Title 36 - Counties
- 36.01 - General provisions.
- 36.01.010 - Corporate powers.
- 36.01.020 - Corporate name.
- 36.01.030 - Powers -- How exercised.
- 36.01.040 - Conveyances for use of county.
- 36.01.050 - Venue of actions by or against counties.
- 36.01.060 - County liable for certain court costs.
- 36.01.070 - Probation and parole services.
- 36.01.080 - Parking facilities -- Construction, operation and rental charges.
- 36.01.085 - Economic development programs.
- 36.01.090 - Tourist promotion.
- 36.01.095 - Emergency medical services -- Authorized -- Fees.
- 36.01.100 - Ambulance service authorized -- Restriction.
- 36.01.104 - Levy for emergency medical care and services.
- 36.01.105 - Fire protection, ambulance or other emergency services provided by municipal corporation within county -- Financial and other assistance authorized.
- 36.01.110 - Federal grants and programs -- Powers and authority of counties to participate in -- Public corporations, commissions or authorities.
- 36.01.115 - Nonpolluting power generation by individual -- Exemption from regulation -- Authorization to contract with utility.
- 36.01.120 - Foreign trade zones -- Legislative finding, intent.
- 36.01.125 - Foreign trade zones -- Authority to apply for permission to establish, operate and maintain.
- 36.01.130 - Controls on rent for residential structures -- Prohibited -- Exceptions.
- 36.01.150 - Facilitating recovery from Mt. St. Helens eruption -- Scope of local government action.
- 36.01.160 - Penalty for act constituting a crime under state law -- Limitation.
- 36.01.170 - Administration of trusts benefiting school districts.
- 36.01.180 - Zoo and aquarium advisory authority -- Constitution -- Terms.
- 36.01.190 - Initial meeting of zoo and aquarium advisory authority -- Expenditure of funds -- Powers.
- 36.01.200 - Federal funds designated for state schools -- Use limited to reduction of outstanding debt obligations of school districts.
- 36.01.210 - Rail fixed guideway system -- Safety program plan and security and emergency preparedness plan.
- 36.01.220 - Mobile home, manufactured home, or park model moving or installing -- Copies of permits -- Definitions.
- 36.01.225 - Authority to regulate placement or use of homes -- Regulation of manufactured homes -- Restrictions on location of manufactured/mobile homes and entry or removal of recreational vehicles u
- 36.01.230 - Cooperative watershed management.
- 36.01.240 - Regulation of financial transactions -- Limitations.
- 36.01.250 - Environmental mitigation activities.
- 36.01.260 - Evergreen community ordinances.
- 36.01.270 - Contractors -- Authority of county to verify registration and report violations.
- 36.01.280 - Community athletics programs -- Sex discrimination prohibited.
- 36.01.290 - Temporary encampments for the homeless -- Hosting by religious organizations authorized -- Prohibitions on local actions.
- 36.01.300 - State and federal background checks of license applicants and licensees of occupations under local licensing authority.
- 36.01.310 - Accessible community advisory committees.
- 36.04 - County boundaries.
- 36.04.010 - Adams county.
- 36.04.020 - Asotin county.
- 36.04.030 - Benton county.
- 36.04.040 - Chelan county.
- 36.04.050 - Clallam county.
- 36.04.060 - Clark county.
- 36.04.070 - Columbia county.
- 36.04.080 - Cowlitz county.
- 36.04.090 - Douglas county.
- 36.04.100 - Ferry county.
- 36.04.110 - Franklin county.
- 36.04.120 - Garfield county.
- 36.04.130 - Grant county.
- 36.04.140 - Grays Harbor county.
- 36.04.150 - Island county.
- 36.04.160 - Jefferson county.
- 36.04.170 - King county.
- 36.04.180 - Kitsap county.
- 36.04.190 - Kittitas county.
- 36.04.200 - Klickitat county.
- 36.04.210 - Lewis county.
- 36.04.220 - Lincoln county.
- 36.04.230 - Mason county.
- 36.04.240 - Okanogan county.
- 36.04.250 - Pacific county.
- 36.04.260 - Pend Oreille county.
- 36.04.270 - Pierce county.
- 36.04.280 - San Juan county.
- 36.04.290 - Skagit county.
- 36.04.300 - Skamania county.
- 36.04.310 - Snohomish county.
- 36.04.320 - Spokane county.
- 36.04.330 - Stevens county.
- 36.04.340 - Thurston county.
- 36.04.350 - Wahkiakum county.
- 36.04.360 - Walla Walla county.
- 36.04.370 - Whatcom county.
- 36.04.380 - Whitman county.
- 36.04.390 - Yakima county.
- 36.04.400 - Survey of county boundaries.
- 36.05 - Actions to establish boundaries.
- 36.05.010 - Suit in equity authorized -- Grounds.
- 36.05.020 - Noninterested judge to sit.
- 36.05.030 - Residents of area may intervene.
- 36.05.040 - Questions of fact to be determined.
- 36.05.050 - Court may establish boundary line.
- 36.05.060 - Practice in civil actions to prevail.
- 36.05.070 - Copies of decree to be filed and recorded.
- 36.05.080 - "Territory" defined.
- 36.08 - Transfer of territory where city's harbor lies in two counties.
- 36.08.010 - Petition and notice of election.
- 36.08.020 - Conduct of election -- Proclamation of change.
- 36.08.030 - Official proceedings not disturbed by transfer.
- 36.08.040 - Local officers to serve out terms.
- 36.08.050 - Transferee county liable for existing debts -- Exception.
- 36.08.060 - Adjustment of indebtedness.
- 36.08.070 - Arbitration of differences.
- 36.08.080 - Expense of proceedings.
- 36.08.090 - Transcript of records by county auditor.
- 36.08.100 - Construction -- Limitations.
- 36.09 - New county -- Liability for debts.
- 36.09.010 - Debts and property to be apportioned.
- 36.09.020 - Procedure to settle amount charged new county -- Basis of apportionment.
- 36.09.035 - Procedure to settle amount charged new county -- Disagreement between auditors -- Determination by third person.
- 36.09.040 - Payment of indebtedness -- Transfer of property.
- 36.09.050 - Collection of taxes levied -- Apportionment.
- 36.100 - Public facilities districts.
- 36.100.010 - Public facilities districts -- Creation -- Approval of taxes by election -- Corporate powers -- Property transfer -- Agreements.
- 36.100.020 - Governance -- Board of directors.
- 36.100.030 - Facilities -- Agreements -- Fees.
- 36.100.035 - Additional powers and restrictions on district that constructs baseball stadium.
- 36.100.036 - Donated moneys for baseball stadium.
- 36.100.037 - Baseball stadium construction agreement.
- 36.100.040 - Lodging tax authorized -- Annual payment amount -- Payment of obligations -- Application of other tax provisions.
- 36.100.042 - Lodging license fee or tax in excess of rate imposed on retail businesses prohibited.
- 36.100.050 - Ad valorem property tax.
- 36.100.060 - General obligation bonds -- Termination, reauthorization of excise tax.
- 36.100.070 - Acquisition and transfer of real and personal property.
- 36.100.080 - Direct or collateral attack barred after thirty days.
- 36.100.090 - Tax deferral -- New public facilities.
- 36.100.100 - Ex officio treasurer.
- 36.100.110 - Travel, expense reimbursement policy -- Required.
- 36.100.120 - Travel, expense reimbursement policy -- Limitations.
- 36.100.130 - Board of directors -- Compensation.
- 36.100.140 - Liability insurance.
- 36.100.150 - Costs of defense.
- 36.100.160 - Expenditure of funds -- Purposes.
- 36.100.170 - Employees -- Benefits.
- 36.100.180 - Service provider agreements -- Competitive solicitation process for personal service contracts of one hundred fifty thousand dollars or more -- Exceptions.
- 36.100.190 - Purchases and sales -- Procedures.
- 36.100.200 - Revenue bonds -- Limitations.
- 36.100.205 - Bonds issued are securities.
- 36.100.210 - Tax on admissions.
- 36.100.220 - Tax on vehicle parking charges.
- 36.100.230 - Transfer of property, assets, and other interests from state convention and trade center public nonprofit to district -- Necessary actions.
