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53.34.130 | Bonds, notes, obligations not state or district debt—No ad valorem taxes. | The revenue bonds, revenue notes, and any other obligations of a district issued under the authority of this chapter shall not be a debt of the state of Washington or of any political subdivision of this state, nor shall such obligations be considered indebtedness of the port district issuing same within any constituti... |
53.34.140 | Registration of bonds and notes—Prima facie validity. | Prior to the issuance and delivery of revenue bonds or notes under the authority of this chapter, such revenue bonds or notes and a certified copy of the resolution, resolutions, or trust agreements authorizing such revenue bonds or notes shall be forwarded by the port commission to the state auditor together with any ... |
53.34.150 | Bonds and notes as legal investment and security. | Revenue bonds and notes issued under the authority of this chapter are made securities in which all public officers and bodies of this state, all municipalities and municipal subdivisions and all other political subdivisions of this state, all insurance companies and associations and other persons carrying on an insura... |
53.34.160 | Projects declared public benefit and governmental function—Covenant by state with bond and note holders—Tax exemption. | It is found, determined, and declared that the creation and establishment of projects authorized by this chapter are in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state of Washington, for the improvement of their welfare and prosperity, and for the promotion of intrastate, interstate, and foreign commerce, the t... |
53.34.170 | District's power to acquire property, rights, etc.—Gifts—Condemnation—Contracts by public agencies authorized. | In the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, extension, or betterment of any project or projects authorized under the provisions of this chapter any port district creating and establishing any such project or projects may have and exercise all of the powers heretofore or hereafter granted to port dist... |
53.34.180 | Public agencies authorized to contract with district for contribution of money, property, services, etc. | Any public agency, including without limitation the department of transportation, may contract with a port district that is constructing a project or projects under this chapter for the contribution of moneys or real or personal property in aid of the construction of the projects, or for the furnishing of engineering, ... |
53.34.190 | Bylaws, rules for management, uses, charges—Penalty for violation. | (1) Any port district establishing a project under the authority of this chapter may make such bylaws, rules, and regulations for the management and use of such project and for the collection of rentals, tolls, fees, and other charges for services or commodities sold, furnished or supplied through such project. (2) The... |
53.34.200 | Actions for damages, injuries, death—Allegation in complaint of presentment of claim. | In every action against a district for damages, for injuries to real or personal property, or for the destruction thereof, or for personal injuries or death arising in connection with the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, operation, or maintenance of a project authorized by the provisions of this chapter, the ... |
53.34.220 | Chapter supplemental to other laws—Liberal construction. | The powers and rights granted to port districts and public agencies by the provisions of this chapter are in addition and supplemental to and not in substitution of the powers and rights heretofore or hereafter granted to such districts and public agencies by any other law or city charter, and no limitations or restric... |
53.34.910 | Chapter controls inconsistent acts. | Insofar as the provisions of this chapter are inconsistent with the provisions of any other act or of any city charter, the provisions of this chapter shall be controlling.
[ 1959 c 236 s 24 .] |
53.35.010 | Preliminary budget. | On or before the 15th day of September of each year each port commission shall prepare a preliminary budget of the port district for the ensuing fiscal year showing the estimated expenditures and the anticipated available funds from which all expenditures are to be paid.
[ 1959 c 159 s 1 .] |
53.35.020 | Publication of notice of preliminary budget and hearing. | Following the preparation of the preliminary budget, the port commission shall publish a notice stating that the preliminary budget of the port district has been prepared and placed on file at the office of the port district; that a copy thereof may be obtained by any taxpayer at an address set forth in the notice; tha... |
53.35.030 | Hearing—Final budget. | On the day set by the notice provided for in RCW 53.35.020 the commission shall meet at the place and hour designated for the purpose of a hearing on the budget and adoption of a final budget. Any person may present objections to the preliminary budget following which the commission shall, by resolution adopt a final b... |
53.35.040 | Final budget to be filed with county commissioners. | It shall be the duty of the commissioners of port districts, for the purpose of levying port district taxes, to file with the clerk of the board of county commissioners on or before the Wednesday next following the first Monday in October in each year a certified copy of such final budget which shall specify the amount... |
53.35.045 | Alternate date for filing final budget. | Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the board of commissioners of a port district may file with the clerk of the county legislative authority a certified copy of the port district final budget, provided for in RCW 53.35.040 , on the first Monday in December. The board of port commissioners may also se... |
53.35.050 | Supplemental budgets. | A port commission may adopt by resolution one or more supplemental budgets at any time during the fiscal year. Such supplemental budget shall be adopted only after public hearing. Notice of such hearing shall be given by a single publication of notice of the date, place and hour of the hearing in a legal newspaper of t... |
53.35.060 | Fiscal year. | The fiscal year for a port district shall be the calendar year.
