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80.60.040 | Safety, power quality, and interconnection requirements—Customer-generator's expense—Commission may adopt additional requirements. | (1) A net metering system used by a customer-generator shall include, at the customer-generator's own expense, all equipment necessary to meet applicable safety, power quality, and interconnection requirements established by the national electrical code, national electrical safety code, the institute of electrical and ... |
80.66.010 | Scope of regulation—Filing of certain agreements. | The commission shall not regulate radio communications service companies, except that: (1) The commission may regulate the rates, services, facilities, and practices of radio communications service companies, within a geographic service area or a portion of a geographic service area in which it is authorized to operate... |
80.70.010 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Applicant" has the meaning provided in RCW 80.50.020 and includes an applicant for a permit for a fossil-fueled thermal electric generation facility subject to RCW 70A.15.2210 and 80.70.020 (1) (b) or (d). ... |
80.70.020 | Applicability of chapter—Carbon dioxide mitigation plan—Mitigation by a third party. | (1) The provisions of this chapter apply to: (a) New fossil-fueled thermal electric generation facilities with station-generating capability of three hundred fifty thousand kilowatts or more and fossil-fueled floating thermal electric generation facilities of one hundred thousand kilowatts or more under RCW 80.50.020 (... |
80.70.030 | Permanent carbon credits. | (1) Carbon dioxide mitigation plans relying on purchase of permanent carbon credits must meet the following criteria: (a) Credits must derive from real, verified, permanent, and enforceable carbon dioxide or carbon dioxide equivalents emission mitigation not otherwise required by statute, regulation, or other legal req... |
80.70.040 | Direct investment mitigation projects—Enforcement—Federal requirements may replace this section. | (1) The carbon dioxide mitigation option that provides for direct investment shall be implemented through mitigation projects conducted directly by, or under the control of, the certificate holder or order of approval holder. (2) Mitigation projects must be approved by the council, department, or authority, as appropri... |
80.70.050 | Independent qualified organizations with experience in mitigation activities—Council oversight—Reports. | (1) The council shall maintain a list of independent qualified organizations with proven experience in emissions mitigation activities and a demonstrated ability to carry out their activities in an efficient, reliable, and cost-effective manner. (2) An independent qualified organization shall not use more than twenty p... |
80.70.060 | Costs to be assessed against applicants and holders of site certification agreements. | Reasonable and necessary costs incurred by the council in implementing and administering this chapter shall be assessed against applicants and holders of site certification agreements that are subject to the requirements of this chapter.
[ 2004 c 224 s 6 .] |
80.70.070 | Rules. | The council, department, and authority shall adopt rules to carry out this chapter.
[ 2004 c 224 s 7 .] |
80.70.080 | Certain applicants for a natural gas-fired generation plant exempt from chapter.(Contingent expiration date.) | (1) An applicant for a natural gas-fired generation plant to be constructed in a county with a coal-fired electric generation facility subject to RCW 80.80.040 (3)(c) is exempt from this chapter if the application is filed before December 31, 2025. (2) For the purposes of this section, an applicant means the owner of a... |
80.80.005 | Findings—Intent. | (1) The legislature finds that: (a) Washington is especially vulnerable to climate change because of the state's dependence on snow pack for summer streamflows and because the expected rise in sea levels threatens our coastal communities. Extreme weather, a warming Pacific Northwest, reduced snow pack, and sea level ri... |
80.80.010 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Attorney general" means the Washington state office of the attorney general. (2) "Auditor" means: (a) The Washington state auditor's office or its designee for consumer-owned utilities under its jurisdictio... |
80.80.030 | Achieving greenhouse gases emissions reduction goals—Submission of policy recommendations to legislature by governor. | (1) The governor shall develop policy recommendations to the legislature on how the state can achieve the greenhouse gases emissions reduction goals established under *RCW 80.80.020 . These recommendations must include, but are not limited to: (a) How market mechanisms, such as a load-based cap and trade system, would ... |
