Revised Code of Washington

Wash. Rev. Code § 35.17.010 (2026)

Definition of commission form

✓ current as of May 2026

Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section WA-LEGapp.leg.wa.gov JustiaTitle on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

The commission form of city government means a city government in which the legislative powers and duties are exercised by a commission of three, consisting of a mayor, a commissioner of finance and accounting, and a commissioner of streets and public improvements, and in which the executive and administrative powers and duties are distributed among the three departments as follows:

(1) Department of public safety of which the mayor shall be the superintendent;

(2) Department of finance and accounting of which the commissioner of finance and accounting shall be the superintendent;

(3) Department of streets and public improvements of which the commissioner of streets and public improvement shall be the superintendent.

[ 1965 c 7 s 35.17.010. Prior: (i) 1911 c 116 s 11, part; RRS s 9100, part. (ii) 1943 c 25 s 3, part; 1911 c 116 s 12, part; Rem. Supp. 1943 s 9101, part.]

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 2013–2017 · leading case: State v. Evans, 298 P.3d 724 (Wash. 2013).

Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment

State v. Evans, 298 P.3d 724 (Wash. 2013). “During its existence, a municipal corporation is run by a commission consisting of a mayor, a commissioner of finance and accounting, and a commissioner of streets and public improvements, RCW 35.17.010, that “determine [s] what powers and duties are to be performed in each…”

State Of Washington v. Evergreen Freedom Found. (Wash. Ct. App. 2017). “See RCW 35.17.010. Although Sequim, Chelan, and Shelton are noncharter “code cities” subject to title 35A RCW,1 RCW 35A.”

Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.