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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.840 - Taxation of motor carriers of freight for hire—Allocation of gross receipts.

RCW 35.21.840
Taxation of motor carriers of freight for hire—Allocation of gross receipts.
The following principles shall allocate gross receipts of a motor carrier of freight for hire (called the "motor carrier" in this section) to prevent multiple taxation by two or more municipalities. They shall apply when two or more municipalities in this state impose a license fee or tax for the act or privilege of engaging in business activities; each municipality has a basis in local activity for imposing its tax; and the gross receipts measured by all taxing municipalities, added together, exceed the motor carrier's gross receipts.
(1) No municipality shall be entitled to an allocation of the gross receipts of a motor carrier on account of the use of its streets or highways when no pickup or delivery occurs therein.
(2) Gross receipts of a motor carrier derived within a municipality, where it solicits orders and engages in business activities that are a significant factor in holding the market but where it maintains no office or terminal, shall be allocated equally between the municipality providing the local market and the municipality where the motor carrier's office or terminal is located. Where no such local solicitation and business activity occurs, all the gross receipts shall be allocated to the municipality where the office or terminal is located irrespective of the place of pickup or delivery. The word "terminal" means a location at which any three of the following four occur: Dispatching takes place, from which trucks operate or are serviced, personnel report and receive assignments, and orders are regularly received from the public.
(3) Gross receipts of a motor carrier that are not attributable to transportation services, such as investment income, truck repair, and rental of equipment, shall be allocated to the office or terminal conducting such activities.
(4) Gross receipts of a motor carrier with an office or terminal in two or more municipalities in this state shall be allocated to the office or terminal at which the transportation services commenced.
[ 1982 c 169 § 1.]
NOTES:
Applicability—1982 c 169: "This act applies to motor carriers of freight for hire only. Nothing in this act applies to a person engaged in the business of making sales at retail or wholesale or of providing storage services for tangible personal property." [ 1982 c 169 § 4.]
Motor freight carriers: Chapter 81.80 RCW.
Municipal business and occupation tax authorized: RCW 35.95.040.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.845 - Taxation of motor carriers of freight for hire—Tax allocation formula.

RCW 35.21.845
Taxation of motor carriers of freight for hire—Tax allocation formula.
A motor carrier of freight for hire whose gross receipts are subject to multiple taxation by two or more municipalities in this state may request and thereupon shall be given a joint audit of the taxpayer's books and records by all of the taxing authorities seeking to tax all or part of such gross receipts. Such taxing authorities shall agree upon and establish a tax allocation formula which shall be binding upon the taxpayer and the taxing authorities participating in the audit or receiving a copy of such request from the taxpayer. Payment by the taxpayer of the taxes to each taxing authority in accordance with such tax allocation formula shall be a complete defense in any action by any taxing authority to recover additional taxes, interest, and/or penalties. A taxing municipality, whether or not a party to such joint audit, may seek a revision of the formula by giving written notice to each other taxing municipality concerned and the taxpayer. Any such revision as may be agreed upon by the taxing municipalities, or as may be decreed by a court of competent jurisdiction in an action initiated by one or more taxing authorities, shall apply only to gross receipts of the taxpayer received after the date of any such agreed revision or effective date of the judgment or order of any such court.
[ 1982 c 169 § 2.]
NOTES:
Applicability—1982 c 169: See note following RCW 35.21.840.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.850 - Taxation of motor carriers of freight for hire—Limitation—Exceptions.

RCW 35.21.850
Taxation of motor carriers of freight for hire—Limitation—Exceptions.
No demand for a fee or tax or penalty shall be made by a city or town against a motor carrier of freight for hire on gross income derived from providing transportation services more than four years after the close of the year in which the same accrued except (1) against a taxpayer who has been guilty of fraud or misrepresentation of a material fact; or (2) where a taxpayer has executed a written waiver of such limitations; or (3) against a taxpayer who has not registered as required by the ordinance of the city or town imposing such tax or fee, provided this subsection shall not apply to a taxpayer who has registered in any city or town where the taxpayer maintains an office or terminal, or in the case of a taxpayer who has paid a license fee or tax based on such gross receipts to any city or town levying same which may reasonably be construed to be the principal market of the taxpayer but in which he or she maintains no office or terminal.
[ 2009 c 549 § 2043; 1982 c 169 § 3.]
NOTES:
Applicability—1982 c 169: See note following RCW 35.21.840.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.851 - Taxation of chamber of commerce, similar business for operation of parking/business improvement area.

