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57.24.080 | Petition method—Hearing—Notice. | If the petition for annexation filed with the board of commissioners complies with the requirements of law, as proved to the satisfaction of the board of commissioners, it may entertain the petition, fix the date for public hearing thereon, and cause notice of the hearing to be published in one issue of a newspaper of ... |
57.24.090 | Petition method—Resolution providing for annexation. | Following the hearing the board of commissioners shall determine by resolution whether annexation shall be made. It may annex all or any portion of the proposed area but may not include in the annexation any property not described in the petition. Upon passage of the resolution a certified copy shall be filed with the ... |
57.24.100 | Petition method—Effective date of annexation—Prior indebtedness. | Upon the date fixed in the resolution the area annexed shall become a part of the district. No property within the limits of the territory so annexed shall ever be taxed or assessed to pay any portion of the indebtedness of the district to which it is annexed contracted prior to or existing at the date of annexation; n... |
57.24.170 | Annexation of certain unincorporated territory—Authorized—Hearing. | When there is, within a district, unincorporated territory containing less than one hundred acres and having at least eighty percent of the boundaries of such area contiguous to the district, the board of commissioners may resolve to annex that territory to the district. The resolution shall describe the boundaries of ... |
57.24.180 | Annexation of certain unincorporated territory—Opportunity to be heard—Effective date of annexation resolution—Notice—Referendum. | On the date set for hearing under RCW 57.24.170 , residents or property owners of the area included in the resolution for annexation shall be afforded an opportunity to be heard. The board of commissioners may provide by resolution for annexation of the territory described in the resolution, but the effective date of t... |
57.24.190 | Annexation of certain unincorporated territory—Referendum authorized—Petition—Election—Effective date of annexation. | The annexation resolution under RCW 57.24.180 shall be subject to referendum for forty-five days after the passage thereof. Upon the filing of a timely and sufficient referendum petition with the board of commissioners, signed by registered voters in number equal to not less than ten percent of the registered voters in... |
57.24.200 | Expenditure of funds to provide certain information authorized—Limits. | A district may expend funds to inform residents in areas proposed for annexation into the district of the following: (1) Technical information and data; (2) The fiscal impact of the proposed improvement; and (3) The types of improvements planned. Expenditures under this section shall be limited to research, preparation... |
57.24.210 | Annexation of certain unincorporated territory with boundaries contiguous to two municipal corporations providing water or sewer service—Procedure. | When there is unincorporated territory containing less than one hundred acres and having at least eighty percent of the boundaries of such area contiguous to two municipal corporations providing either water or sewer service, one of which is a water-sewer district, the legislative authority of either of the contiguous ... |
57.24.220 | Assumption of substandard water system—Limited immunity from liability. | A district assuming responsibility for a water system that is not in compliance with state or federal requirements for public drinking water systems, and its agents and employees, are immune from lawsuits or causes of action, based on noncompliance with state or federal requirements for public drinking water systems, w... |
57.24.230 | Annexation of territory within cities—Authorized—Process. | (1) If a district acquires either water facilities or sewer facilities, or both from a city, and the district and the city within which the facilities are located enter into an agreement stating that the district will seek annexation of territory within that city, the district commissioners may initiate a process for t... |
57.24.240 | Annexation of territory within cities—Hearing procedure—Election notice. | (1) If a resolution calling for an annexation election as provided in RCW 57.24.230 is presented for hearing, the legislative authority of each county in which the territory proposed for annexation is located shall hear the resolution or may adjourn and reconvene the hearing as deemed necessary for its purposes. The he... |
57.24.250 | Annexation of territory within cities—Election. | (1) The annexation election shall be held on the date designated in the notice and shall be conducted in accordance with the general election laws of the state. Qualified voters residing within the territory proposed for annexation shall be permitted to vote at the election. (2) If the majority of the votes cast upon t... |
57.24.260 | Annexation of territory within cities—Alternative method. | The method of annexation provided for in RCW 57.24.230 through 57.24.250 is an alternative method and is additional to other methods provided for in this chapter.
[ 2007 c 31 s 4 .] |
57.28.001 | 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 1001 ; 1989 c 84 s 59 .]
