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81.08.090 | Accounting for disposition of proceeds. | The commission shall have the power to require public service companies to account for the disposition of the proceeds of all sales of stocks and stock certificates or other evidence of interest or ownership, and bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness, in such form and detail as it may deem advisable, and to ... |
81.08.100 | Issuance made contrary to this chapter—Penalties. | If a public service company issues any stock, stock certificate, or other evidence of interest or ownership, bond, note, or other evidence of indebtedness, contrary to the provisions of this chapter, the company may be subject to penalty under RCW 81.08.110 and 81.08.120 .
[ 1994 c 251 s 9 ; 1961 c 14 s 81.08.100 . Pri... |
81.08.110 | Penalty against company. | Every public service company which, directly or indirectly, issues or causes to be issued, any stock or stock certificate or other evidence of interest or ownership, or bond, note, or other evidence of indebtedness, in nonconformity with the provisions of this chapter, or which applies the proceeds from the sale thereo... |
81.08.120 | Penalty against individual. | Every officer, agent, or employee of a public service company, and every other person who knowingly authorizes, directs, aids in, issues or executes, or causes to be issued or executed, any stock or stock certificate or other evidence of interest or ownership, or bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness contrary to... |
81.08.130 | Assumption of obligation or liability—Compliance with filing requirements. | Any public service company that assumes any obligation or liability as guarantor, indorser, surety or otherwise in respect to the securities of any other person, firm or corporation, when such securities are payable at periods of more than twelve months after the date thereof, shall comply with the filing requirements ... |
81.08.140 | State not obligated. | No provision of this chapter, and no deed or act done or performed under or in connection therewith, shall be held or construed to obligate the state of Washington to pay or guarantee, in any manner whatsoever, any stock or stock certificate or other evidence of interest or ownership, or bond, note or other evidence of... |
81.08.150 | Authority of commission—Not affected by requirements of this chapter. | No action by a public service company in compliance with nor by the commission in conformance with the requirements of this chapter may in any way affect the authority of the commission over rates, service, accounts, valuations, estimates, or determinations of costs, or any matters whatsoever that may come before it.
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81.12.010 | 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 the provisions of this title. It does not include common carriers subject to regulation by the federal energy regulatory commission or the Unit... |
81.12.020 | Order required to sell, merge, etc. | No public service company shall sell, lease, assign or otherwise dispose of the whole or any part of its franchises, properties or facilities whatsoever, which are necessary or useful in the performance of its duties to the public, and no public service company shall, by any means whatsoever, directly or indirectly, me... |
81.12.030 | Disposal without authorization void. | Any such sale, lease, assignment, or other disposition, merger or consolidation made without authority of the commission shall be void.
[ 1961 c 14 s 81.12.030 . Prior: 1941 c 159 s 3 ; Rem. Supp. 1941 s 10440c.] |
81.12.040 | Authority required to acquire property or securities of company. | No public service company shall, directly or indirectly, purchase, acquire, or become the owner of any of the franchises, properties, facilities, capital stocks or bonds of any other public service company unless authorized so to do by the commission. Nothing contained in this chapter shall prevent the holding of stock... |
81.12.050 | Rules and regulations. | The commission shall have power to promulgate rules and regulations to make effective the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1961 c 14 s 81.12.050 . Prior: 1941 c 159 s 5 ; Rem. Supp. 1941 s 10440e.] |
81.12.060 | Penalty. | The provisions of RCW 81.04.380 and 81.04.385 as to penalties shall be applicable to public service companies, their officers, agents and employees failing to comply with the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1961 c 14 s 81.12.060 . Prior: 1941 c 159 s 6 ; Rem. Supp. 1941 s 10440f.] |
81.16.010 | Definitions. | As used in this chapter: (1) "Public service company" means every corporation engaged in business as a common carrier and subject to regulation as to rates and service by the utilities and transportation commission under this title. (2) "Affiliated interest" means: (a) Every corporation and person owning or holding dir... |
