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85.06.550 | Payment of preliminary expense where proceedings are dropped. | When any drainage district has been or shall be established and created under the provisions of an act of the legislature of the state of Washington, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment and creation of drainage districts, and the construction and maintenance of a system of drainage, and to provide for the... |
85.06.560 | Payment of preliminary expense where proceedings are dropped—Notice to present claims—Registration. | The county auditor of any county in which such drainage district is located upon the written request of any holder or owner of any such warrant, order, voucher, or other evidence of indebtedness, mentioned in the preceding section, shall forthwith cause to be published in the newspaper doing the county printing, if any... |
85.06.570 | Payment of preliminary expense where proceedings are dropped—Petition to court for assessment—Contents. | At any time after the expiration of the time within which warrants, orders, vouchers, or other evidences of indebtedness, may be registered as provided in the preceding section, the holder or owner of any such registered warrant, order, voucher, or other evidence of indebtedness, may for himself or herself and in behal... |
85.06.580 | Payment of preliminary expense where proceedings are dropped—Hearing to be fixed—Order for publication of notice. | Upon the filing of such petition it shall be the duty of the judge of the said superior court to fix a time for a hearing of said petition, which time shall be not less than sixty days from the time of the filing of said petition, and to enter an order directed to the sheriff of the said county ordering said sheriff to... |
85.06.590 | Payment of preliminary expense where proceedings are dropped—Notice—Contents, publication, etc. | Upon the issuance of the order as provided for in the next preceding section it shall be the duty of the sheriff of said county to post, at the courthouse of said county and at three public places in said drainage district, and to cause to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in said county a notice of th... |
85.06.600 | Payment of preliminary expense where proceedings are dropped—Hearing—Order for levy—Costs. | At the time and place fixed in said order for the hearing of said petition, or at such time to which the court may continue said hearing, the court shall proceed to a hearing upon said petition and upon any objections or exceptions which have been filed thereto. And upon it appearing to the satisfaction of the court fr... |
85.06.610 | Payment of preliminary expense where proceedings are dropped—Certification of order to tax levying officers. | The clerk of said superior court shall certify the said order to the board of county commissioners, and to the county auditor and upon receipt of said order by said board it shall proceed forthwith to execute said order, and upon said levy being made it shall be extended upon the tax rolls, certified and collected at t... |
85.06.620 | Payment of preliminary expense where proceedings are dropped—Dismissal of petition. | If upon said hearing the court shall find that the petitioner is not entitled to an order granting the prayer of said petition the court shall enter an order dismissing said petition and taxing the costs against said petitioner.
[ 1903 c 67 s 8 ; RRS s 4499. Formerly RCW 85.04.745 .] |
85.06.630 | Payment of preliminary expense where proceedings are dropped—Appellate review. | From any final order entered by the said superior court as above provided for, any party to said proceeding feeling himself or herself aggrieved thereby may seek appellate review, as provided by the general appeal law of this state.
[ 2013 c 23 s 402 ; 1988 c 202 s 74 ; 1903 c 67 s 9 ; RRS s 4500. Formerly RCW 85.04.75... |
85.06.640 | Additional improvements—Authorized—Change in plans. | Whenever in the judgment of the commissioners of any drainage district general benefits to the entire district will accrue therefrom, or the general plan for improvement as adopted by such district will be more fully or properly carried out thereby, the board of commissioners of such district is hereby given and grante... |
85.06.650 | Additional improvements—Methods of payment. | To pay for any work done under RCW 85.06.640 through 85.06.700 , or matters incident thereto, the commissioners of said district may use any money raised or to be raised by collection of any unexhausted balance of assessed benefits as theretofore established upon the lands of said district and/or by assessments for mai... |
85.06.660 | Additional improvements—Resolution—Notice and hearing—Protests—Appellate review, conclusiveness of order of board. | Whenever the board of commissioners of any district desire[s] to exercise any of the foregoing powers under *this act, it shall pass a resolution declaring its intention to do so, which shall describe in general terms the proposed improvement to be undertaken. The resolution shall set a date upon which the board shall ... |
85.06.670 | Additional improvements—Acquisition, sale of property—Contracts to share expense. | In carrying out the foregoing powers, or any other powers possessed by the board of commissioners of such district, said board shall have authority to acquire by lease, contract, private purchase, or purchase at any sale, any real or personal property and to sell any real or personal property, or any part thereof, owne... |
85.06.680 | Additional improvements—Private property not to be taken without compensation. | In carrying out any of the foregoing powers, said district shall not impair, damage, injure, or take any private property or interest therein, or vested rights, without just compensation being paid.
