Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 35 Cities And Towns - Chapter 35.27 Towns

35.27.010 Rights, powers, and privileges
Every town shall be entitled the "Town of . . . . . . . . ." (naming it), and by such name shall have ...

35.27.030 Uncertain boundaries -- Petition -- Request for examination
Whenever a petition is presented to the council of any incorporated town in this state, signed by not less than five electors of such town, ...

35.27.040 Duty of county commissioners
The board of county commissioners upon receipt of the certified copy of said petition, and the request aforesaid, shall cause the same to be filed ...

35.27.050 Report of survey
The board of county commissioners, without unnecessary delay, shall make and file a report of their doings in the premises in the office of the ...

35.27.060 Expense of proceedings
The expense of such proceedings shall be paid by the town at whose request the same is incurred. The county commissioners shall each receive as ...

35.27.070 Town officers enumerated
The government of a town shall be vested in a mayor and a council consisting of five members and a treasurer, all elective; the mayor ...

35.27.080 Eligibility to hold elective office
No person shall be eligible to or hold an elective office in a town unless he or she is a resident and registered voter in ...

35.27.090 Elections -- Terms of office
All general municipal elections in towns shall be held biennially in the odd-numbered years as provided in *RCW 29.13.020. The term of office of the ...

35.27.100 Conduct of elections
All elections in towns shall be held in accordance with the general election laws of the state.[1994 c 223 § 21; 1965 c 7 § ...

35.27.120 Oath and bond of officers
Every officer of a town before entering upon the duties of his office shall take and file with the county auditor his oath of office. ...

35.27.130 Compensation of officers and employees -- Expenses -- Nonstate pensions
The mayor and members of the town council may be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred in the discharge of their official duties upon presentation of ...

35.27.140 Vacancies
(1) The council of a town may declare a council position vacant if that councilmember is absent from the town for three consecutive council meetings ...

35.27.160 Mayor -- Duties -- Powers -- Mayor pro tempore
The mayor shall preside over all meetings of the council at which he or she is present. A mayor pro tempore may be chosen by ...

35.27.170 Town treasurer -- Duties
The town treasurer shall receive and safely keep all money which comes into his hands as treasurer, for all of which he shall give duplicate ...

35.27.180 Treasurer and clerk may be combined
The council of every town may provide by ordinance that the office of treasurer be combined with that of clerk or that the office of ...

35.27.190 Effect of consolidation of offices
Upon the consolidation of the office of treasurer with that of clerk, the office of treasurer shall be abolished and the clerk shall exercise all ...

35.27.200 Abandonment of consolidation
Every town which has combined the office of treasurer with that of clerk or the office of clerk with that of treasurer may terminate the ...

35.27.210 Duty of officers collecting moneys
Every officer collecting or receiving any money belonging to a town shall settle for it with the clerk on the first Monday of each month ...

35.27.220 Town clerk -- Duties
The town clerk shall be custodian of the seal of the town. The town clerk may appoint a deputy for whose acts he or she ...

35.27.230 Records to be kept by clerk
The proceedings of the town council shall be kept in a book marked "records of council." The town clerk shall keep a book marked "town ...

35.27.240 Town marshal -- Police department
The department of police in a town shall be under the direction and control of the marshal subject to the direction of the mayor. He ...

35.27.250 Town attorney -- Duties
The town attorney shall advise the town authorities and officers in all legal matters pertaining to the business of the town.[1965 c 7 § 35.27.250. ...

35.27.260 Park commissioners
See RCW 35.23.170. ...

35.27.270 Town council -- Oath -- Meetings
The town council shall meet in January succeeding the date of the general municipal election, shall take the oath of office, and shall hold regular ...

35.27.280 Town council -- Quorum -- Rules -- Journal
A majority of the councilmen shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a lesser number may adjourn from time to time and ...

35.27.290 Ordinances -- Style -- Signatures
The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be as follows: "Be it ordained by the council of the town of . . . . ." ...

35.27.300 Ordinances -- Publication -- Summary -- Public notice of hearings and meeting agendas
Promptly after adoption, the text of each ordinance or a summary of the content of each ordinance shall be published at least once in the ...

35.27.310 Ordinances -- Clerk to keep book of ordinances
The town clerk shall keep a book marked "ordinances" into which he shall copy all town ordinances, with his certificate annexed to said copy stating ...

