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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.42 - Public Officers and Agencies, Meetings, Duties and Powers. › 35A.42.040 - City clerks and controllers.

RCW 35A.42.040
City clerks and controllers.
In addition to any specific enumeration of duties of city clerks in a code city's charter or ordinances, and without limiting the generality of RCW 35A.21.030 of this title, the clerks of all code cities shall perform the following duties in the manner prescribed, to wit: (1) Certification of city streets as part of the highway system in accordance with the provisions of RCW 47.24.010; (2) perform the functions of a member of a firefighters' pension board as provided by RCW 41.16.020; (3) keep a record of ordinances of the city and provide copies thereof as authorized by RCW 5.44.080; (4) serve as applicable the trustees of any police relief and pension board as authorized by RCW 41.20.010; and (5) serve as secretary-treasurer of volunteer firefighters' relief and pension boards as provided in RCW 41.24.060.
[ 2013 c 23 § 65; 1991 c 81 § 39; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.42.040.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1991 c 81: See note following RCW 29A.84.540.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.42 - Public Officers and Agencies, Meetings, Duties and Powers. › 35A.42.050 - Public officers and employees—Conduct.

RCW 35A.42.050
Public officers and employees—Conduct.
In addition to provisions of general law relating to public officials and others in public administration, employment or public works, the duties and conduct of such officers and other persons shall be governed by: (1) Chapter 9A.68 RCW relating to bribery of a public officer; (2) Article II, section 30 of the Constitution of the state of Washington relating to bribery or corrupt solicitation; (3) RCW 35.17.150 relating to misconduct in code cities having a commission form of government; (4) chapter 42.23 RCW in regard to interest in contracts; (5) chapter 29A.84 RCW relating to misconduct in connection with elections; (6) RCW 49.44.060 relating to grafting by employees; (7) RCW 49.44.020 and 49.44.030 relating to the giving or solicitation of a bribe to a labor representative; (8) chapter 42.20 RCW relating to misconduct of a public officer; (9) RCW 49.52.050 and 49.52.090 relating to rebating by employees; and (10) chapter 9.18 RCW relating to bribery and grafting.
[ 2015 c 53 § 58; 1983 c 3 § 67; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.42.050.]
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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.43 - Local Improvements in Code Cities. › 35A.43.010 - General law applicable to code cities.

RCW 35A.43.010
General law applicable to code cities.
Chapters 35.43, 35.44, 35.45, 35.47, 35.48, 35.49, 35.50, 35.53, 35.54, 35.55, and 35.56 RCW all relating to municipal local improvements and made applicable to all incorporated cities and towns by RCW 35.43.030 are hereby recognized as applicable to all code cities, and the provisions thereof shall supersede the provisions of any charter of a charter code city inconsistent therewith. The provisions of the chapters named in this section shall be effective as to charter code cities to the same extent as such provisions are effective as to cities of the first class, and all code cities may exercise, in the manner provided, any authority therein granted to any class of city.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.43.010.]
NOTES:
Local improvements, supplemental authority: Chapter 35.51 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.43 - Local Improvements in Code Cities. › 35A.43.020 - Public lands subject to local assessments.

RCW 35A.43.020
Public lands subject to local assessments.
In addition to the authority provided by chapter 35.44 RCW, and chapter 79.44 RCW, a code city may assess public lands for the cost of local improvements specially benefiting such lands.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.43.020.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.44 - Census. › 35A.44.010 - Population determination.

RCW 35A.44.010
Population determination.
The population of code cities shall be determined for specific purposes in accordance with any express provision of state law relating thereto. Where no express provision is made, the provisions of RCW 43.41.110(7) relating to the office of financial management and the provisions of RCW 35.13.260 shall govern.
[ 1979 ex.s. c 18 § 32; 1979 c 151 § 36; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.44.010.]
NOTES:
Severability—1979 ex.s. c 18: See note following RCW 35A.01.070.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.46 - Motor Vehicles. › 35A.46.010 - State law applicable.

