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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.110 - Budget—Hearing.

RCW 35A.34.110
Budget—Hearing.
The legislative body shall meet on the day fixed by RCW 35A.34.100 for the purpose of fixing the final budget of the city at the time and place designated in the notice thereof. Any taxpayer may appear and be heard for or against any part of the budget. The hearing may be continued from day to day but not later than the twenty-fifth day prior to commencement of the city's fiscal biennium.
[ 1985 c 175 § 43.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.120 - Budget—Adoption.

RCW 35A.34.120
Budget—Adoption.
Following conclusion of the hearing, and prior to the beginning of the fiscal biennium, the legislative body shall make such adjustments and changes as it deems necessary or proper and, after determining the allowance in each item, department, classification, and fund, shall by ordinance adopt the budget in its final form and content. Appropriations shall be limited to the total estimated revenues contained therein including the amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes and the unencumbered fund balances estimated to be available at the close of the current fiscal biennium. Such ordinances may adopt the final budget by reference. However, the ordinance adopting the budget shall set forth in summary form the totals of estimated revenues and appropriations for each separate fund and the aggregate totals for all such funds combined.
A complete copy of the final budget as adopted shall be transmitted to the state auditor and to the association of Washington cities.
[ 1995 c 301 § 57; 1985 c 175 § 44.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.130 - Budget—Mid-biennial review and modification.

RCW 35A.34.130
Budget—Mid-biennial review and modification.
The legislative authority of a city having adopted the provisions of this chapter shall provide by ordinance for a mid-biennial review and modification of the biennial budget. The ordinance shall provide that such review and modification shall occur no sooner than eight months after the start nor later than conclusion of the first year of the fiscal biennium. The chief administrative officer shall prepare the proposed budget modification and shall provide for publication of notice of hearings consistent with publication of notices for adoption of other city ordinances. City ordinances providing for a mid-biennium review and modification shall establish procedures for distribution of the proposed modification to members of the city legislative authority, procedures for making copies available to the public, and shall provide for public hearings on the proposed budget modification. The budget modification shall be by ordinance approved in the same manner as are other ordinances of the city.
A complete copy of the budget modification as adopted shall be transmitted to the state auditor and to the association of Washington cities.
[ 1995 c 301 § 58; 1985 c 175 § 45.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.140 - Emergency expenditures—Nondebatable emergencies.

RCW 35A.34.140
Emergency expenditures—Nondebatable emergencies.
Upon the happening of any emergency caused by violence of nature, casualty, riot, insurrection, war, or other unanticipated occurrence requiring the immediate preservation of order or public health, or for the property which has been damaged or destroyed by accident, or for public relief from calamity, or in settlement of approved claims for personal injuries or property damages, or to meet mandatory expenditures required by law enacted since the last budget was adopted, or to cover expenses incident to preparing for or establishing a new form of government authorized or assumed after adoption of the current budget, including any expenses incident to selection of additional or new officials required thereby, or incident to employee recruitment at any time, the city legislative body, upon the adoption of an ordinance, by the vote of one more than the majority of all members of the legislative body, stating the facts constituting the emergency and the estimated amount required to meet it, may make the expenditures therefor without notice or hearing.
[ 1985 c 175 § 46.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.150 - Emergency expenditures—Other emergencies—Hearing.

RCW 35A.34.150
Emergency expenditures—Other emergencies—Hearing.
If a public emergency which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of filing the preliminary budget requires the expenditure of money not provided for in the budget, and if it is not one of the emergencies specifically enumerated in RCW 35A.34.140, the city legislative body before allowing any expenditure therefor shall adopt an ordinance stating the facts constituting the emergency and the estimated amount required to meet it and declaring that an emergency exists.
The ordinance shall not be voted on until five days have elapsed after its introduction, and for passage shall require the vote of one more than the majority of all members of the legislative body of the city.
Any taxpayer may appear at the meeting at which the emergency ordinance is to be voted on and be heard for or against the adoption thereof.
[ 1985 c 175 § 47.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.160 - Emergency expenditures—Warrants—Payment.

RCW 35A.34.160
Emergency expenditures—Warrants—Payment.
All expenditures for emergency purposes as provided in this chapter shall be paid by warrants from any available money in the fund properly chargeable with such expenditures. If, at any time, there is insufficient money on hand in a fund with which to pay such warrants as presented, the warrants shall be registered, bear interest, and be called in the same manner as other registered warrants as prescribed in RCW 35A.21.110.
[ 1985 c 175 § 48.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.170 - Registered warrants—Payment.

