Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 53.08 - Powers.
53.08.310 - Moorage facilities—Definitions.

RCW 53.08.310
Moorage facilities—Definitions.

Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this section, RCW 53.08.480, and 53.08.320.
(1) "Moorage facility" means any properties or facilities owned or operated by a moorage facility operator which are capable of use for the moorage or storage of vessels.
(2) "Moorage facility operator" means any port district, city, town, metropolitan park district, or county which owns and/or operates a moorage facility.
(3) "Owner" means every natural person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or organization, or agent thereof, with actual or apparent authority, who expressly or impliedly contracts for use of a moorage facility.
(4) "Port charges" mean charges of a moorage facility operator for moorage and storage, and all other charges owing or to become owing under a contract between a vessel owner and the moorage facility operator, or under an officially adopted tariff including, but not limited to, costs of sale and related legal expenses.
(5) "Transient vessel" means a vessel using a moorage facility and which belongs to an owner who does not have a moorage agreement with the moorage facility operator. Transient vessels include, but are not limited to: Vessels seeking a harbor of refuge, day use, or overnight use of a moorage facility on a space-as-available basis. Transient vessels may also include vessels taken into custody under RCW 79.100.040.
(6) "Vessel" means every species of watercraft or other artificial contrivance capable of being used as a means of transportation on water and which does not exceed two hundred feet in length. "Vessel" includes any trailer used for the transportation of watercraft.

[ 2014 c 195 § 205; 1986 c 260 § 1; 1983 c 188 § 1.]
NOTES:

Reviser's note: The definitions in this section have been alphabetized pursuant to RCW 1.08.015(2)(k).


Findings—Intent—2014 c 195: See notes following RCW 79.100.170 and 79.100.180.


Construction—Savings—1983 c 188: "Nothing contained in RCW 53.08.310 and 53.08.320 may be construed as a limitation of any rights, privileges, or remedies previously existing under any applicable laws of port districts, cities, towns, metropolitan park districts, or counties." [ 1983 c 188 § 3.]


Severability—1983 c 188: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 1983 c 188 § 5.]

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 53 - Port Districts

Chapter 53.08 - Powers.

53.08.005 - Definitions.

53.08.010 - Acquisition of property—Levy of assessments.

53.08.020 - Acquisition and operation of facilities.

53.08.030 - Operation of foreign trade zones.

53.08.040 - Improvement of lands for industrial and commercial purposes—Providing sewer and water utilities—Providing pollution control facilities.

53.08.041 - Pollution control facilities or other industrial development actions—Validation—Implementation of Article 8, section 8 of the Constitution.

53.08.043 - Powers relative to systems of sewerage.

53.08.045 - Facilities constructed under authority of chapter subject to taxation of leasehold interest.

53.08.047 - Chapter not to be construed as restricting or limiting powers of district under other laws.

53.08.049 - Community revitalization financing—Public improvements.

53.08.050 - Local improvement districts—Assessments—Bonds.

53.08.055 - Local improvement districts—Notice must contain statement that assessments may vary from estimates.

53.08.060 - Improvement of waters and waterways.

53.08.070 - Rates and charges—Government contracts.

53.08.080 - Lease of property—Authorized—Duration.

53.08.085 - Lease of property—Security for rent.

53.08.090 - Sale of property.

53.08.091 - Sale of property—Contract sales—Terms and conditions.

53.08.092 - Sale of property—Taxes and assessments against property sold by contract.

53.08.110 - Gifts—Improvement.

53.08.120 - Contracts for labor and material—Small works roster.

53.08.130 - Notice—Award of contract—Low bidder claiming error.

53.08.135 - Construction projects over forty thousand dollars—Contracting out.

53.08.140 - Leases or contracts without bond.

53.08.150 - Notices when no newspaper in county.

53.08.160 - Studies, investigations, surveys—Promotion of facilities.

53.08.170 - Employment—Wages—Benefits—Agents—Insurance for port district commissioners.

53.08.175 - Commissioners, officers, and employees—Reimbursement of expenses.

53.08.176 - Commissioners, officers, and employees—Regulation of expenses.

53.08.180 - Federal old age and survivors' insurance for employees.

53.08.190 - Federal old age and survivors' insurance for employees—Plan for extension of benefits.

53.08.200 - Federal old age and survivors' insurance for employees—Contributions.

53.08.205 - Liability insurance for officials and employees.

53.08.208 - Actions against officer, employee, or agent—Defense and costs provided by port district—Exception.

53.08.220 - Regulations authorized—Adoption as part of ordinance or resolution of city or county, procedure—Enforcement—Penalty for violation.

53.08.230 - Making motor vehicle and other police regulations applicable to district property—Filing plat with county auditor—Duty of law enforcement officers.

53.08.240 - Joint exercise of powers and joint acquisition of property—Contracts with other governmental entities.

53.08.245 - Economic development programs authorized—Job training and education.

53.08.255 - Tourism promotion and tourism-related facilities authorized.

53.08.260 - Park and recreation facilities.

53.08.270 - Park and recreation facilities—Approval of other agencies.

53.08.280 - Police officers—Appointment authorized—Jurisdiction.

53.08.290 - Intermodal movement of interstate and foreign cargo—Restrictions.

53.08.295 - Passenger-carrying vessels.

53.08.310 - Moorage facilities—Definitions.

53.08.320 - Moorage facilities—Rules authorized—Port charges, delinquency—Abandoned vessels, public sale.

53.08.330 - Streets, roads, and highways—Construction, upgrading, improvement, and repair authorized.

53.08.340 - Streets, roads, and highways—Expenditure of funds.

53.08.360 - Annexation of port district property—Transfer of employees engaged in firefighting.

53.08.370 - Telecommunications facilities—Construct, purchase, acquire, etc.—Purposes—Limitations—Eminent domain (as amended by 2021 c 293).

53.08.375 - Retail telecommunications services—Reporting requirements.

53.08.380 - Wholesale telecommunications services—Petition for review of rates, terms, conditions.

53.08.390 - Grays Harbor pilotage district—Conditions on pilotage service.

53.08.400 - District may exercise powers of community renewal agency.

53.08.410 - Abandoned or derelict vessels.

53.08.420 - Cooperative watershed management.

53.08.440 - Website for contract database—Requirements.

53.08.450 - Property outside jurisdiction—Future property development—Communication plan.

53.08.460 - Transfer of ownership of port district-owned vessel—Review of vessel's physical condition.

53.08.470 - Transfer of ownership of port district-owned vessel—Further requirements.

53.08.480 - Insurance requirements.