81.16.020 | Dealings with affiliated interests—Prior filing with commission required—Commission may disapprove. | Every public service company shall file with the commission a verified copy, or a verified summary if unwritten, of a contract or arrangement providing for the furnishing of management, supervisory construction, engineering, accounting, legal, financial, or similar services, or any contract or arrangement for the purch... |
81.16.030 | Payments to affiliated interest disallowed if not reasonable. | In any proceeding, whether upon the commission's own motion or upon complaint, involving the rates or practices of any public service company, the commission may exclude from the accounts of the public service company any payment or compensation to an affiliated interest for any services rendered or property or service... |
81.16.040 | Satisfactory proof, what constitutes. | No proof shall be satisfactory, within the meaning of RCW 81.16.010 through 81.16.030 , unless it includes the original (or verified copies) of the relevant cost records and other relevant accounts of the affiliated interest, or such abstract thereof or summary taken therefrom, as the commission may deem adequate, prop... |
81.16.050 | Commission's control is continuing. | The commission shall have continuing supervisory control over the terms and conditions of such contracts and arrangements as are herein described so far as necessary to protect and promote the public interest. The commission shall have the same jurisdiction over the modifications or amendment of contracts or arrangemen... |
81.16.060 | Summary order on nonapproved payments. | Whenever the commission shall find upon investigation that any public service company is giving effect to any such contract or arrangement without such contract or arrangement having been filed or approved, the commission may issue a summary order prohibiting the public service company from treating any payments made u... |
81.16.070 | Summary order on payments after disallowance. | Whenever the commission finds upon investigation that any public service company is making payments to an affiliated interest, although the payments have been disallowed or disapproved by the commission in a proceeding involving the public service company's rates or practices, the commission shall issue a summary order... |
81.16.075 | Application of chapter—Solid waste collection companies. | This chapter does not apply to a determination of the base for collection rates for solid waste collection companies meeting the requirements under RCW 81.77.160 (3).
[ 1997 c 434 s 2 .] |
81.16.080 | Court action to enforce orders. | The superior court of Thurston county is authorized to enforce such orders to cease and desist by appropriate process, including the issuance of a preliminary injunction, upon the suit of the commission.
[ 1961 c 14 s 81.16.080 . Prior: 1933 c 152 s 8 ; RRS s 10440-8.] |
81.16.090 | Review of orders. | Any public service company or affiliated interest deeming any decision or order of the commission to be in any respect or manner improper, unjust or unreasonable may have the same reviewed in the courts in the same manner and by the same procedure as is now provided by law for review of any other order or decision of t... |
81.20.010 | Definition. | As used in this chapter, the term "public service company" means any person, firm, association, or corporation, whether public or private, operating a utility or public service enterprise subject in any respect to regulation by the utilities and transportation commission under the provisions of this title or Title 22 R... |
81.20.020 | Cost of investigation may be assessed against company. | Whenever the commission in any proceeding upon its own motion or upon complaint shall deem it necessary in order to carry out the duties imposed upon it by law to investigate the books, accounts, practices and activities of, or make any valuation or appraisal of the property of any public service company, or to investi... |
81.20.030 | Interest on unpaid assessment—Action to collect. | Amounts so assessed against any public service company not paid within thirty days after mailing of the bill therefor, shall draw interest at the rate of six percent per annum from the date of mailing of the bill. Upon failure of the public service company to pay the bill, the attorney general shall proceed in the name... |
81.20.040 | Commission's determination of necessity as evidence. | In such action the commission's determination of the necessity of the investigation, valuation, appraisal or services shall be conclusive evidence of such necessity, and its findings and determination of facts expressed in bills rendered pursuant to RCW 81.20.020 through 81.20.060 or in any proceedings determinative of... |
81.20.050 | Order of commission not subject to review. | In view of the civil action provided for in RCW 81.20.020 through 81.20.060 any order made by the commission in determining the amount of such bill shall not be reviewable in court, but the mere absence of such right of review shall not prejudice the rights of defendants in the civil action.
