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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › RCW Dispositions › 54.20 CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS

Sections
54.20.020 Failure to give statement — Contempt — Payment and decree.
[1945 c 130 § 3, part; Rem. Supp. § 10459-13, part.]
Now codified in RCW 54.20.010.
54.20.030 Retirement of properties — Adjustment.
[1945 c 130 § 3, part; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 10459-13, part.]
Now codified in RCW 54.20.010.
54.20.040 Accounting.
[1945 c 130 § 3, part; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 10459-13, part.]
Now codified in RCW 54.20.010.
54.20.050 Limitation on new proceedings.
[1945 c 130 § 3, part; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 10459-13, part.]
Now codified in RCW 54.20.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › RCW Dispositions › 54.24 FINANCES

Sections
54.24.130 General obligation bonds — Resolution — Election.
[1931 c 1 § 7, part; RRS § 11611, part.]
Now codified in RCW 54.24.018.
54.24.140 Bonds authorized.
[1931 c 1 § 7, part; RRS § 11611, part.]
Now codified in RCW 54.24.018.
54.24.150 Bonds — Form — Execution, etc.
[1931 c 1 § 7, part; RRS § 11611, part.]
Now codified in RCW 54.24.018.
54.24.160 General bonds — Payment.
[1931 c 1 § 7, part; RRS § 11611, part.]
Now codified in RCW 54.24.018.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › RCW Dispositions › 54.28 PRIVILEGE TAXES

Sections
54.28.030 Districts' report to department of revenue.
[1977 ex.s. c 366 § 3; 1975 1st ex.s. c 278 § 30; 1959 c 274 § 3; 1957 c 278 § 3. Prior: 1949 c 227 § 1(b); 1947 c 259 § 1(b); 1941 c 245 § 2(b); Rem. Supp. 1949 § 11616-2(b).]
Repealed by 2017 c 323 § 102, effective April 1, 2018.
54.28.130 Electric energy taxable but once under act.
[1957 c 278 § 15.]
Repealed by 1959 c 274 § 5.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › RCW Dispositions › 54.32 CONSOLIDATION AND ANNEXATION

Sections
54.32.020 Annexation of territory.
[1931 c 1 § 10, part; RRS § 11614, part.]
Now codified in RCW 54.32.010.
54.32.030 Consolidation or annexation, when election unnecessary for.
[1931 c 1 § 10, part; RRS § 11614, part.]
Now codified in RCW 54.32.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › RCW Dispositions › 54.44 NUCLEAR, THERMAL, ELECTRIC GENERATING POWER FACILITIES-JOINT DEVELOPMENT

Sections
54.44.901 Severability-1973 1st ex.s. c 7.
[1973 1st ex.s. c 7 § 8.]
Decodified by the code reviser, July 2016.
54.44.910 Severability-1967 c 159.
[1967 c 159 § 8.]
Decodified by the code reviser, July 2016.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.010 - Definitions.

RCW 54.04.010
Definitions.
As used in this title "revenue obligation" or "revenue obligations" mean and include bonds, notes, warrants, certificates of indebtedness, or any other evidences of indebtedness issued by a district which, by the terms thereof, shall be payable from the revenues of its public utilities.
[ 1959 c 218 § 14.]
NOTES:
"Wholesale power" defined: RCW 54.04.100.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.020 - Districts authorized.

RCW 54.04.020
Districts authorized.
Municipal corporations, to be known as public utility districts, are hereby authorized for the purposes of chapter 1, Laws of 1931 and may be established within the limits of the state of Washington, as provided herein.
[ 1931 c 1 § 2; RRS § 11606.]
NOTES:
Purpose—1931 c 1: "The purpose of this act is to authorize the establishment of public utility districts to conserve the water and power resources of the State of Washington for the benefit of the people thereof, and to supply public utility service, including water and electricity for all uses." [ 1931 c 1 § 1.]
Severability—Construction—1931 c 1: "Adjudication of invalidity of any section, clause or part of a section of this act shall not impair or otherwise affect the validity of the act as a whole or any other part thereof.
The rule of strict construction shall have no application to this act, but the same shall be liberally construed, in order to carry out the purposes and objects for which this act is intended.
When this act comes in conflict with any provision, limitation or restriction in any other law, this act shall govern and control." [ 1931 c 1 § 11.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.030 - Restrictions on invading other municipalities.