80.80.040 | Greenhouse gas emissions performance standards—Rules—Sequestration. | (1) Beginning July 1, 2008, the greenhouse gas emissions performance standard for all baseload electric generation for which electric utilities enter into long-term financial commitments on or after such date is the lower of: (a) One thousand one hundred pounds of greenhouse gases per megawatt-hour; or (b) The average ... |
80.80.050 | Public comment—Commercially available turbines—Rate of greenhouse gas emissions—Reports—Rules. | The energy policy division of the department of commerce shall provide an opportunity for interested parties to comment on the development of a survey of new combined-cycle natural gas thermal electric generation turbines commercially available and offered for sale by manufacturers and purchased in the United States to... |
80.80.060 | Electrical companies—Baseload electric generation—Long-term financial commitments—Rules. | (1) No electrical company may enter into a long-term financial commitment unless the baseload electric generation supplied under such a long-term financial commitment complies with the greenhouse gas emissions performance standard established under RCW 80.80.040 . (2) In order to enforce the requirements of this chapte... |
80.80.070 | Consumer-owned utilities—Baseload electric generation—Long-term financial commitments. | (1) No consumer-owned utility may enter into a long-term financial commitment unless the baseload electric generation supplied under such a long-term financial commitment complies with the greenhouse gas emissions performance standard established under RCW 80.80.040 . (2) The governing board shall review and make a det... |
80.80.080 | Greenhouse gas emissions performance standards—Review—Report. | For the purposes of RCW 80.80.040 through 80.80.080 and 80.70.020 , the department, in consultation with the department of commerce energy policy division, the energy facility site evaluation council, the commission, and the governing boards of consumer-owned utilities, shall review the greenhouse gas emissions perform... |
80.80.100 | Memorandum of agreement with owners of a coal-fired baseload facility—Required provisions. | (1) By January 1, 2012, the governor on behalf of the state shall enter into a memorandum of agreement that takes effect on April 1, 2012, with the owners of a coal-fired baseload facility in Washington that emitted more than one million tons of greenhouse gases in any calendar year prior to 2008. The memorandum of agr... |
80.80.110 | Limitation on adopting or imposing a greenhouse gas emission performance standard on certain facilities. | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 2367.SL ) ***
No state agency or political subdivision of the state may adopt or impose a greenhouse gas emission performance standard, or other operating or financial requirement or limitation relating to greenhouse gas emissions, on a coal-fired electric generation facility located in Wash... |
80.80.120 | Memorandum of agreement—Authorized provisions. | (1) A memorandum of agreement entered into pursuant to RCW 80.80.100 may include provisions to assist in the financing of emissions reductions that exceed those required by RCW 80.80.040 (3)(c) by providing for the recognition of such reductions in applicable state policies and programs relating to greenhouse gas emiss... |
80.82.010 | Closure and postclosure plans for certain facilities. | (1) A facility subject to closure under either RCW 80.80.040 (3)(c) or a memorandum of agreement under RCW 80.80.100 , or both, must provide the department of ecology with a plan for the closure and postclosure of the facility at least twenty-four months prior to facility closure or twenty-four months prior to start of... |
80.82.020 | Guarantee of funds to perform activities specified in a decommissioning plan—Letter of credit. | (1) A facility subject to closure under either RCW 80.80.040 (3)(c) or a memorandum of agreement under RCW 80.80.100 , or both, must guarantee funds are available to perform all activities specified in the decommissioning plan developed under RCW 80.82.010 . The amount must equal the cost estimates specified in the dec... |
80.84.010 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Eligible coal plant" means a coal-fired electric generation facility that: (a) Is owned in whole or in part by more than one electrical company as of January 1, 2016; and (b) provides, as a portion of the l... |
80.84.020 | Placement of regulatory liabilities into a retirement account—Authorization—Conditions. | (1) The commission may, after conducting an adjudicative proceeding under chapters 34.05 and 80.04 RCW, authorize an electrical company to place amounts from one or more regulatory liabilities into a retirement account established pursuant to RCW 80.04.350 to cover decommissioning and remediation costs of eligible coal... |
