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80.28.070 | Sliding scale of charges permitted. | Nothing in this chapter shall be taken to prohibit a gas company, electrical company, water company, or thermal energy company from establishing a sliding scale of charges, whereby a greater charge is made per unit for a lesser than a greater quantity for gas, electricity, water, or thermal energy, or any service rende... |
80.28.074 | Legislative declaration. | The legislature declares it is the policy of the state to: (1) Preserve affordable energy services to the residents of the state; (2) Maintain and advance the efficiency and availability of energy services to the residents of the state of Washington; (3) Ensure that customers pay only reasonable charges for energy serv... |
80.28.075 | Banded rates—Natural gas, electric, or thermal energy services. | Upon request by a natural gas company, an electrical company, or a thermal energy company, the commission may approve a tariff that includes banded rates for any nonresidential natural gas, electric, or thermal energy service that is subject to effective competition from energy suppliers not regulated by the utilities ... |
80.28.080 | Published rates to be charged—Exceptions. | (1)(a) Except as provided otherwise in this subsection, no gas company, electrical company, wastewater company, water company, or thermal energy company may charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or less or different compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered than the rates and charges applicable to ... |
80.28.090 | Unreasonable preference prohibited. | No gas company, electrical company, wastewater company, water company, or thermal energy company may make or grant any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any person, corporation, or locality, or to any particular description of service in any respect whatsoever, or subject any particular person, corporati... |
80.28.100 | Rate discrimination prohibited—Exception. | No gas company, electrical company, wastewater company, water company, or thermal energy company may, directly or indirectly, or by any special rate, rebate, drawback or other device or method, charge, demand, collect or receive from any person or corporation a greater or less compensation for gas, electricity, wastewa... |
80.28.110 | Service to be furnished on reasonable notice. | (1) Every gas company, electrical company, wastewater company, or water company, engaged in the sale and distribution of gas, electricity, or water, or the provision of wastewater company services, shall, upon reasonable notice, furnish to all persons and corporations who may apply therefor and be reasonably entitled t... |
80.28.120 | Effect on existing contracts. | Every gas, water, wastewater, electrical, or thermal energy company owning, operating or managing a plant or system for the distribution and sale of gas, water, electricity, or thermal energy, or the provision of wastewater company services to the public for hire is, and is held to be, a public service company as to su... |
80.28.130 | Repairs, improvements, changes, additions, or extensions may be directed. | Whenever the commission finds, after hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, that repairs or improvements, to, or changes in, any gas plant, electrical plant, system of sewerage, water system, or thermal energy system ought to be made, or that any additions or extensions should reasonably be made thereto, in... |
80.28.140 | Inspection of gas and water meters. | The commission may appoint inspectors of gas and water meters whose duty it shall be when required by the commission to inspect, examine, prove and ascertain the accuracy of any and all gas and water meters used or intended to be used for measuring or ascertaining the quantity of gas for light, heat or power, or the qu... |
80.28.150 | Inspection of electric meters. | The commission may appoint inspectors of electric meters whose duty it shall be when required by the commission to inspect, examine, prove and ascertain the accuracy of any and all electric meters used or intended to be used for measuring and ascertaining the quantity of electric current furnished for light, heat or po... |
80.28.160 | Testing apparatus to be furnished. | Every gas company, electrical company, water company, and thermal energy company shall prepare and maintain such suitable premises, apparatus and facilities as may be required and approved by the commission for testing and proving the accuracy of gas, electric, water, or thermal energy meters furnished for use by it by... |
80.28.170 | Testing at consumer's request. | If any consumer to whom a meter has been furnished shall request the commission in writing to inspect such meter, the commission shall have the same inspected and tested, and if the same, on being so tested, shall be found to be more than four percent if an electric meter, more than two percent if a gas meter, more tha... |
80.28.180 | Rules and regulations. | The commission shall prescribe such rules and regulations to carry into effect the provisions of RCW 80.28.140 through 80.28.170 as it may deem necessary, and shall fix the uniform and reasonable charges for the inspection and testing of meters upon complaint.