RCW 35A.34.170
Registered warrants—Payment.
In adopting the final budget for any fiscal biennium, the legislative body shall appropriate from estimated revenue sources available, a sufficient amount to pay the principal and interest on all outstanding registered warrants issued since the adoption of the last preceding budget except those issued and identified as revenue warrants and except those for which an appropriation previously has been made. However, no portion of the revenues which are restricted in use by law may be appropriated for the redemption of warrants issued against a utility or other special purpose fund of a self-supporting nature. In addition, all or any portion of the city's outstanding registered warrants may be funded into bonds in any manner authorized by law.
[ 1985 c 175 § 49.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.180 - Adjustment of wages, hours and conditions of employment.

RCW 35A.34.180
Adjustment of wages, hours and conditions of employment.
Notwithstanding the appropriations for any salary or salary range of any employee or employees adopted in a final budget, the legislative body of any city may, by ordinance, change the wages, hours, and conditions of employment of any or all of its appointive employees if sufficient funds are available for appropriation to such purposes.
[ 1985 c 175 § 50.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.190 - Forms—Accounting—Supervision by state.

RCW 35A.34.190
Forms—Accounting—Supervision by state.
The state auditor is empowered to make and install the forms and classifications required by this chapter to define what expenditures are chargeable to each budget class and to establish the accounting and cost systems necessary to secure accurate budget information.
[ 1995 c 301 § 59; 1985 c 175 § 51.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.200 - Funds—Limitations on expenditures—Transfers and adjustments.

RCW 35A.34.200
Funds—Limitations on expenditures—Transfers and adjustments.
(1) The expenditures as classified and itemized in the final budget shall constitute the city's appropriations for the ensuing fiscal biennium. Unless otherwise ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, and subject to further limitations imposed by ordinance of the city, the expenditure of city funds or the incurring of current liabilities on behalf of the city shall be limited to the following:
(a) The total amount appropriated for each fund in the budget for the current fiscal biennium, without regard to the individual items contained therein, except that this limitation does not apply to wage adjustments authorized by RCW 35A.34.180;
(b) The unexpended appropriation balances of a preceding budget which may be carried forward from prior fiscal periods pursuant to RCW 35A.34.270;
(c) Funds received from the sale of bonds or warrants which have been duly authorized according to law;
(d) Funds received in excess of estimated revenues during the current fiscal biennium, when authorized by an ordinance amending the original budget; and
(e) Expenditures authorized by budget modification as provided by RCW 35A.34.130 and those required for emergencies, as authorized by RCW 35A.34.140 and 35A.34.150.
(2) Transfers between individual appropriations within any one fund may be made during the current fiscal biennium by order of the city's chief administrative officer subject to such regulations, if any, as may be imposed by the city legislative body. Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 43.09.210 or of any statute to the contrary, transfers, as authorized in this section, may be made within the same fund regardless of the various offices, departments, or divisions of the city which may be affected.
(3) The city legislative body, upon a finding that it is to the best interests of the city to decrease, revoke, or recall all or any portion of the total appropriations provided for any one fund, may, by ordinance, approved by the vote of one more than the majority of all members thereof, stating the facts and findings for doing so, decrease, revoke, or recall all or any portion of an unexpended fund balance, and by said ordinance, or a subsequent ordinance adopted by a like majority, the moneys thus released may be reappropriated for another purpose or purposes, without limitation to department, division, or fund, unless the use of such moneys is otherwise restricted by law, charter, or ordinance.
[ 1985 c 175 § 52.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.205 - Administration, oversight, or supervision of utility—Reimbursement from utility budget authorized.

RCW 35A.34.205
Administration, oversight, or supervision of utility—Reimbursement from utility budget authorized.
Whenever any code city apportions a percentage of the city manager's, administrator's, or supervisor's time, or the time of other management or general government staff, for administration, oversight, or supervision of a utility operated by the city, or to provide services to the utility, the utility budget may identify such services and budget for reimbursement of the city's current expense fund for the value of such services.
[ 1991 c 152 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.210 - Liabilities incurred in excess of budget.

RCW 35A.34.210
Liabilities incurred in excess of budget.
Liabilities incurred by any officer or employee of the city in excess of any budget appropriations shall not be a liability of the city. The clerk shall issue no warrant and the city legislative body or other authorized person shall approve no claim for an expenditure in excess of the total amount appropriated for any individual fund, except upon an order of a court of competent jurisdiction or for emergencies as provided in this chapter.
[ 1985 c 175 § 53.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.220 - Funds received from sales of bonds and warrants—Expenditures program—Federal tax law.

