53.06 Coordination of administrative programs and operations.
53.08 Powers.
53.12 Commissioners - Elections.
53.16 Revision of commissioner districts.
53.18 Employment relations - Collective bargaining and arbitration.
53.20 Harbor improvements.
53.25 Industrial development districts - Marginal lands.
53.29 Trade center act.
53.31 Export trading companies.
53.34 Toll facilities.
53.35 Budgets.
53.36 Finances.
53.40 Revenue bonds and warrants.
53.44 Funding and refunding indebtedness -1947 act.
53.46 Consolidation.
53.47 Dissolution of inactive port districts.
53.48 Dissolution of port and other districts.
53.49 Disposition of funds on dissolution of certain districts.
53.54 Aircraft noise abatement.
Chapter 53.04 RCW
FORMATION
Sections
53.04.010 Port districts authorized - Purposes.
53.04.015 Port districts in areas lacking appropriate bodies of water - Authorized - Purposes.
53.04.016 Port districts in areas lacking appropriate bodies of water - Authority an additional and concurrent method.
53.04.017 Port districts in areas lacking appropriate bodies of water - Elections.
53.04.020 Formation of country-wide district.
53.04.023 Formation of less than county-wide district - Expiration of section.
53.04.031 Initiating petition. commissioner district descriptions - Initial election of commissioners.
53.04.060 District declared formed.
53.04.070 Expense of election.
53.04.080 Annexation of territory - Petition - Election.
53.04.085 Petition for annexation to port district.
53.04.100 Order of annexation - Liability of area annexed.
53.04.110 Change of name.
53.04.120 Transfer of port district property to adjacent district - Procedure - Boundary changes - Jurisdiction.
53.04.010 Port districts authorized - Purposes.
Port districts are hereby authorized to be established in the various counties of the state for the purposes of acquisition, construction, maintenance, operation, development and regulation within the district of harbor improvements, rail or motor vehicle transfer and terminal facilities, water transfer and terminal facilities, air transfer and terminal facilities, or any combination of such transfer and terminal facilities, and other commercial transportation, transfer, handling, storage and terminal facilities, and industrial improvements. (1963 c 147 1; 1911 c 92 §1;RRS§9688.]
NOTES:
Construction - 1911 c 92: "This act shall not be constructed to repeal, amend or modify any law heretofore enacted providing a method harbor improvement, regulation or control in this state, but shall be held to be an additional concurrent method providing for such purpose." [1911 c 92 §14.]
Establishment of harder lines: State Constitution Art. 15 §1（Amendment 15）
53.04.015 Port districts in areas lacking appropriate bodies of water - Authorized - Purposes.
In areas which lack appropriate bodies of water so that harbor improvements cannot be established, port districts are hereby authorized to be established under the laws of the state, for the purposes for which port districts may be established under RCW 53.04.010, and such port districts shall have all of the powers, privileges and immunities conferred upon all other port districts under the laws of this state, including the same powers and rights relating to municipal airports that other port districts now have or hereafter may be granted. [1963 c 147 §2; 1959 c 94 §1.]
53.04.016 Port districts in areas lacking appropriate bodies of water - Authority an additional and concurrent method.
RCW 53.04.015 shall not be construed to repeal, amend or modify any law heretofore enacted providing a method of harbor improvement, regulation or control; acquisition, maintenance and operation of municipal airports; or industrial development; but shall be held to be an additional and concurrent method providing such purposes. [1959 c 94 §2.]
53.04.017 Port districts in areas lacking appropriate bodies of water - Elections.
All elections with respect to any such port districts authorized by RCW 53.04.015 and 53.04.016 shall be held, conducted and the results canvassed in the same manner and at the same time as now or hereafter provided by law for other port districts. [1959 c 94 s§3.]
53.04.020 Formation of county-wide district.
At any general election or at any special election which may be called for that purpose, the county legislative authority of any county in this state may, or on petition of ten percent of the registered voters of such county based on the total vote cast in the last general county election, shall, by resolution submit to the voters of such county the proposition of creating a port district coextensive with the limits of such county. Such petition shall be filed with the county auditor, who shall within fifteen days examine the signatures thereof and certify to the sufficiency or insufficiency thereof, and for such purpose the county auditor shall have access to all registration books in the possession
