In addition to all other powers
granted to port districts, any such district may, with the
consent of the department of transportation, acquire by
condemnation, purchase, lease, or gift, and may construct,
reconstruct, maintain, operate, furnish, equip, improve, better,
add to, extend, and lease to others in whole or in part and sell
in whole or in part any one or more of the following port
projects, within or without or partially within and partially
without the corporate limits of the district whenever the
commission of the district determines that any one or more of
such projects are necessary for or convenient to the movement of
commercial freight and passenger traffic a part of which traffic
moves to, from, or through the territory of the district:
(1) Toll bridges;
(2) Tunnels under or upon the beds of any river, stream, or
other body of water, or through mountain ranges.
In connection with the acquisition or construction of any
one or more of such projects the port districts may, with the
consent of the state department of transportation, further
acquire or construct, maintain, operate, or improve limited or
unlimited access highway approaches of such length as the
commission of such district deems advisable to provide means of
interconnection of the facilities with public highways and of
ingress and egress to any such project, including plazas and toll
booths, and to construct and maintain under, along, over, or
across any such project telephone, telegraph, or electric
transmission wires and cables, fuel lines, gas transmission lines
or mains, water transmission lines or mains, and other mechanical
equipment not inconsistent with the appropriate use of the
project, all for the purpose of obtaining revenues for the
payment of the cost of the project.
Consistent with RCW 47.56.850, any toll, including any
change in an existing toll rate, proposed under this section must
first be reviewed and approved by the tolling authority
designated in RCW 47.56.850 if the toll, or change in toll rate,
would have a significant impact, as determined by the tolling
authority, on the operation of any state facility.
[2008 c 122 § 21; 1984 c 7 § 365; 1959 c 236 § 1.]
NOTES:
Severability -- 1984 c 7: See note following RCW 47.01.141.