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RCWs > Title 35 > Chapter 35.23

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Chapter 35.23 RCW

SECOND-CLASS CITIES

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RCW Sections

35.23.010	Rights, powers, and privileges -- Exchange of park purpose property.
35.23.021	City officers enumerated -- Compensation -- Appointment and removal.
35.23.031	Eligibility to hold elective office.
35.23.051	Elections -- Terms of office -- Positions and wards.
35.23.081	Oath and bond of officers.
35.23.091	Compensation of officers -- Expenses -- Nonstate pensions.
35.23.101	Vacancies.
35.23.111	City attorney -- Duties.
35.23.121	City clerk -- Duties -- Deputies.
35.23.131	City treasurer -- Duties.
35.23.134	Association of sheriffs and police chiefs.
35.23.141	Duty of officers collecting moneys.
35.23.142	Combination of offices of treasurer with clerk -- Authorized.
35.23.144	Combination of offices of treasurer with clerk -- Powers of clerk.
35.23.146	Combination of offices of treasurer with clerk -- Powers of treasurer.
35.23.148	Combination of offices of treasurer with clerk -- Ordinance -- Termination of combined offices.
35.23.161	Chief of police and police department.
35.23.170	Park commissioners.
35.23.181	City council -- Oath -- Meetings.
35.23.191	City council -- Mayor pro tempore.
35.23.201	City council -- Meetings -- Journal.
35.23.211	Ordinances -- Style -- Requisites -- Veto.
35.23.221	Ordinances -- Publication -- Summary -- Public notice of hearings and meeting agendas.
35.23.251	Ordinances granting franchises -- Requisites.
35.23.261	Audit and allowance of demands against city.
35.23.270	City council -- Quorum -- Rules -- Journal, etc.
35.23.290	City council -- Entry of ayes and noes on journal.
35.23.311	Eminent domain.
35.23.325	Payment of claims and obligations by warrant or check.
35.23.330	Limitation on allowance of claims, warrants, etc.
35.23.331	Nuisances.
35.23.351	Application of RCW 35.23.352 to certain agreements relating to water pollution control, solid waste handling facilities.
35.23.352	Public works -- Contracts -- Bids -- Small works roster -- Purchasing requirements, recycled or reused materials or products.
35.23.371	Taxation -- Street poll tax.
35.23.380	Exclusive franchises prohibited.
35.23.410	Leasing of street ends on waterfront.
35.23.420	Notice of lease to be published before execution.
35.23.430	Railroads in streets to be assessed for street improvement.
35.23.440	Specific powers enumerated.
35.23.442	City and town license fees and taxes on financial institutions.
35.23.443	City license fees or taxes on certain business activities to be at a single uniform rate.
35.23.444	Nonpolluting power generation by individual -- Exemption from regulation -- Authorization to contract with utility.
35.23.445	Hydroelectric resources -- Separate legal authority -- Creation by irrigation districts and cities, towns, or public utility districts.
35.23.452	Additional powers -- Acquisition, control, and disposition of property.
35.23.454	Additional powers -- Parking meter revenue for revenue bonds.
35.23.455	Additional powers -- Construction and operation of boat harbors, marinas, docks, etc.
35.23.456	Additional powers -- Ambulances and first aid equipment.
35.23.457	Conveyance or lease of space above real property or structures or improvements.
35.23.460	Employees' group insurance -- False arrest insurance.
35.23.470	Publicity fund.
35.23.480	Publicity board.
35.23.490	Limitations on use of publicity fund.
35.23.505	Local improvement guaranty fund -- Investment in city's own guaranteed bonds.
35.23.515	Utilities -- City may contract for service or construct own facilities.
35.23.525	Utilities -- Method of acquisition -- Bonds.
35.23.535	Utilities -- Maintenance and operation -- Rates.
35.23.545	Procedure to attack consolidation or annexation of territory.
35.23.555	Criminal code repeals by city operating municipal court -- Agreement covering costs of handling resulting criminal cases -- Arbitration.
35.23.560	Waterworks -- Construction by city or by district assessments.
35.23.570	Waterworks -- Plans -- Special assessments.
35.23.580	Waterworks -- Procedure -- Bonds.
35.23.680	Cities of ten thousand or more may frame charter without changing classification.
35.23.705	Purchase of electric power and energy from joint operating agency.
35.23.800	Code city retaining former second-class city plan -- Elective officers.
35.23.805	Code city retaining former second-class city plan -- Elections -- Terms of office.
35.23.810	Code city retaining former second-class city plan -- Mayor -- General duties.
35.23.815	Code city retaining former second-class city plan -- Appointive officers.
35.23.820	Code city retaining former second-class city plan -- Health officer.
35.23.825	Code city retaining former second-class city plan -- Street commissioner.
35.23.830	Code city retaining former second-class city plan -- Appointment of officers -- Confirmation.
35.23.835	Code city retaining former second-class city plan -- Oath and bond of officers.
35.23.840	Code city retaining former second-class city plan -- City council -- How constituted.
35.23.845	Code city retaining former second-class city plan -- City council -- Presiding officer -- Voting rights.
35.23.850	Code city retaining former second-class city plan -- Wards -- Division of city into.

Notes:

Accident claims against: RCW 35.31.040, 35.31.050.

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.

Annexation
for municipal purposes: RCW 35.13.180.
of federal areas: RCW 35.13.190 through 35.13.210.

Classification as: RCW 35.01.020.

Code of ethics for public officers and employees: Chapters 42.23 and 42.52 RCW.

Eminent domain by cities, construction of chapter as to second-class cities: RCW 8.12.560.

Inhabitants at time of organization: RCW 35.01.020.

Judgment against local governmental entity, enforcement: RCW 6.17.080.

Limitations on indebtedness: State Constitution Art. 7 § 2 (Amendments 55, 59), Art. 8 § 6 (Amendment 27), chapter 39.36 RCW, RCW 84.52.050.

Lost and found property: Chapter 63.21 RCW.

Lowlands, local improvement: Chapters 35.55, 35.56 RCW.

Municipal utilities: Chapter 35.92 RCW.

Municipal water and sewer facilities act: Chapter 35.91 RCW.

Officers, salaries of, not to be changed during term: State Constitution Art. 11 § 8 (Amendment 57).

Organization under general laws required: State Constitution Art. 11 § 10 (Amendment 40).

Parking, off-street facilities: Chapter 35.86 RCW.

Sanitary fills: Chapter 35.73 RCW.

Service of summons on, personal service: RCW 4.28.080.

Sidewalks, construction and reconstruction, generally: Chapter 35.69 RCW.

Streets and alleys, grades at higher elevation, drainage impracticable on private abutting land, effect: Chapter 35.73 RCW.

Unclaimed property in hands of city police: Chapter 63.32 RCW.