[ 1961 c 14 s 81.20.050 . P... |
81.20.060 | Limitation on frequency of investigations. | Expenses of a complete valuation, rate and service investigation shall not be assessed against a public service company under this chapter if such company shall have been subjected to and paid the expenses of a complete valuation, rate and service investigation during the preceding five years, unless the properties or ... |
81.24.010 | Companies to file reports of gross revenue and pay fees—Exempt companies. | (1) Every company subject to regulation by the commission, except those listed in subsection (3) of this section, shall, on or before the date specified by the commission for filing annual reports under RCW 81.04.080 , file with the commission a statement on oath showing its gross operating revenue from intrastate oper... |
81.24.020 | Fees of auto transportation companies—Statement filing. | On or before the date specified by the commission for filing annual reports under RCW 81.04.080 , every auto transportation company must file with the commission a statement showing its gross operating revenue from intrastate operations for the preceding year and pay to the commission a fee of two-fifths of one percent... |
81.24.030 | Fees of every commercial ferry—Statement filing. | Every commercial ferry shall, on or before the date specified by the commission for filing annual reports under RCW 81.04.080 , file with the commission a statement on oath showing its gross operating revenue from intrastate operations for the preceding calendar year, or portion thereof, and pay to the commission a fee... |
81.24.050 | Fees to approximate reasonable cost of regulation. | In fixing the percentage rates of gross operating revenue to be paid by companies under RCW 81.24.010 , 81.24.020 , and 81.24.030 , the commission shall consider all moneys then in the public service revolving fund and the fees currently to be paid into such fund, to the end that the fees collected from the companies, ... |
81.24.060 | Intent of legislature—Regulatory cost records to be kept by commission. | It is the intent and purpose of the legislature that the several groups of public service companies shall each contribute sufficient in fees to the commission to pay the reasonable cost of regulating the several groups respectively. The commission shall keep accurate records of the costs incurred in regulating and supe... |
81.24.070 | Disposition of fees. | All moneys collected under the provisions of this chapter shall within thirty days be paid to the state treasurer and by him or her deposited to the public service revolving fund.
[ 2013 c 23 s 294 ; 1961 c 14 s 81.24.070 . Prior: 1937 c 158 s 6 ; RRS s 10417-4.] |
81.24.075 | Delinquent fee payments. | Any payment of a fee imposed by this chapter made after its due date shall include a late fee of two percent of the amount due. Delinquent fees shall accrue interest at the rate of one percent per month.
[ 1994 c 83 s 2 .] |
81.24.080 | Penalty for failure to pay fees—Disposition of fees and penalties. | Every person, firm, company or corporation, or the officers, agents or employees thereof, failing or neglecting to pay the fees herein required shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. All fines and penalties collected under the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited into the public service revolving fund of the state ... |
81.24.090 | Pipeline safety fee—Reports—Procedure to contest fees—Regulatory incentive program. | (1)(a) Every hazardous liquid pipeline company as defined in RCW 81.88.010 shall pay an annual pipeline safety fee to the commission. The pipeline safety fees received by the commission shall be deposited in the pipeline safety account created in RCW 81.88.050 . (b) The aggregate amount of fees set shall be sufficient ... |
81.24.100 | Mileage fees on stages—Penalty. | In addition to the license fees required under RCW 46.17.355 for registering vehicles under RCW 46.16A.455 , operators of auto stages with seating capacity over six shall pay, at the time they file gross earning returns with the utilities and transportation commission, the sum of fifteen cents for each one hundred vehi... |
81.28.010 | Duties as to rates, services, and facilities. | All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of persons or property, or in connection therewith, by any common carrier subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service, or by any two or more such common carriers, must be just, fair, reasonable, and sufficient. Every c... |
81.28.020 | Duty of carriers to expedite traffic. | Every common carrier subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service shall under reasonable rules and regulations promptly and expeditiously receive, transport, and deliver all persons or property offered to or received by it for transportation.