80.86.010 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Carbon dioxide equivalent" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 70A.65.010 . (2) "Combined heat and power" has the same meaning as provided in RCW 19.280.020 . (3) "Commission" means the utilities and tr... |
80.86.020 | Consolidated planning requirements for gas and electric services—Integrated system plan requirements. | (1) The legislature finds that large combination utilities are subject to a range of reporting and planning requirements as part of the clean energy transition. The legislature further finds that current natural gas integrated resource plans under development might not yield optimal results for timely and cost-effectiv... |
80.86.030 | Sale of wholesale electricity—Greenhouse gas attributes. | Large combination utilities shall work in good faith with other utilities, independent power producers, power marketers, end-use customers, and interested parties in the region to develop market structures and mechanisms that require the sale of wholesale electricity from generating resources in a manner that allows th... |
80.86.040 | Certificate of necessity for certain construction, investment, or purchase costs—Application. | (1) Concurrent with an application for an integrated system plan pursuant to RCW 80.86.020 , a large combination utility may propose to construct a new renewable or nonemitting electric generation or transmission facility, make a significant investment in an existing renewable or nonemitting electric generation or tran... |
80.86.050 | Emissions baseline and projected cumulative emissions—Emissions reduction period. | (1) Large combination utilities must include the following in calculating the emissions baseline and projected cumulative emissions for an emissions reduction period, consistent with reporting of greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to the Washington clean air act, chapter 70A.15 RCW: (a) Methane leaked from the transport... |
80.86.090 | Community workforce agreements/project labor agreements for certain projects. | (1) For any project in an integrated system plan of a large combination utility that is part of a competitive solicitation and with a cost of more than $10,000,000, the large combination utility must certify to the commission that any work associated with such a project will be constructed by a prime contractor and its... |
80.86.100 | Rule-making authority. | The commission may adopt rules to ensure the proper implementation and enforcement of chapter 351, Laws of 2024.
[ 2024 c 351 s 12 .]
Effective date — 2024 c 351: See note following RCW 80.86.010 . |
80.86.901 | Short title. | This chapter may be known and cited as the Washington decarbonization act for large combination utilities.
[ 2024 c 351 s 19 .]
Effective date — 2024 c 351: See note following RCW 80.86.010 . |
80.98.010 | Continuation of existing law. | The provisions of this title insofar as they are substantially the same as statutory provisions repealed by this chapter, and relating to the same subject matter, shall be construed as restatements and continuations, and not as new enactments.
[ 1961 c 14 s 80.98.010 .] |
80.98.020 | Title, chapter, section headings not part of law. | Title headings, chapter headings, and section or subsection headings, as used in this title do not constitute any part of the law.
[ 1961 c 14 s 80.98.020 .] |
80.98.030 | Invalidity of part of title not to affect remainder. | If any provision of this title, or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the title, or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.
[ 1961 c 14 s 80.98.030 .] |
80.98.040 | Repeals and saving. | See 1961 c 14 s 80.98.040 . |
80.98.050 | Emergency—1961 c 14. | 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 immediately.
[ 1961 c 14 s 80.98.050 .] |
81.01.010 | Adoption of provisions of chapter80.01RCW. | The provisions of chapter 80.01 RCW, as now or hereafter amended, apply to Title 81 RCW as fully as though they were set forth herein.
[ 1961 c 14 s 81.01.010 .] |
81.04.010 | Definitions. | As used in this title, unless specially defined otherwise or unless the context indicates otherwise: (1) "Commission" means the utilities and transportation commission. (2) "Commissioner" means one of the members of such commission. (3) "Corporation" includes a corporation, company, association, or joint stock associat... |
81.04.020 | Procedure before commission and courts. | Each commissioner shall have power to administer oaths, certify to all official acts, and to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, waybills, books, accounts, documents, and testimony in any inquiry, investigation, hearing, or proceeding in any part of the state. The superior cour... |
81.04.030 | Number of witnesses may be limited. | In all proceedings before the commission the commission shall have the right, in their discretion, to limit the number of witnesses testifying upon any subject or proceeding to be inquired of before the commission.
