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54.24.040 | Considerations in creating special fund—Status of claims against fund—When lien attaches. | In creating any special fund for the payment of revenue obligations, the commission shall have due regard to the cost of operation and maintenance of the plant or system constructed or added to, and to any proportion or amount of the revenues previously pledged as a fund for the payment of revenue obligations, and shal... |
54.24.050 | Covenants to secure owners of revenue obligations. | Any resolution creating any such special fund or authorizing the issue of revenue obligations payable therefrom, or by such alternate method of payment as may be provided therein, shall specify the title of such revenue obligations as determined by the commission and may contain covenants by the district to protect and... |
54.24.060 | Sale, delivery of revenue obligations. | (1) Such utility revenue obligations shall be sold and delivered in such manner, at such rate or rates of interest and for such price or prices and at such time or times as the commission shall deem for the best interests of the district. The commission may, if it deem it to the best interest of the district, provide i... |
54.24.070 | Prima facie validity of revenue obligations. | The state auditor need not register, certify, nor sign revenue obligations after July 26, 1981. These obligations shall be held in every action, suit, or proceeding in which their validity is or may be brought into question prima facie valid and binding obligations of the districts in accordance with their terms, notwi... |
54.24.080 | Rates and charges—Waiver of connection charges for low-income persons. | (1) The commission of each district which shall have revenue obligations outstanding shall have the power and shall be required to establish, maintain, and collect rates or charges for electric energy and water and other services, facilities, and commodities sold, furnished, or supplied by the district. The rates and c... |
54.24.090 | Funding, refunding revenue obligations. | Whenever any district shall have outstanding any utility revenue obligations, the commission shall have power by resolution to provide for the issuance of funding or refunding revenue obligations with which to take up and refund such outstanding revenue obligations or any part thereof at the maturity thereof or before ... |
54.24.100 | Execution of revenue obligations—Signatures. | (1) All revenue obligations, including funding and refunding revenue obligations, shall be executed in such manner as the commission may determine: PROVIDED, That warrants may be signed as provided in RCW 54.24.010 . Any interest coupons attached to any revenue obligations may be executed with facsimile or lithographed... |
54.24.110 | Laws and resolutions as contract. | The provisions of chapter 182, Laws of 1941 and the provisions of chapter 1, Laws of 1931, not hereby superseded, and of any resolution or resolutions providing for the issuance of any revenue obligations as herein set forth shall constitute a contract with the holder or holders of such revenue obligations and the agre... |
54.24.120 | Obligations as lawful securities and investments. | All bonds, warrants, and revenue obligations issued under the authority of chapter 1, Laws of 1931 and chapter 182, Laws of 1941 shall be legal securities, which may be used by any bank or trust company for deposit with the state treasurer, or any county, city, or town treasurer, as security for deposits in lieu of a s... |
54.24.200 | Local improvement guaranty fund. | Every public utility district in the state is hereby authorized, by resolution, to create a fund for the purpose of guaranteeing, to the extent of such fund, and in the manner hereinafter provided, the payment of such of its local improvement bonds and/or warrants as the commission may determine issued to pay for any l... |
54.24.210 | Local improvement guaranty fund—Duties of the district. | To comply with the requirements of setting aside and paying into the local improvement guaranty fund a proportion of the monthly gross revenues of the public utilities of a district, for which guaranteed local improvement bonds and/or warrants have been issued and are outstanding, the district shall bind and obligate i... |
54.24.220 | Local improvement guaranty fund—Warrants to meet liabilities. | When a bond, warrant, or any coupon or interest payment guaranteed by the guaranty fund matures and there are not sufficient funds in the local utility district bond redemption fund to pay it, the county treasurer shall pay it from the local improvement guaranty fund of the public utility district; if there are not suf... |
54.24.230 | Local improvement guaranty fund—Certificates of delinquency—Contents, purchase, payment, issuance, sale. | Within twenty days after the date of delinquency of any annual installment of assessments levied for the purpose of paying the local improvement bonds and/or warrants of a district guaranteed hereunder, the county treasurer shall compile a statement of all installments delinquent together with the amount of accrued int... |
54.24.240 | Local improvement guaranty fund—Certificates of delinquency—Redemption, foreclosure. | The certificates of delinquency may be redeemed by the owner of the property assessed at any time up to two years from the date of foreclosure of the certificate. If a certificate is not redeemed on the second occurring first day of January, after its issuance, the county treasurer shall foreclose the certificate in th... |
