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54.04.035 | Annexation of territory. | In addition to other powers authorized in Title 54 RCW, public utility districts may annex territory as provided in this section. The boundaries of a public utility district may be enlarged and new contiguous territory added pursuant to the procedures for annexation by cities and towns provided in RCW 35.13.015 through... |
54.04.037 | Annexation of territory—Coordination among county officials. | When territory has been added to a public utility district in accordance with RCW 54.04.035 , the supervisor of elections and other officers of the county in which the public utility district first operated shall coordinate elections, the levy and collection of taxes, and other necessary duties with the appropriate cou... |
54.04.039 | County with federal nuclear reservation within its boundaries—Special procedure for addition or withdrawal of territory from public utility district. | (1) Any voting precinct located within a county that has a federal nuclear reservation within its boundaries is: (a) Withdrawn from a public utility district if the precinct receives at least one electric distribution, water, or sewer service from a city, and no electric distribution, water, or sewer service from a pub... |
54.04.040 | Utilities within a city or town—Restrictions. | A district shall not construct any property to be utilized by it in the operation of a plant or system for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy for sale, on the streets, alleys, or public places within a city or town without the consent of the governing body of the city or town and approval ... |
54.04.045 | Locally regulated utilities—Attachments to poles—Rates—Contracting. | (1) As used in this section: (a) "Attachment" means the affixation or installation of any wire, cable, or other physical material capable of carrying electronic impulses or light waves for the carrying of intelligence for telecommunications or television, including, but not limited to cable, and any related device, app... |
54.04.050 | Group employee insurance—Deferred compensation plans—Supplemental savings plans. | (1) Subject to chapter 48.62 RCW, any public utility district engaged in the operation of electric or water utilities may enter into contracts of group insurance for the benefit of its employees, and pay all or any part of the premiums for such insurance. Such premiums shall be paid out of the revenues derived from the... |
54.04.055 | Employee benefits—District may continue to pay premiums after employee retires. | Any public utility district which provides for the coverage of any of its employees under any plan for individual annuity contracts, retirement income policies, group annuity contracts, group insurance for the benefit of its employees, or any other contract for the benefit of its employees, and pays all or any part of ... |
54.04.060 | District elections. | The supervisor of elections or other proper officer of the county shall give notice of all elections held under this title, for the time and in the manner and form provided for city, town, school district, and port district elections. When the supervisor or other officer deems an emergency exists, and is requested so t... |
54.04.070 | Contracts for work or materials—Notice—Exemptions—Unit priced contracts. | (1) Any item, or items of the same kind of materials, equipment, or supplies purchased, the estimated cost of which is in excess of $30,000, exclusive of sales tax, shall be by contract. However, a district may make purchases of the same kind of items of materials, equipment, and supplies not exceeding $12,000 in any c... |
54.04.080 | Bids—Deposit—Low bidder claiming error—Contract—Bond—Definitions. | Any notice inviting sealed bids shall state generally the work to be done, or the material to be purchased and shall call for proposals for furnishing it, to be sealed and filed with the commission on or before the time named therein. Each bid shall be accompanied by a certified or cashier's check, payable to the order... |
54.04.082 | Alternative bid procedure. | For the awarding of a contract to purchase any item, or items of the same kind of materials, equipment, or supplies in an amount exceeding thirty thousand dollars per calendar month, but less than one hundred twenty thousand dollars per calendar month, exclusive of sales tax, the commission may, in lieu of the procedur... |
54.04.085 | Electrical facility construction or improvement—Bid proposals—Contract proposal forms—Conditions for issuance—Appeals. | A district shall require that bid proposals upon any construction or improvement of any electrical facility shall be made upon contract proposal form supplied by the district commission, and in no other manner. The district commission shall, before furnishing any person, firm or corporation desiring to bid upon any ele... |
54.04.090 | Minimum wages. | Each contractor and subcontractor performing work for a public utility district or a local utility district within a public utility district shall pay or cause to be paid to its employees on the work or under the contract or subcontract, not less than the minimum scale fixed by the resolution of the commission prior to... |
54.04.092 | Application of RCW54.04.070through54.04.090to certain service provider agreements under chapter70A.140RCW. | RCW 54.04.070 through 54.04.090 shall not apply to agreements entered into under authority of chapter 70A.140 RCW provided there is compliance with the procurement procedure under RCW 70A.140.040 .
