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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.250 - Other local public passenger transportation service prohibited—Agreements—Purchase—Condemnation.

RCW 35.58.250
Other local public passenger transportation service prohibited—Agreements—Purchase—Condemnation.
Except in accordance with an agreement made as provided herein, upon the effective date on which the metropolitan municipal corporation commences to perform the metropolitan transportation function, no person or private corporation shall operate a local public passenger transportation service within the metropolitan area with the exception of taxis, buses owned or operated by a school district or private school, and buses owned or operated by any corporation or organization solely for the purposes of the corporation or organization and for the use of which no fee or fare is charged.
An agreement may be entered into between the metropolitan municipal corporation and any person or corporation legally operating a local public passenger transportation service wholly within or partly within and partly without the metropolitan area and on said effective date under which such person or corporation may continue to operate such service or any part thereof for such time and upon such terms and conditions as provided in such agreement. Where any such local public passenger transportation service will be required to cease to operate within the metropolitan area, the commission may agree with the owner of such service to purchase the assets used in providing such service, or if no agreement can be reached, the commission shall condemn such assets in the manner provided herein for the condemnation of other properties.
Wherever a privately owned public carrier operates wholly or partly within a metropolitan municipal corporation, the Washington utilities and transportation commission shall continue to exercise jurisdiction over such operation as provided by law.
[ 1965 c 7 § 35.58.250. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 25.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.260 - Transportation function—Acquisition of city system.

RCW 35.58.260
Transportation function—Acquisition of city system.
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be authorized to perform the metropolitan transportation function, it shall, upon the effective date of the assumption of such power, have and exercise all rights with respect to the construction, acquisition, maintenance, operation, extension, alteration, repair, control and management of passenger transportation which any component city shall have been previously empowered to exercise and, except as provided in RCW 35.21.925 and 36.73.180, such powers shall not thereafter be exercised by such component cities without the consent of the metropolitan municipal corporation: PROVIDED, That any city owning and operating a public transportation system on such effective date may continue to operate such system within such city until such system shall have been acquired by the metropolitan municipal corporation and a metropolitan municipal corporation may not acquire such system without the consent of the city council of such city.
[ 2010 c 251 § 7; 1965 c 7 § 35.58.260. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 26.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.262 - Transportation function—Fuel purchasing strategies—Reports.

RCW 35.58.262
Transportation function—Fuel purchasing strategies—Reports.
(1) In performing the metropolitan transportation function, metropolitan municipal corporations and counties that have assumed the rights, powers, functions, and obligations of metropolitan municipal corporations under chapter 36.56 RCW may explore and implement strategies designed to reduce the overall cost of fuel and mitigate the impact of market fluctuations and pressure on both short-term and long-term fuel costs. These strategies may include, but are not limited to, futures contracts, hedging, swap transactions, option contracts, costless collars, and long-term storage.
(2) Metropolitan municipal corporations and counties that have assumed the rights, powers, functions, and obligations of metropolitan municipal corporations under chapter 36.56 RCW that choose to implement the strategies authorized in this section must submit periodic reports to the transportation committees of the legislature on the status of any such implemented strategies. Each report must include a description of each contract established to mitigate fuel costs, the amounts of fuel covered by the contracts, the cost mitigation results, and any related recommendations. The first report must be submitted within one year of implementation.
[ 2008 c 126 § 2.]
NOTES:
Finding—Intent—2008 c 126: "The legislature finds and declares that units of state and local government purchasing large amounts of fuel in the regular course of performing their function should have substantial flexibility in acquiring fuel to obtain predictability and control of fuel costs, and to maximize the use of renewable fuels. The legislature hereby declares its intent to allow certain units of government that regularly purchase large amounts of fuel to explore and implement strategies that are designed to reduce the overall cost of fuel and mitigate the impact of market fluctuations and pressure on both short-term and long-term fuel costs." [ 2008 c 126 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.263 - Transportation function—Fuel purchasing strategies—Liability immunity.

