Subject to RCW 43.21A.068, with respect to such features as may affect flood conditions, the department shall have authority to examine, approve or reject designs and plans for any structure or works, public or private, to be erected or built or to be reconstructed or modified upon the banks or in or over the channel or over and across the floodway of any stream or body of water in this state.
RCW 86.16.025
Authority of department.
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 88 Wash. 2d 726 - Maple Leaf Investors, Inc. v. Department of Ecology (1977)
Most recently applied in Klineburger v. King County (August 2015)
1995 c 8 s 4; 1989 c 64 s 2; 1987 c 109 s 50; 1939 c 85 s 1; 1935 c 159 s 6; RRS s 9663A-6
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.