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Chapter 36.32 RCW

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

RCW Sections

36.32.005"County commissioners" defined.
36.32.010Board of commissioners established -- Quorum.
36.32.020Commissioner districts.
36.32.030Terms of commissioners.
36.32.040Nomination by districts.
36.32.050Elected by entire county.
36.32.055Five-member commission -- When authorized -- Ballot proposition -- Petition -- Procedures.
36.32.0552Five-member commission -- Newly created positions -- How filled -- County divided into five districts.
36.32.0554Five-member commission -- Newly created positions -- Terms of initially elected commissioners.
36.32.0556Five-member commissions -- Four-year terms -- Nominations by districts -- Elected by entire county -- Quorum.
36.32.0558Five-member commissions -- Vacancies.
36.32.060Conditions of official bond.
36.32.070Vacancies on board.
36.32.080Regular meetings.
36.32.090Special meetings.
36.32.100Chair of board -- Election, powers.
36.32.110Clerk of board.
36.32.120Powers of legislative authorities.
36.32.121Community revitalization financing -- Public improvements.
36.32.122Authority to regulate massage practitioners -- Limitations.
36.32.125Adoption of certain regulations proscribed.
36.32.127Driving while under the influence of liquor or drugs -- Minimum penalties.
36.32.130Postponement of action.
36.32.135Official seal.
36.32.140Record of proceedings.
36.32.150Transcribing mutilated records.
36.32.155Transcribing mutilated records -- Prior transcribing validated.
36.32.160Transcribing mutilated records -- Auditor to direct transcribing, certify.
36.32.170Transcribing mutilated records -- Original records to be preserved.
36.32.200Special attorneys, employment of.
36.32.210Inventory of county capitalized assets -- County commission inventory statement -- Filing and public inspection -- Penalty -- Prosecutions -- Taxpayer's action.
36.32.235Competitive bids -- Purchasing department -- Counties with a population of four hundred thousand or more -- Public works procedures -- Exceptions.
36.32.240Competitive bids -- Purchasing department -- Counties with a population of less than four hundred thousand.
36.32.245Competitive bids -- Requirements -- Advertisements -- Exceptions.
36.32.250Competitive bids -- Contract procedure -- Contracts under forty thousand dollars -- Small works roster process.
36.32.253Competitive bids -- Leases of personal property.
36.32.256Competitive bids -- Multiple awards for road maintenance materials.
36.32.260Competitive bids -- Purchasing agent.
36.32.265Competitive bids -- Inapplicability to certain agreements relating to water pollution control, solid waste handling facilities.
36.32.270Competitive bids -- Exemptions.
36.32.280Regulation of watercourses.
36.32.290Regulation of watercourses -- Removal of obstructions.
36.32.300Regulation of watercourses -- Trees may be removed from river banks.
36.32.310Compensation for extra services.
36.32.330Appeals from board's action.
36.32.335Coordination of county administrative programs -- Legislative declaration.
36.32.340Coordination of county administrative programs -- Duties incident to.
36.32.350Coordination of county administrative programs -- Coordinating agency -- Agency reimbursement.
36.32.360Coordination of county administrative programs -- Attendance at conventions authorized.
36.32.370Land surveys.
36.32.380Land surveys -- Record of surveys.
36.32.390Nonmonthly employees, vacations and sick leaves.
36.32.400Health care and group insurance.
36.32.410Participation in Economic Opportunity Act programs.
36.32.415Low-income housing -- Loans and grants.
36.32.420Youth agencies -- Establishment authorized.
36.32.425Juvenile curfews.
36.32.430Parks, may designate name of.
36.32.435Historic preservation -- Authorization to acquire property, borrow money, issue bonds, etc.
36.32.440Staff to aid in purchasing, poverty programs, parks, emergency services, budget, etc., authorized.
36.32.450Tourist promotion.
36.32.460Employee safety award programs.
36.32.470Fire protection, ambulance or other emergency services provided by municipal corporations within county -- Financial and other assistance authorized.
36.32.475Regulation of automatic number or location identification -- Prohibited.
36.32.480Emergency medical service districts -- Creation authorized -- Composition of governing body.
36.32.490County freeholders -- Method of filling vacancies.
36.32.510Right-of-way donations -- Credit against required improvements.
36.32.520Child care facilities -- Review of need and demand -- Adoption of ordinances.
36.32.525Conditional and special use permit applications by parties licensed or certified by the department of social and health services or the department of corrections -- Mediation prior to appeal required.
36.32.540Settlement of Indian claims.
36.32.550Conformance with chapter 43.97 RCW required.
36.32.560Home rule charter counties -- Residential care facilities -- Review of need and demand -- Adoption of ordinances.
36.32.570Conservation area acquisition and maintenance.
36.32.580Home rule charter counties subject to limitations on moratoria, interim zoning controls.
36.32.590Building construction projects -- County prohibited from requiring state agencies or local governments to provide bond or other security as a condition for issuance of permit.
36.32.600Amateur radio antennas -- Local regulation to conform with federal law.
36.32.610Library capital facility areas authorized.
36.32.620Abandoned or derelict vessels.

