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52.26.260 | Benefit charges—Model resolution—Assistance by Washington fire commissioners association. | The Washington fire commissioners association, as soon as practicable, shall draft a model resolution to impose the regional fire protection service authority benefit charge authorized by this chapter and may provide assistance to authorities in the establishment of a program to develop benefit charges.
[ 2004 c 129 s ... |
52.26.270 | Benefit charges—Additional exemption. | A person who is receiving the exemption contained in RCW 84.36.381 through 84.36.389 is exempt from any legal obligation to pay a portion of the benefit charge imposed under this chapter as follows: (1) A person who meets the income limitation contained in RCW 84.36.381 (5)(a) and does not meet the income limitation co... |
52.26.280 | Civil service—When authorized or required. | (1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, a regional fire protection service authority may, by resolution of its board, provide for civil service for its employees in the same manner, with the same powers, and with the same force and effect as provided by chapter 41.08 RCW for cities, towns, and municipalities, in... |
52.26.290 | Annexation of territory. | Territory that is annexed to a participating jurisdiction is annexed to the authority as of the effective date of the annexation. The statutes regarding transfer of assets and employees do not apply to the participating jurisdictions in the annexation.
[ 2006 c 200 s 9 .] |
52.26.300 | Annexation of fire protection jurisdiction within reasonable proximity to authority. | (1) A fire protection jurisdiction that is located within reasonable proximity to the boundary of a regional fire protection service authority is eligible for annexation by the authority. (2) An annexation is initiated by the adoption of a resolution by the governing body of a fire protection jurisdiction requesting th... |
52.26.310 | Biennial budget authority. | A regional fire protection service authority may, in lieu of adopting an annual budget, adopt a biennial budget with a mid-biennium review and modification for the second year of the biennium.
[ 2015 c 40 s 2 .] |
52.30.020 | Property of public agency included within district—Contracts for services. | Wherever a fire protection district has been organized which includes within its area or is adjacent to, buildings and equipment, except those leased to a nontax exempt person or organization, owned by the legislative or administrative authority of a state agency or institution or a municipal corporation, the agency or... |
52.30.040 | Civil service for employees—Formation—Dissolution. | (1) A fire protection district with a fully-paid fire department may, by resolution of its board of fire commissioners, provide for civil service in its fire department in the same manner, with the same powers, and with the same force and effect as provided by chapter 41.08 RCW for cities, towns, and municipalities, in... |
52.30.050 | Residency not grounds for discharge of civil service employees. | Residence of an employee outside the limits of a fire protection district is not grounds for discharge of any regularly-appointed civil service employee otherwise qualified.
[ 1984 c 230 s 80 ; 1971 ex.s. c 256 s 1 . Formerly RCW 52.36.065 .] |
52.30.060 | Change of district name—Resolution. | The name of a fire protection district shall be changed, as proposed by resolution of the board of fire commissioners of the district, upon the adoption of a resolution approving the change by the county legislative authority of the county in which all, or the largest portion, of a fire protection district is located.
... |
52.30.070 | District volunteer members—Holding public office—Definitions. | (1) Except as otherwise prohibited by law, a volunteer member of any fire protection district who does not serve as fire chief for the district may be: (a) A candidate for elective public office and serve in that public office if elected; or (b) Appointed to any public office and serve in that public office if appointe... |
52.30.080 | Tribal property—Contracts for service. | (1) When exempt tribal property is located within the boundaries of a fire protection district or a regional fire protection service authority, the fire protection district or authority is authorized to contract with the tribe for compensation for providing fire protection services in an amount and under such terms as ... |
52.30.090 | Hazardous material cleanup or removal—Cost recovery. | (1) A fire service jurisdiction is entitled to recover from any liable party the actual costs associated with the cleanup or removal of hazardous waste and other hazardous materials, including debris or vehicle operating fluids, when responding to a vehicle accident on private or public property, including public roadw... |
