Wash. Supreme Court published opinion — 897239.pdf

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Of course, both federal law and state law apply at the Seattle-Tacoma
International Airport, as RCW 14.08.330 recognizes. I will discuss below the majority's
point about another state law, the Minimum Wage Act, RCW 49.46.120. Based on my
resolution under RCW 14.08.330, there is no need to consider whether applicable federal
law prohibits applying Proposition 1 at the airport.
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The majority contends that my reading renders superfluous RCW 14.08.330's
provision concerning police jurisdiction, license fees, and occupation taxes. Not so. The
city of SeaTac and the Port of Seattle agree that the term "'police jurisdiction"' in the
statute "is not synonymous with the police power. Rather, 'police jurisdiction' refers to a
municipality's authority to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction." Br. of Appellants City
of SeaTac and Kirstina Gregg, City of SeaTac Clerk at 10 & n.16; accord Br. ofResp't
Port of Seattle at 11. The purpose of the statute's provision that SeaTac "shall [not] have
any police jurisdiction" of the airport is to foreclose the city's otherwise colorable
argument that, although it does not have traditional police powers at the airport under
RCW 14.08.330's first sentence, it has extraterritorial "police jurisdiction" there. RCW
14.08.330. The fact that the legislature went out of its way to expressly reject this
argument reinforces the scope of the exclusive jurisdiction articulated in RCW
14.08.330's first sentence.

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Fila LLC,
Foods,
et al.
v. City of SeaTac, (Stephens,
et al., 89723-9 J. Dissent)

The statute contemplates that an airport will be owned and operated by one
municipality, though physically located in another municipality's territory. And