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Chapters
90.03 | Water code. |
90.08 | Stream patrollers. |
90.14 | Water rights—Registration—Waiver and relinquishment, etc. |
90.16 | Appropriation of water for public and industrial purposes. |
90.22 | Minimum water flows and levels. |
90.24 | Regulation of outflow of lakes. |
90.28 | Miscellaneous rights and duties. |
90.36 | Artesian wells. |
90.38 | Yakima river basin water rights. |
90.40 | Water rights of United States. |
90.42 | Water resource management. |
90.44 | Regulation of public groundwaters. |
90.46 | Reclaimed water use. |
90.48 | Water pollution control. |
90.50A | Water pollution control facilities—Federal capitalization grants. |
90.52 | Pollution disclosure act of 1971. |
90.54 | Water resources act of 1971. |
90.56 | Oil and hazardous substance spill prevention and response. |
90.58 | Shoreline management act of 1971. |
90.64 | Dairy nutrient management. |
90.66 | Family farm water act. |
90.71 | Puget Sound water quality protection. |
90.72 | Shellfish protection districts. |
90.74 | Aquatic resources mitigation. |
90.80 | Water conservancy boards. |
90.82 | Watershed planning. |
90.84 | Wetlands mitigation banking. |
90.86 | Joint legislative committee on water supply during drought. |
90.88 | Aquatic rehabilitation zones. |
90.90 | Columbia river basin water supply. |
90.94 | Streamflow restoration. |
NOTES:
Actionable nuisances defined
—Closing of channel stream: RCW
7.48.010.
Annexation of water, sewer, and fire districts (to city or town): RCW
35.02.200, chapter
35.13A RCW.
Aquifer protection areas: Chapter
36.36 RCW.
Authority to construct viaducts, bridges, drawbridges (first-class cities): Chapter
35.85 RCW.
Board of natural resources
—Powers and duties (commission on harbor lines): RCW
43.30.215.
Bridges across and obstructions in navigable waters: Chapter
88.28 RCW.
Canal commission: Chapter
47.72 RCW.
Cities and towns
auxiliary water systems for protection from fire: RCW
35.21.030.
dikes, levees, embankments, authority to construct: RCW
35.21.090.
first-class cities
utilities, collective bargaining with employees (waterworks system): RCW
35.22.350.
wharves, city may let wharves or privileges thereon: RCW
35.22.410.
jurisdiction over adjacent waters: RCW
35.21.160.
sewerage, drainage and water supply: RCW
35.21.210.
streets and alleys over first-class tidelands, control of: RCW
35.21.250.
streets over tidelands, control of: RCW
35.21.240.
swimming pools, power to acquire: RCW
35.21.020.
City in adjoining state may condemn watershed property: RCW
8.28.050.
Dams, height on tributaries of Columbia River: Chapter
77.55 RCW.
Department of natural resources, to locate line between tide and shore land in tidal rivers: RCW
79.125.010.
Diking, drainage and sewerage improvement districts: Chapters
85.08 through
85.16 RCW.
Diking and drainage districts: Chapters
85.05 through
85.24 RCW.
Director of fish and wildlife, may modify inadequate fishways and fish guards: RCW
77.57.040,
77.57.060.
Easements over public lands, waterway rights: Chapter
79.36 RCW.
Ferries
county-owned
—Ferry districts: Chapter
36.54 RCW.
privately owned (licensed by county): Chapter
36.53 RCW.
Fisheries code: Title 77 RCW.
Flood control districts: Chapter
86.09 RCW.
Food fish, shellfish
compacts: Chapter
77.75 RCW.
construction projects in state waters: Chapter
77.55 RCW.
taxes: Chapter
82.27 RCW.
unlawful acts: Chapter
77.50 RCW.
Franchises on roads and bridges (by counties): Chapter
36.55 RCW.
Furnishing impure water, penalty: RCW
70.54.020.
Game and game fish, unlawful acts: Chapter
77.50 RCW.
Geological survey (objects as to water supplies, etc.): RCW
43.92.020.
Harbor improvements: Chapter
53.20 RCW.
Highway commission (bridges): Chapter
47.01 RCW.
Irrigation: Title 87 RCW.
Irrigation districts
limits of levy until water is received: RCW
87.04.090.
right to cross other property: RCW
87.03.455.
Joint canal construction (by counties): RCW
36.64.060.
Jurisdiction in special cases
Lease or conveyance (by county) to United States for flood control, navigation and allied purposes: RCW
36.34.220 through
36.34.240.
Limitation on municipal indebtedness, exception for water supply: State Constitution Art. 8 § 6 (Amendment 27).
Local improvements (cities and towns)
filling and draining of lowlands
—waterways: Chapter
35.56 RCW.
filling lowlands: Chapter
35.55 RCW.
harbor area leaseholds
—assessment: RCW
35.44.150.
leases on tidelands
—assessment: RCW
35.44.160.