[ 1961 c 14 s 81.04.030 . Prior: 1911 c 117 s 75, part; RRS s 10413, part.] |
81.04.040 | Witness fees and mileage. | Each witness who appears under subpoena shall receive for his or her attendance four dollars per day and ten cents per mile traveled by the nearest practicable route in going to and returning from the place of hearing. No witness shall be entitled to fees or mileage from the state when summoned at the instance of the p... |
81.04.050 | Protection against self-incrimination. | The claim by any witness that any testimony sought to be elicited may tend to incriminate him or her shall not excuse such witness from testifying, but such evidence or testimony shall not be used against such person on the trial of any criminal proceeding, excepting in a prosecution for perjury. The commissioner shall... |
81.04.060 | Deposition—Service of process. | The commission shall have the right to take the testimony of any witness by deposition, and for that purpose the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, waybills, documents, papers and accounts may be enforced in the same manner as in the case of hearings before the commission, or any member thereof. Proce... |
81.04.070 | Inspection of books, papers, and documents. | The commission and each commissioner, or any person employed by the commission, shall have the right, at any and all times, to inspect the accounts, books, papers, and documents of any public service company, and the commission, or any commissioner, may examine under oath any officer, agent, or employee of such public ... |
81.04.075 | Manner of serving papers. | All notices, applications, complaints, findings of fact, opinions and orders required by this title to be served may be served by mail and service thereof shall be deemed complete when a true copy of such paper or document is deposited in the post office properly addressed and stamped.
[ 1961 c 14 s 81.04.075 . Prior: ... |
81.04.080 | Annual report—Other reports. | (1) Every public service company shall annually furnish to the commission a report in such form as the commission may require, and shall specifically answer all questions posed to it by the commission. The commission may prescribe a uniform system of accounts, and the manner in which the accounts must be kept. The deta... |
81.04.090 | Forms of records to be prescribed. | The commission may, in its discretion, prescribe the forms of any and all accounts, records and memoranda to be kept by public service companies, including the accounts, records and memoranda of the movement of traffic, sales of its product, the receipts and expenditures of money. The commission shall at all times have... |
81.04.100 | Production of out-of-state books and records. | The commission may by order with or without hearing require the production within this state, at such time and place as it may designate, of any books, accounts, papers or records kept by any public service company in any office or place without this state, or at the option of the company verified copies thereof, so th... |
81.04.110 | Complaint—Hearing. | Complaint may be made by the commission of its own motion or by any person or corporation, chamber of commerce, board of trade, or any commercial, mercantile, agricultural or manufacturing society, or any body politic or municipal corporation, by petition or complaint in writing, setting forth any act or thing done or ... |
81.04.120 | Hearing—Order—Record. | At the time fixed for the hearing mentioned in RCW 81.04.110 , the complainant and the person or corporation complained of shall be entitled to be heard and introduce such evidence as he or she or it may desire. The commission shall issue process to enforce the attendance of all necessary witnesses. At the conclusion o... |
81.04.130 | Suspension of tariff change—Waiver of provisions during state of emergency. | Whenever any public service company, subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service, files with the commission any schedule, classification, rule, or regulation, the effect of which is to change any rate, fare, charge, rental, or toll previously charged, the commission may, either upon its own motion o... |
81.04.140 | Order requiring joint action. | Whenever any order of the commission shall require joint action by two or more public service companies, such order shall specify that the same shall be made at their joint cost, and the companies affected shall have thirty days, or such further time, as the commission may prescribe, within which to agree upon the part... |
81.04.150 | Remunerative rate—Change without authorization prohibited—Waiver of provisions during state of emergency. | Whenever the commission finds, after a hearing upon its own motion or upon complaint as provided in this chapter, that any rate, toll, rental, or charge that has been the subject of complaint and inquiry is sufficiently remunerative to the public service company subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and s... |
81.04.160 | Rules. | The commission may adopt rules that pertain to the comfort and convenience of the public using the services of public service companies that are subject to regulation by the commission as to services provided.