RCW 35.21.851
Taxation of chamber of commerce, similar business for operation of parking/business improvement area.
(1) A city shall not impose a gross receipts tax on amounts received by a chamber of commerce or other similar business association for administering the operation of a parking and business improvement area within the meaning of RCW 35.87A.110.
(2) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(a) "Gross receipts tax" means a tax measured by gross proceeds of sales, gross income of the business, or value proceeding or accruing.
(b) "City" includes cities, code cities, and towns.
[ 2005 c 476 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.855 - Taxation of intellectual property creating activities—Gross receipts tax prohibited—Exceptions.

RCW 35.21.855
Taxation of intellectual property creating activities—Gross receipts tax prohibited—Exceptions.
(1) A city may not impose a gross receipts tax on intellectual property creating activities.
(2) A city may impose a gross receipts tax measured by gross receipts from royalties only on taxpayers domiciled in the city. For the purposes of this section, "royalties" does not include gross receipts from casual or isolated sales as defined in RCW 82.04.040, grants, capital contributions, donations, or endowments.
(3) This section does not prohibit a city from imposing a gross receipts tax measured by the value of products manufactured in the city merely because intellectual property creating activities are involved in the design or manufacturing of the products. An intellectual property creating activity shall not constitute an activity defined within the meaning of the term "to manufacture" under chapter 82.04 RCW.
(4) This section does not prohibit a city from imposing a gross receipts tax measured by the gross proceeds of sales made in the city merely because intellectual property creating activities are involved in creation of the articles sold.
(5) This section does not prohibit a city from imposing a gross receipts tax measured by the gross income received for services rendered in the city merely because intellectual property creating activities are some part of services rendered.
(6) A tax in effect on January 1, 2002, is not subject to this section until January 1, 2004.
(7) The definitions in this subsection apply to this section.
(a) "Gross receipts tax" means a tax measured by gross proceeds of sales, gross income of the business, or value proceeding or accruing.
(b) "City" includes cities, code cities, and towns.
(c) "Domicile" means the principal place from which the trade or business of the taxpayer is directed and managed. A taxpayer has only one domicile.
(d) "Intellectual property creating activity" means research, development, authorship, creation, or general or specific inventive activity without regard to whether the intellectual property creating activity actually results in the creation of patents, trademarks, trade secrets, subject matter subject to copyright, or other intellectual property.
(e) "Manufacture," "gross proceeds of sales," "gross income of the business," "value proceeding or accruing," and "royalties" have the same meanings as under chapter 82.04 RCW.
(f) "Value of products" means the value of products as determined under RCW 82.04.450.
[ 2003 c 69 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.865 - Electricity, telephone, or natural gas business—Limitations on tax rate changes.

RCW 35.21.865
Electricity, telephone, or natural gas business—Limitations on tax rate changes.
No city or town may change the rate of tax it imposes on the privilege of conducting an electrical energy, natural gas, or telephone business which change applies to business activities occurring before the effective date of the change, and no rate change may take effect before the expiration of sixty days following the enactment of the ordinance establishing the change except as provided in RCW 35.21.870.
[ 1983 c 99 § 4; 1982 1st ex.s. c 49 § 3.]
NOTES:
Intent—Construction—Effective date—Fire district funding—1982 1st ex.s. c 49: See notes following RCW 35.21.710.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.870 - Electricity, telephone, natural gas, or steam energy business—Tax limited to six percent—Exception.

RCW 35.21.870
Electricity, telephone, natural gas, or steam energy business—Tax limited to six percent—Exception.
(1) No city or town may impose a tax on the privilege of conducting an electrical energy, natural gas, steam energy, or telephone business at a rate which exceeds six percent unless the rate is first approved by a majority of the voters of the city or town voting on such a proposition.
(2)(a) If a city or town is imposing a rate of tax under subsection (1) of this section in excess of six percent on April 20, 1982, the city or town must decrease the rate to a rate of six percent or less by reducing the rate each year on or before November 1st by ordinances to be effective on January 1st of the succeeding year, by an amount equal to one-tenth the difference between the tax rate on April 20, 1982, and six percent.
(b) Nothing in this subsection prohibits a city or town from reducing its rates by amounts greater than the amounts required in this subsection.
(3) Voter approved rate increases under subsection (1) of this section may not be included in the computations under this subsection.
(4) No city or town may impose a tax on the privilege of conducting a natural gas business with respect to sales that are exempt from the tax imposed under chapter 82.16 RCW as provided in RCW 82.16.310 at a rate higher than its business and occupation tax rate on the sale of tangible personal property or, if the city or town does not impose a business and occupation tax on the sale of tangible personal property, at a rate greater than .002.
[ 2014 c 216 § 306; 1984 c 225 § 6; 1983 c 99 § 5; 1982 1st ex.s. c 49 § 4.]
NOTES:
Effective date—Findings—Tax preference performance statement—2014 c 216: See notes following RCW 82.38.030.
Rules—1984 c 225: "The department of revenue shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this act." [ 1984 c 225 § 7.]
Intent—Construction—Effective date—Fire district funding—1982 1st ex.s. c 49: See notes following RCW 35.21.710.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.871 - Tax on telephone business—Deferral of rate reduction.

