Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 35 Cities And Towns - Chapter 35.58 Metropolitan Municipal Corporations

35.58.010 Declaration of policy and purpose
It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the state of Washington to provide for the people of the populous metropolitan areas in ...

35.58.020 Definitions
The definitions set forth in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Authorized metropolitan function" means a metropolitan function which a metropolitan municipal corporation shall ...

35.58.030 Corporations authorized -- Limitation on boundaries
Any area of the state containing two or more cities, at least one of which is of ten thousand or more population, may organize as ...

35.58.040 Territory which must be included or excluded -- Boundaries
At the time of its formation no metropolitan municipal corporation shall include only a part of any city, and every city shall be either wholly ...

35.58.050 Functions authorized
A metropolitan municipal corporation shall have the power to perform any one or more of the following functions, when authorized in the manner provided in ...

35.58.060 Unauthorized functions to be performed under other law
All functions of local government which are not authorized as provided in this chapter to be performed by a metropolitan municipal corporation, shall continue to ...

35.58.070 Resolution, petition for election -- Requirements, procedure
A metropolitan municipal corporation may be created by vote of the qualified electors residing in a metropolitan area in the manner provided in this chapter. ...

35.58.080 Hearings on petition, resolution -- Inclusion, exclusion of territory -- Boundaries -- Calling election
Upon receipt of a duly certified petition or a valid resolution calling for an election on the formation of a metropolitan municipal corporation, the board ...

35.58.090 Election procedure to form corporation and levy tax -- Qualified voters -- Establishment of corporation -- First meeting of council
The election on the formation of the metropolitan municipal corporation shall be conducted by the auditor of the central county in accordance with the general ...

35.58.100 Additional functions -- Authorized by election
A metropolitan municipal corporation may be authorized to perform one or more metropolitan functions in addition to those which it has previously been authorized to ...

35.58.110 Additional functions -- Authorized without election
A metropolitan municipal corporation may be authorized to perform one or more metropolitan functions in addition to those which it previously has been authorized to ...

35.58.112 Recommended comprehensive plan for performance of additional function -- Study and preparation
The metropolitan council of a metropolitan municipal corporation upon the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members of such council may make planning, engineering, legal, ...

35.58.114 Recommended comprehensive plan for performance of additional function -- Resolution for special election to authorize additional function -- Contents -- Hearings -- Election procedure
Whenever a recommended comprehensive plan for the performance of any additional metropolitan function shall have been prepared and the metropolitan council shall have found the ...

35.58.116 Proposition for issuance of general obligation bonds or levy of general tax -- Submission at same election or special election
The metropolitan council may at the same election called to authorize the performance of an additional function or at a special election called by the ...

35.58.120 Metropolitan council -- Composition
Unless the rights, powers, functions, and obligations of a metropolitan municipal corporation have been assumed by a county as provided in chapter 36.56 RCW, a ...

35.58.130 Metropolitan council -- Organization, chairman, procedures
At the first meeting of the metropolitan council following the formation of a metropolitan municipal corporation, the mayor of the central city shall serve as ...

35.58.140 Metropolitan council -- Terms
Each member of a metropolitan council except those selected under the provisions of *RCW 35.58.120 (1)(a), (5), (7), and (8), shall hold office at the ...

35.58.150 Metropolitan council -- Vacancies
A vacancy in the office of a member of the metropolitan council shall be filled in the same manner as provided for the original selection. ...

35.58.160 Metropolitan council -- Compensation -- Waiver of compensation
The chairman and committee chairmen of the metropolitan council except elected public officials serving on a full-time salaried basis may receive such compensation as the ...

35.58.170 Corporation name and seal
The name of a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be established by its metropolitan council. Each metropolitan municipal corporation shall adopt a corporate seal containing the ...

35.58.180 General powers of corporation
In addition to the powers specifically granted by this chapter a metropolitan municipal corporation shall have all powers which are necessary to carry out the ...

35.58.190 Performance of function or functions -- Commencement date
The metropolitan council shall provide by resolution the effective date on which the metropolitan municipal corporation will commence to perform any one or more of ...

35.58.200 Powers relative to water pollution abatement
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be authorized to perform the function of metropolitan water pollution abatement, it shall have the following powers in addition ...

35.58.210 Metropolitan water pollution abatement advisory committee
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be authorized to perform the function of metropolitan water pollution abatement, the metropolitan council shall, prior to the effective ...

35.58.215 Powers relative to systems of sewerage
A metropolitan municipal corporation authorized to perform water pollution abatement may exercise all the powers relating to systems of sewerage authorized by RCW 36.94.010, 36.94.020, ...

35.58.220 Powers relative to water supply
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be authorized to perform the function of metropolitan water supply, it shall have the following powers in addition to ...

35.58.230 Metropolitan water advisory committee
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be authorized to perform the function of metropolitan water supply, the metropolitan council shall, prior to the effective date ...

35.58.240 Powers relative to transportation
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be authorized to perform the function of metropolitan transportation, it shall have the following powers in addition to the ...