RCW 35A.34.220
Funds received from sales of bonds and warrants—Expenditures program—Federal tax law.
Moneys received from the sale of bonds or warrants must be used for no other purpose than that for which they were issued. If any unexpended fund balance remains from the proceeds realized from the bonds or warrants after the accomplishment of the purpose for which they were issued, it must be used for the payment of principal of or interest on such indebtedness consistent with applicable provisions of federal tax law. Where a budget contains an expenditure program to be partially or wholly financed from a bond issue to be authorized thereafter, expenditures of amounts anticipated to be reimbursed from the proceeds of the issuance and sale of such bonds must be made or incurred consistent with any applicable federal tax law requirements.
[ 2011 c 210 § 5; 1985 c 175 § 54.]
NOTES:
Application to previously issued bonds—2011 c 210: See note following RCW 39.46.040.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.230 - Revenue estimates—Amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes.

RCW 35A.34.230
Revenue estimates—Amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes.
At a time fixed by the city's ordinance or city charter, not later than the first Monday in October of the second year of each fiscal biennium, the chief administrative officer shall provide the city's legislative body with current information on estimates of revenues from all sources as adopted in the budget for the current biennium, together with estimates submitted by the clerk under RCW 35A.34.070. The city's legislative body and the city's administrative officer or the officer's designated representative shall consider the city's total anticipated financial requirements for the ensuing fiscal biennium, and the legislative body shall determine and fix by ordinance the amount to be raised the first year of the biennium by ad valorem taxes. The legislative body shall review such information as is provided by the chief administrative officer and shall adopt an ordinance establishing the amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes during the second year of the biennium. Upon adoption of the ordinance fixing the amount of ad valorem taxes to be levied, the clerk shall certify the same to the county legislative authority as required by RCW 84.52.020.
[ 1985 c 175 § 55.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.240 - Funds—Quarterly report of status.

RCW 35A.34.240
Funds—Quarterly report of status.
At such intervals as may be required by city charter or city ordinance, however, being not less than quarterly, the clerk shall submit to the city's legislative body and chief administrative officer a report showing the expenditures and liabilities against each separate budget appropriation incurred during the preceding reporting period and like information for the whole of the current fiscal biennium to the first day of the current reporting period together with the unexpended balance of each appropriation. The report shall also show the receipts from all sources.
[ 1985 c 175 § 56.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.250 - Contingency fund—Creation.

RCW 35A.34.250
Contingency fund—Creation.
Every city may create and maintain a contingency fund to provide moneys with which to meet any municipal expense, the necessity or extent of which could not have been foreseen or reasonably evaluated at the time of adopting the annual budget, or from which to provide moneys for those emergencies described in RCW 35A.34.140 and 35A.34.150. Such fund may be supported by a budget appropriation from any tax or other revenue source not restricted in use by law, or also may be supported by a transfer from other unexpended or decreased funds made available by ordinance as set forth in RCW 35A.34.200. However, the total amount accumulated in such fund at any time shall not exceed the equivalent of thirty-seven and one-half cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation of property within the city at such time. Any moneys in the emergency fund at the end of the fiscal biennium shall not lapse except upon reappropriation by the council to another fund in the adoption of a subsequent budget.
[ 1985 c 175 § 57.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.260 - Contingency fund—Withdrawals.

RCW 35A.34.260
Contingency fund—Withdrawals.
No money shall be withdrawn from the contingency fund except by transfer to the appropriate operating fund authorized by a resolution or ordinance of the legislative body of the city, adopted by a majority vote of the entire legislative body, clearly stating the facts constituting the reason for the withdrawal or the emergency as the case may be, specifying the fund to which the withdrawn money shall be transferred.
[ 1985 c 175 § 58.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.270 - Unexpended appropriations.

RCW 35A.34.270
Unexpended appropriations.
All appropriations in any current operating fund shall lapse at the end of each fiscal biennium. However, this shall not prevent payments in the following biennium upon uncompleted programs or improvements in progress or on orders subsequently filled or claims subsequently billed for the purchase of material, equipment, and supplies or for personal or contractual services not completed or furnished by the end of the fiscal biennium, all of which have been properly budgeted and contracted for prior to the close of such fiscal biennium, but furnished or completed in due course thereafter.
All appropriations in a special fund authorized by ordinance or by state law to be used only for the purpose or purposes therein specified, including any cumulative reserve funds lawfully established in specific or general terms for any municipal purpose or purposes, or a contingency fund as authorized by RCW 35A.34.250, shall not lapse, but shall be carried forward from biennium to biennium until fully expended or the purpose has been accomplished or abandoned, without necessity of reappropriation.
The accounts for budgetary control for each fiscal biennium shall be kept open for twenty days after the close of such fiscal biennium for the purpose of paying and recording claims for indebtedness incurred during such fiscal biennium; any claim presented after the twentieth day following the close of the fiscal biennium shall be paid from appropriations lawfully provided for the ensuing period, including those made available by provisions of this section, and shall be recorded in the accounts for the ensuing fiscal biennium.
[ 1985 c 175 § 59.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.34 - Biennial Budgets. › 35A.34.280 - Violations and penalties.