[ 1961 c 14 s 80.28.180 . Prior: 1911 c 117 s 74, part; RRS... |
80.28.185 | Water companies or wastewater companies within counties—Commission may regulate. | The commission may develop and enter into an agreement with a county to carry out the regulatory functions of this chapter with regard to water companies or wastewater companies located within the boundary of that county. The duration of the agreement, the duties to be performed, and the remuneration to be paid by the ... |
80.28.190 | Gas companies—Certificate—Violations—Commission powers—Penalty—Fees. | (1) No gas company shall, after January 1, 1956, operate in this state any gas plant for hire without first having obtained from the commission under the provisions of this chapter a certificate declaring that public convenience and necessity requires or will require such operation and setting forth the area or areas w... |
80.28.200 | Gas companies—Refunds of charges. | Whenever any gas company whose rates are subject to the jurisdiction of the commission shall receive any refund of amounts charged and collected from it on account of natural gas purchased by it, by reason of any reduction of rates or disallowance of an increase in rates of the seller of such natural gas pursuant to an... |
80.28.220 | Gas companies—Right of eminent domain—Purposes. | Every corporation having for one of its principal purposes the transmission, distribution, sale, or furnishing of natural gas or other type gas for light, heat, or power and holding and owning a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the utilities and transportation commission authorizing the operation of... |
80.28.230 | Gas companies—Use for purpose acquired exclusive—Disposition of property. | Any property or interest acquired as provided in RCW 80.28.220 shall be used exclusively for the purposes for which it was acquired: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That if any such property be sold or otherwise disposed of by said corporations, such sale or disposition shall be by public sale or disposition and advertised in the m... |
80.28.240 | Recovery of damages by utility company for tampering, unauthorized connections, diversion of services. | (1) A utility may bring a civil action for damages against any person who commits, authorizes, solicits, aids, abets, or attempts to: (a) Divert, or cause to be diverted, utility services by any means whatsoever; (b) Make, or cause to be made, any connection or reconnection with property owned or used by the utility to... |
80.28.250 | Water companies—Fire hydrants. | A city, town or county may, by ordinance or resolution, require a water company to maintain fire hydrants in the area served by the water company. The utilities and transportation commission has no authority to waive this obligation.
[ 1986 c 119 s 1 .] |
80.28.260 | Adoption of policies to provide financial incentives for energy efficiency programs. | (1) The commission shall adopt a policy allowing an incentive rate of return on investment for programs that improve the efficiency of energy end use if priority is given to senior citizens and low-income citizens in the course of carrying out such programs. The incentive rate of return on investments set forth in this... |
80.28.270 | Water or wastewater companies—Extension, installation, or connection charges. | The commission's jurisdiction over the rates, charges, practices, acts or services of any water company or wastewater company includes any aspect of line extension, service installation, or service connection. If the charges for such services are not set forth by specific amount in the company's tariff filed with the c... |
80.28.275 | Water or wastewater companies—Assumption of substandard water system or system of sewerage—Limited immunity from liability. | A water company or a wastewater company assuming responsibility for a water system or system of sewerage that is not in compliance with state or federal requirements, and its agents and employees, are immune from lawsuits or causes of action, based on noncompliance with state or federal requirements, which predate the ... |
80.28.280 | Compressed natural gas—Motor vehicle refueling stations—Public interest. | (1) The legislature finds that compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas offers [offer] significant potential to reduce vehicle and vessel emissions and to significantly decrease dependence on petroleum-based fuels. The legislature also finds that well-developed and convenient refueling systems are imperative if... |
80.28.290 | Compressed natural gas—Refueling stations—Identify barriers. | The commission shall identify barriers to the development of refueling stations for vehicles operating on compressed natural gas, and shall develop policies to remove such barriers. In developing such policies, the commission shall consider providing rate incentives to encourage natural gas companies to invest in the i... |
80.28.300 | Gas, electrical companies encouraged to provide customers with landscaping information and to request voluntary donations for urban forestry. | (1) Gas companies and electrical companies under this chapter are highly encouraged to provide information to their customers regarding landscaping that includes tree planting for energy conservation. (2)(a) Gas companies and electrical companies under this chapter may request voluntary donations from their customers f... |
80.28.303 | Conservation service tariff—Contents of filing—Rate base—Duties of commission. | (1) An electrical, gas, or water company may file a conservation service tariff with the commission. The tariff shall provide: (a) The terms and conditions upon which the company will offer the conservation measures and services specified in the tariff; (b) The period of time during which the conservation measures and ... |
80.28.306 | Rate recovery bonds—Rate recovery assets as collateral—Priority of security interests—Transfers. | (1) Electrical, gas, and water companies, or finance subsidiaries, may, upon approval by the commission, finance or refinance bondable rate recovery expenditures as described in RCW 80.28.303 . Bonds, notes, certificates of beneficial interests in a trust, and other evidences of indebtedness or ownership issued for thi... |
80.28.309 | Costs as bondable rate recovery expenditures. | (1) Costs incurred before May 17, 2025, by electrical, gas, or water companies with respect to events described in RCW 80.28.005 (3)(a) or energy or water conservation measures and services described in RCW 80.28.005 (3)(b) shall constitute bondable rate recovery expenditures for purposes of RCW 80.28.005 , 80.28.303 ,... |
80.28.310 | Tariff for irrigation pumping service—Authority for electrical companies to buy back electricity. | Upon request by an electrical company, the commission may approve a tariff for irrigation pumping service that allows the company to buy back electricity from customers to reduce electricity usage by those customers during the electrical company's particular irrigation season.
