RCW 35.21.706
Imposition or increase of business and occupation tax—Referendum procedure required—Exclusive procedure.
Every city and town first imposing a business and occupation tax or increasing the rate of the tax after April 22, 1983, shall provide for a referendum procedure to apply to an ordinance imposing the tax or increasing the rate of the tax. This referendum procedure shall specify that a referendum petition may be filed within seven days of passage of the ordinance with a filing officer, as identified in the ordinance. Within ten days, the filing officer shall confer with the petitioner concerning form and style of the petition, issue the petition an identification number, and secure an accurate, concise, and positive ballot title from the designated local official. The petitioner shall have thirty days in which to secure the signatures of not less than fifteen percent of the registered voters of the city, as of the last municipal general election, upon petition forms which contain the ballot title and the full text of the measure to be referred. The filing officer shall verify the sufficiency of the signatures on the petition and, if sufficient valid signatures are properly submitted, shall certify the referendum measure to the next election ballot within the city or at a special election ballot as provided pursuant to RCW 35.17.260(2).
This referendum procedure shall be exclusive in all instances for any city ordinance imposing a business and occupation tax or increasing the rate of the tax and shall supersede the procedures provided under chapters 35.17 and 35A.11 RCW and all other statutory or charter provisions for initiative or referendum which might otherwise apply.
[ 1983 c 99 § 6.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 35.21 - Miscellaneous Provisions.
35.21.005 - Sufficiency of petitions.
35.21.010 - General corporate powers—Towns, restrictions as to area.
35.21.015 - Salary commissions.
35.21.020 - Auditoriums, art museums, swimming pools, etc.—Power to acquire.
35.21.030 - Auxiliary water systems for protection from fire.
35.21.070 - Cumulative reserve fund—Authority to create.
35.21.080 - Cumulative reserve fund—Annual levy for—Application of budget law.
35.21.085 - Payrolls fund—Claims fund.
35.21.086 - Payrolls fund—Transfers from insolvent funds.
35.21.087 - Employee checks, drafts, warrants—City, town may cash.
35.21.088 - Equipment rental fund.
35.21.090 - Dikes, levees, embankments—Authority to construct.
35.21.100 - Donations—Authority to accept and use.
35.21.110 - Ferries—Authority to acquire and maintain.
35.21.120 - Solid waste handling system—Contracts.
35.21.130 - Solid waste or recyclable materials collection—Ordinance.
35.21.135 - Solid waste or recyclable materials collection—Curbside recycling—Reduced rate.
35.21.140 - Garbage—Notice of lien—Foreclosure.
35.21.150 - Garbage—Lien—Priority.
35.21.152 - Solid waste handling—Agreements—Purposes—Terms and conditions.
35.21.154 - Solid waste—Compliance with chapter 70A.205 RCW required.
35.21.157 - Solid waste collection—Rate increase notice.
35.21.160 - Jurisdiction over adjacent waters.
35.21.163 - Penalty for act constituting a crime under state law—Limitation.
35.21.165 - Driving while under the influence of liquor or drug—Minimum penalties.
35.21.175 - Offices to be open certain days and hours.
35.21.180 - Ordinances—Adoption of codes by reference.
35.21.185 - Ordinances—Information pooling.
35.21.190 - Parkways, park drives, and boulevards.
35.21.192 - Urban agriculture zone.
35.21.194 - Community gardens.
35.21.200 - Residence qualifications of appointive officials and employees.
35.21.203 - Recall sufficiency hearing—Payment of defense expenses.
35.21.205 - Liability insurance for officials and employees.
35.21.207 - Liability insurance for officers and employees authorized.
35.21.209 - Insurance and workers' compensation for offenders performing community restitution.
35.21.210 - Sewerage, drainage, and water supply.
35.21.215 - Powers relative to systems of sewerage.
35.21.217 - Utility services—Deposit—Tenants' delinquencies—Notice—Lien.
35.21.220 - Sidewalks—Regulation of use of.
35.21.225 - Transportation benefit districts.
35.21.230 - Streets over tidelands declared public highways.
35.21.240 - Streets over tidelands—Control of.
35.21.250 - Streets and alleys over first-class tidelands—Control of.
35.21.260 - Streets—Annual report to secretary of transportation.
35.21.270 - Streets—Records of funds received and used for construction, repair, maintenance.
35.21.275 - Street improvements—Provision of supplies or materials.
35.21.278 - Contracts with community service organizations for public improvements—Limitations.
35.21.280 - Tax on admissions—Exceptions.
35.21.290 - Utility services—Lien for—Emergency declaration.
35.21.305 - Utility connection charges—Waiver for low-income persons.
35.21.310 - Removal of overhanging or obstructing vegetation—Removal, destroying debris.
35.21.315 - Amateur radio antennas—Local regulation to conform with federal law.
35.21.320 - Warrants—Interest rate—Payment.
35.21.333 - Chief of police or marshal—Eligibility requirements.
35.21.334 - Chief of police or marshal—Background investigation.
35.21.335 - Chief of police or marshal—Vacancy.
35.21.340 - Cemeteries and funeral facilities.
35.21.350 - Civil service in police and fire departments.
35.21.360 - Eminent domain by cities and towns.
35.21.370 - Joint county and city hospitals.
35.21.380 - Joint county and city buildings.