RCW 35.21.871
Tax on telephone business—Deferral of rate reduction.
A city or town required by RCW 35.21.870(2) to reduce its rate of taxation on telephone business may defer for one year the required reduction in rates for the year 1987. If the delay in rate reductions authorized by the preceding sentence is inadequate for a city or town to offset the impact of revenue reductions arising from the removal of revenues from connecting fees, switching charges, or carrier access charges under the provisions of RCW 35.21.714, then the legislative body of such city or town may reimpose for 1987 the rates that such city or town had in effect upon telephone business during 1985. In each succeeding year, the city or town shall reduce the rate by one-tenth of the difference between the tax rate on April 20, 1982, and six percent.
[ 1986 c 70 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.873 - Procedure to correct erroneous mobile telecommunications service tax.

RCW 35.21.873
Procedure to correct erroneous mobile telecommunications service tax.
If a customer believes that an amount of city tax or an assignment of place of primary use or taxing jurisdiction included on a billing for mobile telecommunications services is erroneous, the customer shall notify the home service provider in writing. The customer shall include in this written notification the street address for the customer's place of primary use, the account name and number for which the customer seeks a correction, and a description of the error asserted by the customer. Within sixty days of receiving a notice under this section, the home service provider shall review its records and the electronic database or enhanced zip code used pursuant to RCW 82.32.490 and 82.32.495 to determine the customer's taxing jurisdiction. The home service provider shall notify the customer in writing of the results of its review.
The procedures in this section shall be the first remedy available to customers seeking correction of assignment of place of primary use or taxing jurisdiction, or a refund of or other compensation for taxes, charges, and fees erroneously collected by the home service provider, and no cause of action based upon a dispute arising from such taxes, charges, or fees shall accrue to the extent otherwise permitted by law until a customer has reasonably exercised the rights and procedures set forth in this section.
[ 2002 c 67 § 16.]
NOTES:
Finding—Effective date—2002 c 67: See notes following RCW 82.04.530.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.875 - Designation of official newspaper.

RCW 35.21.875
Designation of official newspaper.
Each city and town shall designate an official newspaper by resolution. The newspaper shall be of general circulation in the city or town and have the qualifications prescribed by chapter 65.16 RCW.
[ 1985 c 469 § 99.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.880 - Right-of-way donations—Credit against required improvements.

RCW 35.21.880
Right-of-way donations—Credit against required improvements.
Where the zoning and planning provisions of a city or town require landscaping, parking, or other improvements as a condition to granting permits for commercial or industrial developments, the city or town may credit donations of right-of-way in excess of that required for traffic improvement against such landscaping, parking, or other requirements.
[ 1987 c 267 § 7.]
NOTES:
Right-of-way donations: Chapter 47.14 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.890 - Boundary changes—Providing factual information—Notice to boundary review board.

RCW 35.21.890
Boundary changes—Providing factual information—Notice to boundary review board.
A city or town may provide factual information on the effects of a proposed boundary change on the city or town and the area potentially affected by the boundary change. A statement that the city or town has such information available, and copies of any printed materials or information available to be provided to the public shall be filled [filed] with the boundary review board for the board's information.
[ 1989 c 84 § 70.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.895 - Regulation of automatic number or location identification—Prohibited.

RCW 35.21.895
Regulation of automatic number or location identification—Prohibited.
No city or town may enact or enforce an ordinance or regulation mandating automatic number identification or automatic location identification for a private telecommunications system or for a provider of private shared telecommunications services.
[ 1995 c 243 § 6.]
NOTES:
Findings—Severability—1995 c 243: See notes following RCW 80.36.555.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.897 - Mobile home, manufactured home, or park model moving or installing—Copies of permits—Definitions.