35.58.245 Public transportation function -- Authorization by election required -- Procedure
Notwithstanding any other provision of chapter 35.58 RCW a metropolitan municipal corporation may perform the function of metropolitan public transportation only if the performance of ...

35.58.250 Other local public passenger transportation service prohibited -- Agreements -- Purchase -- Condemnation
Except in accordance with an agreement made as provided herein, upon the effective date on which the metropolitan municipal corporation commences to perform the metropolitan ...

35.58.260 Transportation function -- Acquisition of city system
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be authorized to perform the metropolitan transportation function, it shall, upon the effective date of the assumption of such ...

35.58.262 Transportation function -- Fuel purchasing strategies -- Reports
(1) In performing the metropolitan transportation function, metropolitan municipal corporations and counties that have assumed the rights, powers, functions, and obligations of metropolitan municipal corporations ...

35.58.263 Transportation function -- Fuel purchasing strategies -- Liability immunity
If metropolitan municipal corporations and counties that have assumed the rights, powers, functions, and obligations of metropolitan municipal corporations under chapter 36.56 RCW choose to ...

35.58.265 Acquisition of existing transportation system -- Assumption of labor contracts -- Transfer of employees -- Preservation of employee benefits -- Collective bargaining
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall perform the metropolitan transportation function and shall acquire any existing transportation system, it shall assume and observe all existing ...

35.58.268 Public transportation employees -- Payroll deduction for political action committees
Any public official authorized to disburse funds in payment of salaries and wages of public transportation employees may, upon written request of the employee, deduct ...

35.58.270 Metropolitan transit commission
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be authorized to perform the function of metropolitan transportation with a commission form of management, a metropolitan transit commission ...

35.58.271 Public transportation in municipalities -- Financing
See chapter 35.95 RCW. ...

35.58.2711 Local sales and use taxes for financing public transportation systems
See RCW 82.14.045 through 82.14.060. ...

35.58.2712 Public transportation feasibility study -- Advanced financial support payments
Any municipality, as defined in RCW 35.95.020, may be eligible to receive a one-time advanced financial support payment to perform a feasibility study to determine ...

35.58.272 Public transportation systems -- Definitions
"Municipality" as used in *RCW 35.58.272 through 35.58.279, as now or hereafter amended, and in RCW 36.57.080, 36.57.100, 36.57.110, 35.58.2721, 35.58.2794, and chapter 36.57A RCW, ...

35.58.2721 Public transportation systems -- Authority of municipalities to acquire, operate, etc. -- Indebtedness -- Bond issues
(1) In addition to any other authority now provided by law, and subject only to constitutional limitations, the governing body of any municipality shall be ...

35.58.2794 Public transportation systems -- Research, testing, development, etc., of systems -- Powers to comply with federal laws
Any city, county, public transportation benefit area authority, county transportation authority, or metropolitan municipal corporation operating a public transportation system shall be authorized to conduct, ...

35.58.2795 Public transportation systems -- Six-year transit plans
By April 1st of each year, the legislative authority of each municipality, as defined in RCW 35.58.272, and each regional transit authority shall prepare a ...

35.58.2796 Public transportation systems -- Annual report by department
The department of transportation shall develop an annual report summarizing the status of public transportation systems in the state. By September 1st of each year, ...

35.58.280 Powers relative to garbage disposal
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be authorized to perform the function of metropolitan garbage disposal, it shall have the following powers in addition to ...

35.58.290 Powers relative to parks and parkways
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be authorized to perform the function of metropolitan parks and parkways, it shall have the following powers in addition ...

35.58.300 Metropolitan park board
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be authorized to perform the function of metropolitan parks and parkways, a metropolitan park board shall be formed prior ...

35.58.310 Powers relative to planning
If a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be authorized to perform the function of metropolitan comprehensive planning, it shall have the following powers in addition to ...

35.58.320 Eminent domain
A metropolitan municipal corporation shall have power to acquire by purchase and condemnation all lands and property rights, both within and without the metropolitan area, ...

35.58.330 Powers may be exercised with relation to public rights-of-way without franchise -- Conditions
A metropolitan municipal corporation shall have power to construct or maintain metropolitan facilities in, along, on, under, over, or through public streets, bridges, viaducts, and ...

35.58.340 Disposition of unneeded property
Except as otherwise provided herein, a metropolitan municipal corporation may sell, or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property acquired in connection with any ...

35.58.350 Powers and functions of metropolitan municipal corporation -- Where vested -- Powers of metropolitan council
All the powers and functions of a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be vested in the metropolitan council unless expressly vested in specific officers, boards, or ...

35.58.360 Rules and regulations -- Penalties -- Enforcement
A metropolitan municipal corporation shall have power to adopt by resolution such rules and regulations as shall be necessary or proper to enable it to ...

35.58.370 Merit system
The metropolitan council shall establish and provide for the operation and maintenance of a personnel merit system for the employment, classification, promotion, demotion, suspension, transfer, ...

35.58.380 Retention of existing personnel
A metropolitan municipal corporation shall offer to employ every person who on the date such corporation acquires a metropolitan facility is employed in the operation ...

