STATE LAND LAWS 

 SEC. 310 TIDE LANDS AND HARBOR AREAS. 



A city of the first class has power to construct and maintain public landing 

 places and other conveniences of navigation and commerce in streets extending 

 over tide lands and harbor areas : idem. 



A charter provision authorizing a city to sell, dispose of or rent "water 

 front" does not confer power to lease tide lands or harbor area of which it 

 has control only as a public street : State ex rel. Port Angeles v. Morse, 56 Wash. 

 654. 



Except as to tide lands owned by cities or included within streets, terri- 

 torial statutes providing that cities might authorize the construction of 

 wharves at street termini have been superseded by the constitution and laws 

 providing for the sale, lease and control of tide lands and harbor areas : idem. 



A city may extend streets over tide lands and harbor areas beyond its cor- 

 porate limits : Tacoma v. Titlow, 53 Wash. 217. 



Where a particular tract of tide land has been platted and appraised by the 

 board of tide land appraisers as other tracts were platted and appraised and is 

 not marked as a street nor contains any intrinsic evidence of an intent on the 

 part of the board to lay it out as a street, the evidence of members of the board 

 is inadmissible for the purpose of explaining and contradicting the plat : Ilwaco 

 v. Ilwaco Ry. & Nav. Co., 17 W T ash. 652. 



The state land commissioners appointed under the public lands act of March 

 26, 1895, had no authority to review the action of local boards of tide land ap- 

 praisers in the location of streets upon tide lands, which acts had been subse- 

 quently confirmed by legislation : Seattle v. Forrest, 14 Wash. 423. 



Streets laid out over tide lands by the board of tide land appraisers without 

 authority under Laws 1890, p. 431, were validated and declared public highways 

 by Laws 1895, p. 550 : West Seattle v. West Seattle Land Co., 38 Wash. 359. 



Under Laws 1889-90, p. 432, sec. 5, it was held that the county board of ap- 

 praisers therein provided for could not lawfully organize to survey and appraise 

 tide lands until harbor lines had been established : State v. Sharpstein, 4 Wash. 

 68. 



The right of cities to extend streets over tide lands is not confined to those 

 of the first class, but applies to all incorporated cities : State ex rel. Bartlett v. 

 Forrest, 12 Wash. 483. 



Where a street platted upon tide land has been dedicated to the public and 

 subsequently extended by ordinance over adjacent tide lands and recognized as a 

 street by the refusal of the state to appraise same for that reason, it must be 

 held as a valid street, notwithstanding it is not an extension of an upland 

 street: State ex rel. Bartlett v. Forrest, 12 Wash. 483. 



The right of a city to extend streets over tide lands is superior to improver's 

 right : ColumMa & P. S. Ry. v. Seattle, 6 Wash. 332 ; Globe Mill Co. v. Belling- 

 ham Bay Imp. Co., 10 Wash. 458. 



One who purchases tide or shore lands under preference rights takes the fee 

 of the abutting streets : Bussell v. Ross, 64 Wash. 418. 



SEC. 310. EXTENSION OF STREETS; FIRST CLASS CITIES. 



Any city [of the first class] shall have power (37) to project 

 or extend its streets over and across any tidelands within its 

 corporate limits, and along or across the harbor areas of such 

 city in such manner as will best promote the interests of com- 

 merce. (Laws '90, p. 218, sec. 5 ; sec. 7507 Rem.-Bal. ; 77 sec. 



83 Pierce.) 



Streets over vacated waterways: sec. 283, ante. 



Bridges over waterways: sees. 243-244, ante. 



See notes to sec. 309, ante, and Const., Art. XV, sec. 3, ante. 



