Washington Revised Code Title 47. Public Highways and Transportation § 47.87.070. Financing, refinancing, acquiring, assuming control--Eminent domain

(1) Finance, refinance, and acquire or otherwise assume control by purchase, lease, donation, or by other means such real and personal property, structures, property rights, franchises, easements, and other property interests, whether situated within the state of Washington or the bordering state, as the board may deem necessary or incidental to the purposes of the commission; and

(2) Exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire by condemnation any property, structures, property rights, franchises, easements, and other property interests situated within the state of Washington or the bordering state as the board deems necessary or incidental to the purposes of the commission, subject to the applicable laws described in RCW 47.87.130(1)(b). No property owned or held by any state or local government shall be taken by the commission without the prior consent of such state or local government.