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Chapter 35.27
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RCW Dispositions
Chapter
35.27
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Sections
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35.27.010
Rights, powers, and privileges.
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35.27.030
Uncertain boundaries
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Petition
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Request for examination.
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35.27.040
Duty of county commissioners.
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35.27.050
Report of survey.
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35.27.060
Expense of proceedings.
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35.27.070
Town officers enumerated.
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35.27.080
Eligibility to hold elective office.
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35.27.090
Elections
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Terms of office.
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35.27.100
Conduct of elections.
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35.27.120
Oath and bond of officers.
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35.27.130
Compensation of officers and employees
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Expenses
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Nonstate pensions
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Limitations.
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35.27.140
Vacancies.
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35.27.160
Mayor
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Duties
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Powers
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Mayor pro tempore.
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35.27.170
Town treasurer
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Duties.
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35.27.180
Treasurer and clerk may be combined.
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35.27.190
Effect of consolidation of offices.
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35.27.200
Abandonment of consolidation.
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35.27.210
Duty of officers collecting moneys.
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35.27.220
Town clerk
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Duties.
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35.27.230
Records to be kept by clerk.
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35.27.240
Town marshal
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Police department.
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35.27.250
Town attorney
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Duties.
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35.27.260
Park commissioners.
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35.27.270
Town council
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Oath
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Meetings.
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35.27.280
Town council
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Quorum
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Rules
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Journal.
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35.27.290
Ordinances
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Style
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Signatures.
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35.27.300
Ordinances
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Publication
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Summary
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Public notice of hearings and meeting agendas.
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35.27.310
Ordinances
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Clerk to keep book of ordinances.
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35.27.330
Ordinances granting franchises
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Requisites.
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35.27.340
Audit and allowance of demands against town.
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35.27.345
Payment of claims and obligations by warrant or check.
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35.27.350
Contract for town printing.
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35.27.362
Contracts, purchases, advertising
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Call for bids
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Exceptions.
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35.27.370
Specific powers enumerated.
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35.27.372
City and town license fees and taxes on financial institutions.
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35.27.373
City license fees or taxes on certain business activities to be at a single uniform rate.
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35.27.375
Additional powers
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Parking meter revenue for revenue bonds.
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35.27.376
Nonpolluting power generation by individual
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Exemption from regulation
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Authorization to contract with utility.
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35.27.377
Hydroelectric resources
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Separate legal authority
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Creation by irrigation districts and cities, towns, or public utility districts.
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35.27.380
Additional powers
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Eminent domain.
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35.27.385
Additional powers
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Construction and operation of boat harbors, marinas, docks, etc.
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35.27.390
Employees' group insurance.
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35.27.400
Fire limits
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Parks.
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35.27.410
Nuisances.
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35.27.500
Taxation
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Street poll tax.
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35.27.510
Utilities
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Transfer of part of net earnings to current expense fund.
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35.27.515
Criminal code repeals by town operating municipal court
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Agreement covering costs of handling resulting criminal cases
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Arbitration.
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35.27.550
Off-street parking space and facilities
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Authorized
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Declared public use.
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35.27.560
Off-street parking space and facilities
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Financing.
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35.27.570
Off-street parking space and facilities
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Acquisition and disposition of real property.
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35.27.580
Off-street parking space and facilities
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Operation
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Lease.
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35.27.590
Off-street parking space and facilities
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Hearing prior to establishment.
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35.27.600
Off-street parking space and facilities
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Construction.
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35.27.610
Purchase of electric power and energy from joint operating agency.
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35.27.620
Telecommunications services and facilities authorized
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Requirements.
NOTES:
Accident claims against: RCW
35.31.040
,
35.31.050
.
Acquisition of interests in land for conservation, protection, preservation, or open space purposes by towns: RCW
64.04.130
.
Actions against
public corporations: RCW
4.08.120
.
state: Chapter
4.92
RCW.
Actions by in corporate name: RCW
4.08.110
.
Advancement in classification: RCW
35.06.010
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Classification as: RCW
35.01.040
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Code of ethics for public officers and employees: Chapters
42.23
and
42.52
RCW.
Corporate stock or bonds not to be owned by: State Constitution Art. 8 s 7.
Credit not to be loaned, exception: State Constitution Art. 8 s 7.
Group false arrest insurance: RCW
35.23.460
.
Incorporation and annexation restrictions as to area: RCW
35.21.010
.
Inhabitants at time of organization: RCW
35.01.040
.
Insurance, group for employees: RCW
35.23.460
.
Judgment against public corporations, enforcement: RCW
6.17.080
.
Limitation upon actions by public corporations: RCW
4.16.160
.
Limitations on indebtedness: State Constitution Art. 7 s 2 (Amendments 55, 59), Art. 8 s 6 (Amendment 27), chapter
39.36
RCW, RCW
84.52.050
.
Lost and found property: Chapter
63.21
RCW.
Metropolitan park districts, withdrawal from: RCW
35.61.010
.
Municipal utilities: Chapter
35.92
RCW.
Municipal water and sewer facilities act: Chapter
35.91
RCW.
Organization under general laws required: State Constitution Art. 11 s 10 (Amendment 40).
Park commissioners: RCW
35.23.170
.
Parking meter revenue, basis for revenue bonds: RCW
35.23.454
.
Plats
regulation of surveys and plats: RCW
58.10.040
.
resurvey and correction of: RCW
58.10.030
.
Revenue bonds, parking meter revenue as basis for: RCW
35.23.454
.
School districts, educational service districts, agreements with other governmental entities for transportation of students or the public, or for other noncommon school purposes
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Limitations: RCW
28A.160.120
.
Service of summons on, personal service: RCW
4.28.080
.
Sidewalks, construction, initial: Chapter
35.70
RCW.
Taxes, power of municipalities: State Constitution Art. 11 s 12.
Unclaimed property in hands of city police: Chapter
63.32
RCW.
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