RCW 54.04.030
Restrictions on invading other municipalities.
Chapter 1, Laws of 1931, shall not be deemed or construed to repeal or affect any existing act, or any part thereof, relating to the construction, operation and maintenance of public utilities by irrigation or water-sewer districts or other municipal corporations, but shall be supplemental thereto and concurrent therewith. No public utility district created hereunder shall include therein any municipal corporation, or any part thereof, where such municipal corporation already owns or operates all the utilities herein authorized: PROVIDED, that in case it does not own or operate all such utilities it may be included within such public utility district for the purpose of establishing or operating therein such utilities as it does not own or operate: PROVIDED, FURTHER, That no property situated within any irrigation or water-sewer districts or other municipal corporations shall ever be taxed or assessed to pay for any utility, or part thereof, of like character to any utility, owned or operated by such irrigation or water districts or other municipal corporations.
[ 1999 c 153 § 64; 1931 c 1 § 12; RRS § 11616.]
NOTES:
Part headings not law—1999 c 153: See note following RCW 57.04.050.
Irrigation districts: Title 87 RCW.
Municipal utilities: RCW 80.04.500, 81.04.490 and chapter 35.92 RCW.
Water-sewer districts: Title 57 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.037 - Annexation of territory—Coordination among county officials.

RCW 54.04.037
Annexation of territory—Coordination among county officials.
When territory has been added to a public utility district in accordance with RCW 54.04.035, the supervisor of elections and other officers of the county in which the public utility district first operated shall coordinate elections, the levy and collection of taxes, and other necessary duties with the appropriate county officials of the other county.
[ 1987 c 292 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.040 - Utilities within a city or town—Restrictions.

RCW 54.04.040
Utilities within a city or town—Restrictions.
A district shall not construct any property to be utilized by it in the operation of a plant or system for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy for sale, on the streets, alleys, or public places within a city or town without the consent of the governing body of the city or town and approval of the plan and location of the construction, which shall be made under such reasonable terms as the city or town may impose. All such properties shall be maintained and operated subject to such regulations as the city or town may prescribe under its police power.
[ 1957 c 278 § 9. Prior: (i) 1941 c 245 § 3a; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 11616-4. (ii) 1941 c 245 § 1, part; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 11616-1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.055 - Employee benefits—District may continue to pay premiums after employee retires.

RCW 54.04.055
Employee benefits—District may continue to pay premiums after employee retires.
Any public utility district which provides for the coverage of any of its employees under any plan for individual annuity contracts, retirement income policies, group annuity contracts, group insurance for the benefit of its employees, or any other contract for the benefit of its employees, and pays all or any part of the premiums or other payments required therefor, is hereby authorized to continue to make such payments for such employees after their retirement from employment. Such payments agreed to by the public utility district shall be considered as deferred compensation. Such payments shall not be retroactive but shall only be available for those employees employed on or after August 6, 1965 provided that such payments for retired employees shall not exceed those being paid for regular employees.
[ 1965 ex.s. c 149 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.060 - District elections.

RCW 54.04.060
District elections.
The supervisor of elections or other proper officer of the county shall give notice of all elections held under this title, for the time and in the manner and form provided for city, town, school district, and port district elections. When the supervisor or other officer deems an emergency exists, and is requested so to do by a resolution of the district commission, he or she may call a special election at any time in the district, and he or she may combine or divide precincts for the purpose of holding special elections, and special elections shall be conducted and notice thereof given in the manner provided by law.
The supervisor or other officer shall provide polling places, appoint the election officers, provide their compensation, provide ballot boxes, and ballots or voting machines, poll books and tally sheets, and deliver them to the election officers at the polling places, publish and post notices of the elections in the manner provided by law, and apportion to the district its share of the expense of the election.
The manner of conducting and voting at the elections, opening and closing of polls, keeping of poll lists, canvassing the votes, declaring the result, and certifying the returns, shall be the same as for the election of state and county officers, except as otherwise provided herein.
The district commission shall certify to the supervisor a list of offices to be filled at a district election and the commission, if it desires to submit to the voters of the district a proposition, shall require the secretary of the commission to certify it at the time and in the manner and form provided for certifying propositions by the governing board of cities, towns, and port districts.
[ 2010 c 8 § 17001; 1951 c 207 § 1; 1941 c 245 § 5; 1931 c 1 § 5; RRS § 11609.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.082 - Alternative bid procedure.

RCW 54.04.082
Alternative bid procedure.
For the awarding of a contract to purchase any item, or items of the same kind of materials, equipment, or supplies in an amount exceeding thirty thousand dollars per calendar month, but less than one hundred twenty thousand dollars per calendar month, exclusive of sales tax, the commission may, in lieu of the procedure described in RCW 54.04.070 and 54.04.080 requiring public notice to invite sealed proposals for such materials, equipment, or supplies, pursuant to commission resolution use the process provided in RCW 39.04.190. Waiver of the deposit or bid bond required under RCW 54.04.080 may be authorized by the commission in securing such bid quotations.
[ 2019 c 434 § 14; 2008 c 216 § 3; 2002 c 72 § 1; 1995 c 354 § 1; 1993 c 198 § 15; 1977 ex.s. c 116 § 1.]
NOTES:
Finding—Intent—2019 c 434: See note following RCW 35.23.352.
Findings—Intent—2008 c 216: See note following RCW 54.04.070.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.085 - Electrical facility construction or improvement—Bid proposals—Contract proposal forms—Conditions for issuance—Appeals.