Notes:

Air pollution control
   advisory council, commissioner as member: RCW 70.94.240.
   district, commissioner as member: RCW 70.94.100.

Board of law library trustees, commissioner as member: RCW 27.24.020.

Canvassing board, commissioner as member: RCW 39.40.030.

Cemeteries and funeral facilities, acquisition and operation of: Chapter 68.52 RCW.

Certified transcripts of commissioner meetings as evidence: RCW 5.44.070.

Continuity of government act, effect as to: RCW 42.14.040, 42.14.070.

County board of equalization, commissioners as: Chapter 84.48 RCW.

County board of health, commissioners as members of: RCW 70.05.030.

County canvassing board, commissioner as member: RCW 29A.60.160.

County health boards, commissioners as, duties: Chapter 70.05 RCW.

District court districting committee, commissioner as member of: RCW 3.38.010.

Duties relating to
   air pollution control districts: Chapter 70.94 RCW.
   assessor's plats: RCW 58.18.010.
   bailiffs of the superior court: RCW 2.32.360.
   basic juvenile court act: Chapter 13.04 RCW.
   billiard table, pigeon-hole table: RCW 67.14.050.
   bonds of public officers: Chapter 42.08 RCW.
   bowling alleys: RCW 67.14.050.
   cemetery districts: Chapter 68.52 RCW.
   cities and towns
         advancement of classification: Chapter 35.06 RCW.
         agreements on planning, establishing, construction, etc., of streets: Chapter 35.77 RCW.
         annexation of unincorporated areas: Chapter 35.13 RCW.
         county aid on street construction, etc.: RCW 47.24.050.
         disincorporation of: Chapter 35.07 RCW.
         erection of drawbridges in: Chapter 35.74 RCW.
         general indebtedness bonds, county tax levy to pay: RCW 35.37.120.
         incorporation proceedings: Chapter 35.02 RCW.
         L.I.D. assessments of county property: RCW 35.44.140, 35.49.070.
   civil service for sheriff's office: Chapter 41.14 RCW.
   combined city-county health department: Chapter 70.08 RCW.
   county airport districts: Chapter 14.08 RCW.
   county and city tuberculosis hospitals: Chapter 70.30 RCW.
   county flood control: Chapter 86.12 RCW.
   county road fund, illegal use of: RCW 47.08.100.
         penalty: RCW 47.08.110.
   county road projects if let to department of transportation where matching funds: RCW 47.08.080.
   county superintendent of schools: Chapter 28A.310 RCW.
   county teachers' institute: Chapter 28A.310 RCW.
   court commissioner's salary: RCW 2.24.030.
   dancing, license to conduct: Chapter 67.12 RCW.
   detention facilities for juveniles: Chapter 13.16 RCW.
   devices to protect fish in lakes: RCW 90.24.050.
   diking and drainage intercounty districts: Chapter 85.24 RCW.
   diking districts: Chapter 85.05 RCW.
         reorganization of (1917 act): Chapter 85.20 RCW.
         reorganization of (1933 act): Chapter 85.22 RCW.
   diking, drainage and sewerage improvement districts: Chapter 85.08 RCW.
         federal aid to: Chapter 85.12 RCW.
         maintenance costs and levies: Chapter 85.16 RCW.
   diking, drainage district benefits to roads, how paid: RCW 85.07.040, 85.07.050.
   diseased animals: RCW 16.36.070.
   district court
         clerks, assistants: Chapter 3.54 RCW.
         facilities: RCW 3.58.050.
         legislative authority: RCW 3.42.040.
   district courts and other courts of limited jurisdiction: Chapters 3.30, 3.34, 3.38, 3.42, 3.46, 3.50, 3.54, 3.58, 3.62, 3.66, 3.70, 3.74 RCW.
   drainage districts: Chapter 85.06 RCW.
         reorganization of (1917 act): Chapter 85.20 RCW.
         reorganization of (1933 act): Chapter 85.22 RCW.
   drawbridges, municipal: RCW 35.74.020, 35.74.030.