54.24.250 | Local improvement guaranty fund—Subrogation of district as trustee of fund, effect on fund, disposition of proceeds. | When there is paid out of a guaranty fund any sum on the principal or interest upon local improvement bonds, and/or warrants, or on the purchase of certificates of delinquency, the public utility district, as trustee, for the fund, shall be subrogated to all rights of the owner of the bonds, and/or warrants, any intere... |
54.24.260 | Local improvement guaranty fund—Rights and remedies of bond or warrant holder which shall be printed on bond or warrant—Disposition of balance of fund. | Neither the holder nor the owner of local improvement bonds and/or warrants guaranteed hereunder shall have a claim therefor against the public utility district, except for payment from the special assessment made for the improvement for which the bonds and/or warrants were issued, and except as against the guaranty fu... |
54.28.010 | Definitions. | As used in this chapter: (1) "Operating property" means all of the property utilized by a public utility district in the operation of a plant or system for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy for sale; (2) "Taxing districts" means counties, cities, towns, school districts, and road district... |
54.28.011 | "Gross revenue" defined. | "Gross revenue" means the amount received from the sale of electric energy, which also includes any regularly recurring charge billed to consumers as a condition of receiving electric energy, and excluding any tax levied by a municipal corporation upon the district pursuant to RCW 54.28.070 .
[ 2010 1st sp.s. c 23 s 10... |
54.28.020 | Tax imposed—Rates—Additional tax imposed. | (1) There is hereby levied and there shall be collected from every district a tax for the act or privilege of engaging within this state in the business of operating works, plants or facilities for the generation, distribution and sale of electric energy. With respect to each such district, except with respect to therm... |
54.28.025 | Tax imposed with respect to thermal electric generating facilities—Rate—Additional tax imposed. | (1) There is hereby levied and there shall be collected from every district operating a thermal electric generating facility, as defined in RCW 54.28.010 as now or hereafter amended, having a design capacity of two hundred fifty thousand kilowatts or more, located on a federal reservation, which is placed in operation ... |
54.28.040 | Tax computed—Payment—Penalties—Disposition. | (1) Before May 1st of each calendar year through calendar year 2018, the department of revenue must compute the tax imposed by this chapter for the last preceding calendar year and notify the district of the amount thereof, which shall be payable on or before the following June 1st. (2) For tax reporting periods beginn... |
54.28.050 | Distribution of tax. | (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the department of revenue must instruct the state treasurer, after placing thirty-seven and six-tenths percent of the taxes collected under RCW 54.28.020 (1) in the state general fund to be dedicated for the benefit of the public schools, to distribute the balan... |
54.28.055 | Distribution of tax proceeds from thermal electric generating facilities. | (1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, the department of revenue must instruct the state treasurer to distribute the amount collected under RCW 54.28.025 (1) as follows: (a) Fifty percent to the state general fund for the support of schools; and (b) Twenty-two percent to the counties, twenty-three pe... |
54.28.060 | Interest. | Interest at the rate as computed under RCW 82.32.050 (2) shall be added to the tax hereby imposed from the due date until the date of payment. The tax shall constitute a debt to the state and may be collected as such.
[ 1996 c 149 s 12 ; 1957 c 278 s 6 . Prior: 1949 c 227 s 1(e); 1947 c 259 s 1(e); 1941 c 245 s 2(e); R... |
54.28.070 | Municipal taxes—May be passed on. | Any city or town in which a public utility district operates works, plants or facilities for the distribution and sale of electricity shall have the power to levy and collect from such district a tax on the gross revenues derived by such district from the sale of electricity within the city or town, exclusive of the re... |
54.28.080 | Additional tax for payment on bonded indebtedness of school districts. | Whenever any district acquires an operating property from any private person, firm, or corporation and a portion of the operating property is situated within the boundaries of any school district and at the time of such acquisition there is an outstanding bonded indebtedness of the school district, then the public util... |
54.28.090 | Deposit of funds to credit of certain taxing districts—Retention and distribution of tax proceeds for county with district owned by another county. | (1) The county legislative authority of each county must direct the county treasurer to deposit funds to the credit of each taxing district in the county, other than school districts, according to the manner they deem most equitable; except not less than an amount equal to three-fourths of one percent of the gross reve... |
54.28.100 | Use of moneys received by taxing district. | All moneys received by any taxing district shall be used for purposes for which state taxes may be used under the provisions of the state constitution.