[ 2021 c 65 s 60 ; 1986 c 244 s 14 .]
Explanatory statement — 2021 c 65: See note following RCW 53.54.030 . |
54.04.100 | Wholesale power—Procedure as to rate filing—Definition—Duty to furnish to district. | Whenever a decree of public use and necessity heretofore has been or hereafter shall be entered in condemnation proceedings conducted by a public utility district for the acquisition of electrical distribution properties, or whenever it has executed a contract for the purchase of such properties, the district may cause... |
54.04.120 | Planning powers. | In order that the commissioners of a public utility district may be better able to plan for the marketing of power and for the development of resources pertaining thereto, they shall have the same powers as are vested in a board of county commissioners as provided in *chapter 44, Laws of 1935 (sections 9322-2 to 9322-4... |
54.04.130 | Employee benefit plans when private utility acquired—Rights, powers and duties as to existing private employee benefit plans. | Whenever any municipal corporation acquires by condemnation or otherwise any utility which at the time of acquisition is in private ownership and the employees of such private utility have been for at least two years and are at the time of acquisition covered by any plan for individual annuity contracts, retirement inc... |
54.04.140 | Employee benefit plans when private utility acquired—Admission to district's employee plan—Service credit—Contributions—Benefits. | Any person affected by RCW 54.04.130 who was employed by the private utility at the time of acquisition may, at his or her option, apply to the district and/or appropriate officers, for admission to any plan available to other employees of the district. Every such person who was covered at the time of acquisition by a ... |
54.04.150 | Employee benefit plans when private utility acquired—Agreements and contracts—Prior rights preserved. | The municipal corporation may enter into any agreements and contracts necessary to carry out the powers and duties prescribed by RCW 54.04.130 and 54.04.140 , but nothing in RCW 54.04.130 through 54.04.160 shall be so construed as requiring without consent the modification of the obligation of any contract or as requir... |
54.04.160 | Assumption of obligations of private pension plan when urban transportation system acquired. | Any municipal corporation which has heretofore or shall hereafter acquire from a private owner any urban transportation system which at the time of such acquisition has or had in effect any pension or retirement system for its employees, shall assume all such obligations with respect to continued contributions to and/o... |
54.04.170 | Collective bargaining authorized for employees. | Employees of public utility districts are hereby authorized and entitled to enter into collective bargaining relations with their employers with all the rights and privileges incident thereto as are accorded to similar employees in private industry.
[ 1963 c 28 s 1 .] |
54.04.180 | Collective bargaining authorized for districts. | Any public utility district may enter into collective bargaining relations with its employees in the same manner that a private employer might do and may agree to be bound by the result of such collective bargaining.
[ 1963 c 28 s 2 .] |
54.04.190 | Production and distribution of biodiesel, ethanol, and ethanol blend fuels—Crop purchase contracts for dedicated energy crops—Production and utilization of renewable natural gas and renewable hydrogen—Sale of renewable natural gas, green electrolytic hydrogen, renewable hydrogen, and biogenic carbon dioxide. | (1) In addition to any other authority provided by law, public utility districts are authorized to produce and distribute biodiesel, ethanol, and ethanol blend fuels, including entering into crop purchase contracts for a dedicated energy crop for the purpose of generating electricity or producing biodiesel produced fro... |
54.04.200 | Public utility district as captive owner. | A public utility district may be a captive owner as defined in RCW 48.201.020 .
[ 2025 c 53 s 4 .] |
54.08.001 | Actions subject to review by boundary review board. | Actions taken under chapter 54.08 RCW may be subject to potential review by a boundary review board under chapter 36.93 RCW.
[ 1989 c 84 s 47 .] |
54.08.010 | Districts including entire county or less—Procedure. | At any general election held in an even-numbered year, the county legislative authority of any county in this state may, or, on petition of ten percent of the qualified electors of the county based on the total vote cast in the last general county election held in an even-numbered year, shall, by resolution, submit to ... |
54.08.041 | Formation election expenses. | All expenses of elections for the formation of such public utility 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 public utility district, if formed.
