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Chapter 36.01 RCW

GENERAL PROVISIONS

RCW Sections

36.01.010Corporate powers.
36.01.020Corporate name.
36.01.030Powers -- How exercised.
36.01.040Conveyances for use of county.
36.01.050Venue of actions by or against counties.
36.01.060County liable for certain court costs.
36.01.070Probation and parole services.
36.01.080Parking facilities -- Construction, operation and rental charges.
36.01.085Economic development programs.
36.01.090Tourist promotion.
36.01.095Emergency medical services -- Authorized -- Fees.
36.01.100Ambulance service authorized -- Restriction.
36.01.104Levy for emergency medical care and services.
36.01.105Fire protection, ambulance or other emergency services provided by municipal corporation within county -- Financial and other assistance authorized.
36.01.110Federal grants and programs -- Powers and authority of counties to participate in -- Public corporations, commissions or authorities.
36.01.115Nonpolluting power generation by individual -- Exemption from regulation -- Authorization to contract with utility.
36.01.120Foreign trade zones -- Legislative finding, intent.
36.01.125Foreign trade zones -- Authority to apply for permission to establish, operate and maintain.
36.01.130Controls on rent for residential structures -- Prohibited -- Exceptions.
36.01.150Facilitating recovery from Mt. St. Helens eruption -- Scope of local government action.
36.01.160Penalty for act constituting a crime under state law -- Limitation.
36.01.170Administration of trusts benefiting school districts.
36.01.180Zoo and aquarium advisory authority -- Constitution -- Terms.
36.01.190Initial meeting of zoo and aquarium advisory authority -- Expenditure of funds -- Powers.
36.01.200Federal funds designated for state schools -- Use limited to reduction of outstanding debt obligations of school districts.
36.01.210Rail fixed guideway system -- Safety program plan and security and emergency preparedness plan.
36.01.220Mobile home, manufactured home, or park model moving or installing -- Copies of permits -- Definitions.
36.01.225Authority to regulate placement or use of homes -- Regulation of manufactured homes -- Restrictions on location of manufactured/mobile homes and entry or removal of recreational vehicles used as primary residences.
36.01.230Cooperative watershed management.
36.01.240Regulation of financial transactions -- Limitations.
36.01.250Environmental mitigation activities.
36.01.260Evergreen community ordinances.
36.01.270Contractors -- Authority of county to verify registration and report violations.
36.01.280Community athletics programs -- Sex discrimination prohibited.
36.01.290Temporary encampments for the homeless -- Hosting by religious organizations authorized -- Prohibitions on local actions.
36.01.300State and federal background checks of license applicants and licensees of occupations under local licensing authority.
36.01.310Accessible community advisory committees.
36.01.320Application for a permit to site an energy plant or alternative energy resource -- Written notice to United States department of defense.

Notes:

Accounts of county, examination of: RCW 43.09.260.

Actions by and against
   counties, limitations on: Chapter 4.16 RCW.
   public corporations (counties): RCW 4.08.110, 4.08.120.

Aeronautics facilities of counties to be made available to department of transportation: RCW 47.68.300.

Agricultural fairs, county participation: Chapter 15.76 RCW.

Aircraft excise tax, county exemption: RCW 82.48.100.

Airport zoning: Chapter 14.12 RCW.

Ambulance service for second-class cities, county may provide: RCW 35.23.456.

Armories, county may expend money for site: RCW 38.20.030.

Blind made products, services, county to procure when available: RCW 19.06.020.

Boarding homes, county administration, when: Chapter 18.20 RCW.

Bonds, county
   election on, vote required: Chapter 39.40 RCW.
   form, sale, payment, etc.: Chapter 39.44 RCW.
   sale to federal government at private sale: Chapter 39.48 RCW.
   validation of: Chapter 39.90 RCW.

Bonds of corporation not to be owned: State Constitution Art. 8 § 7.

Bonds of federal agencies as county investment: Chapter 39.64 RCW.

Cemeteries
   private regulation of by county: RCW 68.20.080.
   public, and morgues, in counties: RCW 68.52.010, 68.52.020.