[ 1957 c 278 s 11 .]
Revenue and taxation: State Constitution Art. 7. |
54.28.110 | Voluntary payments by district to taxing entity for removal of property from tax rolls. | Whenever, hereafter, property is removed from the tax rolls as a result of the acquisition of operating property or the construction of a generating plant by a public utility district, such public utility district may make voluntary payments to any municipal corporation or other entity authorized to levy and collect ta... |
54.28.120 | Amount of tax if district acquires electric utility property from public service company. | In the event any district hereafter purchases or otherwise acquires electric utility properties comprising all or a portion of an electric generation and/or distribution system from a public service company, as defined in RCW 80.04.010 , the total amount of privilege taxes imposed under chapter 278, Laws of 1957 to be ... |
54.28.125 | Public utility district privilege tax—Tools for administration. | (1) The following provisions of chapter 82.32 RCW apply with respect to the state taxes administered by the department of revenue under this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: RCW 82.32.050 , 82.32.060 , 82.32.070 , 82.32.080 , 82.32.085 , 82.32.090 , 82.32.100 , 82.32.105 , 82.32.110 , 82.32.117 ,... |
54.28.140 | Tax preferences—Expiration dates. | (1) See RCW 82.32.805 for the expiration date of new tax preferences for the tax imposed under this chapter. (2) See RCW 82.32.808 for reporting requirements for any new tax preference for the tax imposed under this chapter.
[ 2013 2nd sp.s. c 13 s 1722 .]
Effective date — 2013 2nd sp.s. c 13: See note following RCW 82... |
54.32.001 | Actions subject to review by boundary review board. | Actions taken under chapter 54.32 RCW may be subject to potential review by a boundary review board under chapter 36.93 RCW.
[ 1989 c 84 s 49 .] |
54.32.010 | Consolidation of districts—Property taxed—Boundaries enlarged. | Two or more contiguous public utility districts may become consolidated into one public utility district after proceedings had as required by *sections 8909, 8910 and 8911, of Remington's Compiled Statutes of Washington, PROVIDED, That a ten percent petition shall be sufficient; and public utility districts shall be he... |
54.32.040 | Right of countywide utility district to acquire distribution properties. | Upon the formation of a countywide public utility district in any county such district shall have the right, in addition to any other right provided by law, to acquire by purchase or condemnation any electrical distribution properties in the county from any other public utility district or combination of public utility... |
54.36.010 | Definitions. | As used in this chapter: "Public utility district" means public utility district or districts or a joint operating agency or agencies. "Construction project" means the construction of generating facilities by a public utility district. It includes the relocation of highways and railroads, by whomever done, to the exten... |
54.36.020 | Increased financial burden on school district—Determination of number of construction pupils. | When as the result of a public utility district construction project a school district considers it is suffering an increased financial burden in any year during the construction project, it shall determine the number of construction pupils enrolled in the school district on the first of May of such year.
[ 1957 c 137 ... |
54.36.030 | Compensation of school district for construction pupils—Computation. | If the subsequent-year enrollment exceeds one hundred and three percent of the base-year enrollment, the public utility district shall compensate the school district for a number of construction pupils computed as follows: (1) If the subsequent-year enrollment of nonconstruction pupils is less than the base-year enroll... |
54.36.040 | Compensation of school district for construction pupils—Amount to be paid. | The compensation to be paid per construction pupils as computed in RCW 54.36.030 shall be one-third of the average per-pupil cost of the local school district, for the school year then current.
[ 1957 c 137 s 4 .] |
54.36.050 | Compensation of school district for construction pupils—How paid when more than one project in the same school district. | If more than one public utility district or joint operating agency is carrying on a construction project in the same school district, the number of construction pupils for whom the school district is to receive compensation shall be computed as if the projects were constructed by a single agency. The public utility dis... |
54.36.060 | Power to make voluntary payments to school district for capital construction. | Public utility districts are hereby authorized to make voluntary payments to a school district for capital construction if their construction projects cause an increased financial burden for such purpose on the school district.