- 36.100.240 - Eminent domain authorized.
- 36.100.900 - Severability -- 1988 ex.s. c 1.
- 36.100.905 - Construction -- 2010 1st sp.s. c 15.
- 36.102 - Stadium and exhibition centers.
- 36.102.010 - Definitions.
- 36.102.020 - Public stadium authority -- Creation -- Powers and duties -- Transfer of property.
- 36.102.030 - Public stadium authority -- Board of directors -- Appointment -- Terms -- Vacancy -- Removal.
- 36.102.040 - Public stadium authority advisory committee--Appointment -- Review and comment on proposed lease agreement.
- 36.102.050 - Public stadium authority -- Powers and duties -- Acquisition, construction, ownership, remodeling, maintenance, equipping, reequipping, repairing, and operation of stadium and exhibition
- 36.102.060 - Public stadium authority -- Powers and duties -- Site -- Project scope -- Design and specification -- Use of professional services--Budget -- Financing structure -- Development agreement
- 36.102.070 - Deferral of taxes -- Application by public stadium authority -- Department of revenue approval -- Repayment -- Schedules -- Interest -- Debt for taxes -- Information not confidential.
- 36.102.080 - Naming rights -- Use of revenues.
- 36.102.090 - Donated moneys.
- 36.102.100 - Construction agreements -- Property assembly -- Demolition of existing structures.
- 36.102.110 - Property acquisition and sale.
- 36.102.120 - Public stadium authority board of directors -- Travel and business expenses -- Resolution on payment and procedures -- Operating budget report.
- 36.102.130 - Public stadium authority officers and employees -- Expenses.
- 36.102.140 - Public stadium authority board of directors -- Compensation -- Waiver.
- 36.102.150 - Public stadium authority -- Liability insurance.
- 36.102.160 - Public stadium authority -- Defense of suit, claim, or proceeding against officer or employee -- Costs -- Attorneys' fees -- Obligation -- Exception.
- 36.102.170 - Information preparation and distribution.
- 36.102.180 - Public stadium authority -- Employee positions -- Wages and benefits -- Insurance of employees, board members.
- 36.102.190 - Public stadium authority -- Securing services -- Service provider agreement -- Resolutions setting procedures.
- 36.102.200 - Public stadium authority -- Confidentiality of financial information.
- 36.102.800 - Referendum only measure for taxes for stadium and exhibition center -- Limiting legislation upon failure to approve -- 1997 c 220.
- 36.102.801 - Legislation as opportunity for voter's decision -- Not indication of legislators' personal vote on referendum proposal -- 1997 c 220.
- 36.102.802 - Contingency -- Null and void -- Team affiliate's agreement for reimbursement for election -- 1997 c 220.
- 36.102.803 - Referendum -- Submittal -- Explanatory statement--Voters' pamphlet -- Voting procedures -- Canvassing and certification -- Reimbursement of counties for costs -- No other elections on
- 36.102.900 - Part headings not law -- 1997 c 220.
- 36.102.901 - Severability -- 1997 c 220.
- 36.105 - Community councils for unincorporated areas of island counties.
- 36.105.010 - Purpose.
- 36.105.020 - Definitions.
- 36.105.030 - Minimum requirements.
- 36.105.040 - Creation.
- 36.105.050 - Election of initial community councilmembers.
- 36.105.060 - Community councilmembers -- Election -- Terms.
- 36.105.070 - Responsibility of county legislative authority.
- 36.105.080 - Powers.
- 36.105.090 - Annexation.
- 36.105.100 - Dissolution.
- 36.110 - Jail industries program.
- 36.110.010 - Finding -- Purpose, intent.
- 36.110.020 - Definitions.
- 36.110.030 - Board of directors established -- Membership.
- 36.110.050 - Local advisory groups.
- 36.110.060 - Board of directors -- Duties.
- 36.110.070 - Board of directors may receive funds, establish fee schedule.
- 36.110.080 - Board of directors -- Meetings -- Terms -- Compensation.
- 36.110.085 - Board of directors -- Immunity.
- 36.110.090 - City or county special revenue funds.
- 36.110.100 - Comprehensive work programs.
- 36.110.110 - Deductions from offenders' earnings.
- 36.110.120 - Free venture industries, tax reduction industries -- Employment status of inmates -- Insurance coverage.
- 36.110.130 - Free venture industry agreements -- Effect of failure.
- 36.110.140 - Education and training.
- 36.110.150 - Department of corrections to provide staff assistance.
- 36.110.160 - Technical training assistance.
- 36.110.900 - Severability -- 1993 c 285.
- 36.115 - Service agreements.
- 36.115.010 - Purpose.
- 36.115.020 - Definitions.
- 36.115.030 - Coordination -- Consistency.
- 36.115.040 - Geographic area covered -- Contents -- When effective.
- 36.115.050 - Matters included.
- 36.115.060 - Procedure for establishment -- Counties affected.
- 36.115.070 - Legislative intent.
- 36.115.080 - Duties, requirements, authorities under growth management act not altered.
- 36.12 - Removal of county seats.
- 36.12.010 - Petition for removal -- Financial impact statement.
- 36.12.020 - Requisites of petition -- Submission to electors.
- 36.12.030 - Notice of election -- Election, how held.
- 36.12.040 - Manner of voting.
- 36.12.050 - Vote required -- Notice of result.
- 36.12.060 - Time of removal.
- 36.12.070 - Notice to county clerk and secretary of state.
- 36.12.080 - Failure of election -- Limitation on subsequent removal election.
- 36.12.090 - Limitation on successive removal elections.
- 36.120 - Regional transportation investment districts.
- 36.120.010 - Findings.
- 36.120.020 - Definitions.
- 36.120.030 - Planning committee -- Formation.
- 36.120.040 - Planning committee -- Duties.
- 36.120.045 - Planning committee -- State route No. 520 improvements.
- 36.120.050 - Planning committee -- Taxes, fees, and tolls.
- 36.120.060 - Project selection -- Performance criteria.
- 36.120.070 - Submission of ballot propositions to the voters.
- 36.120.080 - Formation -- Certification.
- 36.120.090 - Governing board -- Composition.
- 36.120.100 - Governing board -- Organization.
- 36.120.110 - Governing board -- Powers and duties -- Intent.
- 36.120.120 - Treasurer.
- 36.120.130 - Indebtedness -- Bonds -- Limitation.
- 36.120.140 - Transportation project or plan modification -- Accountability.
- 36.120.150 - Department of transportation -- Role.
- 36.120.160 - Ownership of improvements.
- 36.120.170 - Dissolution of district.
- 36.120.180 - Findings -- Regional models -- Grants.
- 36.120.190 - Joint ballot measure.
- 36.120.200 - Regional transportation investment district account.
- 36.120.210 - Advisory ballot for Alaskan Way viaduct improvements -- Preferred alternative for Alaskan Way viaduct and Seattle Seawall improvements.
- 36.120.900 - Captions and subheadings not law -- 2002 c 56.
- 36.120.901 - Severability -- 2002 c 56.
- 36.125 - Marine resources committees.
- 36.125.005 - Findings -- Intent.
- 36.125.010 - Counties authorized to establish -- Purpose -- Role.
- 36.125.020 - Administration -- Members -- Petition.
- 36.125.030 - Regional coordinating entities.
- 36.125.040 - Application to committees established under federal law.
- 36.125.050 - Collaborative process for ocean policy development and coastal area management.
- 36.125.060 - Outer coast marine resources committee program -- Annual reports.
- 36.13 - Classification of counties.
- 36.13.020 - County census authorized.
- 36.13.030 - County census authorized -- Personnel -- How conducted.
- 36.13.040 - County census authorized -- Information to be given enumerators.
- 36.13.050 - County census authorized -- Classification to be based on census.
- 36.13.070 - County census authorized -- Penalty.
- 36.13.100 - Determination of population.
- 36.130 - Affordable housing developments.
- 36.135 - Local public works assistance funds.
- 36.140 - Electricity generation from biomass energy.
- 36.145 - Community facilities districts.
- 36.145.005 - Findings.
- 36.145.010 - Definitions.
- 36.145.020 - Formation by petition -- Requirements -- Amendment.
- 36.145.030 - Public hearing on petition -- When held.