RCW 35A.34.280
Violations and penalties.
Upon the conviction of any city official, department head, or other city employee of knowingly failing, or refusing, without just cause, to perform any duty imposed upon such officer or employee by this chapter, or city charter or city ordinance, in connection with the giving of notice, the preparing and filing of estimates of revenues or expenditures or other information required for preparing a budget report in the time and manner required, or of knowingly making expenditures in excess of budget appropriations, the official or employee shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars for each separate violation.
[ 1985 c 175 § 60.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.35 - Intergovernmental Relations. › 35A.35.010 - Joint facilities and agreements.

RCW 35A.35.010
Joint facilities and agreements.
In addition to exercising all authority granted to cities of any class for joint or intergovernmental cooperation and activity and agreements for the acquisition, ownership, leasing, control, improvement, occupation and use of land or other property with a county, another city, or governmental agency, and in addition to authority granted to code cities by RCW 35A.11.040, every code city may exercise the powers relating to jails, places of detention, civic centers, civic halls and armories as is authorized by chapters 36.64 and 38.20 RCW.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.35.010.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.36 - Execution of Bonds by Proxy in Code Cities. › 35A.36.010 - Appointment of proxies.

RCW 35A.36.010
Appointment of proxies.
The mayor, finance officer, city clerk, or other officer of a code city who is authorized or required by law, charter, or ordinance to execute bonds of the city or any subdivision or district thereof may designate one or more bonded persons to affix such officer's signature to any bond or bonds requiring his or her signature. If the signature of one of these officers is affixed to a bond during his or her continuance in office by a proxy designated by him or her whose authority has not been revoked, the bond shall be as binding upon the city and all concerned as though the officer had signed the bond in person. This chapter shall apply to all bonds, whether they constitute obligations of the city as a whole or of any local improvement or other district or subdivision thereof, whether they call for payment from the general funds of the city or from a local, special or other fund, and whether negotiable or otherwise.
[ 2009 c 549 § 3036; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.36.010.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.36 - Execution of Bonds by Proxy in Code Cities. › 35A.36.020 - Coupons—Printing facsimile signatures.

RCW 35A.36.020
Coupons—Printing facsimile signatures.
A facsimile reproduction of the signature of any of the code city officers referred to in RCW 35A.36.010 may be printed, engraved, or lithographed upon bond coupons with the same effect as though the particular officer had signed the coupon in person.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.36.020.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.36 - Execution of Bonds by Proxy in Code Cities. › 35A.36.030 - Deputies—Exemptions.

RCW 35A.36.030
Deputies—Exemptions.
This chapter shall not be construed to require the appointment of deputy finance officers or deputy city clerks of code cities to be made in accordance with this chapter insofar as concerns signatures or other acts which may lawfully be made or done by such deputy officer under the provisions of any other law.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.36.030.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.36 - Execution of Bonds by Proxy in Code Cities. › 35A.36.040 - Designation of bonds to be signed.

RCW 35A.36.040
Designation of bonds to be signed.
(1) The officer of a code city whose duty it is to cause any bonds to be printed, engraved, or lithographed, shall specify in a written order or requisition to the printer, engraver, or lithographer the number of bonds to be printed, engraved or lithographed and the manner of numbering them.
(2) Every printer, engraver, or lithographer who knowingly prints, engraves, or lithographs a greater number of bonds than that specified or who knowingly prints, engraves, or lithographs more than one bond bearing the same number is guilty of a class B felony punishable according to chapter 9A.20 RCW.
[ 2003 c 53 § 200; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.36.040.]
NOTES:
Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.36 - Execution of Bonds by Proxy in Code Cities. › 35A.36.050 - Liability of officer.

RCW 35A.36.050
Liability of officer.
A code city officer authorizing the affixing of his or her signature to a bond by a proxy shall be subject to the same liability personally and on his or her bond for any signature so affixed and to the same extent as if he or she had affixed his or her signature in person.
[ 2009 c 549 § 3037; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.36.050.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.36 - Execution of Bonds by Proxy in Code Cities. › 35A.36.060 - Notice to council.

RCW 35A.36.060
Notice to council.
In order to designate a proxy to affix his or her signature to bonds, a code city officer shall address a written notice to the legislative body of the city giving the name of the person whom he or she has selected therefor and stating generally or specifically what bonds are to be so signed.
Attached to or included in the notice shall be a written signature of the officer making the designation executed by the proposed proxy followed by the word "by" and his or her own signature; or, if the notice so states, the specimen signatures may consist of a facsimile reproduction of the officer's signature impressed by some mechanical process followed by the word "by" and the proxy's own signature.
If the authority is intended to include the signature upon bonds bearing an earlier date than the effective date of the notice, the prior dated bonds must be specifically described by reasonable reference thereto.
The notice designating a proxy shall be filed with the city finance officer or city clerk, together with the specimen signatures attached thereto and a record of the filing shall be made in the journal of the legislative body. This record shall note the date and hour of filing and may be made by the official who keeps the journal at any time after the filing of the notice, even during a period of recess or adjournment of the legislative body. The notice shall be effective from the time of its recording.
[ 2009 c 549 § 3038; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.36.060.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.36 - Execution of Bonds by Proxy in Code Cities. › 35A.36.070 - Revocation of proxy.