[ 1957 c 137 s 6 .] |
54.36.070 | Increased financial burden on county or other taxing district—Power to make payments. | Public utilities are hereby authorized to make payments to a county or other taxing district in existence before the commencement of construction on the construction project which suffers an increased financial burden because of their construction projects, but such amount shall not be more than the amount by which the... |
54.36.080 | Funds received by school district—Equalization apportionment. | The funds paid by a public utility district to a school district under the provisions of this chapter shall not be considered a school district receipt by the superintendent of public instruction in determining equalization apportionments under *RCW 28.41.080 .
[ 1957 c 137 s 8 .]
*Reviser's note: RCW 28.41.080 was rep... |
54.40.010 | Five commissioner districts—Requirements. | A five commissioner public utility district is a district that (1) either: (a) Has or had a license from the federal power commission to construct a hydroelectric project of an estimated cost of more than two hundred and fifty million dollars, including interest during construction; or (b) has a population of five hund... |
54.40.020 | Existing districts—Qualifications—Voters' approval. | Every public utility district which on September 21, 1977, shall be in existence and have such a license shall be qualified to become a five commissioner district upon approval of the voters of said district, and every public utility district which on September 21, 1977, shall have become a first-class district as prev... |
54.40.030 | Transmittal of copies of federal hydroelectric license to county auditor. | Within five days after a public utility district shall receive a license from the federal power commission to construct a hydroelectric project of an estimated cost of more than two hundred and fifty million dollars, including interest during construction, or, in the case of a district which on September 21, 1977, is i... |
54.40.040 | Criteria, election to reclassify as a five commissioner district—Ballot form—Vote required. | A public utility district that has or had a license from the federal power commission to construct a hydroelectric project of an estimated cost of more than two hundred fifty million dollars, including interest during construction, or has a population of five hundred thousand or more, shall be classified as a five comm... |
54.40.050 | Petition for reclassification—Certificate of sufficiency—Election. | The question of reclassification of a public utility district that has or had a license from the federal power commission to construct a hydroelectric project of an estimated cost of more than two hundred fifty million dollars, including interest during construction, or has a population of five hundred thousand or more... |
54.40.060 | Division of district. | If the reclassification to a five commissioner district is approved by the voters, the public utility district commission within sixty days after the results of said election are certified shall divide the public utility district into two districts of as nearly equal population as possible, and shall designate the dist... |
54.40.070 | Special election for commissioners from districts—Terms. | Within thirty days after the public utility district commission divides the district into District A and District B, the county legislative authority shall call a special election, to be held at the next special election date provided for under RCW 29A.04.321 that occurs sixty or more days after the call, at which time... |
54.44.010 | Declaration of public purpose. | It is declared to be in the public interest and for a public purpose that cities of the first class, public utility districts, joint operating agencies organized under chapter 43.52 RCW, regulated electrical companies and, rural electrical cooperatives including generation and transmission cooperatives be permitted to ... |
54.44.020 | Authority to participate in and enter into agreements—Percentage of ownership—Expenses—Taxes—Payments. | (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, cities of the first class, public utility districts organized under chapter 54.08 RCW, which operate electric generating facilities or distribution systems, and any joint operating agency organized under chapter 43.52 RCW shall have power and authority to partic... |
54.44.030 | Liability of city, joint operating agency, or public utility district—Extent—Limitations. | In carrying out the powers granted in this chapter, each such city, public utility district, or joint operating agency shall be severally liable only for its own acts and not jointly or severally liable for the acts, omissions or obligations of others. No money or property supplied by any such city, public utility dist... |
54.44.040 | Authority to provide money and/or property, issue revenue bonds—Declaration of public purpose. | Any such city, public utility district, or joint operating agency participating in common facilities under this chapter, without an election, may furnish money and provide property, both real and personal, issue and sell revenue bonds pledging revenues of its electric system and its interest or share of the revenues de... |
54.44.050 | Depositories—Disbursement of funds. | All moneys belonging to cities, public utility districts, and joint operating agencies in connection with common facilities shall be deposited in such depositories as qualify for the deposit of public funds and shall be accounted for and disbursed in accordance with applicable law.