- 36.145.040 - Public hearing on petition -- Notice requirements.
- 36.145.050 - Receipt of material evidence--Inclusion and removal of land.
- 36.145.060 - Approval of petition -- Requirements.
- 36.145.070 - Appeals to formation.
- 36.145.080 - Board of supervisors -- Members -- Vacancies.
- 36.145.090 - Powers.
- 36.145.100 - Financing district costs, expenses, and facilities -- Prohibitions.
- 36.145.110 - Special assessments -- Procedures and requirements -- Notice.
- 36.145.120 - Payment of bonds -- Related costs.
- 36.145.130 - Bonds sole obligation of district.
- 36.145.140 - District treasurer -- How appointed, duties and powers.
- 36.145.150 - Individual assessments on district property -- Liens.
- 36.16 - County officers -- General.
- 36.16.010 - Time of election.
- 36.16.020 - Term of county and precinct officers.
- 36.16.030 - Elective county officers enumerated.
- 36.16.032 - Offices of auditor and clerk may be combined in counties with populations of less than five thousand -- Salary.
- 36.16.040 - Oath of office.
- 36.16.050 - Official bonds.
- 36.16.060 - Place of filing oaths and bonds.
- 36.16.070 - Deputies and employees.
- 36.16.087 - Deputies and employees -- County treasurer -- Prior deeds validated.
- 36.16.090 - Office space.
- 36.16.100 - Offices to be open certain days and hours.
- 36.16.110 - Vacancies in office.
- 36.16.115 - Vacancy in partisan elective office -- Appointment of acting official.
- 36.16.120 - Officers must complete business.
- 36.16.125 - Elected officials -- Abandonment of responsibilities -- Declaratory judgment -- Compensation denied during abandonment.
- 36.16.130 - Group false arrest insurance for law enforcement personnel.
- 36.16.136 - Liability insurance for officers and employees.
- 36.16.138 - Liability insurance for officers and employees of municipal corporations and political subdivisions authorized.
- 36.16.139 - Insurance and workers' compensation for offenders performing community restitution.
- 36.16.140 - Public auction sales, where held.
- 36.17 - Salaries of county officers.
- 36.17.010 - Salary full compensation -- Compensation denied, when.
- 36.17.020 - Schedule of salaries.
- 36.17.024 - County commissioner and councilmember salary commissions.
- 36.17.031 - Reimbursement for travel allowances and allowances in lieu of actual expenses.
- 36.17.040 - Payment of salaries of officers and employees.
- 36.17.042 - Weekly or biweekly pay periods.
- 36.17.045 - Deductions for contributions, payments, and dues authorized.
- 36.17.050 - Salary withheld, when authorized.
- 36.17.055 - Salary adjustment for county legislative authority office -- Ratification and validation of preelection action.
- 36.17.900 - Construction -- Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships -- 2009 c 521.
- 36.18 - Fees of county officers.
- 36.18.005 - Definitions.
- 36.18.010 - Auditor's fees.
- 36.18.012 - Various fees collected -- Division with state.
- 36.18.014 - Fees -- Division with county law library -- Petition for emancipation for minors.
- 36.18.016 - Various fees collected -- Not subject to division.
- 36.18.018 - Fees to state court, administrative office of the courts -- Appellate review fee and surcharge -- Variable fee for copies and reports.
- 36.18.020 - Clerk's fees, surcharges.
- 36.18.022 - Filing fees may be waived -- When.
- 36.18.025 - Portion of filing fees to be remitted to state treasurer.
- 36.18.030 - Coroner's fees.
- 36.18.040 - Sheriff's fees.
- 36.18.045 - Treasurer's fees.
- 36.18.050 - Fees in special cases.
- 36.18.060 - Fees payable in advance -- Exception.
- 36.18.070 - Single mileage chargeable when.
- 36.18.080 - Fee schedule to be kept posted.
- 36.18.090 - Itemized receipt to be given.
- 36.18.160 - Penalty for taking illegal fees.
- 36.18.170 - Penalty for failure to pay over fees.
- 36.18.180 - Office to be declared vacant on conviction.
- 36.18.190 - Collection of unpaid financial obligations -- Collection contracts -- Interest to collection agencies authorized.
- 36.21 - County assessor.
- 36.21.011 - Appointment of deputies and assistants -- Engaging expert appraisers -- Employment and classification plans for appraisers.
- 36.21.015 - Qualifications for persons assessing real property -- Examination -- Examination waiver -- Continuing education requirement.
- 36.21.070 - New construction building permits -- Appraisal of building.
- 36.21.080 - New construction building permits -- When property placed on assessment rolls.
- 36.21.090 - Initial placement of mobile home on assessment roll.
- 36.21.100 - Annual report to department of revenue on property tax levies and related matters.
- 36.22 - County auditor.
- 36.22.010 - Duties of auditor.
- 36.22.020 - Publisher of legislative authority proceedings -- Custodian of commissioners' seal.
- 36.22.030 - May administer oaths.
- 36.22.040 - Duty to audit claims against county.
- 36.22.050 - Issuance of warrants -- Multiple warrants.
- 36.22.060 - Record of warrants.
- 36.22.070 - Original claims to be retained.
- 36.22.080 - Claims of auditor.
- 36.22.090 - Warrants of political subdivisions.
- 36.22.100 - Cancellation of unclaimed warrants.
- 36.22.110 - Auditor cannot act as attorney or lobbyist.
- 36.22.120 - Temporary clerk may be appointed.
- 36.22.140 - Auditor or charter county financial officer -- Ex officio deputy state auditor.
- 36.22.150 - Duty of retiring auditor or his or her representative in case of death.
- 36.22.160 - Copying, preserving, and indexing documents.
- 36.22.170 - Surcharge for preservation of historical documents -- Distribution of revenue to county and state treasurer -- Creation of account.
- 36.22.175 - Surcharge for local government archives and records management -- Records management training -- Eastern Washington regional facility.
- 36.22.178 - Affordable housing for all surcharge -- Permissible uses.
- 36.22.179 - Surcharge for local homeless housing and assistance -- Use.
- 36.22.1791 - Additional surcharge for local homeless housing and assistance -- Use.
- 36.22.181 - Surcharge for prosecution of mortgage lending fraud -- Transmittal to state treasurer.
- 36.22.190 - Distribution of funds.
- 36.22.200 - Action for change of name -- Filing and recording.
- 36.22.210 - Process servers -- Registration -- Fees.
- 36.22.220 - Election assistants, deputies -- Appointment, qualifications.
- 36.22.230 - Election assistants, deputies -- Additional qualifications.
- 36.23 - County clerk.
- 36.23.020 - New bond may be required.
- 36.23.030 - Records to be kept.
- 36.23.040 - Custody and delivery of records.
- 36.23.065 - Destruction and reproduction of court records -- Destruction of receipts for expenses under probate proceedings.
- 36.23.067 - Reproduced court records have same force and effect as original.
- 36.23.070 - Destruction of court exhibits -- Preservation for historical purposes.
- 36.23.080 - Office at county seat.
- 36.23.090 - Search for birth parents -- County clerk's duty.
- 36.23.100 - Electronic payment of court fees and other financial obligations -- Authorized.
- 36.23.110 - Legal financial obligations -- Report on collections.
- 36.24 - County coroner.
- 36.24.010 - To act as sheriff under certain conditions.
- 36.24.020 - Inquests.
- 36.24.030 - Penalty for nonattendance of juror.
- 36.24.040 - Duty of coroner's jury -- Oath.
- 36.24.050 - Power to summon witnesses -- Subpoenas.
- 36.24.060 - Power to employ physician or surgeon -- Compensation.
- 36.24.070 - Verdict of jury.
- 36.24.080 - Testimony reduced to writing in certain cases and witnesses recognized.
- 36.24.090 - Procedure where accused is under arrest.
- 36.24.100 - Procedure where accused is at large -- Warrant of arrest.
- 36.24.110 - Form of warrant.
- 36.24.120 - Service of warrant.
- 36.24.130 - Property of deceased.
- 36.24.140 - Duty of treasurer.
- 36.24.150 - Delivery to representatives.
- 36.24.155 - Undisposed of remains -- Entrusting to funeral homes or mortuaries.