RCW 35.21.897
Mobile home, manufactured home, or park model moving or installing—Copies of permits—Definitions.
(1) A city or town shall transmit a copy of any permit issued to a tenant or the tenant's agent for a mobile home, manufactured home, or park model installation in a mobile home park to the landlord.
(2) A city or town shall transmit a copy of any permit issued to a person engaged in the business of moving or installing a mobile home, manufactured home, or park model in a mobile home park to the tenant and the landlord.
(3) As used in this section:
(a) "Landlord" has the same meaning as in RCW 59.20.030;
(b) "Mobile home park" has the same meaning as in RCW 59.20.030;
(c) "Mobile or manufactured home installation" has the same meaning as in *RCW 43.63B.010; and
(d) "Tenant" has the same meaning as in RCW 59.20.030.
[ 1999 c 359 § 18.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 43.63B.010 was recodified as RCW 43.22A.010 pursuant to 2007 c 432 § 13.
Effective date—1999 c 359: See RCW 59.20.901.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.900 - Authority to transfer real property.

RCW 35.21.900
Authority to transfer real property.
Cities are authorized to transfer real property pursuant to RCW 43.83.400 and 43.83.410.
[ 2015 1st sp.s. c 4 § 27; 2006 c 35 § 10.]
NOTES:
Findings—2006 c 35: See note following RCW 43.83.400.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.905 - Consultation with public utilities for water-sewer facility relocation projects.

RCW 35.21.905
Consultation with public utilities for water-sewer facility relocation projects.
Cities shall, in the predesign phase of construction projects involving relocation of sewer and/or water facilities, consult with public utilities operating water/sewer systems in order to coordinate design.
[ 2007 c 31 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.910 - Community athletics programs—Sex discrimination prohibited.

RCW 35.21.910
Community athletics programs—Sex discrimination prohibited.
The antidiscrimination provisions of RCW 49.60.500 apply to community athletics programs and facilities operated, conducted, or administered by a city or town.
[ 2009 c 467 § 4.]
NOTES:
Findings—Declarations—2009 c 467: See note following RCW 49.60.500.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.913 - Comprehensive cancer care collaborative arrangements—Prohibition on regulation as state agency.

RCW 35.21.913
Comprehensive cancer care collaborative arrangements—Prohibition on regulation as state agency.
No city or town may enact, enforce, or maintain an ordinance, regulation, or rule that regulates or otherwise treats a comprehensive cancer center participating in a collaborative arrangement as defined in RCW 28B.10.930 that is operated in conformance with RCW 28B.10.930 as a state agency. Such a comprehensive cancer center is still subject to ordinances, regulations, and rules that are generally applicable in nature.
[ 2022 c 71 § 4.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—2022 c 71: See note following RCW 28B.10.930.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.920 - State and federal background checks of license applicants and licensees of occupations under local licensing authority.

RCW 35.21.920
State and federal background checks of license applicants and licensees of occupations under local licensing authority.
(1) For the purpose of receiving criminal history record information by city or town officials, cities or towns may:
(a) By ordinance, require a state and federal background investigation of license applicants or licensees in occupations specified by ordinance;
(b) By ordinance, require a federal background investigation of city or town employees, applicants for employment, volunteers, vendors, and independent contractors, who, in the course of their work or volunteer activity with the city or town, may have unsupervised access to children, persons with developmental disabilities, or vulnerable adults;
(c) Require a state criminal background investigation of city or town employees, applicants for employment, volunteers, vendors, and independent contractors, who, in the course of their work or volunteer activity with the city or town, may have unsupervised access to children, persons with developmental disabilities, or vulnerable adults; and
(d) Require a criminal background investigation conducted through a private organization of city or town employees, applicants for employment, volunteers, vendors, and independent contractors, who, in the course of their work or volunteer activity with the city or town, may have unsupervised access to children, persons with developmental disabilities, or vulnerable adults.
(2) The investigation conducted under subsection (1)(a) through (c) of this section shall consist of a background check as allowed through the Washington state criminal records privacy act under RCW 10.97.050, the Washington state patrol criminal identification system under RCW 43.43.832 through 43.43.834, and the federal bureau of investigation.
(3) The background checks conducted under subsection (1)(a) through (c) of this section must be done through the Washington state patrol identification and criminal history section and may include a national check from the federal bureau of investigation, which shall be through the submission of fingerprints. The Washington state patrol shall serve as the sole source for receipt of fingerprint submissions and the responses to the submissions from the federal bureau of investigation, which must be disseminated to the city or town.
(4) For a criminal background check conducted under subsection (1)(a) through (c) of this section, the city or town shall transmit appropriate fees for a state and national criminal history check to the Washington state patrol, unless alternately arranged. The cost of investigations conducted under this section shall be borne by the city or town.
(5) The authority for background checks outlined in this section is in addition to any other authority for such checks provided by law.
[ 2017 c 332 § 1; 2010 c 47 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.925 - Supplemental transportation improvements.