RCW 35A.36.070
Revocation of proxy.
Any designation of a proxy may be revoked by written notice addressed to the legislative body of the code city signed by the officer who made the designation and filed and recorded in the same manner as the notice of designation. It shall be effective from the time of its recording but shall not affect the validity of any signatures theretofore made.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.36.070.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.37 - Funds, Special Purpose. › 35A.37.010 - Segregating and accounting.

RCW 35A.37.010
Segregating and accounting.
Code cities shall establish such funds for the segregation, budgeting, expenditure, and accounting for moneys received for special purposes as are required by general law applicable to such cities' activities and the officers thereof shall pay into, expend from, and account for such moneys in the manner provided therefor including, but not limited to, the requirements of the following:
(1) Accounting funds as required by RCW 35.37.010;
(2) Annexation and consolidation fund as required by chapters 35.10 and 35.13 RCW;
(3) Assessment fund as required by RCW 8.12.480;
(4) Equipment rental fund as authorized by RCW 35.21.088;
(5) Current expense fund as required by RCW 35.37.010, usually referred to as the general fund;
(6) Local improvement guaranty fund as required by RCW 35.54.010;
(7) An indebtedness and sinking fund, together with separate funds for utilities and institutions as required by RCW 35.37.020;
(8) Local improvement district fund and revolving fund as required by RCW 35.45.130 and 35.48.010;
(9) City street fund as required by chapter 35.76 RCW and RCW 47.24.040;
(10) Firefighters' relief and pension fund as required by chapters 41.16 and 41.18 RCW;
(11) Police relief and pension fund as required by RCW 41.20.130 and 63.32.030;
(12) First-class cities' employees retirement and pension system as authorized by chapter 41.28 RCW;
(13) Applicable rules of the state auditor.
[ 2013 c 23 § 64; 1995 c 301 § 60; 1983 c 3 § 62; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.37.010.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.38 - Emergency Services. › 35A.38.010 - Local organization.

RCW 35A.38.010
Local organization.
A code city may participate in the creation of local organizations for emergency services, provide for mutual aid, and exercise all of the powers and privileges and perform all of the functions and duties, and the officers and employees thereof shall have the same powers, duties, rights, privileges and immunities as any city of any class, and the employees thereof, have in connection with emergency services as provided in chapter 38.52 RCW in the manner provided by said chapters or by general law.
[ 1974 ex.s. c 171 § 2; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.38.010.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.39 - Public Documents and Records. › 35A.39.010 - Legislative and administrative records.

RCW 35A.39.010
Legislative and administrative records.
Every code city shall keep a journal of minutes of its legislative meetings with orders, resolutions and ordinances passed, and records of the proceedings of any city department, division or commission performing quasi-judicial functions as required by ordinances of the city and general laws of the state and shall keep such records open to the public as required by RCW 42.30.035 and shall keep and preserve all public records and publications or reproduce and destroy the same as provided by Title 40 RCW. Each code city may duplicate and sell copies of its ordinances at fees reasonably calculated to defray the cost of such duplication and handling.
[ 2017 3rd sp.s. c 25 § 32; 1995 c 21 § 2; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.39.010.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.40 - Fiscal Provisions Applicable to Code Cities. › 35A.40.010 - Accounting—Funds—Indebtedness—Bonds.

RCW 35A.40.010
Accounting—Funds—Indebtedness—Bonds.
Municipal accounts and funds, the contracting of indebtedness for municipal purposes and the issuance and payment of bonds therefor, the validation of preexisting obligations by the voters of a consolidated city, debt limitations, elections for authorization of the incurring of indebtedness, and provisions pertaining to the issuance, sale, funding and redemption of general obligation bonds and remedies for nonpayment thereof are governed and controlled by the general law as contained in, but not limited to chapters 35.37, 39.40, 39.46, 39.52, 39.56, and 43.80 RCW, and are hereby recognized as applicable to code cities.
[ 1984 c 186 § 24; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.40.010.]
NOTES:
Purpose—1984 c 186: See note following RCW 39.46.110.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.40 - Fiscal Provisions Applicable to Code Cities. › 35A.40.020 - Payment of claims and obligations by warrant or check.