35.21.390 - Public employment, civil service and pensions.
35.21.392 - Contractors—Authority of city to verify registration and report violations.
35.21.395 - Historic preservation—Authorization to acquire property, borrow money, issue bonds, etc.
35.21.403 - Authority to establish lake and beach management districts.
35.21.404 - Fish enhancement project—City's or town's liability.
35.21.407 - Abandoned or derelict vessels.
35.21.409 - Transfer of ownership of a city or town-owned vessel—Further requirements.
35.21.418 - Hydroelectric reservoir extending across international boundary—Commission—Powers.
35.21.427 - City constructing generating facility in other county—Additional findings—Renegotiation.
35.21.440 - Utilities—Additional payments to school districts having bonded indebtedness.
35.21.450 - Utilities—Payment of taxes.
35.21.455 - Locally regulated utilities—Attachments to poles.
35.21.465 - Crop purchase contracts for dedicated energy crops.
35.21.475 - Statement of restrictions applicable to real property.
35.21.500 - Compilation, codification, revision of city or town ordinances—Scope of codification.
35.21.510 - Compilation, codification, revision of city or town ordinances—Authorized.
35.21.530 - Compilation, codification, revision of city or town ordinances—Filing—Notice of hearing.
35.21.560 - Compilation, codification, revision of city or town ordinances—Adoption of new material.
35.21.630 - Youth agencies—Establishment authorized.
35.21.650 - Prepayment of taxes or assessments authorized.
35.21.680 - Participation in Economic Opportunity Act programs.
35.21.685 - Low-income housing—Loans and grants.
35.21.686 - Tiny house communities.
35.21.690 - Authority to regulate auctioneers—Limitations.
35.21.692 - Authority to regulate massage therapists—Limitations.
35.21.695 - Authority to own and operate professional sports franchise.
35.21.696 - Newspaper carrier regulation.
35.21.698 - Regulation of financial transactions—Limitations.
35.21.700 - Tourist promotion.
35.21.703 - Economic development programs.
35.21.711 - License fees or taxes on certain business activities—Excess rates authorized by voters.
35.21.712 - License fees or taxes on telephone business to be at uniform rate.
35.21.715 - Taxes on network telephone services.
35.21.717 - Taxation of internet access—Moratorium.
35.21.718 - State route No. 16—Tax on operation prohibited.
35.21.720 - City contracts to obtain sheriff's office law enforcement services.
35.21.730 - Public corporations—Powers of cities, towns, and counties—Administration.
35.21.740 - Public corporations—Exercise of powers, authorities, or rights—Territorial jurisdiction.
35.21.745 - Public corporations—Provision for, control over—Powers.
35.21.750 - Public corporations—Insolvency or dissolution.
35.21.755 - Public corporations—Exemption or immunity from taxation—In lieu excise tax.
35.21.756 - Tax exemption—Sales/leasebacks by regional transit authorities.
35.21.757 - Public corporations—Statutes to be construed consistent with state Constitution.
35.21.759 - Public corporations, commissions, and authorities—Applicability of general laws.
35.21.760 - Legal interns—Employment authorized.
35.21.766 - Ambulance services—Establishment authorized.
35.21.7661 - Study and review of ambulance utilities.
35.21.768 - Ambulance services—Excise taxes authorized—Use of proceeds.
35.21.769 - Levy for emergency medical care and services.
35.21.772 - Fire department volunteers—Holding public office—Definitions.
35.21.775 - Provision of fire protection services to state-owned facilities.
35.21.778 - Existing contracts for fire protection services and equipment not abrogated.
35.21.800 - Foreign trade zones—Legislative finding, intent.
35.21.820 - Acquisition and disposal of vehicles for commuter ride sharing by city employees.
35.21.830 - Controls on rent for residential structures—Prohibited—Exceptions.
35.21.840 - Taxation of motor carriers of freight for hire—Allocation of gross receipts.
35.21.845 - Taxation of motor carriers of freight for hire—Tax allocation formula.
35.21.850 - Taxation of motor carriers of freight for hire—Limitation—Exceptions.
35.21.865 - Electricity, telephone, or natural gas business—Limitations on tax rate changes.
35.21.871 - Tax on telephone business—Deferral of rate reduction.
35.21.873 - Procedure to correct erroneous mobile telecommunications service tax.
35.21.875 - Designation of official newspaper.
35.21.880 - Right-of-way donations—Credit against required improvements.
35.21.890 - Boundary changes—Providing factual information—Notice to boundary review board.
35.21.895 - Regulation of automatic number or location identification—Prohibited.
35.21.900 - Authority to transfer real property.
35.21.905 - Consultation with public utilities for water-sewer facility relocation projects.
35.21.910 - Community athletics programs—Sex discrimination prohibited.
35.21.925 - Supplemental transportation improvements.
35.21.930 - Community assistance referral and education services program.
35.21.935 - Warrant officers—Training requirements—Authority.
35.21.940 - Failing septic systems—Connection to public sewer systems—Appeals process.
35.21.945 - Water storage asset management services—Procurement.
35.21.950 - Final determination on state highway project permits.
35.21.955 - Nuisance abatement—Special assessment—Notice requirements.
35.21.960 - Removal of restrictive covenants—Hearing, notice.
35.21.965 - Voluntary change to electoral system.
35.21.980 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.