RCW 35A.46.010
State law applicable.
The provisions of Title 46 RCW relating to regulation of motor vehicles shall be applicable to code cities and its officers and employees to the same extent as such provisions grant powers and impose duties upon cities of any class and their officers and agents, including without limitation the following: (1) Authority to provide for angle parking on certain city streets designated as forming a route of a primary state highway as authorized in RCW 46.61.575; (2) application of city police regulations to port districts as authorized by RCW 53.08.230; (3) authority to establish local regulations relating to city streets forming a part of the state highway system as authorized by RCW 46.44.080; (4) exemption from the payment of vehicle license fees for city owned vehicles as authorized by RCW 46.16A.170 and 46.16A.200(8); (5) authority to establish traffic schools as provided by chapter 46.83 RCW; and (6) authority to enforce the provisions of RCW 81.48.050 relating to railroad crossings.
[ 2010 c 161 § 1104; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.46.010.]
NOTES:
Effective date—Intent—Legislation to reconcile chapter 161, Laws of 2010 and other amendments made during the 2010 legislative session—2010 c 161: See notes following RCW 46.04.013.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.47 - Highways and Streets. › 35A.47.010 - Highways, granting land for.

RCW 35A.47.010
Highways, granting land for.
A code city may exercise the powers relating to granting of property for state highway purposes as authorized by RCW 47.12.040 in accordance with the procedures therein prescribed.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.47.010.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.47 - Highways and Streets. › 35A.47.020 - Streets—Acquisition, standards of design, use, vacation and abandonment—Funds.

RCW 35A.47.020
Streets—Acquisition, standards of design, use, vacation and abandonment—Funds.
The designation of code city streets as a part of the state highway system, the jurisdiction and control of such streets, the procedure for acquisition or abandonment of rights-of-way for city streets and state highways, and the sale or lease of state highway land or toll facility to a code city, the requirements for accounting and expenditure of street funds, and the authority for contracting for the construction, repair and maintenance of streets by the state or county shall be the same as is provided in RCW 36.75.090, chapters 47.08, 47.12, 47.24 and 47.56 RCW, and the regulation of signs thereon as provided in chapter 47.42 RCW. Code cities shall be regulated in the acquisition, construction, maintenance, use and vacation of alleys, city streets, parkways, boulevards and sidewalks and in the design standards therefor as provided in chapters 35.68 through 35.79, 35.85, and 35.86 RCW and *RCW 79.93.010 relating to dedication of tidelands and shorelands to public use and in the use of state shared funds as provided by general law.
[ 1983 c 3 § 68; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.47.020.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 79.93.010 was recodified as RCW 79.120.010 pursuant to 2005 c 155 § 1007.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.47 - Highways and Streets. › 35A.47.030 - Public highways—Acquisition, agreements, transfers, regulations.

RCW 35A.47.030
Public highways—Acquisition, agreements, transfers, regulations.
The provisions of Title 47 RCW shall apply to code cities, its officers and employees to the same extent as such provisions are applicable to any other class of city within the state, including, without limitation, the following: (1) The acquisition by the state of municipal lands and the exchange of state highway and municipal lands, as provided in chapter 47.12 RCW; (2) the dedication of public land for city streets as provided by RCW 36.34.290 and 36.34.300; (3) city contributions to finance toll facilities as provided in RCW 47.56.250; (4) contracts with the department of transportation, as provided in RCW 47.01.210; (5) the construction, maintenance, jurisdiction, and control of city streets, as provided in chapter 47.24 RCW; (6) agreements between the department of transportation and a city for the benefit or improvement of highways, roads, or streets, as provided in RCW 47.28.140; (7) sales, leases, or transfers as authorized by RCW 47.12.063, 47.12.066, and 47.12.080; (8) the erection of information signs as regulated by RCW 47.42.050 and 47.42.060; (9) provisions relating to limited access highways under chapter 47.52 RCW; (10) the acquisition and abandonment for state highways as provided by RCW 36.75.090 and 90.28.020; and (11) the sharing of maintenance of streets and alleys as an extension of county roads as provided by RCW 35.77.020.
[ 1984 c 258 § 321; 1983 c 3 § 69; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.47.030.]
NOTES:
Court Improvement Act of 1984—Effective dates—Severability—Short title—1984 c 258: See notes following RCW 3.30.010.
Intent—1984 c 258: See note following RCW 3.34.130.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.47 - Highways and Streets. › 35A.47.040 - Franchises and permits—Streets and public ways.