RCW 54.04.085
Electrical facility construction or improvement—Bid proposals—Contract proposal forms—Conditions for issuance—Appeals.
A district shall require that bid proposals upon any construction or improvement of any electrical facility shall be made upon contract proposal form supplied by the district commission, and in no other manner. The district commission shall, before furnishing any person, firm or corporation desiring to bid upon any electrical work with a contract proposal form, require from such person, firm or corporation, answers to questions contained in a standard form of questionnaire and financial statement, including a complete statement of the financial ability and experience of such person, firm, or corporation in performing electrical work. Such questionnaire shall be sworn to before a notary public or other person authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, and shall be submitted once a year and at such other times as the district commission may require. Whenever the district commission is not satisfied with the sufficiency of the answers contained in such questionnaire and financial statement or whenever the district commission determines that such person, firm, or corporation does not meet all of the requirements hereinafter set forth it may refuse to furnish such person, firm or corporation with a contract proposal form and any bid proposal of such person, firm or corporation must be disregarded. In order to obtain a contract proposal form, a person, firm or corporation shall have all of the following requirements:
(1) Adequate financial resources, or the ability to secure such resources;
(2) The necessary experience, organization, and technical qualifications to perform the proposed contract;
(3) The ability to comply with the required performance schedule taking into consideration all of its existing business commitments;
(4) A satisfactory record of performance, integrity, judgment and skills; and
(5) Be otherwise qualified and eligible to receive an award under applicable laws and regulations.
Such refusal shall be conclusive unless appeal therefrom to the superior court of the county where the utility district is situated or Thurston county be taken within fifteen days, which appeal shall be heard summarily within ten days after the same is taken and on five days' notice thereof to the district commission.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 220 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.090 - Minimum wages.

RCW 54.04.090
Minimum wages.
Each contractor and subcontractor performing work for a public utility district or a local utility district within a public utility district shall pay or cause to be paid to its employees on the work or under the contract or subcontract, not less than the minimum scale fixed by the resolution of the commission prior to the notice and call for bids on the work. The commission, in fixing the minimum scale of wages, shall fix them as nearly as possible to the current prevailing wages within the district for work of like character.
[ 1955 c 124 § 4. Prior: 1931 c 1 § 8, part; RRS § 11612, part.]
NOTES:
Prevailing wages on public works: Chapter 39.12 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.092 - Application of RCW 54.04.070 through 54.04.090 to certain service provider agreements under chapter 70A.140 RCW.

RCW 54.04.092
Application of RCW 54.04.070 through 54.04.090 to certain service provider agreements under chapter 70A.140 RCW.
RCW 54.04.070 through 54.04.090 shall not apply to agreements entered into under authority of chapter 70A.140 RCW provided there is compliance with the procurement procedure under RCW 70A.140.040.
[ 2021 c 65 § 60; 1986 c 244 § 14.]
NOTES:
Explanatory statement—2021 c 65: See note following RCW 53.54.030.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.120 - Planning powers.

RCW 54.04.120
Planning powers.
In order that the commissioners of a public utility district may be better able to plan for the marketing of power and for the development of resources pertaining thereto, they shall have the same powers as are vested in a board of county commissioners as provided in *chapter 44, Laws of 1935 (sections 9322-2 to 9322-4, both inclusive, and 9322-10 to 9322-11 inclusive, Remington's Revised Statutes, also Pierce's Perpetual Code 776-3 to -7, 776-19 and -21), entitled: "An Act relating to city, town, county and regional planning and the creation, organization, duties and powers of planning commissions." For the purposes of such act, the president of a public utility district shall have the powers of the chair of the board of county commissioners, and a planning commission created hereunder shall have the same powers, enumerated in the above sections, with reference to a public utility district as a county planning commission has with reference to a county. However, this section shall not be construed to grant the power to adopt, regulate, or enforce comprehensive plans, zoning, land use, or building codes.
[ 2010 c 8 § 17002; 1985 c 95 § 1; 1945 c 130 § 4; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 10459-14.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: The portions of chapter 44, Laws of 1935 compiled as RRS §§ 9322-2 to 9322-4 and 9322-10 to 9322-11 are codified in RCW 35.63.020 through 35.63.070.
Purpose—Severability—1945 c 130: See notes following RCW 54.04.100.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.130 - Employee benefit plans when private utility acquired—Rights, powers and duties as to existing private employee benefit plans.