[ 2001 c 122 s 1 .]
Effective date — 2001 ... |
80.28.320 | Regulation of battery charging facilities. | The commission shall not regulate the rates, services, facilities, and practices of an entity that offers battery charging facilities to the public for hire; if: (1) That entity is not otherwise subject to commission jurisdiction as an electrical company; or (2) that entity is otherwise subject to commission jurisdicti... |
80.28.330 | Certificate of public convenience and necessity—Bond or equivalent surety—Rule-making authority. | (1) A wastewater company may not own or develop a system of sewerage for the purpose of providing service for compensation without first having obtained from the commission a certificate declaring that the public convenience and necessity requires such service. (2) Issuance of the certificate of public convenience and ... |
80.28.340 | Determination that a wastewater company is unfit to provide wastewater service on a system of sewerage—Commission may order transfer—Power of eminent domain. | (1) If the commission determines, after providing notice and opportunity for a hearing in the manner required for complaints under RCW 80.04.110 , that a wastewater company is unfit to provide wastewater service on any system of sewerage, under its ownership, the commission may order the transfer of any such system or ... |
80.28.350 | Petition to place a wastewater company in receivership—Power of eminent domain. | (1) The commission may petition the Thurston county superior court pursuant to chapter 7.60 RCW to place a wastewater company in receivership. The petition must include the names of one or more qualified candidates for receiver who have consented to assume operation of the system of sewerage. The petition must also inc... |
80.28.360 | Electric vehicle supply equipment—Capital expenditures—Incentive rate of return on investment. | (1) In establishing rates for each electrical company regulated under this title, the commission may allow an incentive rate of return on investment through December 31, 2030, on capital expenditures for electric vehicle supply equipment that is deployed for the benefit of ratepayers, provided that the capital expendit... |
80.28.365 | Electric vehicle supply equipment, programs, or services—Electrification of transportation plan—Review—Issuance of acknowledgment. | (1) An electric utility regulated by the utilities and transportation commission under this chapter may submit to the commission an electrification of transportation plan that deploys electric vehicle supply equipment or provides other electric transportation programs, services, or incentives to support electrification... |
80.28.370 | Community solar companies—Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this section and RCW 80.28.375 unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Community solar company" means a person, firm, or corporation, other than an electric utility or a community solar cooperative, that owns a community solar project and provides community s... |
80.28.375 | Community solar companies—Requirements to engage in business—Registration. | (1) No community solar company may engage in business in this state except in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Engaging in business as a community solar company includes advertising, soliciting, offering, or entering into an agreement to own a community solar project and provide community solar project s... |
80.28.380 | Gas companies—Conservation targets. | (1) Each gas company must identify and acquire all conservation measures that are available and cost-effective. Each company must establish an acquisition target every two years and must demonstrate that the target will result in the acquisition of all resources identified as available and cost-effective. The cost-effe... |
80.28.385 | Renewable natural gas program. | (1) A natural gas company may propose a renewable natural gas program under which the company would supply renewable natural gas for a portion of the natural gas sold or delivered to its retail customers. The renewable natural gas program is subject to review and approval by the commission. The customer charge for a re... |
80.28.390 | Tariff—Voluntary renewable natural gas service. | (1) Each gas company must offer by tariff a voluntary renewable natural gas service available to all customers to replace any portion of the natural gas that would otherwise be provided by the gas company. The tariff may provide reasonable limits on participation based on the availability of renewable natural gas and m... |
80.28.395 | Natural gas—Cost of greenhouse gas emissions—Calculation. | For the purposes of RCW 80.28.380 , the cost of greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the use of natural gas, including the effect of emissions occurring in the gathering, transmission, and distribution of natural gas to the end user is equal to the cost per metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions, using the two and o... |