Part headings not law — Effective date — 1996 c 230: See notes following RCW 57.02.001 . |
57.28.010 | Withdrawal authorized—Petition. | Territory within a district may be withdrawn therefrom in the following manner and upon the following conditions: The petition for withdrawal shall be in writing and shall designate the boundaries of the territory proposed to be withdrawn from the district and shall be signed by at least twenty-five percent of the qual... |
57.28.020 | Petition of residents. | The petition for withdrawal shall be filed with the county auditor of each county in which the district is located, and after the filing no person having signed the petition shall be allowed to withdraw the person's name therefrom. Within ten days after such filing, each county auditor shall examine and verify the sign... |
57.28.030 | Petition of landowners. | In the event there are no qualified voters residing within the territory proposed to be withdrawn, the petition for withdrawal may be signed by such persons as appear of record to own at least a majority of the acreage within such territory, in which event the petition shall also state the total number of acres and the... |
57.28.035 | Alternative procedure—Resolution. | As an alternative procedure to those set forth in RCW 57.28.010 through 57.28.030 , the withdrawal of territory within a district may be commenced by a resolution of the board of commissioners that sets forth boundaries of the territory to be withdrawn and sets a date for the public hearing required under RCW 57.28.050... |
57.28.040 | Notice of hearing—Bond for costs. | Upon receipt by the board of commissioners of a petition and certificate of sufficiency of the auditor, or if the petition is signed by landowners and the board of commissioners is satisfied as to the sufficiency of the signatures thereon, it shall at a regular or special meeting fix a date for hearing on the petition ... |
57.28.050 | Hearing—Findings. | The petition for withdrawal shall be heard at the time and place specified in such notice or the hearing may be adjourned from time to time, not exceeding one month in all, and any person may appear at such hearing and make objections to the withdrawal of such territory or to the proposed boundary lines thereof. Upon f... |
57.28.060 | Transmission to county legislative authorities. | Within ten days after the final hearing the board of commissioners of the district shall transmit to the county legislative authority of each county in which the district is located the petition for withdrawal, together with a copy of the findings and recommendations of the board of commissioners of the district certif... |
57.28.070 | Notice of hearing before county legislative authority. | Upon receipt of the petition and certified copy of the findings and recommendations adopted by the district commissioners, the county legislative authority of each county in which the district is located at a regular or special meeting shall fix a time and place for hearing thereon and shall cause to be published at le... |
57.28.080 | Hearing—Findings. | The petition shall be heard at the time and place specified in the notice, or the hearing may be adjourned from time to time, not exceeding one month in all, and any person may appear at the hearing and make objections to the withdrawal of the territory. Upon final hearing on the petition the county legislative authori... |
57.28.090 | Election on withdrawal. | If the findings of any county legislative authority answer any of the questions of fact set forth in RCW 57.28.050 in the negative, or if any of the findings of the county legislative authority are not the same as the findings of the district board of commissioners upon the same question, then in either of such events,... |
57.28.100 | Notice of election—Election—Canvass. | Notice of the election shall be posted and published in the same manner provided by law for the posting and publication of notice of elections to annex territory to districts. The territory described in the notice shall be that established and defined by the district board of commissioners. All qualified voters residin... |
57.28.110 | Taxes and assessments unaffected. | Taxes or assessments levied or assessed against property located in territory withdrawn from a district shall remain a lien and be collected as by law provided when the taxes or assessments are levied or assessed prior to the withdrawal or when the levies or assessments are duly made to provide revenue for the payment ... |
57.32.001 | 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 1101 ; 1989 c 84 s 60 .]