RCW 35.58.263
Transportation function—Fuel purchasing strategies—Liability immunity.
If metropolitan municipal corporations and counties that have assumed the rights, powers, functions, and obligations of metropolitan municipal corporations under chapter 36.56 RCW choose to implement the strategies authorized in RCW 35.58.262, the state is not liable for any financial losses that may be incurred as the result of participating in such strategies.
[ 2008 c 126 § 3.]
NOTES:
Finding—Intent—2008 c 126: See note following RCW 35.58.262.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.265 - Acquisition of existing transportation system—Assumption of labor contracts—Transfer of employees—Preservation of employee benefits—Collective bargaining.

RCW 35.58.265
Acquisition of existing transportation system—Assumption of labor contracts—Transfer of employees—Preservation of employee benefits—Collective bargaining.
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall perform the metropolitan transportation function and shall acquire any existing transportation system, it shall assume and observe all existing labor contracts relating to such system and, to the extent necessary for operation of facilities, all of the employees of such acquired transportation system whose duties are necessary to operate efficiently the facilities acquired shall be appointed to comparable positions to those which they held at the time of such transfer, and no employee or retired or pensioned employee of such systems shall be placed in any worse position with respect to pension seniority, wages, sick leave, vacation or other benefits that he or she enjoyed as an employee of such system prior to such acquisition. The metropolitan municipal corporation shall engage in collective bargaining with the duly appointed representatives of any employee labor organization having existing contracts with the acquired transportation system and may enter into labor contracts with such employee labor organization.
[ 2009 c 549 § 2105; 1965 c 91 § 1.]
NOTES:
Retention of employees, preservation of pension rights and other benefits upon acquisition of metropolitan facility: RCW 35.58.380 through 35.58.400.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.268 - Public transportation employees—Payroll deduction for political action committees.

RCW 35.58.268
Public transportation employees—Payroll deduction for political action committees.
Any public official authorized to disburse funds in payment of salaries and wages of public transportation employees may, upon written request of the employee, deduct from the salary or wages of the employee, contributions for payment of voluntary deductions for political action committees sponsored by labor or employee organizations with public transportation employees as members. For the purposes of this section, "public transportation employees" means employees of a public transportation system specified in RCW 35.58.272 who are covered by a collective bargaining agreement.
[ 1985 c 204 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.2712 - Public transportation feasibility study—Advanced financial support payments.

RCW 35.58.2712
Public transportation feasibility study—Advanced financial support payments.
Any municipality, as defined in RCW 35.95.020, may be eligible to receive a one-time advanced financial support payment to perform a feasibility study to determine the need for public transportation to serve its residents. This payment shall be governed by the following conditions:
(1) The payment shall precede any advanced financial support payment to develop a plan pursuant to RCW 36.57A.150;
(2) The amount of such payment shall be commensurate with the number of residents in and the size of the land area of such municipality and the number and size of school districts in such municipality and shall not exceed one hundred ten thousand dollars; and
(3) Repayment of an advanced financial support payment shall be made to the general fund by the municipality within two years after the date such advanced payment was received. The study shall be completed within one year after the date such advanced payment was received. The study and its recommendations shall then be presented to the legislative authority of the municipality. Within six months of its receipt of the study and its recommendations, the legislative authority shall pass a resolution adopting or rejecting all or part of the study. A copy of the resolution shall be transmitted to the state agency administering this section. Such repayment shall be waived within two years of the date such advanced payment was received if the legislative authority or the voters in such municipality do not elect to levy and collect taxes to support public transportation in their area. Such repayment shall not be waived in the event any of the provisions of this subsection are not followed;
(4) The feasibility study shall give consideration to consolidating or coordinating all or any portion of the K-12 pupil transportation system within the proposed boundaries of the municipality. Any school district lying wholly or in part within the proposed boundaries shall fully cooperate in the study unless the school board shall pass a resolution to the contrary setting forth the reasons therefor. A copy of the resolution shall be forwarded to the secretary of the department of transportation for inclusion in the municipality's application file.
The department of transportation shall provide technical assistance in the preparation of feasibility studies, and shall adopt reasonable rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this section.
[ 1979 c 59 § 1; 1977 ex.s. c 44 § 6.]
NOTES:
Severability—Effective date—1977 ex.s. c 44: See notes following RCW 36.57A.030.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.2721 - Public transportation systems—Authority of municipalities to acquire, operate, etc.—Indebtedness—Bond issues.

