Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 53 Port Districts - Chapter 53.08 Powers

53.08.005 Definitions
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Commission" means the Washington utilities and transportation commission. (2) ...

53.08.010 Acquisition of property -- Levy of assessments
A port district may acquire by purchase, for cash or on deferred payments for a period not exceeding twenty years, or by condemnation, or both, ...

53.08.015 Exemption of farm and agricultural land from special benefit assessments
See RCW 84.34.300 through 84.34.380 and 84.34.922. ...

53.08.020 Acquisition and operation of facilities
A port district may construct, condemn, purchase, acquire, add to, maintain, conduct, and operate sea walls, jetties, piers, wharves, docks, boat landings, and other harbor ...

53.08.030 Operation of foreign trade zones
A district may apply to the United States for permission to establish, operate, and maintain foreign trade zones within the district: PROVIDED, That nothing herein ...

53.08.040 Improvement of lands for industrial and commercial purposes -- Providing sewer and water utilities -- Providing pollution control facilities
(1) A district may improve its lands by dredging, filling, bulkheading, providing waterways or otherwise developing such lands for industrial and commercial purposes. A district ...

53.08.041 Pollution control facilities or other industrial development actions -- Validation -- Implementation of Article 8, section 8 of the Constitution
All actions heretofore taken by port districts in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, and the provisions of chapter 6, Laws of 1975 hereby ...

53.08.043 Powers relative to systems of sewerage
A port district may exercise all the powers relating to systems of sewerage authorized by RCW 35.67.010 and 35.67.020 for cities and towns.[1997 c 447 ...

53.08.045 Facilities constructed under authority of chapter subject to taxation of leasehold interest
Facilities constructed by a port district under authority of this chapter will be subject to taxation of leasehold interest pursuant to applicable laws as now ...

53.08.047 Chapter not to be construed as restricting or limiting powers of district under other laws
Neither this chapter nor anything herein contained shall be construed as a restriction or limitation upon any powers which a district might otherwise have under ...

53.08.049 Community revitalization financing--Public improvements
In addition to other authority that a port district possesses, a port district may provide any public improvement as defined under RCW 39.89.020, but this ...

53.08.050 Local improvement districts -- Assessments -- Bonds
(1) A district may establish local improvement districts within the district, and levy special assessments, in annual installments extending over a period not exceeding ten ...

53.08.055 Local improvement districts -- Notice must contain statement that assessments may vary from estimates
Any notice given to the public or to the owners of specific lots, tracts, or parcels of land relating to the formation of a local ...

53.08.060 Improvement of waters and waterways
A district may improve navigable and nonnavigable waters of the United States and the state of Washington within the district; create and improve for harbor ...

53.08.070 Rates and charges -- Government contracts
A district may fix, without right of appeal therefrom the rates of wharfage, dockage, warehousing, and port and terminal charges upon all improvements owned and ...

53.08.080 Lease of property -- Authorized -- Duration
A district may lease all lands, wharves, docks and real and personal property owned and controlled by it, for such purposes and upon such terms ...

53.08.085 Lease of property -- Security for rent
Every lease of all lands, wharves, docks, and real and personal property of a port district for a term of more than one year shall ...

53.08.090 Sale of property
(1) A port commission may, by resolution, authorize the managing official of a port district to sell and convey port district property of ten thousand ...

53.08.091 Sale of property -- Contract sales -- Terms and conditions
Except in cases where the full purchase price is paid at the time of the purchase, every sale of real property or personal property under ...

53.08.092 Sale of property -- Taxes and assessments against property sold by contract
A copy of all contract sales of port district property shall be filed with the county assessor within thirty days after the first payment is ...

53.08.110 Gifts -- Improvement
Port commissioners of any port district are hereby authorized to accept for and on behalf of said port district gifts of real and personal property ...

53.08.120 Contracts for labor and material -- Small works roster
(1) All material and work required by a port district not meeting the definition of public work in RCW 39.04.010(4) may be procured in the ...

53.08.130 Notice -- Award of contract -- Low bidder claiming error
The notice shall state generally the nature of the work to be done and require that bids be sealed and filed with the commission at ...

53.08.135 Construction projects over forty thousand dollars -- Contracting out
Port districts shall determine if any construction project over forty thousand dollars can be accomplished less expensively by contracting out. If contracting out is less ...

53.08.140 Leases or contracts without bond
Port districts may enter into leases and contracts of every kind and nature with the United States of America or any of its departments, the ...

53.08.150 Notices when no newspaper in county
Notices required in port districts in which no newspaper is published may be given by publication in any newspaper of general circulation in the county.[1921 ...

53.08.160 Studies, investigations, surveys -- Promotion of facilities
All port districts organized under the provisions of this act shall be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to initiate and carry on the ...

53.08.170 Employment -- Wages -- Benefits -- Agents -- Insurance for port district commissioners
The port commission shall have authority to create and fill positions, to fix wages, salaries and bonds thereof, to pay costs and assessments involved in ...

53.08.171 Employment relations -- Collective bargaining and arbitration
See chapter 53.18 RCW. ...

53.08.175 Commissioners, officers, and employees -- Reimbursement of expenses
Employees, officers, and commissioners of port districts shall, when engaged in official business of the port district, be entitled to receive their necessary and reasonable ...

53.08.176 Commissioners, officers, and employees -- Regulation of expenses
Each port district shall adopt a resolution (which may be amended from time to time) which shall establish the basic rules and regulations governing methods ...

53.08.180 Federal old age and survivors' insurance for employees
As used in RCW 53.08.180 through 53.08.200, the term "employees" shall be as defined in RCW 41.48.020 and no distinction shall be made for the ...