RCW 35A.47.040
Franchises and permits—Streets and public ways.
Every code city shall have authority to permit and regulate under such restrictions and conditions as it may set by charter or ordinance and to grant nonexclusive franchises for the use of public streets, bridges or other public ways, structures or places above or below the surface of the ground for railroads and other routes and facilities for public conveyances, for poles, conduits, tunnels, towers and structures, pipes and wires and appurtenances thereof for transmission and distribution of electrical energy, signals and other methods of communication, for gas, steam and liquid fuels, for water, sewer and other private and publicly owned and operated facilities for public service. The power hereby granted shall be in addition to the franchise authority granted by general law to cities.
No ordinance or resolution granting any franchise in a code city for any purpose shall be adopted or passed by the city's legislative body on the day of its introduction nor for five days thereafter, nor at any other than a regular meeting nor without first being submitted to the city attorney, nor without having been granted by the approving vote of at least a majority of the entire legislative body, nor without being published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the city before becoming effective.
The city council may require a bond in a reasonable amount for any person or corporation obtaining a franchise from the city conditioned upon the faithful performance of the conditions and terms of the franchise and providing a recovery on the bond in case of failure to perform the terms and conditions of the franchise.
A code city may exercise the authority hereby granted, notwithstanding a contrary limitation of any preexisting charter provision.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.47.040.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.49 - Labor and Safety Regulations. › 35A.49.010 - Labor regulations—Safety regulations, discrimination in employment, hours, wages.

RCW 35A.49.010
Labor regulations—Safety regulations, discrimination in employment, hours, wages.
Provisions of state laws relating to labor and safety regulations as provided in Title 49 RCW shall apply to code cities to the same extent as such laws apply to other classes of cities.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.49.010.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.56 - Local Service Districts. › 35A.56.010 - Laws relating to special service districts, application to code cities.

RCW 35A.56.010
Laws relating to special service districts, application to code cities.
Except as otherwise provided in this title, state laws relating to special service or taxing districts shall apply to, grant powers, and impose duties upon code cities and their officers to the same extent as such laws apply to and affect other classes of cities and towns and their employees, including, without limitation, the following: (1) Chapter 70A.15 RCW, relating to air pollution control; (2) chapter 68.52 RCW, relating to cemetery districts; (3) chapter 29A.28 RCW, relating to congressional districts; (4) chapters 14.07 and 14.08 RCW, relating to municipal airport districts; (5) chapter 36.88 RCW, relating to county road improvement districts; (6) Title 85 RCW, relating to diking districts, drainage districts, and drainage improvement districts; (7) chapter 36.54 RCW, relating to county-owned ferries; (8) Title 52 RCW, relating to fire protection districts; (9) Title 86 RCW, relating to flood control districts and flood control; (10) chapter 70.46 RCW, relating to health districts; (11) chapters 87.03 through 87.84 and 89.12 RCW, relating to irrigation districts; (12) chapter 35.61 RCW, relating to metropolitan park districts; (13) chapter 35.58 RCW, relating to metropolitan municipalities; (14) chapter 17.28 RCW, relating to mosquito control districts; (15) chapter 17.12 RCW, relating to agricultural pest districts; (16) Title 53 RCW, relating to port districts; (17) chapter 70.44 RCW, relating to public hospital districts; (18) Title 54 RCW, relating to public utility districts; (19) chapter 91.08 RCW, relating to public waterway districts; (20) chapter 89.12 RCW, relating to reclamation districts; (21) chapters 57.02 through 57.36 RCW, relating to water-sewer districts; and (22) chapter 17.04 RCW, relating to weed districts.
[ 2021 c 65 § 24; 2015 c 53 § 59; 1996 c 230 § 1605; 1987 c 331 § 79; 1979 ex.s. c 30 § 2; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.56.010.]
NOTES:
Explanatory statement—2021 c 65: See note following RCW 53.54.030.
Part headings not law—Effective date—1996 c 230: See notes following RCW 57.02.001.
Effective date—1987 c 331: See RCW 68.05.900.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.57 - Inclusion of Code Cities in Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35A.57.020 - Metropolitan municipal corporations—May be formed around charter code city.

RCW 35A.57.020
Metropolitan municipal corporations—May be formed around charter code city.
Any area of the state containing two or more cities, at least one of which is a code city having at least ten thousand population, may organize as a metropolitan municipal corporation. The presence in such area of a code city having at least ten thousand population, shall fulfill the requirement of RCW 35.58.030 as to the class of city required to be included in an area incorporating as a metropolitan municipal corporation.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.57.020.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.58 - Boundaries and Plats. › 35A.58.010 - Locating corners and boundaries.

RCW 35A.58.010
Locating corners and boundaries.
General laws shall govern the methods, procedures, and standards for surveying, establishing corners and boundaries, describing and perpetuating and recording information and descriptions relating thereto. The boundaries and corners of sections, parcels, plats, and subdivisions of land within a code city, may be surveyed, established, relocated, and perpetuated whenever a majority of the resident owners of any section or part or parts of any section of land within the city makes application in accordance with the provisions of chapter 58.04 RCW.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.58.010.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.58 - Boundaries and Plats. › 35A.58.020 - Alteration and vacation of plats.

