86.24.040 – Contracts between flood control districts and other governmental units.
RCW 86.24.040 Contracts between flood control districts and other governmental units. In any case where the boundaries of any flood control district shall embrace all or any part of any county, city, town, diking, or drainage district, subject to flood conditions, the governing authorities thereof may contract with the directors of such flood control district, […]
86.24.050 – State participation where state interest affected.
RCW 86.24.050 State participation where state interest affected. State participation in flood control projects shall be in such as are affected with a state interest and to such extent as the legislature may determine. [ 1935 c 163 § 3; RRS § 9662-3.]
86.26.005 – Declaration of purpose.
RCW 86.26.005 Declaration of purpose. It is the purpose of the state in the exercise of its sovereign and police powers and in the interest of public welfare, to establish a state and local participating flood control maintenance policy. [ 1951 c 240 § 2.]
86.26.007 – Flood control assistance account—Use.
RCW 86.26.007 Flood control assistance account—Use. The flood control assistance account is hereby established in the state treasury. At the beginning of the 2005-2007 fiscal biennium, the state treasurer shall transfer three million dollars from the general fund to the flood control assistance account. Each biennium thereafter the state treasurer shall transfer four million dollars […]
86.26.010 – Administration and enforcement.
RCW 86.26.010 Administration and enforcement. The department of ecology shall have charge for the state of the administration and enforcement of all laws relating to flood control. [ 1984 c 212 § 2; 1951 c 240 § 3.]
86.16.120 – Flood damages defined.
RCW 86.16.120 Flood damages defined. Damages within the meaning of this chapter shall include harmful inundation, water erosion of soil, stream banks and beds, stream channel shifting and changes, harmful deposition by water of eroded and shifting soils and debris upon property or in the beds of streams or other bodies of water, damages by […]
86.16.160 – Local programs not prevented.
RCW 86.16.160 Local programs not prevented. Nothing in this chapter shall prevent any county, city or town from establishing, pursuant to any authority otherwise available to them, flood control regulation programs and related land use control measures in areas which are subject to flooding or flood damages. [ 1973 c 75 § 2.]
86.16.180 – Processing of permits and authorizations for emergency water withdrawal and facilities to be expedited.
RCW 86.16.180 Processing of permits and authorizations for emergency water withdrawal and facilities to be expedited. All state and local agencies with authority under this chapter to issue permits or other authorizations in connection with emergency water withdrawals and facilities authorized under RCW 43.83B.410 shall expedite the processing of such permits or authorizations in keeping […]
86.16.190 – Livestock flood sanctuary areas.
RCW 86.16.190 Livestock flood sanctuary areas. Local governments that have adopted floodplain management regulations pursuant to this chapter shall include provisions that allow for the establishment of livestock flood sanctuary areas at a convenient location within a farming unit that contains domestic livestock. Local governments may limit the size and configuration of the livestock flood […]
86.16.900 – Chapter liberally construed.
RCW 86.16.900 Chapter liberally construed. The provisions of this chapter and all proceedings thereunder shall be liberally construed with a view to effect their object. [ 1935 c 159 § 19; RRS § 9663A-19.]