[ 2007 c 234 s 23 ; 1961 c 14 s 81.28.020 . Prior: 1911 c ... |
81.28.030 | Routing of freight—Connecting companies—Damages. | All common carriers subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service and doing business wholly within this state shall, upon receipt of any article of freight, promptly forward the same to its marked destination, by the route directed by the shipper, or if no directions are given by shipper, then to any ... |
81.28.040 | Tariff schedules to be filed with commission—Public schedules—Commission's powers as to schedules. | Every common carrier subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service shall file with the commission and shall print and keep open for public inspection, schedules showing the rates, fares, charges, and classification for the transportation of persons and property within the state between each point upon... |
81.28.050 | Tariff changes—Notice—Exception—Waiver of provisions during state of emergency. | Unless the commission otherwise orders, a change may not be made to any classification, rate, fare, charge, rule, or regulation filed and published by a common carrier subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service, except after thirty days' notice to the commission and to the public. In the case of a ... |
81.28.060 | Joint rates, contracts, etc. | The names of the several carriers which are parties to any joint tariff shall be specified therein, and each of the parties thereto, other than the one filing the same, shall file with the commission such evidence of concurrence therein or acceptance thereof as may be required or approved by the commission; and where s... |
81.28.080 | Published rates to be charged—Exceptions—Definitions. | (1) A common carrier subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service shall not charge, demand, collect, or receive a greater or less or different compensation for transportation of persons or property, or for any service in connection therewith, than the rates, fares, and charges applicable to such tran... |
81.28.180 | Rate discrimination prohibited. | A common carrier subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service shall not, directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device or method, charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person or corporation a greater or lesser compensation for any service rendered or to be rend... |
81.28.190 | Unreasonable preferences and prejudices prohibited. | A common carrier subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service shall not make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any person, corporation, locality, or particular description of traffic in any respect whatsoever, or subject any particular person, corporation, locality, or part... |
81.28.200 | Long and short haul. | A common carrier, subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service and this title, shall not charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of persons or a like kind of property for a shorter distance than for a longer distance over the same line in the same direction,... |
81.28.210 | Transportation at less than published rates—Rebating—False representation. | (1) A common carrier subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service, or any officer or agent thereof, or any person acting for or employed by the common carrier, shall not assist, suffer, or permit any person or corporation to obtain transportation for any person or property between points within this ... |
81.28.220 | Action for treble damages. | The attorney general of the state of Washington shall, whenever he or she has reasonable grounds to believe that any person, firm, or corporation has knowingly accepted or received from any carriers of persons or property subject to the jurisdiction of the commission, either directly or indirectly, any unlawful rebate,... |
81.28.230 | Commission to fix just, reasonable, and compensatory rates. | Whenever the commission finds, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, as provided in this chapter, that the rates, fares, or charges demanded, exacted, charged, or collected by any common carrier subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service for the transportation of persons or pro... |
81.28.240 | Commission may order improved facilities and service. | Whenever the commission shall find, after such hearing, that the rules, regulations, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities or service of any such common carrier in respect to the transportation of persons or property are unjust, unreasonable, unsafe, improper, inadequate or insufficient, the commission shall det... |
81.28.250 | Investigation and determination of interstate rates—Application for federal relief. | The commission shall investigate all interstate, rates, fares, charges, classifications, or rules or practices in relation to the transportation of persons or property within this state, and if the commission determines that these rates, fares, charges, classification, or rules or practices are excessive or discriminat... |
81.28.260 | Bicycles as baggage on commercial ferries. | Bicycles must be transported as baggage for passengers by commercial ferries and are subject to the same liabilities as other baggage. A passenger is not required to crate, cover, or otherwise protect any bicycle. A commercial ferry is not required to transport more than one bicycle for one person.
[ 2007 c 234 s 35 ; ... |
81.28.270 | Limitation of action for collection of transportation charges. | All actions at law by railroads, common and contract carriers by motor truck and all other public carriers for recovery of their charges, or any part of them, for any common carrier service performed by said carriers, shall be begun within two years from the time the cause of action accrues, and not after.
[ 1961 c 14 ... |
81.28.280 | Reports of wrecks, etc. | Every public service company shall give immediate notice to the commission of every accident resulting in death or injury to any person occurring on its lines or system, in such manner as the commission may prescribe. Such notice shall not be admitted as evidence or used for any purpose against the company giving it in... |
81.28.290 | Investigation of accidents, wrecks. | The commission shall investigate all accidents that may occur upon the lines of any common carrier resulting in loss of life, to any passenger or employee, and may investigate any and all accidents or wrecks occurring on the line of any common carrier. Notice of the investigation shall be given in all cases for a suffi... |
81.28.900 | 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... |
81.29.010 | Definition. | "Common carrier," as used in this chapter, means every common carrier subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service.