- 36.24.160 - District judge may act as coroner.
- 36.24.170 - Coroner not to practice law.
- 36.24.175 - Coroner not to be owner or employee of funeral home or mortuary -- Counties with populations of forty thousand or more.
- 36.24.180 - Audit of coroner's account.
- 36.24.190 - Medical examiner -- When authorized -- Election -- Qualifications for appointment.
- 36.26 - Public defender.
- 36.26.010 - Definitions.
- 36.26.020 - Public defender district -- Creation -- Office of public defender.
- 36.26.030 - Selection committee.
- 36.26.040 - Public defender -- Qualifications -- Term.
- 36.26.050 - Reports -- Records -- Costs and expenses.
- 36.26.060 - Compensation -- Office -- Assistants, clerks, investigators, etc.
- 36.26.070 - Duty to represent indigent defendants.
- 36.26.080 - Duty to counsel, defend, and prosecute appeals.
- 36.26.090 - Appointment of attorney other than public defender.
- 36.26.900 - Chapter cumulative and nonexclusive.
- 36.27 - Prosecuting attorney.
- 36.27.005 - Defined.
- 36.27.010 - Eligibility to office.
- 36.27.020 - Duties.
- 36.27.030 - Disability of prosecuting attorney.
- 36.27.040 - Appointment of deputies -- Special and temporary deputies.
- 36.27.045 - Employment of legal interns.
- 36.27.050 - Special emoluments prohibited.
- 36.27.060 - Private practice prohibited in certain counties -- Deputy prosecutors.
- 36.27.070 - Office at county seat.
- 36.27.100 - Statewide drug prosecution assistance program -- Created.
- 36.27.110 - Statewide drug prosecution assistance program -- Advisory committee -- Selection of project director.
- 36.27.120 - Statewide drug prosecution assistance program -- Personnel -- Review of assignments -- Supervision of special deputies.
- 36.28 - County sheriff.
- 36.28.010 - General duties.
- 36.28.011 - Duty to make complaint.
- 36.28.020 - Powers of deputies, regular and special.
- 36.28.025 - Qualifications.
- 36.28.030 - New or additional bond of sheriff.
- 36.28.040 - May demand fees in advance.
- 36.28.050 - May demand indemnifying bond.
- 36.28.060 - Duplicate receipts -- Penalties.
- 36.28.090 - Service of process when sheriff disqualified.
- 36.28.100 - Employment of prisoners.
- 36.28.110 - Sheriff not to practice law.
- 36.28.120 - Duty of retiring sheriffs, constables, and coroners -- Successors' duties.
- 36.28.130 - Actions by successors and by officials after expiration of term of office validated.
- 36.28.150 - Liability for fault or misconduct.
- 36.28.160 - Office at county seat.
- 36.28.170 - Standard uniform for sheriffs and deputies.
- 36.28.180 - Allowance for clothing and other incidentals.
- 36.28.190 - City contracts to obtain sheriff's office law enforcement services.
- 36.28A - Association of sheriffs and police chiefs.
- 36.28A.010 - Declarations.
- 36.28A.020 - Local law and justice plan assistance.
- 36.28A.030 - Malicious harassment -- Information reporting and dissemination.
- 36.28A.040 - Statewide city and county jail booking and reporting system -- Standards committee -- Statewide automated victim information and notification system -- Statewide unified sex offender noti
- 36.28A.0401 - Statewide automated victim information and notification system -- Vendor services.
- 36.28A.0402 - Statewide automated victim information and notification system -- Department of corrections data.
- 36.28A.050 - Statewide city and county jail booking and reporting system -- Grant fund.
- 36.28A.060 - Statewide first responder building mapping information system -- Creation -- Data must be available to law enforcement, military, and fire safety agencies -- Standards -- Public disclosur
- 36.28A.070 - Statewide first responder building mapping information system -- Committee established -- Development of guidelines.
- 36.28A.080 - Immunity from liability.
- 36.28A.090 - Firearms certificates for qualified retired law enforcement officers.
- 36.28A.100 - Committee to improve administration of missing person information -- Protocol endorsement.
- 36.28A.110 - Missing persons information web site creation.
- 36.28A.120 - State patrol involvement with missing persons systems -- Local law enforcement procedures for missing persons information.
- 36.28A.130 - Washington auto theft prevention authority -- Created.
- 36.28A.140 - Development of model policy to address property access during forest fires and wildfires.
- 36.28A.200 - Gang crime enforcement grant program.
- 36.28A.210 - Graffiti and tagging abatement grant program.
- 36.28A.220 - Grant programs -- Effectiveness evaluations.
- 36.28A.230 - Registered sex offender and kidnapping offender address and residency verification grant program.
- 36.29 - County treasurer.
- 36.29.010 - General duties.
- 36.29.020 - Custodian of moneys -- Investment of funds not required for immediate expenditures -- Service fee.
- 36.29.022 - Combining of moneys for investment.
- 36.29.024 - Investment expenses.
- 36.29.025 - Official seal.
- 36.29.040 - Interest on unpaid warrants.
- 36.29.050 - Interest to be entered on warrant register.
- 36.29.060 - Warrant calls -- Penalty for failure to call.
- 36.29.090 - Suspension of treasurer.
- 36.29.100 - Ex officio collector of first-class city taxes.
- 36.29.110 - City taxes.
- 36.29.120 - Ex officio collector of other city taxes.
- 36.29.130 - Duty to collect taxes.
- 36.29.160 - Segregation and collection of specified assessments and charges made by public utility districts, water-sewer districts, or the county -- Fee.
- 36.29.170 - Office at county seat.
- 36.29.180 - Fees for handling, collecting, dispersing, and accounting for special assessments, fees, rates, or charges.
- 36.29.190 - Acceptance of payment by credit cards, charge cards, and other electronic communications authorized -- Costs borne by payer -- Exception.
- 36.29.200 - Collection of sales and use taxes for zoo and aquarium advisory authority.
- 36.32 - County commissioners.
- 36.32.005 - "County commissioners" defined.
- 36.32.010 - Board of commissioners established -- Quorum.
- 36.32.020 - Commissioner districts.
- 36.32.030 - Terms of commissioners.
- 36.32.040 - Nomination by districts.
- 36.32.050 - Elected by entire county.
- 36.32.055 - Five-member commission -- When authorized -- Ballot proposition -- Petition -- Procedures.
- 36.32.0552 - Five-member commission -- Newly created positions -- How filled -- County divided into five districts.
- 36.32.0554 - Five-member commission -- Newly created positions -- Terms of initially elected commissioners.
- 36.32.0556 - Five-member commissions -- Four-year terms -- Nominations by districts -- Elected by entire county -- Quorum.
- 36.32.0558 - Five-member commissions -- Vacancies.
- 36.32.060 - Conditions of official bond.
- 36.32.070 - Vacancies on board.
- 36.32.080 - Regular meetings.
- 36.32.090 - Special meetings.
- 36.32.100 - Chair of board -- Election, powers.
- 36.32.110 - Clerk of board.
- 36.32.120 - Powers of legislative authorities.
- 36.32.121 - Community revitalization financing -- Public improvements.
- 36.32.122 - Authority to regulate massage practitioners -- Limitations.
- 36.32.125 - Adoption of certain regulations proscribed.
- 36.32.127 - Driving while under the influence of liquor or drugs -- Minimum penalties.
- 36.32.130 - Postponement of action.
- 36.32.135 - Official seal.
- 36.32.140 - Record of proceedings.
- 36.32.150 - Transcribing mutilated records.
- 36.32.155 - Transcribing mutilated records -- Prior transcribing validated.
- 36.32.160 - Transcribing mutilated records -- Auditor to direct transcribing, certify.
- 36.32.170 - Transcribing mutilated records -- Original records to be preserved.
- 36.32.200 - Special attorneys, employment of.
- 36.32.210 - Inventory of county capitalized assets -- County commission inventory statement -- Filing and public inspection -- Penalty -- Prosecutions -- Taxpayer's action.
- 36.32.235 - Competitive bids -- Purchasing department -- Counties with a population of four hundred thousand or more -- Public works procedures -- Exceptions.
- 36.32.240 - Competitive bids -- Purchasing department -- Counties with a population of less than four hundred thousand.