RCW 35.58.2721
Public transportation systems—Authority of municipalities to acquire, operate, etc.—Indebtedness—Bond issues.
(1) In addition to any other authority now provided by law, and subject only to constitutional limitations, the governing body of any municipality shall be authorized to acquire, construct, operate, and maintain a public transportation system and additions and betterments thereto, and to issue general obligation bonds for public mass transportation capital purposes including but not limited to replacement of equipment: PROVIDED, That the general indebtedness incurred under this section when considered together with all the other outstanding general indebtedness of the municipality shall not exceed the amounts of indebtedness authorized by chapter 39.36 RCW and chapter 35.58 RCW, as now or hereafter amended, to be incurred without and with the assent of the voters. Such bonds may be in any form, including bearer bonds or registered bonds as provided in RCW 39.46.030.
Any municipality is authorized to pledge for the payment or security of the principal of and interest on any bonds issued for authorized public transportation purposes all or any portion of any taxes authorized to be levied by the issuer, including, but not limited to, the local sales and use tax authorized pursuant to RCW 82.14.045, as now or hereafter amended. No motor vehicle excise taxes under *RCW 35.58.273 may be pledged for bonds.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, such bonds may be issued and sold in accordance with chapter 39.46 RCW.
[ 1990 c 42 § 315; 1983 c 167 § 46; 1979 ex.s. c 175 § 1; 1975 1st ex.s. c 270 § 7.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 35.58.273 was repealed by 2002 c 6 § 2.
Purpose—Effective dates—Application—Implementation—1990 c 42: See notes following RCW 46.68.090.
Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.
Severability—Effective date—1975 1st ex.s. c 270: See notes following RCW 35.58.272.
Financing of public transportation systems in municipalities: Chapter 35.95 RCW and RCW 82.14.045.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.2794 - Public transportation systems—Research, testing, development, etc., of systems—Powers to comply with federal laws.

RCW 35.58.2794
Public transportation systems—Research, testing, development, etc., of systems—Powers to comply with federal laws.
Any city, county, public transportation benefit area authority, county transportation authority, or metropolitan municipal corporation operating a public transportation system shall be authorized to conduct, contract for, participate in and support research, demonstration, testing and development of public transportation systems, equipment and use incentives and shall have all powers necessary to comply with any criteria, standards, and regulations which may be adopted under the urban mass transportation act (78 Stat. 302 et seq., 49 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) and to take all actions necessary to meet the requirements of that act. Any county in which a county transportation authority or public transportation benefit area shall have been established and any metropolitan municipal corporation which shall have been authorized to perform the function of metropolitan public transportation shall have, in addition to such powers, the authority to prepare, adopt and carry out a comprehensive transit plan and to make such other plans and studies and to perform such programs as the governing body of the county authority public transportation benefit area authority or metropolitan municipal corporation shall deem necessary to implement and comply with said federal act.
[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 270 § 8.]
NOTES:
Severability—Effective date—1975 1st ex.s. c 270: See notes following RCW 35.58.272.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.2795 - Public transportation systems—Six-year transit plans.

RCW 35.58.2795
Public transportation systems—Six-year transit plans.
By September 1st of each year, the legislative authority of each municipality, as defined in RCW 35.58.272, and each regional transit authority shall prepare a six-year transit development plan for that calendar year and the ensuing five years. The program shall be consistent with the comprehensive plans adopted by counties, cities, and towns, pursuant to chapter 35.63, 35A.63, or 36.70 RCW, the inherent authority of a first-class city or charter county derived from its charter, or chapter 36.70A RCW. The program shall contain information as to how the municipality intends to meet state and local long-range priorities for public transportation, capital improvements, significant operating changes planned for the system, and how the municipality intends to fund program needs. The six-year plan for each municipality and regional transit authority shall specifically set forth those projects of regional significance for inclusion in the transportation improvement program within that region. Each municipality and regional transit authority shall file the six-year program with the state department of transportation, the transportation improvement board, and cities, counties, and regional planning councils within which the municipality is located.
In developing its program, the municipality and the regional transit authority shall consider those policy recommendations affecting public transportation contained in the state transportation policy plan approved by the state transportation commission and, where appropriate, adopted by the legislature. The municipality shall conduct one or more public hearings while developing its program and for each annual update.
[ 2011 c 371 § 1; 1994 c 158 § 6; 1990 1st ex.s. c 17 § 60; 1989 c 396 § 1.]
NOTES:
Captions not law—Severability—Effective date—1994 c 158: See RCW 47.80.902 through 47.80.904.
Severability—Part, section headings not law—1990 1st ex.s. c 17: See RCW 36.70A.900 and 36.70A.901.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.280 - Powers relative to garbage disposal.