   elections
         creating new precincts: RCW 29A.16.040, 29A.16.050.
         voting systems: Chapter 29A.12 RCW.
   electric franchises and rights-of-way: RCW 80.32.010.
   eminent domain by
         counties: Chapter 8.08 RCW.
         county, wharves for: RCW 88.24.070.
   federal property, purchase of: Chapter 39.32 RCW.
   federal tax lien index: RCW 60.68.045.
   ferry system tariffs and charges, review committee: RCW 47.60.310.
   fire protection district commissioner vacancy: RCW 52.14.050.
   fire protection districts: Chapters 52.04, 52.08, 52.12, 52.16 RCW.
   flood control by counties jointly: Chapter 86.13 RCW.
   flood control districts (1937 act): Chapter 86.09 RCW.
   flood control zone districts: Chapter 86.15 RCW.
   funding indebtedness of counties: Chapter 39.52 RCW.
   game, use of state lands for game purposes: RCW 77.12.360 through 77.12.390.
   health districts: Chapter 70.46 RCW.
   hospital districts: Chapter 70.44 RCW.
   housing authority act: Chapter 35.82 RCW.
   housing projects, cooperation: Chapter 35.83 RCW.
   human remains: Chapter 68.50 RCW.
   industrial development districts: Chapter 53.25 RCW.
   intercounty rural library districts: Chapter 27.12 RCW.
   intercounty weed districts: Chapter 17.06 RCW.
   internal revenue taxes, lien for: RCW 60.68.045.
   irrigation and rehabilitation district rules and regulations: RCW 87.84.090.
   irrigation districts
         director divisions: Chapter 87.04 RCW.
         dissolution of districts with bonds: Chapter 87.53 RCW.
         generally: Chapter 87.03 RCW.
         joint control of: Chapter 87.80 RCW.
         merger with drainage, joint drainage or consolidated drainage improvement district: RCW 87.03.720 through 87.03.745.
   joint aid river and harbor improvements: RCW 88.32.230 through 88.32.235.
   legal aid: Chapter 2.50 RCW.
   lien foreclosure: Chapter 84.64 RCW.
   liquor
         retail license: RCW 67.14.040.
         sale or other disposition of: RCW 67.14.020.
         wholesale license: RCW 67.14.050.
   medical care by state, in county hospitals: Chapter 74.09 RCW.
   metropolitan municipal corporations: Chapter 35.58 RCW.
   mineral and petroleum leases on county lands: Chapter 78.16 RCW.
   mines, abandoned mining shafts and excavations: Chapter 78.12 RCW.
   mosquito control districts: Chapter 17.28 RCW.
   motor vehicle maximum speed limits outside cities and towns: RCW 46.61.400 through 46.61.425.
   parks, bathing beaches, public camps, acquisition and operation of: Chapter 67.20 RCW.
   pest districts: Chapter 17.12 RCW.
   planning commission: Chapter 35.63 RCW.
   port districts
         annexation of land to: Chapter 53.04 RCW.
         commissioner elections: Chapter 53.12 RCW.
         consolidation of: Chapter 53.46 RCW.
         formation of: Chapter 53.04 RCW.
   public cemetery and morgue: RCW 68.52.010, 68.52.020.
   public health pooling fund: RCW 70.12.030.
   public lands
         rights-of-way over for roads, county wharves: RCW 79.36.440.
         tidelands and shorelands, petition for replat: RCW 79.125.080.
   public utility districts: Chapters 54.08, 54.40 RCW.
         privilege tax: Chapter 54.28 RCW.
   public waterway districts: Chapter 91.08 RCW.
   railroad grade crossings: Chapter 81.53 RCW.
   reclamation districts of one million acres: Chapter 89.30 RCW.
   reforestation: Chapter 79.22 RCW.
         county exchange of land to block up holdings: RCW 79.17.020 and 79.17.060.
   right to back and hold waters over county roads: RCW 90.28.010, 90.28.020.
   river and harbor improvement districts: Chapter 88.32 RCW.
