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RCWs > Title 35 > Chapter 35.27

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Chapter 35.27 RCW

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35.27.010	Rights, powers, and privileges.
35.27.030	Uncertain boundaries -- Petition -- Request for examination.
35.27.040	Duty of county commissioners.
35.27.050	Report of survey.
35.27.060	Expense of proceedings.
35.27.070	Town officers enumerated.
35.27.080	Eligibility to hold elective office.
35.27.090	Elections -- Terms of office.
35.27.100	Conduct of elections.
35.27.120	Oath and bond of officers.
35.27.130	Compensation of officers and employees -- Expenses -- Nonstate pensions -- Limitations.
35.27.140	Vacancies.
35.27.160	Mayor -- Duties -- Powers -- Mayor pro tempore.
35.27.170	Town treasurer -- Duties.
35.27.180	Treasurer and clerk may be combined.
35.27.190	Effect of consolidation of offices.
35.27.200	Abandonment of consolidation.
35.27.210	Duty of officers collecting moneys.
35.27.220	Town clerk -- Duties.
35.27.230	Records to be kept by clerk.
35.27.240	Town marshal -- Police department.
35.27.250	Town attorney -- Duties.
35.27.260	Park commissioners.
35.27.270	Town council -- Oath -- Meetings.
35.27.280	Town council -- Quorum -- Rules -- Journal.
35.27.290	Ordinances -- Style -- Signatures.
35.27.300	Ordinances -- Publication -- Summary -- Public notice of hearings and meeting agendas.
35.27.310	Ordinances -- Clerk to keep book of ordinances.
35.27.330	Ordinances granting franchises -- Requisites.
35.27.340	Audit and allowance of demands against town.
35.27.345	Payment of claims and obligations by warrant or check.
35.27.350	Contract for town printing.
35.27.362	Contracts, purchases, advertising -- Call for bids -- Exceptions.
35.27.370	Specific powers enumerated.
35.27.372	City and town license fees and taxes on financial institutions.
35.27.373	City license fees or taxes on certain business activities to be at a single uniform rate.
35.27.375	Additional powers -- Parking meter revenue for revenue bonds.
35.27.376	Nonpolluting power generation by individual -- Exemption from regulation -- Authorization to contract with utility.
35.27.377	Hydroelectric resources -- Separate legal authority -- Creation by irrigation districts and cities, towns, or public utility districts.
35.27.380	Additional powers -- Eminent domain.
35.27.385	Additional powers -- Construction and operation of boat harbors, marinas, docks, etc.
35.27.390	Employees' group insurance.
35.27.400	Fire limits -- Parks.
35.27.410	Nuisances.
35.27.500	Taxation -- Street poll tax.
35.27.510	Utilities -- Transfer of part of net earnings to current expense fund.
35.27.515	Criminal code repeals by town operating municipal court -- Agreement covering costs of handling resulting criminal cases -- Arbitration.
35.27.550	Off-street parking space and facilities -- Authorized -- Declared public use.
35.27.560	Off-street parking space and facilities -- Financing.
35.27.570	Off-street parking space and facilities -- Acquisition and disposition of real property.
35.27.580	Off-street parking space and facilities -- Operation -- Lease.
35.27.590	Off-street parking space and facilities -- Hearing prior to establishment.
35.27.600	Off-street parking space and facilities -- Construction.
35.27.610	Purchase of electric power and energy from joint operating agency.

Notes:

Accident claims against: RCW 35.31.040, 35.31.050.

Acquisition of interests in land for conservation, protection, preservation, or open space purposes by towns: RCW 64.04.130.

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.

Classification as: RCW 35.01.040.

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

Corporate stock or bonds not to be owned by: State Constitution Art. 8 § 7.

Credit not to be loaned, exception: State Constitution Art. 8 § 7.

Group false arrest insurance: RCW 35.23.460.

Incorporation and annexation restrictions as to area: RCW 35.21.010.

Inhabitants at time of organization: RCW 35.01.040.

Insurance, group for employees: RCW 35.23.460.

Judgment against public corporations, enforcement: RCW 6.17.080.

Limitation upon actions by public corporations: RCW 4.16.160.

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.

Metropolitan park districts, withdrawal from: RCW 35.61.010.

Municipal utilities: Chapter 35.92 RCW.

Municipal water and sewer facilities act: Chapter 35.91 RCW.

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

Park commissioners: RCW 35.23.170.

Parking meter revenue, basis for revenue bonds: RCW 35.23.454.

Plats
regulation of surveys and plats: RCW 58.10.040.
resurvey and correction of: RCW 58.10.030.

Revenue bonds, parking meter revenue as basis for: RCW 35.23.454.

School districts, educational service districts, agreements with other governmental entities for transportation of students or the public, or for other noncommon school purposes -- Limitations: RCW 28A.160.120.

Service of summons on, personal service: RCW 4.28.080.

Sidewalks, construction, initial: Chapter 35.70 RCW.

Taxes, power of municipalities: State Constitution Art. 11 § 12.

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