RCW 35A.33.090
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 35A.33.080, the city council 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 code city.
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.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.090.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 35A - Optional Municipal Code
Chapter 35A.33 - Budgets in Code Cities.
35A.33.020 - Applicability of chapter.
35A.33.030 - Budget estimates.
35A.33.040 - Classification and segregation of budget estimates.
35A.33.050 - Proposed preliminary budget.
35A.33.052 - Preliminary budget.
35A.33.055 - Budget message—Preliminary hearings.
35A.33.060 - Budget—Notice of hearing on final.
35A.33.080 - Emergency expenditures—Nondebatable emergencies.
35A.33.090 - Emergency expenditures—Other emergencies—Hearing.
35A.33.100 - Emergency expenditures—Warrants—Payments.
35A.33.102 - Registered warrants—Appropriations.
35A.33.105 - Adjustment of wages, etc., of employees permissible budget notwithstanding.
35A.33.110 - Forms—Accounting—Supervision by state.
35A.33.120 - Funds—Limitations on expenditures—Transfers and adjustments.
35A.33.125 - Limitation on expenditures—Void.
35A.33.130 - Funds received from sales of bonds and warrants—Expenditures program—Federal tax law.
35A.33.135 - Levy for ad valorem tax.
35A.33.140 - Funds—Quarterly report of status.
35A.33.145 - Contingency fund—Creation.
35A.33.146 - Contingency fund—Withdrawals.