[ 1969 c 1... |
54.08.050 | Validity of district, questioning of. | The existence of any public utility district now or hereafter formed under chapter 1, Laws of 1931, cannot hereafter be legally questioned by any person except the state of Washington in an appropriate court action brought within six months from the date that the county election board shall have canvassed the returns o... |
54.08.060 | Special election for formation of district and first commissioners—Terms. | Whenever a proposition for the formation of a public utility district is to be submitted to voters in any county, the county legislative authority may by resolution call a special election, and at the request of petitioners for the formation of such district contained in the petition shall do so and shall provide for h... |
54.08.070 | Construction or acquisition of electric facilities for generation, transmission, or distribution of power—When voter approval required—Election. | Any district which does not own or operate electric facilities for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric power on March 25, 1969, or any district which hereafter does not construct or acquire such electric facilities within ten years of its creation, shall not construct or acquire any such electric ... |
54.08.080 | Dissolution. | Any district now or hereafter created under the laws of this state may be dissolved, as hereinafter provided, by a majority vote of the qualified electors of such district at any general election upon a resolution of the district commission, or upon petition being filed and such proposition for dissolution submitted to... |
54.12.010 | Exercise of power by commissioners—Number—Districts—Terms—Vacancies—Adjustment of boundaries. | A public utility district that is created as provided in RCW 54.08.010 shall be a municipal corporation of the state of Washington, and the name of such public utility district shall be Public Utility District No. . . . . of . . . . . . County. The powers of the public utility district shall be exercised through a comm... |
54.12.080 | Compensation and expenses—Group insurance. | (1) Commissioners of public utility districts shall receive salaries as follows: (a) Each public utility district commissioner of a district operating utility properties shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per month, as adjusted for inflation by the office of financial management in subsection ... |
54.12.090 | President—Secretary—Rules—Seal—Minutes. | The commission shall elect from its members, a president and secretary, and shall, by resolution, adopt rules governing the transaction of district business, and adopt an official seal. All proceedings of the commission shall be by motion or resolution, recorded in its minute books, which shall be public records. A maj... |
54.12.100 | Oath or affirmation. | Each commissioner before he or she enters upon the duties of his or her office shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that he or she will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of his or her office to the best of his or her ability. This oath, or affirmation, shall be administered and certified by an ... |
54.12.110 | Electrical utilities—Civil immunity of commissioners and employees for good faith mistakes and errors of judgment. | Commissioners and employees of public utility districts shall be immune from civil liability for mistakes and errors of judgment in the good faith performance of acts within the scope of their official duties involving the exercise of judgment and discretion which relate solely to their responsibilities for electrical ... |
54.16.005 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Broadband infrastructure" means networks of deployed telecommunications equipment and technologies necessary to provide high-speed internet access and other advanced telecommunications services. (2) "Commis... |
54.16.010 | Surveys, plans, investigations, or studies. | A district may make surveys, plans, investigations or studies for generating electric energy by water power, steam, or other methods, and for systems and facilities for the generation, transmission or distribution thereof, and for domestic and industrial water supply and irrigation, and for matters and purposes reasona... |
54.16.020 | Acquisition of property and rights—Eminent domain. | A district may construct, condemn and purchase, purchase, acquire, lease, add to, maintain, operate, develop, and regulate all lands, property, property rights, water, water rights, dams, ditches, flumes, aqueducts, pipes and pipe lines, water power, leases, easements, rights-of-way, franchises, plants, plant facilitie... |
54.16.030 | Water and irrigation works. | A district may construct, purchase, condemn and purchase, acquire, add to, maintain, conduct, and operate waterworks and irrigation plants and systems, within or without its limits, for the purpose of furnishing the district, and the inhabitants thereof, and of the county in which the district is located, and any other... |
54.16.032 | Authority to assist customers in the acquisition of water conservation equipment—Limitations. | Any district is hereby authorized, within limits established by the Constitution of the state of Washington, to assist the owners of structures in financing the acquisition and installation of fixtures, systems, and equipment, for compensation or otherwise, for the conservation or more efficient use of water in the str... |
54.16.035 | Provision of water service beyond district subject to review by boundary review board. | The provision of water service beyond the boundaries of a public utility district may be subject to potential review by a boundary review board under chapter 36.93 RCW.
