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79.15.430 | Removal of firewood without charge. | Whenever the department determines that it is in the best interest of the state and there will be a benefit to the lands involved or a state program affecting such lands it may designate specific areas and authorize the general public to enter upon lands under its jurisdiction for the purposes of cutting and removing s... |
79.15.440 | Penalty. | Any false statement made in the application or any violation of the provisions of RCW 79.15.400 through 79.15.430 shall constitute a gross misdemeanor and be punishable as such.
[ 2003 c 334 s 234 ; 1945 c 97 s 4 ; Rem. Supp. 1945 s 7797-40d. Formerly RCW 76.20.040 .]
Intent — 2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.0... |
79.15.500 | Contract harvesting—Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 79.15.500 through 79.15.530 and 79.15.540 unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of public lands. (2) "Contract harvesting" means a timber operation occurring on state forestlands, in which the department contracts wi... |
79.15.510 | Contract harvesting—Program established. | (1) The department may establish a contract harvesting program for directly contracting for the removal of timber and other valuable materials from state lands and for conducting silvicultural treatments consistent with RCW 79.15.540 . (2) The contract requirements must be compatible with the office of financial manage... |
79.15.520 | Contract harvesting revolving account. | (1) The contract harvesting revolving account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts from the gross proceeds of the sale of logs from a contract harvesting sale must be deposited into the account. Expenditures from the account may be used only for the payment of harvesting costs incurred on cont... |
79.15.530 | Contract harvesting—Special appraisal practices. | The board of natural resources must determine whether any special appraisal practices are necessary for logs sold by the contract harvesting processes, and if so, must adopt the special appraisal practices or procedures. In its consideration of special appraisal practices, the board of natural resources must consider a... |
79.15.540 | Intent—Contract harvesting—State trust forestland with identified forest health deficiencies. | (1) The legislature intends to ensure, to the extent feasible given all applicable trust responsibilities, that trust beneficiaries receive long-term income from timberlands through improved forest conditions and by reducing the threat of forest fire to state trust forestlands. (2) In order to implement the intent of R... |
79.17.010 | Exchange of state lands—Purposes—Conditions. | (1) The department, with the approval of the board, may exchange any state land and any timber thereon for any land of equal value in order to: (a) Facilitate the marketing of forest products of state lands; (b) Consolidate and block-up state lands; (c) Acquire lands having commercial recreational leasing potential; (d... |
79.17.020 | Exchange of lands to consolidate and block up holdings or obtain lands having commercial recreational leasing potential—Board's authority to exchange state forestland—Consultation with interested parties. | (1) The board of county commissioners of any county and/or the mayor and city council or city commission of any city or town and/or the board shall have authority to exchange, each with the other, or with the federal forest service, the federal government or any proper agency thereof and/or with any private landowner, ... |
79.17.030 | University demonstration forest and experiment station. | For the purpose of securing an area suitable for a demonstration forest and forest experiment station for the University of Washington authority is hereby granted the board of regents of the University of Washington and the department with the approval of the board, acting with the advice and approval of the attorney g... |
79.17.040 | Exchange of property acquired as administrative sites—Purposes. | The department may exchange surplus real property previously acquired by the department as administrative sites. The property may be exchanged for any public or private real property of equal value, to preserve archaeological sites on trust lands, to acquire land to be held in natural preserves, to maintain habitats fo... |
79.17.050 | Public notice—News release—Hearing. | Before a proposed exchange is presented to the board involving an exchange of any lands under the administrative control of the department, the department shall hold a public hearing on the proposal in the county where the state-owned land or the greatest proportion thereof is located. Ten days but not more than twenty... |
79.17.060 | Exchange of lands to consolidate and block up holdings—Agreements and deeds by commissioner. | The commissioner shall, with the advice and approval of the attorney general, execute such agreements, writings, or relinquishments and certify to the governor such deeds as are necessary or proper to complete an exchange.
[ 2003 c 334 s 210 ; 1961 c 77 s 2 ; 1937 c 77 s 2 ; RRS s 5812-3f. Formerly RCW 76.12.060 .]
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79.17.070 | Exchange of lands to consolidate and block up holdings—Lands acquired are subject to same laws and administered for same fund as lands exchanged. | Lands acquired by the state of Washington as the result of any exchange shall be held and administered for the benefit of the same fund and subject to the same laws as were the lands exchanged therefor.