RCW 35.58.280
Powers relative to garbage disposal.
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be authorized to perform the function of metropolitan garbage disposal, it shall have the following powers in addition to the general powers granted by this chapter:
(1) To prepare a comprehensive garbage disposal plan for the metropolitan area.
(2) To acquire by purchase, condemnation, gift, or grant and to lease, construct, add to, improve, replace, repair, maintain, operate and regulate the use of metropolitan facilities for garbage disposal within or without the metropolitan area, including garbage disposal sites, central collection station sites, structures, machinery and equipment for the operation of central collection stations and for the hauling and disposal of garbage by any means, together with all lands, property, equipment and accessories necessary for such facilities. Garbage disposal facilities which are owned by a city or county may be acquired or used by the metropolitan municipal corporation only with the consent of the legislative body of the city or county owning such facilities. Cities and counties are hereby authorized to convey or lease such facilities to metropolitan municipal corporations or to contract for their joint use on such terms as may be fixed by agreement between the legislative body of such city or county and the metropolitan council, without submitting the matter to the voters of such city or county.
(3) To fix rates and charges for the use of metropolitan garbage disposal facilities.
(4) With the consent of any component city, to acquire by purchase, condemnation, gift or grant and to lease, construct, add to, improve, replace, repair, maintain, operate and regulate the use of facilities for the local collection of garbage within such city, and for such purpose to have all the powers conferred by law upon such city with respect to such local collection facilities. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the local collection of garbage except in component cities. All costs of such local collection facilities shall be paid for by the area served thereby.
[ 1965 c 7 § 35.58.280. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 28.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.290 - Powers relative to parks and parkways.

RCW 35.58.290
Powers relative to parks and parkways.
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be authorized to perform the function of metropolitan parks and parkways, it shall have the following powers in addition to the general powers granted by this chapter:
(1) To prepare a comprehensive plan of metropolitan parks and parkways.
(2) To acquire by purchase, condemnation, gift or grant, to lease, construct, add to, improve, develop, replace, repair, maintain, operate and regulate the use of metropolitan parks and parkways, together with all lands, rights-of-way, property, equipment and accessories necessary therefor. A park or parkway shall be considered to be a metropolitan facility if the metropolitan council shall by resolution find it to be of use and benefit to all or a major portion of the residents of the metropolitan area. Parks or parkways which are owned by a component city or county may be acquired or used by the metropolitan municipal corporation only with the consent of the legislative body of such city or county. Cities and counties are hereby authorized to convey or lease such facilities to metropolitan municipal corporations or to contract for their joint use on such terms as may be fixed by agreement between the legislative bodies of such city or county and the metropolitan council, without submitting the matter to the voters of such city or county. If parks or parkways which have been acquired or used as metropolitan facilities shall no longer be used for park purposes by the metropolitan municipal corporation, such facilities shall revert to the component city or county which formerly owned them.
(3) To fix fees and charges for the use of metropolitan park and parkway facilities.
[ 1965 c 7 § 35.58.290. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 29.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.300 - Metropolitan park board.