52.33.010 | Intent. | The legislature intends for fire protection districts and regional fire [protection] service authorities to set standards for addressing the reporting and accountability of substantially career fire departments, and to specify performance measures applicable to response time objectives for certain major services. The l... |
52.33.020 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Advanced life support" means functional provision of advanced airway management, including intubation, advanced cardiac monitoring, manual defibrillation, establishment and maintenance of intravenous access... |
52.33.030 | Policy statement—Service delivery objectives. | (1) Every fire protection district and regional fire protection service authority shall maintain a written statement or policy that establishes the following: (a) The existence of a fire department; (b) Services that the fire department is required to provide; (c) The basic organizational structure of the fire departme... |
52.33.040 | Annual evaluations—Annual report. | (1) Every fire protection district and regional fire protection service authority shall evaluate its level of service and deployment delivery and response time objectives on an annual basis. The evaluations shall be based on data relating to level of service, deployment, and the achievement of each response time object... |
53.04.010 | Port districts authorized—Purposes—Powers—Public hearing. | (1) Port districts are hereby authorized to be established in the various counties of the state for the purposes of acquisition, construction, maintenance, operation, development and regulation within the district of harbor improvements, rail or motor vehicle transfer and terminal facilities, water transfer and termina... |
53.04.015 | Port districts in areas lacking appropriate bodies of water—Authorized—Purposes. | In areas which lack appropriate bodies of water so that harbor improvements cannot be established, port districts are hereby authorized to be established under the laws of the state, for the purposes for which port districts may be established under RCW 53.04.010 , and such port districts shall have all of the powers, ... |
53.04.016 | Port districts in areas lacking appropriate bodies of water—Authority an additional and concurrent method. | RCW 53.04.015 shall not be construed to repeal, amend or modify any law heretofore enacted providing a method of harbor improvement, regulation or control; acquisition, maintenance and operation of municipal airports; or industrial development; but shall be held to be an additional and concurrent method providing such ... |
53.04.017 | Port districts in areas lacking appropriate bodies of water—Elections. | All elections with respect to any such port districts authorized by RCW 53.04.015 and 53.04.016 shall be held, conducted and the results canvassed in the same manner and at the same time as now or hereafter provided by law for other port districts.
[ 1959 c 94 s 3 .] |
53.04.020 | Formation of countywide district. | At any general election or at any special election which may be called for that purpose, the county legislative authority of any county in this state may, or on petition of ten percent of the registered voters of such county based on the total vote cast in the last general county election, shall, by resolution submit t... |
53.04.023 | Formation of less than countywide district. | A less than countywide port district with an assessed valuation of at least one hundred fifty million dollars may be created: (1) In a county that already has a less than countywide port district located within its boundaries; or (2) under the provisions of *RCW 53.04.025 . Except as provided in this section, such a po... |
53.04.031 | Initiating petition, commissioner district descriptions—Initial election of commissioners. | Three commissioner districts, each with approximately the same population, shall be described in the petition proposing the creation of a port district under RCW 53.04.020 , if the process to create the port district was initiated by voter petition, or shall be described by the county legislative authority, if the proc... |
53.04.060 | District declared formed. | Within five days after an election held under the provisions of RCW 53.04.020 , the board of county commissioners shall canvass the returns, and if at such election a majority of the voters voting upon the proposition shall vote in favor of the formation of the district, the board of county commissioners shall so decla... |
53.04.070 | Expense of election. | All expenses of elections for the formation of such port districts shall be paid by the county holding such election, and such expenditure is hereby declared to be for a county purpose, and the money paid out for such purpose shall be repaid to such county by the port district, if formed.