80.28.400 | Commission—Monitoring greenhouse gas emissions—Report. | The commission must monitor the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from natural gas and renewable natural gas delivered by each gas company to its customers, relative to a proportionate share of the state's greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal. The commission must report to the governor by January 1, 2020, and every... |
80.28.405 | Clean energy action plan—Greenhouse gas emissions—Calculation of cost. | For the purposes of chapter 288, Laws of 2019, the cost of greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the generation of electricity, including the effect of emissions, is equal to the cost per metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, using the two and one-half percent discount rate, listed in table 2, technical ... |
80.28.410 | Clean energy action plan—Account for and defer costs. | (1) An electrical company may account for and defer for later consideration by the commission costs incurred in connection with major projects in the electrical company's clean energy action plan pursuant to RCW 19.280.030 (1)(l), or selected in the electrical company's solicitation of bids for delivering electric capa... |
80.28.420 | Gas company recovery of costs associated with replacing certain pipeline facilities—Information to be submitted to the commission—Definitions. | (1) The commission must initiate a proceeding to provide conditions concerning the interim recovery between rate cases by a gas company of the costs associated with replacing pipeline facilities that are demonstrated to have an elevated risk of failure and the costs associated with measures to expedite the reduction of... |
80.28.425 | Multiyear rate plan. | (1) Beginning January 1, 2022, every general rate case filing of a gas or electrical company must include a proposal for a multiyear rate plan as provided in this chapter. The commission may, by order after an adjudicative proceeding as provided by chapter 34.05 RCW, approve, approve with conditions, or reject, a multi... |
80.28.430 | Authority to enter into agreements with certain organizations—Agreement to govern manner in which financial assistance is provided to an organization—Requirements. | (1) A gas company, electrical company, or thermal energy company shall, upon request, enter into one or more written agreements with organizations that represent broad customer interests in regulatory proceedings conducted by the commission, subject to commission approval in accordance with subsection (2) of this secti... |
80.28.435 | Replacement of natural gas with hydrogen—Notice to commission—Tariff approval. | (1) A gas company must file a notice with the utilities and transportation commission prior to replacing natural gas with renewable hydrogen or green electrolytic hydrogen to serve customers. The notice must establish that the company has received all necessary siting and permitting approvals. The notice must also incl... |
80.28.445 | Wildfire mitigation plan—Filing requirements. | (1)(a) Each electrical company must file a wildfire mitigation plan with the commission as soon as practicable after July 27, 2025, unless the company has previously filed a wildfire mitigation plan with the commission prior to July 27, 2025. An electrical company that has previously filed a wildfire plan with the comm... |
80.28.450 | Thermal energy networks. | (1) Any gas company and any electrical company may deploy a thermal energy network within their service territories, in accordance with RCW 80.28.460 . If a gas company or electrical company intends to deploy a thermal energy network, the company must submit the project for review and validation of costs assessments to... |
80.28.460 | Thermal energy network pilot project program. | A thermal energy network pilot project program is established. (1) The department of commerce may award grants for the thermal energy network pilot project program in accordance with RCW 43.31.033 . (2)(a) A gas company has priority for developing thermal energy network pilot projects in the gas company's service terri... |
80.28.470 | Thermal energy network pilot project—Request for proposals. | (1) Prior to deploying a thermal energy network pilot project, an investor-owned gas company must issue a request for proposals for a thermal energy network pilot project. When reviewing the proposals, the investor-owned gas company must compare the cost of deployment of a proposed thermal energy network pilot project ... |
80.28.480 | Merger of gas and thermal energy rate bases. | (1) In any multiyear rate plan proposed by a natural gas company or combination utility, the company may propose a merger into a single rate base of its regulated gas operations with its operation of a thermal energy network. The commission may approve the merger of gas and thermal energy rate bases if the commission f... |