[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 7 s 5 ; 1967 c 159... |
54.44.060 | Agreements to conform to applicable laws. | Any agreement with respect to work to be done or material furnished by any such city, public utility district, or joint operating agency in connection with the construction, maintenance and operation of the common facilities, and any additions and betterments thereto shall be in conformity, as near as may be, with appl... |
54.44.900 | Liberal construction—Not to affect existing acts. | The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes thereof. This chapter shall not be construed to affect any existing act or part thereof relating to the construction, operation or maintenance of any public utility.
[ 1967 c 159 s 7 .] |
54.48.010 | Definitions. | When used in this chapter: (1) "Public utility" means any privately owned public utility company engaged in rendering electric service to the public for hire, any public utility district engaged in rendering service to residential customers and any city or town engaged in the electric business. (2) "Cooperative" means ... |
54.48.020 | Legislative declaration of policy. | The legislature hereby declares that the duplication of the electric lines and service of public utilities and cooperatives is uneconomical, may create unnecessary hazards to the public safety, discourages investment in permanent underground facilities, and is unattractive, and thus is contrary to the public interest a... |
54.48.030 | Agreements between public utilities and cooperatives authorized—Boundaries—Extension procedures—Purchase or sale—Approval. | In aid of the foregoing declaration of policy, any public utility and any cooperative is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with any one or more other public utility or one or more other cooperative for the designation of the boundaries of adjoining service areas which each such public utility or each such coop... |
54.48.040 | Cooperatives not to be classified as public utilities or under authority of utilities and transportation commission. | Nothing herein shall be construed to classify a cooperative having authority to engage in the electric business as a public utility or to include cooperatives under the authority of the Washington utilities and transportation commission.
[ 1969 c 102 s 4 .] |
54.52.010 | Voluntary contributions to assist low-income residential customers—Administration. | (1) A public utility district may include along with, or as part of, its regular customer billings a request for voluntary contributions to assist qualified low-income residential customers of the district in paying their electricity bills. All funds received by the district in response to such requests shall be (a) tr... |
54.52.020 | Disbursal of contributions—Quarterly report. | All assistance provided under this chapter shall be disbursed by the grantee, charitable organization, or district. When applicable, the public utility district will be paid on behalf of the customer by the grantee or the charitable organization. When direct vendor payment is not feasible, a check will be issued jointl... |
54.52.030 | Contributions not considered commingling of funds. | Contributions received under a program implemented by a public utility district in compliance with this chapter shall not be considered a commingling of funds.
[ 1984 c 59 s 3 .] |
55.04.050 | Dissolution. | See port districts, chapter 53.48 RCW. |
55.04.060 | Disincorporation of district located in county with a population of two hundred ten thousand or more and inactive for five years. | See chapter 57.90 RCW. |
57.02.001 | Reclassification of water and sewer districts—Previous actions valid. | Every sewer district and every water district previously created shall be reclassified and shall become a water-sewer district, and shall be known as the ". . . . . Water-Sewer District," or "Water-Sewer District No. . . . ." or shall continue to be known as a "sewer district" or a "water district," with the existing n... |
57.02.010 | Petition signatures of property owners—Rules governing. | Wherever in this title petitions are required to be signed by the owners of property, the following rules shall govern the sufficiency of the petitions: (1) The signature of a record owner, as determined by the records of the county auditor of the county in which the real property is located, shall be sufficient withou... |
57.02.015 | Board of commissioners may notify property owners about petitions—Review of petitions—Information. | The board of commissioners of a district may notify the owner or reputed owner of any tract, parcel of land, or other property located within the area included in a petition being circulated for a local improvement district or utility local improvement district under chapter 57.16 RCW, an annexation under chapter 57.24... |
57.02.030 | Title to be liberally construed. | The rule of strict construction shall not apply to this title, which shall be liberally construed to carry out its purposes and objects.
[ 1996 c 230 s 104 ; 1959 c 108 s 19 .]