RCW 35A.40.020
Payment of claims and obligations by warrant or check.
A code city, by ordinance, may adopt a policy for the payment of claims or other obligations of the city, which are payable out of solvent funds, electing either to pay such obligations by warrant, or to pay such obligations by check: PROVIDED, That no check shall be issued when the applicable fund is not solvent at the time payment is ordered, but a warrant shall be issued therefor. When checks are to be used, the legislative body shall designate the qualified public depositary whereon such checks are to be drawn, and the officers authorized or required to sign such checks. Wherever in this title, reference is made to warrants, such term shall include checks where authorized by this section.
[ 1984 c 177 § 5; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.40.020.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.40 - Fiscal Provisions Applicable to Code Cities. › 35A.40.030 - Fiscal—Depositaries.

RCW 35A.40.030
Fiscal—Depositaries.
The legislative body of a code city, at the end of each fiscal year, or at such other times as the legislative body may direct, shall designate one or more financial institutions which are qualified public depositaries as set forth by the public deposit protection commission as depositary or depositaries of the moneys required to be kept by the code city treasurer or other officer performing the duties commonly performed by the treasurer of a code city: PROVIDED, That where any bank has been designated as a depositary hereunder such designation shall continue in force until revoked by a majority vote of the legislative body of such code city. The provisions relating to depositaries, contained in chapter 39.58 RCW, as now or hereafter amended, are hereby recognized as applicable to code cities and to the depositaries designated by them.
[ 1984 c 177 § 6; 1973 c 126 § 4; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.40.030.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.40 - Fiscal Provisions Applicable to Code Cities. › 35A.40.050 - Fiscal—Investment of funds.

RCW 35A.40.050
Fiscal—Investment of funds.
Excess and inactive funds on hand in the treasury of any code city may be invested in the same manner and subject to the same limitations as provided for city and town funds in all applicable statutes, including, but not limited to the following: RCW 35.39.030, 35.58.510, 35.81.070, 35.82.070, 36.29.020, 39.58.020, 39.58.080, 39.58.130, 39.60.010, 39.60.020, 41.16.040, 68.52.060, and 68.52.065.
The responsibility for determining the amount of money available in each fund for investment purposes shall be placed upon the department, division, or board responsible for the administration of such fund.
Moneys thus determined available for this purpose may be invested on an individual fund basis or may, unless otherwise restricted by law be commingled within one common investment portfolio for the mutual benefit of all participating funds: PROVIDED, That if such moneys are commingled in a common investment portfolio, all income derived therefrom shall be apportioned among the various participating funds or the general or current expense fund as the governing body of the code city determines by ordinance or resolution.
Any excess or inactive funds on hand in the city treasury not otherwise invested for the specific benefit of any particular fund, may be invested by the city treasurer in United States government bonds, notes, bills or certificates of indebtedness for the benefit of the general or current expense fund.
[ 2015 1st sp.s. c 4 § 28; 2007 c 64 § 1; 1987 c 331 § 77; 1983 c 66 § 2; 1983 c 3 § 64; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.40.050.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1987 c 331: See RCW 68.05.900.
Severability—1983 c 66: See note following RCW 39.58.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.40 - Fiscal Provisions Applicable to Code Cities. › 35A.40.060 - Fiscal—Validation and funding of debts.

RCW 35A.40.060
Fiscal—Validation and funding of debts.
The provisions of general law contained in chapters 35.40 and 39.90 RCW, relating to the validation and funding of debts and elections pertaining thereto is hereby recognized as applicable to code cities.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.40.060.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.40 - Fiscal Provisions Applicable to Code Cities. › 35A.40.070 - Fiscal—Municipal Revenue Bond Act.

RCW 35A.40.070
Fiscal—Municipal Revenue Bond Act.
All provisions of chapter 35.41 RCW, the Municipal Revenue Bond Act, shall be applicable and/or available to code cities.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.40.070.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.40 - Fiscal Provisions Applicable to Code Cities. › 35A.40.080 - Bonds—Form, terms, and maturity.

RCW 35A.40.080
Bonds—Form, terms, and maturity.
In addition to any other authority granted by law, a code city shall have authority to ratify and fund indebtedness as provided by chapter 35.40 RCW; to issue revenue bonds, coupons and warrants as authorized by chapter 35.41 RCW; to authorize and issue local improvement bonds and warrants, installment notes and interest certificates as authorized by chapter 35.45 RCW; to fund indebtedness and to issue other bonds as authorized by chapters 39.44, 39.48, 39.52 RCW, RCW 39.56.020, and 39.56.030 in accordance with the procedures and subject to the limitations therein provided.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.40.080.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.40 - Fiscal Provisions Applicable to Code Cities. › 35A.40.090 - Indebtedness.

