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Home » US Law » 2022 Revised Code of Washington » Title 79 - Public Lands » Chapters » Chapter 79.120 - Aquatic Lands—Waterways and Streets.

79.120.020 – Streets, waterways, etc., validated.

RCW 79.120.020 Streets, waterways, etc., validated. All alleys, streets, avenues, boulevards, waterways, and other public places and highways located and platted on the first-class tidelands and shorelands, or harbor areas, as provided by law, and not vacated as provided by law, are validated as public highways and dedicated to the use of the public for […]

79.120.030 – Approval of plans/authorize construction on state-owned aquatic lands.

RCW 79.120.030 Approval of plans/authorize construction on state-owned aquatic lands. The department has the power to approve plans for and authorize the construction of slopes, with rock, riprap, or other protection, upon any state-owned aquatic lands incident to the improvement of any abutting or adjacent street or avenue by any city or town in this […]

79.120.040 – Permits to use waterways.

RCW 79.120.040 Permits to use waterways. If the United States government has established pierhead lines within a waterway created under the laws of this state at any distance from the boundaries established by the state, structures may be constructed in that strip of waterway between the waterway boundary and the nearest pierhead line only with […]

79.120.050 – Excavation of waterways—Waterways open to public—Tide gates or locks.

RCW 79.120.050 Excavation of waterways—Waterways open to public—Tide gates or locks. All waterways excavated through any state-owned tidelands or shorelands by virtue of the provisions of chapter 99, Laws of 1893, so far as they run through the tidelands or shorelands, are declared to be public waterways, free to all citizens upon equal terms, and […]

79.120.060 – Vacation of waterways—Extension of streets.

RCW 79.120.060 Vacation of waterways—Extension of streets. If a waterway established under the laws of this state, or any portion of the waterway, has not been excavated, or is not used for navigation, or is not required in the public interest to exist as a waterway, the waterway or a portion of the waterway may […]