[ 1989 c 84 s 48 .] |
54.16.040 | Electric energy. | A district may purchase, within or without its limits, electric current for sale and distribution within or without its limits, and construct, condemn and purchase, purchase, acquire, add to, maintain, conduct, and operate works, plants, transmission and distribution lines and facilities for generating electric current... |
54.16.050 | Water rights. | A district may take, condemn and purchase, purchase and acquire any public and private property, franchises and property rights, including state, county, and school lands, and property and littoral and water rights, for any of the purposes aforesaid, and for railroads, tunnels, pipe lines, aqueducts, transmission lines... |
54.16.060 | Intertie lines. | A district may build and maintain intertie lines connecting its power plant and distribution system with the power plant and distribution system owned by any other public utility district, or municipal corporation, or connect with the power plants and distribution systems owned by any municipal corporation in the distr... |
54.16.070 | District may borrow money, contract indebtedness, issue bonds or obligations—Guaranty fund. | (1) A district may contract indebtedness or borrow money for any corporate purpose on its credit or on the revenues of its public utilities, and to evidence such indebtedness may issue general obligation bonds or revenue obligations; may issue and sell local utility district bonds of districts created by the commission... |
54.16.080 | Levy and collection of taxes—Tax anticipation warrants. | A district may raise revenue by the levy of an annual tax on all taxable property within the district, not exceeding forty-five cents per thousand dollars of assessed value in any one year, exclusive of interest and redemption for general obligation bonds. The commission shall prepare a proposed budget of the contempla... |
54.16.083 | Community revitalization financing—Public improvements. | In addition to other authority that a public utility district possesses, a public utility 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... |
54.16.085 | Interfund loans. | A public utility district may make and repay interfund loans between its funds.
[ 1987 c 18 s 2 .] |
54.16.090 | Contracts with other agencies or utilities—Gifts, etc.—Employees and experts—Advancements. | A district may enter into any contract or agreement with the United States, or any state, municipality, or other utility district, or any department of those entities, or with any cooperative, mutual, consumer-owned utility, or with any investor-owned utility or with an association of any of such utilities, for carryin... |
54.16.092 | Employment interview expenses. | When a district commission finds that a vacancy for a technical or managerial position requires special qualifications or entails responsibilities and duties of such a nature that substantial benefits will accrue to the district from personal interviews of candidates for such a vacancy to be held in the district, the d... |
54.16.095 | Liability insurance for officials and employees. | The board of commissioners of each public utility 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... |
54.16.097 | Actions against officer, employee, or agent—Defense and costs provided by public utility district—Exception. | Whenever any action, claim, or proceeding is instituted against any person who is or was an officer, employee, or agent of a public utility 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 m... |
54.16.100 | Manager—Appointment—Compensation—Duties. | The commission, by resolution introduced at a regular meeting and adopted at a subsequent regular meeting, shall appoint and may remove at will a district manager, and shall, by resolution, fix his or her compensation. The manager shall be the chief administrative officer of the district, in control of all administrati... |
54.16.110 | May sue and be sued—Claims. | A district may sue in any court of competent jurisdiction, and may be sued in the county in which its principal office is located or in which it owns or operates facilities. No suit for damages shall be maintained against a district except on a claim filed with the district complying in all respects with the terms and ... |
54.16.120 | Local utility districts authorized. | A district may, by resolution, establish and define the boundaries of local assessment districts to be known as local utility district No. . . . ., for distribution, under the general supervision and control of the commission, of water for all purposes, public and private, including domestic use, irrigation, and electr... |
54.16.130 | Local districts—Procedure—Financing. | The commission shall by resolution establish the method of procedure in all matters relating to local utility districts. A public utility district may determine by resolution what work shall be done or improvements made at the expense, in whole or in part, of the property specially benefited thereby; and adopt and prov... |
54.16.140 | Petition or resolution for local district—Hearing—Notice. | Any such improvement shall be ordered by resolution of the commission either upon petition or resolution therefor. When a petition, signed by ten percent of the owners of land in the district to be therein described, is filed with the commission, asking that the plan or improvement therein set forth be adopted and orde... |