[ 2003 c 334 s 211 ; 1961 c 77 s 3 . Formerly RCW 76.12.065 .]
Intent — 2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010 ... |
79.17.100 | Application by school district. | Except as otherwise provided in RCW 79.17.110 , upon the application of a school district or any institution of higher education for the purchase or lease of lands granted to the state by the United States, the department may offer such land for sale or lease to such school district or institution of higher education i... |
79.17.110 | School districts—Purchase of leased lands with improvements. | Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 79.11.010 or any other provision of law, any school district or institution of higher education leasing land granted to the state by the United States and on which land such district or institution has placed improvements as defined in RCW 79.02.010 shall be afforded the opportunit... |
79.17.120 | School districts—Purchases from school construction fund. | The purchases authorized under RCW 79.17.110 shall be classified as for the construction of common *A.525.200school [common school] plant facilities under RCW 28A.525.010 through 28A.525.200 and shall be payable out of the common school construction fund as otherwise provided for in RCW 28A.515.320 if the school distri... |
79.17.130 | School districts—Extension of contract period. | In those cases where the purchases, as authorized by RCW 79.17.110 and 79.17.120 , have been made on a ten year contract, the board, if it deems it in the best interest of the state, may extend the term of any such contract to not to exceed an additional ten years under such terms and conditions as the board may determ... |
79.17.140 | School districts—Reversion, when. | Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, annually the board shall determine if lands purchased or leased by school districts or institutions of higher education under the provisions of RCW * 79.11.010 and 79.17.110 are being used for school sites. If such land has not been used for school sites for a period of seve... |
79.17.200 | Real property—Transfer or disposal without public auction. | (1) For the purposes of this section, "public agency" means any agency, political subdivision, or unit of local government of this state including, but not limited to, municipal corporations, quasi-municipal corporations, special purpose districts, and local service districts; any agency of the state government; any ag... |
79.17.210 | Real property asset base—Natural resources real property replacement account. | (1) The legislature finds that the department has a need to maintain the real property asset base it manages and needs an accounting mechanism to complete transactions without reducing the real property asset base. (2) The natural resources real property replacement account is created in the state treasury. This accoun... |
79.17.220 | Notification requirements. | Actions under this chapter are subject to the notification requirements of RCW 43.17.400 .
[ 2007 c 62 s 4 .]
Finding — Intent — Severability — 2007 c 62: See notes following RCW 43.17.400 . |
79.17.300 | Trust land transfer program. | (1) The department is authorized to create and manage a trust land transfer program. Real property available for the trust land transfer program is economically underperforming state land and state forestland with high ecological or public benefit and deemed appropriate for state parks, fish and wildlife habitats, natu... |
79.17.310 | Administration. | The department shall administer the trust land transfer program as follows: (1) Any citizen, state and federal agencies, counties, cities, towns, federally recognized Indian tribes, nonprofit organizations, special purpose districts, public development authorities, and other political subdivisions of the state, may nom... |
79.19.010 | Legislative finding. | The legislature finds that from time to time it may be desirable for the department to sell state lands which have low potential for natural resource management or low income-generating potential or which, because of geographic location or other factors, are inefficient for the department to manage. However, it is also... |
79.19.020 | Land bank—Created—Purchase of property authorized. | The department, with the approval of the board, may purchase property at fair market value to be held in a land bank, which is hereby created within the department. Property so purchased shall be property which would be desirable for addition to the public lands of the state because of the potential for natural resourc... |
79.19.030 | Exchange or sale of property held in land bank. | The department, with the approval of the board, may: (1) Exchange property held in the land bank for any other lands of equal value administered by the department, including state lands and state forestlands; (2) Exchange property held in the land bank for property of equal or greater value which is owned publicly or p... |
79.19.040 | Management of property held in land bank. | The department may manage the property held in the land bank as provided in RCW 79.10.030 . However, the properties or interest in such properties shall not be withdrawn, exchanged, transferred, or sold without first obtaining payment of the fair market value of the property or interest therein or obtaining property of... |
79.19.050 | Use of income from the sale of property. | Income from the sale of property in the land bank shall be deposited in the land bank account created in RCW 79.19.120 and may be used to acquire property under RCW 79.19.020 .