RCW 35A.58.020
Alteration and vacation of plats.
The provisions of *chapters 58.11 and 58.12 RCW shall apply in appropriate cases to the alteration or vacation of plats including land or lots within a code city or the vacation of streets therein as provided in chapter 35.79 RCW. The vacation of waterways within a code city shall be governed by the provisions of **chapter 79.16 RCW.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.58.020.]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: *(1) Chapters 58.11 and 58.12 RCW were repealed by 1987 c 354 § 8.
**(2) Chapter 79.16 RCW was repealed by 1982 1st ex.s. c 21 § 183. For later enactment, see chapters 79.90 through 79.96 RCW. Chapters 79.90 through 79.96 RCW were subsequently recodified as chapters 79.105 through 79.140 RCW pursuant to 2005 c 155.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.58 - Boundaries and Plats. › 35A.58.030 - Platting and subdivision of land.

RCW 35A.58.030
Platting and subdivision of land.
The provisions of chapter 58.17 RCW together with the provisions of a code city's subdivision regulations as adopted by ordinance not inconsistent with the provisions of chapter 58.17 RCW shall control the platting and subdividing of land into lots or tracts comprising five or more of such lots or tracts or containing a dedication of any part thereof as a public street or highway, or other public place or use: PROVIDED, That nothing herein shall prohibit the legislative body of a code city from adopting reasonable ordinances regulating the subdivision of land into two or more parcels without requiring compliance with all of the requirements of the platting law.
[ 1983 c 3 § 70; 1971 ex.s. c 251 § 9; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.58.030.]
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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.60 - Liens. › 35A.60.010 - General law applicable.

RCW 35A.60.010
General law applicable.
The general law relating to liens including but not limited to the provisions of Title 60 RCW, as the same relates to cities of any class shall apply to code cities. Every code city may exercise the authority to perform services to property within the city and to claim and foreclose liens allowed therefor by general laws for any class of city including but not limited to the following provisions: (1) Chapter 35.80 RCW, relating to unfit dwellings, buildings and structures; (2) RCW 35.22.320, relating to the cost of filling cesspools; (3) RCW 35.85.030, relating to assessment liens for viaducts, elevated roadways, tunnels, and subways; (4) RCW 35.21.130, 35.21.140, 35.21.150, and 35.22.320 for garbage collection; (5) chapters 35.50, 35.55 and 35.56 RCW relating to enforcement of local improvement liens; (6) RCW 35.73.050 relating to the expense of sanitary fills; (7) RCW 35.67.200 through 35.67.290, relating to sewerage systems and service; (8) RCW 35.68.070, 35.69.030, 35.70.090, relating to sidewalks; (9) RCW * 35.49.120 through 35.49.160, relating to priority of tax liens; (10) RCW 35.21.290 and 35.21.300, providing for liens for utility services; (11) chapter 84.60 RCW relating to lien of taxes upon property; (12) RCW 4.16.030, relating to foreclosure of local improvement liens; (13) chapter 60.76 RCW, relating to lien of employees for contribution to benefit plans; and (14) chapter 60.28 RCW, relating to lien for labor and materials on public works.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.60.010.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 35.49.120 was repealed by 1994 c 301 § 57.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.63 - Planning and Zoning in Code Cities. › 35A.63.010 - Definitions.

RCW 35A.63.010
Definitions.
The following words or terms as used in this chapter shall have the meanings set forth below unless different meanings are clearly indicated by the context:
(1) "Chief administrative officer" means the mayor in code cities operating under the mayor-council and commission forms, the city manager in code cities operating under the council-manager forms, or such other officer as the charter of a charter code city designates as the chief administrative officer.
(2) "City" means an incorporated city or town.
(3) "Code city" is used where the application of this chapter is limited to a code city; where joint, regional, or cooperative action is intended, a code city may be included in the unrestricted terms "city" or "municipality".
(4) "Comprehensive plan" means the policies and proposals approved by the legislative body as set forth in RCW 35A.63.060 through 35A.63.072 of this chapter and containing, at least, the elements set forth in RCW 35A.63.061.
(5) "Legislative body" means a code city council, a code city commission, and, in cases involving regional or cooperative planning or action, the governing body of a municipality.
(6) "Municipality" includes any code city and, in cases of regional or cooperative planning or action, any city, town, township, county, or special district.
(7) "Ordinance" means a legislative enactment by the legislative body of a municipality; in this chapter "ordinance" is synonymous with the term "resolution" when "resolution" is used as representing a legislative enactment.
(8) "Planning agency" means any person, body, or organization designated by the legislative body to perform a planning function or portion thereof for a municipality, and includes, without limitation, any commission, committee, department, or board together with its staff members, employees, agents, and consultants.
(9) "Special district" means that portion of the state, county, or other political subdivision created under general law for rendering of one or more local public services or for administrative, educational, judicial, or political purposes.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.010.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.63 - Planning and Zoning in Code Cities. › 35A.63.015 - "Solar energy system" defined.

