Other LanguagesA fire protection district may contract with a city or town for the joint ownership and occupancy of a fire hall.
(1) The notice provision of the 1949 election law has no application to municipal elections to authorize excess levies.(2) Under the 1949 election law the county auditor, as supervisor of elections, has jurisdiction to conduct municipal elections in Class A and first class counties; county canvassing board has the duty of canvassing such election. In all other counties, local municipal officers have exclusive jurisdiction to conduct and canvas city and town elections.
There is no statutory authorization for the annexation by city A of uninhabited contiguous territory which is part of city B nor can this be accomplished by city B ceding the territory to city A. However, the same result may be achieved by reduction of the corporate limits of city B and by city A's subsequent annexation of the territory thereby rendered unincorporated.
A municipal corporation may not deposit or invest any of its funds in a savings account in any bank or mutual savings bank, or deposit or invest any of its funds in any other manner except pursuant to specific statutory authority.
1. A city of the first class newly incorporated from previously unincorporated territory may validly provide in its city charter for partisan elections, regardless of whether the city adopted a council-manager form of government. 2. Political parties represented at such partisan primary elections are those whose candidates received ten per cent of the total vote cast at the last preceding general election in the state.
The City of Seattle may require Seattle School District No. 1 to collect and remit to the city the admission tax imposed by ordinance No. 72495, as amended by ordinance No. 82622, upon student activity cards.
Chapter 67.20 RCW, which empowers separately organized park districts to acquire land for swimming pools, to build, operate and maintain swimming pools, to enact police regulations therefor and to contract with other governmental units for conducting a recreation program, does not increase the power of a metropolitan park district organized pursuant to chapter 35.61 RCW so as to permit such a district to create local improvement district for the construction of a swimming pool. Chapter 67.20 RCW does not empower a first class city, either independently or jointly with a county and school district, to form a local improvement district for financing the construction of a swimming pool, where part of the area to be benefited by the improvement and thereby assessed therefor, lies outside the city limits and within the area of the county and/or the school district.
Use of parking meters on city streets for commercial advertising purposes is illegal.
1. City manager appoints the police chief under a council-manager form of government. 2. City manager appoints police chief subject to statutory procedure set forth in RCW 41.12.010 et seq . 3. Eligible appointee not restricted by present police force or outsiders but subject to eligible list submitted by civil service commission.
The fact that an area has been annexed to a city or town within thirty days of said city or town election does not affect residential qualifications of electors of annexed area.