No city or town may change the rate of tax it imposes on the privilege of conducting an electrical energy, natural gas, or telephone business which change applies to business activities occurring before the effective date of the change, and no rate change may take effect before the expiration of sixty days following the enactment of the ordinance establishing the change except as provided in RCW 35.21.870.
RCW 35.21.865
Electricity, telephone, or natural gas business—Limitations on tax rate changes.
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Burns v. City of Seattle (2007)
Most recently applied in Burns v. City of Seattle (August 2007)
1983 c 99 s 4; 1982 1st ex.s. c 49 s 3.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.