[ 1935 c 170 s 5 ; RRS s 4342-5. Formerly RCW 85.04.605 , part.] |
85.06.690 | Additional improvements—Right of eminent domain. | In carrying out any of the foregoing powers, or any powers possessed by said district, it shall have the right of eminent domain to acquire any property or rights or interest therein, within or outside of the district, necessary for the use of such district for the construction and maintenance of any ditches, drains, d... |
85.06.700 | Additional improvements—Powers are additional—"Drainage district" defined. | The powers and rights *herein granted are additional to, but not in substitution of, existing rights or powers of drainage districts. Drainage district as used *herein shall mean a regularly established drainage, or drainage improvement district, combined diking and drainage improvement district, or drainage district e... |
85.06.710 | Costs in excess of estimate—Authorized—Warrants validated. | Whenever any drainage district has been organized, established and created since January 1st, 1911, and extending to January 1st, 1921, in the manner provided by law, and the board of commissioners of such district have been authorized to proceed with the work of constructing a system of drainage for such district in t... |
85.06.720 | Costs in excess of estimate—Petition to reopen original proceedings—Damages and benefits. | Whenever the board of commissioners of any drainage district shall have heretofore issued any warrants of the district for the purpose of completing a system of drainage for such district so as to produce the benefits to the lands of the district found by the jury to be benefited by the proposed improvement as provided... |
85.06.730 | Costs in excess of estimate—Summons on petition—Contents—Service—Answer. | Upon the filing of the petition provided for in the preceding section, summons shall issue thereon and be served on the owners of all lands described in the petition as having been benefited, in the same manner as summons is issued and served in the original proceedings for the determination of damages and benefits by ... |
85.06.740 | Costs in excess of estimate—Hearing by jury—Verdict. | Upon the issues being made up, or upon the lapse of time within which the parties served are required to appear by any summons issued as provided in the preceding section, the court shall empanel a jury to hear and determine the matters in issue, and if the jury shall find that the matters set forth in the petition are... |
85.06.750 | Costs in excess of estimate—Judgment—Appellate review. | Upon the return of the verdict of the jury as provided in the preceding section, if it shall appear to the court that the total benefits found by the jury to have accrued to the lands of the district is equal to or exceeds the actual cost of the improvement including the increased cost of completing the same, the court... |
85.07.010 | Lease of equipment authorized—Disposition of proceeds. | The commissioners of any diking or drainage district organized under the laws of this state, shall have power and authority to rent any machinery, tools or equipment belonging to such district, to any individual or corporation for hire under such conditions regarding the care and maintenance thereof as the commissioner... |
85.07.040 | Benefit to public road, how paid. | Whenever, upon the trial to fix and assess the benefits and damages resulting from the construction of any diking or drainage system under the laws of this state, the jury shall find by its verdict that any public or county road will be benefited from the construction of such improvement, the clerk of the court in whic... |
85.07.050 | Basis of supplemental assessments. | Any additional assessments for the construction of any diking or drainage system, and also all assessments for the maintenance of same shall be based upon the benefits so found and adjudged, and the proportion of benefits resulting to such public or county road therefrom, on such basis, shall be allowed and paid for by... |
85.07.060 | Funding bonds—Authority to issue. | (1) Any board of commissioners of any diking or drainage district may, at any time, without petition and on its own motion, issue bonds of such district for the purpose of funding any outstanding warrants of such district. No bonds so issued shall be sold for less than their par value. They may be sold at public or pri... |
85.07.070 | Funding bonds—Form, term, execution, interest. | (1) Said bonds shall be numbered consecutively from one upwards and shall be in denominations of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars each. They shall bear the date of issue, shall be made payable in not more than ten years from the date of their issue, and shall bear interest at a rate ... |
85.07.090 | Funding bonds—Outstanding warrants due when sale proceeds received—Call. | All outstanding warrants of such district so sought to be redeemed shall become due and payable immediately upon receipt by the county treasurer of the money from the sale of said bonds; and upon a call of such outstanding warrants or obligations issued by him or her, the same shall cease to draw interest at the end of... |
85.07.100 | Funding bonds—Exchange for warrants. | Said bonds may be exchanged at not less than their par value for an equal amount of the outstanding warrants of the district issuing such bonds.