RCW 54.04.130
Employee benefit plans when private utility acquired—Rights, powers and duties as to existing private employee benefit plans.
Whenever any municipal corporation acquires by condemnation or otherwise any utility which at the time of acquisition is in private ownership and the employees of such private utility have been for at least two years and are at the time of acquisition covered by any plan for individual annuity contracts, retirement income policies, group annuity contracts, group insurance for the benefit of employees, or any other contract for the benefit of employees, such district shall, when the personnel is retained by the district, assume all of the obligations and liabilities of the private utility acquired with relation to such plan and the employees covered thereby at the time of acquisition; or the municipal corporation may by agreement with a majority of the employees affected substitute a plan or contract of the same or like nature. The municipal corporations acquiring such private utility shall proceed in such manner as is necessary so as not to reduce or impair any benefits or privileges which such employees would have received or be entitled to had such acquisition not been effected. The district may pay all or any part of the premiums or other payments required therefor out of the revenue derived from the operation of its properties.
[ 1961 c 139 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.140 - Employee benefit plans when private utility acquired—Admission to district's employee plan—Service credit—Contributions—Benefits.

RCW 54.04.140
Employee benefit plans when private utility acquired—Admission to district's employee plan—Service credit—Contributions—Benefits.
Any person affected by RCW 54.04.130 who was employed by the private utility at the time of acquisition may, at his or her option, apply to the district and/or appropriate officers, for admission to any plan available to other employees of the district. Every such person who was covered at the time of acquisition by a plan with the private utility shall have added and accredited to his or her period of employment his or her period of immediately preceding continuous service with such private utility if he or she remains in the service of the municipal corporation until such plan for which he or she seeks admission becomes applicable to him or her.
No such person shall have added and accredited to his or her period of employment his or her period of service with said private utility unless he or she or a third party shall pay to the appropriate officer or fund of the plan to which he or she requests admission his or her contribution for the period of such service with the private utility at the rate provided in or for such plan to which he or she desires admission, or if he or she shall be entitled to any private benefits, as a result of such private service, unless he or she agrees at the time of his or her employment with the district to accept a reduction in the payment of any benefits payable under the plan to which he or she requests entry that are based in whole or in part on such added and accredited service by the amount of benefits received. For the purposes of contributions, the date of entry of service shall be deemed the date of entry into service with the private utility, which service is accredited by this section, and the amount of contributions for the period of accredited service shall be based on the wages or salary of such person during that added and accredited period of service with the private utility.
The district may receive such payments from a third party and shall make from such payments contributions with respect to such prior service as may be necessary to enable it to assume its obligations.
After such contributions have been made and such service added and accredited such employee shall be established in the plan to which he or she seeks admission with all rights, benefits, and privileges that he or she would have been entitled to had he or she been a member of the plan from the beginning of his or her immediately preceding continuous employment with the private utility or of his or her eligibility.
[ 2010 c 8 § 17003; 1961 c 139 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.150 - Employee benefit plans when private utility acquired—Agreements and contracts—Prior rights preserved.

RCW 54.04.150
Employee benefit plans when private utility acquired—Agreements and contracts—Prior rights preserved.
The municipal corporation may enter into any agreements and contracts necessary to carry out the powers and duties prescribed by RCW 54.04.130 and 54.04.140, but nothing in RCW 54.04.130 through 54.04.160 shall be so construed as requiring without consent the modification of the obligation of any contract or as requiring any third party to modify the rights, privileges or obligations acquired or incurred under a prior agreement.
[ 1961 c 139 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.160 - Assumption of obligations of private pension plan when urban transportation system acquired.

RCW 54.04.160
Assumption of obligations of private pension plan when urban transportation system acquired.
Any municipal corporation which has heretofore or shall hereafter acquire from a private owner any urban transportation system which at the time of such acquisition has or had in effect any pension or retirement system for its employees, shall assume all such obligations with respect to continued contributions to and/or administration of, such retirement system, as the private owner bore or shall bear at such time, insofar as shall be necessary to discharge accrued obligations under such retirement system to beneficiaries who are not thereafter made members of a municipal or state retirement system.
[ 1961 c 139 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.170 - Collective bargaining authorized for employees.

RCW 54.04.170
Collective bargaining authorized for employees.
Employees of public utility districts are hereby authorized and entitled to enter into collective bargaining relations with their employers with all the rights and privileges incident thereto as are accorded to similar employees in private industry.
[ 1963 c 28 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.04 - General Provisions. › 54.04.180 - Collective bargaining authorized for districts.