Part headings not law — Effective date — 1996 c 230: See notes following RCW 57.02.001 . |
57.32.010 | Consolidation authorized—Petition method—Resolution method. | Two or more districts may be joined into one consolidated district. The consolidation may be initiated in either of the following ways: (1) Ten percent of the voters residing within each of the districts proposed to be consolidated may petition the board of commissioners of their respective districts to cause the quest... |
57.32.020 | Certificate of sufficiency. | If the consolidation proceedings are initiated by petitions, upon the filing of such petitions with the boards of commissioners of the districts, the boards of commissioners of each district shall file such petitions with the auditor of the county in which all or the largest geographic portion of the respective distric... |
57.32.021 | Procedure upon receipt of certificate of sufficiency—Agreement, contents—Comprehensive plan. | Upon receipt by the boards of commissioners of the districts proposed for consolidation, hereinafter referred to as the "consolidating districts", of the lead county auditor's certificate of sufficiency of the petitions, or upon adoption by the boards of commissioners of the consolidating districts of their resolutions... |
57.32.022 | Certification of agreement—Election, notice and conduct. | The boards of commissioners of the consolidating districts shall certify the agreement to the county auditors of the respective counties in which the districts are located. A special election shall be called by the county auditors for the purpose of submitting to the voters of each of the consolidating districts the pr... |
57.32.023 | When consolidation effective—Cessation of former districts—Rights and powers of consolidated district. | If at the election a majority of the voters in each of the consolidating districts vote in favor of the consolidation, the consolidation shall be authorized. The consolidation shall be effective and the consolidating districts shall cease to exist and shall then be and become a new district and municipal corporation of... |
57.32.024 | Vesting of funds and property in consolidated district—Outstanding indebtedness. | Upon the formation of any consolidated district, all funds, rights, and property, real and personal, of the former districts, shall vest in and become the property of the consolidated district. Unless the agreement for consolidation provides to the contrary, any outstanding indebtedness of any form, owed by the distric... |
57.32.130 | Commissioners—Number. | The commissioners of the districts consolidated into any new consolidated district shall become commissioners thereof until their respective terms of office expire or until they resign from office if the resignation is before the expiration of their terms of office. At each election of commissioners following the conso... |
57.32.160 | Transfer of part of district—Procedure. | A part of one district may be transferred into an adjacent district if the area can be better served thereby. Such transfer can be accomplished by a petition, directed to both districts, signed by the owners according to the records of the county auditor of not less than sixty percent of the area of land to be transfer... |
57.36.001 | 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 1201 ; 1989 c 84 s 61 .]
Part headings not law — Effective date — 1996 c 230: See notes following RCW 57.02.001 . |
57.36.010 | Merger of districts authorized. | Whenever one or more districts desire to merge into another district, the district or districts desiring to merge into the other district shall be referred to as the "merging district" or "merging districts" and the district into which the merging district or districts desire to merge shall be referred to as the "merge... |
57.36.020 | Initiation of merger—Procedure. | A merger of districts may be initiated in either of the following ways: (1) Whenever the boards of commissioners of districts determine by resolution that the merger of such districts shall be conducive to the public health, welfare, and convenience and to be of special benefit to the lands of such districts. (2) Whene... |
57.36.030 | Agreement—Certification to county auditor—Election—Notice, conduct. | Whenever a merger is initiated in either of the two ways provided under this chapter, the boards of commissioners of the districts shall enter into an agreement providing for the merger. The agreement must be entered into within ninety days following completion of the last act in initiation of the merger. The respectiv... |
57.36.040 | When merger effective—Cessation of merging district—Commissioners. | If at such election a majority of the voters of the merging district or districts shall vote in favor of the merger, the merger shall be authorized. The merger shall be effective and the merging district or districts shall cease to exist and shall become a part of the merger district, upon the certification of the elec... |
57.36.050 | Vesting of funds and property in merger district—Outstanding indebtedness. | All funds and property, real and personal, of the merging district or districts, shall vest in and become the property of the merger district. Unless the agreement of merger provides to the contrary, any outstanding indebtedness of any form, owed by the districts, shall remain the obligation of the area of the original... |
57.36.060 | Persons serving on both boards to hold only one position after merger. | A person who serves on the board of commissioners of a merging district and a merger district shall hold only one position on the board of commissioners of the merger district and shall only receive compensation, expenses, and benefits that are available to a single commissioner.