[ 2007 c 234 s 8 ; 1961 c 14 s 81.04.160 . Prior: 1911 c 117 s 85 ; RRS s 10427.] |
81.04.200 | Rehearing before commission. | Any public service company affected by any order of the commission, and deeming itself aggrieved, may, after the expiration of two years from the date of such order taking effect, petition the commission for a rehearing upon the matters involved in such order, setting forth in such petition the grounds and reasons for ... |
81.04.210 | Commission may change orders. | The commission may at any time, upon notice to the public service company affected, and after opportunity to be heard as provided in the case of complaints rescind, alter or amend any order or rule made, issued or promulgated by it, and any order or rule rescinding, altering or amending any prior order or rule shall, w... |
81.04.220 | Reparations. | After a complaint is made to the commission concerning the reasonableness of any rate, fare, toll, rental or charge for any service performed by any public service company subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service, and the complaint is investigated by the commission, and the commission determines ... |
81.04.230 | Overcharges—Refund. | When complaint has been made to the commission that any public service company has charged an amount for any service rendered in excess of the lawful rate in force at the time such charge was made, and the same has been investigated and the commission has determined that the overcharge allegation is true, the commissio... |
81.04.235 | Limitation of actions. | All complaints against public service companies for recovery of overcharges shall be filed with the commission within two years from the time the cause of action accrues, and not after, except as hereinafter provided, and except that if claim for the overcharge has been presented in writing to the public service compan... |
81.04.236 | When cause of action deemed to accrue. | The cause of action for the purposes of RCW 81.04.235 , 81.04.240 , and 81.28.270 shall be deemed to accrue: (a) In respect of a shipment of property, upon delivery or tender of delivery thereof by the carrier, and not after; (b) in respect of goods or service or services other than a shipment of property, upon the ren... |
81.04.240 | Action in court on reparations and overcharges—Procedure. | If the public service company subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service does not comply with the order of the commission for the payment of damages or overcharges within the time limited in the order, action may be brought in any superior court where service may be had upon the company to recover ... |
81.04.250 | Determination of rates. | The commission may, upon complaint or upon its own motion, prescribe and authorize just and reasonable rates for the transportation of persons or property for any public service company subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service, whenever and as often as it deems necessary or proper. The commission... |
81.04.260 | Summary proceedings. | Whenever the commission shall be of opinion that any public service company is failing or omitting, or about to fail or omit, to do anything required of it by law, or by order, direction or requirement of the commission, or is doing anything, or about to do anything, or permitting anything, or about to permit anything ... |
81.04.270 | Accounts to be kept separate. | Any public service company, subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and services [service], that engages in the sale of merchandise or appliances or equipment shall keep separate accounts, as prescribed by the commission, of its capital employed in such business and of its revenues therefrom and operating e... |
81.04.280 | Purchase and sale of stock by employees. | A public service company subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service shall not: (1) Permit any employee to sell, offer for sale, or solicit the purchase of any security of any other person or corporation during such hours as such employee is engaged to perform any duty of such public service company... |
81.04.290 | Sale of stock to employees and patrons. | A corporate public service company, either heretofore or hereafter organized under the laws of this state, may sell to its employees and patrons any increase of its capital stock, or part thereof, without first offering it to existing stockholders: PROVIDED, That such sale is approved by the holders of a majority of th... |
81.04.300 | Budgets to be filed—Supplementary budgets. | The commission may regulate, restrict, and control the budgets of expenditures of public service companies subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service. The commission may require each company to prepare a budget showing the amount of money which, in its judgment, is needed during the ensuing year fo... |
81.04.310 | Commission's control over expenditures. | The commission may, both as to original and supplementary budgets, prior to the making or contracting for the expenditure of any item therein, and after notice to the company and a hearing thereon, reject any item of the budget. The commission may require any company to furnish further information, data, or detail as t... |
81.04.320 | Budget rules and regulations. | The commission may prescribe the necessary rules and regulations to place RCW 81.04.300 through 81.04.330 in operation. It may by general order, exempt in whole or in part from the operation thereof companies whose gross operating revenues are less than twenty-five thousand dollars a year. The commission may upon reque... |