Part headings not law — Effective date — 1996 c 230: See notes following RCW 57.02.001 . |
57.02.040 | Water-sewer district activities to be approved—Criteria for approval by county legislative authority. | (1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the following proposed actions shall be approved as provided for in RCW 57.02.045 : (a) Formation or reorganization under chapter 57.04 RCW; (b) Annexation of territory under chapter 57.24 RCW; (c) Withdrawal of territory under chapter 57.28 RCW; (d) Transfer of... |
57.02.045 | Approval by county legislative authority final, when—Boundary review board approval. | In any county where a boundary review board, as provided in chapter 36.93 RCW, is not established, the approval of the proposed action shall be by the county legislative authority pursuant to RCW 57.02.040 and shall be final, and the procedures required to adopt such proposed action shall be followed as provided by law... |
57.02.050 | Multicounty districts—Delegation of duties—Exceptions. | Whenever the boundaries or proposed boundaries of a district include or are proposed to include by means of formation, annexation, transfer, withdrawal, consolidation, or merger, territory in more than one county: (1) All duties delegated by this title to officers of the county in which the district is located shall be... |
57.02.070 | Ratification of actions for the formation, annexation, consolidation, or merger of water districts prior to July 10, 1982. | All actions taken in regard to the formation, annexation, consolidation, or merger of water districts taken prior to July 10, 1982, but consistent with this title, as amended, are hereby approved and ratified and shall be legal for all purposes.
[ 1982 1st ex.s. c 17 s 7 .] |
57.02.080 | Water-sewer districts desiring to merge into irrigation districts—Procedure. | The procedures and provisions of RCW 85.08.830 through 85.08.890 , which are applicable to drainage improvement districts, joint drainage improvement districts, or consolidated drainage improvement districts that desire to merge into irrigation districts, shall also apply to districts organized, or reorganized, under t... |
57.02.090 | Elections. | Elections in a district shall be conducted under general election laws.
[ 1996 c 230 s 109 .]
Part headings not law — Effective date — 1996 c 230: See notes following RCW 57.02.001 . |
57.02.100 | Single-family homes and townhouses—Multipurpose fire sprinkler systems. | (1) A water-sewer district may not prohibit the use of multipurpose fire sprinkler systems that are part of a structure's plumbing system for single-family homes and townhouses as defined by the state residential building code or require a separate water meter or backflow preventer for the multipurpose fire sprinkler s... |
57.04.001 | Actions subject to review by boundary review board. | Actions taken under this chapter may be subject to potential review by a boundary review board under chapter 36.93 RCW.
[ 1996 c 230 s 201 ; 1989 c 84 s 56 .]
Part headings not law — Effective date — 1996 c 230: See notes following RCW 57.02.001 . |
57.04.020 | Districts authorized. | Water-sewer districts are authorized to be established for the purposes of chapter 57.08 RCW. Such districts may include within their boundaries one or more counties, cities, and towns, or other political subdivisions. However, no portion or all of any city or town may be included without the consent by resolution of t... |
57.04.030 | Petition procedure—Hearing—Boundaries. | (1) For the purpose of formation of water-sewer districts, a petition shall be presented to the county legislative authority of each county in which the proposed district is located. The petition shall set forth the reasons for the creation of the district, designate the boundaries of the district, and state that estab... |
57.04.050 | Election—Notice—Excess tax levy. | Upon entry of the findings of the final hearing on the petition if one or more county legislative authorities find that the proposed district will be conducive to the public health, welfare, and convenience and will benefit the land therein, they shall present a resolution to the county auditor calling for a special el... |
57.04.055 | County auditor to conduct elections—Expenses. | All elections held pursuant to this title, whether general or special, shall be conducted by the county auditor of the county in which the district is located. Except as provided in RCW 57.04.060 , the expense of all such elections shall be paid for out of the funds of the district.
[ 1996 c 230 s 208 ; 1941 c 210 s 40... |
57.04.060 | District created—Name—Formation expenses. | If at the election a majority of the voters voting upon the proposition vote in favor of the formation of the district the county legislative authority shall so declare in its canvass of the returns of the election to be made within ten days after the date of the election, and the district shall then be and become a mu... |
57.04.065 | Change of name—Procedure—Effect. | Any district may apply to change its name by filing with the county legislative authority in which was filed the original petition for organization of the district, a certified copy of a resolution of its board of commissioners adopted by majority vote of all of the members of that board at a regular meeting thereof pr... |
57.04.070 | When two or more petitions filed. | Whenever two or more petitions for the formation of a district shall be filed as provided in this chapter, the petition describing the greater area shall supersede all others and an election shall first be held thereunder, and no lesser district shall ever be created within the limits in whole or in part of any distric... |
57.04.080 | Act cumulative. | *This act shall not be construed to repeal, amend, or modify any law heretofore enacted providing a method for water supply for any city or town in this state, but shall be held to be an additional and concurrent method providing for such purpose. Nor shall this act be construed to repeal **chapter 161 of the Laws of 1... |
57.04.090 | Dissolution—Legislative and court methods. | Dissolution of district, see chapters 36.96 and 53.48 RCW. |
57.04.100 | Dissolution—Election method. | Any district may be disincorporated in the same manner (insofar as the same is applicable) as is provided in RCW 35.07.010 through 35.07.220 for the disincorporation of cities and towns, except that the petition for disincorporation shall be signed by not less than twenty-five percent of the voters in the district.
