RCW 47.01.031
Department created—Transfer of powers, duties, and functions.
(1) There is created a department of state government to be known as the department of transportation.
(2) All powers, duties, and functions vested by law in the department of highways, the state highway commission, the director of highways, the Washington toll bridge authority, the aeronautics commission, the director of aeronautics, and the canal commission, and the transportation related powers, duties, and functions of the *planning and community affairs agency, are transferred to the jurisdiction of the department, except those powers, duties, and functions which are expressly directed elsewhere in **this or in any other act of the 1977 legislature.
(3) The board of pilotage commissioners is transferred to the jurisdiction of the department for its staff support and administration: PROVIDED, That nothing in this section shall be construed as transferring any policy making powers of the board of pilotage commissioners to the transportation commission or the department of transportation.
[ 1988 c 167 § 11; 1977 ex.s. c 151 § 3.]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: *(1) The "planning and community affairs agency" has been renamed the "department of community, trade, and economic development." The "department of community, trade, and economic development" was renamed the "department of commerce" by 2009 c 565.
**(2) For codification of "this . . . . act" [1977 ex.s. c 151], see Codification Tables.
Savings—Severability—1988 c 167: See notes following RCW 47.26.121.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation
Chapter 47.01 - Department of Transportation.
47.01.011 - Legislative declaration.
47.01.031 - Department created—Transfer of powers, duties, and functions.
47.01.041 - Secretary of transportation—Appointment, salary, removal.
47.01.051 - Commission created—Appointment of members—Terms—Qualifications—Removal.
47.01.061 - Commission—Procedures and internal operations.
47.01.070 - Director's and commissioner's prior assignments may be delegated.
47.01.071 - Commission—Functions, powers, and duties.
47.01.075 - Transportation policy development.
47.01.078 - Transportation system policy goals—Duties.
47.01.081 - Department—Organization—Management personnel.
47.01.091 - Advisory councils.
47.01.101 - Secretary—Authority and duties.
47.01.131 - Continuation of state services to department.
47.01.180 - Roads and bridges in state parks.
47.01.190 - State aid engineer.
47.01.210 - Contract without bid or bond with public utilities and municipal corporations.
47.01.240 - Coordination of long-range needs studies.
47.01.250 - Consultation with designated state officials.
47.01.260 - Authority of department.
47.01.270 - Radioactive or hazardous cargo, notice of prohibition.
47.01.280 - Application for improvements to existing highways.
47.01.290 - Environmental review of transportation projects.
47.01.330 - Office of transit mobility.
47.01.340 - Local and regional transportation goals.
47.01.380 - State route No. 520 improvements—Exceptions.
47.01.408 - State route No. 520 improvements—Design requirements.
47.01.412 - State route No. 520 improvements—Tax deferrals—Definition.
47.01.415 - State route No. 520 improvements—Finance plan.
47.01.417 - State route No. 520 improvements—Finance plan—Revenue sources and savings recognition.
47.01.420 - Naming and renaming state transportation facilities.
47.01.425 - Jurisdictional transfers.
47.01.430 - Wounded combat veterans internship program.
47.01.435 - Highway construction workforce development—Reports.
47.01.460 - Adjustments to recreational vehicle fees.
47.01.470 - Transfer of ownership of department-owned vessel—Review of vessel's physical condition.
47.01.475 - Transfer of ownership of department-owned vessel—Further requirements.
47.01.490 - Reporting engineering errors on highway construction projects—Requirements.
47.01.495 - Construction program business plan—Requirements—Progress reports—Advisory group.
47.01.505 - Interstate 5 Columbia river bridge project—Joint legislative action committee.
47.01.510 - Autonomous vehicle executive and legislative work group.
47.01.515 - Environmental justice obligations of the department of transportation.