[ 1959 c 159 s 6 .] |
53.35.070 | Chapter exclusive method for budgets. | The provisions of this chapter shall constitute the exclusive requirement and authority for the preparation, adoption, certification and filing of port district budgets.
[ 1959 c 159 s 7 .] |
53.36.010 | District treasurer. | The treasurer of the county in which a port district is located shall be treasurer of the district unless the commission of a port district which has for the last three consecutive years received annual gross operating revenues of one hundred thousand dollars or more, excluding tax revenues and grants for capital purpo... |
53.36.015 | Payment of claims—Use of warrants and checks. | A port district that acts as its own treasurer as provided in RCW 53.36.010 may by resolution adopt a policy for the payment of claims or other obligations of the port district, which are payable out of solvent funds, electing either to pay obligations by warrant or by check. However, no check shall be issued when the ... |
53.36.020 | Tax levy—Limitation. | A district may raise revenue by levy of an annual tax not to exceed forty-five cents per thousand dollars of assessed value against the assessed valuation of the taxable property in such port district for general port purposes, including the establishment of a capital improvement fund for future capital improvements, e... |
53.36.030 | Indebtedness—Limitation. | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 6132.SL ) ***
(1)(a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, a port district may at any time contract indebtedness or borrow money for district purposes and may issue general obligation bonds therefor not exceeding an amount, together with any existing indebtedness of the district not ... |
53.36.040 | Funds in anticipation of revenues—Warrants. | (1) Any port commission is hereby authorized, prior to the receipt of taxes raised by levy, to borrow money or issue the warrants of the district in anticipation of the revenues to be derived by such district and such warrants shall be redeemed from the first money available from such taxes when collected. Such warrant... |
53.36.050 | County treasurer—General and special funds—Depositories—Investment of excess funds. | The county treasurer acting as port treasurer shall create a fund to be known as the "Port of . . . . . . Fund," into which shall be paid all money received by him or her from the collection of taxes in behalf of such port district, and shall also maintain such other special funds as may be created by the port commissi... |
53.36.060 | Incidental expense fund. | The port commission of any port district may, by resolution, create an incidental expense fund in such amount as the port commission may direct. Such incidental expense fund may be kept and maintained in a bank or banks designated in the resolution creating the fund, and such depository shall be required to give bonds ... |
53.36.070 | Levy for dredging, canal construction, or land leveling or filling purposes. | Any port district organized under the laws of this state shall, in addition to the powers otherwise provided by law, have the power to raise revenue by the levy and collection of an annual tax on all taxable property within such port district of not to exceed forty-five cents per thousand dollars of assessed value agai... |
53.36.080 | Collection of levies for dredging, canal construction, or land leveling or filling purposes. | Whenever such additional levy for dredging, canal construction, or land leveling or filling purposes shall have been authorized by the electors of the district at an election, held subsequent to the time of making the levy for the district for general purposes, in any year, such levy shall be certified by the port comm... |
53.36.100 | Levy for industrial development district purposes—Notice—Petition—Election.(Effective until January 1, 2026.) | (1) A port district having adopted a comprehensive scheme of harbor improvements and industrial developments may thereafter raise revenue, for six years only, and a second six years if the procedures are followed under subsection (2) of this section, in addition to all other revenues now authorized by law, by an annual... |
53.36.110 | Levy for industrial development district purposes—Excess funds to be used solely for retirement of general obligations.(Effective until January 1, 2026.) | In the event the levy herein authorized shall produce revenue in excess of the requirements to complete the projects of a port district then provided for in its comprehensive scheme of harbor improvements and industrial developments or amendments thereto, said excess shall be used solely for the retirement of general o... |
53.36.120 | Expenditures for industrial development, trade promotion, or promotional hosting—Budgeting required. | Under the authority of Article VIII, section 8, of the state Constitution, port district expenditures for industrial development, trade promotion or promotional hosting shall be pursuant to specific budget items as approved by the port commission at the annual public hearings on the port district budget.