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57.04.110 | Dissolution when district's boundaries identical with municipality. | A district whose boundaries are identical with, or if the district is located entirely within, the boundaries of a city or town may be dissolved by summary dissolution proceedings if the district is free from all debts and liabilities except contractual obligations between the district and the city or town. Summary dis... |
57.04.120 | Sewerage improvement districts located in counties with populations of from forty thousand to less than seventy thousand become sewer districts. | (1) On and after March 16, 1979, any sewerage improvement districts created under Title 85 RCW and located in a county with a population of from forty thousand to less than seventy thousand shall become districts and shall be operated, maintained, and have the same powers as districts created under this title, upon bei... |
57.04.130 | Sewerage improvement districts operating as sewer districts become water-sewer districts—Procedure. | Any sewerage improvement district which has been operating as a sewer district shall be a district under this title as of March 16, 1979, upon being so ordered by the county legislative authority of the county in which such district is located after a hearing of which notice is given by publication in a newspaper of ge... |
57.04.140 | Formation—Alternative method—New development. | (1) As an alternative means to forming a water-sewer district, a county legislative authority may authorize the formation of a water-sewer district to serve a new development that at the time of formation does not have any residents, at written request of sixty percent of the owners of the area to be included in the pr... |
57.06.010 | 1927 validation. | In case an attempt has been made to organize a water district not containing within its boundaries any incorporated city or town, and either through inadvertence or mistake the election for the organization of the district was held more than thirty days from the date of such certificate of the county auditor but less t... |
57.06.020 | 1931 validation. | Each and all of the respective areas of land heretofore organized or attempted to be organized or incorporated under *chapter 161 of the Laws of 1913, and amendments thereto, are each hereby declared to be and created into duly existing water districts having the respective boundaries set forth in their respective orga... |
57.06.030 | 1943 validation. | Each and all of the respective areas of land heretofore attempted to be organized into water districts or into local improvement districts or utility local improvement districts under the provisions of chapter 114 of the Laws of 1929 and amendments thereto, are hereby validated and declared to be duly existing water di... |
57.06.040 | 1943 validation. | All debts, contracts, and obligations heretofore made or incurred by or in favor of any such water district, local improvement district, or utility local improvement district, and all bonds or other obligations executed by such districts in connection with or in pursuance of such attempted organization, and any and all... |
57.06.050 | 1943 validation. | The provisions of the act shall apply only to such districts attempted to be organized under chapter 114 of the Laws of 1929, and amendments thereto, which have maintained their organization as such since the date of such attempted organization, establishment, or creation.
[ 1943 c 177 s 3 ; Rem. Supp. 1943 s 11604-15.... |
57.06.060 | 1945 validation. | Each and all of the respective areas of land heretofore attempted to be organized into water districts or into local improvement districts or utility local improvement districts under the provisions of Pierce's Perpetual Code 994-1 to -53, chapter 114, Laws of 1929, and amendments thereto (sections 11579 to 11604, Remi... |
57.06.070 | 1945 validation. | All debts, contracts, and obligations heretofore made or incurred by or in favor of any such water district, local improvement district, or utility local improvement district, and all bonds or other obligations executed by such districts in connection with or in pursuance of such attempted organization, and any and all... |
57.06.080 | 1945 validation. | The provisions of this act shall apply only to such districts attempted to be organized under Pierce's Perpetual Code 994-1 to 53, chapter 114, Laws of 1929, and amendments thereto (sections 11579 to 11604, Remington's Revised Statutes), which have maintained their organization as such since the date of such attempted ... |
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