RCW 35.58.300
Metropolitan park board.
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be authorized to perform the function of metropolitan parks and parkways, a metropolitan park board shall be formed prior to the effective date of the assumption of such function. Except as provided in this section, the metropolitan park board shall exercise all powers of the metropolitan municipal corporation with respect to metropolitan park and parkway facilities.
The metropolitan park board shall authorize expenditures for park and parkway purposes within the budget adopted by the metropolitan council. Bonds of the metropolitan municipal corporation for park and parkway purposes shall be issued by the metropolitan council as provided in this chapter.
The metropolitan park board shall consist of five members appointed by the metropolitan council at least two of whom shall be residents of the central city. The terms of first appointees shall be for one, two, three, four and five years, respectively. Thereafter members shall serve for a term of four years. Compensation of park board members shall be determined by the metropolitan council.
The requirement to create a metropolitan park board shall not apply to a county that has assumed the rights, powers, functions, and obligations of the metropolitan municipal corporation under chapter 36.56 RCW.
[ 1993 c 240 § 7; 1965 c 7 § 35.58.300. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 30.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.310 - Powers relative to planning.

RCW 35.58.310
Powers relative to planning.
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be authorized to perform the function of metropolitan comprehensive planning, it shall have the following powers in addition to the general powers granted by this chapter:
(1) To prepare a recommended comprehensive land use and capital facilities plan for the metropolitan area.
(2) To review proposed zoning ordinances and resolutions or comprehensive plans of component cities and counties and make recommendations thereon. Such proposed zoning ordinances and resolutions or comprehensive plans must be submitted to the metropolitan council prior to adoption and may not be adopted until reviewed and returned by the metropolitan council. The metropolitan council shall cause such ordinances, resolutions and plans to be reviewed by the planning staff of the metropolitan municipal corporation and return such ordinances, resolutions and plans, together with their findings and recommendations thereon within sixty days following their submission.
(3) To provide planning services for component cities and counties upon request and upon payment therefor by the cities or counties receiving such service.
[ 1965 c 7 § 35.58.310. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 31.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.320 - Eminent domain.

RCW 35.58.320
Eminent domain.
A metropolitan municipal corporation shall have power to acquire by purchase and condemnation all lands and property rights, both within and without the metropolitan area, which are necessary for its purposes. Such right of eminent domain shall be exercised by the metropolitan council in the same manner and by the same procedure as is or may be provided by law for cities, except insofar as such laws may be inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1993 c 240 § 8; 1965 c 7 § 35.58.320. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 32.]
NOTES:
Eminent domain by cities: Chapter 8.12 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.330 - Powers may be exercised with relation to public rights-of-way without franchise—Conditions.

RCW 35.58.330
Powers may be exercised with relation to public rights-of-way without franchise—Conditions.
A metropolitan municipal corporation shall have power to construct or maintain metropolitan facilities in, along, on, under, over, or through public streets, bridges, viaducts, and other public rights-of-way without first obtaining a franchise from the county or city having jurisdiction over the same: PROVIDED, That such facilities shall be constructed and maintained in accordance with the ordinances and resolutions of such city or county relating to construction, installation and maintenance of similar facilities in such public properties.
[ 1965 c 7 § 35.58.330. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 33.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.340 - Disposition of unneeded property.

RCW 35.58.340
Disposition of unneeded property.
Except as otherwise provided herein, a metropolitan municipal corporation may sell, or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property acquired in connection with any authorized metropolitan function and which is no longer required for the purposes of the metropolitan municipal corporation in the same manner as provided for cities. When the metropolitan council determines that a metropolitan facility or any part thereof which has been acquired from a component city or county without compensation is no longer required for metropolitan purposes, but is required as a local facility by the city or county from which it was acquired, the metropolitan council shall by resolution transfer it to such city or county.
[ 1993 c 240 § 9; 1965 c 7 § 35.58.340. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 34.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.350 - Powers and functions of metropolitan municipal corporation—Where vested—Powers of metropolitan council.

RCW 35.58.350
Powers and functions of metropolitan municipal corporation—Where vested—Powers of metropolitan council.
All the powers and functions of a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be vested in the metropolitan council unless expressly vested in specific officers, boards, or commissions by this chapter, or vested in the county legislative authority of a county that has assumed the rights, powers, functions, and obligations of a metropolitan municipal corporation as provided in chapter 36.56 RCW. Without limitation of the foregoing authority, or of other powers given it by this chapter, the metropolitan council shall have the following powers:
(1) To establish offices, departments, boards and commissions in addition to those provided by this chapter which are necessary to carry out the purposes of the metropolitan municipal corporation, and to prescribe the functions, powers and duties thereof.
(2) To appoint or provide for the appointment of, and to remove or to provide for the removal of, all officers and employees of the metropolitan municipal corporation except those whose appointment or removal is otherwise provided by this chapter.
(3) To fix the salaries, wages and other compensation of all officers and employees of the metropolitan municipal corporation unless the same shall be otherwise fixed in this chapter.
(4) To employ such engineering, legal, financial, or other specialized personnel as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of the metropolitan municipal corporation.
[ 1993 c 240 § 10; 1965 c 7 § 35.58.350. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 35.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.360 - Rules and regulations—Penalties—Enforcement.