[ 1996 c 230 s 1206 ; 1988 c 162 s 4 . ... |
57.42.010 | Authorized. | Subject to the provisions of RCW 57.42.020 and 57.42.030 , any district created under the provisions of this title may sell, transfer, exchange, lease or otherwise dispose of any property, real or personal, or property rights, including but not limited to the title to real property, to a public utility district in the ... |
57.42.020 | Disposition must be in public interest—Filings—Indebtedness. | No district shall dispose of its property to a public utility district unless the respective board of commissioners of each district shall determine by resolution that such disposition is in the public interest and conducive to the public health, welfare, and convenience. Copies of each resolution, together with copies... |
57.42.030 | Hearing—Notice—Decree. | Within ninety days after the resolutions and proposed agreement have been filed with the court, the court shall fix a date for a hearing and shall direct that notice of the hearing be given by publication. After reviewing the proposed agreement and considering other evidence presented at the hearing, the court may dete... |
57.46.010 | Voluntary contributions to assist low-income residential customers—Administration. | A 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 district bills. All funds received by the district in response to such requests shall be transmitted to the grantee o... |
57.46.020 | Disbursement of contributions—Quarterly report. | All assistance provided under this chapter shall be disbursed by the grantee or charitable organization. Where possible the district shall be paid on behalf of the customer by the grantee or the charitable organization. When direct vendor payment is not feasible, a check shall be issued jointly payable to the customer ... |
57.46.030 | Contributions not considered commingling of funds. | Contributions received under a program implemented by a district in compliance with this chapter shall not be considered a commingling of funds.
[ 1996 c 230 s 1403 ; 1993 c 45 s 7 .]
Part headings not law — Effective date — 1996 c 230: See notes following RCW 57.02.001 . |
57.90.001 | 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 1501 ; 1989 c 84 s 63 .]
Part headings not law — Effective date — 1996 c 230: See notes following RCW 57.02.001 . |
57.90.010 | Disincorporation authorized. | Water-sewer, park and recreation, metropolitan park, county rural library, cemetery, flood control, mosquito control, diking and drainage, irrigation or reclamation, weed, health, or fire protection districts, and any air pollution control authority or regional fire protection service authority, hereinafter referred to... |
57.90.020 | Proceedings, how commenced—Public hearings. | Upon the filing with the county legislative authority of each county in which the district is located of a resolution of any governmental unit calling for the disincorporation of a special district, or upon the filing with the county legislative authority of each county in which the district is located of the petition ... |
57.90.030 | Findings—Order—Supervision of liquidation. | If the county legislative authority finds that no services have been provided within the preceding consecutive five-year period and that the best interests of all persons concerned will be served by disincorporating the special district, it shall order that such action be taken, specify the manner in which it is to be ... |
57.90.040 | Distribution of assets. | If a special district is disincorporated the proceeds of the sale of any of its assets, together with money on hand in the treasury of the special district, shall after payment of all costs and expenses and all outstanding indebtedness be paid to the county treasurer to be placed to the credit of the school district, o... |
57.90.050 | Assessments to retire indebtedness. | If a special district is disincorporated and the proceeds of the sale of any of its assets, together with money on hand in the treasury of the special district, are insufficient to retire any outstanding indebtedness, together with all costs and expenses of liquidation, the county legislative authority shall levy asses... |
57.90.100 | Disposal of real property on abandonment of irrigation district right-of-way—Right of adjacent owners. | Whenever as the result of abandonment of an irrigation district right-of-way real property held by an irrigation district is to be sold or otherwise disposed of, notice shall be given to the owners of the lands adjoining that real property and such owners shall have the right of first refusal to purchase at the apprais... |
58.04.001 | Purpose—Remedies. | The purpose of this chapter is to provide alternative procedures for fixing boundary points or lines when they cannot be determined from the existing public record and landmarks or are otherwise in dispute. This chapter does not impair, modify, or supplant any other remedy available at law or equity.
[ 1996 c 160 s 1 .... |
58.04.003 | Definition of surveyor. | As used in this chapter, "surveyor" means every person authorized to practice the profession of land surveying under the provisions of chapter 18.43 RCW.
[ 1996 c 160 s 2 .] |
58.04.007 | Affected landowners may resolve dispute over location of a point or line—Procedures. | Whenever a point or line determining the boundary between two or more parcels of real property cannot be identified from the existing public record, monuments, and landmarks, or is in dispute, the landowners affected by the determination of the point or line may resolve any dispute and fix the boundary point or line by... |
58.04.011 | Authorization to enter upon any land or waters for purpose of resolving dispute. | Any surveyor authorized by the court and the surveyor's employees may, without liability for trespass, enter upon any land or waters and remain there while performing the duties as required in RCW 58.04.001 through 58.04.007 and this section. The persons named in this section may, without liability for trespass, invest... |
58.04.015 | Disturbing a survey monument—Penalty—Cost. | A person who intentionally disturbs a survey monument placed by a surveyor in the performance of the surveyor's duties is guilty of a gross misdemeanor and is liable for the cost of the reestablishment.