Cemeteries and burial, public, all counties: RCW 68.52.030.

Cemetery districts authorized for certain counties: Chapter 68.52 RCW.

Children and youth services, county participation: RCW 72.05.160.

Cities and towns
   agreements with county for planning, construction, etc., of streets: Chapter 35.77 RCW.
   community renewal, county participation: RCW 35.81.130.
   county aid on street construction, etc.: RCW 47.24.050.
   L.I.D. assessment lien, application on sale by county of tax lands: RCW 35.49.160.
   property held by under L.I.D. assessment lien not subject to county taxes: RCW 35.53.010.

Cities may support county in which city-owned utility plant located: RCW 35.21.420 through 35.21.427.

Civil service
   for sheriff's office: Chapter 41.14 RCW.
   status retained when on emergency service work: RCW 38.52.140.

Closed burning seasons in counties: RCW 76.04.205.

Combined city and county municipal corporations: State Constitution Art. 11 § 16 (Amendment 58).

Combined city-county health departments: Chapter 70.08 RCW.

Community centers, counties may establish: Chapter 35.59 RCW.

Community work and training programs, county participation in: Chapter 74.04 RCW.

Contractors, regulation of, inapplicable to counties: RCW 18.27.090.

Contracts
   contractor's bond on: Chapter 39.08 RCW.
   county may perform work or services for department of transportation: RCW 47.01.210.
   executory conditional sales, for purchase of property for park or library purposes: RCW 39.30.010.
   public works, application to counties: Chapter 39.04 RCW.
   public works, reserve from amount due contractors to cover lien for labor, material or taxes: Chapter 60.28 RCW.

County airport districts: Chapter 14.08 RCW.

County and district fairs as agricultural fair classification: RCW 15.76.120.

County government: State Constitution Art. 11.

County lands
   acquisition of for state highways: RCW 47.12.040, 47.12.150.
   city or town L.I.D. assessments, as subject to: RCW 35.43.130, 35.44.140, 35.49.070.
   diking, drainage or sewerage improvement assessments, as subject to: RCW 85.08.500, 85.08.530.
   diking and drainage intercounty districts assessments, as subject to: RCW 85.24.240.
   diking district act, as subject to: RCW 85.05.080, 85.05.380, 85.05.390.
   drainage district act, as subject to: RCW 85.06.350, 85.06.360.
   eminent domain by cities of: Chapter 8.12 RCW.
   eminent domain by public waterway districts of: Chapter 91.08 RCW.
   flood control district assessments, as subject to: RCW 86.09.526, 86.09.529.
   lease of for underground storage of natural gas: RCW 80.40.070.
   pest district assessments, as subject to: RCW 17.12.080.
   public waterway district assessments, as subject to: RCW 91.08.570, 91.08.575.
   right of entry on given department of transportation: RCW 47.01.170.
   rights-of-way over by diking districts: RCW 85.05.080.
   subject to diking, drainage or sewerage improvement assessments, resale of or lease of by county: RCW 85.08.500.
   weed control district assessments, as subject to: RCW 17.04.180.

County office, defined for public assistance purposes: RCW 74.04.005(4).

County roads: Chapter 36.75 RCW.

Court house, county to furnish: RCW 2.28.139.

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

Debts of
   apportionment on division or enlargement: State Constitution Art. 11 § 3.
   limit of: State Constitution Art. 8 § 6 (Amendment 27), Art. 7 § 2 (Amendments 55, 59).
   private property not to be taken in satisfaction of: State Constitution Art. 11 § 13.

Dental hygienists, licensed, county may employ: RCW 18.29.050.

Department of revenue, visitation to counties: RCW 84.08.010(3).

Detention, house or room for, establishment of: RCW 13.04.135.

Detention facilities, management of (counties with populations of one million or more): Chapter 13.20 RCW.

Detention of state felons in county jails: Chapter 72.68 RCW.

Diking and drainage intercounty districts: Chapter 85.24 RCW.

Disinfection of county property as county duty: RCW 15.08.230.