RCW 54.04.180
Collective bargaining authorized for districts.
Any public utility district may enter into collective bargaining relations with its employees in the same manner that a private employer might do and may agree to be bound by the result of such collective bargaining.
[ 1963 c 28 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.08 - Formation—Dissolution—Elections. › 54.08.001 - Actions subject to review by boundary review board.

RCW 54.08.001
Actions subject to review by boundary review board.
Actions taken under chapter 54.08 RCW may be subject to potential review by a boundary review board under chapter 36.93 RCW.
[ 1989 c 84 § 47.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.08 - Formation—Dissolution—Elections. › 54.08.041 - Formation election expenses.

RCW 54.08.041
Formation election expenses.
All expenses of elections for the formation of such public utility districts shall be paid by the county holding such election, and such expenditure is hereby declared to be for a county purpose, and the money paid out for such purpose shall be repaid to such county by the public utility district, if formed.
[ 1969 c 106 § 2.]
NOTES:
Construction—1969 c 106: "The rule of strict construction shall have no application to this act. The act shall be liberally construed, in order to carry out the purposes and objectives for which this act is intended." [ 1969 c 106 § 8.]
Severability—1969 c 106: "If any provision of this act, or its application to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this act, or the application to other persons or circumstances, is not affected." [ 1969 c 106 § 9.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.08 - Formation—Dissolution—Elections. › 54.08.050 - Validity of district, questioning of.

RCW 54.08.050
Validity of district, questioning of.
The existence of any public utility district now or hereafter formed under chapter 1, Laws of 1931, cannot hereafter be legally questioned by any person except the state of Washington in an appropriate court action brought within six months from the date that the county election board shall have canvassed the returns of the election held on the proposition of creating such district. If the existence of a district is not challenged within the period above specified, by the filing and service of petition or complaint in the action aforesaid, the state of Washington thereafter shall be barred forever from questioning the legal existence and validity of such district by reason of any defect in the organization thereof, and the same shall be deemed duly and regularly organized under the laws of this state.
[ 1941 c 245 § 10; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 11616-7.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.08 - Formation—Dissolution—Elections. › 54.08.080 - Dissolution.

RCW 54.08.080
Dissolution.
Any district now or hereafter created under the laws of this state may be dissolved, as hereinafter provided, by a majority vote of the qualified electors of such district at any general election upon a resolution of the district commission, or upon petition being filed and such proposition for dissolution submitted to said electors in the same manner provided by chapter 54.08 RCW for the creation of public utility districts. The returns of the election on such proposition for dissolution shall be canvassed and the results declared in the same manner as is provided by RCW 54.08.010: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That any such proposition to dissolve a district shall not be submitted to the electors if within five years prior to the filing of such petition or resolution such district has undertaken any material studies or material action relating to the construction or acquisition of any utility properties or if such district at the time of the submission of such proposition is actually engaged in the operation of any utility properties.
If a majority of the votes cast at the election favor dissolution, the commission of the district shall petition, without any filing fee, the superior court of the county in which such district is located for an order authorizing the payment of all indebtedness of the district and directing the transfer of any surplus funds or property to the general fund of the county in which such district is organized.
[ 1969 c 106 § 4.]
NOTES:
Construction—Severability—1969 c 106: See notes following RCW 54.08.041.
Dissolution of special purpose districts: Chapters 36.96 and 53.48 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.12 - Commissioners. › 54.12.090 - President—Secretary—Rules—Seal—Minutes.

RCW 54.12.090
President—Secretary—Rules—Seal—Minutes.
The commission shall elect from its members, a president and secretary, and shall, by resolution, adopt rules governing the transaction of district business, and adopt an official seal. All proceedings of the commission shall be by motion or resolution, recorded in its minute books, which shall be public records.
A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum of the commission for the transaction of business. The concurrence of a majority of the whole commission in office at the time shall be necessary for the passage of any resolution, and no business shall be transacted, except in usual and ordinary course, unless there are in office at least a majority of the full number of commissioners as fixed by law.
The commission may create and fill such positions and fix salaries and bonds thereof as it may provide by resolution.
[ 1955 c 124 § 6. Prior: 1931 c 1 § 8, part; RRS § 11612, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.12 - Commissioners. › 54.12.100 - Oath or affirmation.