80.28.485 | Thermal energy meters—Inspectors. | The commission may appoint inspectors of thermal energy meters who shall, when required by the commission, inspect, examine, prove, and ascertain the accuracy of any and all thermal energy meters used or intended to be used for measuring and ascertaining the quantity of thermal energy, and inspect, examine, and ascerta... |
80.28.487 | Thermal energy networks—Commission authority to provide discounted rates. | (1) Upon its own motion, or upon request by an electrical company or a thermal energy company, or other party to a general rate case hearing, or other proceeding to set rates, the commission may authorize an electrical company to provide discounted rates to a company operating a thermal energy network in the electrical... |
80.28.490 | Financing certain costs and expenses by utility companies—Bondable rate recovery expenditures. | (1) It is the policy of the state of Washington to encourage the financing of certain costs and expenses by electrical, gas, and water companies at the lowest, reasonable, and prudent cost to customers of such companies including, but not limited to, bondable rate recovery expenditures. (2) To carry out the policy desc... |
80.28.500 | Disaster recovery—Financing orders—Rate recovery expenditures. | (1)(a) If an electrical, gas, or water company applies to the commission for recovery of expenditures related to a federal or state declared disaster or emergency and the commission finds some or all of the expenditures to be reasonable and prudent, the company may petition the commission for a financing order designat... |
80.28.900 | Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521. | For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married person... |
80.32.010 | Cities and counties may grant franchises—Procedure—Liability to restore road for travel. | The legislative authority of the city or town having control of any public street or road, or, where the street or road is not within the limits of any incorporated city or town, then the county legislative authority of the county wherein the road or street is situated, may grant authority for the construction, mainten... |
80.32.040 | Grant of franchise subject to referendum. | All grants of franchises or rights for the conduct or distribution of electric energy, electric power, or electric light within any city or town of the state of Washington by the city council or other legislative body or legislative authority thereof, whether granted by ordinance, resolution, or other form of grant, co... |
80.32.050 | Sale or lease of plant and franchises. | Any corporation incorporated or that may hereafter be incorporated under the laws of this state or any state or territory of the United States, for the purpose of manufacturing, transmitting or selling electric power, may lease or purchase and operate (except in cases where such lease or purchase is prohibited by the C... |
80.32.060 | Eminent domain. | Every corporation, incorporated or that may hereafter be incorporated under the laws of this state, or of any other state or territory of the United States, and doing business in this state, for the purpose of manufacturing or transmitting electric power, shall have the right to appropriate real estate and other proper... |
80.32.070 | Right of entry. | Every such corporation shall have the right to enter upon any land between the termini of the proposed lines for the purpose of examining, locating and surveying such lines, doing no unnecessary damage thereby.
[ 1961 c 14 s 80.32.070 . Prior: 1899 c 94 s 2 ; RRS s 11085.] |
80.32.080 | Duties of electrical companies exercising power of eminent domain. | Any corporation authorized to do business in this state, which, under the present laws of the state, is authorized to condemn property for the purpose of generating and transmitting electrical power for the operation of railroads or railways, or for municipal lighting, and which by its charter or articles of incorporat... |
80.32.090 | Limitation on use of electricity. | Whenever any corporation has acquired any property by decree of appropriation based on proceedings in court under the provisions of RCW 80.32.080 through 80.32.100 , no portion of the electricity generated or transmitted by it by means of the property appropriated under the provisions of RCW 80.32.080 through 80.32.100... |
80.32.100 | Remedy for violations. | In the event of the violation of any of the requirements of RCW 80.32.080 and 80.32.090 by any corporation availing itself of its provisions, an appropriate suit may be maintained in the name of the state upon the relation of the attorney general, or, if he or she shall refuse or neglect to act, upon the relation of an... |
80.36.005 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 80.36.410 through * 80.36.475 , unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Community action agency" means local community action agencies or local community service agencies designated by the department of commerce under chapter 43.63A RCW. (2) "Community ag... |
80.36.010 | Eminent domain. | The right of eminent domain is hereby extended to all telecommunications companies organized or doing business in this state.