Marine employees
—Public employment relations: Chapter
47.64 RCW.
Master plan of development (including flood control): RCW
43.21A.350.
Material removed for channel or harbor improvement or flood control
—Use for public purpose: RCW
79.140.110.
Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district
—Existing water rights not impaired: RCW
87.03.857.
Municipal utilities
authority to acquire and operate waterworks: RCW
35.92.010.
cannot condemn irrigation system: RCW
35.92.190.
city may extend water system outside limits: RCW
35.92.170.
may acquire property outside city: RCW
35.92.180.
Navigation and harbor improvements: Title 88 RCW.
Nuisance defined (as to water rights): RCW
7.48.120.
Nuisance (deposit of unwholesome substance into any lake, creek or river): RCW
9.66.050.
Operating agencies (power commission)
—Policy declaration as to water resources: Chapter
43.52 RCW.
Parks, bathing beaches, public camps: Chapter
67.20 RCW.
Penalties imposed by parks and recreation commission: RCW
79A.05.165.
Planning commissions (cities and towns)
—Restrictions on buildings
—Use of land: RCW
35.63.080.
Pollution of drinking water supply
—Penalty: RCW
70.54.010.
Pollution of watershed of city outside state
—Penalty: RCW
70.54.030.
Port districts: Title 53 RCW.
Private ditches and drains: Chapter
85.28 RCW.
Private way of necessity defined
—Maintaining drain, flume or ditch: RCW
8.24.010.
Prohibited parking places (upon any bridge): RCW
46.61.570.
Public lands: Title 79 RCW.
Public nuisance (tend to obstruct, or render dangerous for passage, a lake, navigable river, bay, stream, canal or basin): RCW
9.66.010.
Public nuisances enumerated: RCW
7.48.140.
Public utilities and transportation commission: Chapter
80.01 RCW.
Public utilities
—Gas, electrical and water companies: Chapter
80.28 RCW.
Public utility districts
—Powers: Chapter
54.16 RCW.
Public waterways: Chapter
91.08 RCW.
Puget Sound ferry and toll bridge system: Chapter
47.60 RCW.
Railroads
bridges over navigable streams: RCW
81.36.100.
lines across or along watercourses: RCW
81.36.040.
may construct and operate canals and ditches: RCW
81.36.130.
structures across state waterways: RCW
81.36.100.
Reclamation and irrigation in United States reclamation areas: Chapter
89.12 RCW.
Reclamation districts of one million acres
general improvement and divisional districts: Chapter
89.30 RCW.
powers: Chapter
89.30 RCW.
right to cross streams, highways, etc.: RCW
89.30.214.
tolls for electricity and water: RCW
89.30.787.
Regulation of watercourses (counties): RCW
36.32.280.
Removal of obstructions (from watercourses, by counties): RCW
36.32.290.
Restrictions on sale of certain water rights by state: State Constitution Art. 15 § 1 (Amendment 15).
Roads and bridges (county): Chapters
36.75 through
36.87 RCW.
Sales and leases of public lands and materials
—Water right as improvement: RCW
79.13.170.
Second-class cities
acquisition of property for municipal purposes (waterfront leases, etc.): RCW
35.23.452.
Shellfish: Chapter
77.60 RCW.
Small boat facilities for Puget Sound authorized: RCW
79A.05.185.
Soil conservation (conservation of water): Chapter
89.08 RCW.
Soil conservation
—Water rights preserved: RCW
89.08.390.
Speed in traversing bridge, tunnels, etc.: RCW
46.61.450.
State board of health
—Powers and duties (investigation of water supply): RCW
43.20.050.
Street grades
—Sanitary fills (cities and towns): Chapter
35.73 RCW.
Streets
—Drawbridges (cities and towns): Chapter
35.74 RCW.
Tidelands, shorelands, and harbor areas: Chapters
79.115,
79.125 RCW.
Towns, specific powers enumerated: RCW
35.27.370.
Transfer of territory where city's harbor lies in two counties: Chapter
36.08 RCW.
Trees may be removed from riverbanks (by counties): RCW
36.32.300.
Unclassified cities, additional indebtedness for municipal utilities (water supply): RCW
35.30.060.
Use of waters for irrigation, mining, manufacturing, deemed public use: State Constitution Art. 21.
Washington utilities and transportation commission: Chapter
80.01 RCW.
Water
pollution
—Protection from (cities and towns): Chapter
35.88 RCW.
redemption bonds (cities and towns): Chapter
35.89 RCW.
Water-sewer districts
generally: Title 57 RCW.
powers: Chapter
57.08 RCW.
Watercraft adrift: Chapter
79A.60 RCW.
Wharves and landings: Chapter
88.24 RCW.