Revised Code of Washington

Wash. Rev. Code § 64.04.190 (2026)

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Public utility and transportation corridors are railroad properties (1) on which railroad operations have ceased; (2) that have been found suitable for public use by an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States; and (3) that have been acquired by purchase, lease, donation, exchange, or other agreement by the state, one of its political subdivisions, or a public utility.

[ 1988 c 16 s 2; 1984 c 143 s 23.]

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1986–2001 · leading case: Lawson v. State, 730 P.2d 1308 (Wash. 1986).

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Lawson v. State, 730 P.2d 1308 (Wash. 1986). · cites it 15× “180 and RCW 64.04.190. These statutes authorize a change in the use of a railroad right of way to a public nonrailroad use without compensation to holders of reversionary interests in the right of way.”

Good v. Skagit Cnty., 17 P.3d 1216 (Wash. Ct. App. 2001). · cites it 3× “The Court further held that Washington’s railbanking statute, RCW 64.04.190, violated article I, section 16 of the Washington Constitution by appropriating the reversionary interests of the plaintiffs without payment of just compensation.”

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