Chapter 36.75 RCW
ROADS AND BRIDGES -- GENERAL PROVISIONS

RCW SECTIONS

36.75.010Definitions.
36.75.020County roads -- County legislative authority as agent of state -- Standards.
36.75.030State and county cooperation.
36.75.035County may fund improvements to state highways.
36.75.040Powers of county commissioners.
36.75.050Powers -- How exercised.
36.75.060County road districts.
36.75.065Community revitalization financing -- Public improvements.
36.75.070Highways worked seven years are county roads.
36.75.080Highways used ten years are county roads.
36.75.090Abandoned state highways.
36.75.100Informalities not fatal.
36.75.110True locations to be determined -- Survey.
36.75.120Action to determine true location.
36.75.130Approaches to county roads--Rules regarding construction -- Penalty.
36.75.160Power of county commissioners as to roads, bridges, and other structures crossing boundary lines.
36.75.170Power of county commissioners as to roads, bridges, and other structures crossing boundary lines -- Resolution to acquire or construct.
36.75.180Power of county commissioners as to roads, bridges, and other structures crossing boundary lines -- Freeholders' petition to acquire or construct.
36.75.190Engineer's report -- Hearing -- Order.
36.75.200Bridges on city or town streets.
36.75.203Responsibility of city to maintain county road forming a municipal boundary.
36.75.205Street as extension of road in town of less than one thousand.
36.75.207Agreements for planning, establishment, construction, and maintenance of city streets by counties -- Use of county road fund -- Payment by city -- Contracts, bids.
36.75.210Roads crossing boundaries.
36.75.220Connecting road across segment of third county.
36.75.230Acquisition of land under RCW 36.75.210 and 36.75.220.
36.75.240Sidewalks and pedestrian paths or walks -- Bicycle paths, lanes, routes, and roadways -- Standards.
36.75.243Curb ramps for persons with physical disabilities.
36.75.250State may intervene if maintenance neglected.
36.75.255Street improvements -- Provision of supplies or materials.
36.75.260Annual report to secretary of transportation.
36.75.270Limitation of type or weight of vehicles authorized -- Penalty.
36.75.280Centralized repair and storage of machinery, equipment, supplies, etc.
36.75.290General penalty.
36.75.300Primitive roads -- Classification and designation.

NOTES:

Bridges across navigable waters: Chapter 88.28 RCW.

Cities and towns
   annexation of unincorporated areas, disposition of road district taxes: RCW 35.13.270.
   disincorporation, effect on streets: RCW 35.07.110.
   incorporation, disposition of uncollected road district taxes: RCW 35.02.140.

Classification of highways, county roads: RCW 47.04.020.

Contracts for street, road, and highway projects: Chapter 35.72 RCW.

County roads
   construction or maintenance of, cooperative agreements, prevention or minimization of flood damages: RCW 47.28.140.
   defined for highway purposes: RCW 47.04.010(9).
   defined for motor vehicle purposes: RCW 46.04.150.
   designation as arterial: RCW 46.61.195.
   federal funds for, state to match: RCW 47.08.020.
   federal grants to, department of transportation to administer: RCW 47.04.060, 47.04.070.
   may be selected as state highway route: RCW 47.28.010.
   projects by department of transportation, funds set aside: RCW 47.08.080.
   state participation in building: RCW 47.04.080.
   title to rights-of-way vested in state: RCW 47.04.040.

Department of transportation and transportation improvement board to coordinate long range needs studies: RCW 47.01.240.

Destroying native flora near county roads unlawful: RCW 47.40.080.

Dikes along public road, diking districts by: RCW 85.05.250.

Diking, drainage, and sewerage improvement districts
   benefits to roads, costs: RCW 85.08.370.
   crossing roads, procedure: RCW 85.08.340.

Diking, drainage district benefits to roads, how paid: RCW 85.07.040, 85.07.050.

Diking and drainage intercounty districts, counties to contribute for benefits to roads and bridges by: RCW 85.24.240.

Drainage ditches along roads by drainage improvement district: RCW 85.08.385.

Flood control districts (1937 act), crossing county roads, procedure: RCW 86.09.229.

Glass bottles thrown along county roads, collection and removal: RCW 47.40.090.

Highway advertising control act
   county information signs allowed under: RCW 47.42.050.
   not to supersede county ordinance: RCW 47.42.070.

Labor on, maximum hours of prescribed: Chapter 49.28 RCW.

Limited access facilities: Chapter 47.52 RCW.

Local adopt-a-highway programs: RCW 47.40.105.

Motor vehicles, maximum weight, size, speed in traversing bridges, tunnels, etc.: RCW 46.61.450.

Public lands
   rights-of-way over for county bridges, trestles, across waterways, tide or shore lands: RCW 79.110.120.
   rights-of-way over for roads, county wharves: RCW 79.36.440.
   sale of road materials on to counties: RCW 79.15.320.

Public works contracts, reserve from amount due contractors to cover lien for labor, material or taxes: Chapter 60.28 RCW.

Railroad grade crossings, county participation in grant, duty to maintain: Chapter 81.53 RCW.

Reclamation districts of one million acres benefit to public roads, procedure: RCW 89.30.181.

Right to back and hold waters over county roads: RCW 90.28.010, 90.28.020.

Speeds, maximums on county roads: RCW 46.61.415.

State cooperation in building roads, bridges, etc.: RCW 47.04.080.

Street railways, may cross public road: RCW 81.64.030.

Telecommunications companies, use of county roads, how: RCW 80.36.040.

Title to rights-of-way in county roads vested in state: RCW 47.04.040.

Toll bridges
   ferry crossings not to infringe existing franchises: RCW 47.60.120.
   state given right-of-way through county roads: RCW 47.56.100.

Toll roads, bridges, and ferries of state, sale or lease of unneeded property to county: RCW 47.56.253.