- 36.32.245 - Competitive bids -- Requirements -- Advertisements -- Exceptions.
- 36.32.250 - Competitive bids -- Contract procedure -- Contracts under forty thousand dollars -- Small works roster process.
- 36.32.253 - Competitive bids -- Leases of personal property.
- 36.32.256 - Competitive bids -- Multiple awards for road maintenance materials.
- 36.32.260 - Competitive bids -- Purchasing agent.
- 36.32.265 - Competitive bids -- Inapplicability to certain agreements relating to water pollution control, solid waste handling facilities.
- 36.32.270 - Competitive bids -- Exemptions.
- 36.32.280 - Regulation of watercourses.
- 36.32.290 - Regulation of watercourses -- Removal of obstructions.
- 36.32.300 - Regulation of watercourses -- Trees may be removed from river banks.
- 36.32.310 - Compensation for extra services.
- 36.32.330 - Appeals from board's action.
- 36.32.335 - Coordination of county administrative programs -- Legislative declaration.
- 36.32.340 - Coordination of county administrative programs -- Duties incident to.
- 36.32.350 - Coordination of county administrative programs -- Coordinating agency -- Agency reimbursement.
- 36.32.360 - Coordination of county administrative programs -- Attendance at conventions authorized.
- 36.32.370 - Land surveys.
- 36.32.380 - Land surveys -- Record of surveys.
- 36.32.390 - Nonmonthly employees, vacations and sick leaves.
- 36.32.400 - Health care and group insurance.
- 36.32.410 - Participation in Economic Opportunity Act programs.
- 36.32.415 - Low-income housing -- Loans and grants.
- 36.32.420 - Youth agencies -- Establishment authorized.
- 36.32.425 - Juvenile curfews.
- 36.32.430 - Parks, may designate name of.
- 36.32.435 - Historic preservation -- Authorization to acquire property, borrow money, issue bonds, etc.
- 36.32.440 - Staff to aid in purchasing, poverty programs, parks, emergency services, budget, etc., authorized.
- 36.32.450 - Tourist promotion.
- 36.32.460 - Employee safety award programs.
- 36.32.470 - Fire protection, ambulance or other emergency services provided by municipal corporations within county -- Financial and other assistance authorized.
- 36.32.475 - Regulation of automatic number or location identification -- Prohibited.
- 36.32.480 - Emergency medical service districts -- Creation authorized -- Composition of governing body.
- 36.32.490 - County freeholders -- Method of filling vacancies.
- 36.32.510 - Right-of-way donations -- Credit against required improvements.
- 36.32.520 - Child care facilities -- Review of need and demand -- Adoption of ordinances.
- 36.32.525 - Conditional and special use permit applications by parties licensed or certified by the department of social and health services or the department of corrections -- Mediation prior to appe
- 36.32.540 - Settlement of Indian claims.
- 36.32.550 - Conformance with chapter 43.97 RCW required.
- 36.32.560 - Home rule charter counties -- Residential care facilities -- Review of need and demand -- Adoption of ordinances.
- 36.32.570 - Conservation area acquisition and maintenance.
- 36.32.580 - Home rule charter counties subject to limitations on moratoria, interim zoning controls.
- 36.32.590 - Building construction projects -- County prohibited from requiring state agencies or local governments to provide bond or other security as a condition for issuance of permit.
- 36.32.600 - Amateur radio antennas -- Local regulation to conform with federal law.
- 36.32.610 - Library capital facility areas authorized.
- 36.32.620 - Abandoned or derelict vessels.
- 36.33 - County funds.
- 36.33.010 - Current expense fund.
- 36.33.020 - Cumulative reserve fund -- Purposes -- Election to allow other specified use.
- 36.33.030 - Cumulative reserve fund -- Accumulation of, current expense fund limits not to affect.
- 36.33.040 - Cumulative reserve fund -- Permissible uses of funds in.
- 36.33.060 - Salary fund -- Reimbursement.
- 36.33.065 - Claims fund -- Reimbursement.
- 36.33.070 - Investment in warrants on tax refund fund.
- 36.33.080 - Investment in warrants on tax refund fund -- Procedure upon purchase -- Interest on.
- 36.33.090 - Investment in warrants on tax refund fund -- Breaking of warrants authorized.
- 36.33.100 - Investment in warrants on tax refund fund -- Purchased warrants as cash.
- 36.33.120 - County lands assessment fund created -- Levy for.
- 36.33.130 - County lands assessment fund created -- Purpose of fund.
- 36.33.140 - County lands assessment fund created -- Amount of levy.
- 36.33.150 - County lands assessment fund created -- Surplus from tax sales to go into fund.
- 36.33.160 - County lands assessment fund created -- List of lands to be furnished.
- 36.33.170 - County lands assessment fund created -- Rentals may be applied against assessments.
- 36.33.190 - County lands assessment fund created -- Disposal of bonds.
- 36.33.200 - Election reserve fund.
- 36.33.210 - Election reserve fund -- Accumulation of fund -- Transfers.
- 36.33.220 - County road property tax revenues, expenditure for services authorized.
- 36.33A - Equipment rental and revolving fund.
- 36.34 - County property.
- 36.34.005 - Establishment of comprehensive procedures for management of county property authorized -- Exemption from chapter.
- 36.34.010 - Authority to sell -- May sell timber, minerals separately -- Mineral reservation.
- 36.34.020 - Publication of notice of intention to sell.
- 36.34.030 - Requirements of notice -- Posting.
- 36.34.040 - Public hearing.
- 36.34.050 - Findings and determination -- Minimum price.
- 36.34.060 - Sales of personalty.
- 36.34.070 - Sales and purchases of equipment -- Trade-ins.
- 36.34.080 - Sales to be at public auction.
- 36.34.090 - Notice of sale.
- 36.34.100 - Notice of sale -- Requirements of.
- 36.34.110 - Disposition of proceeds.
- 36.34.120 - Used equipment sales.
- 36.34.130 - Intergovernmental sales.
- 36.34.135 - Leases of county property -- Affordable housing.
- 36.34.137 - Affordable housing -- Inventory of suitable property.
- 36.34.140 - Leases of county property -- Airports.
- 36.34.145 - Leases of county property to nonprofit organizations for agricultural fairs.
- 36.34.150 - Application to lease -- Deposit.
- 36.34.160 - Notice of intention to lease.
- 36.34.170 - Objections to leasing.
- 36.34.180 - Lease terms.
- 36.34.190 - Lease to highest responsible bidder.
- 36.34.192 - Application of RCW 36.34.150 through 36.34.190 to certain service provider agreements under chapter 70.150 RCW.
- 36.34.200 - Execution of lease agreement.
- 36.34.205 - Lease of building space -- Counties with a population of six hundred thousand or more.
- 36.34.210 - Forest lands may be conveyed to United States.
- 36.34.220 - Lease or conveyance to United States for flood control, navigation, and allied purposes.
- 36.34.230 - Lease or conveyance to United States for flood control, navigation, and allied purposes -- State consents to conveyance.
- 36.34.240 - Lease or conveyance to United States for flood control, navigation, and allied purposes -- Cession of jurisdiction.
- 36.34.250 - Lease or conveyance to the state or to United States for military, housing, and other purposes.
- 36.34.260 - Lease or conveyance to the state or to United States for military, housing, and other purposes -- Procedure.
- 36.34.270 - Lease or conveyance to the state or to United States for military, housing, and other purposes -- Execution of instrument of transfer.
- 36.34.280 - Conveyance to municipality.
- 36.34.290 - Dedication of county land for streets and alleys.
- 36.34.300 - Dedication of county land for streets and alleys -- Execution of dedication -- Effective date.
- 36.34.310 - Long term leases to United States.
- 36.34.320 - Executory conditional sales contracts for purchase of property -- Limit on indebtedness -- Election, when.
- 36.34.330 - Exchange for privately owned real property of equal value.
- 36.34.340 - May acquire property for park, recreational, viewpoint, greenbelt, conservation, historic, scenic, or view purposes.
- 36.34.355 - Chapter not applicable to certain transfers of property.
- 36.35 - Tax title lands.
- 36.35.010 - Purpose -- Powers of county legislative authority as to tax title lands.