[ 1996 c 160 s 5 .] |
58.04.020 | Suit to establish lost or uncertain boundaries—Mediation may be required. | (1) Whenever the boundaries of lands between two or more adjoining proprietors have been lost, or by time, accident or any other cause, have become obscure, or uncertain, and the adjoining proprietors cannot agree to establish the same, one or more of the adjoining proprietors may bring a civil action in equity, in the... |
58.04.030 | Commissioners—Survey and report. | Said court may, in its discretion, appoint commissioners, not exceeding three competent and disinterested persons, one or more of whom shall be practical surveyors, residents of the state, which commissioners shall be, before entering upon their duties, duly sworn to perform their said duties faithfully, and the said c... |
58.04.040 | Proceedings, conduct of—Costs. | The proceedings shall be conducted as other civil actions, and the court, on final decree, shall apportion the costs of the proceedings equitably, and the cost so apportioned, shall be a lien upon the said lands, severally, as against any transfer or incumbrance made of, or attaching to said lands, from the time of the... |
58.08.010 | Town plat to be recorded—Requisites. | Any person or persons, who may hereafter lay off any town within this state, shall, previous to the sale of any lots within such town, cause to be recorded in the recorder's office of the county wherein the same may lie, a plat of said town, with the public grounds, (if any there be,) streets, lanes and alleys, with th... |
58.08.015 | Effect of donation marked on plat. | Every donation or grant to the public, or to any individual or individuals, religious society or societies, or to any corporation or body politic, marked or noted as such on the plat of the town, or wherein such donation or grant may have been made, shall be considered, to all intents and purposes, as a quitclaim deed ... |
58.08.020 | Additions. | Every person hereinafter laying off any lots in addition to any town, shall, previous to the sale of such lots, have the same recorded under the like regulations as are provided for recording the original plat of said town, and thereafter the same shall be considered an addition thereto.
[Code 1881 s 2330; 1862 p 431 s... |
58.08.030 | Plats to be acknowledged—Certificate that taxes and assessments are paid. | Every person whose duty it may be to comply with the foregoing regulations shall at or before the time of offering such plat for record, acknowledge the same before the auditor of the proper county, or any other officer who is authorized by law to take acknowledgment of deeds, a certificate of which acknowledgment shal... |
58.08.035 | Platted streets, public highways—Lack of compliance, penalty. | All streets, lanes, and alleys, laid off and recorded in accordance with *the foregoing provisions, shall be considered, to all intents and purposes, public highways, and any person who may lay off any town or any addition to any town in this state, and neglect or refuse to comply with the requisitions aforesaid, shall... |
58.08.050 | Official plat—Platted streets as public highways. | Whenever any city or town has been surveyed and platted and a plat thereof showing the roads, streets and alleys has been filed in the office of the auditor of the county in which such city or town is located, such plat shall be deemed the official plat of such city, or town, and all roads, streets and alleys in such c... |
58.09.010 | Purpose—Short title. | The purpose of this chapter is to provide a method for preserving evidence of land surveys by establishing standards and procedures for monumenting and for recording a public record of the surveys. Its provisions shall be deemed supplementary to existing laws relating to surveys, subdivisions, platting, and boundaries.... |
58.09.020 | Definitions. | As used in this chapter: (1) "Land surveyor" shall mean every person authorized to practice the profession of land surveying under the provisions of chapter 18.43 RCW, as now or hereafter amended. (2) "*Washington coordinate system" shall mean that system of plane coordinates as established and designated by chapter 58... |
58.09.030 | Compliance with chapter required. | Any land surveyor engaged in the practice of land surveying may prepare maps, plats, reports, descriptions, or other documentary evidence in connection therewith. Every map, plat, report, description, or other document issued by a licensed land surveyor shall comply with the provisions of this chapter whenever such map... |
58.09.040 | Records of survey—Contents—Filing—Replacing corner, filing record. | After making a survey in conformity with sound principles of land surveying, a land surveyor may file a record of survey with the county auditor in the county or counties wherein the lands surveyed are situated. (1) It shall be mandatory, within ninety days after the establishment, reestablishment, or restoration of a ... |
58.09.050 | Records of survey—Processing—Requirements. | The records of survey to be filed under authority of this chapter shall be processed as follows: (1)(a) The record of survey filed under RCW 58.09.040 (1) shall be an original map, eighteen by twenty-four inches, that is legibly drawn in black ink on mylar and is suitable for producing legible prints through scanning, ... |
58.09.060 | Records of survey, contents—Record of corner, information. | (1) The record of survey as required by RCW 58.09.040 (1) shall show: (a) All monuments found, set, reset, replaced, or removed, describing their kind, size, and location and giving other data relating thereto; (b) Bearing trees, corner accessories or witness monuments, basis of bearings, bearing and length of lines, s... |
58.09.070 | Coordinates—Map showing control scheme required. | When coordinates in the *Washington coordinate system are shown for points on a record of survey map, the map may not be recorded unless it also shows, or is accompanied by a map showing, the control scheme through which the coordinates were determined from points of known coordinates.
