Title 35A — Title 35A OPTIONAL MUNICIPAL CODE
57 chapters · 481 sections in this title.
RCW 35A.80.010 General laws applicable.
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A code city may provide utility service within and without its limits and exercise all powers to the extent authorized by general law for any class of city or town. The cost of such improvements may be financed by procedures provided for financing local improvement districts in c…
RCW 35A.80.020 Electric energy.
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Any code city is authorized to enter into contracts or compacts with any commission or any operating agency or publicly or privately owned utility for the purchase and sale of electric energy or falling waters as provided in RCW 43.52.410 and chapter 35.84 RCW and to exercise any…
RCW 35A.80.030 Hydroelectric resources—Separate legal authority—Creation by irrigation districts and cities, towns, or public utility districts.
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See RCW 87.03.825 through 87.03.840.
RCW 35A.80.040 Code cities encouraged to provide utility customers with landscaping information and to request voluntary donations for urban forestry.
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(1) Code cities providing utility services under this chapter are encouraged to provide information to their customers regarding landscaping that includes tree planting for energy conservation.(2)(a) Code cities providing utility services under this chapter are encouraged to requ…
RCW 35A.80.050 Purchase of electric power and energy from joint operating agency.
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A code city may contract to purchase from a joint operating agency electric power and energy required for its present or future requirements. For projects the output of which is limited to qualified alternative energy resources as defined by RCW 19.29A.090(3), the contract may in…
RCW 35A.80.060 Voluntary donations for purpose of supporting hunger programs.
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(1) Code cities providing utility services under this chapter may request voluntary donations from their customers for the purpose of supporting hunger programs.(2) Voluntary donations collected by code cities under this section must be used by the code city to support the mainte…
RCW 35A.81.010 Application of general law.
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Motor vehicles owned and operated by any code city are exempt from the provisions of chapter 81.80 RCW, except where specifically otherwise provided. Urban passenger transportation systems must receive a refund of the amount of the motor vehicle fuel tax paid on each gallon of mo…
RCW 35A.82.010 State shared excises.
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A code city shall collect, receive and share in the distribution of state collected and distributed excise taxes to the same extent and manner as general laws relating thereto apply to any class of city or town including, but not limited to, funds distributed to cities under *RCW…
RCW 35A.82.020 Licenses and permits—Excises for regulation.
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A code city may exercise the authority authorized by general law for any class of city to license and revoke the same for cause, to regulate, make inspections and to impose excises for regulation or revenue in regard to all places and kinds of business, production, commerce, ente…
RCW 35A.82.025 Authority to regulate massage therapists—Limitations.
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(1) A state licensed massage therapist seeking a city license to operate a massage business must provide verification of his or her state massage license as provided for in RCW 18.108.030.(2) The city may charge a licensing or operating fee, but the fee charged a state licensed m…
RCW 35A.82.030 City and county retail sales excise tax and use tax.
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See chapter 82.14 RCW.
RCW 35A.82.040 City and town license fees and taxes on financial institutions.
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See chapter 82.14A RCW.
RCW 35A.82.042 City license fees or taxes on certain business activities to be at a single uniform rate.
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See RCW 35.21.710.
RCW 35A.82.050 License fees or taxes upon certain business activities to be at single uniform rate.
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Any code city which imposes a license fee or tax upon business activities consisting of the making of retail sales of tangible personal property which are measured by gross receipts or gross income from such sales, shall impose such tax at a single uniform rate upon all such busi…
RCW 35A.82.055 License fees or taxes on telephone business to be at uniform rate.
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Any code city which imposes a license fee or tax upon the business activity of engaging in the telephone business, as defined in RCW 82.16.010, which is measured by gross receipts or gross income from the business shall impose the tax at a uniform rate on all persons engaged in t…
RCW 35A.82.060 License fees or taxes on telephone business—Imposition on certain gross revenues authorized—Limitations.
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(1) Any code city which imposes a license fee or tax upon the business activity of engaging in the telephone business which is measured by gross receipts or gross income may impose the fee or tax, if it desires, on one hundred percent of the total gross revenue derived from intra…
RCW 35A.82.065 Taxes on network telephone services.
