Wash. Rev. Code » Title 35A · Chapter 35A.80

Wash. Rev. Code § 35A.80.010

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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 chapters 35.43 through 35.54 RCW and by revenue and refunding bonds as authorized by chapters 35.41, 35.67 and 35.89 RCW and Title 85 RCW. A code city may protect and operate utility services as authorized by chapters 35.88, 35.91, 35.92, and 35.94 RCW and may acquire and damage property in connection therewith as provided by chapter 8.12 RCW and shall be governed by the regulations of the department of ecology as provided in RCW 90.48.110.
[ 1988 c 127 s 2; 1967 ex.s. c 119 s 35A.80.010.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1980–2021 · leading case: Chemical Bank v. Washington Public Power Supply System
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Chemical Bank v. Washington Public Power Supply System (1984) wash · cites it 3× “370(4); RCW 35A.80.010. The statutory provisions creating WPPSS grant an additional layer of statutory authority to purchase electricity.”
Chemical Bank v. Washington Public Power Supply System (1983) wash · cites it 2× “" RCW 35A.80.010. In addition to these categorical grants of enumerated powers, the PUD's and cities [4] were authorized, under the statutory provisions that created WPPSS, to: "enter into contracts or compacts with any operating agency or a publicly or privately owned public…”
Burns v. City of Seattle (2007) wash “" In this case, the payments at issue are not a franchise fee because they are not in exchange for use of the right-of-way, and they are not a "fee or charge of whatever nature or description" within the meaning of the statute because they are supported by independent valuable…”
Burns v. City of Seattle (2007) wash “RCW 35A.80.010; RCW 35.92.050; Taxpayers of Tacoma, 108 Wn.”
City of Issaquah v. Teleprompter Corp. (1980) wash · cites it 2× “2 This is so, it is argued, because a cable television system is a utility, and under RCW 35A.80.010, a city may operate a utility system only as authorized under *574 RCW 35.”
City Of Issaquah, V. Westridge-issaquah Ii Lp (2021) washctapp “” RCW 35A.80.010. “The term ‘code city’ means any noncharter code city or charter code city.”
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