RCW 35A.63.015
"Solar energy system" defined.
As used in this chapter, "solar energy system" means any device or combination of devices or elements which rely upon direct sunlight as an energy source, including but not limited to any substance or device which collects sunlight for use in:
(1) The heating or cooling of a structure or building;
(2) The heating or pumping of water;
(3) Industrial, commercial, or agricultural processes; or
(4) The generation of electricity.
A solar energy system may be used for purposes in addition to the collection of solar energy. These uses include, but are not limited to, serving as a structural member or part of a roof of a building or structure and serving as a window or wall.
[ 1979 ex.s. c 170 § 6.]
NOTES:
Severability—1979 ex.s. c 170: See note following RCW 64.04.140.
Local governments authorized to encourage and protect solar energy systems: RCW 64.04.140.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.63 - Planning and Zoning in Code Cities. › 35A.63.020 - Planning agency—Creation—Powers and duties—Conflicts of interest.

RCW 35A.63.020
Planning agency—Creation—Powers and duties—Conflicts of interest.
By ordinance a code city may create a planning agency and provide for its membership, organization, and expenses. The planning agency shall serve in an advisory capacity to the chief administrative officer or the legislative body, or both, as may be provided by ordinance and shall have such other powers and duties as shall be provided by ordinance. If any person or persons on a planning agency concludes that he or she has a conflict of interest or an appearance of fairness problem with respect to a matter pending before the agency so that he or she cannot discharge his or her duties on such an agency, he or she shall disqualify himself or herself from participating in the deliberations and the decision-making process with respect to the matter. If this occurs, the appointing authority that appoints such a person may appoint a person to serve as an alternate on the agency to serve in his or her stead in regard to such a matter.
[ 2009 c 549 § 3041; 1979 ex.s. c 18 § 33; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.020.]
NOTES:
Severability—1979 ex.s. c 18: See note following RCW 35A.01.070.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.63 - Planning and Zoning in Code Cities. › 35A.63.030 - Joint meetings and cooperative action.

RCW 35A.63.030
Joint meetings and cooperative action.
Pursuant to the authorization of the legislative body, a code city planning agency may hold joint meetings with one or more city or county planning agencies (including city or county planning agencies in adjoining states) in any combination and may contract with another municipality for planning services. A code city may enter into cooperative arrangements with one or more municipalities and with any regional planning council organized under this chapter for jointly engaging a planning director and such other employees as may be required to operate a joint planning staff.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 81 § 5; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.030.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1969 ex.s. c 81: See note following RCW 35A.13.035.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.63 - Planning and Zoning in Code Cities. › 35A.63.040 - Regional planning.

RCW 35A.63.040
Regional planning.
A code city with one or more municipalities within a region, otherwise authorized by law to plan, including municipalities of adjoining states, when empowered by ordinances of their respective legislative bodies, may cooperate to form, organize, and administer a regional planning commission to prepare a comprehensive plan and perform other planning functions for the region defined by agreement of the respective municipalities. The various agencies may cooperate in all phases of planning, and professional staff may be engaged to assist in such planning. All costs shall be shared on a pro rata basis as agreed among the various entities. A code city may also cooperate with any department or agency of a state government having planning functions.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 81 § 6; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.040.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1969 ex.s. c 81: See note following RCW 35A.13.035.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.63 - Planning and Zoning in Code Cities. › 35A.63.050 - Receipt and expenditure of funds.

RCW 35A.63.050
Receipt and expenditure of funds.
Any code city or any regional planning commission that includes a code city, when authorized by the legislative bodies of the municipalities represented by the regional planning commission, may enter into an agreement with any department or agency of the government of the United States or the state of Washington, or its agencies or political subdivisions, or any other public or private agency, to arrange for the receipt and expenditure of funds for planning in the interest of furthering the planning program.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.050.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.63 - Planning and Zoning in Code Cities. › 35A.63.060 - Comprehensive plan—General.