[ 1967 c 136 s... |
53.36.130 | Expenditures for industrial development, trade promotion, or promotional hosting—Source and amount of funds. | Funds for promotional hosting expenditures shall be expended only from gross operating revenues and shall not exceed one percent thereof upon the first two million five hundred thousand dollars of such gross operating revenues, one-half of one percent upon the next two million five hundred thousand dollars of such gros... |
53.36.140 | Expenditures for industrial development, trade promotion, or promotional hosting—Rules and regulations—Authorizations—Vouchers. | Port commissions shall adopt, in writing, rules and regulations governing promotional hosting expenditures by port employees or agents. Such rules shall identify officials and agents authorized to make such expenditures and the approved objectives of such spending. Port commissioners shall not personally make such expe... |
53.36.150 | Expenditures for industrial development, trade promotion, or promotional hosting—Duties of state auditor. | The state auditor shall, as provided in chapter 43.09 RCW: (1) Audit expenditures made pursuant to RCW 53.36.120 through 53.36.150 ; and (2) Promulgate appropriate rules and definitions as a part of the uniform system of accounts for port districts to carry out the intent of RCW 53.36.120 through 53.36.150 : PROVIDED, ... |
53.36.160 | Multiyear levy periods—Requirements. | (1)(a) A port district having adopted a comprehensive scheme of harbor improvements and industrial developments may thereafter raise revenue through: (i) A first multiyear levy period, if it meets the requirements of this subsection (1); (ii) A second multiyear levy period, if it meets the requirements of this subsecti... |
53.40.010 | Revenue bonds authorized. | The port commission of any port district is authorized for the purpose of carrying out the lawful powers granted port districts by the laws of the state to contract indebtedness and to issue revenue bonds evidencing such indebtedness in conformity with this chapter.
[ 1959 c 183 s 1 ; 1957 c 59 s 1 ; 1949 c 122 s 1 ; R... |
53.40.020 | Purposes for which bonds may be issued and sold. | All such revenue bonds authorized under the terms of this chapter may be issued and sold by the port district from time to time and in such amounts as is deemed necessary by the port commission to provide sufficient funds for the carrying out of all port district powers, and without limiting the generality thereof, sha... |
53.40.030 | Bonds—Term, form, etc. | (1) The port commission shall determine the form, conditions, and denominations of all such bonds, the maturity date or dates which the bonds so sold shall bear, and the interest rate or rates thereon. It shall not be necessary that all bonds of the same authorized issue bear the same interest rate or rates. Principal ... |
53.40.040 | Bonds payable solely out of revenues—Special funds. | Bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be payable solely out of operating revenues of the port district. Such bonds shall be authorized by resolution adopted by the port commission, which resolution shall create a special fund or funds into which the port commission may obligate and bind the port distr... |
53.40.050 | Sale of bonds to federal government. | Port districts may, but are not required by the terms of this chapter to do so, sell any or all such bonds issued pursuant to this chapter to the federal government, or any agency of the federal government, at private sale and without the necessity of public advertisement or calling for bids.