[ 2007 c 234 s 36 ; 1961 c 14 s 81.29.010 . Prior: 1945 c 203 s 1 ; Rem. Supp. 1945 s 3673-0. Formerly RCW 81.32.010 , part.] |
81.29.020 | Carrier's liability for loss—Exceptions—Tariff schedule—Time for filing claims or instituting suits. | (1) Any common carrier subject to regulation by the commission as to rates and service, receiving property for transportation wholly within the state of Washington from one point in the state of Washington to another point in the state of Washington, shall issue a receipt or bill of lading and is liable to the lawful h... |
81.29.030 | Carrier's right of action against other carrier. | The common carrier issuing such receipt or bill of lading, or delivering such property so received and transported, shall be entitled to recover from the common carrier on whose line the loss, damage, or injury shall have been sustained, the amount of such loss, damage, or injury as it may be required to pay to the own... |
81.29.040 | Penalty for violations. | Any common carrier subject to the provisions of this chapter, or whenever such common carrier is a corporation, any director or officer thereof, or any receiver, trustee, lessee, agent, or person acting for or employed by such corporation, who, alone, or with any other corporation, company, person, or party, shall wilf... |
81.29.050 | Liability for baggage. | The liability of any common carrier subject to regulation by the commission for the loss of or damage to any baggage shall be set by the commission. The commission will review the amounts periodically and adjust the rate accordingly.
[ 1991 c 21 s 1 ; 1961 c 14 s 81.29.050 . Prior: 1945 c 209 s 1 ; Rem. Supp. 1945 s 10... |
81.36.010 | Right of eminent domain. | Every corporation organized for the construction of any railway, macadamized road, plank road, clay road, canal or bridge, is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate, by condemnation, land and any interest in land or contract right relating thereto, including any leasehold interest therein and any rights-of-way ... |
81.36.020 | Right of entry. | A corporation organized for the construction of any railway, macadamized road, plank road, clay road, canal or bridge, shall have a right to enter upon any land, real estate or premises, or any of the lands granted to the state of Washington for school, university or other purposes, between the termini thereof, for the... |
81.36.030 | Intersections and connections with other roads or canals. | Every corporation formed under the laws of this state for the construction of a railroad shall have the power to cross, intersect, join and unite its railway with any other railway before constructed, at any point in its route, and upon the grounds of such other railway company, with the necessary turn-outs, sidings, s... |
81.36.040 | Line or canal across or along watercourses. | Every corporation formed under the laws of this state for the construction of railroads or canals shall possess the power to construct its railway or canal, as the case may be, across, along or upon any river, stream of water, watercourses, plank road, turnpike or canal, which the route of such railway or canal shall i... |
81.36.050 | Change of grade or location of road or canal. | Any corporation may change the grade or location of its road, or canal, not departing from the general route specified in the articles of incorporation, for the purpose of avoiding annoyances to public travel or dangerous or deficient curves or grades, or unsafe or unsubstantial grounds or foundation, or for other like... |
81.36.060 | Extensions, branch lines. | Any railroad corporation chartered by, or organized under, the laws of the state, or of any state or territory, or under the laws of the United States, and authorized to do business in this state, may extend its railroads from any point named in its charter or articles of incorporation, or may build branch roads either... |
81.36.075 | Proceedings prior to March 18, 1909, validated. | Any sale or purchase of, and any consolidation by sale, or otherwise, or any lease, or agreement to sell, consolidate with or lease, the whole or any part of any railroad, or the branch lines of any company, whether organized or located within or without this state, with the franchises appertaining thereto, to, from or... |
81.36.090 | Requisites to building extension or branch line. | Any railroad corporation chartered by or organized under the laws of the United States, or of any state or territory, whose constructed railroad shall reach or intersect the boundary line of this state at any point, may extend its railroad into this state from any such point or points to any place or places within the ... |
81.36.100 | Bridges over navigable streams. | (1) Any railroad corporation heretofore duly incorporated and organized under the laws of this state or of the territory of Washington, or which may hereafter be duly incorporated and organized under the laws of this state, or heretofore or hereafter incorporated and organized under the laws of any other state or terri... |
81.36.120 | May own securities of irrigation companies. | It shall be lawful for any corporation, whether such corporation is organized under the laws of the territory or state of Washington, the laws of any other state or territory, or the laws of the United States owning, leasing or operating any line or lines of railway within the state of Washington, or which may own, lea... |
81.36.130 | May construct and operate ditches and canals. | It shall be lawful for any such corporation to build, own and operate irrigating ditches and canals in this state for the purpose of irrigating and reclaiming arid lands contiguous to or tributary to such line or lines of railway.
