RCW 53.08.005 Definitions. The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) “Commission” means the Washington utilities and transportation commission. (2) “Retail telecommunications services” means the sale, lease, license, or indivisible right of use of telecommunications services or telecommunications facilities directly to end users. (3) “Telecommunications” has the […]
RCW 53.08.010 Acquisition of property—Levy of assessments. A port district may acquire by purchase, for cash or on deferred payments for a period not exceeding twenty years, or by condemnation, or both, all lands, property, property rights, leases, or easements necessary for its purposes and may exercise the right of eminent domain in the acquirement […]
RCW 53.08.020 Acquisition and operation of facilities. A port district may construct, condemn, purchase, acquire, add to, maintain, conduct, and operate sea walls, jetties, piers, wharves, docks, boat landings, and other harbor improvements, warehouses, storehouses, elevators, grain-bins, cold storage plants, terminal icing plants, bunkers, oil tanks, ferries, canals, locks, tidal basins, bridges, subways, tramways, cableways, […]
RCW 53.08.030 Operation of foreign trade zones. A district may apply to the United States for permission to establish, operate, and maintain foreign trade zones: (1) Within the district; and (2) on property adjacent to but outside the district if the property is beyond the boundaries of any existing foreign trade zone grantee and is […]
RCW 53.08.040 Improvement of lands for industrial and commercial purposes—Providing sewer and water utilities—Providing pollution control facilities. (1) A district may improve its lands by dredging, filling, bulkheading, providing waterways or otherwise developing such lands for industrial and commercial purposes. A district may also acquire, construct, install, improve, and operate sewer and water utilities to […]
RCW 53.08.041 Pollution control facilities or other industrial development actions—Validation—Implementation of Article 8, section 8 of the Constitution. All actions heretofore taken by port districts in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, and the provisions of chapter 6, Laws of 1975 hereby made applicable thereto, relating to pollution control facilities or other industrial development, […]
RCW 53.08.043 Powers relative to systems of sewerage. A port district may exercise all the powers relating to systems of sewerage authorized by RCW 35.67.010 and 35.67.020 for cities and towns. [ 1997 c 447 § 15.] NOTES: Finding—Purpose—1997 c 447: See note following RCW 70.05.074.
RCW 53.08.045 Facilities constructed under authority of chapter subject to taxation of leasehold interest. Facilities constructed by a port district under authority of this chapter will be subject to taxation of leasehold interest pursuant to applicable laws as now or hereafter enacted. [ 1972 ex.s. c 54 § 3.] NOTES: Severability—1972 ex.s. c 54: See […]
RCW 53.08.047 Chapter not to be construed as restricting or limiting powers of district under other laws. Neither this chapter nor anything herein contained shall be construed as a restriction or limitation upon any powers which a district might otherwise have under any laws of this state, but shall be construed as cumulative. [ 1972 […]
RCW 53.08.049 Community revitalization financing—Public improvements. In addition to other authority that a port district possesses, a port district may provide any public improvement as defined under RCW 39.89.020, but this additional authority is limited to participating in the financing of the public improvements as provided under RCW 39.89.050. This section does not limit the […]
RCW 53.08.050 Local improvement districts—Assessments—Bonds. (1) A district may establish local improvement districts within the district, and levy special assessments, in annual installments extending over a period not exceeding ten years on all property specially benefited by the local improvement, on the basis of special benefits, to pay in whole or in part the damages […]
RCW 53.08.055 Local improvement districts—Notice must contain statement that assessments may vary from estimates. Any notice given to the public or to the owners of specific lots, tracts, or parcels of land relating to the formation of a local improvement district shall contain a statement that actual assessments may vary from assessment estimates so long […]
RCW 53.08.060 Improvement of waters and waterways. A district may improve navigable and nonnavigable waters of the United States and the state of Washington within the district; create and improve for harbor purposes new waterways within the district; and regulate and control all such waters and all natural or artificial waterways within the district and […]
RCW 53.08.070 Rates and charges—Government contracts. A district may fix, without right of appeal therefrom the rates of wharfage, dockage, warehousing, and port and terminal charges upon all improvements owned and operated by it, and the charges of ferries operated by it. It may fix, subject to state regulation, rates of wharfage, dockage, warehousing, and […]
RCW 53.08.080 Lease of property—Authorized—Duration. A district may lease all lands, wharves, docks and real and personal property owned and controlled by it, for such purposes and upon such terms as the port commission deems proper: PROVIDED, That no lease shall be for a period longer than fifty years with option for extensions for up […]
RCW 53.08.085 Lease of property—Security for rent. Every lease of all lands, wharves, docks, and real and personal property of a port district for a term of more than one year shall have the rent secured by rental insurance, bond, or other security satisfactory to the port commission, in an amount equal to one-sixth the […]
RCW 53.08.090 Sale of property. (1) A port commission may, by resolution, authorize the managing official of a port district to sell and convey port district property of ten thousand dollars or less in value. The authority shall be in force for not more than one calendar year from the date of resolution and may […]
RCW 53.08.091 Sale of property—Contract sales—Terms and conditions. Except in cases where the full purchase price is paid at the time of the purchase, every sale of real property or personal property under authority of RCW 53.08.090 or 53.25.110 shall be subject to the following terms and conditions: (1) The purchaser shall enter into a […]
RCW 53.08.092 Sale of property—Taxes and assessments against property sold by contract. A copy of all contract sales of port district property shall be filed with the county assessor within thirty days after the first payment is received by the port. The assessor shall place such property on the tax rolls of the county and […]
RCW 53.08.110 Gifts—Improvement. Port commissioners of any port district are hereby authorized to accept for and on behalf of said port district gifts of real and personal property and to expend in improvements and betterment such amount as may be necessary. [ 1921 c 39 § 4; RRS § 9705.]
