmit all sums so collected to the state treasurer, who shall deposit the same in the motor vehicle fund. Any person failing to make any payment required by this section is subject to a penalty of one hundred percent of the payment due in this section, in addition to any penalty provided for failure to submit a report. Any penalties so collected shall be credited to the public service revolving fund.
[ 2010 c 161 § 424; 1997 c 215 § 2; 1967 ex.s. c 83 § 60; 1961 c 12 § 46.16.125. Prior: 1951 c 269 § 14. Formerly RCW 46.16.125.]
NOTES:
Effective date—Intent—Legislation to reconcile chapter 161, Laws of 2010 and other amendments made during the 2010 legislative session—2010 c 161: See notes following RCW 46.04.013.
Effective dates—1967 ex.s. c 83: See RCW 47.26.910.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.28 - Common Carriers in General. › 81.28.010 - Duties as to rates, services, and facilities.

RCW 81.28.010
Duties as to rates, services, and facilities.
All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of persons or property, or in connection therewith, by any common carrier subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service, or by any two or more such common carriers, must be just, fair, reasonable, and sufficient.
Every common carrier shall construct, furnish, maintain and provide, safe, adequate, and sufficient service facilities and equipment to enable it to promptly, expeditiously, safely, and properly receive, transport, and deliver all persons or property offered to or received by it for transportation, and to promote the safety, health, comfort, and convenience of its patrons, employees, and the public.
All rules and regulations issued by any such common carrier affecting or pertaining to the transportation of persons or property must be just and reasonable.
[ 2007 c 234 § 22; 1961 c 14 § 81.28.010. Prior: 1911 c 117 § 9; RRS § 10345.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.28 - Common Carriers in General. › 81.28.020 - Duty of carriers to expedite traffic.

RCW 81.28.020
Duty of carriers to expedite traffic.
Every common carrier subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service shall under reasonable rules and regulations promptly and expeditiously receive, transport, and deliver all persons or property offered to or received by it for transportation.
[ 2007 c 234 § 23; 1961 c 14 § 81.28.020. Prior: 1911 c 117 § 10; RRS § 10346.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.28 - Common Carriers in General. › 81.28.030 - Routing of freight—Connecting companies—Damages.

RCW 81.28.030
Routing of freight—Connecting companies—Damages.
All common carriers subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service and doing business wholly within this state shall, upon receipt of any article of freight, promptly forward the same to its marked destination, by the route directed by the shipper, or if no directions are given by shipper, then to any connecting company whose line or route reaches nearest to the point to which such freight is marked.
Any such common carrier failing to comply with this section is liable for any damages that may be sustained, either to the shipper or consignee, from any cause, upon proof that the damages resulted from a failure of the transportation company to comply with this section.
Suit for damages may be instituted either at the place of shipping or destination, either by the shipper or consignee, and before any court competent and qualified to hear and determine like causes between persons who reside in the court's district.
[ 2007 c 234 § 24; 1961 c 14 § 81.28.030. Prior: (i) 1890 p 291 § 1; RRS § 10491. (ii) 1890 p 291 § 2; RRS § 10492. (iii) 1890 p 291 § 3; RRS § 10493.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.28 - Common Carriers in General. › 81.28.050 - Tariff changes—Notice—Exception—Waiver of provisions during state of emergency.