RCW 35.21.925
Supplemental transportation improvements.
In addition to any other power and authority conferred to a city that is located in a county having a population of more than one million five hundred thousand, a city legislative authority may provide or contract for supplemental transportation improvements to meet mobility needs within the city's boundaries. For purposes of this section, a "supplemental transportation improvement" or "supplemental improvement" means any project, work, or undertaking to provide or contract for public transportation service in addition to any existing or planned public transportation service provided by public transportation agencies and systems serving the city. The supplemental authority provided to the city legislative authority under this section is subject to the following requirements:
(1) Prior to taking any action to provide or contract for supplemental transportation improvements permitted under this section, the legislative authority of the city shall conduct a public hearing at the time and place specified in a notice published at least once, not less than ten days before the hearing, in a newspaper of general circulation within the proposed district. The notice must specify the supplemental facilities or services to be provided or contracted for by the city, and must include estimated capital, operating, and maintenance costs. The legislative authority of the city shall hear objections from any person affected by the proposed supplemental improvements.
(2) Following the hearing held pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, if the city legislative authority finds that the proposed supplemental transportation improvements are in the public interest, the legislative authority shall adopt an ordinance providing for the supplemental improvements and provide or contract for the supplemental improvements.
(3) For purposes of providing or contracting for the proposed supplemental transportation improvements, the legislative authority of the city may contract with private providers and nonprofit organizations, and may form public-private partnerships. Such contracts and partnerships must require that public transportation services be coordinated with other public transportation agencies and systems serving the area and border jurisdictions.
(4) The legislative authorities of cities that are participating jurisdictions in a transportation benefit district, as provided under chapter 36.73 RCW, may petition the transportation benefit district for partial or full funding of supplemental transportation improvements as prescribed under RCW 36.73.180.
(5) Supplemental transportation improvements must be consistent with the city's comprehensive plan under chapter 36.70A RCW.
[ 2010 c 251 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.935 - Warrant officers—Training requirements—Authority.

RCW 35.21.935
Warrant officers—Training requirements—Authority.
(1) Any city or town may establish the position of warrant officer.
(2) If any city or town establishes the position of warrant officer, the position shall be maintained by the city or town within the city or town police department. The number and qualifications of warrant officers shall be fixed by ordinance and their compensation shall be paid by the city or town. The chief of police of the city or town must establish training requirements consistent with the job description of warrant officer established in that city or town. Training requirements must be approved by the criminal justice training commission.
(3) Warrant officers shall be vested only with the special authority identified in ordinance, which may include the authority to make arrests authorized by warrants and other authority related to service of civil and criminal process.
(4) Process issuing from any court that is directed to a police department in which a warrant officer position is maintained may be served or enforced by the warrant officer, if within the warrant officer's authority as identified in ordinance.
(5) Warrant officers shall not be entitled to death, disability, or retirement benefits pursuant to chapter 41.26 RCW on the basis of service as a warrant officer as described in this section.
[ 2015 c 288 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.940 - Failing septic systems—Connection to public sewer systems—Appeals process.