[ 1959 c 183 s 5 ; 1957 c ... |
53.40.110 | Interest, signatures, sale of bonds—Covenants—Safeguards—Enforcement. | (1) The bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall bear interest at such rate or rates as authorized by the port commission; shall be signed on behalf of the port district by the president of the port commission and shall be attested by the secretary of the port commission, one of which signatures ma... |
53.40.120 | Irregularity in bonds or use of funds no defense. | The Reconstruction Finance Corporation, or any other agency of the United States government making any such loan, or any other holder or owner of any bonds issued pursuant to this chapter, shall not be required to see to the application of the moneys derived from such bonds to the purposes for which the bonds are issue... |
53.40.125 | District may mortgage industrial development facility. | The port commission of any port district, as security for the payment of the principal of and interest on any revenue bonds issued and any agreements made in connection therewith, may mortgage, pledge, or otherwise encumber the particular industrial development facility or facilities or any part or parts thereof that a... |
53.40.130 | Funding, refunding bonds. | (1) The port commission of any port district may by resolution, from time to time, provide for the issuance of funding or refunding revenue bonds to fund or refund any outstanding revenue warrants, bonds, and any premiums and interest due thereon at or before the maturity of such warrants or bonds, and may combine vari... |
53.40.135 | Revenue warrants. | Port districts may also issue revenue warrants for the same purposes for which they may issue revenue bonds, and the provisions of this chapter relating to the terms, conditions, covenants, issuance, and sale of revenue bonds shall be applicable to such revenue warrants.
[ 1959 c 183 s 8 .] |
53.40.140 | Construction of chapter. | This chapter shall be complete authority for the issuance of the bonds and warrants hereby authorized, and shall be liberally construed to accomplish its purposes. Any restrictions, limitations or regulations relative to the issuance of such bonds or warrants contained in any other act shall not apply to the bonds or w... |
53.40.150 | Validation—1959 c 183. | Any sale of revenue bonds or warrants of port districts heretofore made, whether at public or private sale and whether at par or less than par as authorized herein, and any terms, conditions, and covenants of any revenue bonds or warrants of port districts heretofore issued, are hereby declared to be valid, legal, and ... |
53.44.010 | Funding and refunding authorized. | The board of commissioners of any port district of the state may fund or refund any of the general bonded indebtedness and/or warrants of the district now or hereafter existing and accrued interest thereon, and may combine various series and/or issues of warrants and/or bonds into a single issue of funding or refunding... |
53.44.030 | Maturities—Payment. | Such funding or refunding bonds shall run for a period of not exceeding twenty years from date thereof. The board may apply to the payment of the funding or refunding bonds and to the prior redemption thereof any other moneys or funds belonging to the district which are legally available for such purpose.
[ 1984 c 186 ... |
53.46.005 | Definitions. | As used in this chapter the term "principal county auditor" and "principal county treasurer" shall be the county auditor or county treasurer in the county having the largest assessed valuation of the total of the proposed consolidated port district.
[ 1965 c 102 s 1 .] |
53.46.010 | Consolidation authorized—Petition or resolution, contents. | Two or more port districts may be joined into one consolidated port district in the following manner: The port commissioners of each of the port districts proposed to be consolidated may, or on petition of ten percent of the qualified electors residing within each of the districts proposed to be consolidated based on t... |
53.46.020 | Special election—Conduct. | The special election to consider such consolidation and to fill such offices shall be conducted in accordance with the general election laws of the state.
[ 1990 c 259 s 20 ; 1965 c 102 s 3 ; 1961 c 26 s 2 .] |
53.46.030 | Certification of election—Establishment as municipal corporation—Commissioners, terms. | The county canvassing board of election returns shall certify the results of the election to the board of county commissioners; and if at such election a majority of voters voting on the question of consolidation in each port district to be consolidated shall vote in favor of consolidation, the board of county commissi... |
53.46.040 | Prior obligations—Powers of consolidated district—Separation of funds. | None of the obligations of each port district which has been consolidated shall be affected by the consolidation, and taxes and assessments for payment of such obligations shall continue to be levied and collected in respect to property in such former port district notwithstanding the consolidation. The port commission... |
53.46.050 | County commissioners may act if no active port commission. | In the event a port district does not have an active port commission to which the petition for consolidation may be directed, the board of county commissioners of the county wherein such inactive port district is located may act in the place and stead of the port commission for the purposes of consolidation.
[ 1961 c 2... |
53.46.060 | Dissolution of district which has no active commission—Authority of county commissioners. | For the purpose of dissolution of any port district not having an active port commission the board of county commissioners of the county wherein such inactive port district is located may exercise the powers and duties vested by chapter 53.48 RCW in the governing body of such port district.