[ 1985 c 450 s 15 ; 1961 c 14 s 80.36.010 . Prior: 1890 p 292 s 1 ; RRS s 11338.] |
80.36.020 | Right of entry. | Every corporation incorporated under the laws of this state or any state or territory of the United States for the purpose of constructing, operating or maintaining any telecommunications line in this state shall have the right to enter upon any land between the termini of its proposed telecommunications lines for the ... |
80.36.030 | Extent of appropriation. | Such telecommunications company may appropriate so much land as may be actually necessary for its telecommunications line, with the right to enter upon lands immediately adjacent thereto, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating its line and making all necessary repair. Such telecommunications company... |
80.36.040 | Use of road, street, and railroad right-of-way—When consent of city necessary. | Any telecommunications company, or the lessees thereof, doing business in this state, shall have the right to construct and maintain all necessary telecommunications lines for public traffic along and upon any public road, street or highway, along or across the right-of-way of any railroad corporation, and may erect po... |
80.36.050 | Use of railroad right-of-way—Penalty for refusal by railroad. | Every railroad operated in this state, and carrying freight and passengers for hire, or doing business in this state, is and shall be designated a "post road," and the corporation or company owning the same shall allow telecommunications companies to construct and maintain telecommunications lines on and along the righ... |
80.36.060 | Liability for wilful injury to telecommunications property. | Any person who wilfully and maliciously does any injury to any telecommunications property mentioned in RCW 80.36.070 , is liable to the company for five times the amount of actual damages sustained thereby, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
[ 1985 c 450 s 20 ; 1961 c 14 s 80.36.060 . Prior: 1890 ... |
80.36.070 | Liability for negligent injury to property—Notice of underwater cable. | Any person who injures or destroys, through want of proper care, any necessary or useful fixtures of any telecommunications company, is liable to the company for all damages sustained thereby. Any vessel which, by dragging its anchor or otherwise, breaks, injures or destroys the subaqueous cable of a telecommunications... |
80.36.080 | Rates, services, and facilities. | All rates, tolls, contracts and charges, rules and regulations of telecommunications companies, for messages, conversations, services rendered and equipment and facilities supplied, whether such message, conversation or service to be performed be over one company or line or over or by two or more companies or lines, sh... |
80.36.090 | Service to be furnished on demand. | Every telecommunications company operating in this state shall provide and maintain suitable and adequate buildings and facilities therein, or connected therewith, for the accommodation, comfort and convenience of its patrons and employees. Every telecommunications company shall, upon reasonable notice, furnish to all ... |
80.36.100 | Tariff schedules to be filed and open to public—Exceptions. | (1) Every telecommunications company shall file with the commission and shall print and keep open to public inspection at such points as the commission may designate, schedules showing the rates, tolls, rentals, and charges of such companies for messages, conversations and services rendered and equipment and facilities... |
80.36.110 | Tariff changes—Statutory notice—Exception—Waiver of provisions during state of emergency. | (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, unless the commission otherwise orders, no change shall be made in any rate, toll, rental, or charge, that was filed and published by any telecommunications company in compliance with the requirements of RCW 80.36.100 , except after notice as required in this su... |
80.36.120 | Joint rates, contracts, etc. | The names of the several companies which are parties to any joint rates, tolls, contracts or charges of telecommunications companies for messages, conversations and service to be rendered shall be specified therein, and each of the parties thereto, other than the one filing the same, shall file with the commission such... |
80.36.130 | Published rates to be charged—Exceptions. | (1) Except as provided in RCW 80.04.130 and 80.36.150 , no telecommunications company shall charge, demand, collect or receive different compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered than the charge applicable to such service as specified in its schedule on file and in effect at that time, nor shall any telec... |
80.36.135 | Alternative regulation of telecommunications companies—Waiver of provisions during state of emergency. | (1) The legislature declares that: (a) Changes in technology and the structure of the telecommunications industry may produce conditions under which traditional rate of return, rate base regulation of telecommunications companies may not in all cases provide the most efficient and effective means of achieving the publi... |
80.36.140 | Rates and services fixed by commission, when. | Whenever the commission shall find, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, that the rates, charges, tolls or rentals demanded, exacted, charged or collected by any telecommunications company for the transmission of messages by telecommunications, or for the rental or use of any telecommunications li... |
80.36.145 | Formal investigation and fact-finding—Alternative to full adjudicative proceeding—Waiver of provisions during state of emergency. | (1) The legislature declares that the availability of an alternative abbreviated formal procedure for use by the commission instead of a full adjudicative proceeding may in appropriate circumstances advance the public interest by reducing the time required by the commission for decision and the costs incurred by intere... |