Disturbances at state penal facilities -- Reimbursement to cities and counties for certain expenses incurred: RCW 72.72.050, 72.72.060.

Electric franchises and rights-of-way, counties may grant: RCW 80.32.010.

Electrical construction regulations applicable to counties: RCW 19.29.010.

Emergency management, county participation: Chapter 38.52 RCW.

Eminent domain
   airport purposes: Chapters 14.07, 14.08 RCW.
   flood control purposes: RCW 86.12.030.
   flood control purposes by counties jointly: RCW 86.13.040.
   generally: Chapter 8.08 RCW.
   military purposes: RCW 8.04.170, 8.04.180.
   of tidelands: RCW 88.24.070.
   parks, bathing beaches, public camps: RCW 67.20.010.
   wharves purposes: RCW 88.24.070.

Existing counties recognized: State Constitution Art. 11 § 1.

Family courts in: Chapter 26.12 RCW.

Federal areas in counties, generally: Chapter 37.08 RCW.

Federal property, purchase of from government by counties: Chapter 39.32 RCW.

Fireworks, county participation in control: Chapter 70.77 RCW.

Fiscal agent for: Chapter 43.80 RCW.

Flood control
   county: Chapter 86.12 RCW.
   county participation with
         district: RCW 86.24.040.
         state and federal government: Chapter 86.24 RCW.
   districts (1937 act), public lands included in: RCW 86.09.013.
   maintenance, county participation with state: Chapter 86.26 RCW.

Forest protection in counties: Chapter 76.04 RCW.

Fruit and vegetable inspection districts, counties constituting: RCW 15.17.230.

Funding indebtedness in counties: Chapter 39.52 RCW.

Group life insurance, public employee associations: RCW 48.24.060.

Hospitals, private, for care of individuals with mental illness, alcoholics, county may prescribe standards: RCW 71.12.550.

Housing authority
   generally: Chapter 35.82 RCW.
   property as exempt from county taxation: RCW 35.82.210.

Housing cooperation law: Chapter 35.83 RCW.

Indebtedness, county: State Constitution Art. 8.

Industrial development districts, county lands may be conveyed to: Chapter 53.25 RCW.

Intercounty weed districts: Chapter 17.06 RCW.

Intergovernmental disposition of property, county participation: RCW 39.33.010.

Irrigation districts, cancellation of county taxes against, when: RCW 87.64.060.

Island counties, refund of motor vehicle license and fuel tax fees to: RCW 46.68.080.

Joint aid river and harbor improvements, county participation: RCW 88.32.230 through 88.32.235.

Joint planning for improvement of navigable stream, county participation: RCW 88.32.240 through 88.32.250.

Juvenile detention facility as mandatory county function: RCW 13.16.030.

Leases, mineral and petroleum, on county land: Chapter 78.16 RCW.

Leases of property, ballot proposition
   by jointly with city or town: RCW 35.42.200.
   from by city or town: RCW 35.42.200.

Legal aid: Chapter 2.50 RCW.

Legal publications of: Chapter 65.16 RCW.

Libraries: Title 27 RCW.

Lien for labor, material and taxes on public works: Chapter 60.28 RCW.

Limitation of indebtedness of taxing districts: Chapter 39.36 RCW.

Liquor revolving fund moneys, distribution to counties: Chapter 66.08 RCW.

Local milk inspection service units: Chapter 15.36 RCW.

Martial law, proclamation of county under: RCW 38.08.030.

Metropolitan municipal corporations
   as borrowers from county: RCW 35.58.480.
   county participation: Chapter 35.58 RCW.

Military offenses, jurisdiction by county when: Chapter 38.32 RCW.

Mosquito control
   county work coordinated with: Chapter 70.22 RCW.
   districts, counties where authorized: RCW 17.28.020.

Motor freight carrier, county vehicle exempt as: RCW 81.80.040.

Motor vehicle
   accidents, peace officer's reports: RCW 46.52.070.
   fund moneys for county purposes: RCW 46.68.070 and 46.68.120.
   size, weight and load, local regulations: RCW 46.44.080.