[ 1961 c 26 s 6 .] |
53.46.070 | Title to property vests in consolidated district. | Upon consolidation of two or more port districts the title to all property owned by or held in trust for the former districts shall vest in the consolidated port district.
[ 1965 c 102 s 5 .] |
53.46.080 | District including area from two or more counties—Procedure to determine proportion of taxes. | If the district includes area from two or more counties, it shall be the duty of the county assessor in each county to certify annually to the auditor of his or her county, who shall forward the same to the principal county auditor, the total assessed valuation of that part of the port district which lies within his or... |
53.46.090 | District including area from two or more counties—Levy and collection of taxes—Principal county treasurer, duties. | Upon receipt of the certificate from the principal county auditor as provided in RCW 53.46.080 it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of each county to levy on all taxable property of the consolidated port district which lies within the county a tax sufficient to raise the amount necessary to meet th... |
53.46.100 | General powers of consolidated district—Debt limitation. | Any port district created by consolidation prior to June 10, 1965, or formed hereafter under chapter 102, Laws of 1965, shall have all the powers of a newly formed port district, without any other restriction except the requirements of RCW 53.46.040 : PROVIDED, That general obligation indebtedness outstanding for all p... |
53.47.010 | Purpose. | This chapter shall provide an additional method by which inactive port districts may be dissolved.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 162 s 1 .] |
53.47.020 | Port district deemed inactive, when. | A port district shall be deemed inactive if, at the time of the filing of the petition for dissolution with the clerk of the superior court of the county in which such port district is situated, such port has failed to comply with subdivision (1), (2), or (3) of this section. (1) The port district has failed to file it... |
53.47.030 | Petition for dissolution—Filing—Contents. | The county prosecutor of the county in which such port district is located acting upon his or her own motion shall file such petition for dissolution with the clerk of the superior court of the county in which such inactive port district is located. Such petition shall: (1) Describe with certainty the port district whi... |
53.47.040 | Hearing on petition—Notice, publication—Creditor claims, determination—Terms and conditions of court order if district to be dissolved. | The superior court, upon the filing of such petition, shall set such petition for hearing not less than one hundred twenty days and not more than one hundred eighty days after the date of filing said petition. Further, the court shall order the clerk of said court to give notice of the time and place fixed for the hear... |
53.47.050 | Effect of final order of dissolution. | Upon the entry of the final order of dissolution declaring the port district dissolved all offices of the port district shall be deemed abolished, and no other or further levy shall be certified by the county commissioners except pursuant to the directive of the court as hereinabove provided.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 162 s 5 .] |
53.47.900 | Chapter cumulative and nonexclusive. | The provisions of this chapter shall be cumulative and nonexclusive and shall not affect any other remedy.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 162 s 6 .] |
53.48.001 | Dissolution of certain districts subject to review by boundary review board. | The dissolution of a metropolitan park district, fire protection district, water-sewer district, or flood control zone district under chapter 53.48 RCW may be subject to potential review by a boundary review board under chapter 36.93 RCW.
[ 1999 c 153 s 62 ; 1989 c 84 s 46 .]
Part headings not law — 1999 c 153: See not... |
53.48.010 | Definitions. | The following words and terms shall, whenever used in this chapter, have the meaning set forth in this section: (1) The term "district" as used herein, shall include all municipal and quasi-municipal corporations having a governing body, other than cities, towns, counties, and townships, such as port districts, school ... |
53.48.020 | Petition. | For the purpose of dissolution of a district, a petition for an order of dissolution signed by the majority of the board of commissioners, or other governing authority of such district shall be presented to the superior court of the county in which the board of commissioners is situated.
[ 1941 c 87 s 2 ; Rem. Supp. 19... |
53.48.030 | Order for hearing—Notice. | Upon the filing of such petition for an order of dissolution, the superior court shall enter an order setting the same for hearing at a date not less than thirty days from the date of filing, and the petitioner shall give notice of such hearing by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which... |
53.48.040 | Order of dissolution—Sale of assets. | After said hearing the court shall enter its order dissolving or refusing to dissolve said district. A finding that the best interests of all persons concerned will be served by the proposed dissolution shall be essential to an order of dissolution. If the court find that such district is solvent, the court shall order... |
53.48.050 | Payment of debts and costs—Balance to school district. | The proceeds of the sale, together with moneys on hand in the treasury of the district, shall after payment of all costs and expenses, be paid to the treasurer of the same county and placed to the credit of the school district, or districts, in which such district is situated.
