53.08.120 Contracts for labor and material - Small works roster.
53.08.130 Notice - Award of contract.
53.08.135 Construction project over forty thousand dollars - Contracting
53.08.140 Leases or contracts without bond.
53.08.150 Notices when no newspaper in county.
53.08.160 Studies, investigations, surveys - Promotion of facilities.
53.08.170 Employment - Wages - Benefits - Agents - Insurance for port district commissioners.
53.08.171 Employment relations - Collective bargaining and arbitration.
53.08.175 Commissioners, officers, and employees - Reimbursement of expenses.
53.08.176 Commissioners. officers, and employees - Regulation of expenses.
53.08.180 Federal old age and survivors' insurance for employees.
53.08.190 Federal old age and survivors' insurance for employees - Plan for extension of benefits.
53.08.200 Federal old age and survivors' insurance for employees - Contributions.
53.08.205 Liability insurance for officials and employees.
53.08.207 Liability insurance for officers and employees authorized.
53.08.208 Actions against officer, employee, or agent- Defense and costs provided by port district - Exception.
53.08.210 Quorum.
53.08.220 Regulations authorized - Adoption as part of ordinance or resolution of city or county, procedure - Enforcement - Penalty for violation.
53.08.230 Making motor vehicle and other police regulations applicable to district property - Filing plat with county auditor - Duty of law enforcement officers.
53.08.240 Joint exercise of powers and joint acquisition of property - Contracts with other governmental entities.
53.08.245 Economic development programs authorized.
53.08.250 Participation in world fairs or expositions authorized.
53.08.255 Tourism promotion authorized.
53.08.260 Park and recreation facilities.
53.08.270 Park and recreation facilities - Approval of other agencies.
53.08.290 Intermodal movement of interstate and foreign cargo-Restrictions.
53.08.295 Passenger carrying watercraft.
53.08.300 Rewards for arrest and conviction of persons committing criminal offenses against port district authorized.
53.08.310 Moorage facilities - Definitions.
53.08.320 Moorage facilities - Regulations authorized - Port charges, delinquency - Abandoned vessels, public sale.
53.08.330 Streets, roads, and highways - Construction, upgrading, improvement, and repair authorized.
53.08.340 Streets. roads, and highways - Expenditure of funds.
53.08.350 Moratorium on runway construction or extension, or initiation of new service - Certain counties affected.
53.08.360 Annexation of port district property -Transfer of employees engaged in fire fighting.
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Acquisition of vacated waterways: RCW 79.93.060.
Actions by and against public corporations: RCW4.08.110 and 4.08.120.
Airport districts: Chapter 14.08 RCW.
Deferral of special assessments: Chapter 84.38 RCW.
Emergency public works: Chapter 39.28 RCW.
Heating systems authorized: RCW 35.97.020.
Industrial development revenue bonds: Chapter 39.84 RCW.
Lien for labor and materials on public works: Chapter 60.28 RCW.
Permits to use waterways within a port district: RCW 79.93.040.
Public contracts: Chapters 39.04 through 39.32 RCW.
Special purpose districts, expenditures to recruit job candidates: RCW 42.24.170.
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 or damaging of all such lands, property, and property rights, and may levy and collect assessments upon property for the payment of all damages and compensation in carrying out its purposes, and such right shall be exercised in the same manner and by the same procedure as provided for cities of the first class insofar as consistent with this title, and in connection therewith the county treasurer shall perform the duties of the treasurers of such cities. [1983 c 24 §1; 1955 c 65 §2. Prior: 1953 c 171 §1; 1943 c 166 §2, part; 1921 c 183 §1, part; 1917 c 125 §1. part; 1913 c 62 §4, part; 1911 c 92 §4, part; Rem. Supp. 1943 §9692, part.]
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Eminent domain: State Constitution Art. 1 §16 (Amendment 9).
Eminent domain by cities: Chapter 8.12 RCW.
53.08.015 Exemption of farm and agricultural land from special benefit assessments.
See RCW 84.34.300 through 84.34,380 and 84.34.922.
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, docks9 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, conveyors, administration buildings, fishing terminals, together with modern appliances and buildings for the economical handling, packaging, storing, and transporting of freight and handling of passenger ~c, rail and motor vehicle transfer and terminal facilities, water transfer and terminal facilities, air transfer and terminal facilities, and any combination of such transfer and terminal facilities, commercial transportation, transfer, handling, storage and terminal facilities, and improvements relating to industrial and manufacturing activities within the district, and in connection with the operation of the facilities and improvements of the district, it may perform all customary services including the handling, weighing, measuring and reconditioning of all commodities received. A port district may also construct, condemn, purchase, acquire. add to and maintain facilities for the freezing or processing of goods, agricultural products, meats or perishable commodities. A port district may also construct, purchase and operate belt line railways, but shall not acquire the same by condemnation. [1963 c 147 §3; 1961 c 126 §l; 1955 c 65 §3. Prior; 1953 c 171 § part; 1921 c 183 §1, part; 1917 c 125 §1, part; 1913 c 62 §4, part; 1911 c 92 §4, part; Rem. Supp. 1943 §9692, part.)
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Severability - 1961 c 126: "If any provision of this act, or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act, or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [1961 c 126§2.]
Essential rail assistance account, distribution of moneys to port districts: RCW