RCW 54.12.100
Oath or affirmation.
Each commissioner before he or she enters upon the duties of his or her office shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that he or she will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of his or her office to the best of his or her ability. This oath, or affirmation, shall be administered and certified by an officer of the county in which the district is situated, who is authorized to administer oaths, without charge therefor. The oath or affirmation shall be filed with the county auditor.
[ 2010 c 8 § 17006; 1986 c 167 § 23; 1959 c 265 § 10.]
NOTES:
Severability—1986 c 167: See note following RCW 29A.16.040.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.12 - Commissioners. › 54.12.110 - Electrical utilities—Civil immunity of commissioners and employees for good faith mistakes and errors of judgment.

RCW 54.12.110
Electrical utilities—Civil immunity of commissioners and employees for good faith mistakes and errors of judgment.
Commissioners and employees of public utility districts shall be immune from civil liability for mistakes and errors of judgment in the good faith performance of acts within the scope of their official duties involving the exercise of judgment and discretion which relate solely to their responsibilities for electrical utilities. This grant of immunity shall not be construed as modifying the liability of the public utility district.
[ 1983 1st ex.s. c 48 § 2.]
NOTES:
Severability—1983 1st ex.s. c 48: See note following RCW 35.21.415.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.16 - Powers. › 54.16.005 - Definitions.

RCW 54.16.005
Definitions.
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Broadband infrastructure" means networks of deployed telecommunications equipment and technologies necessary to provide high-speed internet access and other advanced telecommunications services.
(2) "Commission" means the Washington utilities and transportation commission.
(3) "District commission" means the governing board of a public utility district.
(4) "Retail telecommunications services" means the sale, lease, license, or indivisible right of use of telecommunications services or telecommunications facilities directly to end users.
(5) "Telecommunications" has the same meaning as defined in RCW 80.04.010.
(6) "Telecommunications facilities" means lines, conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, crossarms, receivers, transmitters, instruments, machines, appliances, instrumentalities and all devices, real estate, easements, apparatus, property, and routes used, operated, owned, or controlled by any entity to facilitate the provision of telecommunications services.
(7) "Wholesale telecommunications services" means the provision of telecommunications services or telecommunications facilities for resale to an entity that provides retail telecommunications services.
[ 2021 c 294 § 1; 2000 c 81 § 2.]
NOTES:
Short title—2021 c 294: See note following RCW 54.16.330.
Findings—2000 c 81: See note following RCW 53.08.005.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.16 - Powers. › 54.16.010 - Surveys, plans, investigations, or studies.

RCW 54.16.010
Surveys, plans, investigations, or studies.
A district may make surveys, plans, investigations or studies for generating electric energy by water power, steam, or other methods, and for systems and facilities for the generation, transmission or distribution thereof, and for domestic and industrial water supply and irrigation, and for matters and purposes reasonably incidental thereto, within or without the district, and compile comprehensive maps and plans showing the territory that can be most economically served by the various resources and utilities, the natural order in which they should be developed, and how they may be joined and coordinated to make a complete and systematic whole.
[ 1969 c 106 § 6; 1955 c 390 § 2. Prior: 1945 c 143 § 1(a); 1931 c 1 § 6(a); Rem. Supp. 1945 § 11610(a).]
NOTES:
Construction—Severability—1969 c 106: See notes following RCW 54.08.041.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.16 - Powers. › 54.16.020 - Acquisition of property and rights—Eminent domain.

RCW 54.16.020
Acquisition of property and rights—Eminent domain.
A district may construct, condemn and purchase, purchase, acquire, lease, add to, maintain, operate, develop, and regulate all lands, property, property rights, water, water rights, dams, ditches, flumes, aqueducts, pipes and pipe lines, water power, leases, easements, rights-of-way, franchises, plants, plant facilities, and systems for generating electric energy by water power, steam, or other methods; plants, plant facilities, and systems for developing, conserving, and distributing water for domestic use and irrigation; buildings, structures, poles and pole lines, and cables and conduits and any and all other facilities; and may exercise the right of eminent domain to effectuate the foregoing purposes or for the acquisition and damaging of such property and rights, or property of any kind appurtenant thereto, and for the purpose of acquiring the right to make physical connection with plants and plant facilities of all persons and municipalities. The right of eminent domain shall be exercised pursuant to resolution of the commission and conducted in the same manner and by the same procedure as is provided for the exercise of that power by cities and towns of the state in the acquisition of like property and property rights. It shall be no defense to a condemnation proceeding that a portion of the electric current generated or sold by the district will be applied to private purposes, if the principal uses intended are public: PROVIDED, That no public utility owned by a city or town shall be condemned, and none shall be purchased without submission of the question to the voters of the utility district. In a condemnation proceeding, the court shall submit to the jury the values placed upon the property by the taxing authority for taxation purposes, and in respect to property, plants, and facilities of persons using public highways for furnishing public service without franchises, shall consider in determining the value thereof the fact that the property, plants, and facilities are subject to be removed from the highways by reason of being so operated without a franchise.
[ 1955 c 390 § 3. Prior: 1945 c 143 § 1(b); 1931 c 1 § 6(b); Rem. Supp. 1945 § 11610(b).]
NOTES:
Eminent domain: State Constitution Art. 1 § 16 (Amendment 9).
Eminent domain by cities: Chapter 8.12 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.16 - Powers. › 54.16.030 - Water and irrigation works.