RCW 35A.63.060
Comprehensive plan—General.
Every code city, by ordinance, shall direct the planning agency to prepare a comprehensive plan for anticipating and influencing the orderly and coordinated development of land and building uses of the code city and its environs. The comprehensive plan may be prepared as a whole or in successive parts. The plan should integrate transportation and land use planning.
[ 2002 c 189 § 2; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.060.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.63 - Planning and Zoning in Code Cities. › 35A.63.061 - Comprehensive plan—Required elements.

RCW 35A.63.061
Comprehensive plan—Required elements.
The comprehensive plan shall be in such form and of such scope as the code city's ordinance or charter may require. It may consist of a map or maps, diagrams, charts, reports and descriptive and explanatory text or other devices and materials to express, explain, or depict the elements of the plan; and it shall include a recommended plan, scheme, or design for each of the following elements:
(1) A land-use element that designates the proposed general distribution, general location, and extent of the uses of land. These uses may include, but are not limited to, agricultural, residential, commercial, industrial, recreational, educational, public, and other categories of public and private uses of land. The land-use element shall also include estimates of future population growth in, and statements of recommended standards of population density and building intensity for, the area covered by the comprehensive plan. The land use element shall also provide for protection of the quality and quantity of groundwater used for public water supplies and shall review drainage, flooding, and stormwater runoff in the area and nearby jurisdictions and provide guidance for corrective actions to mitigate or cleanse those discharges that pollute Puget Sound or waters entering Puget Sound.
(2) A circulation element consisting of the general location, alignment, and extent of existing and proposed major thoroughfares, major transportation routes, and major terminal facilities, all of which shall be correlated with the land-use element of the comprehensive plan.
[ 1985 c 126 § 2; 1984 c 253 § 2; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.061.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.63 - Planning and Zoning in Code Cities. › 35A.63.062 - Comprehensive plan—Optional elements.

RCW 35A.63.062
Comprehensive plan—Optional elements.
The comprehensive plan may include also any or all of the following optional elements:
(1) A conservation element for the conservation, development, and utilization of natural resources.
(2) An open space, park, and recreation element.
(3) A transportation element showing a comprehensive system of surface, air, and water transportation routes and facilities.
(4) A public-use element showing general locations, designs, and arrangements of public buildings and uses.
(5) A public utilities element showing general plans for public and franchised services and facilities.
(6) A redevelopment or renewal element showing plans for the redevelopment or renewal of slum and blighted areas.
(7) An urban design element for general organization of the physical parts of the urban landscape.
(8) Other elements dealing with subjects that, in the opinion of the legislative body, relate to the development of the municipality, or are essential or desirable to coordinate public services and programs with such development.
(9) A solar energy element for encouragement and protection of access to direct sunlight for solar energy systems.
[ 1979 ex.s. c 170 § 7; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.062.]
NOTES:
Severability—1979 ex.s. c 170: See note following RCW 64.04.140.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.63 - Planning and Zoning in Code Cities. › 35A.63.070 - Comprehensive plan—Notice and hearing.

RCW 35A.63.070
Comprehensive plan—Notice and hearing.
After preparing the comprehensive plan, or successive parts thereof, as the case may be, the planning agency shall hold at least one public hearing on the comprehensive plan or successive part. Notice of the time, place, and purpose of such public hearing shall be given as provided by ordinance and including at least one publication in a newspaper of general circulation delivered in the code city and in the official gazette, if any, of the code city, at least ten days prior to the date of the hearing. Continued hearings may be held at the discretion of the planning agency but no additional notices need be published.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.070.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.63 - Planning and Zoning in Code Cities. › 35A.63.071 - Comprehensive plan—Forwarding to legislative body.

RCW 35A.63.071
Comprehensive plan—Forwarding to legislative body.
Upon completion of the hearing or hearings on the comprehensive plan or successive parts thereof, the planning agency, after making such changes as it deems necessary following such hearing, shall transmit a copy of its recommendations for the comprehensive plan, or successive parts thereof, to the legislative body through the chief administrative officer, who shall acknowledge receipt thereof and direct the clerk to certify thereon the date of receipt.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.071.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.63 - Planning and Zoning in Code Cities. › 35A.63.072 - Comprehensive plan—Approval by legislative body.