[ 2023 c 383 s 13 ; 2003 c 334 s 529 ; 1984 c 222 s 5 ; 1977 ex.s. c 109 s 5 . Formerly RCW 79.66.050 .]
Findings — 2023 c 383: See note follow... |
79.19.060 | Reimbursement for costs and expenses. | The department shall be reimbursed for actual costs and expenses incurred in managing and administering the land bank program under this chapter from the forest development account or the resource management cost account in an amount not to exceed the limits provided in RCW 79.64.040 . Reimbursement from proceeds of sa... |
79.19.080 | Identification of trust lands expected to convert to commercial, residential, or industrial uses—Hearing—Notice—Designation as urban lands. | Periodically, at intervals to be determined by the board, the department shall identify trust lands which are expected to convert to commercial, residential, or industrial uses within ten years. The department shall adhere to existing local comprehensive plans, zoning classifications, and duly adopted local policies wh... |
79.19.090 | Exchange of urban land for land bank land—Notification of affected public agencies. | If the department determines to exchange urban land for land bank land, public agencies defined in RCW 79.17.200 that may benefit from owning the property shall be notified in writing of the determination. The public agencies have sixty days from the date of notice by the department to submit an application to purchase... |
79.19.100 | Urban lands—Cooperative planning, development. | The purpose of this section is to foster cooperative planning among the state, the department, and local governments as to state-owned lands under the department's jurisdiction situated in urban areas. At least once a year, prior to finalizing the department's urban land leasing action plan, the department and applicab... |
79.19.110 | Lands for commercial, industrial, or residential use—Payment of in-lieu of property tax—Distribution. | Lands purchased by the department for commercial, industrial, or residential use shall be subject to payment of in-lieu of real property tax for the period in which they are held in the land bank. The in-lieu payment shall be equal to the property taxes which would otherwise be paid if the land remained subject to the ... |
79.19.120 | Land bank account. | The land bank account is created in the state treasury. To this account shall be deposited such funds as the legislature directs or appropriates. Expenditures from this account may be used only to acquire property under RCW 79.19.020 . Expenditures from this account may be made only after appropriation.
[ 2023 c 383 s ... |
79.19.901 | Effective date—1984 c 222. | This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1984.
[ 1984 c 222 s 16 . Formerly RCW 79.66.901 .] |
79.22.010 | Powers of department—Acquisition of land for reforestation—Taxes, cancellation. | The department has the power to accept gifts and bequests of money or other property, made in its own name, or made in the name of the state, to promote generally the interests of reforestation or for a specific named purpose in connection with reforestation, and to acquire in the name of the state, by purchase or gift... |
79.22.020 | Acquisition of forestland—Requisites. | The department shall take such steps as it deems advisable for locating and acquiring lands suitable for state forests and reforestation. Acquisitions made pursuant to this section shall be at no more than fair market value. No lands shall ever be acquired by the department except upon the approval of the title by the ... |
79.22.030 | Record of proceedings, etc. | The department shall keep in its office in a permanent bound volume a record of all forestlands acquired by the state and any lands owned by the state and designated as such by the department. The record shall show the date and from whom said lands were acquired; amount and method of payment therefor; the forest within... |
79.22.040 | Deed of county land to department. | If any land acquired by a county through foreclosure of tax liens, or otherwise, comes within the classification of land described in RCW 79.22.010 and can be used as state forestland and if the department deems such land necessary for the purposes of this chapter, the county shall, upon demand by the department, deed ... |
79.22.050 | Sales and leases of timber, timberland, or products thereon. | Except as provided in RCW 79.22.060 , all land, acquired or designated by the department as state forestland, shall be forever reserved from sale, but the valuable materials thereon may be sold or the land may be leased in the same manner and for the same purposes as is authorized for state lands if the department find... |
79.22.060 | Transfer, disposal of lands without public auction—Requirements. | (1) With the approval of the board, the department may directly transfer or dispose of state forestlands without public auction, if the transfers are: (a) In lieu of condemnation or to resolve trespass and property ownership disputes and the lands consist of 10 contiguous acres or less or have a value of $25,000 or les... |