RCW 54.16.030
Water and irrigation works.
A district may construct, purchase, condemn and purchase, acquire, add to, maintain, conduct, and operate waterworks and irrigation plants and systems, within or without its limits, for the purpose of furnishing the district, and the inhabitants thereof, and of the county in which the district is located, and any other persons including public and private corporations within or without the limits of the district or the county, with an ample supply of water for all purposes, public and private, including water power, domestic use, and irrigation, with full and exclusive authority to sell and regulate and control the use, distribution, and price thereof.
[ 1999 c 154 § 1; 1998 c 49 § 1; 1955 c 390 § 4. Prior: 1945 c 143 § 1(c); 1931 c 1 § 6(c); Rem. Supp. 1945 § 11610(c).]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.16 - Powers. › 54.16.032 - Authority to assist customers in the acquisition of water conservation equipment—Limitations.

RCW 54.16.032
Authority to assist customers in the acquisition of water conservation equipment—Limitations.
Any district is hereby authorized, within limits established by the Constitution of the state of Washington, to assist the owners of structures in financing the acquisition and installation of fixtures, systems, and equipment, for compensation or otherwise, for the conservation or more efficient use of water in the structures under a water conservation plan adopted by the district if the cost per unit of water saved or conserved by the use of the fixtures, systems, and equipment is less than the cost per unit of water supplied by the next least costly new water source available to the district to meet future demand. Except where otherwise authorized, assistance shall be limited to:
(1) Providing an inspection of the structure, either directly or through one or more inspectors under contract, to determine and inform the owner of the estimated cost of purchasing and installing conservation fixtures, systems, and equipment for which financial assistance will be approved and the estimated life-cycle savings to the water system and the consumer that are likely to result from the installation of the fixtures, systems, or equipment;
(2) Providing a list of businesses that sell and install the fixtures, systems, and equipment within or in close proximity to the service area of the city or town, each of which businesses shall have requested to be included and shall have the ability to provide the products in a workmanlike manner and to utilize the fixtures, systems, and equipment in accordance with the prevailing national standards;
(3) Arranging to have approved conservation fixtures, systems, and equipment installed by a private contractor whose bid is acceptable to the owner of the structure and verifying the installation; and
(4) Arranging or providing financing for the purchase and installation of approved conservation fixtures, systems, and equipment. The fixtures, systems, and equipment shall be purchased or installed by a private business, the owner, or the utility.
Pay back shall be in the form of incremental additions to the utility bill, billed either together with use charge or separately. Loans shall not exceed two hundred forty months in length.
[ 2009 c 416 § 2; 1989 c 421 § 4.]
NOTES:
Intent—Contingent effective date—1989 c 421: See notes following RCW 35.92.017.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.16 - Powers. › 54.16.035 - Provision of water service beyond district subject to review by boundary review board.

RCW 54.16.035
Provision of water service beyond district subject to review by boundary review board.
The provision of water service beyond the boundaries of a public utility district may be subject to potential review by a boundary review board under chapter 36.93 RCW.
[ 1989 c 84 § 48.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.16 - Powers. › 54.16.040 - Electric energy.

RCW 54.16.040
Electric energy.
A district may purchase, within or without its limits, electric current for sale and distribution within or without its limits, and construct, condemn and purchase, purchase, acquire, add to, maintain, conduct, and operate works, plants, transmission and distribution lines and facilities for generating electric current, operated either by water power, steam, or other methods, within or without its limits, for the purpose of furnishing the district, and the inhabitants thereof and any other persons, including public and private corporations, within or without its limits, with electric current for all uses, with full and exclusive authority to sell and regulate and control the use, distribution, rates, service, charges, and price thereof, free from the jurisdiction and control of the utilities and transportation commission, in all things, together with the right to purchase, handle, sell, or lease motors, lamps, transformers and all other kinds of equipment and accessories necessary and convenient for the use, distribution, and sale thereof: PROVIDED, That the commission shall not supply water to a privately owned utility for the production of electric energy, but may supply, directly or indirectly, to an instrumentality of the United States government or any publicly or privately owned public utilities which sell electric energy or water to the public, any amount of electric energy or water under its control, and contracts therefor shall extend over such period of years and contain such terms and conditions for the sale thereof as the commission of the district shall elect; such contract shall only be made pursuant to a resolution of the commission authorizing such contract, which resolution shall be introduced at a meeting of the commission at least ten days prior to the date of the adoption of the resolution: PROVIDED FURTHER, That it shall first make adequate provision for the needs of the district, both actual and prospective.
[ 1955 c 390 § 5. Prior: 1945 c 143 § 1(d); 1931 c 1 § 6(d); Rem. Supp. 1945 § 11610(d).]
NOTES:
Joint operating agency: RCW 43.52.360.
Reduced utility rates for low-income senior citizens and other low-income citizens: RCW 74.38.070.
Right of city or town to acquire electrical distribution property from P.U.D.: RCW 35.92.054.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.16 - Powers. › 54.16.050 - Water rights.