54.16.142 | Local utility 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 utility 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 the im... |
54.16.145 | Local utility districts—Sanitary sewer or potable water facilities—Notice to certain property owners. | Whenever it is proposed that a local utility district finance sanitary sewers or potable water facilities, additional notice of the public hearing on the proposed local utility district shall be mailed to the owners of any property located outside of the proposed local utility district that would be required as a condi... |
54.16.150 | Procedure when petition is signed by majority of landowners. | When a petition signed by a majority of the landowners in a proposed local improvement district is filed with the commission, asking that the improvement therein described be ordered, the commission shall forthwith fix a date for hearing thereon after which it shall, by resolution, order the improvement, and may alter ... |
54.16.160 | Assessment roll—Hearing—Appellate review—Expenses. | Before approval of the roll, a notice shall be published once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, stating that the roll is on file and open to inspection in the office of the secretary, and fixing a time not less than fifteen nor more than thirty days from the date of... |
54.16.165 | Segregation of assessments. | Whenever any land against which there has been levied any special assessment by any public utility district shall have been sold in part or subdivided, the board of commissioners of such public utility district shall have the power to order a segregation of the assessment. Any person owning any part of the land involve... |
54.16.170 | Apportionment of cost of improvement. | When an improvement is ordered hereunder, payment for which shall be made in part from assessments against property specially benefited, not more than fifty percent of the cost thereof shall ever be borne by the entire public utility district, nor shall any sum be contributed by it to any improvement acquired or constr... |
54.16.180 | Sale, lease, disposition of properties, equipment, and materials—Procedure—Acquisition, operation of sewage system by districts in certain counties. | (1) A district may sell and convey, lease, or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its works, plants, systems, utilities and properties, after proceedings and approval by the voters of the district, as provided for the lease or disposition of like properties and facilities owned by cities and towns. The affirmative ... |
54.16.190 | General resolutions. | The commission of a district may adopt general resolutions to carry out the purposes, objects, and provisions of this title.
[ 1955 c 390 s 20 . Prior: 1945 c 143 s 1(n); 1931 c 1 s 6(n); Rem. Supp. 1945 s 11610(n).] |
54.16.200 | Joint exercise of powers and joint acquisition of properties. | Any two or more public utility districts organized under the provisions of the laws of this state 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 or any part of any ele... |
54.16.220 | Columbia river hydroelectric projects—Grant back of easements to former owners. | Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every public utility district acquiring privately owned lands, real estate or property for reservoir purposes of a hydroelectric power project dam on the Columbia river, upon acquisition of title to said lands, whether acquired by purchase or condemnation, shall grant back to... |
54.16.230 | Sewage system works—Acquire, construct, operate, etc.—Authorizing election—Procedure. | A public utility district may acquire, construct, operate, maintain, and add to sewage systems, subject to and in compliance with the county comprehensive plan, under the general powers of Title 54 RCW or through the formation of local utility districts as provided in RCW 54.16.120 through 54.16.170 : PROVIDED, That pr... |
54.16.240 | Sewage system works—Resolution or petition—Voter approval or rejection. | The commission of a public utility district, by resolution may, or on petition in the same manner as provided for the creation of a district under RCW 54.08.010 shall, submit to the voters for their approval or rejection the proposal that said public utility district be authorized to exercise the powers set forth in RC... |
54.16.250 | Sewage system works—Ballot proposition—Canvass. | The legislative authority of the county in which the public utility district is located, upon receipt of the resolution of the public utility district commission or petition as provided for in RCW 54.08.010 , shall submit such proposal to the voters of the district at the next general election in substantially the foll... |
54.16.260 | Sewage system works—Accounts and funding. | Accounts and funding for any sewage system or systems shall be kept as provided in RCW 43.09.210 .
[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 57 s 4 .] |
54.16.270 | Sewage system works—Existing authority not affected. | Nothing contained in RCW 54.16.230 through 54.16.260 shall change or alter the present authority of certain public utility districts as regards sewage systems and as provided in RCW 54.16.180 .