[ 1961 c 14 s 81.36.130 . Prior: 1890 p 529 s 2 ; RRS s 10462.] |
81.40.005 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Class I" means a railroad carrier designated as a class I railroad by the United States surface transportation board and its subsidiaries or is owned and operated by entities whose combined total railroad o... |
81.40.015 | Operation and management of trains, switching assignments—Exemption. | (1) Except as provided in RCW 81.40.025 , any person, corporation, company, or officer of the court operating any railroad, railway, or any part of any railroad or railway, in the state of Washington, and engaged, as a common carrier, in the transportation of freight or passengers, shall operate and manage all trains a... |
81.40.025 | Train crew size requirement—Automatic waivers—Commission. | (1) On June 11, 2020, automatic waivers to the train crew size requirement in RCW 81.40.015 shall be granted to other railroad carriers. (2) Such automatic waivers will remain in effect until ordered by the commission. (3) The commission must act to ensure that railroad carriers supplement trains entering Washington st... |
81.40.060 | Purchase of apparel by employees—Penalty. | (1) It shall be unlawful for any railroad or other transportation company doing business in the state of Washington, or of any officer, agent, or servant of such railroad or other transportation company, to require any conductor, engineer, brake operator, fire tender, purser, or other employee, as a condition of his or... |
81.40.080 | Employee shelters—Penalty. | (1) It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, corporation, association or other person owning, controlling or operating any line of railroad in the state of Washington, to build, construct, reconstruct, or repair railroad car equipment or motive power in this state without first erecting and maintaining at every p... |
81.40.095 | Rules and regulations—Railroad employees—Sanitation, shelter. | The utilities and transportation commission shall adopt and enforce rules and regulations relating to sanitation and adequate shelter as it affects the health of all railroad employees, including but not limited to railroad workers, maintenance of way employees, highway crossing watchpersons, clerical, platform, freigh... |
81.40.110 | Flagger must read, write, and speak English. | Any railroad operating within this state, shall not employ or use as flagger any person or persons who cannot read, write, and speak the English language.
[ 2013 c 23 s 297 ; 1961 c 14 s 81.40.110 . Prior: 1907 c 138 s 1, part; 1899 c 35 s 1, part; RRS s 10480, part.] |
81.40.130 | Cost of records or medical examinations—Unlawful to require employee or applicant to pay—Penalty—Definitions. | (1) It is unlawful for any employer to require any employee or applicant for employment to pay the cost of a medical examination or the cost of furnishing any records required by the employer as a condition of employment. (2) Any employer who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be... |
81.40.150 | Safety and protection—Violation—Fines. | (1) Pursuant to the enforcement of the provisions of chapter 170, Laws of 2020, the highest priority and paramount obligation of the commission must be its duty to ensure the safety and protection of the public, passengers, railroad employees, communities, environment, and areas of cultural significance in the furthera... |
81.44.010 | Order for improved equipment and facilities. | Whenever the commission, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, finds that any equipment or facility for use by any common carrier in, or in connection with the transportation of persons or property, ought reasonably to be provided, or any repairs or improvements to, or changes in, any theretofore i... |
81.44.020 | Correction of unsafe or defective conditions—Walkways and handrails as unsafe or defective condition, when. | If upon investigation the commission finds that the equipment, facilities, tracks, bridges, or other structures of any common carrier are defective, and that the operation thereof is dangerous to the employees of the common carrier or to the public, it shall immediately give notice to the superintendent or other office... |
81.44.040 | Streetcars. | Every streetcar must be equipped with proper and efficient brakes, steps, grab irons or hand rails, fenders or aprons or pilots, and with such other appliances, apparatus, and machinery necessary for the safe operation of the streetcar as the commission may prescribe.