79.22.070 | Forest and land management—Rules—Penalty. | (1) State forestlands shall be logged, protected, and cared for in such manner as to ensure natural reforestation of such lands, and to that end the department shall have power, and it shall be its duty to adopt rules, and amendments thereto, governing logging operations on such areas, and to embody in any contract for... |
79.22.080 | Utility bonds. | For the purpose of acquiring and paying for lands for state forests and reforestation as herein provided the department may issue utility bonds of the state of Washington as may hereafter be authorized by the legislature. The bonds shall be known as state forest utility bonds. The principal or interest of the bonds sha... |
79.22.090 | Bonds—Purchase price of land limited—Retirement of bonds. | For the purpose of acquiring, seeding, reforestation, and administering land for forests and of carrying out RCW 79.64.100 and the provisions of this chapter, the department is authorized to issue and dispose of utility bonds of the state of Washington in an amount not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars in principa... |
79.22.100 | Reacquisition of lands from federal government. | Whenever any forestland which shall have been acquired by any county through the foreclosure of tax liens, or otherwise, and which shall have been acquired by the federal government either from said county or from the state holding said lands in trust, and shall be available for reacquisition, the board and the board o... |
79.22.110 | Reconveyance to county in certain cases. | Whenever any county shall have acquired by tax foreclosure, or otherwise, lands within the classification of RCW 79.22.010 and shall have thereafter contracted to sell such lands to bona fide purchasers before the same may have been selected as forestlands by the department, and has heretofore deeded or shall hereafter... |
79.22.120 | Reconveyance to county of certain leased lands. | If the board of natural resources determines that any forestlands deeded to the board or the state pursuant to this chapter, which are leased to any county for uses which have as one permitted use a sanitary landfill and/or transfer station, are no longer appropriate for management by the board, the board may reconvey ... |
79.22.130 | Notification requirements. | Actions under this chapter are subject to the notification requirements of RCW 43.17.400 .
[ 2007 c 62 s 5 .]
Finding — Intent — Severability — 2007 c 62: See notes following RCW 43.17.400 . |
79.22.140 | State forestland pool—Authorization—Participation. | (1) The board may create a state forestland pool, to be managed in accordance with this section, if the board determines that creation of a land pool is in the best interest of the state or affected trust, based on an analysis prepared by the department under RCW 79.22.150 . (2) A county is eligible to participate in a... |
79.22.150 | State forestland pool—Analysis. | (1) Upon the request of the board in its consideration of creating a state forestland pool under RCW 79.22.140 , the department must conduct an analysis that includes, at a minimum, the following elements: (a) An evaluation of how the proposed land pool would benefit the requesting counties, including revenue predictab... |
79.22.300 | Procedure—Reconveyance back when use ceases. | Whenever the board of county commissioners of any county shall determine that state forestlands, that were acquired from such county by the state pursuant to RCW 79.22.040 and that are under the administration of the department, are needed by the county for public park use in accordance with the county and the state ou... |
79.22.310 | Timber resource management. | The timber resources on any such state forestland transferred to the counties under RCW 79.22.300 shall be managed by the department to the extent that this is consistent with park purposes and meets with the approval of the board of county commissioners. Whenever the department does manage the timber resources of such... |
79.22.320 | Lands transferred by deed. | Under provisions mutually agreeable to the board of county commissioners and the board, lands approved for transfer to a county for public park purposes under the provisions of RCW 79.22.300 shall be transferred to the county by deed.
[ 2003 c 334 s 215 ; 1969 ex.s. c 47 s 3 . Formerly RCW 76.12.074 .]
Intent — 2003 c ... |
79.22.330 | Provisions cumulative and nonexclusive. | The provisions of RCW 79.22.300 through 79.22.330 shall be cumulative and nonexclusive and shall not repeal any other related statutory procedure established by law.
[ 2003 c 334 s 216 ; 1969 ex.s. c 47 s 4 . Formerly RCW 76.12.075 .]