RCW 54.16.050
Water rights.
A district may take, condemn and purchase, purchase and acquire any public and private property, franchises and property rights, including state, county, and school lands, and property and littoral and water rights, for any of the purposes aforesaid, and for railroads, tunnels, pipe lines, aqueducts, transmission lines, and all other facilities necessary or convenient, and, in connection with the construction, maintenance, or operation of any such utilities, may acquire by purchase or condemnation and purchase the right to divert, take, retain, and impound and use water from or in any lake or watercourse, public or private, navigable or nonnavigable, or held, owned, or used by the state, or any subdivision thereof, or by any person for any public or private use, or any underflowing water within the state; and the district may erect, within or without its limits, dams or other works across any river or watercourse, or across or at the outlet of any lake, up to and above high water mark; and, for the purpose of constructing or laying aqueducts or pipelines, dams, or waterworks or other necessary structures in storing, retaining, and distributing water, or for any other purpose authorized hereunder, the district may occupy and use the beds and shores up to the high water mark of any such lake, river, or watercourse, and acquire by purchase or by condemnation and purchase, or otherwise, any water, water rights, easements, or privileges named herein or necessary for any of such purposes, and a district may acquire by purchase, or condemnation and purchase, or otherwise, any lands, property, or privileges necessary to protect the water supply of the district from pollution: PROVIDED, That should private property be necessary for any of its purposes, or for storing water above high water mark, the district may condemn and purchase, or purchase and acquire such private property.
[ 1955 c 390 § 6. Prior: 1945 c 143 § 1(e), part; 1931 c 1 § 6(e), part; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 11610(e), part.]
NOTES:
Water rights: Title 90 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.16 - Powers. › 54.16.060 - Intertie lines.

RCW 54.16.060
Intertie lines.
A district may build and maintain intertie lines connecting its power plant and distribution system with the power plant and distribution system owned by any other public utility district, or municipal corporation, or connect with the power plants and distribution systems owned by any municipal corporation in the district, and from any such intertie line, sell electric energy to any person, public utility district, city, town or other corporation, public or private, and, by means of transmission or pole lines, conduct electric energy from the place of production to the point of distribution, and construct and lay aqueducts, pipe or pole lines, and transmission lines along and upon public highways, roads, and streets, and condemn and purchase, purchase or acquire, lands, franchises, and rights-of-way necessary therefor.
[ 1955 c 390 § 7. Prior: 1945 c 143 § 1(e), part; 1931 c 1 § 6(e), part; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 11610(e), part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 54 - Public Utility Districts › Chapter 54.16 - Powers. › 54.16.070 - District may borrow money, contract indebtedness, issue bonds or obligations—Guaranty fund.

RCW 54.16.070
District may borrow money, contract indebtedness, issue bonds or obligations—Guaranty fund.
(1) A district may contract indebtedness or borrow money for any corporate purpose on its credit or on the revenues of its public utilities, and to evidence such indebtedness may issue general obligation bonds or revenue obligations; may issue and sell local utility district bonds of districts created by the commission, and may purchase with surplus funds such local utility district bonds, and may create a guaranty fund to insure prompt payment of all local utility district bonds. The general obligation bonds shall be issued and sold in accordance with chapter 39.46 RCW. A district is authorized to establish lines of credit or make other prearranged agreements, or both, to borrow money with any financial institution.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, such revenue obligations and local utility district bonds may be issued and sold in accordance with chapter 39.46 RCW.
[ 1991 c 74 § 1; 1984 c 186 § 44; 1983 c 167 § 144; 1959 c 218 § 1; 1955 c 390 § 8. Prior: 1945 c 143 § 1(f); 1931 c 1 § 6(f); Rem. Supp. 1945 § 11610(f).]
NOTES:
Purpose—1984 c 186: See note following RCW 39.46.110.
Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.