RCW 35.21.940
Failing septic systems—Connection to public sewer systems—Appeals process.
(1) A city with an ordinance or resolution requiring, upon the failure of an on-site septic system, connection to a public sewer system must, in accordance with this section, provide an administrative appeals process to consider denials of permit applications to repair or replace the septic system. The administrative appeals process required by this section applies only to requests to repair or replace existing, failing on-site septic systems that:
(a) Were made for a single-family residence by its owner or owners;
(b) Were denied solely because of a law, regulation, or ordinance requiring connection to a public sewer system; and
(c) Absent the applicable law, regulation, or ordinance requiring connection to a public sewer system upon which the denial was based, would be approved.
(2) If the city has an administrative appeals process, the city may, subject to the requirements of this section, use that process. The administrative appeals process required by this section, however, must be presided over by the legislative body of the city or by an administrative hearings officer.
(3) The administrative appeals process required by this section must, at a minimum, consider whether:
(a) It is cost-prohibitive to require the property owner to connect to the public sewer system. In complying with this subsection (3)(a), the city must consider the estimated cost to repair or replace the on-site septic system compared to the estimated cost to connect to the public sewer system;
(b) There are public health or environmental considerations related to allowing the property owner to repair or replace the on-site septic system. In complying with this subsection (3)(b), the city must consider whether the repaired or replaced on-site septic system contributes to the pollution of surface waters or groundwater;
(c) There are public sewer system performance or financing considerations related to allowing the property owner to repair or replace the on-site septic system; and
(d) There are financial assistance programs or latecomer agreements offered by the city or state that may impact a decision of the property owner to repair or replace the on-site septic system.
(4) If the city, following the appeals process required by this section, determines that the property owner must connect the residence to the public sewer system, the property owner may, in complying with the determination and subject to approval of appropriate permits, select and hire contractors at his or her own expense to perform the work necessary to connect the residence to the public sewer system.
(5) Unless otherwise required by law, a city determination requiring the owner of a single-family residence with a failing on-site septic system to connect a residence to a public sewer system is not subject to appeal.
(6) For purposes of this section, "city" means a city or town.
[ 2015 c 297 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.945 - Water storage asset management services—Procurement.

RCW 35.21.945
Water storage asset management services—Procurement.
(1) Any municipality may elect to contract for asset management service of its water storage assets in accordance with this section. If a municipality elects to contract under this subsection for all, some, or one component of water storage asset management services for its water storage assets, each municipality shall publish notice of its requirements to procure asset management service of its water storage assets. The announcement must concisely state the scope and nature of the water storage asset management service for which a contract is required and encourage firms to submit proposals to meet these requirements. If a municipality chooses to negotiate a water storage asset management service contract under this section, no otherwise applicable statutory procurement requirement applies.
(2) The municipality may negotiate a fair and reasonable water storage asset management service contract with the firm that submits the best proposal based on criteria that is established by the municipality.
(3) If the municipality is unable to negotiate a satisfactory water storage asset management service contract with the firm that submits the best proposal, negotiations with that firm must formally be terminated and the municipality may select another firm in accordance with this section and continue negotiation until a water storage asset management service contract is reached or the selection process is terminated.
(4) For the purposes of this section:
(a) "Water storage asset management services" means the financing, designing, improving, operating, maintaining, repairing, testing, inspecting, cleaning, administering, or managing, or any combination thereof, of a water storage asset.
(b) "Water storage asset" means water storage structures and associated distribution systems, such as the water tank, tower, well, meter, or water filter.
[ 2015 c 187 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.950 - Final determination on state highway project permits.

RCW 35.21.950
Final determination on state highway project permits.
A city or town must comply with the requirements of RCW 47.01.485 in making a final determination on a permit as part of a project on a state highway as defined in RCW 46.04.560.
[ 2015 3rd sp.s. c 15 § 3.]
NOTES:
Effective date—Findings—Intent—2015 3rd sp.s. c 15: See notes following RCW 47.01.485.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.955 - Nuisance abatement—Special assessment—Notice requirements.

RCW 35.21.955
Nuisance abatement—Special assessment—Notice requirements.
(1) A city or town that exercises its authority under chapter 7.48 RCW, RCW 35.22.280, 35.23.440, or 35.27.410, or other applicable law to abate a nuisance which threatens health or safety must provide prior notice to the property owner that abatement is pending and a special assessment may be levied on the property for the expense of abatement. Such special assessment authority is supplemental to any existing authority of a city or town to levy an assessment or obtain a lien for costs of abatement. The notice must be sent by regular mail.
(2) A city or town that exercises its authority under chapter 7.48 RCW, RCW 35.22.280, 35.23.440, or 35.27.410, or other applicable law to declare a nuisance, abate a nuisance, or impose fines or costs upon persons who create, continue, or maintain a nuisance may levy a special assessment on the land or premises where the nuisance is situated to reimburse the city or town for the expense of abatement. A city or town must, before levying a special assessment, notify the property owner and any identifiable mortgage holder that a special assessment will be levied on the property and provide the estimated amount of the special assessment. The notice must be sent by regular mail.
(3) The special assessment authorized by this section constitutes a lien against the property, and is binding upon successors in title only from the date the lien is recorded in the county where the affected real property is located. Up to two thousand dollars of the recorded lien is of equal rank with state, county, and municipal taxes.
(4) A city or town levying a special assessment under this section may contract with the county treasurer to collect the special assessment in accordance with RCW 84.56.035.
[ 2016 c 100 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.960 - Removal of restrictive covenants—Hearing, notice.