80.36.150 | Contracts filed with commission. | (1) Every telecommunications company shall file with the commission, as and when required by it, a copy of any contract, agreement or arrangement in writing with any other telecommunications company, or with any other corporation, association or person relating in any way to the construction, maintenance or use of a te... |
80.36.160 | Physical connections may be ordered, routing prescribed, and joint rates established. | In order to provide toll telephone service where no such service is available, or to promote the most expeditious handling or most direct routing of toll messages and conversations, or to prevent arbitrary or unreasonable practices which may result in the failure to utilize the toll facilities of all telecommunications... |
80.36.170 | Unreasonable preference prohibited. | No telecommunications company shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any person, corporation or locality, or subject any particular person, corporation or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever. The commission shall have primary jurisdi... |
80.36.180 | Rate discrimination prohibited. | No telecommunications company shall, directly or indirectly, or by any special rate, rebate, drawback or other device or method, unduly or unreasonably charge, demand, collect or receive from any person or corporation a greater or less compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered with respect to communicatio... |
80.36.183 | Discounted message toll rates prohibited—Availability of statewide, averaged toll rates. | Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no telecommunications company shall offer a discounted message toll service based on volume that prohibits aggregation of volumes across all territory with respect to which that company functions as an interexchange carrier. The commission shall continue to have the ... |
80.36.186 | Pricing of or access to noncompetitive services—Unreasonable preference or advantage prohibited. | Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no telecommunications company providing noncompetitive services shall, as to the pricing of or access to noncompetitive services, make or grant any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to itself or to any other person providing telecommunications service, no... |
80.36.190 | Long and short distance provision. | No telecommunications company subject to the provisions of this title shall charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transmission of any long distance conversation or message of like kind for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, within this state, th... |
80.36.195 | Telecommunications relay system—Long distance discount rates. | Each telecommunications company providing intrastate interexchange voice transmission service shall offer discounts from otherwise applicable long distance rates for service used in conjunction with the statewide relay service authorized under RCW 43.20A.725 . Such long distance discounts shall be determined in relatio... |
80.36.200 | Transmission of messages of other lines. | Every telecommunications company operating in this state shall receive, transmit and deliver, without discrimination or delay, the messages of any other telecommunications company.
[ 1985 c 450 s 34 ; 1961 c 14 s 80.36.200 . Prior: 1911 c 117 s 45 ; RRS s 10381.] |
80.36.210 | Order of sending messages. | It shall be the duty of any telegraph company, doing business in this state, to transmit all dispatches in the order in which they are received, under the penalty of one hundred dollars, to be recovered with costs of suit, by the person or persons whose dispatch is postponed out of its order: PROVIDED, That communicati... |
80.36.220 | Duty to transmit messages—Penalty for refusal or neglect. | Telecommunications companies shall receive, exchange and transmit each other's messages without delay or discrimination, and all telecommunications companies shall receive and transmit messages for any person. In case of the refusal or neglect of any telecommunications company to comply with the provisions of this sect... |
80.36.225 | Pay telephones—Calls to operator without charge or coin insertion to be provided. | All telecommunications companies and customer-owned, pay telephone providers doing business in this state and utilizing pay telephones shall provide a system whereby calls may be made to the operator without charge and without requiring the use of credit cards or other payment devices, or insertion of any coins into su... |
80.36.230 | Exchange areas for telecommunications companies. | The commission is hereby granted the power to prescribe exchange area boundaries and/or territorial boundaries for telecommunications companies.
[ 1985 c 450 s 37 ; 1961 c 14 s 80.36.230 . Prior: 1941 c 137 s 1 ; Rem. Supp. 1941 s 11358-1.] |
80.36.240 | Exchange areas for telephone companies—Procedure to establish. | The commission in conducting hearings, promulgating rules, and otherwise proceeding to make effective the provisions of RCW 80.36.230 and 80.36.240 , shall be governed by, and shall have the powers provided in this title, as amended; all provisions as to review of the commission's orders and appeals to the supreme cour... |
80.36.250 | Commission may complain of interstate rates. | The commission may investigate all interstate rates and charges, classifications, or rules or practices relating thereto, for or in relation to the transmission of messages or conversations. Where any acts in relation thereto take place within this state which, in the opinion of the commission, are excessive or discrim... |
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