RCW 35.67.010 Definitions—”System of sewerage,” “public utility.” A “system of sewerage” means and may include any or all of the following: (1) Sanitary sewage collection, treatment, and/or disposal facilities and services, on-site or off-site sanitary sewerage facilities, inspection services and maintenance services for public or private on-site systems, or any other means of sewage treatment […]
RCW 35.67.020 Authority to construct system and fix rates and charges—Classification of services and facilities—Assistance for low-income persons. (1) Every city and town may construct, condemn and purchase, acquire, add to, maintain, conduct, and operate systems of sewerage and systems and plants for refuse collection and disposal together with additions, extensions, and betterments thereto, within […]
RCW 35.67.022 Extension outside city subject to review by boundary review board. The extension of sewer facilities outside of the boundaries of a city or town may be subject to potential review by a boundary review board under chapter 36.93 RCW. [ 1989 c 84 § 32.]
RCW 35.67.025 Public property subject to rates and charges for stormwater control facilities. Except as otherwise provided in RCW 90.03.525, any public entity and public property, including the state of Washington and state property, shall be subject to rates and charges for stormwater control facilities to the same extent private persons and private property are […]
RCW 35.67.030 Adoption of plan—Ordinance. Whenever the legislative body of any city or town, shall deem it advisable that such city or town shall purchase, acquire or construct any public utility mentioned in RCW 35.67.020, or make any additions, betterments, or alterations thereto, or extensions thereof, such legislative body shall provide therefor by ordinance, which […]
RCW 35.67.065 General obligation bonds—Issuance. General obligation bonds issued by a city or town to pay for all or part of the costs of purchasing, acquiring, or constructing any public utility mentioned in RCW 35.67.020, or the costs of making any additions, betterments, or alterations thereto, or extensions thereof, shall be issued and sold in […]
RCW 35.67.110 General obligation bonds—Payment—Revenue from service charges. In addition to taxes pledged to pay the principal of and interest on general obligation bonds issued to pay for costs of purchasing, acquiring, or constructing any public utility mentioned in RCW 35.67.020, or to make any additions, betterments, or alterations thereto, or extensions thereof, the city […]
RCW 35.67.120 Revenue bond fund—Authority to establish. After the city or town legislative body adopts a proposition for any such public utility, and either (1) no general indebtedness has been authorized, or (2) the city or town legislative body does not desire to incur a general indebtedness, and the legislative body can lawfully proceed without […]
RCW 35.67.130 Revenue bond fund—Limitations upon creation. In creating the special fund, the city or town legislative body shall have due regard to the cost of operation and maintenance of the system as constructed or added to, and to any proportion or part of the revenue previously pledged as a fund for the payment of […]
RCW 35.67.140 Revenue bonds—Authority—Denominations—Terms. A city or town may issue revenue bonds against the special fund or funds created solely from revenues. The revenue bonds so issued shall: (1) Be registered bonds as provided in RCW 39.46.030 or coupon bonds, (2) be issued in denominations of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than […]
RCW 35.67.150 Revenue bonds—Signatures—Form. Every revenue bond and any coupon shall be signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk. The seal of the city or town shall be attached to all bonds but not to any coupons. Signatures on any coupons may be printed or may be the lithographic facsimile of the signatures. […]
RCW 35.67.160 Revenue bonds—Obligation against fund, not city. Revenue bonds or warrants and interest shall be payable only out of the special fund. Every bond or warrant and interest thereon issued against the special fund shall be a valid claim of the holder thereof only as against that fund and its fixed proportion of the […]
RCW 35.67.170 Revenue bonds—Sale of—Other disposition. Revenue bonds and warrants may be sold in any manner the city or town legislative body deems for the best interests of the city or town. The legislative body may provide in any contract for the construction or acquisition of a proposed utility that payment therefor shall be made […]
RCW 35.67.180 Revenue bonds—Remedy of owners. If a city or town fails to set aside and pay into the special fund created for the payment of revenue bonds and warrants the amount which it has obligated itself in the ordinance creating the fund to set aside and pay therein, the owner of any bond or […]
RCW 35.67.190 Revenues from system—Classification of services—Minimum rates—Compulsory use. (1) The legislative body of such city or town may provide by ordinance for revenues by fixing rates and charges for the furnishing of service to those served by its system of sewerage or system for refuse collection and disposal, which rates and charges shall be […]
RCW 35.67.194 Revenue bonds validated. Any and all water, sewer, or water and sewer revenue bonds part or all of which may have been heretofore (prior to June 8, 1955) issued by any city or town for the purpose of providing funds to pay part or all of the cost of acquiring, constructing, or installing […]
RCW 35.67.200 Sewerage lien—Authority. Cities and towns owning their own sewer systems shall have a lien for delinquent and unpaid rates and charges for sewer service, penalties levied pursuant to RCW 35.67.190, and connection charges, including interest thereon, against the premises to which such service has been furnished or is available, which lien shall be […]
RCW 35.67.210 Sewerage lien—Extent—Notice—Emergency declaration. (1) Except as provided for in subsection (2) of this section, the sewerage lien shall be effective for a total of not to exceed six months’ delinquent charges without the necessity of any writing or recording. In order to make such lien effective for more than six months’ charges the […]
RCW 35.67.215 Sewerage lien—Extension of coverage. Any city or town may, by resolution or ordinance, provide that the sewerage lien shall be effective for a total not to exceed one year’s delinquent service charges without the necessity of any writing or recording of the lien with the county auditor, in lieu of the provisions provided […]
RCW 35.67.220 Sewerage lien foreclosure—Parts—Tracts. The city or town may foreclose its sewerage lien in an action in the superior court. All or any of the tracts subject to the lien may be proceeded against in the same action, and all parties appearing of record as owning or claiming to own, having or claiming to […]