Municipal airports
   1941 act: Chapter 14.07 RCW.
   1945 act: Chapter 14.08 RCW.

Old age and survivors' insurance, acceptance of for counties: Chapter 41.47 RCW.

Operating agencies (electricity, water resources) to act for counties: Chapter 43.52 RCW.

Park and recreation service areas: RCW 36.68.400 through 36.68.620.

Parks, bathing beaches, public camps, county may acquire and operate: Chapter 67.20 RCW.

Person defined to include counties for RCW code purposes: RCW 1.16.080.

Pesticide application act, county as subject to: RCW 17.21.220.

Police and sanitary regulations, power to enforce: State Constitution Art. 11 § 11.

Port districts
   contracts or leases with counties by: RCW 53.08.070, 53.08.140, 53.08.240.
   motor vehicle regulation in by county authorities, procedure: RCW 53.08.230.
   regulations of, adoption as county ordinance: RCW 53.08.220.

Printing for counties to be done in state: RCW 43.19.748.

Public assistance
   as county function: RCW 74.04.040.
   county participation: Chapter 74.04 RCW.

Public contracts and indebtedness: Title 39 RCW.

Public documents (state), distribution to counties: Chapter 40.04 RCW.

Public employees
   hospitalization and medical aid for: RCW 41.04.180, 41.04.190.
   interchange of personnel with federal agency, rights preserved: RCW 41.04.140 through 41.04.170.
   military leave for: RCW 38.40.060.
   minimum wage act, public employee exclusion: RCW 49.46.010.
   payroll deductions for: RCW 41.04.020, 41.04.036.
   public employees' retirement system, county employees as members: RCW 41.40.062.
   retirement systems, retention of rights: Chapter 41.04 RCW.
   social security, federal coverage includes: Chapter 41.48 RCW.

Public lands
   rights-of-way over for county bridges, trestles, across waterways, tide or shore lands: RCW 79.110.120.
   rights-of-way over for roads, county wharves: RCW 79.36.440.
   sale of road material on to counties: RCW 79.15.320.

Public officers
   campaign financing, reporting: Chapter 42.17A RCW.
   code of ethics for: Chapter 42.23 RCW.
   financial affairs and gifts, reporting: RCW 42.17A.700.
   misconduct of enumerated: Chapter 42.20 RCW.
   not to receive witness fees: RCW 42.16.020, 42.16.030.
   resignations: RCW 42.12.020.
   terms when vacancies filled: RCW 42.12.030.

Public purchase preferences: Chapter 39.24 RCW.

Public works
   emergency, county participation: Chapter 39.28 RCW.
   department of transportation, cooperation: RCW 47.08.070.
   prevailing wages to be paid on: Chapter 39.12 RCW.

Publicly owned vehicles
   exempt from license fee: RCW 46.16A.170.
   license plate retained when change in ownership: RCW 46.16A.200(8).
   registration of: RCW 46.16A.170.
   to be marked: RCW 46.08.065.

Railroad grade crossings
   apportionment of costs, county liability: RCW 81.53.110, 81.53.130.
   counties duty to maintain: RCW 81.53.090.
   county participation in grants for: Chapter 81.53 RCW.

Railroad signals, warning devices on county roads: RCW 81.53.261 through 81.53.291.

Reclamation and irrigation districts in United States reclamation areas, contract to bring county lands into: RCW 89.12.110.

Reclamation districts of one million acres, lands in more than one county: RCW 89.30.004.

Reforestation
   county exchange of land to block up holdings: RCW 79.17.020, 79.17.060, and 79.17.070.
   grants of county lands for: RCW 79.22.040.

Regional jail camps, county prisoners may be committed to: RCW 72.64.100, 72.64.110.

River and harbor improvements by counties jointly: RCW 88.32.180 through 88.32.220.

Rural housing projects: Chapter 35.82 RCW.

Savings and loan associations, counties as member: RCW 33.20.060.

Soft tree fruits commission law, counties constituting districts under: RCW 15.28.010.