RCW 35.58.360
Rules and regulations—Penalties—Enforcement.
A metropolitan municipal corporation shall have power to adopt by resolution such rules and regulations as shall be necessary or proper to enable it to carry out authorized metropolitan functions and may provide penalties for the violation thereof. Actions to impose or enforce such penalties may be brought in the superior court of the state of Washington in and for the central county.
[ 1965 c 7 § 35.58.360. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 36.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.370 - Merit system.

RCW 35.58.370
Merit system.
The metropolitan council shall establish and provide for the operation and maintenance of a personnel merit system for the employment, classification, promotion, demotion, suspension, transfer, layoff and discharge of its appointive officers and employees solely on the basis of merit and fitness without regard to political influence or affiliation. The person appointed or body created for the purpose of administering such personnel system shall have power to make, amend and repeal rules and regulations as are deemed necessary for such merit system. Such rules and regulations shall provide:
(1) That the person to be discharged or demoted must be presented with the reasons for such discharge or demotion specifically stated; and
(2) That he or she shall be allowed a reasonable time in which to reply thereto in writing and that he or she be given a hearing thereon within a reasonable time.
[ 2009 c 549 § 2107; 1965 c 7 § 35.58.370. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 37.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.380 - Retention of existing personnel.

RCW 35.58.380
Retention of existing personnel.
A metropolitan municipal corporation shall offer to employ every person who on the date such corporation acquires a metropolitan facility is employed in the operation of such facility by a component city or county or by a special district.
[ 1965 c 7 § 35.58.380. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 38.]
NOTES:
Assumption of labor contracts upon acquisition of transportation system: RCW 35.58.265.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.390 - Prior employees pension rights preserved.

RCW 35.58.390
Prior employees pension rights preserved.
Where a metropolitan municipal corporation employs a person employed immediately prior thereto by a component city or county, or by a special district, such employee shall be deemed to remain an employee of such city, county, or special district for the purposes of any pension plan of such city, county, or special district, and shall continue to be entitled to all rights and benefits thereunder as if he or she had remained as an employee of the city, county, or special district, until the metropolitan municipal corporation has provided a pension plan and such employee has elected, in writing, to participate therein.
Until such election, the metropolitan municipal corporation shall deduct from the remuneration of such employee the amount which such employee is or may be required to pay in accordance with the provisions of the plan of such city, county, or special district and the metropolitan municipal corporation shall pay to the city, county, or special district any amounts required to be paid under the provisions of such plan by employer or employee.
[ 2009 c 549 § 2108; 1965 c 7 § 35.58.390. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 39.]
NOTES:
Preservation of pension rights upon acquisition of transportation system: RCW 35.58.265.
Public employment, civil service and pensions: Title 41 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.400 - Prior employees sick leave and vacation rights preserved.

RCW 35.58.400
Prior employees sick leave and vacation rights preserved.
Where a metropolitan municipal corporation employs a person employed immediately prior thereto by a component city or county or by a special district, the employee shall be deemed to remain an employee of such city, county, or special district for the purposes of any sick leave credit plan of the component city, county, or special district until the metropolitan municipal corporation has established a sick leave credit plan for its employees, whereupon the metropolitan municipal corporation shall place to the credit of the employee the sick leave credits standing to his or her credit in the plan of such city, county, or special district.
Where a metropolitan municipal corporation employs a person theretofore employed by a component city, county, or by a special district, the metropolitan municipal corporation shall, during the first year of his or her employment by the metropolitan municipal corporation, provide for such employee a vacation with pay equivalent to that which he or she would have been entitled if he or she had remained in the employment of the city, county, or special district.
[ 2009 c 549 § 2109; 1965 c 7 § 35.58.400. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 40.]
NOTES:
Preservation of sick leave, vacation, and other benefits upon acquisition of transportation system: RCW 35.58.265.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.420 - Supplemental income payments by component city and county.