RCW 81.28.050
Tariff changes—Notice—Exception—Waiver of provisions during state of emergency.
Unless the commission otherwise orders, a change may not be made to any classification, rate, fare, charge, rule, or regulation filed and published by a common carrier subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service, except after thirty days' notice to the commission and to the public. In the case of a solid waste collection company, a change may not be made except after forty-five days' notice to the commission and to the public. The notice must be published as provided in RCW 81.28.040 and must plainly state the changes proposed to be made in the schedule then in force and the time when the changed rate, classification, fare, or charge will go into effect. All proposed changes must be shown by printing, filing, and publishing new schedules or must be plainly indicated upon the schedules in force at the time and kept open to public inspection. The commission, for good cause shown, may by order allow changes in rates without requiring the notice and the publication time periods specified in this section. When any change is made in any rate, fare, charge, classification, rule, or regulation, attention must be directed to the change by some character on the schedule. The character and its placement must be designated by the commission. The commission may, by order, for good cause shown, allow changes in any rate, fare, charge, classification, rule, or regulation without requiring any character to indicate each and every change to be made.
During a state of emergency declared under RCW 43.06.010(12), the governor may waive or suspend the operation or enforcement of this section or any portion of this section or under any administrative rule, and issue any orders to facilitate the operation of state or local government or to promote and secure the safety and protection of the civilian population.
[ 2008 c 181 § 406; 2007 c 234 § 26; 1993 c 300 § 2; 1984 c 143 § 5; 1981 c 116 § 1; 1961 c 14 § 81.28.050. Prior: 1957 c 205 § 3; 1911 c 117 § 15; RRS § 10351.]
NOTES:
Part headings not law—2008 c 181: See note following RCW 43.06.220.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.28 - Common Carriers in General. › 81.28.060 - Joint rates, contracts, etc.

RCW 81.28.060
Joint rates, contracts, etc.
The names of the several carriers which are parties to any joint tariff shall be specified therein, and each of the parties thereto, other than the one filing the same, shall file with the commission such evidence of concurrence therein or acceptance thereof as may be required or approved by the commission; and where such evidence of concurrence or acceptance is filed, it shall not be necessary for the carriers filing the same also to file copies of the tariffs in which they are named as parties.
Every common carrier shall file with the commission copies of every contract, agreement or arrangement with any other common carrier or common carriers relating in any way to the transportation of persons or property.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.28.060. Prior: 1911 c 117 § 16; RRS § 10352.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.28 - Common Carriers in General. › 81.28.180 - Rate discrimination prohibited.

RCW 81.28.180
Rate discrimination prohibited.
A common carrier subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service shall not, directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device or method, charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person or corporation a greater or lesser compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of persons or property, except as authorized in this title, than it charges, demands, collects, or receives from any person or corporation for doing a like and contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under the same or substantially similar circumstances and conditions.
[ 2007 c 234 § 28; 1984 c 143 § 6; 1961 c 14 § 81.28.180. Prior: 1911 c 117 § 20; RRS § 10356.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.28 - Common Carriers in General. › 81.28.190 - Unreasonable preferences and prejudices prohibited.

RCW 81.28.190
Unreasonable preferences and prejudices prohibited.
A common carrier subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service shall not make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any person, corporation, locality, or particular description of traffic in any respect whatsoever, or subject any particular person, corporation, locality, or particular description of traffic, to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever.
[ 2007 c 234 § 29; 1984 c 143 § 7; 1961 c 14 § 81.28.190. Prior: 1911 c 117 § 21; RRS § 10357.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 81 - Transportation › Chapter 81.28 - Common Carriers in General. › 81.28.200 - Long and short haul.

RCW 81.28.200
Long and short haul.
A common carrier, subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service and this title, shall not charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of persons or a like kind of property for a shorter distance than for a longer distance over the same line in the same direction, the shorter distance being included within the longer distance, or to charge any greater compensation as a through rate than the aggregate of the intermediate rates subject to this title. The common carriers may not charge and receive as great a compensation for a shorter as for a longer distance or haul. Upon the application of a common carrier, the commission may by order authorize the common carrier to charge less for a longer distance than for a shorter distance for the transportation of persons or property in special cases after investigation by the commission, but the order must specify and prescribe the extent to which the common carrier making the application is relieved from the operation of this section. Only to the extent so specified and prescribed is any common carrier relieved from the operation and requirements of this section.
[ 2007 c 234 § 30; 1984 c 143 § 8; 1961 c 14 § 81.28.200. Prior: 1911 c 117 § 22; RRS § 10358.]