[ 1941 c 87 s 5 ; Rem. Supp. 1941 s 8931-1... |
53.48.060 | Insolvency—Second hearing. | Upon a finding of insolvency the court shall then determine the indebtedness of the district, the creditors thereof and their claims. The court shall then set a date and a place for a second hearing, which hearing shall be not less than sixty days nor more than one hundred twenty days from the hearing as provided in RC... |
53.48.070 | Notice of second hearing. | The clerk shall give notice of the second hearing by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the district is located once a week for three successive weeks, and by posting in three public places in the county in which the district is located at least twenty-one days before the hearing, ... |
53.48.080 | Sale of property—Levy to pay deficit. | At the second hearing the court shall have authority to order the sale of any district property. If the proceeds of such sale together with any cash remaining on hand to the credit of the district are insufficient to retire such indebtedness together with all costs and expenses, the court shall have authority to order ... |
53.48.090 | Order of dissolution or refusal. | After the indebtedness of the district has been settled or paid, the court shall determine whether the best interests of all persons concerned will be served by the proposed dissolution and shall make a finding thereon. The court shall then enter its order dissolving or refusing to dissolve said district.
[ 1941 c 87 s... |
53.48.120 | Provision for costs and expenses. | In all proceedings brought under this chapter the court shall make provision for the costs and expenses of proceedings hereunder and for the payment of the same.
[ 1941 c 87 s 10 ; Rem. Supp. 1941 s 8931-20.] |
53.48.140 | Dissolution of district which has no active commission—Powers of county commissioners. | See RCW 53.46.060 . |
53.49.010 | Port districts in counties with populations of from eight thousand to less than twelve thousand—Disposition of funds. | Whenever any port district located in any county with a population of from eight thousand to less than twelve thousand shall be dissolved and disestablished or is about to be dissolved and disestablished and any sums of money remain in any of its funds, the port commissioners are authorized and directed to apply by pet... |
53.49.020 | Port districts in counties with populations of from eight thousand to less than twelve thousand—Order to transfer funds. | The superior court of any such county shall enter his or her order authorizing such transfer of funds if he or she is satisfied, after hearing the petition therefor, that the port district is dissolved and disestablished or is about to be dissolved and disestablished and that no obligations of the port district remain ... |
53.54.010 | Programs for abatement of aircraft noise authorized. | A port district operating an airport serving more than nine hundred scheduled jet aircraft flights per day may undertake any of the programs or combinations of such programs, as authorized by this chapter, for the purpose of alleviating and abating the impact of jet aircraft noise on areas surrounding such airport.
[ 2... |
53.54.020 | Investigation and monitoring of noise impact—Programs to conform to needs—"Impacted areas." | (1) Prior to initiating programs as authorized in this chapter, the port commission shall undertake the investigation and monitoring of aircraft noise impact to determine the nature and extent of the impact. The port commission shall adopt a program of noise impact abatement based upon the investigations and as amended... |
53.54.030 | Authorized programs—When property deemed within impacted area—Noise mitigation grant program. | (1) For the purposes of this chapter, in developing a remedial program, the port commission may take steps as appropriate including, but not limited to, one or more of the following programs: (a) Acquisition of property or property rights within the impacted area, which shall be deemed necessary to accomplish a port pu... |
53.54.040 | Fund authorized—Sources. | A port district may establish a fund to be utilized in effectuating the intent of this chapter. The port district may finance such fund by: The proceeds of any grants or loans made by federal agencies; the proceeds of any grants made by the department of commerce pursuant to RCW 43.330.610 ; rentals, charges, and other... |
53.54.900 | Liberal construction—Powers additional. | The rule of strict construction shall have no application to this chapter, which shall be liberally construed to carry out the purposes and objects for which this chapter is intended. The powers granted in this chapter shall be in addition to all others granted to port districts.