RCW 35.58.420
Supplemental income payments by component city and county.
Each component city shall pay such proportion of the supplemental income of the metropolitan municipal corporation as the assessed valuation of property within its limits bears to the total assessed valuation of taxable property within the metropolitan area. Each component county shall pay such proportion of such supplemental income as the assessed valuation of the property within the unincorporated area of such county lying within the metropolitan area bears to the total assessed valuation of taxable property within the metropolitan area. In making such determination, the metropolitan council shall use the last available assessed valuations. The metropolitan council shall certify to each component city and county, prior to the fourth Monday in June of each year, the share of the supplemental income to be paid by such component city or county for the next calendar year. The latter shall then include such amount in its budget for the ensuing calendar year, and during such year shall pay to the metropolitan municipal corporation, in equal quarterly installments, the amount of its supplemental income share from whatever sources may be available to it.
[ 1965 c 7 § 35.58.420. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 42.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.430 - Funds—Disbursements—Treasurer—Expenses—Election expenses.

RCW 35.58.430
Funds—Disbursements—Treasurer—Expenses—Election expenses.
The treasurer of each component county shall create a separate fund into which shall be paid all money collected from taxes levied by the metropolitan municipal corporation on property in such county and such money shall be forwarded quarterly by the treasurer of each such county to the treasurer of the central county as directed by the metropolitan council. The treasurer of the central county shall act as the treasurer of the metropolitan municipal corporation and shall establish and maintain such funds as may be authorized by the metropolitan council. Money shall be disbursed from such funds upon warrants drawn by the auditor of the central county as authorized by the metropolitan council. The central county shall be reimbursed by the metropolitan municipal corporation for services rendered by the treasurer and auditor of the central county in connection with the receipt and disbursement of such funds. The expense of all special elections held pursuant to this chapter shall be paid by the metropolitan municipal corporation.
[ 1965 c 7 § 35.58.430. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 43.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.470 - Funding, refunding bonds.

RCW 35.58.470
Funding, refunding bonds.
The metropolitan council may, by resolution, without submitting the matter to the voters of the metropolitan municipal corporation, provide for the issuance of funding or refunding general obligation bonds to refund any outstanding general obligation bonds or any part thereof at maturity, or before maturity if they are by their terms or by other agreement subject to prior redemption, with the right in the metropolitan council to combine various series and issues of the outstanding bonds by a single issue of funding or refunding bonds, and to issue refunding bonds to pay any redemption premium payable on the outstanding bonds being refunded. The funding or refunding general obligation bonds shall, except as specifically provided in this section, be issued in accordance with the provisions of this chapter with respect to general obligation bonds.
The metropolitan council may, by resolution, without submitting the matter to the voters of the metropolitan municipal corporation, provide for the issuance of funding or refunding revenue bonds to refund any outstanding revenue bonds or any part thereof at maturity, or before maturity if they are by their terms or by agreement subject to prior redemption, with the right in the metropolitan council to combine various series and issues of the outstanding bonds by a single issue of refunding bonds, and to issue refunding bonds to pay any redemption premium payable on the outstanding bonds being refunded. The funding or refunding revenue bonds shall be payable only out of a special fund created out of the gross revenue of the particular utility, and shall be a valid claim only as against such special fund and the amount of the revenue of the utility pledged to the fund. The funding or refunding revenue bonds shall, except as specifically provided in this section, be issued in accordance with the provisions of this chapter with respect to revenue bonds.
The metropolitan council may exchange the funding or refunding bonds at par for the bonds which are being funded or refunded, or it may sell them in such manner, at such price and at such rate or rates of interest as it deems for the best interest of the metropolitan municipal corporation.
[ 1970 ex.s. c 56 § 40; 1969 ex.s. c 232 § 18; 1965 c 7 § 35.58.470. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 47.]
NOTES:
Purpose—1970 ex.s. c 56: See note following RCW 39.52.020.
Validation—Saving—Severability—1969 ex.s. c 232: See notes following RCW 39.52.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.480 - Borrowing money from component city or county.