[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 57 s 5 .] |
54.16.280 | Energy conservation plan—Financing authorized for energy conservation projects in structures or equipment—Limitations. | Any district is hereby authorized, within limits established by the Constitution of the state of Washington, to assist the owners of structures or equipment in financing the acquisition and installation of materials and equipment, for compensation or otherwise, for the conservation or more efficient use of energy in su... |
54.16.281 | Energy conservation—Utility cool roof program—Tree planting program. | The legislature encourages any public utility district to assist their customers in the acquisition and installation of materials and equipment, for compensation or otherwise, for the conservation or more efficient use of energy including, but not limited to, materials and equipment installed as part of a utility cool ... |
54.16.285 | Limitations on termination of utility service for residential heating and of electric or water utility service during heat-related alerts. | (1) A district providing utility service for residential space heating shall not terminate such utility service between November 15 through March 15 if the customer: (a) Notifies the utility of the inability to pay the bill. This notice should be provided within five business days of receiving a payment overdue notice ... |
54.16.300 | Combined utility functions. | A public utility district by resolution may combine two or more of its separate utility functions into a single utility and combine its related funds or accounts into a single fund or account. The separate utility functions include electrical energy systems, domestic water systems, irrigation systems, sanitary sewer sy... |
54.16.310 | Operation, maintenance, and inspection of sewage disposal facilities, septic tanks, and wastewater disposal facilities and systems—Maintenance costs. | A public utility district as authorized by a county board of health, may perform operation and maintenance, including inspections, of on-site sewage disposal facilities, alternate sewage disposal facilities, approved septic tanks or approved septic tank systems, other facilities and systems for the collection, intercep... |
54.16.320 | Assumption of substandard water system—Limited immunity from liability. | A public utility district assuming responsibility for a water system that is not in compliance with state or federal requirements for public drinking water systems, and its agents and employees, are immune from lawsuits or causes of action, based on noncompliance with state or federal requirements for public drinking w... |
54.16.330 | Telecommunications facilities—Purposes—Limitations—Provision of telecommunications services—Eminent domain. | (1) A public utility 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 p... |
54.16.340 | Wholesale telecommunications services—Petition for review of rates, terms, conditions. | (1) A person or entity that has requested wholesale telecommunications services from a public utility district providing wholesale telecommunications services under this chapter 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 co... |
54.16.350 | Tariff for irrigation pumping service—Authority to buy back electricity. | The commission may approve a tariff for irrigation pumping service that allows the district to buy back electricity from customers to reduce electricity usage by those customers during the district's particular irrigation season.
[ 2001 c 122 s 2 .]
Effective date — 2001 c 122: See note following RCW 80.28.310 . |
54.16.360 | Cooperative watershed management. | In addition to the authority provided in RCW 54.16.030 relating to water supply, a public utility district may participate in and expend revenue on cooperative watershed management actions, including watershed management partnerships under RCW 39.34.210 and other intergovernmental agreements, for purposes of water supp... |
54.16.370 | Purchase of electric power and energy from joint operating agency. | A district may contract to purchase from a joint operating agency electric power and energy required for its present or future requirements. For projects the output of which is limited to qualified alternative energy resources as defined by RCW 19.29A.090 (3), the contract may include the purchase of capability of the ... |
54.16.380 | Appliance repair service—Operation by district. | Any public utility district that has operated an electrical appliance repair service for at least ten years prior to July 24, 2005, may continue to operate an electrical appliance repair service within its service territory.
[ 2005 c 175 s 2 .]