[ 1959 c 17 s 6 . Prior: 1913 ... |
53.04.080 | Annexation of territory—Petition—Election. | At any general election or at any special election which may be called for that purpose the county legislative authority of any county in this state in which there exists a port district which is not coextensive with the limits of the county, shall on petition of the commissioners of such port district, by resolution, ... |
53.04.085 | Petition for annexation to port district. | If an area, not currently part of an existing port district desires to be annexed to a port district in the same county, upon receipt of a petition bearing the names of ten percent of the registered voters residing within the proposed boundaries of the area desiring to be annexed who voted in the last general municipal... |
53.04.100 | Order of annexation—Liability of area annexed. | If a majority of all the votes cast at any such election upon the proposition of enlarging such port district shall be for the "Enlargement of the port of . . . . . ., yes" then and in that event the board of county commissioners shall enter an order declaring such port district enlarged so as to embrace within the lim... |
53.04.110 | Change of name. | Any port district now existing or which may hereafter be organized under the laws of the state of Washington is hereby authorized to change its corporate name under the following conditions and in the following manner: (1) On presentation of a petition to the commissioners of any port district now existing or which may... |
53.04.120 | Transfer of port district property to adjacent district—Procedure—Boundary changes—Jurisdiction. | Property may be acquired and owned by any port district, at least one boundary of which property is contiguous to or within one-quarter air mile of such port district and is also located in an adjacent port district, and such property may be transferred to the owning port district upon unanimous resolution of the board... |
53.04.150 | Alternative annexation methods—Petition for resolution—Districts authorized to use—Petition requirements. | A port district that is less than countywide, and that is located in a county with a population of less than ninety thousand and located in either the Interstate 5 or Interstate 90 corridor, may petition for annexation of an area that is contiguous to its boundaries, is not located within the boundaries of any other po... |
53.04.160 | Alternative annexation methods—Petition for resolution—Where filed—Commission's duties. | If a petition meeting the requirements set forth in RCW 53.04.150 is filed with the commission, the commission shall determine a date, time, and location for a hearing on the petition and shall provide public notice of that hearing and its nature by publishing the notice in one issue of a newspaper of general circulati... |
53.04.170 | Alternative annexation methods—Petition for resolution—Hearing—Resolution. | At the hearing, the commission may determine to annex all or any portion of the proposed area described in the petition. Following the hearing, the commission shall by resolution approve or disapprove annexation. Upon passage of the resolution, the commission shall file, with the board of county commissioners of the co... |
53.04.180 | Alternative annexation methods—Annexation by written consent—Districts authorized to use—Resolution. | (1) By a majority vote of the commission, and with the written consent of all the owners of the property to be annexed, a port commission of a district that is less than countywide, and that is located in a county with a population of less than ninety thousand and located in either the Interstate 5 or Interstate 90 cor... |
53.04.190 | Alternative annexation methods—Outstanding indebtedness. | No property within the territory annexed under RCW 53.04.150 through 53.04.180 may be taxed or assessed for the payment of any outstanding indebtedness of the port district as it existed before the annexation unless another law requires the tax or assessment.
[ 1999 c 250 s 6 .] |
53.06.010 | Declaration of necessity. | The necessity and desirability of coordinating the administration programs and operations of all the port districts in this state is recognized and declared as a matter of legislative determination.
[ 1961 c 31 s 1 .] |
53.06.020 | Actions required of commissions—Joint reports to governor and legislature. | It shall be the duty of the port district commissions in the state to take such action to effect the coordination of the administrative programs and operations of each port district in the state and to submit to the governor and the legislature biennially a joint report or joint reports containing the recommendations f... |
53.06.030 | Washington public ports association as coordinating agency—Purposes, powers, and duties. | The port district commissions in this state are empowered to designate the Washington public ports association as a coordinating agency through which the duties imposed by RCW 53.06.020 may be performed, harmonized or correlated. The purposes of the Washington public ports association shall be: (1) To initiate and carr... |
53.06.040 | Dues and assessments may be paid to association from district funds. | Each port district which designates the Washington public ports association as the agency through which the duties imposed by RCW 53.06.020 may be executed is authorized to pay dues and/or assessments to said association from port district funds in any calendar year.
[ 2010 c 198 s 1 ; 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 s 55 ; 1970 ... |
53.06.050 | Further action by commissions authorized—Meetings. | The port district commissions are authorized to take such further action as they deem necessary to comply with the intent of this chapter, including the attendance at state and district meetings which may be required to formulate the reports provided for in RCW 53.06.020 .
[ 1961 c 31 s 5 .] |
53.06.060 | Financial records of association and any nonprofit corporation utilized by port districts subject to audit by state auditor. | The financial records of the Washington public ports association shall be subject to audit by the state auditor. The financial records of any nonprofit corporation utilized by port districts shall be subject to audit by the state auditor to determine compliance with the contractual terms and conditions under which paym... |
53.06.070 | Federation of Washington ports authorized—Purposes. | The Washington public ports association is authorized to create a federation of Washington ports to enable member ports to strengthen their international trading capabilities and market the region's products worldwide. Such a federation shall maintain the authority of individual ports and have the following purposes: (... |
53.06.080 | Implementation of economic development programs—Use of nonprofit corporations—Transfer of funds. | Port districts are authorized to utilize the services of a nonprofit corporation for the purposes of providing training, education, and general improvement to the public sector management skills necessary to implement the economic development programs of port districts. Actions taken under this section must be implemen... |
53.06.090 | Nonprofit corporations—Legislative recognition. | In carrying out the purposes described in this and other chapters of this title, the legislature recognizes that any nonprofit corporation created or re-created for the purposes of this chapter, is a private nonprofit corporation contracting to provide services to which port districts may subscribe.
