Revised Code of Washington
Wash. Rev. Code § 80.36.100 (2026)
Tariff schedules to be filed and open to public—Exceptions
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(1) Every telecommunications company shall file with the commission and shall print and keep open to public inspection at such points as the commission may designate, schedules showing the rates, tolls, rentals, and charges of such companies for messages, conversations and services rendered and equipment and facilities supplied for messages and services to be performed within the state between each point upon its line and all other points thereon, and between each point upon its line and all points upon every other similar line operated or controlled by it, and between each point on its line or upon any line leased, operated or controlled by it and all points upon the line of any other similar company, whenever a through service and joint rate shall have been established or ordered between any two such points.
(2) If no joint rate covering a through service has been established, the several companies in such through service shall file, print and keep open to public inspection as aforesaid the separately established rates, tolls, rentals, and charges applicable for such through service.
(3) The schedules printed as aforesaid shall plainly state the places between which telecommunications service, or both, will be rendered, and shall also state separately all charges and all privileges or facilities granted or allowed, and any rules or regulations which may in anywise change, affect or determine any of the aggregate of the rates, tolls, rentals or charges for the service rendered.
(4) A schedule shall be plainly printed in large type, and a copy thereof shall be kept by every telecommunications company readily accessible to and for convenient inspection by the public at such places as may be designated by the commission, which schedule shall state the rates charged from such station to every other station on such company's line, or on any line controlled and used by it within the state.
(a) All or any of such schedules kept as aforesaid shall be immediately produced by such telecommunications company upon the demand of any person.
(b) A notice printed in bold type, and stating that such schedules are on file and open to inspection by any person, the places where the same are kept, and that the agent will assist such person to determine from such schedules any rate, toll, rental, rule or regulation which is in force shall be kept posted by every telecommunications company in a conspicuous place in every station or office of such company.
[ 2006 c 347 s 1; 1989 c 101 s 9; 1985 c 450 s 24; 1961 c 14 s 80.36.100. Prior: 1911 c 117 s 36; RRS s 10372.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 14
cases, 1978–2010 · leading case: Allen v. Gen. Tel. Co. of Nw., Inc., 578 P.2d 1333 (Wash. Ct. App. 1978).
Allen v. Gen. Tel. Co. of Nw., Inc., 578 P.2d 1333 (Wash. Ct. App. 1978). “RCW 80.36.100. This statute also requires the telephone company to keep a copy of its schedule accessible for convenient inspection by the public, and to post a notice in its *146 office informing the public of their right to inspect the schedule and of their right to assistance…”
Qwest Corp. v. City of Bellevue, 166 P.3d 667 (Wash. 2007). “may impose the fee or tax, if it desires, on one hundred percent of the total gross revenue derived from intrastate toll telephone services.”
Qwest Corp. v. City of Bellevue, 161 Wash. 2d 353 (Wash. 2007). “may impose the fee or tax, if it desires, on one hundred percent of the total gross revenue derived from intrastate toll telephone services .”
Washington Indep. Tel. Ass'n v. Utils. & Transp. Comm'n, 64 P.3d 606 (Wash. 2003). “This practice was not unlawful, and indeed the Commission approved it. A telecommunications company's rates must be "fair, just, reasonable and sufficient.”
State v. Butterworth, 737 P.2d 1297 (Wash. Ct. App. 1987). “2 Regulation 11(G), which has been filed with the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission pursuant to RCW 80.36.100, provides that when a subscriber requests an unpublished telephone number the Company will take reasonable precautions: 1.”
Moore v. Pac. Nw. Bell, 662 P.2d 398 (Wash. Ct. App. 1983). “Dismissal Based on Tariffs As a public utility regulated under RCW 80.”
Washington Indep. Tel. Ass'n v. Washington Utils. & Transp. Comm'n, 148 Wash. 2d 887 (Wash. 2003). “A telecommunications company’s rates must be “fair, just, reasonable and sufficient.”
City of Auburn v. U S West Commc'ns, Inc., 79 F. Supp. 2d 1214 (W.D. Wash. 1999). “U S West’s rates, services, facilities and practices are under the regulation of the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (‘WUTC”).”
Judd v. Am. Tel. & Tel. Co., 116 Wash. App. 761 (Wash. Ct. App. 2003). “080 (rates, services, and facilities); RCW 80.36.100 (tariff schedules to be filed and open to public); RCW 80.”
Judd v. Am. Tel. & Tel. Co., 66 P.3d 1102 (Wash. Ct. App. 2003). “080 (rates, services, and facilities); RCW 80.36.100 (tariff schedules to be filed and open to public); RCW 80.”
Washington Indep. Tel. Ass'n v. Washington Utils. & Transp. Comm'n, 39 P.3d 342 (Wash. Ct. App. 2002). “RCW 80.36.100. Once a utility’s tariff is filed and approved, it has the force and effect of law.”
SPRINT INTERN. v. Dep't of Revenue, 226 P.3d 253 (Wash. Ct. App. 2010). “The federal definitions merely show how those terms were defined for federal tax purposes.”
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