[ 1935 c 103 s 5 ; RRS s 4459-15. Formerly RCW 85.04.140 , part.] |
85.07.110 | Funding bonds—Assessments for payment—Special fund. | It shall be the duty of the commissioners of such district annually to levy assessments sufficient to pay interest on such bonds as they fall due. They may at any time levy such additional assessment as they deem best to redeem and retire such bonds. Commencing not less than five years before the due date of such bonds... |
85.07.120 | Funding bonds—Call—Payment. | It shall be the duty of the county treasurer of each county in which there may be a district issuing bonds under the provisions of RCW 85.07.060 through 85.07.120 , whenever he or she has on hand one thousand dollars over and above interest requirements in the special fund for the payment of said bonds and interest, to... |
85.07.130 | Civil action to strike land from assessment roll—Costs. | Whenever any piece of land in any diking or drainage district in this state shall cease to be susceptible to benefit from the diking and/or drainage improvement of such district, the owner thereof may bring civil action in the superior court of the county wherein such property is situated, against the board of commissi... |
85.07.140 | Civil action to strike land from assessment roll—Court decree—Subsequent restoration to rolls, procedure. | If the court is satisfied that the status of said property has changed so that it is no longer susceptible to benefit from the improvement of such district and should be removed from the assessment roll thereof, and it be established that all benefits assessed against said lands up to the date of trial have been paid, ... |
85.07.170 | Additional powers relating to diking and drainage works—Duties of department of transportation. | (1) The commissioners of any drainage or diking district shall have power, on behalf of the district, to acquire, place, repair and maintain, dikes and dams, ditches, drains and outlets therefor, together with right-of-way therefor and access thereto, or obtain rights therein or full or joint use and maintenance thereo... |
85.08.010 | Definitions. | "System", "improvement", and "system of improvement", as used in this chapter, shall be held to include a dike, ditch, drain or watercourse, or sewer, and any side, lateral, spur or branch dike, ditch, drain or watercourse, or sewer, or other structure, necessary to secure the object of the improvement. Any number of d... |
85.08.015 | Certain powers and rights governed by chapter85.38RCW. | Diking, drainage, or sewerage improvement districts shall possess the authority and shall be created, district voting rights shall be determined, and district elections shall be held as provided in chapter 85.38 RCW.
[ 1985 c 396 s 33 .] |
85.08.025 | Voting rights. | Each qualified voter of a diking improvement or drainage improvement district who owns more than ten acres of land within the district shall be entitled to two additional votes for each ten acres or major fraction thereof located within the district, up to a maximum total of forty votes for any voter, or in the case of... |
85.08.190 | Eminent domain—Consolidation of actions. | For the purpose of taking or damaging property for the purposes of this chapter, counties shall have and exercise the power of eminent domain in behalf of the proposed improvement district, and the mode of procedure therefor shall be as provided by law for the condemnation of lands by counties for public highways: PROV... |
85.08.200 | Verdict to fix damages and benefits—Judgment. | The jury in such condemnation proceedings shall find and return a verdict for the amount of damages sustained: PROVIDED, That the jury, in determining the amount of damages, shall take into consideration the benefits, if any, that will accrue to the property damaged by reason of the proposed improvement, and shall make... |
85.08.210 | Warrant for damages. | Upon the entry of judgment as provided in RCW 85.08.200 , the county auditor shall, under the direction of the county legislative authority, draw a warrant upon the county treasurer for the payment of the amount of damages agreed to or the amount of the judgment, as the case may be, to be paid out of the current expens... |
85.08.220 | Construction to be directed, when. | When the board of county commissioners shall have finally determined and fixed the route and plans for the proposed system of improvement and the boundaries of the improvement district, and when it shall appear that the damages for property to be taken or damaged have been settled in the manner hereinabove provided, or... |
85.08.230 | Levy for preliminary expenses—Collection—"Preliminary expenses" defined. | Whenever the board of county commissioners has passed a resolution establishing a district, the county commissioners may at their meeting on the first Monday in October next ensuing and at the same time in each year thereafter until the improvement has been completed and a statement of total costs has been filed, levy ... |
85.08.285 | Special assessment bonds. | Special assessment bonds and notes shall be issued and sold in accordance with chapter 85.38 RCW.
[ 1986 c 278 s 25 .]