[ 2000 c 198 s 3 .] |
53.08.005 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Commission" means the Washington utilities and transportation commission. (2) "Retail telecommunications services" means the sale, lease, license, or indivisible right of use of telecommunications services ... |
53.08.010 | Acquisition of property—Levy of assessments. | A port district may acquire by purchase, for cash or on deferred payments for a period not exceeding twenty years, or by condemnation, or both, all lands, property, property rights, leases, or easements necessary for its purposes and may exercise the right of eminent domain in the acquirement or damaging of all such la... |
53.08.020 | Acquisition and operation of facilities. | A port district may construct, condemn, purchase, acquire, add to, maintain, conduct, and operate sea walls, jetties, piers, wharves, docks, boat landings, and other harbor improvements, warehouses, storehouses, elevators, grain-bins, cold storage plants, terminal icing plants, bunkers, oil tanks, ferries, canals, lock... |
53.08.030 | Operation of foreign trade zones. | A district may apply to the United States for permission to establish, operate, and maintain foreign trade zones: (1) Within the district; and (2) on property adjacent to but outside the district if the property is beyond the boundaries of any existing foreign trade zone grantee and is not currently designated as a for... |
53.08.040 | Improvement of lands for industrial and commercial purposes—Providing sewer and water utilities—Providing pollution control facilities. | (1) A district may improve its lands by dredging, filling, bulkheading, providing waterways or otherwise developing such lands for industrial and commercial purposes. A district may also acquire, construct, install, improve, and operate sewer and water utilities to serve its own property and other property owners under... |
53.08.041 | Pollution control facilities or other industrial development actions—Validation—Implementation of Article 8, section 8 of the Constitution. | All actions heretofore taken by port districts in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, and the provisions of chapter 6, Laws of 1975 hereby made applicable thereto, relating to pollution control facilities or other industrial development, including, but not limited to, all bonds issued for such purposes, sha... |
53.08.043 | Powers relative to systems of sewerage. | A port district may exercise all the powers relating to systems of sewerage authorized by RCW 35.67.010 and 35.67.020 for cities and towns.
[ 1997 c 447 s 15 .]
Finding — Purpose — 1997 c 447: See note following RCW 70.05.074 . |
53.08.045 | Facilities constructed under authority of chapter subject to taxation of leasehold interest. | Facilities constructed by a port district under authority of this chapter will be subject to taxation of leasehold interest pursuant to applicable laws as now or hereafter enacted.
[ 1972 ex.s. c 54 s 3 .]
Severability — 1972 ex.s. c 54: See note following RCW 53.08.040 . |
53.08.047 | Chapter not to be construed as restricting or limiting powers of district under other laws. | Neither this chapter nor anything herein contained shall be construed as a restriction or limitation upon any powers which a district might otherwise have under any laws of this state, but shall be construed as cumulative.
[ 1972 ex.s. c 54 s 4 .]