RCW 35A.40.090
Indebtedness.
The provisions of general law contained in chapter 39.36 RCW relating to municipal indebtedness shall be applicable to code cities.
[ 2001 c 200 § 2; 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 29; 1970 ex.s. c 42 § 16; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.40.090. Cf. 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 141.]
NOTES:
Severability—Effective dates and termination dates—Construction—1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043.
Severability—Effective date—1970 ex.s. c 42: See notes following RCW 39.36.015.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.40 - Fiscal Provisions Applicable to Code Cities. › 35A.40.100 - Bankruptcy, readjustment and relief from debts.

RCW 35A.40.100
Bankruptcy, readjustment and relief from debts.
A code city may exercise the powers and obtain the benefits relating to bankruptcy, readjustment and relief from debts as authorized by chapter 39.64 RCW in accordance with the procedures therein prescribed.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.40.100.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.40 - Fiscal Provisions Applicable to Code Cities. › 35A.40.110 - Employee checks, drafts, warrants—City may cash.

RCW 35A.40.110
Employee checks, drafts, warrants—City may cash.
Any code city is hereby authorized, at its option and after the adoption of the appropriate ordinance, to accept in exchange for cash a payroll check, draft, or warrant; expense check, draft, or warrant; or personal check from a city employee in accordance with the following conditions:
(1) The check, warrant, or draft must be drawn to the order of cash or bearer and be immediately payable by a drawee financial institution;
(2) The person presenting the check, draft, or warrant to the city must produce identification as outlined by the city in the authorizing ordinance;
(3) The payroll check, draft, or warrant or expense check, draft, or warrant must have been issued by the city; and
(4) Personal checks cashed pursuant to this authorization cannot exceed two hundred dollars.
In the event that any personal check cashed for a city employee by the city under this section is dishonored by the drawee financial institution when presented for payment, the city is authorized, after notice to the drawer or endorser of the dishonor, to withhold from the drawer's or endorser's next payroll check, draft, or warrant the full amount of the dishonored check.
[ 1991 c 185 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.40 - Fiscal Provisions Applicable to Code Cities. › 35A.40.200 - General law relating to public works and contracts.

RCW 35A.40.200
General law relating to public works and contracts.
Every code city shall have the authority to make public improvements and to perform public works under authority provided by general law for any class of city and to make contracts in accordance with procedure and subject to the conditions provided therefor, including but not limited to the provisions of: (1) Chapter 39.04 RCW, relating to public works; (2) RCW 35.23.352 relating to competitive bidding for public works, materials and supplies; (3) RCW 9.18.120 and 9.18.150 relating to suppression of competitive bidding; (4) chapter 60.28 RCW relating to liens for materials and labor performed; (5) chapter 39.08 RCW relating to contractor's bonds; (6) chapters 39.12 and 43.03 RCW relating to prevailing wages; (7) chapter 49.12 RCW relating to hours of labor; (8) chapter 51.12 RCW relating to workers' compensation; (9) chapter 49.60 RCW relating to antidiscrimination in employment; (10) chapter 39.24 RCW relating to the use of Washington commodities; and (11) chapter 39.28 RCW relating to emergency public works.
[ 1995 c 164 § 2; 1987 c 185 § 4; 1983 c 3 § 65; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.40.200.]
NOTES:
Intent—Severability—1987 c 185: See notes following RCW 51.12.130.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.40 - Fiscal Provisions Applicable to Code Cities. › 35A.40.210 - Public work or improvement—Procedures—Purchases.

RCW 35A.40.210
Public work or improvement—Procedures—Purchases.
Procedures for any public work or improvement for code cities shall be governed by RCW 35.23.352.
Purchases for code cities with twenty thousand population or more shall be governed by RCW 35.22.620. Purchases for code cities with under twenty thousand population shall be governed by RCW 35.23.352.
[ 2009 c 229 § 5; 1989 c 11 § 8; 1979 ex.s. c 89 § 3.]
NOTES:
Severability—1989 c 11: See note following RCW 9A.56.220.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.41 - Public Employment. › 35A.41.010 - Retirement and pension systems for code cities having a population of more than twenty thousand.

RCW 35A.41.010
Retirement and pension systems for code cities having a population of more than twenty thousand.
A code city having a population of more than twenty thousand inhabitants, or having been classed theretofore as a city of the first class may exercise all of the powers relating to retirement and pension systems for employees as authorized by RCW 35A.11.020 and by chapter 41.28 RCW in accordance with the procedures prescribed therein and subject to the limitations and penalties thereof.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.41.010.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.41 - Public Employment. › 35A.41.020 - Public employment and civil service.