Intent — 2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010 . |
79.24.010 | Designation of lands—Sale, manner, consent of board. | All lands granted to the state by the federal government for the purpose of erecting public buildings at the state capitol shall be known and designated as "Capitol Building Lands". None of such lands, nor the timber or other materials thereon, shall hereafter be sold without the consent of the board of natural resourc... |
79.24.020 | Use of funds restricted. | All funds arising from the sale of lands granted to the state of Washington for the purpose of erecting public buildings at the state capital shall be held intact for the purpose for which they were granted. Lands when selected and assigned to said grant shall not be transferred to any other grant, nor shall the moneys... |
79.24.030 | Employment of assistants—Payment of expenses. | The board of natural resources and the department of natural resources may employ such cruisers, drafters, engineers, architects, or other assistants as may be necessary for the best interests of the state in carrying out the provisions of RCW 79.24.010 through 79.24.085 , and all expenses incurred by the board and dep... |
79.24.060 | Disposition of proceeds of sale—Publication of notice of proposals or bids. | The proceeds of such sale of capitol building lands, or the timber or other materials shall be paid into the capitol building construction account which is hereby established in the state treasury to be used as in *this act provided. All contracts for the construction of capitol buildings shall be let after notice for ... |
79.24.085 | Disposition of money from sales. | All sums of money received from sales shall be paid into the capitol building construction account in the state treasury, and are hereby appropriated for the purposes of *this act.
[ 1985 c 57 s 78 ; 1959 c 257 s 46 ; 1909 c 69 s 8 ; RRS s 7904.]
*Reviser's note: For "this act," see note following RCW 79.24.060 .
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79.24.087 | Capitol grant revenue to capitol building construction account. | All revenues received from leases and sales of lands, timber and other products on the surface or beneath the surface of the lands granted to the state of Washington by the United States pursuant to an act of Congress approved February 22, 1889, for capitol building purposes, shall be paid into the "capitol building co... |
79.24.300 | Parking facilities authorized—Rental. | The state capitol committee may construct parking facilities for the state capitol adequate to provide parking space for automobiles, said parking facilities to be either of a single level, multiple level, or both, and to be either on one site or more than one site and located either on or in close proximity to the cap... |
79.24.310 | Number and location of facilities. | The state capitol committee may construct any two of the following three facilities: (1) A two story parking facility south of the transportation and public lands building in the existing parking area; (2) multiple level but not to exceed three story parking facility adjacent to the new office building; (3) multiple le... |
79.24.320 | Appropriations—Parking facilities, laboratories. | There is appropriated to the state capitol committee from the *capitol building construction fund for the fiscal biennium ending June 30, 1957, the sum of seven hundred thousand dollars for the purposes of RCW 79.24.300 , 79.24.310 and 79.24.320 . Of this sum five hundred thousand dollars is to be used for parking purp... |
79.24.330 | Purchase of land for parking facilities authorized. | For use in the construction thereon of parking facilities in close proximity to the capitol grounds, the state capitol committee is authorized to purchase, at a price not in excess of one hundred thousand dollars, the following real estate situated in the city of Olympia, Thurston county, state of Washington, and more ... |
79.24.340 | Purchase of land for parking facilities authorized—Construction of one-level facility. | After purchase of the said real estate the state capitol committee shall construct thereon one-level parking facilities suitable for as large a number of automobiles as may reasonably be accommodated thereon.
[ 1957 c 257 s 2 .] |
79.24.400 | Sylvester Park—Grant authorized. | The city of Olympia may grant to the state of Washington its right, title and interest in that public square situated therein and bounded by Capitol Way, Legion Way, Washington Street and East Seventh Street, and commonly known as Sylvester Park, and such conveyance shall in all respects supersede the terms and effect ... |
79.24.410 | Sylvester Park—Subsurface parking facility. | The state capitol committee may accept such grant on behalf of the state. Upon receipt from the city of Olympia of the conveyance authorized by RCW 79.24.400 , the state capitol committee may lease the premises thereby conveyed, to any person, firm, or corporation for the purpose of constructing, operating and maintain... |
79.24.450 | Access to capitol grounds on described route authorized. | The state capitol committee may construct a suitable access to the capitol grounds by way of fourteenth and fifteenth streets in the city of Olympia, and for the purpose may acquire, by purchase or condemnation, such lands along the said streets and between Capitol Way and Cherry Street in the city of Olympia, and cons... |
79.24.500 | Property described. | The state capitol committee shall proceed as rapidly as their resources permit to acquire title to the following described property for development as state capitol grounds: That area bounded as follows: Commencing at a point beginning at the southwest corner of Capitol Way and 15th Avenue and proceeding westerly to th... |
79.24.510 | Area designated as the east capitol site. | The area described in RCW 79.24.500 shall be known as the east capitol site, and upon acquisition shall become part of the state capitol grounds.
