§ 80.40.010 Definitions
§ 80.40.020 Declaration concerning the public interest
§ 80.40.030 Eminent domain
§ 80.40.040 Eminent domain — Application to oil and gas conservation committee prerequisite to eminent domain — Procedure
§ 80.40.050 Rights of company using storage — Rights of owners of condemned land and interests therein
§ 80.40.060 Leases by commissioner of public lands
§ 80.40.070 Leases by county commissioners
§ 80.40.900 Short title
§ 80.40.910 Chapter to be liberally construed
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Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 80.40 - Underground natural gas storage act

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Commission: shall mean the Washington utilities and transportation commission;
Washington Code 80.40.010
  • Commissioner: means one of the members of such commission. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Committee: shall mean the oil and gas conservation committee established by *RCW 78. See Washington Code 80.40.010
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: means the department of health. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Facilities: means lines, conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, cross-arms, receivers, transmitters, instruments, machines, appliances, instrumentalities and all devices, real estate, easements, apparatus, property and routes used, operated, owned or controlled by any telecommunications company to facilitate the provision of telecommunications service. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Gas company: includes every corporation, company, association, joint stock association, partnership and person, their lessees, trustees or receiver appointed by any court whatsoever, and every city or town, owning, controlling, operating or managing any gas plant within this state. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Natural gas: shall mean gas either in the earth in its original state or after the same has been produced by removal therefrom of component parts not essential to its use for light and fuel;
    • Washington Code 80.40.010
  • Natural gas company: shall mean every corporation, company, association, joint stock association, partnership or person authorized to do business in this state and engaged in the transportation, distribution, or underground storage of natural gas;
    • Washington Code 80.40.010
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: includes an individual, a firm or partnership. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Underground reservoir: shall mean any subsurface sand, strata, formation, aquifer, cavern or void whether natural or artificially created, suitable for the injection and storage of natural gas therein and the withdrawal of natural gas therefrom;
    • Washington Code 80.40.010
  • Underground storage: shall mean the process of injecting and storing natural gas within and withdrawing natural gas from an underground reservoir: PROVIDED, The withdrawal of gas from an underground reservoir shall not be deemed a taking or producing within the terms of RCW 82. See Washington Code 80.40.010