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36.40.205 – Salary adjustment for county legislative authority office—Ratification and validation of preelection action.

RCW 36.40.205 Salary adjustment for county legislative authority office—Ratification and validation of preelection action. If prior to the election for any county legislative authority office, a salary adjustment for such position to become effective upon the commencement of the term next following such election is adopted by ordinance or resolution of the legislative authority of […]

36.40.210 – Monthly report.

RCW 36.40.210 Monthly report. On or before the twenty-fifth day of each month the auditor shall submit or make available to the board of county commissioners a report showing the expenditures and liabilities against each separate budget appropriation incurred during the preceding calendar month and like information for the whole of the current fiscal year […]

36.40.220 – Rules, classifications, and forms.

RCW 36.40.220 Rules, classifications, and forms. The state auditor may make such rules, classifications, and forms as may be necessary to carry out the provisions in respect to county budgets, define what expenditures shall be chargeable to each budget account, and establish such accounting and cost systems as may be necessary to provide accurate budget […]

36.40.230 – No new funds created.

RCW 36.40.230 No new funds created. This chapter shall not be construed to create any new fund. [ 1963 c 4 § 36.40.230. Prior: 1923 c 164 § 9; RRS § 3997-9.]

36.40.240 – Penalty.

RCW 36.40.240 Penalty. Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. [ 1963 c 4 § 36.40.240. Prior: 1923 c 164 § 10; RRS § 3997-10.]

36.40.250 – Biennial budgets—Supplemental and emergency budgets.

RCW 36.40.250 Biennial budgets—Supplemental and emergency budgets. In lieu of adopting an annual budget, the county legislative authority of any county may adopt an ordinance or a resolution providing for biennial budgets with a mid-biennium review and modification for the second year of the biennium. The county legislative authority may repeal such an ordinance or […]

36.40.180 – Emergencies subject to hearing—Nondebatable emergencies.

RCW 36.40.180 Emergencies subject to hearing—Nondebatable emergencies. Upon the happening of any emergency caused by fire, flood, explosion, storm, earthquake, epidemic, riot, or insurrection, or for the immediate preservation of order or of public health or for the restoration to a condition of usefulness of any public property the usefulness of which has been destroyed […]

36.40.190 – Payment of emergency warrants.

RCW 36.40.190 Payment of emergency warrants. All emergency expenditures shall be paid for by the issuance of emergency warrants which shall be paid from any moneys on hand in the county treasury in the fund properly chargeable therewith and the county treasurer shall pay such warrants out of any moneys in the treasury in such […]

36.40.195 – Supplemental appropriations of unanticipated funds from local sources.

RCW 36.40.195 Supplemental appropriations of unanticipated funds from local sources. In addition to the supplemental appropriations provided in RCW 36.40.100 and 36.40.140, the county legislative authority may provide by resolution a policy for supplemental appropriations as a result of unanticipated funds from local revenue sources. [ 1997 c 204 § 4.]

36.40.200 – Lapse of budget appropriations.

RCW 36.40.200 Lapse of budget appropriations. All appropriations shall lapse at the end of the fiscal year: PROVIDED, That the appropriation accounts may remain open for a period of thirty days, and may, at the auditor’s discretion, remain open for a period not to exceed sixty days thereafter for the payment of claims incurred against […]