Soil and water conservation districts, county may cooperate with: RCW 89.08.341.

State patrol retirement allowances exempt from county taxation: RCW 43.43.310.

State vehicle regulations precedence over local: RCW 46.08.020.

State's title to abandoned channels granted to counties: RCW 86.13.110.

Stock restricted areas in: Chapter 16.24 RCW.

Street railroads in counties: Chapter 81.64 RCW.

Superior court judges, each county entitled to: State Constitution Art. 4 § 5, chapter 2.08 RCW.

Surplus federal property, county may purchase: RCW 39.32.010 through 39.32.060.

Tax liens, foreclosure by county when city or town L.I.D. assessments on, rights of city or town: RCW 35.49.130 through 35.49.160.

Taxes
   B & O, counties defined as person for purposes of: RCW 82.04.030.
   excise, state preempts field, which: RCW 82.02.020.
   federal payments in lieu of ad valorem property taxes to counties, distribution: Chapter 84.72 RCW.
   for city and town purposes: State Constitution Art. 11 § 12.
   local, legislature not to impose: State Constitution Art. 11 § 12.
   motor vehicle fuel

          counties as subject to: RCW 82.36.240.

          state preempts field: RCW 82.36.440.
   property

          acquisitions of county subject to lien of: RCW 84.60.050.

          county by, generally: Title 84 RCW.

          county held tax-title property, treatment of: RCW 36.35.100.

          county-interstate bridge as exempt from: RCW 84.36.230.

          county lands sold on contract as taxable: RCW 84.40.230.

          county property as exempt from: RCW 84.36.010.

          county revaluation program: Chapter 84.41 RCW.

          county right-of-way easements as exempt from: RCW 84.36.210.

          excess levies authorized, county application: RCW 84.52.050 through 84.52.056.

          limitation on levies, county application: State Constitution Art. 7 § 2 (Amendments 55, 59); RCW 84.52.050.

          state, county liability for share of: State Constitution Art. 11 § 9.

Taxing district
   county as: RCW 84.04.120.
   relief act, county application: Chapter 39.64 RCW.

Teletypewriter communications network, county participation: Chapter 43.89 RCW.

Toll roads, bridges and ferries (state), county participation and liability: Chapter 47.56 RCW.

Township organization in: State Constitution Art. 11 § 4 (Amendment 21).

Traffic
   enforcement agencies, duty: Chapter 46.64 RCW.
   schools, county participation: Chapter 46.83 RCW.

Unfit dwellings, buildings and structures: Chapter 35.80 RCW.

Uniform system of accounting: Chapter 43.09 RCW.

Validation of bonds and financing proceedings: Chapter 39.90 RCW.

Vehicle wreckers' licensing, county to comply with: RCW 46.80.160.

Veterans
   in business, peddling, county licensing limitations: RCW 73.04.050 through 73.04.060.
   indigent and deceased, burial as county responsibility: RCW 73.08.070.
   public officials duty as considered leave of absence: RCW 73.16.041.
   scoring criteria status in county employment reemployment: RCW 41.04.010, Chapter 73.16 RCW.

Veterans'
   meeting hall, county may furnish free of charge: RCW 73.04.070.
   meeting place, rent from county funds: RCW 73.04.080.
   relief as county responsibility: Chapter 73.08 RCW.

Vital statistics, county as a primary registration area: RCW 70.58.010.

Wages
   deductions and rebates, application to counties: Chapter 49.52 RCW.
   payment and collection of, county employee exclusion: RCW 49.48.080.
   rebates of on public works, penalty: RCW 49.52.090.

Warrants, interest rate on: RCW 39.56.020, 39.56.030.

Water pollution control, county application: Chapter 90.48 RCW.

Water rights
   appropriation of by counties; procedure: Chapter 90.03 RCW.
   United States, county application: Chapter 90.40 RCW.

Wharves, counties may authorize and prescribe rates: RCW 88.24.020.

Workers' compensation, county coverage: RCW 51.12.050.

World fair or exposition, county participation: Chapter 35.60 RCW.