RCW 35.33.091
Emergency expenditures—Other emergencies—Hearing.
If a public emergency which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of filing the preliminary budget requires the expenditure of money not provided for in the annual budget, and if it is not one of the emergencies specifically enumerated in RCW 35.33.081, the city or town legislative body before allowing any expenditure therefor shall adopt an ordinance stating the facts constituting the emergency and the estimated amount required to meet it and declaring that an emergency exists.
Such ordinance shall not be voted on until five days have elapsed after its introduction, and for passage shall require the vote of one more than the majority of all members of the legislative body of the city or town.
Any taxpayer may appear at the meeting at which the emergency ordinance is to be voted on and be heard for or against the adoption thereof.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 95 § 12.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
35.33.020 - Applicability of chapter.
35.33.041 - Budget estimates—Classification and segregation.
35.33.051 - Budget—Preliminary.
35.33.055 - Budget—Preliminary—Filing—Copies.
35.33.057 - Budget message—Hearings.
35.33.061 - Budget—Notice of hearing on final.
35.33.071 - Budget—Final—Hearing.
35.33.075 - Budget—Final—Adoption—Appropriations.
35.33.081 - Emergency expenditures—Nondebatable emergencies.
35.33.091 - Emergency expenditures—Other emergencies—Hearing.
35.33.101 - Emergency warrants.
35.33.106 - Registered warrants—Payment.
35.33.107 - Adjustment of wages, hours, and conditions of employment.
35.33.111 - Forms—Accounting—Supervision by state.
35.33.121 - Funds—Limitations on expenditures—Transfers.
35.33.125 - Liabilities incurred in excess of budget.
35.33.131 - Funds received from sale of bonds and warrants—Expenditure program—Federal tax law.
35.33.135 - Revenue estimates—Amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes.
35.33.141 - Report of expenditures and liabilities against budget appropriations.
35.33.145 - Contingency fund—Creation—Purpose—Support—Lapse.
35.33.147 - Contingency fund—Withdrawals.