- 36.35.020 - "Tax title lands" defined -- Held in trust for taxing districts.
- 36.35.070 - Chapter as alternative.
- 36.35.080 - Other lands not affected.
- 36.35.090 - Chapter not affected by other acts.
- 36.35.100 - Treatment of county held tax-title property.
- 36.35.110 - Disposition of proceeds of sales.
- 36.35.120 - Sales of tax-title property -- Reservations -- Notices -- Installment contracts -- Separate sale of reserved resources.
- 36.35.130 - Form of deed and reservation.
- 36.35.140 - Rental of tax-title property on month to month tenancy authorized.
- 36.35.150 - Tax-title property may be disposed of without bids in certain cases.
- 36.35.160 - Quieting title to tax-title property.
- 36.35.170 - Quieting title to tax-title property -- Form of action -- Pleadings.
- 36.35.180 - Quieting title to tax-title property -- Summons and notice.
- 36.35.190 - Quieting title to tax-title property -- Redemption before judgment.
- 36.35.200 - Quieting title to tax-title property -- Judgment.
- 36.35.210 - Quieting title to tax-title property -- Proof -- Presumptions.
- 36.35.220 - Quieting title to tax-title property -- Appearance fee -- Tender of taxes.
- 36.35.230 - Quieting title to tax-title property -- Appellate review.
- 36.35.240 - Quieting title to tax-title property -- Effect of judgment.
- 36.35.250 - Quieting title to tax-title property -- Special assessments payable out of surplus.
- 36.35.260 - Quieting title to tax-title property -- Form of deed on sale after title quieted.
- 36.35.270 - Quieting title to tax-title property -- Limitation on recovery for breach of warranty.
- 36.35.280 - Tax deeds to cities and towns absolute despite reversionary provision.
- 36.35.290 - Easements.
- 36.36 - Aquifer protection areas.
- 36.36.010 - Purpose.
- 36.36.020 - Creation of aquifer protection area -- Public hearing -- Ballot proposition.
- 36.36.030 - Imposition of fees -- Ballot proposition to authorize increased fees or additional purposes.
- 36.36.035 - Reduced fees for low-income persons.
- 36.36.040 - Use of fee revenues.
- 36.36.045 - Lien for delinquent fees.
- 36.36.050 - Dissolution of aquifer protection area -- Petition -- Ballot proposition.
- 36.36.900 - Severability -- 1985 c 425.
- 36.37 - Agricultural fairs and poultry shows.
- 36.37.010 - Fairs authorized -- Declared county purpose.
- 36.37.020 - Property may be acquired for fairs.
- 36.37.040 - Expenditure of funds -- Revolving fund -- Management of fairs.
- 36.37.050 - District or multiple county fairs authorized.
- 36.37.090 - Poultry shows -- Petition -- Appropriation.
- 36.37.100 - Poultry shows -- Open to public -- Admission charge.
- 36.37.110 - Poultry shows -- Conduct of shows.
- 36.37.150 - Lease of state-owned lands for county fairgrounds.
- 36.37.160 - Lease of state-owned lands for county fairgrounds -- Lands adjacent to Northern State Hospital.
- 36.38 - Admissions tax.
- 36.39 - Assistance and relief.
- 36.39.010 - Public assistance.
- 36.39.030 - Disposal of remains of indigent persons.
- 36.39.040 - Federal surplus commodities -- County expenses -- Handling commodities for certified persons -- County program, cooperative program.
- 36.39.050 - Federal surplus commodities -- Certification of persons by department of social and health services.
- 36.39.060 - Senior citizens programs -- Long-term care ombudsman programs -- Authorization.
- 36.40 - Budget.
- 36.40.010 - Estimates to be filed by county officials.
- 36.40.020 - Commissioners to file road and bridge estimate and estimate of future bond expenditures.
- 36.40.030 - Forms of estimates -- Penalty for delay.
- 36.40.040 - Preliminary budget.
- 36.40.050 - Revision by county commissioners.
- 36.40.060 - Notice of hearing on budget.
- 36.40.070 - Budget hearing.
- 36.40.071 - Budget hearing -- Alternate date for budget hearing.
- 36.40.080 - Final budget to be fixed.
- 36.40.090 - Taxes to be levied.
- 36.40.100 - Budget constitutes appropriations -- Transfers -- Supplemental appropriations.
- 36.40.120 - Limitation on use of borrowed money.
- 36.40.130 - Excess of expenditures, liability.
- 36.40.140 - Emergencies subject to hearing.
- 36.40.150 - Emergencies subject to hearing -- Right of taxpayer to review order.
- 36.40.160 - Emergencies subject to hearing -- Petition for review suspends order.
- 36.40.170 - Emergencies subject to hearing -- Court's power on review.
- 36.40.180 - Emergencies subject to hearing -- Nondebatable emergencies.
- 36.40.190 - Payment of emergency warrants.
- 36.40.195 - Supplemental appropriations of unanticipated funds from local sources.
- 36.40.200 - Lapse of budget appropriations.
- 36.40.205 - Salary adjustment for county legislative authority office -- Ratification and validation of preelection action.
- 36.40.210 - Monthly report.
- 36.40.220 - Rules, classifications, and forms.
- 36.40.230 - No new funds created.
- 36.40.240 - Penalty.
- 36.40.250 - Biennial budgets -- Supplemental and emergency budgets.
- 36.42 - Retail sales and use taxes.
- 36.43 - Building codes and fire regulations.
- 36.45 - Claims against counties.
- 36.47 - Coordination of administrative programs.
- 36.47.010 - Declaration of necessity.
- 36.47.020 - Joint action by officers of each county.
- 36.47.030 - State association of county officials may be coordinating agency.
- 36.47.040 - Reimbursement for costs and expenses to state association of county officials.
- 36.47.050 - County officials -- Further action authorized -- Meetings.
- 36.47.060 - Association financial records subject to audit by state auditor.
- 36.47.070 - Merger of state association of county officials with state association of counties.
- 36.48 - Depositaries.
- 36.48.010 - Depositaries to be designated by treasurer.
- 36.48.040 - Depositaries to be designated by treasurer -- Deposited funds deemed in county treasury.
- 36.48.050 - Depositaries to be designated by treasurer -- Treasurer's liability and bond additional.
- 36.48.060 - Definition -- "Financial institution."
- 36.48.070 - County finance committee -- Approval of investment policy and debt policy -- Rules.
- 36.48.080 - County clerk's funds may be deposited.
- 36.48.090 - Clerk's trust fund created -- Deposits -- Interest -- Investments.
- 36.49 - Dog license tax.
- 36.49.020 - Treasurer to collect -- Tags.
- 36.49.030 - Application for license after assessor's list returned.
- 36.49.040 - Delinquent tax, how collected.
- 36.49.050 - "County dog license tax fund" -- Created.
- 36.49.060 - "County dog license tax fund" -- Transfer of excess funds in.
- 36.49.070 - Penalty.
- 36.50 - Farm and home extension work.
- 36.53 - Ferries -- Privately owned.
- 36.53.010 - Grant of license -- Term.
- 36.53.020 - Licensing tax.
- 36.53.030 - To whom license granted -- Notice of intention if nonowner.
- 36.53.040 - Notice of application to be posted.
- 36.53.050 - Bond of licensee.
- 36.53.060 - Duties of licensee.
- 36.53.070 - Duties of licensee -- Duties as to ferriage -- Liability for nonperformance.
- 36.53.080 - Rates of ferriage.
- 36.53.090 - Commissioners may fix and alter rates.
- 36.53.100 - Rates to be posted.
- 36.53.110 - Order of ferriage -- Liability for nonperformance.
- 36.53.120 - Grant exclusive.
- 36.53.130 - Revocation of license.
- 36.53.140 - Penalty for maintaining unlicensed ferry.
- 36.53.150 - Interstate ferry -- County may contribute to -- Grant of permit to operator.
- 36.54 - Ferries -- County owned.
- 36.54.010 - County may acquire, construct, maintain, and operate ferry.
- 36.54.015 - Ferries -- Fourteen year long range improvement plan -- Contents.
- 36.54.020 - Joint ferries -- Generally.
- 36.54.030 - Joint ferries over water boundary between two counties.