Intent — 2005 c 175: "It is the intent of the legislature to avoid unnecess... |
54.16.385 | Appliance repair service—Requirements. | When a public utility district provides electrical appliance repair services under RCW 54.16.380 , the public utility district shall: (1) Charge customers the true and fair cost for the services; (2) Keep records documenting the revenues and expenditures for the services and make those records available to the public; ... |
54.16.390 | Environmental mitigation activities. | (1) A public utility district may develop and make publicly available a plan for the district to reduce its greenhouse gases emissions or achieve no-net emissions from all sources of greenhouse gases that the district owns, leases, uses, contracts for, or otherwise controls. (2) A public utility district may, as part o... |
54.16.400 | Voluntary donations for purposes of urban forestry. | (1) Public utility districts may request voluntary donations from their customers for the purposes of urban forestry. The request may be in the form of a check-off on the billing statement or other form of a request for a voluntary donation. (2) Voluntary donations collected by public utility districts under this secti... |
54.16.405 | Voluntary donations for purpose of supporting hunger programs. | (1) Public utility districts may request voluntary donations from their customers for the purpose of supporting hunger programs. (2) Voluntary donations collected by public utility districts under this section must be used by the public utility district to support the maintenance and operation of hunger programs. (3) D... |
54.16.410 | Supply of water to be used in pumped storage generating facilities—Requirements—Contract, resolution. | (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, a qualifying public utility district may supply any water, if authorized by a previously perfected water right under its control, to be used in a pumped storage generating facility to any entity that sells electric energy or water either directly ... |
54.16.415 | Retail telecommunications services—Reporting requirements. | (1) Before providing retail telecommunications services, a public utility district must report to its governing body and to the state broadband office the following about the area to be served by the public utility district: (a) An assessment of the current availability of broadband infrastructure and its adequacy to p... |
54.16.425 | Retail telecommunications services—Payment in lieu of property tax. | (1) Property owned by a public utility district that is exempt from property tax under RCW 84.36.010 is subject to an annual payment in lieu of property taxes if the property consists of a broadband infrastructure used in providing retail telecommunications services. (2)(a) The amount of the payment must be determined ... |
54.16.430 | Electrification of transportation plan—Considerations—Incentive programs. | (1) The commission of a public utility district may adopt an electrification of transportation plan that, at a minimum, establishes a finding that outreach and investment in the electrification of transportation infrastructure does not increase net costs to ratepayers in excess of one-quarter of one percent. (2) In ado... |
54.16.440 | Thermal energy networks. | A public utility district formed under this title may own, operate, or manage any thermal energy network, as defined in RCW 80.04.010 , within this state. If a public utility district intends to deploy a thermal energy network, the public utility district must submit the project for review and approval to its governing... |
54.20.010 | Statement of operations—Decree of appropriation—Retirement of properties—Accounting—Limitation on new proceedings. | In any condemnation proceeding heretofore or hereafter instituted or conducted by a public utility district for the acquisition of properties, the district may serve upon the condemnee's attorneys of record and file with the court a notice of its intention to present a decree of appropriation together with a demand for... |
54.24.010 | Treasurer—Bond—Duties—Funds—Depositaries. | (1) The treasurer of the county in which a utility district is located shall be ex officio treasurer of the district: PROVIDED, That the commission by resolution may designate some other person having experience in financial or fiscal matters as treasurer of the utility district. The commission may require a bond, with... |
54.24.012 | Destruction of canceled or paid revenue obligations and interest coupons. | After any revenue obligations or interest coupons have been canceled or paid they may be destroyed as directed by the district, any provisions of chapter 40.14 RCW notwithstanding: PROVIDED, That a certificate of destruction giving full descriptive reference to the documents destroyed shall be made by the person or per... |
54.24.018 | Acquisition of property—Adoption of plan—Bonds or warrants—Special funds. | (1) Whenever the commission shall deem it advisable that the public utility district purchase, purchase and condemn, acquire, or construct any such public utility, or make any additions or betterments thereto, or extensions thereof, the commission shall provide therefor by resolution, which shall specify and adopt the ... |
54.24.020 | General obligation bonds, revenue obligations for cost of utilities. | Whenever the commission of a public utility district, organized pursuant to chapter 1 of the Laws of 1931 (sections 11605 et seq. of Remington's Revised Statutes) shall deem it advisable that the district purchase, purchase and condemn, acquire or construct any public utility, or make any additions or betterments there... |
54.24.030 | Revenue obligations—Special fund—Form, term, payment, etc.—Resolution of authority, contents—Contracts for future sale. | (1) Whenever the commission shall deem it advisable to issue revenue obligations for the purpose of defraying the cost or part of the cost of such public utility or any additions or betterments thereto or extensions thereof, it shall have power as a part of such plan and system to create a special fund or funds for the... |
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