[ 1973 c 50 s 7 .]
*Reviser's not... |
58.09.080 | Certificates—Required—Forms. | Certificates shall appear on the record of survey map as follows: SURVEYOR'S CERTIFICATE This map correctly represents a survey made by me or under my direction in conformance with the requirements of the Survey Recording Act at the request of . . . . . . . . . in . . . . . ., (year) . . . . Name of Person (Signed and ... |
58.09.090 | When record of survey not required. | (1) A record of survey is not required of any survey: (a) When it has been made by a public officer in his or her official capacity and a reproducible copy thereof has been filed with the county engineer of the county in which the land is located. A map so filed shall be indexed and kept available for public inspection... |
58.09.100 | Filing fee. | The charge for filing any record of survey and/or record of corner information shall be fixed by the board of county commissioners.
[ 1973 c 50 s 10 .] |
58.09.110 | Duties of county auditor. | The auditor shall accept for recording those records of survey and records of corner information that are in compliance with the recorder's checklist as jointly developed by a committee consisting of the survey advisory board and two representatives from the Washington state association of county auditors. This checkli... |
58.09.120 | Monuments—Requirements. | Any monument set by a land surveyor to mark or reference a point on a property or land line shall be permanently marked or tagged with the certificate number of the land surveyor setting it. If the monument is set by a public officer it shall be marked by an appropriate official designation. Monuments set by a land sur... |
58.09.130 | Monuments disturbed by construction activities—Procedure—Requirements. | When adequate records exist as to the location of subdivision, tract, street, or highway monuments, such monuments shall be located and referenced by or under the direction of a land surveyor at the time when streets or highways are reconstructed or relocated, or when other construction or activity affects their perpet... |
58.09.140 | Noncompliance grounds for revocation of land surveyor's license. | Noncompliance with any provision of this chapter, as it now exists or may hereafter be amended, shall constitute grounds for revocation of a land surveyor's authorization to practice the profession of land surveying and as further set forth under RCW 18.43.105 and 18.43.110 .