- 36.54.040 - Joint ferries over water boundary between two counties -- Joint board of commissioners to administer -- Records kept.
- 36.54.050 - Joint ferries over water boundary between two counties -- Commission authority -- Expenses shared.
- 36.54.060 - Joint ferries over water boundary between two counties -- Audit and allowance of claims.
- 36.54.070 - Joint ferries over water boundary between two counties -- County commissioner duties enumerated -- Omission as ground for impeachment.
- 36.54.110 - County ferry districts -- Authorized -- Powers -- Governing body -- Passenger-only ferry service between Vashon and Seattle.
- 36.54.120 - County ferry districts -- District may construct, purchase, operate, and maintain passenger-only ferries and wharves.
- 36.54.130 - County ferry districts -- Tax levy authorized -- Uses.
- 36.54.135 - County ferry districts--General indebtedness, bond issuance.
- 36.54.140 - County ferry districts -- Excess levies.
- 36.54.150 - County ferry districts -- Budget of fund requirements.
- 36.54.160 - County ferry districts -- General property tax levies.
- 36.54.170 - County ferry districts -- Treasurer -- Ferry district fund.
- 36.54.180 - County ferry districts -- Not subject to Washington utilities and transportation commission.
- 36.54.190 - County ferry districts -- Dissolution.
- 36.55 - Franchises on roads and bridges.
- 36.55.010 - Pipe line and wire line franchises on county roads.
- 36.55.020 - Cattleguards, tramroad, and railway rights.
- 36.55.030 - Franchises on county bridges.
- 36.55.040 - Application -- Notice of hearing.
- 36.55.050 - Hearing -- Order.
- 36.55.060 - Limitations upon grants.
- 36.55.070 - Existing franchises validated.
- 36.55.080 - Record of franchises.
- 36.56 - Metropolitan municipal corporation functions, etc. -- Assumption by counties.
- 36.56.010 - Assumption of rights, powers, functions, and obligations authorized.
- 36.56.020 - Ordinance or resolution of intention to assume rights, powers, functions, and obligations -- Adoption -- Publication -- Hearing.
- 36.56.030 - Hearing.
- 36.56.040 - Declaration of intention to assume -- Submission of ordinance or resolution to voters required -- Extent of rights, powers, functions, and obligations assumed and vested in county -- Aboli
- 36.56.050 - Employees and personnel.
- 36.56.060 - Apportionment of budgeted funds -- Transfer and adjustment of funds, accounts and records.
- 36.56.070 - Existing rights, actions, proceedings, etc. not impaired or altered.
- 36.56.080 - Collective bargaining units or agreements.
- 36.56.090 - Rules and regulations, pending business, contracts, obligations, validity of official acts.
- 36.56.100 - Real and personal property -- Reports, books, records, etc. -- Funds, credits, assets -- Appropriations or federal grants.
- 36.56.110 - Debts and obligations.
- 36.56.121 - Maintenance plan.
- 36.56.900 - Severability -- Construction -- 1977 ex.s. c 277.
- 36.56.910 - Effective date -- 1977 ex.s. c 277.
- 36.57 - County public transportation authority.
- 36.57.010 - Definitions.
- 36.57.020 - Public transportation authority authorized.
- 36.57.030 - Membership -- Compensation.
- 36.57.040 - Powers and duties.
- 36.57.050 - Chair -- General manager.
- 36.57.060 - Transportation fund -- Contributions.
- 36.57.070 - Public transportation plan.
- 36.57.080 - Transfer of transportation powers and rights to authority -- Funds -- Contract indebtedness.
- 36.57.090 - Acquisition of existing transportation system -- Assumption of labor contracts -- Transfer of employees -- Preservation of benefits -- Collective bargaining.
- 36.57.100 - Counties authorized to perform public transportation function in unincorporated areas -- Exceptions.
- 36.57.110 - Boundaries of unincorporated transportation benefit areas.
- 36.57.120 - Rail fixed guideway system -- Safety program plan and security and emergency preparedness plan.
- 36.57.130 - Public transportation for persons with special needs.
- 36.57A - Public transportation benefit areas.
- 36.57A.010 - Definitions.
- 36.57A.011 - Municipality defined.
- 36.57A.020 - Public transportation improvement conference -- Convening -- Purpose -- Multi-county conferences.
- 36.57A.030 - Establishment or change in boundaries of public transportation benefit area -- Hearing -- Notice -- Procedure -- Authority of county to terminate public transportation benefit area.
- 36.57A.040 - Cities included or excluded -- Boundaries -- Only benefited areas included -- One area per county, exception.
- 36.57A.050 - Governing body -- Selection, qualification, number of members -- Travel expenses, compensation.
- 36.57A.055 - Governing body -- Periodic review of composition.
- 36.57A.060 - Comprehensive plan -- Development -- Elements.
- 36.57A.070 - Comprehensive plan -- Review.
- 36.57A.080 - General powers.
- 36.57A.090 - Additional powers -- Acquisition of existing system.
- 36.57A.100 - Agreements with operators of local public transportation services -- Operation without agreement prohibited -- Purchase or condemnation of assets.
- 36.57A.110 - Powers of component city concerning passenger transportation transferred to benefit area -- Operation of system by city until acquired by benefit area -- Consent.
- 36.57A.120 - Acquisition of existing system -- Labor contracts, employee rights preserved -- Collective bargaining.
- 36.57A.130 - Treasurer and auditor -- Powers and duties -- Transportation fund -- Contribution of sums for expenses.
- 36.57A.140 - Annexation of additional area.
- 36.57A.150 - Advanced financial support payments.
- 36.57A.160 - Dissolution and liquidation.
- 36.57A.170 - Rail fixed guideway system -- Safety program plan and security and emergency preparedness plan.
- 36.57A.180 - Public transportation for persons with special needs.
- 36.57A.191 - Maintenance plan.
- 36.57A.200 - Passenger-only ferry service -- Authorized -- Investment plan.
- 36.57A.210 - Passenger-only ferry service -- Taxes, fees, and tolls.
- 36.57A.220 - Passenger-only ferry service between Kingston and Seattle.
- 36.57A.230 - Public transportation fares -- Proof of payment -- Civil infractions.
- 36.57A.235 - Public transportation fares -- Schedule of fines and penalties -- Who may monitor fare payment -- Administration of citations.
- 36.57A.240 - Public transportation fares -- Powers of law enforcement authorities.
- 36.57A.245 - Public transportation fares -- Powers and authority are supplemental to other laws.
- 36.57A.250 - Supplemental transportation improvements.
- 36.58 - Solid waste disposal.
- 36.58.010 - Acquisition of solid waste or recyclable materials sites authorized.
- 36.58.020 - Rules and regulations as to use -- Penalty.
- 36.58.030 - "Transfer station" defined.
- 36.58.040 - Solid waste handling systems authorized -- Disposal sites -- Contracts for solid waste handling and collection of source separated recyclable material -- Waste reduction and recycling.
- 36.58.045 - County may impose fee upon solid waste collection services -- Revenue to fund compliance with comprehensive solid waste management plan.
- 36.58.050 - Solid waste disposal -- Transfer stations.
- 36.58.060 - Solid waste disposal -- Ownership of solid wastes -- Responsibility for handling.
- 36.58.080 - County solid waste facilities -- Exempt from municipal taxes -- Charges to mitigate impacts -- Negotiation and arbitration.
- 36.58.090 - Contracts with vendors for solid waste handling systems, plants, sites, or facilities -- Requirements -- Vendor selection procedures.
- 36.58.100 - Solid waste disposal district -- Authorized -- Boundaries -- Powers -- Governing body.
- 36.58.110 - Solid waste disposal district -- Establishment, modification, or dissolution -- Hearing -- Notice.
- 36.58.120 - Solid waste disposal district -- Establishment -- Ordinance.
- 36.58.130 - Solid waste disposal district -- Powers -- Restrictions -- Fees.
- 36.58.140 - Solid waste disposal district -- Excise tax -- Lien for delinquent taxes and penalties.
- 36.58.150 - Solid waste disposal district -- Excess levies authorized -- General obligation and revenue bonds.
- 36.58.160 - Collection and transportation of recyclable materials by recycling companies or nonprofit entities -- Reuse or reclamation -- Application of chapter.