81.04.330 | Effect of unauthorized expenditure—Emergencies. | Any public service company subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service may make or contract for any rejected item of expenditure, but in such case the rejected item of expenditure shall not be allowed as an operating expense, or as to items of construction, as a part of the fair value of the company... |
81.04.350 | Depreciation and retirement accounts. | The commission may after hearing require any public service company subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service to carry proper and adequate depreciation or retirement accounts in accordance with such rules, regulations, and forms of accounts as the commission may prescribe. The commission may from ... |
81.04.360 | Excessive earnings to reserve fund. | If any public service company subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service earns in the period of five consecutive years immediately preceding the commission order fixing rates for such company a net utility operating income in excess of a reasonable rate of return upon the fair value of its property... |
81.04.380 | Penalties—Violations by public service companies. | Every public service company, and all officers, agents and employees of any public service company, shall obey, observe and comply with every order, rule, direction or requirement made by the commission under authority of this title, so long as the same shall be and remain in force. Any public service company which sha... |
81.04.385 | Penalties—Violations by officers, agents, and employees of public service companies and persons or entities acting as public service companies. | Every officer, agent or employee of any public service company or any person, persons, or entity acting as a public service company, who shall violate or fail to comply with, or who procures, aids or abets any violation by any public service company of any provision of this title, or who shall fail to obey, observe or ... |
81.04.387 | Penalties—Violations by other corporations. | Every corporation, other than a public service company, which shall violate any provision of this title, or which shall fail to obey, observe or comply with any order of the commission under authority of this title, so long as the same shall be and remain in force, shall be subject to a penalty of not to exceed the sum... |
81.04.390 | Penalties—Violations by persons. | (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, every person who, either individually, or acting as an officer or agent of a corporation other than a public service company, violates any provision of this title, or fails to observe, obey, or comply with any order made by the commission under this title, so lo... |
81.04.400 | Actions to recover penalties—Disposition of fines, fees, penalties. | Actions to recover penalties under this title shall be brought in the name of the state of Washington in the superior court of Thurston county, or in the superior court of any county in or through which such public service company may do business. In all such actions the procedure and rules of evidence shall be the sam... |
81.04.405 | Additional penalties—Violations by public service companies and officers, agents, and employees. | In addition to all other penalties provided by law every public service company subject to the provisions of this title and every officer, agent or employee of any such public service company who violates or who procures, aids or abets in the violation of any provision of this title or any order, rule, regulation or de... |
81.04.410 | Orders and rules conclusive. | In all actions between private parties and public service companies involving any rule or order of the commission, and in all actions for the recovery of penalties provided for in this title, or for the enforcement of the orders or rules issued and promulgated by the commission, the said orders and rules shall be concl... |
81.04.420 | Commission intervention where order or rule is involved. | In all court actions involving any rule or order of the commission, where the commission has not been made a party, the commission shall be served with a copy of all pleadings, and shall be entitled to intervene. Where the fact that the action involves a rule or order of the commission does not appear until the time of... |
81.04.430 | Findings of department prima facie correct. | Whenever the commission has issued or promulgated any order or rule, in any writ of review brought by a public service company to determine the reasonableness of such order or rule, the findings of fact made by the commission shall be prima facie correct, and the burden shall be upon said public service company to esta... |
81.04.440 | Companies liable for damages. | In case any public service company shall do, cause to be done or permit to be done any act, matter or thing prohibited, forbidden or declared to be unlawful, or shall omit to do any act, matter or thing required to be done, either by any law of this state, by this title or by any order or rule of the commission, such p... |
81.04.450 | Certified copies of orders, rules, etc.—Evidentiary effect. | Upon application of any person the commission shall furnish certified copies of any classification, rate, rule, regulation or order established by such commission, and the printed copies published by authority of the commission, or any certified copy of any such classification, rate, rule, regulation or order, with sea... |