[ 1973 c 50 s 14 .] |
58.10.010 | Defective plats legalized—1881 Code. | All city or town plats or any addition or additions thereto, heretofore made and recorded in the county auditor's office of any county in Washington state, showing lots, blocks, streets, alleys or public grounds, shall be conclusive evidence of the location and size of the lots, blocks and public grounds and the locati... |
58.10.020 | Certified copy of plat as evidence. | A copy of any city or town plat or addition thereto recorded in the manner provided for in RCW 58.10.010 , certified by the county auditor of the county in which the same is recorded to be a true copy of such record and the whole thereof, shall be received in evidence in all the courts of this state, with like effect a... |
58.10.030 | Resurvey and corrected plat—Corrected plat as evidence. | Whenever the recorded plat of any city or addition thereto does not definitely show the location or size of lots or blocks, or the location or width of any street or alley in such city or addition, the city council of the city in which the land so platted is located, is hereby authorized and empowered by ordinance and ... |
58.10.040 | Regulation of surveys and plats. | All incorporated cities in the state of Washington are hereby authorized and empowered to regulate and prescribe the manner and form of making any future survey or plat of lands within their respective limits and enforce such regulations by a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be recovered by and in the name... |
58.17.010 | Purpose. | The legislature finds that the process by which land is divided is a matter of state concern and should be administered in a uniform manner by cities, towns, and counties throughout the state. The purpose of this chapter is to regulate the subdivision of land and to promote the public health, safety and general welfare... |
58.17.020 | Definitions. | As used in this chapter, unless the context or subject matter clearly requires otherwise, the words or phrases defined in this section shall have the indicated meanings. (1) "Binding site plan" means a drawing to a scale specified by local ordinance which: (a) Identifies and shows the areas and locations of all streets... |
58.17.030 | Subdivisions to comply with chapter, local regulations. | Every subdivision shall comply with the provisions of this chapter. Every short subdivision as defined in this chapter shall comply with the provisions of any local regulation adopted pursuant to RCW 58.17.060 .
[ 1974 ex.s. c 134 s 1 ; 1969 ex.s. c 271 s 3 .] |
58.17.033 | Proposed division of land—Consideration of application for preliminary plat or short plat approval—Requirements defined by local ordinance. | (1) A proposed division of land, as defined in RCW 58.17.020 , shall be considered under the subdivision or short subdivision ordinance, and zoning or other land use control ordinances, in effect on the land at the time a fully completed application for preliminary plat approval of the subdivision, or short plat approv... |
58.17.035 | Alternative method of land division—Binding site plans. | A city, town, or county may adopt by ordinance procedures for the divisions of land by use of a binding site plan as an alternative to the procedures required by this chapter. The ordinance shall be limited and only apply to one or more of the following: (1) The use of a binding site plan to create or modify divisions ... |
58.17.040 | Chapter inapplicable, when.(Effective until January 1, 2028.) | The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to: (1) Cemeteries and other burial plots while used for that purpose; (2) Divisions of land into lots or tracts each of which is one-one hundred twenty-eighth of a section of land or larger, or five acres or larger if the land is not capable of description as a fraction o... |
58.17.050 | Assessors plat—Compliance. | An assessors plat made in accordance with RCW 58.18.010 need not comply with any of the requirements of this chapter except RCW 58.17.240 and 58.17.250 .
[ 1969 ex.s. c 271 s 5 .] |
58.17.060 | Short plats and short subdivisions—Summary approval—Regulations—Requirements. | (1) The legislative body of a city, town, or county shall adopt regulations and procedures, and appoint administrative personnel for the summary approval of short plats and short subdivisions or alteration or vacation thereof. When an alteration or vacation involves a public dedication, the alteration or vacation shall... |
58.17.065 | Short plats and short subdivisions—Filing. | Each short plat and short subdivision granted pursuant to local regulations after July 1, 1974, shall be filed with the county auditor and shall not be deemed "approved" until so filed.
[ 1974 ex.s. c 134 s 12 .] |
58.17.070 | Preliminary plat of subdivisions and dedications—Submission for approval—Procedure. | A preliminary plat of proposed subdivisions and dedications of land shall be submitted for approval to the legislative body of the city, town, or county within which the plat is situated. Unless an applicant for preliminary plat approval requests otherwise, a preliminary plat shall be processed simultaneously with appl... |
58.17.080 | Filing of preliminary plat—Notice. | Notice of the filing of a preliminary plat of a proposed subdivision adjacent to or within one mile of the municipal boundaries of a city or town, or which contemplates the use of any city or town utilities shall be given to the appropriate city or town authorities. Any notice required by this chapter shall include the... |
58.17.090 | Notice of public hearing. | (1) Upon receipt of an application for preliminary plat approval the administrative officer charged by ordinance with responsibility for administration of regulations pertaining to platting and subdivisions shall provide public notice and set a date for a public hearing. Except as provided in RCW 36.70B.110 , at a mini... |
58.17.092 | Public notice—Identification of affected property. | Any notice made under chapter 58.17 or 36.70B RCW that identifies affected property may identify this affected property without using a legal description of the property including, but not limited to, identification by an address, written description, vicinity sketch, or other reasonable means.
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