35.58.390 Prior employees pension rights preserved
Where a metropolitan municipal corporation employs a person employed immediately prior thereto by a component city or county, or by a special district, such employee ...

35.58.400 Prior employees sick leave and vacation rights preserved
Where a metropolitan municipal corporation employs a person employed immediately prior thereto by a component city or county or by a special district, the employee ...

35.58.410 Budget -- Expenditures -- Revenue estimates -- Requirements for a county assuming the powers of a metropolitan municipal corporation
(1) On or before the third Monday in June of each year, each metropolitan municipal corporation shall adopt a budget for the following calendar year. ...

35.58.420 Supplemental income payments by component city and county
Each component city shall pay such proportion of the supplemental income of the metropolitan municipal corporation as the assessed valuation of property within its limits ...

35.58.430 Funds -- Disbursements -- Treasurer -- Expenses -- Election expenses
The treasurer of each component county shall create a separate fund into which shall be paid all money collected from taxes levied by the metropolitan ...

35.58.450 General obligation bonds -- Issuance, sale, form, term, election, payment
Notwithstanding the limitations of chapter 39.36 RCW and any other statutory limitations otherwise applicable and limiting municipal debt, a metropolitan municipal corporation shall have the ...

35.58.460 Revenue bonds -- Issuance, sale, form, term, payment, reserves, actions
(1) A metropolitan municipal corporation may issue revenue bonds to provide funds to carry out its authorized metropolitan water pollution abatement, water supply, garbage disposal ...

35.58.470 Funding, refunding bonds
The metropolitan council may, by resolution, without submitting the matter to the voters of the metropolitan municipal corporation, provide for the issuance of funding or ...

35.58.480 Borrowing money from component city or county
A metropolitan municipal corporation shall have the power when authorized by a majority of all members of the metropolitan council to borrow money from any ...

35.58.490 Interest bearing warrants
A metropolitan council shall have the power to authorize the issuance of interest bearing warrants on such terms and conditions as the metropolitan council shall ...

35.58.500 Local improvement districts -- Utility local improvement districts
The metropolitan municipal corporation shall have the power to levy special assessments payable over a period of not exceeding twenty years on all property within ...

35.58.510 Obligations of corporation are legal investments and security for public deposits
All banks, trust companies, bankers, savings banks, and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a ...

35.58.520 Investment of corporate funds
A metropolitan municipal corporation shall have the power to invest its funds held in reserves or sinking funds or any such funds which are not ...

35.58.530 Annexation -- Requirements, procedure
Territory located within a component county that is annexed to a component city after the establishment of a metropolitan municipal corporation shall by such act ...

35.58.540 Annexation -- Hearings -- Inclusion, exclusion of territory -- Boundaries -- Calling election
Upon receipt of a duly certified petition calling for an election on the annexation of territory to a metropolitan municipal corporation, or if the metropolitan ...

35.58.550 Annexation -- Election -- Favorable vote
An election on the annexation of territory to a metropolitan municipal corporation shall be conducted and canvassed in the same manner as provided for the ...

35.58.560 Taxes -- Counties or cities not to impose on certain operations -- Credits or offsets against state taxes -- Refund of motor vehicle fuel taxes paid
No county or city shall have the right to impose a tax upon the gross revenues derived by a metropolitan municipal corporation from the operation ...

35.58.570 Sewage facilities -- Capacity charge
(1) A metropolitan municipal corporation that is engaged in the transmission, treatment, and disposal of sewage may impose a capacity charge on users of the ...

35.58.580 Public transportation fares -- Proof of payment -- Civil infractions
(1) Persons traveling on public transportation operated by a metropolitan municipal corporation or a city-owned transit system shall pay the fare established by the metropolitan ...

35.58.585 Public transportation fares -- Schedule of fines and penalties -- Who may monitor fare payment -- Administration of citations
(1) Both a metropolitan municipal corporation and a city-owned transit system may establish, by resolution, a schedule of fines and penalties for civil infractions established ...

35.58.590 Public transportation fares -- Powers of law enforcement authorities
RCW 35.58.580 and 35.58.585 do not prevent law enforcement authorities from prosecuting for theft, trespass, or other charges by any individual who: (1) Fails to ...

35.58.595 Public transportation fares -- Powers and authority are supplemental to other laws
The powers and authority conferred by RCW 35.58.580 through 35.58.590 shall be construed as in addition and supplemental to powers or authority conferred by any ...

35.58.900 Liberal construction
The rule of strict construction shall have no application to this chapter, but the same shall be liberally construed in all respects in order to ...

35.58.911 Prior proceedings validated, ratified, approved and confirmed
All proceedings which have been taken prior to the date *this 1967 amendatory act takes effect for the purpose of financing or aiding in the ...

35.58.920 Severability -- 1967 c 105
If any provision of this 1967 amendatory act, or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this 1967 amendatory ...

35.58.930 Severability -- 1971 ex.s. c 303
If any provision of this 1971 amendatory act, or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act, or ...

35.58.931 Severability -- 1974 ex.s. c 70
If any provision of this 1974 amendatory act, or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act, or ...