RCW 35.58.480
Borrowing money from component city or county.
A metropolitan municipal corporation shall have the power when authorized by a majority of all members of the metropolitan council to borrow money from any component city or county and such cities or counties are hereby authorized to make such loans or advances on such terms as may be mutually agreed upon by the legislative bodies of the metropolitan municipal corporation and any such component city or county to provide funds to carry out the purposes of the metropolitan municipal corporation.
[ 1965 c 7 § 35.58.480. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 48.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.490 - Interest bearing warrants.

RCW 35.58.490
Interest bearing warrants.
A metropolitan council shall have the power to authorize the issuance of interest bearing warrants on such terms and conditions as the metropolitan council shall provide and to repay the interest bearing warrants with any moneys legally authorized for such purposes, including tax receipts where appropriate.
[ 1993 c 240 § 15; 1965 c 7 § 35.58.490. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 49.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.500 - Local improvement districts—Utility local improvement districts.

RCW 35.58.500
Local improvement districts—Utility local improvement districts.
The metropolitan municipal corporation shall have the power to levy special assessments payable over a period of not exceeding twenty years on all property within the metropolitan area specially benefited by any improvement, on the basis of special benefits conferred, to pay in whole, or in part, the damages or costs of any such improvement, and for such purpose may establish local improvement districts and enlarged local improvement districts, issue local improvement warrants and bonds to be repaid by the collection of local improvement assessments and generally to exercise with respect to any improvements which it may be authorized to construct or acquire the same powers as may now or hereafter be conferred by law upon cities. Such local improvement districts shall be created and such special assessments levied and collected and local improvement warrants and bonds issued and sold in the same manner as shall now or hereafter be provided by law for cities. The duties imposed upon the city treasurer under such acts shall be imposed upon the treasurer of the county in which such local improvement district shall be located.
A metropolitan municipal corporation may provide that special benefit assessments levied in any local improvement district may be paid into such revenue bond redemption fund or funds as may be designated by the metropolitan council to secure the payment of revenue bonds issued to provide funds to pay the cost of improvements for which such assessments were levied. If local improvement district assessments shall be levied for payment into a revenue bond fund, the local improvement district created therefor shall be designated a utility local improvement district. A metropolitan municipal corporation that creates a utility local improvement district shall conform with the laws relating to utility local improvement districts created by a city.
[ 1993 c 240 § 16; 1965 c 7 § 35.58.500. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 50.]
NOTES:
Local improvements, supplemental authority: Chapter 35.51 RCW.
Special assessments or taxation for local improvements: State Constitution Art. 7 § 9.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.510 - Obligations of corporation are legal investments and security for public deposits.

RCW 35.58.510
Obligations of corporation are legal investments and security for public deposits.
All banks, trust companies, bankers, savings banks, and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking or investment business, all insurance companies, insurance associations, and other persons carrying on an insurance business, and all executors, administrators, curators, trustees and other fiduciaries, may legally invest any sinking funds, moneys, or other funds belonging to them or within their control in any bonds or other obligations issued by a metropolitan municipal corporation pursuant to this chapter. Such bonds and other obligations shall be authorized security for all public deposits. It is the purpose of this section to authorize any persons, political subdivisions and officers, public or private, to use any funds owned or controlled by them for the purchase of any such bonds or other obligations. Nothing contained in this section with regard to legal investments shall be construed as relieving any person of any duty of exercising reasonable care in selecting securities.
[ 1965 c 7 § 35.58.510. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 51.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 35 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 35.58 - Metropolitan Municipal Corporations. › 35.58.520 - Investment of corporate funds.

RCW 35.58.520
Investment of corporate funds.
A metropolitan municipal corporation shall have the power to invest its funds held in reserves or sinking funds or any such funds which are not required for immediate disbursement, in any investments in which a city is authorized to invest, as provided in RCW 35.39.030.
[ 1993 c 240 § 17; 1965 c 7 § 35.58.520. Prior: 1957 c 213 § 52.]