RCW 35.21.960
Removal of restrictive covenants—Hearing, notice.
Any city, town, or municipal corporation must hold a public hearing upon a proposal to remove, vacate, or extinguish a restrictive covenant from property owned by the city, town, or municipal corporation before the action is finalized. The public hearing must allow individuals to provide testimony regarding the proposed action. The city, town, or municipal corporation must provide notice of the public hearing at least ten days before the hearing at its usual place of business and issue a press release to local media providing the date, time, location, and reason for the public hearing. The notice must be posted on the city, town, or municipal corporation's website if it is updated for any reason before the hearing date. The notice must also identify the property and provide a brief explanation of the restrictive covenant to be removed, vacated, or extinguished. Any member of the public, in person or by counsel, may submit testimony at the public hearing.
[ 2017 c 119 § 3.]
NOTES:
Short title—2017 c 119: "This act may be known and cited as the land covenant preservation and transparency act." [ 2017 c 119 § 1.]
Finding—2017 c 119: "The legislature finds that many pieces of property are provided to government agencies as part of agreements in which the land includes restrictive covenants. There is a desire that government agencies become more transparent when they want to change the use of property that has covenants that restrict what can be done with property, especially if the property was a gift to be used for parks, open space, habitat, or environmental mitigation and conservation. The legislature declares that any local government agency that intends to remove restrictive covenants from real property owned by the agency must do so through an open process in which citizens are made aware of the agency's intent to remove or modify the restrictive covenant before the legal action occurs." [ 2017 c 119 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.965 - Voluntary change to electoral system.

RCW 35.21.965
Voluntary change to electoral system.
The legislative authority of a city or town may authorize a change to its electoral system pursuant to RCW 29A.92.040.
[ 2018 c 113 § 206.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—Short title—2018 c 113: See RCW 29A.92.005 and 29A.92.900.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.970 - Assessment and mitigation of negative impact on parking when constructing or operating a public facility in certain neighborhoods.

RCW 35.21.970
Assessment and mitigation of negative impact on parking when constructing or operating a public facility in certain neighborhoods.
(1) A city with a population of more than five hundred fifty thousand that permits a public facility to be constructed or operated by another local government agency, transit authority, or public facility district in a neighborhood with a high poverty level and a high rate of ethnic diversity shall formally request that the entity that is constructing or is operating the public facility assess and mitigate the negative impacts that the facility has had on parking in the surrounding neighborhood. The entity operating or constructing the facility must consider the potential or actual disparate racial, social, and economic impacts of the public facility on residents nearby and develop a mitigation plan, which keeps the residents of the impacted neighborhood whole for the costs of the mitigation strategy, including paying for the costs of any residential parking zone necessitated by the facility causing the impact. The entity operating or constructing the facility may negotiate with other political subdivisions who have a direct interest in having created the negative impacts, but the residents must be held harmless.
(2) For purposes of this section, neighborhood boundaries are defined by the boundaries of community reporting areas, as established in the most recent United States census.
(3) For purposes of this section:
(a) "Public facility" means a project that was completed by December 31, 2014.
(b) A neighborhood has a high poverty level if twelve percent or more of the population is below the poverty level according to the most recent American community survey's five-year estimate.
(c) A neighborhood has a high rate of ethnic diversity if forty percent or more of the population identifies as persons of color according to the most recent American community survey's five-year estimate.
[ 2019 c 375 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 35.21.980 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.

RCW 35.21.980
Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married persons, and references to dissolution of marriage shall apply equally to state registered domestic partnerships that have been terminated, dissolved, or invalidated, to the extent that such interpretation does not conflict with federal law. Where necessary to implement chapter 521, Laws of 2009, gender-specific terms such as husband and wife used in any statute, rule, or other law shall be construed to be gender neutral, and applicable to individuals in state registered domestic partnerships.
[ 2009 c 521 § 78.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.22 - First-Class Cities. › 35.22.010 - Laws governing.

RCW 35.22.010
Laws governing.
Cities of the first class shall be organized and governed according to the law providing for the government of cities having a population of ten thousand or more inhabitants that have adopted a charter in accordance with Article XI, section 10 of the state Constitution.
[ 1997 c 361 § 12; 1965 c 7 § 35.22.010. Prior: 1890 p 143 § 23; RRS § 8947.]
NOTES:
First-class city, defined: RCW 35.01.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.22 - First-Class Cities. › 35.22.020 - Mode of exercising powers, functions and duties.