[ 1974 ex.s. c 121 s 5 .] |
53.56.010 | Intent. | The legislature intends for port districts 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 legislature acknowledges the efforts of the international city/... |
53.56.020 | 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... |
53.56.030 | Policy statement—Service delivery objectives. | (1) Every port 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 department; (d) The expected number of fire department employees; and (e) F... |
53.56.040 | Annual evaluations—Annual report. | (1) Every port 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 objective in each geographic area within the port's jurisdiction. (2) Beg... |
53.57.010 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Port commission" means a port commission governed by chapter 53.12 RCW of a port district that either singly or jointly creates a port development authority under the provisions of this chapter. (2) "Port d... |
53.57.020 | Port development authority—Creation—Powers—Joint exercise of authority. | (1) A port district or two port districts that act jointly in accordance with subsection (3) of this section may by resolution: (a) Create a port development authority solely to manage maritime activities of the port district or districts; and (b) Transfer to any port development authority created under this section, w... |
53.57.030 | Governance—Organization—Management authority. | (1) The affairs, operations, and funds of a port development authority must be governed by the port district or districts that created the port development authority. Each port district governing the port development authority must oversee the affairs, operations, and funds of the port development authority exclusively... |
53.57.040 | Agreements with government entities—Bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness—Special funds. | (1) For the management of maritime activities, port districts and port development authorities are authorized to enter into an agreement with the federal government, any federal agency or department, and any state agency or political subdivision of the state, and pursuant to the agreement: (a) Receive and expend, or ca... |
53.57.050 | Powers, authorities, rights—Jurisdiction. | Powers, authorities, or rights expressly or impliedly granted to any port district or agents of the port district under the provisions of this chapter are not operable, applicable, or effective beyond the boundaries of the port district, unless so provided by contract between the port district and a county, a city, or ... |
53.57.060 | Applicable laws.(Effective until January 1, 2026.) | A port development authority created under this chapter must comply with applicable laws including, but not limited to, the following: (1) Requirements concerning local government audits by the state auditor and applicable accounting requirements set forth in chapter 43.09 RCW; (2) The public records act, chapter 42.56... |
53.57.070 | Transfer of real property—Notice requirements—Approval process. | (1) In transferring real property to a port development authority under RCW 53.57.020 , the port district or districts creating the port development authority must impose appropriate deed restrictions necessary to ensure the continued use of the property for the public purpose for which the property is transferred. (2)... |
53.57.080 | Insolvency or dissolution—Satisfaction of liabilities. | (1) If a port development authority is insolvent or dissolved, the superior court of a county in which the port development authority operates has jurisdiction and authority to appoint trustees or receivers of the assets and property of the port development authority and to supervise the trusteeship or receivership. (2... |
53.58.010 | Purchase of zero and near zero emissions cargo handling equipment.(Expires December 31, 2031.) | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 5995.SL ) ***
(1) Moneys available to a port district or a port development authority may be used to purchase zero and near zero emissions cargo handling equipment and infrastructure supporting that equipment for the use of the port district, port development authority, or tenants or lessees... |
54.04.010 | Definitions. | As used in this title "revenue obligation" or "revenue obligations" mean and include bonds, notes, warrants, certificates of indebtedness, or any other evidences of indebtedness issued by a district which, by the terms thereof, shall be payable from the revenues of its public utilities.
[ 1959 c 218 s 14 .]
"Wholesale ... |
54.04.020 | Districts authorized. | Municipal corporations, to be known as public utility districts, are hereby authorized for the purposes of chapter 1, Laws of 1931 and may be established within the limits of the state of Washington, as provided herein.
[ 1931 c 1 s 2 ; RRS s 11606.]
Purpose — 1931 c 1: "The purpose of this act is to authorize the esta... |
54.04.030 | Restrictions on invading other municipalities. | Chapter 1, Laws of 1931, shall not be deemed or construed to repeal or affect any existing act, or any part thereof, relating to the construction, operation and maintenance of public utilities by irrigation or water-sewer districts or other municipal corporations, but shall be supplemental thereto and concurrent therew... |
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