81.04.460 | Commission to enforce public service laws—Employees as peace officers. | It shall be the duty of the commission to enforce the provisions of this title and all other acts of this state affecting public service companies, the enforcement of which is not specifically vested in some other officer or tribunal. Any employee of the commission may, without a warrant, arrest any person found violat... |
81.04.470 | Right of action not released—Penalties cumulative. | This title shall not have the effect to release or waive any right of action by the state or any person for any right, penalty or forfeiture which may have arisen or may hereafter arise under any law of this state; and all penalties accruing under this title shall be cumulative of each other, and a suit for the recover... |
81.04.490 | Application to municipal utilities—Safety regulation of municipal gas and hazardous liquid pipelines. | Nothing in this title shall authorize the commission to make or enforce any order affecting rates, tolls, rentals, contracts or charges or service rendered, or the safety, adequacy or sufficiency of the facilities, equipment, instrumentalities or buildings, or the reasonableness of rules or regulations made, furnished,... |
81.04.500 | Duties of attorney general. | It shall be the duty of the attorney general to represent and appear for the people of the state of Washington and the commission in all actions and proceedings involving any question under this title, or under or in reference to any act or order of the commission; and it shall be the duty of the attorney general gener... |
81.04.510 | Engaging in business or operating without approval or authority—Procedure. | Whether or not any person or corporation is conducting business requiring operating authority, or has performed or is performing any act requiring approval of the commission without securing such approval, shall be a question of fact to be determined by the commission. Whenever the commission believes that any person o... |
81.04.530 | Controlled substances, alcohol. | A person or employer operating as a motor carrier shall comply with the requirements of the United States department of transportation federal motor carrier safety regulations as contained in Title 49 C.F.R. Part 382, controlled substances and alcohol use and testing. A person or employer who begins or conducts commerc... |
81.04.540 | Regulation of common carriers, railroad safety practices. | (1) The commission shall cooperate with the federal government and the United States department of transportation, or its successor, or any other commission or agency delegated or authorized to regulate interstate or foreign commerce by common carriers, to the end that the transportation of property and passengers by c... |
81.04.550 | Railroad safety administration. | The commission shall administer the railroad safety provisions of this title to the fullest extent allowed under 49 U.S.C. Sec. 20106 and state law.
[ 2007 c 234 s 3 .] |
81.04.560 | Railroad companies that transport crude oil must submit information relating to the ability to pay damages in the event of a spill or accident—Adoption of rules. | (1) The commission must require a railroad company that transports crude oil in Washington to submit information to the commission relating to the railroad company's ability to pay damages in the event of a spill or accident involving the transport of crude oil by the railroad company in Washington. The information sub... |
81.08.010 | Definition. | "Public service company," as used in this chapter, means every common carrier subject to regulation as to rates and service by the utilities and transportation commission under this title, except any "household goods carrier" subject to chapter 81.80 RCW or any "solid waste collection company" subject to chapter 81.77 ... |
81.08.012 | "Evidence of indebtedness"—Limitation of term. | The term "evidence of indebtedness," as used in this chapter, shall not include conditional sales contracts or purchase money chattel mortgages.
[ 1961 c 14 s 81.08.012 . Prior: 1951 c 227 s 2 .] |
81.08.020 | Control vested in state. | The power of public service companies to issue stocks and stock certificates or other evidence of interest or ownership, and bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness and to create liens on their property situated within this state is a special privilege, the right of supervision, regulation, restriction, and co... |
81.08.030 | Authority to issue. | A public service company may issue stock and stock certificates or other evidence of interest or ownership, or bonds, notes or other evidence of indebtedness payable on demand or at periods of more than twelve months after the date thereof, for the following purposes only: The acquisition of property, or the constructi... |
81.08.040 | Prior to issuance—Filing required—Contents. | Any public service company that undertakes to issue stocks, stock certificates, other evidence of interest or ownership, bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness shall file with the commission before such issuance: (1) A description of the purposes for which the issuance is made, including a certification by an... |
81.08.080 | Capitalization of franchise or merger contract prohibited. | The commission shall have no power to authorize the capitalization of the right to be a corporation, or to authorize the capitalization of any franchise or permit whatsoever or the right to own, operate or enjoy any such franchise or permit in excess of the amount (exclusive of any tax or annual charge) actually paid t... |
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