35.27.330 Ordinances granting franchises -- Requisites
No ordinance or resolution granting any franchise for any purpose shall be passed by the council on the day of its introduction, nor within five ...

35.27.340 Audit and allowance of demands against town
All demands against a town shall be presented to and audited by the council in accordance with such regulations as they may by ordinance prescribe. ...

35.27.345 Payment of claims and obligations by warrant or check
A town, by ordinance, may adopt a policy for the payment of claims or other obligations of the town, which are payable out of solvent ...

35.27.350 Contract for town printing
Every town may designate any daily or weekly newspaper published or of general circulation therein as its official newspaper and all notices published in that ...

35.27.362 Contracts, purchases, advertising -- Call for bids -- Exceptions
See RCW 35.23.352. ...

35.27.370 Specific powers enumerated
The council of said town shall have power: (1) To pass ordinances not in conflict with the Constitution and laws of this state, or of ...

35.27.372 City and town license fees and taxes on financial institutions
See chapter 82.14A RCW. ...

35.27.373 City license fees or taxes on certain business activities to be at a single uniform rate
See RCW 35.21.710. ...

35.27.375 Additional powers -- Parking meter revenue for revenue bonds
See RCW 35.23.454. ...

35.27.376 Nonpolluting power generation by individual -- Exemption from regulation -- Authorization to contract with utility
See chapter 80.58 RCW. ...

35.27.377 Hydroelectric resources -- Separate legal authority -- Creation by irrigation districts and cities, towns, or public utility districts
See RCW 87.03.825 through 87.03.840. ...

35.27.380 Additional powers -- Eminent domain
Whenever it becomes necessary for a town to take or damage private property for the purpose of establishing, laying out, extending, and widening streets and ...

35.27.385 Additional powers -- Construction and operation of boat harbors, marinas, docks, etc
See RCW 35.23.455. ...

35.27.390 Employees' group insurance
See RCW 35.23.460. ...

35.27.400 Fire limits -- Parks
Towns are hereby given the power to establish fire limits with proper regulations; to acquire by purchase or otherwise, lands for public parks within or ...

35.27.410 Nuisances
Every act or thing done or being within the limits of a town, which is declared by law or by ordinance to be a nuisance ...

35.27.500 Taxation -- Street poll tax
A town may impose upon and collect from every inhabitant of the town over eighteen years of age an annual street poll tax not exceeding ...

35.27.510 Utilities -- Transfer of part of net earnings to current expense fund
When any special fund of a public utility department of a town has retired all bond and warrant indebtedness and is on a cash basis, ...

35.27.515 Criminal code repeals by town operating municipal court -- Agreement covering costs of handling resulting criminal cases -- Arbitration
A town operating a municipal court may not repeal in its entirety that portion of its municipal code defining crimes or repeal a provision of ...

35.27.550 Off-street parking space and facilities -- Authorized -- Declared public use
Towns are authorized to provide off-street parking space and facilities for motor vehicles, and the use of real property for such purpose is declared to ...

35.27.560 Off-street parking space and facilities -- Financing
In order to provide for off-street parking space and/or facilities, such towns are authorized, in addition to their powers for financing public improvements, to finance ...

35.27.570 Off-street parking space and facilities -- Acquisition and disposition of real property
Such towns are authorized to obtain by lease, purchase, donation and/or gift, or by eminent domain in the manner provided by law for the exercise ...

35.27.580 Off-street parking space and facilities -- Operation -- Lease
Such towns are authorized to establish the methods of operation of off-street parking space and/or facilities by ordinance, which may include leasing or municipal operation.[1965 ...

35.27.590 Off-street parking space and facilities -- Hearing prior to establishment
Before the establishment of any off-street parking space and/or facilities, the town shall hold a public hearing thereon, prior to the adoption of any ordinance ...

35.27.600 Off-street parking space and facilities -- Construction
Insofar as the provisions of RCW 35.27.550 through 35.27.600 are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, the provisions of RCW 35.27.550 through 35.27.600 ...

35.27.610 Purchase of electric power and energy from joint operating agency
A town may contract to purchase from a joint operating agency electric power and energy required for its present or future requirements. For projects the ...