RCW 35A.41.020
Public employment and civil service.
Except as otherwise provided in this title, the general provisions relating to public employment, including hospitalization and medical aid as provided in chapter 41.04 RCW, and the application of federal social security for public employees, the acceptance of old age and survivors insurance as provided in chapters 41.47 and 41.48 RCW, military leave as provided in RCW 38.40.060, self-insurance as provided in chapter 48.62 RCW, the application of industrial insurance as provided in Title 51 RCW, and chapter 43.101 RCW relating to training of law enforcement officers, shall apply to code cities. Any code city may retain any civil service system theretofore in effect in such city and may adopt any system of civil service which would be available to any class of city under general law.
[ 1991 sp.s. c 30 § 20; 1983 c 3 § 66; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.41.020.]
NOTES:
Effective date, implementation, application—1991 sp.s. c 30: See RCW 48.62.900.
Political activities of public employees: RCW 41.06.250.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.42 - Public Officers and Agencies, Meetings, Duties and Powers. › 35A.42.010 - City treasurer—Miscellaneous authority and duties.

RCW 35A.42.010
City treasurer—Miscellaneous authority and duties.
In addition to authority granted and duties imposed upon code city treasurers by this title, code city treasurers, or the officers designated by charter or ordinance to perform the duties of a treasurer, shall have the duties and the authority to perform the following: (1) As provided in RCW 8.12.500 relating to bonds and compensation payments in eminent domain proceedings; (2) as provided in RCW 68.52.050 relating to cemetery improvement funds; (3) as provided in RCW 41.28.080 relating to custody of employees' retirement funds; (4) as provided in RCW 47.08.100 relating to the use of city street funds; (5) as provided in RCW 46.68.080 relating to motor vehicle funds; (6) as provided in RCW 41.16.020 and chapter 41.20 RCW relating to police and firefighters' relief and pension boards; (7) as provided in chapter 42.20 RCW relating to misappropriation of funds; and (8) as provided in chapter 39.60 RCW relating to investment of municipal funds. The treasurer shall be subject to the penalties imposed for the violation of any of such provisions. Where a provision of this title, or the general law, names the city treasurer as an officer of a board or other body, or assigns duties to a city treasurer, such position shall be filled, or such duties performed, by the officer of a code city who is performing the duties usually performed by a city treasurer, although he or she may not have that designation.
[ 2009 c 549 § 3039; 1987 c 331 § 78; 1984 c 258 § 320; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.42.010.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1987 c 331: See RCW 68.05.900.
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.42 - Public Officers and Agencies, Meetings, Duties and Powers. › 35A.42.020 - Qualification, removal, code of ethics, duties.

RCW 35A.42.020
Qualification, removal, code of ethics, duties.
Except as otherwise provided in this title, every elective and appointive officer and all employees of code cities shall: (1) Be possessed of the qualifications and be subject to forfeiture of office, impeachment or removal and recall as provided in chapter 42.04 RCW and *RCW 9.81.040; and (2) provide official bonds in accordance with the requirements of this title, and as required in compliance with chapters 42.08 and 48.28 RCW.
When vacancies in public offices in code cities shall occur the term of a replacement officer shall be fixed as provided in chapter 42.12 RCW. A public officer charged with misconduct as defined in chapter 42.20 RCW, shall be charged and, upon conviction, punished as provided for such misconduct in chapter 42.20 RCW. The officers and employees of code cities shall be guided and governed by the code of ethics as provided in chapter 42.23 RCW. Vouchers for the payment of public funds and the provisions for certifying the same shall be as provided in chapter 42.24 RCW. The meetings of any board, agency, or commission of a code city shall be open to the public to the extent and notice given in the manner required by **chapter 42.32 RCW.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.42.020.]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: *(1) RCW 9.81.040 was repealed by 2023 c 102 § 11.
**(2) RCW 42.32.010 and 42.32.020 were repealed by 1971 ex.s. c 250 § 15; later enactment, see chapter 42.30 RCW. RCW 42.32.030 was recodified as RCW 42.30.035 pursuant to 2017 3rd sp.s. c 25 § 30.
Recall of elective officers: State Constitution Art. 1 §§ 33, 34 (Amendment 8); chapter 29A.56 RCW.
Residence qualifications of officials and employees: RCW 35.21.200.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code › Chapter 35A.42 - Public Officers and Agencies, Meetings, Duties and Powers. › 35A.42.030 - Continuity of government—Enemy attack.

RCW 35A.42.030
Continuity of government—Enemy attack.
In the event that the mayor, manager or other chief executive officer of any code city is unavailable by reason of enemy attack to exercise the powers and to discharge the duties of his or her office, his or her successor or substitute shall be selected in the manner provided by RCW 42.14.050 subject to rules and regulations providing for the appointment of temporary interim successors adopted under RCW 42.14.070.
[ 2009 c 549 § 3040; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.42.030.]