Severability — 1972 ex.s. c 54: See note following RCW 53.08.040 . |
53.08.049 | Community revitalization financing—Public improvements. | In addition to other authority that a port district possesses, a port district may provide any public improvement as defined under RCW 39.89.020 , but this additional authority is limited to participating in the financing of the public improvements as provided under RCW 39.89.050 . This section does not limit the autho... |
53.08.050 | Local improvement districts—Assessments—Bonds. | (1) A district may establish local improvement districts within the district, and levy special assessments, in annual installments extending over a period not exceeding ten years on all property specially benefited by the local improvement, on the basis of special benefits, to pay in whole or in part the damages or cos... |
53.08.055 | Local improvement districts—Notice must contain statement that assessments may vary from estimates. | Any notice given to the public or to the owners of specific lots, tracts, or parcels of land relating to the formation of a local improvement district shall contain a statement that actual assessments may vary from assessment estimates so long as they do not exceed a figure equal to the increased true and fair value th... |
53.08.060 | Improvement of waters and waterways. | A district may improve navigable and nonnavigable waters of the United States and the state of Washington within the district; create and improve for harbor purposes new waterways within the district; and regulate and control all such waters and all natural or artificial waterways within the district and remove obstruc... |
53.08.070 | Rates and charges—Government contracts. | A district may fix, without right of appeal therefrom the rates of wharfage, dockage, warehousing, and port and terminal charges upon all improvements owned and operated by it, and the charges of ferries operated by it. It may fix, subject to state regulation, rates of wharfage, dockage, warehousing, and all necessary ... |
53.08.080 | Lease of property—Authorized—Duration. | A district may lease all lands, wharves, docks and real and personal property owned and controlled by it, for such purposes and upon such terms as the port commission deems proper: PROVIDED, That no lease shall be for a period longer than fifty years with option for extensions for up to an additional thirty years, exce... |
53.08.085 | Lease of property—Security for rent. | Every lease of all lands, wharves, docks, and real and personal property of a port district for a term of more than one year shall have the rent secured by rental insurance, bond, or other security satisfactory to the port commission, in an amount equal to one-sixth the total rent, but in no case shall such security be... |
53.08.090 | Sale of property. | (1) A port commission may, by resolution, authorize the managing official of a port district to sell and convey port district property having a value not exceeding the value limit in subsection (2) of this section. The authority must be in force for not more than one calendar year from the date of resolution and may be... |
53.08.091 | Sale of property—Contract sales—Terms and conditions. | Except in cases where the full purchase price is paid at the time of the purchase, every sale of real property or personal property under authority of RCW 53.08.090 or 53.25.110 shall be subject to the following terms and conditions: (1) The purchaser shall enter into a contract with the district in which the purchaser... |
53.08.092 | Sale of property—Taxes and assessments against property sold by contract. | A copy of all contract sales of port district property shall be filed with the county assessor within thirty days after the first payment is received by the port. The assessor shall place such property on the tax rolls of the county and the purchaser of such property shall become liable for all levies and assessments a... |
53.08.110 | Gifts—Improvement. | Port commissioners of any port district are hereby authorized to accept for and on behalf of said port district gifts of real and personal property and to expend in improvements and betterment such amount as may be necessary.
[ 1921 c 39 s 4 ; RRS s 9705.] |
53.08.120 | Contracts for labor and material—Small works roster. | (1) All material and work required by a port district not meeting the definition of public work in RCW 39.04.010 may be procured in the open market or by contract and all work ordered may be done by contract or day labor. (2)(a) All such contracts for work meeting the definition of "public work" in RCW 39.04.010 shall ... |
53.08.130 | Notice—Award of contract—Low bidder claiming error. | The notice shall state generally the nature of the work to be done and require that bids be sealed and filed with the commission at a time specified therein. Each bid shall be accompanied by a bid proposal deposit in the form of a cashier's check, money order, or surety bid bond to the commission for a sum not less tha... |
53.08.135 | Construction projects over forty thousand dollars—Contracting out. | Port districts shall determine if any construction project over forty thousand dollars can be accomplished less expensively by contracting out. If contracting out is less expensive, the port district may contract out such project.
[ 1982 c 92 s 2 .] |
53.08.140 | Leases or contracts without bond. | Port districts may enter into leases and contracts of every kind and nature with the United States of America or any of its departments, the state of Washington or any of its departments, or its political subdivisions or with any municipal corporation or quasi municipal corporation of the state of Washington, without r... |
53.08.150 | Notices when no newspaper in county. | Notices required in port districts in which no newspaper is published may be given by publication in any newspaper of general circulation in the county.