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Notwithstanding RCW 35.21.714 or 35A.82.060, any city or town which imposes a tax upon business activities measured by gross receipts or gross income from sales, may impose such tax on that portion of network telephone service, as defined in RCW 82.16.010, which represents charge…
RCW 35A.82.070 Taxes on telephone business—Deferral of rate reduction.
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A city or town required by RCW 35.21.870(2) to reduce its rate of taxation on telephone business may defer for one year the required reduction in rates for the year 1987. If the delay in rate reductions authorized by the preceding sentence is inadequate for a code city to offset …
RCW 35A.84.010 Procedure and rules relating to ad valorem taxes.
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The taxation of property in code cities shall be governed by general provisions of the law including, but not limited to, the provisions of: (1) Chapter 84.09 RCW, relating to the time for establishment of official boundaries of taxing districts on the first day of March of each …
RCW 35A.84.020 Assessment for and collection of ad valorem taxes.
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For the purpose of assessment of all property in all code cities, other than code cities having a population of more than twenty thousand inhabitants, the county assessor of the county wherein such code city is situated shall be the ex officio assessor, and as to the code cities …
RCW 35A.84.030 Ex officio collector of code city taxes.
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The treasurer of the county wherein a code city is situated shall be the ex officio collector of such code city's taxes and give bond, and account for the city's funds as provided in chapter 36.29 RCW.[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 s 35A.84.030.]
RCW 35A.88.010 Discharge of ballast.
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A code city may exercise the powers relating to regulation of discharge of ballast in harbors within or in front of such city as authorized by RCW 88.28.060.[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 s 35A.88.010.]
RCW 35A.88.020 Wharves and landings.
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A code city shall have and exercise all powers granted by general laws to cities and towns of any class relative to docks and other appurtenances to harbor and shipping, including but not limited to, the provisions of RCW 35.22.280, 35.23.440, * 35.24.290, and 88.24.030.[ 1967 ex…
RCW 35A.88.030 General laws applicable.
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General laws relating to harbor areas within cities, including but not limited to, chapter 36.08 RCW relating to transfer of territory lying in two or more counties; *RCW 79.92.110 relating to disposition of rental from leasehold in the harbor areas; and RCW 88.32.240 and 88.32.2…
RCW 35A.90.010 Becoming code city—Rights, actions saved—Continuation of ordinances.
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Unless otherwise provided by this title, the election by a city or town to become a code city and to be governed by this title shall not affect any right or liability either in favor of or against such city or town existing at the time, nor any civil or criminal proceeding involv…
RCW 35A.90.020 Invalidity of part of title not to affect remainder.
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If any provision, section, or chapter of this title or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the provision, section, chapter, or title, or the application thereof to other persons or circumstances is not affected.[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 s 35A.…
RCW 35A.92.010 Intent.
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The legislature intends for code cities to set standards for addressing the reporting and accountability of substantially career fire departments, and to specify performance measures applicable to response time objectives for certain major services. The legislature acknowledges t…
RCW 35A.92.020 Definitions.
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The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Advanced life support" means functional provision of advanced airway management, including intubation, advanced cardiac monitoring, manual defibrillation, establishmen…
RCW 35A.92.030 Policy statement—Service delivery objectives.
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(1) Every code city shall maintain a written statement or policy that establishes the following:(a) The existence of a fire department;(b) Services that the fire department is required to provide;(c) The basic organizational structure of the fire department;(d) The expected numbe…
RCW 35A.92.040 Annual evaluations—Annual report.
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(1) Every code city shall evaluate its level of service and deployment delivery and response time objectives on an annual basis. The evaluations shall be based on data relating to level of service, deployment, and the achievement of each response time objective in each geographic…
RCW 35A.92.050 Maintenance of response times in newly annexed areas—Firefighter transfers.
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Code cities conducting annexations of all or part of fire protection districts shall, at least through the budget cycle, or the following budget cycle if the annexation occurs in the last half of the current budget cycle, in which the annexation occurs, maintain existing fire pro…