Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 35 Cities And Towns - Chapter 35.17 Commission Form Of Government

35.17.010 Definition of commission form
The commission form of city government means a city government in which the legislative powers and duties are exercised by a commission of three, consisting ...

35.17.020 Elections -- Terms of commissioners -- Vacancies
(1) All regular elections in cities organized under the statutory commission form of government shall be held quadrennially in the odd-numbered years on the dates ...

35.17.030 Laws applicable
Cities organized under the commission form have all the powers of cities of the second class and shall be governed by the statutes applicable to ...

35.17.035 Second-class cities, parking meter revenue for revenue bonds
See RCW 35.23.454. ...

35.17.040 Offices
The commission shall have and maintain an office at the city hall, or such other place as the city may provide.[1965 c 7 § 35.17.040. ...

35.17.050 Meetings
Regular meetings of the commission shall be held on the second Monday after the election of the commissioners and thereafter at least once each week ...

35.17.060 President
The mayor shall be president of the commission. He shall preside at its meetings when present and shall oversee all departments and recommend to the ...

35.17.070 Vice president
The commissioner of finance and accounting shall be vice president of the commission. In the absence or inability of the mayor, he shall perform the ...

35.17.080 Employees of commission
The commission shall appoint by a majority vote a city clerk and such other officers and employees as the commission may by ordinance provide. Any ...

35.17.090 Distribution of powers -- Assignment of duties
The commission by ordinance shall determine what powers and duties are to be performed in each department, shall prescribe the powers and duties of the ...

35.17.100 Bonds of commissioners and employees
Every member of the city commission, before qualifying, shall give a good and sufficient bond to the city in a sum equivalent to five times ...

35.17.105 Clerk may take acknowledgments
The clerk or deputy clerk of any city having a commission form of government shall, without charge, take acknowledgments and administer oaths required by law ...

35.17.108 Salaries of mayor and commissioners
The annual salaries of the mayor and the commissioners of any city operating under a commission form of government shall be as fixed by charter ...

35.17.120 Officers and employees -- Salaries and wages
All appointive officers and employees shall receive such compensation as the commission shall fix by ordinance, payable monthly or at such shorter periods as the ...

35.17.130 Officers and employees -- Creation -- Removal -- Changes in compensation
The commission shall have power from time to time to create, fill and discontinue offices and employments other than those herein prescribed, according to their ...

35.17.150 Officers and employees -- Passes, free services prohibited, exceptions -- Penalty
No officer or employee, elected or appointed, shall receive from any enterprise operating under a public franchise any frank, free ticket, or free service or ...

35.17.170 Financial statements -- Monthly -- Annual
The commission shall each month print in pamphlet form a detailed itemized statement of all receipts and expenses of the city and a summary of ...

35.17.180 Legislative power -- How exercised
Each member of the commission shall have the right to vote on all questions coming before the commission. Two members of the commission shall constitute ...

35.17.190 Legislative ordinances and resolutions
Every resolution and ordinance adopted by the commission shall be signed by the mayor or by two members of the commission and filed and recorded ...

35.17.200 Legislative -- Appropriations of money
No money shall be appropriated except by ordinance and every such ordinance complete in the form in which it is finally passed shall remain on ...

35.17.210 Legislative -- Street improvements
Every ordinance or resolution ordering any street improvement or sewer complete in the form in which it is finally passed shall remain on file with ...

35.17.220 Legislative -- Franchises -- Referendum
No franchise or right to occupy or use the streets, highways, bridges or other public places shall be granted, renewed, or extended except by ordinance ...

35.17.230 Legislative -- Ordinances -- Time of going into effect
Ordinances shall not go into effect before thirty days from the time of final passage and are subject to referendum during the interim except: (1) ...

35.17.240 Legislative -- Referendum -- Filing suspends ordinance
Upon the filing of a referendum petition praying therefor, the commission shall reconsider an ordinance subject to referendum and upon reconsideration shall defeat it in ...

35.17.250 Legislative -- Referendum -- Petitions and conduct of elections
All provisions applicable to the character, form, and number of signatures required for an initiative petition, to the examination and certification thereof, and to the ...

35.17.260 Legislative -- Ordinances by initiative petition
Ordinances may be initiated by petition of registered voters of the city filed with the commission. If the petition accompanying the proposed ordinance is signed ...

35.17.270 Legislative -- Initiative petition -- Submission procedures
The petitioner preparing an initiative petition for submission to the commission shall follow the procedures established in RCW 35.21.005.[1996 c 286 § 5; 1965 c ...

35.17.280 Legislative -- Initiative petition -- Checking by clerk
Within ten days from the filing of a petition submitting a proposed ordinance the city clerk shall ascertain and append to the petition his certificate ...

35.17.290 Legislative -- Initiative petition -- Appeal to court
If the clerk finds the petition insufficient or if the commission refuses either to pass an initiative ordinance or order an election thereon, any taxpayer ...

35.17.300 Legislative -- Initiative -- Conduct of election
Publication of notice, the election, the canvass of the returns and declaration of the results, shall be conducted in all respects as are other city ...

35.17.310 Legislative -- Initiative -- Notice of election
The city clerk shall cause any ordinance or proposition required to be submitted to the voters at an election to be published once in each ...

35.17.330 Legislative -- Initiative -- Effective date -- Record
If the number of votes cast thereon favor the proposed ordinance, it shall become effective immediately and shall be made a part of the record ...

35.17.340 Legislative -- Initiative -- Repeal or amendment
Upon the adoption of an ordinance initiated by petition, the city clerk shall write on the margin of the record thereof "ordinance by petition No. ...

35.17.350 Legislative -- Initiative -- Repeal or amendment -- Method
The commission may by means of an ordinance submit a proposition for the repeal or amendment of an ordinance, initiated by petition, by submitting it ...

35.17.360 Legislative -- Initiative -- Repeal or amendment -- Record
Upon the adoption of a proposition to repeal or amend an ordinance initiated by petition, the city clerk shall write upon the margin of the ...

35.17.370 Organization on commission form -- Eligibility -- Census
Any city having a population of two thousand and less than thirty thousand may organize as a city under the commission form of government. The ...

35.17.380 Organization -- Petition
Upon petition of electors in any city equal in number to twenty-five percent of the votes cast for all candidates for mayor at the last ...

35.17.390 Organization -- Ballots
The proposition on the ballot shall be: "Shall the proposition to organize the city of (name of city) under the commission form of government be ...

35.17.400 Organization -- Election of officers -- Term
The first election of commissioners shall be held at the next special election that occurs at least sixty days after the election results are certified ...

35.17.410 Organization -- Effect on ordinances -- Boundaries -- Property
All bylaws, ordinances and resolutions in force when a city organizes under the commission form shall remain in force until amended or repealed. The boundaries ...

35.17.420 Organization -- Revision of appropriations
If, at the beginning of the term of office of the first commission elected in a city organized under the commission form, the appropriations for ...

35.17.430 Abandonment of commission form
Any city which has operated under the commission form for more than six years may again reorganize as a noncommission city without changing its classification ...

35.17.440 Abandonment -- Method
Upon the filing of a petition praying therefor, signed by not less than twenty-five percent of the registered voters resident in the city, a special ...

35.17.450 Abandonment -- Conduct of election -- Canvass
The sufficiency of the petition for the abandonment of the commission form of city government shall be determined, the election ordered and conducted, the returns ...

35.17.460 Abandonment -- Effect
If a majority of the votes cast upon the proposition of abandoning the commission form of city government favor the proposition, the city shall be ...