RCW 35.22.020
Mode of exercising powers, functions and duties.
The form of the organization and the manner and mode in which cities of the first class shall exercise the powers, functions and duties conferred upon them by law, with respect to their own government, shall be as provided in the charters thereof.
[ 1965 c 7 § 35.22.020. Prior: 1911 c 17 § 1; RRS § 8948.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.22 - First-Class Cities. › 35.22.030 - Cities having ten thousand or more population may frame charter for own government.

RCW 35.22.030
Cities having ten thousand or more population may frame charter for own government.
Any city with a population of ten thousand or more inhabitants may frame a charter for its own government.
[ 1965 ex.s. c 47 § 5; 1965 c 7 § 35.22.030. Prior: 1890 p 215 § 1; RRS § 8951.]
NOTES:
Cities of ten thousand or more
may frame charters without change in classification: RCW 35.22.195.
permitted to frame charters: State Constitution Art. 11 § 10 (Amendment 40).
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.22 - First-Class Cities. › 35.22.050 - Election of freeholders to frame charter.

RCW 35.22.050
Election of freeholders to frame charter.
Whenever the population of a city is ten thousand or more, the legislative authority thereof shall provide by ordinance for an election to be held therein for the purpose of electing fifteen freeholders for the purpose of framing a charter for the city. The members of the board of freeholders must be qualified electors and must have been residents of the city for a period of at least two years prior to their election.
[ 1965 ex.s. c 47 § 7; 1965 c 7 § 35.22.050. Prior: 1890 p 216 § 3, part; RRS § 8953, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.22 - First-Class Cities. › 35.22.055 - Election of freeholders in cities of three hundred thousand or more population—Designation of positions.

RCW 35.22.055
Election of freeholders in cities of three hundred thousand or more population—Designation of positions.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the population of a city is three hundred thousand persons or more, not less than ten days before the time for filing declarations of candidacy for election of freeholders under Article XI, section 10 (Amendment 40), of the state Constitution, the city clerk shall designate the positions to be filled by consecutive number, commencing with one. The positions to be designated shall be dealt with as separate offices for all election purposes, and each candidate shall file for one, but only one, of the positions so designated.
In the printing of ballots, the positions of the names of candidates for each numbered position shall be in accordance with RCW 29A.36.121.
[ 2015 c 53 § 35; 1974 ex.s. c 1 § 1.]
NOTES:
Severability—1974 ex.s. c 1: "If any provision of this 1974 amendatory act, or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act, or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 1974 ex.s. c 1 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.22 - First-Class Cities. › 35.22.060 - Submission of charter—Publication.

RCW 35.22.060
Submission of charter—Publication.
The board of freeholders shall convene within ten days after their election and frame a charter for the city and within thirty days thereafter, they, or a majority of them, shall submit the charter to the legislative authority of the city, which, within five days thereafter, shall cause it to be published in the newspaper having the largest general circulation within the city at least once each week for four weeks next preceding the day of submitting the same to the electors for their approval.
[ 1985 c 469 § 22; 1965 ex.s. c 47 § 8; 1965 c 7 § 35.22.060. Prior: 1890 p 216 § 3, part; RRS § 8953, part.]
NOTES:
Submission of proposed charter, publication: State Constitution Art. 11 § 10 (Amendment 40).
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.22 - First-Class Cities. › 35.22.070 - Election on adoption of charter—Notice.

RCW 35.22.070
Election on adoption of charter—Notice.
Within five days after the filing with the city clerk of affidavits of publication, which affidavits shall be filed immediately after the last publication, the legislative authority of the city shall initiate the proceedings for the submission of the proposed charter to the qualified voters of the city for their adoption or rejection at either a general or special election. At this election the first officers to serve under the provisions of the proposed charter shall also be elected. In electing from wards, the division into wards as specified in the proposed charter shall govern; in all other respects the then existing laws relating to such election shall govern. The notice shall specify the objects for which the election is held, and shall be given as required by law.
[ 1965 ex.s. c 47 § 9; 1965 c 7 § 35.22.070. Prior: (i) 1890 p 216 § 3, part; RRS § 8953, part. (ii) 1890 p 223 § 6, part; RRS § 8977, part.]
NOTES:
Election on adoption of charter, notice: State Constitution Art. 11 § 10 (Amendment 40).