[ 2007 c 234 s 40 ; 1961 c 14 s 81.44.040 . Prior: ... |
81.44.070 | Duties of inspector of safety appliances. | It shall be the duty of the inspector of tracks, bridges, structures, and equipment, and such deputies as may be appointed, to inspect all equipment, and appliances connected therewith, and all apparatus, tracks, bridges and structures, depots and facilities and accommodations connected therewith, and facilities and ac... |
81.44.085 | First aid kits and drinking water—Penalty. | (1) Every person operating a common carrier railroad in this state shall equip each locomotive and caboose used in train or yard switching service, and every car used in passenger service with a first aid kit of a type to be approved by the commission, which kit shall be plainly marked and be readily visible and access... |
81.44.130 | Safeguarding frogs, switches, and guardrails. | Every railroad and street railroad operating in this state shall so adjust, fill, block and securely guard all frogs, switches and guardrails so as to protect and prevent the feet of persons being caught therein.
[ 1961 c 14 s 81.44.130 . Prior: 1911 c 117 s 68 ; RRS s 10404.] |
81.44.170 | Hazardous materials inspections—Authority for certified commission employees to enter property of certain businesses. | Commission employees certified by the federal railroad administration to perform hazardous materials inspections may enter the property of any business that receives, ships, or offers for shipment hazardous materials by rail. Entry shall be at a reasonable time and in a reasonable manner. The purpose of entry is limite... |
81.44.180 | Annual work plan and inspection activity—Incorporation of certain data. | (1) The commission shall, for the purposes of targeting high-risk inspections, incorporate data received from the department of ecology as required under RCW 90.56.565 (4) in the development of its annual work plan and inspection activity. (2) Nothing in this section is intended to interfere with or prevent the partici... |
81.48.020 | Obstructing or delaying train—Penalty. | Every person who shall wilfully obstruct, hinder or delay the passage of any car lawfully operated upon any railway, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[ 1961 c 14 s 81.48.020 . Prior: 1909 c 249 s 278 ; RRS s 2530.] |
81.48.030 | Regulating speed within cities and towns and at grade crossings—Exception. | Except to the extent preempted by federal law, the right to fix and regulate the speed of railway trains within the limits of any city or town other than a first-class city, and at grade crossings as defined in RCW 81.53.010 where such grade crossings are outside the limits of cities and towns, is vested exclusively in... |
81.48.040 | Procedure to fix or change speed limits. | (1) After due investigation, the commission shall make and issue an order fixing and regulating the speed of railway trains within the limits of cities and towns other than first-class cities. Except to the extent preempted by federal law, the speed limit to be fixed by the commission shall be discretionary, and it may... |
81.48.050 | Trains to stop at railroad crossings. | All railroads and street railroads, operating in this state shall cause their trains and cars to come to a full stop at a distance not greater than five hundred feet before crossing the tracks of another railroad crossing at grade, excepting at crossings where there are established signal towers, and signal operators, ... |
81.48.060 | Penalty for violation of duty endangering safety. | Every engineer, motor operator, grip operator, conductor, brake operator, switch tender, train dispatcher, or other officer, agent, or servant of any railway company, who shall be guilty of any willful violation or omission of his or her duty as such officer, agent, or servant, by which human life or safety shall be en... |
81.48.070 | Cruelty to stock in transit—Penalty. | Railroad companies in carrying or transporting animals shall not permit them to be confined in cars for a longer period than forty-eight consecutive hours without unloading them for rest, water, and feeding for a period of at least two consecutive hours, unless prevented from so unloading them by unavoidable accident. ... |
81.52.050 | Fences—Crossings—Cattle guards. | Every person, company, or corporation having the control or management of any railroad shall, outside of any corporate city or town, and outside the limits of any sidetrack or switch, cause to be constructed and maintained in good repair on each side of said railroad, along the line of said right-of-way of such person,... |
81.52.060 | Fences—Liability for injury to stock. | Every such person, company or corporation owning or operating such railroad shall be liable for all damages sustained in the injury or killing of stock in any manner by reason of the failure of such person, company or corporation, to construct and maintain such fence or such crossing or cattle guard; but when such fenc... |
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