RCW 35A.63.072
Comprehensive plan—Approval by legislative body.
Within sixty days from its receipt of the recommendation for the comprehensive plan, as above set forth, the legislative body at a public meeting shall consider the same. The legislative body within such period as it may by ordinance provide, shall vote to approve or disapprove or to modify and approve, as modified, the comprehensive plan or to refer it back to the planning agency for further proceedings, in which case the legislative body shall specify the time within which the planning agency shall report back to the legislative body its findings and recommendations on the matters referred to it. The final form and content of the comprehensive plan shall be determined by the legislative body. An affirmative vote of not less than a majority of total members of the legislative body shall be required for adoption of a resolution to approve the plan or its parts. The comprehensive plan, or its successive parts, as approved by the legislative body, shall be filed with an appropriate official of the code city and shall be available for public inspection.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.072.]
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RCW 35A.63.073
Comprehensive plan—Amendments and modifications.
All amendments, modifications, or alterations in the comprehensive plan or any part thereof shall be processed in the same manner as set forth in RCW 35A.63.070 through 35A.63.072.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.073.]
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RCW 35A.63.080
Comprehensive plan—Effect.
From the date of approval by the legislative body the comprehensive plan, its parts and modifications thereof, shall serve as a basic source of reference for future legislative and administrative action: PROVIDED, That the comprehensive plan shall not be construed as a regulation of property rights or land uses: PROVIDED, FURTHER, That no procedural irregularity or informality in the consideration, hearing, and development of the comprehensive plan or a part thereof, or any of its elements, shall affect the validity of any zoning ordinance or amendment thereto enacted by the code city after the approval of the comprehensive plan.
The comprehensive plan shall be consulted as a preliminary to the establishment, improvement, abandonment, or vacation of any street, park, public way, public building, or public structure, and no dedication of any street or other area for public use shall be accepted by the legislative body until the location, character, extent, and effect thereof shall have been considered by the planning agency with reference to the comprehensive plan. The legislative body shall specify the time within which the planning agency shall report and make a recommendation with respect thereto. Recommendations of the planning agency shall be advisory only.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.080.]
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RCW 35A.63.100
Municipal authority.
After approval of the comprehensive plan in accordance with provisions of this chapter, the legislative body, in developing the municipality and in regulating the use of land, may implement or give effect to the comprehensive plan or parts thereof by ordinance or other action to such extent as the legislative body deems necessary or appropriate. Such ordinances or other action may provide for:
(1) Adoption of an official map and regulations relating thereto designating locations and requirements for one or more of the following: Streets, parks, public buildings, and other public facilities, and protecting such sites against encroachment by buildings and other physical structures.
(2)(a)(i) Dividing the municipality, or portions thereof, into appropriate zones within which specific standards, requirements, and conditions may be provided for regulating: The use of public and private land, buildings, and structures; the location, height, bulk, number of stories, and size of buildings and structures; size of yards, courts, and open spaces; density of population; ratio of land area to the area of buildings and structures; setbacks; area required for off-street parking; protection of access to direct sunlight for solar energy systems; and such other standards, requirements, regulations, and procedures as are appropriately related thereto.
(ii) Eliminating the minimum gross floor area requirements for single-family detached dwellings or reducing the requirements below the minimum performance standards and objectives contained in the state building code.
(b) The ordinance encompassing the matters of this subsection (2) is hereinafter called the "zoning ordinance." No zoning ordinance, or amendment thereto, shall be enacted by the legislative body without at least one public hearing, notice of which shall be given as set forth in RCW 35A.63.070. Such hearing may be held before the planning agency or the board of adjustment or such other body as the legislative body shall designate.
(3) Adoption of design standards, requirements, regulations, and procedures for the subdivision of land into two or more parcels, including, but not limited to, the approval of plats, dedications, acquisitions, improvements, and reservation of sites for public use.
(4) Scheduling public improvements on the basis of recommended priorities over a period of years, subject to periodic review.
(5) Such other matters as may be otherwise authorized by law or as the legislative body deems necessary or appropriate to effectuate the goals and objectives of the comprehensive plan or parts thereof and the purposes of this chapter.
[ 2018 c 302 § 4; 1979 ex.s. c 170 § 8; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.100.]
NOTES:
Severability—1979 ex.s. c 170: See note following RCW 64.04.140.
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RCW 35A.63.105
Development regulations—Consistency with comprehensive plan.
Beginning July 1, 1992, the development regulations of each code city that does not plan under RCW 36.70A.040 shall not be inconsistent with the city's comprehensive plan. For the purposes of this section, "development regulations" has the same meaning as set forth in RCW 36.70A.030.
[ 1990 1st ex.s. c 17 § 23.]
NOTES:
Severability—Part, section headings not law—1990 1st ex.s. c 17: See RCW 36.70A.900 and 36.70A.901.