- 36.58A - Solid waste collection districts.
- 36.58A.010 - Authorized -- Conditions -- Modification or dissolution of district.
- 36.58A.020 - Hearings upon establishing, modification or dissolution of district -- Notice -- Scope.
- 36.58A.030 - County legislative authority determination required to establish district -- Commission findings as to present services.
- 36.58A.040 - County may collect fees of garbage and refuse collection company -- Disposition of fees -- Subrogation -- Lien.
- 36.60 - County rail districts.
- 36.60.010 - Establishment of district -- Boundaries -- Powers.
- 36.60.020 - Establishment, modification, or dissolution of district -- Public notice and hearing -- Election.
- 36.60.030 - Authority of district to provide rail service.
- 36.60.040 - Excess property tax levies authorized.
- 36.60.050 - General obligation bonds authorized -- Limitations -- Terms.
- 36.60.060 - Revenue bonds authorized -- Limitations -- Terms.
- 36.60.070 - Power of eminent domain.
- 36.60.100 - Establishment, modification, or dissolution of district -- Alternate method.
- 36.60.110 - Establishment, modification, or dissolution of district -- Alternate method -- Petition.
- 36.60.120 - Establishment, modification, or dissolution of district -- Alternate method -- Public hearing.
- 36.60.130 - Establishment, modification, or dissolution of district -- Alternate method -- Determination by county legislative authority.
- 36.60.140 - Annexation by boundary modification -- Assumption of outstanding indebtedness.
- 36.60.900 - Liberal construction.
- 36.60.905 - Severability -- 1983 c 303.
- 36.61 - Lake and beach management districts.
- 36.61.010 - Findings--Intent--Purpose.
- 36.61.020 - Creation of district -- Special assessments or rates and charges.
- 36.61.025 - Creation of district -- Duration.
- 36.61.030 - Creation of district -- Resolution or petition -- Contents.
- 36.61.040 - Creation of district -- Public hearing -- Notice -- Contents.
- 36.61.050 - Creation of district -- Public hearing -- Amendments to original plan.
- 36.61.060 - Creation of district -- Public hearing -- Legislative authority may delegate responsibility.
- 36.61.070 - Creation of district -- Submittal of question to landowners.
- 36.61.080 - Creation of district -- Submittal of question to landowners -- Mail ballot.
- 36.61.090 - Creation of district -- Submittal of question to landowners -- Balloting -- Conditions.
- 36.61.100 - Creation of district -- Submittal of question to landowners -- Majority vote required -- Adoption of ordinance.
- 36.61.110 - Creation of district -- Limitations on appeals.
- 36.61.115 - Limitation on special assessments, rates, and charges.
- 36.61.120 - Special assessment roll -- Adoption -- Public hearing.
- 36.61.130 - Special assessment roll -- Public hearing -- Legislative authority may delegate responsibility -- Appeals.
- 36.61.140 - Special assessment roll -- Public hearing -- Notice -- Contents.
- 36.61.150 - Special assessment roll -- Appeal to superior and appellate courts -- Procedure.
- 36.61.160 - Special assessments -- Calculation.
- 36.61.170 - Special assessments -- Limitations.
- 36.61.180 - Special assessments -- Modification.
- 36.61.190 - Special assessments -- Collection -- Notice.
- 36.61.200 - Special assessments -- Payment period -- Interest and penalty.
- 36.61.210 - Special assessments -- Subdivision of land -- Segregation of assessment.
- 36.61.220 - Special assessments -- Filing with county treasurer.
- 36.61.230 - Special assessments -- Lien created.
- 36.61.240 - Special assessments -- Lien -- Validity -- Foreclosure.
- 36.61.250 - Special assessments -- Legislative authority may stop.
- 36.61.260 - Bonds.
- 36.61.270 - Imposition of rates and charges.
- 36.61.280 - Beach management districts -- Purpose -- Plan.
- 36.62 - Hospitals.
- 36.62.010 - Authority to establish.
- 36.62.030 - Hospital may be jointly owned and operated.
- 36.62.040 - Contract for joint hospital.
- 36.62.050 - Petition to establish -- Beds limited.
- 36.62.060 - Bond election.
- 36.62.070 - Issuance of bonds -- Terms.
- 36.62.090 - Tax levy for maintenance.
- 36.62.100 - Admission of patients -- Liability for support.
- 36.62.110 - Board of trustees -- Membership.
- 36.62.120 - Board of trustees -- Initial appointment -- Terms of office.
- 36.62.130 - Board of trustees -- Additional trustees for joint hospital.
- 36.62.140 - Board of trustees -- Qualifications of trustees.
- 36.62.150 - Board of trustees -- Removal of trustee -- Procedure.
- 36.62.160 - Board of trustees -- Vacancies.
- 36.62.170 - Board of trustees -- Quorum.
- 36.62.180 - Board of trustees -- Powers and duties.
- 36.62.190 - Board of trustees -- Authority to accept gifts and bequests.
- 36.62.200 - Board of trustees -- Trustees not compensated -- Contract interest barred -- Reimbursement for travel expenses.
- 36.62.210 - Superintendent -- Appointment -- Salary.
- 36.62.230 - Superintendent -- Duties.
- 36.62.252 - County hospital fund -- Established -- Purpose -- Monthly report.
- 36.62.270 - Supplementary budget.
- 36.62.290 - Contracts between board of regents of state universities and hospital board of trustees for medical services and teaching and research activities.
- 36.62.300 - Work ordered and materials purchased.
- 36.63 - Jails.
- 36.64 - Joint governmental activities.
- 36.64.010 - Joint courthouse and city hall.
- 36.64.020 - Joint courthouse and city hall -- Terms of contract.
- 36.64.030 - Joint courthouse and city hall -- Approval of contract.
- 36.64.040 - Joint courthouse and city hall -- Funds, how provided.
- 36.64.050 - Joint armory sites.
- 36.64.060 - Joint canal construction.
- 36.64.070 - Counties with populations of two hundred ten thousand or more -- Contracts with cities concerning buildings and related improvements.
- 36.64.080 - Conferences to study regional and governmental problems -- Counties and cities may establish -- Subjects -- Recommendations.
- 36.64.090 - Conferences to study regional and governmental problems -- Articles -- Officers -- Agents and employees.
- 36.64.100 - Conferences to study regional and governmental problems -- Contracts with other governmental agencies -- Grants and gifts -- Consultants.
- 36.64.110 - Conferences to study regional and governmental problems -- Public purpose -- Contributions to support by municipal corporations.
- 36.65 - Combined city and county municipal corporations.
- 36.67 - Limitation of indebtedness -- County bonds.
- 36.68 - Parks and recreational facilities.
- 36.69 - Park and recreation districts.
- 36.70 - Planning enabling act.
- 36.70A - Growth management -- Planning by selected counties and cities.
- 36.70B - Local project review.
- 36.70C - Judicial review of land use decisions.
- 36.71 - Peddlers' and hawkers' licenses.
- 36.72 - Printing.
- 36.73 - Transportation benefit districts.
- 36.75 - Roads and bridges -- General provisions.
- 36.76 - Roads and bridges -- Bonds.
- 36.77 - Roads and bridges -- Construction.
- 36.78 - Roads and bridges -- County road administration board.
- 36.79 - Roads and bridges -- Rural arterial program.
- 36.80 - Roads and bridges -- Engineer.
- 36.81 - Roads and bridges -- Establishment.
- 36.82 - Roads and bridges -- Funds -- Budget.
- 36.83 - Roads and bridges -- Service districts.
- 36.85 - Roads and bridges -- Rights-of-way.
- 36.86 - Roads and bridges -- Standards.
- 36.87 - Roads and bridges -- Vacation.
- 36.88 - County road improvement districts.
- 36.89 - Highways -- Open spaces -- Parks -- Other public facilities -- Storm water control.
- 36.90 - Southwest Washington fair.
- 36.900 - Construction.
- 36.92 - County central services department.
- 36.93 - Local governmental organization -- Boundaries -- Review boards.
- 36.94 - Sewerage, water, and drainage systems.
- 36.95 - Television reception improvement districts.
- 36.96 - Dissolution of inactive special purpose districts.
- RCW Dispositions
- Notes