[ 1961 c 167 s 2 .] |
79.24.520 | Acquisition of property authorized—Means—Other state agencies to assist committee in executing chapter. | The state capitol committee may acquire such property by gift, exchange, purchase, option to purchase, condemnation, or any other means of acquisition not expressly prohibited by law. All other state agencies shall aid and assist the state capitol committee in carrying out the provisions of RCW 79.24.500 through 79.24.... |
79.24.530 | Department of enterprise services to design and develop site and buildings—Approval of state capitol committee. | The department of enterprise services shall develop, amend and modify an overall plan for the design and establishment of state capitol buildings and grounds on the east capitol site in accordance with current and prospective requisites of a state capitol befitting the state of Washington. The overall plan, amendments ... |
79.24.540 | State agencies may buy land and construct buildings thereon—Requirements. | State agencies which are authorized by law to acquire land and construct buildings, whether from appropriated funds or from funds not subject to appropriation by the legislature, may buy land in the east capitol site and construct buildings thereon so long as the location, design and construction meet the requirements ... |
79.24.550 | State buildings to be constructed only on capitol grounds—Exception. | No state agency shall undertake construction of buildings in Thurston county except upon the state capitol grounds: PROVIDED, That the state capitol committee may authorize exceptions upon a finding by the state capitol committee that appropriate locations on the capitol grounds or east capitol site are unavailable.
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79.24.560 | Department of enterprise services to rent, lease, or use properties. | The department of enterprise services shall have the power to rent, lease, or otherwise use any of the properties acquired in the east capitol site.
[ 2015 c 225 s 120 ; 1961 c 167 s 7 .] |
79.24.570 | Use of proceeds from site. | All moneys received by the department of enterprise services from the management of the east capitol site, excepting (1) funds otherwise dedicated prior to April 28, 1967, (2) parking and rental charges and fines which are required to be deposited in other accounts, and (3) reimbursements of service and other utility c... |
79.24.590 | Use of private real estate and rights in site declared public use. | The use of the private real estate, rights, and interests in the east capitol site is hereby declared to be a public use.
[ 1961 c 167 s 10 .] |
79.24.600 | Severability—1961 c 167. | If any provision of RCW 79.24.500 through 79.24.590 , or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of RCW 79.24.500 through 79.24.590 , or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.
[ 1961 c 167 s 11 .] |
79.24.650 | Committee duties enumerated. | The state capitol committee shall provide for the construction, remodeling, and furnishing of capitol office buildings, parking facilities, governor's mansion, and such other buildings and facilities as are determined by the state capitol committee to be necessary to provide space for the legislature by way of offices,... |
79.24.700 | Findings. | The legislature finds that the historic facilities of the Washington state capitol are the most important public facilities in the state. They are a source of beauty and pride, a resource for celebrating our heritage and democratic ideals, and an exceptional educational resource. The public and historic facilities of t... |
79.24.710 | Properties identified as "state capitol public and historic facilities." | For the purposes of RCW 79.24.720 , 79.24.730 , 43.01.090 , 43.19.500 , and 79.24.087 , "state capitol public and historic facilities" includes: (1) The east, west and north capitol campus grounds, Sylvester park, Heritage park, Marathon park, Centennial park, the Deschutes river basin commonly known as Capitol lake, t... |
79.24.720 | Department of enterprise services' responsibilities. | The department of enterprise services is responsible for the stewardship, preservation, operation, and maintenance of the public and historic facilities of the state capitol, subject to the policy direction of the state capitol committee and the guidance of the capitol campus design advisory committee. In administering... |
79.24.730 | Funding/grants for stewardship of state capitol public and historic facilities. | (1) To provide for responsible stewardship of the state capitol public and historic facilities, funding for: (a) Maintenance and operational needs shall be authorized in the state's omnibus appropriations act and funded by the enterprise services account as provided under RCW 43.19.500 ; (b) Development and preservatio... |
79.36.310 | Acquisition of property interests for access authorized. | Whenever the department finds that it is in the best interests of the state of Washington to acquire any property or use of a road in private ownership to afford access to state timber and other valuable material for the purpose of developing, caring for, or selling the same, the acquisition of such property, or use th... |
79.36.320 | Condemnation—Duty of attorney general. | The attorney general of the state of Washington is hereby required and authorized to condemn said property interests found to be necessary for the public purposes of the state of Washington, as provided in RCW 79.36.310 , and upon being furnished with a certified copy of the resolution of the department, describing sai... |
79.36.330 | Disposal of property interests acquired. | In the event the department should determine that the property interests acquired under the authority of this chapter are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were acquired, the department shall dispose of the same in the following manner, when in the discretion of the department it is to the best intere... |
79.36.340 | Acquisition—Payment. | The department in acquiring any property interests under the provisions of this chapter, either by purchase or condemnation, is hereby authorized to pay for the same out of any moneys available to the department for this purpose.