[ 1921 c 39 s 3 ; RRS s 9704.] |
53.08.160 | Studies, investigations, surveys—Promotion of facilities. | All port districts organized under the provisions of this act shall be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to initiate and carry on the necessary studies, investigations and surveys required for the proper development, improvement and utilization of all port properties, utilities and facilities, and for indu... |
53.08.170 | Employment—Wages—Benefits—Agents—Insurance for port district commissioners. | The port commission shall have authority to create and fill positions, to fix wages, salaries and bonds thereof, to pay costs and assessments involved in securing or arranging to secure employees, and to establish such benefits for employees, including holiday pay, vacations or vacation pay, retirement and pension bene... |
53.08.175 | Commissioners, officers, and employees—Reimbursement of expenses. | Employees, officers, and commissioners of port districts shall, when engaged in official business of the port district, be entitled to receive their necessary and reasonable travel and other business expenses incurred on behalf of the port district. Reimbursement of such expenses may be granted, whether incurred within... |
53.08.176 | Commissioners, officers, and employees—Regulation of expenses. | Each port district shall adopt a resolution (which may be amended from time to time) which shall establish the basic rules and regulations governing methods and amount of reimbursement payable to such port officials and employees for travel and other business expenses incurred on behalf of the district. The resolution ... |
53.08.180 | Federal old age and survivors' insurance for employees. | As used in RCW 53.08.180 through 53.08.200 , the term "employees" shall be as defined in RCW 41.48.020 and no distinction shall be made for the purposes of coverage under the social security act, between persons employed by a port district on a casual or temporary basis, or on a regular or steady basis, or between pers... |
53.08.190 | Federal old age and survivors' insurance for employees—Plan for extension of benefits. | Each port district, which has not previously done so, shall within thirty days of June 8, 1955, submit for approval by the governor a plan for extending the benefits of Title II of the federal social security act, as amended, in conformity with applicable provisions of said act as set forth in chapter 41.48 RCW, to emp... |
53.08.200 | Federal old age and survivors' insurance for employees—Contributions. | All port districts are authorized to make contributions on employees' wages, and to impose upon their employees contributions with respect to their wages in accordance with RCW 41.48.030 through 41.48.050 .
[ 1955 c 219 s 3 .] |
53.08.205 | Liability insurance for officials and employees. | The board of commissioners of each port district may purchase liability insurance with such limits as they may deem reasonable for the purpose of protecting their officials and employees against liability for personal or bodily injuries and property damage arising from their acts or omissions while performing or in goo... |
53.08.208 | Actions against officer, employee, or agent—Defense and costs provided by port district—Exception. | Whenever any action, claim, or proceeding is instituted against any person who is or was an officer, employee, or agent of a port district established under this title arising out of the performance or failure of performance of duties for, or employment with any such district, the commission of the district may grant a... |
53.08.220 | Regulations authorized—Adoption as part of ordinance or resolution of city or county, procedure—Enforcement—Penalty for violation. | (1) A port district may formulate all needful regulations for the use by tenants, agents, servants, licensees, invitees, suppliers, passengers, customers, shippers, business visitors, and members of the general public of any properties or facilities owned or operated by it, and request the adoption, amendment, or repea... |
53.08.230 | Making motor vehicle and other police regulations applicable to district property—Filing plat with county auditor—Duty of law enforcement officers. | A port district may at its option file with the county auditor a plat of any of its properties or facilities, showing thereon such private streets, alleys, access roads, parking areas, parks and other places as the port district may wish to have treated as public for purposes of motor vehicle or other police regulation... |
53.08.240 | Joint exercise of powers and joint acquisition of property—Contracts with other governmental entities. | (1) Any two or more port districts shall have the power, by mutual agreement, to exercise jointly all powers granted to each individual district, and in the exercise of such powers shall have the right and power to acquire jointly all lands, property, property rights, leases, or easements necessary for their purposes, ... |
53.08.245 | Economic development programs authorized—Job training and education. | (1) It shall be in the public purpose for all port districts to engage in economic development programs. In addition, port districts may contract with nonprofit corporations and private and public entities that provide training systems as defined in RCW 28C.18.010 and promote workforce diversity in furtherance of this ... |
53.08.255 | Tourism promotion and tourism-related facilities authorized. | (1) Any port district in this state, acting through its commission, has power to expend moneys and conduct promotion of resources and facilities in the district or general area by advertising, publicizing, or otherwise distributing information to attract visitors and encourage tourist expansion. (2)(a) Any port distric... |
53.08.260 | Park and recreation facilities. | A port district may construct, improve, maintain, and operate public park and recreation facilities when such facilities are necessary to more fully utilize boat landings, harbors, wharves and piers, air, land, and water passenger and transfer terminals, waterways, and other port facilities authorized by law pursuant t... |