   river and harbor improvements by counties jointly: RCW 88.32.180 through 88.32.220.
   roads, closure of: Chapter 47.48 RCW.
   roads and bridges, limited access facilities: Chapter 47.52 RCW.
   rural county library districts: Chapter 27.12 RCW.
   rural pool halls, billiard halls and bowling alleys, licensing of: Chapter 67.12 RCW.
   school district organization: Chapter 28A.315 RCW.
   school districts
         penalties relating to: Chapter 28A.635 RCW.
         second class, expenditures: Chapter 28A.330 RCW.
         validation of indebtedness: Chapter 28A.535 RCW.
   school funds: Chapter 28A.545 RCW.
   section and corner lines, establishment of: Chapter 58.04 RCW.
   special districts in counties with a population of two hundred ten thousand or more, disincorporation of: Chapter 57.90 RCW.
   state highways, acquisition of county lands for: RCW 47.12.040.
   stock restricted areas: Chapter 16.24 RCW.
   street railways: Chapter 81.64 RCW.
   superior court special sessions: RCW 2.08.140, 2.08.150.
   taxes, excise tax on real estate sales: Chapter 82.45 RCW.
         property
               collection of: Chapter 84.56 RCW.
               levy of: Chapter 84.52 RCW.
               lien foreclosure: Chapter 84.64 RCW.
               listing of: Chapter 84.40 RCW.
               revaluation: Chapter 84.41 RCW.
   temporary gates across highways: RCW 16.60.080.
   temporary quarters for court: RCW 2.28.141.
   towns, uncertain boundaries: RCW 35.27.040 through 35.27.060.
   traffic control devices: Chapter 47.36 RCW.
   traffic schools: Chapter 46.83 RCW.
   underground storage of natural gas, lease of county lands for: RCW 80.40.070.
   United States reclamation areas, contracts to bring county lands into: RCW 89.12.110.
   veterans, indigent, deceased, burial of: RCW 73.08.070.
   veterans' meeting places, rent by county: RCW 73.04.080.
   veterans' relief: Chapter 73.08 RCW.
   vouchers on public funds: Chapter 42.24 RCW.
   water-sewer districts
         annexation of property to: Chapter 57.24 RCW.
         board of commissioners, vacancies: RCW 57.12.020.
         consolidation of: Chapter 57.32 RCW.
         generally: Title 57 RCW.
         transfer of part: RCW 57.32.160.
         withdrawal of territory from: Chapter 57.28 RCW.
   weed district tax on county lands: RCW 17.04.180.
   weed districts: Chapter 17.04 RCW.
   wharves, authorizing of and prescribing rates: RCW 88.24.020.

Flood control
   district (1937 act) board, commissioner to act for absent member: RCW 86.09.292.
   zone districts, commissioners as ex officio supervisors: RCW 86.15.050.

Health districts: Chapter 70.46 RCW.

Metropolitan sewer advisory committee, commissioner as member: RCW 35.58.210.

Metropolitan water advisory committee, commissioner as member: RCW 35.58.230.

Property tax advisor: RCW 84.48.140.

Public assistance as county function: RCW 74.04.040.

Rangers, commissioners as ex officio: RCW 76.04.045.

Reclamation district commission, commissioner as member of: RCW 89.30.055.

Redistricting by local governments and municipal corporations -- Census information for -- Plan, prepared when, criteria for, hearing on, request for review of, certification, remand -- Sanctions when review request frivolous: RCW 29A.76.010.

Revenue, department of, to advise commissioners: RCW 84.08.020.

Review board, commissioner as member of: RCW 35.13.171.

Solid waste collection districts: Chapter 36.58A RCW.

Traffic safety commission, member of association of county commissioners appointed to: RCW 43.59.030.

United States townsite law, dedication of streets, etc., under commissioners may alienate: RCW 58.28.440.