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Wash. Rev. Code § 80.04.500 (2026)

Application to municipal utilities

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Nothing in this title authorizes the commission to make or enforce any order affecting rates, tolls, rentals, contracts or charges or service rendered, or the adequacy or sufficiency of the facilities, equipment, instrumentalities or buildings, or the reasonableness of rules or regulations made, furnished, used, supplied or in force affecting any telecommunications line, gas plant, electrical plant, system of sewerage, or water system owned and operated by any city or town, or to make or enforce any order relating to the safety of any telecommunications line, electrical plant, system of sewerage, or water system owned and operated by any city or town, but all other provisions enumerated herein apply to public utilities owned by any city or town.
[ 2011 c 214 s 10; 1985 c 450 s 13; 1969 ex.s. c 210 s 1; 1961 c 14 s 80.04.500. Prior: 1911 c 117 s 105; RRS s 10454.]

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Findings—Purpose—Limitation of chapter—Effective date—2011 c 214: See notes following RCW 80.04.010.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1975–2024 · leading case: Earle M. Jorgensen Co. v. City of Seattle, 665 P.2d 1328 (Wash. 1983).
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Earle M. Jorgensen Co. v. City of Seattle, 665 P.2d 1328 (Wash. 1983). · cites it 2× “RCW 80.04.500. Appellants assert that this delegation of rate-setting authority is improper insofar as it does not provide for sufficient procedural protections.”
Stiefel v. City of Kent, 132 P.3d 1111 (Wash. Ct. App. 2006). “See RCW 80.04.500 (exempting municipal utilities from WUTC control).”
Fisk v. City of Kirkland, 194 P.3d 984 (Wash. 2008). “010 (including cities); RCW 80.04.500 (limiting commission control).”
Geneva Water Corp. v. City of Bellingham, 532 P.2d 1156 (Wash. Ct. App. 1975). “010 was not deemed controlling by our State Supreme Court in Faxe, supra at 350 , and that RCW 80.04.500 excepts municipally-owned water systems from the control of rates by the utilities and transportation commission.”
West Terrace Golf LLC v. City of Spokane (Wash. Ct. App. 2024). · cites it 3× “RCW 80.04.500. In 1917, the legislature passed a law, now codified as RCW 35.”
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