[ 2003 c 334 s 229 ; 1963 c 140 s 4 ; 1945 c 239 s 4 ; Rem. Supp. 1945 s 5823-33. Formerly... |
79.36.350 | Application for right-of-way. | (1) Any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of logging or lumbering, quarrying, mining or removing sand, gravel, or other valuable materials from land, and desirous of obtaining a right-of-way for the purpose of transporting or moving timber, minerals, stone, sand, gravel, or other valuable materials f... |
79.36.355 | Grant of easements and rights in public land. | The department may grant to any person such easements and rights in public lands, not otherwise provided in law, as the applicant applying therefor may acquire in privately owned lands. No grant shall be made under this section until such time as the full market value of the estate or interest granted together with dam... |
79.36.370 | Lands subject to easements for removal of valuable materials. | All state lands granted, sold or leased since the fifteenth day of June, 1911, or hereafter granted, sold or leased, containing timber, minerals, stone, sand, gravel, or other valuable materials, or when other state lands contiguous or in proximity thereto contain any such valuable materials, shall be subject to the ri... |
79.36.380 | Private easement subject to common user. | Every grant, deed, conveyance, contract to purchase or lease made since June 15, 1911, or hereafter made to any person, firm, or corporation, for a right-of-way for a private railroad, skid road, canal, flume, watercourse, or other easement, over or across any public lands for the purpose of, and to be used in, transpo... |
79.36.390 | Reasonable facilities and service for transportation must be furnished. | Any person, firm, or corporation, having acquired such right-of-way or easement since June 15, 1911, or hereafter acquiring such right-of-way or easement over any public lands for the purpose of transporting or moving timber, mineral, stone, sand, gravel, or other valuable materials, and engaged in such business thereo... |
79.36.400 | Duty of utilities and transportation commission. | Should the owner or operator of any private railroad, skid road, flume, canal, watercourse or other easement operating over lands acquired since the fifteenth day of June, 1911, or hereafter acquired, from the state, as in the previous sections provided, fail to agree with the state, or any grantee thereof, as to the r... |
79.36.410 | Penalty for violation of orders. | In case any person, firm or corporation, owning or operating any private railroad, skid road, flume, canal, watercourse or other easement, over and across any state lands, or any lands acquired since the fifteenth day of June, 1911, or hereafter acquired, from the state, subject to the provisions of the preceding secti... |
79.36.430 | Forfeiture for nonuse. | Any such right-of-way heretofore granted which has never been used, or has ceased to be used for the purpose for which it was granted, for a period of two years, shall be deemed forfeited. The forfeiture of any such right-of-way heretofore granted, or granted under the provisions of the preceding sections, shall be ren... |
79.36.440 | Right-of-way for public roads. | Any county or city or the United States of America or state agency desiring to locate, establish, and construct a road or street over and across any state lands of the state of Washington shall by resolution of the board of county commissioners of such county, or city council or other governing body of such city, or pr... |
79.36.450 | Railroad right-of-way. | A right-of-way through, over and across any state lands not held under a contract of sale, is hereby granted to any railroad company organized under the laws of this state, or any state or territory of the United States, or under any act of congress of the United States, to any extent not exceeding fifty feet on either... |
79.36.460 | Railroad right-of-way—Procedure to acquire. | In order to obtain the benefits of RCW 79.36.450 , any railroad company hereafter constructing, or proposing to construct, a railroad, shall file with the department a copy of its articles of incorporation, due proof of organization thereunder, a map or maps, accompanied by the field notes of the survey, showing the lo... |
79.36.470 | Railroad right-of-way—Appraisement. | All state lands over which a right-of-way of any railroad to be hereafter constructed, shall be located, shall be appraised in the same manner as in the case of applications for the purchase of state lands, fixing the appraised value per acre for each lot or block, quarter section or subdivision thereof, less the impro... |
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