53.08.190 Federal old age and survivors' insurance for employees -- Plan for extension of benefits
Each port district, which has not previously done so, shall within thirty days of June 8, 1955, submit for approval by the governor a plan ...

53.08.200 Federal old age and survivors' insurance for employees -- Contributions
All port districts are authorized to make contributions on employees' wages, and to impose upon their employees contributions with respect to their wages in accordance ...

53.08.205 Liability insurance for officials and employees
The board of commissioners of each port district may purchase liability insurance with such limits as they may deem reasonable for the purpose of protecting ...

53.08.207 Liability insurance for officers and employees authorized
See RCW 36.16.138. ...

53.08.208 Actions against officer, employee, or agent -- Defense and costs provided by port district -- Exception
Whenever any action, claim or proceeding is instituted against any person who is or was an officer, employee, or agent of a port district established ...

53.08.210 Quorum
See RCW 53.12.246. ...

53.08.220 Regulations authorized -- Adoption as part of ordinance or resolution of city or county, procedure -- Enforcement -- Penalty for violation
(1) A port district may formulate all needful regulations for the use by tenants, agents, servants, licensees, invitees, suppliers, passengers, customers, shippers, business visitors, and ...

53.08.230 Making motor vehicle and other police regulations applicable to district property -- Filing plat with county auditor -- Duty of law enforcement officers
A port district may at its option file with the county auditor a plat of any of its properties or facilities, showing thereon such private ...

53.08.240 Joint exercise of powers and joint acquisition of property -- Contracts with other governmental entities
(1) Any two or more port districts shall have the power, by mutual agreement, to exercise jointly all powers granted to each individual district, and ...

53.08.245 Economic development programs authorized
It shall be in the public purpose for all port districts to engage in economic development programs. In addition, port districts may contract with nonprofit ...

53.08.250 Participation in world fairs or expositions authorized
See chapter 35.60 RCW. ...

53.08.255 Tourism promotion and tourism-related facilities authorized
(1) Any port district in this state, acting through its commission, has power to expend moneys and conduct promotion of resources and facilities in the ...

53.08.260 Park and recreation facilities
A port district may construct, improve, maintain, and operate public park and recreation facilities when such facilities are necessary to more fully utilize boat landings, ...

53.08.270 Park and recreation facilities -- Approval of other agencies
Before undertaking any such plan for the acquisition and operation of any park or recreational facility the proposed plan therefor shall be first submitted in ...

53.08.280 Police officers -- Appointment authorized -- Jurisdiction
Any port district operating an airport with a police department as authorized by RCW 14.08.120 or designated as a port of entry by the federal ...

53.08.290 Intermodal movement of interstate and foreign cargo -- Restrictions
In addition to the other powers under this chapter, a port district, in connection with the operation of facilities and improvements of the district, may ...

53.08.295 Passenger carrying vessels
A port district may acquire, lease, construct, purchase, maintain, and operate passenger carrying vessels on Puget Sound, interstate navigable rivers of the state, and intrastate ...

53.08.300 Rewards for arrest and conviction of persons committing criminal offenses against port district authorized
See RCW 10.85.030. ...

53.08.310 Moorage facilities -- Definitions
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this section and RCW 53.08.320. (1) "Port charges" mean charges of a ...

53.08.320 Moorage facilities -- Rules authorized -- Port charges, delinquency -- Abandoned vessels, public sale
A moorage facility operator may adopt all rules necessary for rental and use of moorage facilities and for the expeditious collection of port charges. The ...

53.08.330 Streets, roads, and highways -- Construction, upgrading, improvement, and repair authorized
Any port district in this state, acting through its commission, may expend port funds toward construction, upgrading, improvement, or repair of any street, road, or ...

53.08.340 Streets, roads, and highways -- Expenditure of funds
The funds authorized by RCW 53.08.330 may be expended by the port commission in conjunction with any plan of improvements undertaken by the state of ...

53.08.360 Annexation of port district property -- Transfer of employees engaged in fire fighting
(1) When a port district provides its own fire protection services with port district employees, and port district property is included as part of an ...

53.08.370 Telecommunications facilities -- Construct, purchase, acquire, etc. -- Purposes -- Limitations -- Eminent domain
(1) A rural port district in existence on June 8, 2000, may construct, purchase, acquire, develop, finance, lease, license, handle, provide, add to, contract for, ...

53.08.380 Wholesale telecommunications services -- Petition for review of rates, terms, conditions
(1) A person or entity that has requested wholesale telecommunications services from a rural port district may petition the commission under the procedures set forth ...

53.08.390 Grays Harbor pilotage district -- Conditions on pilotage service
A countywide port district located in part or in whole within the Grays Harbor pilotage district, as defined by RCW 88.16.050(2), may commence pilotage service ...

53.08.400 District may exercise powers of community renewal agency
A port district may enter into a contract with any city, town, or county for the purpose of exercising any powers of a community renewal ...

53.08.410 Abandoned or derelict vessels
A port district has the authority, subject to the processes and limitation outlined in chapter 79.100 RCW, to store, strip, use, auction, sell, salvage, scrap, ...

53.08.420 Cooperative watershed management
In addition to the authority provided in this chapter, a port district may participate in and expend revenue on cooperative watershed management actions, including watershed ...

53.08.440 Web site for contract database -- Requirements
By January 1, 2010, each port with more than ten million dollars in annual gross revenues, excluding grant and loan funds, shall maintain a database ...

53.08.450 Property outside jurisdiction -- Future property development -- Communication plan
(1) If a port district purchases property for a facility outside the port's jurisdiction, the port district or districts with responsibility for the future property ...