53.08.270 | Park and recreation facilities—Approval of other agencies. | Before undertaking any such plan for the acquisition and operation of any park or recreational facility the proposed plan therefor shall be first submitted in writing to the director of the parks and recreation commission and to the governing body of any county or municipal park agency having jurisdiction in the area. ... |
53.08.280 | Police officers—Appointment authorized—Jurisdiction. | Any port district operating an airport with a police department as authorized by RCW 14.08.120 or designated as a port of entry by the federal government is authorized to appoint police officers with full police powers to enforce all applicable federal, state, or municipal statutes, rules, regulations, or ordinances up... |
53.08.290 | Intermodal movement of interstate and foreign cargo—Restrictions. | In addition to the other powers under this chapter, a port district, in connection with the operation of facilities and improvements of the district, may perform all necessary activities related to the intermodal movement of interstate and foreign cargo: PROVIDED, That nothing contained herein shall authorize a port di... |
53.08.295 | Passenger-carrying vessels. | A port district may acquire, lease, construct, purchase, maintain, and operate passenger-carrying vessels on Puget Sound, interstate navigable rivers of the state, and intrastate waters of adjoining states. Service provided shall be under terms, conditions, and rates to be fixed and approved by the port commission. Ope... |
53.08.310 | Moorage facilities—Definitions. | Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this section, RCW 53.08.480 , and 53.08.320 . (1) "Moorage facility" means any properties or facilities owned or operated by a moorage facility operator which are capable of use for the moorage or storage of vessels. (2) "Mo... |
53.08.320 | Moorage facilities—Rules authorized—Port charges, delinquency—Abandoned vessels, public sale. | A moorage facility operator may adopt all rules necessary for rental and use of moorage facilities and for the expeditious collection of port charges. The rules may also establish procedures for the enforcement of these rules by port district, city, county, metropolitan park district or town personnel. The rules shall ... |
53.08.330 | Streets, roads, and highways—Construction, upgrading, improvement, and repair authorized. | Any port district in this state, acting through its commission, may expend port funds toward construction, upgrading, improvement, or repair of any street, road, or highway that serves port facilities.
[ 1990 c 5 s 1 .] |
53.08.340 | Streets, roads, and highways—Expenditure of funds. | The funds authorized by RCW 53.08.330 may be expended by the port commission in conjunction with any plan of improvements undertaken by the state of Washington, an adjoining state, or a county or municipal government of either, in combination with any of said public entities, and without regard to whether expenditures ... |
53.08.360 | Annexation of port district property—Transfer of employees engaged in firefighting. | (1) When a port district provides its own fire protection services with port district employees, and port district property is included as part of an annexation, incorporation, consolidation, or merger by a city, town, or fire protection district, and fire protection services for this port district property will be fur... |
53.08.370 | Telecommunications facilities—Construct, purchase, acquire, etc.—Purposes—Limitations—Eminent domain. | (1) A port district in existence on June 8, 2000, may construct, purchase, acquire, develop, finance, lease, license, handle, provide, add to, contract for, interconnect, alter, improve, repair, operate, and maintain any telecommunications facilities within or without the district's limits for the following purposes: (... |
53.08.375 | Retail telecommunications services—Reporting requirements. | (1) Before providing retail telecommunications services, a port district must report to its governing body and to the state broadband office the following about the area to be served by the port district: (a) An assessment of the current availability of broadband infrastructure and its adequacy to provide high-speed in... |
53.08.380 | Wholesale telecommunications services—Petition for review of rates, terms, conditions. | (1) A person or entity that has requested wholesale telecommunications services from a port district may petition the commission under the procedures set forth in RCW 80.04.110 (1) through (3) if it believes the district's rates, terms, and conditions are unduly or unreasonably discriminatory or preferential. The perso... |
53.08.390 | Grays Harbor pilotage district—Conditions on pilotage service. | A countywide port district located in part or in whole within the Grays Harbor pilotage district, as defined by RCW 88.16.050 (2), may commence pilotage service with the following powers and subject to the conditions contained in this section. (1) Persons employed to perform the pilotage service of a port district must... |
53.08.400 | District may exercise powers of community renewal agency. | A port district may enter into a contract with any city, town, or county for the purpose of exercising any powers of a community renewal agency under chapter 35.81 RCW.
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Severability — Savings — Construction — 2002 c 218: See notes following RCW 35.81.005 . |
53.08.410 | Abandoned or derelict vessels. | A port district has the authority, subject to the processes and limitation outlined in chapter 79.100 RCW, to store, strip, use, auction, sell, salvage, scrap, or dispose of an abandoned or derelict vessel found on or above publicly or privately owned aquatic lands within the jurisdiction of the port district.
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