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RCW 35A.63.120
Administration and enforcement.
In order to carry into effect the purposes of this chapter, administrative and enforcement responsibilities, other than those set forth in RCW 35A.63.110, may be assigned by ordinance to such departments, boards, officials, employees, or agents as the legislative body deems appropriate.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.120.]
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RCW 35A.63.130
Provisions inconsistent with charters.
Insofar as the provisions of an existing charter of a municipality are inconsistent with this chapter, a municipality may exercise the authority, or any part thereof, granted by this chapter notwithstanding the inconsistent provision of an existing charter.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.130.]
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RCW 35A.63.140
Duties and responsibilities imposed by other acts.
Any duties and responsibilities which by other statutes are imposed upon a planning commission may, in a code city, be performed by a planning agency, as provided in this chapter.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.140.]
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RCW 35A.63.145
Prohibitions on manufactured homes—Review required—"Designated manufactured home" defined.
(1) Each comprehensive plan which does not allow for the siting of manufactured homes on individual lots shall be subject to a review by the city of the need and demand for such homes. The review shall be completed by December 31, 1990.
(2) For the purpose of providing an optional reference for cities which choose to allow manufactured homes on individual lots, a "designated manufactured home" is a manufactured home constructed after June 15, 1976, in accordance with state and federal requirements for manufactured homes, which:
(a) Is comprised of at least two fully enclosed parallel sections each of not less than twelve feet wide by thirty-six feet long;
(b) Was originally constructed with and now has a composition or wood shake or shingle, coated metal, or similar roof of not less than 3:12 pitch; and
(c) Has exterior siding similar in appearance to siding materials commonly used on conventional site-built uniform building code single-family residences.
(3) Nothing in this section precludes cities from allowing any manufactured home from being sited on individual lots through local standards which differ from the designated manufactured home as described in this section, except that the term "designated manufactured home" shall not be used except as defined in subsection (2) of this section.
[ 1988 c 239 § 2.]
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RCW 35A.63.146
Manufactured housing communities—Prohibitions of code city due to community status as a nonconforming use.
(1) After June 10, 2004, a code city may designate a manufactured housing community as a nonconforming use, but may not order the removal or phased elimination of an existing manufactured housing community because of its status as a nonconforming use.
(2) A code city may not prohibit the entry or require the removal of a manufactured/mobile home, park model, or recreational vehicle authorized in a manufactured housing community under chapter 59.20 RCW on the basis of the community's status as a nonconforming use.
[ 2011 c 158 § 10; 2004 c 210 § 2.]
NOTES:
Transfer of residual funds to manufactured home installation training account—2011 c 158: See note following RCW 43.22A.100.
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RCW 35A.63.149
Residential care facilities—Review of need and demand—Adoption of ordinances.
Each municipality that does not provide for the siting of residential care facilities in zones or areas that are designated for single-family or other residential uses, shall conduct a review of the need and demand for the facilities, including the cost of any conditional or special use permit that may be required. The review shall be completed by August 31, 1990. A copy of the findings, conclusions, and recommendations resulting from the review shall be sent to the *department of community development by September 30, 1990.
On or before June 30, 1991, each municipality that plans and zones under this chapter shall have adopted an ordinance or ordinances that are necessary to implement the findings of this review, if the findings indicate that such changes are necessary, or shall notify the *department of community development as to why such implementing ordinances were not adopted.
[ 1989 c 427 § 37.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: Powers, duties, and functions of the department of community development and the department of trade and economic development were transferred to the department of community, trade, and economic development by 1993 c 280, effective July 1, 1994. The "department of community, trade, and economic development" was renamed the "department of commerce" by 2009 c 565.
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RCW 35A.63.150
Public hearings.
The legislative body may provide by ordinance for such additional public hearings and notice thereof as it deems to be appropriate in connection with any action contemplated under this chapter.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.150.]
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RCW 35A.63.152
Public notice—Identification of affected property.
Any notice made under chapter 35A.63 RCW that identifies affected property may identify this affected property without using a legal description of the property including, but not limited to, identification by an address, written description, vicinity sketch, or other reasonable means.
[ 1988 c 168 § 10.]
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RCW 35A.63.160
Construction—1967 ex.s. c 119.
This title is intended to implement and preserve to code cities all powers authorized by Article XI, section 11 of the Constitution of the state of Washington and the provision of this title shall not limit any code city from exercising its constitutionally granted power to plan for and to make and enforce within its limits all such local police, sanitary, and other regulations in the manner that its charter or ordinances may provide.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.63.160.]