Severability — 1986 c 278: See note following RCW 36.01.010 . |
85.08.300 | Supervisors—Election—Duties. | The board of supervisors of the district shall consist of three elected supervisors. The initial supervisors shall be appointed, and the first elected supervisor elected, as provided in chapter 85.38 RCW. The board of supervisors shall have charge of the construction and maintenance of the systems of improvements, subj... |
85.08.305 | Supervisors—Terms of office—County engineer to act as supervisor. | The county engineer shall continue to act as a supervisor of a diking, drainage, or sewerage improvement district that is governed by a three-member board of supervisors until a replacement assumes office after being elected at the 1987 special district general election. At that election two supervisors shall be electe... |
85.08.310 | Construction of improvements—Contracts with United States. | The said board of supervisors shall, immediately upon their election and qualification, begin the construction of such system of improvement and shall proceed with the construction thereof in accordance with the plans adopted therefor. In the construction of any system of drainage, construction shall be begun at the ou... |
85.08.320 | Compensation and expenses of officers and employees—Costs paid by voucher, payroll, or warrant. | The compensation of the superintendent of construction, the board of appraisers hereinafter provided for, and any special engineer, attorney or agent employed by the district in connection with the improvement, the maximum wages to be paid, and the maximum price of materials to be used, shall be fixed by the district b... |
85.08.340 | Crossing roads or public utilities—Procedure—Costs. | Whenever in the progress of the construction of the system of improvement it shall become necessary to construct a portion of such system across any public or other road or public utility, the board of supervisors, or in case the work is being done by contract the board of county commissioners, shall serve notice in wr... |
85.08.360 | Total costs—Apportionment—Board of appraisers. | When the improvement is fully completed and accepted by the county engineer, the clerk of the board shall compile and file with the board of county commissioners an itemized statement of the total cost of construction, including engineering and election expenses, the cost of publishing and posting notices, damages, and... |
85.08.370 | Benefits to public roads, sewer systems—Apportionment of cost against city, county and state. | Whenever any system of improvement constructed under the provisions of this chapter will drain, protect or otherwise improve the whole or any part of any public road, roadbed or track thereof, or where any such system of improvement will furnish an outlet for or facilitate the construction or maintenance of any sewer s... |
85.08.375 | Benefits to state lands—Apportionment of costs. | There shall be apportioned against all state school, granted, and other lands, in the district the proper amount of the total sum to be apportioned in proportion to the benefits accruing thereto.
[ 1913 c 176 s 28 ; RRS s 4433. Formerly RCW 85.08.370 , part.] |
85.08.380 | Benefits to and protection from irrigation system. | In the plans for and in the construction of a drainage system in an irrigated region, under the provisions of this chapter, provision may be made for the prevention of, or affording an outlet for drains to prevent, injury to land from seepage of or saturation by irrigation water, and for the carrying off of necessary w... |
85.08.385 | Drainage ditches along highway, etc. | Drainage ditches of any drainage improvement district heretofore or hereafter created may be constructed and maintained along any public highway, street, alley or road within the limits of any drainage district.
[ 1921 c 160 s 3 ; RRS s 4409. Formerly RCW 85.08.380 , part.] |
85.08.390 | Schedule of property and benefits—Filing. | Upon the completion of the apportionment the board of appraisers shall prepare upon suitable blanks, to be prescribed by the *bureau of inspection and supervision of public offices, sign and file with the clerk of the board of county commissioners a schedule giving the name of each county, city and town and the descrip... |
85.08.400 | Hearing on schedule—Notice—Levy of assessment—State lands. | Upon the filing of the schedule of apportionment, the county legislative authority shall fix the time and place for a hearing thereon, which time shall be not more than sixty days from the date of the filing of the schedule. Notice of the hearing shall be given in the manner provided for giving notice of a hearing in *... |
85.08.410 | Schedule approved or modified—Maintenance assessment. | At such hearing, which may be adjourned from time to time and from place to place, until finally completed, the board of county commissioners shall carefully examine and consider said schedule and any objections filed or made thereto and shall correct, revise, raise, lower, change, or modify such schedule or any part t... |
85.08.420 | Assessment roll—Form—Notice—Publication. | Upon the approval of said roll the county auditor shall immediately prepare a completed assessment roll which shall contain, first, a map of the district showing each separate description of property assessed; second, an index of the schedule of apportionments; third, an index of the record of the proceedings had in co... |
85.08.430 | Payment of assessments—Interest—Lien. | After the expiration of said thirty-day period, payment of assessments in full, with interest to the next interest payment date which is more than thirty days from the date of such payment, may be made at any time; PROVIDED, That the aggregate amount of such advance payments in any year, together with the total amount ... |
85.08.440 | Appeal from apportionment—Procedure—Appellate review. | The decision of the board of county commissioners upon any objections made within the time and in the manner prescribed in RCW 85.08.400 through 85.08.430 , may be reviewed by the superior court upon an appeal thereto taken in the following manner. Such appeal shall be made by filing written notice of appeal with the c... |
85.08.450 | Regularity and validity of proceedings conclusive. | Whenever any schedule of apportionment of any drainage or diking improvement district shall have been confirmed, and the assessment therefor shall have been levied, by the board of county commissioners, as provided by RCW 85.08.400 through 85.08.430 , the regularity, validity and correctness of the proceedings relating... |
85.08.460 | District liable on judgments—Supplemental levy. | Any judgment that heretofore has been obtained or that hereafter may be obtained against a county on account of any contract lawfully made by its officials for or on behalf of any drainage, diking, or sewerage improvement district, or on account of the construction or maintenance of any drainage, diking, or sewerage sy... |
85.08.470 | District funds. | There shall be established in the county treasury of any county in which any drainage or diking or sewerage improvement is established under the provisions of this chapter, appropriate funds as follows: (1) The construction fund, into which shall be paid the proceeds of all bonds or warrants sold and the proceeds of al... |
85.08.480 | Collection of assessments—Certificates of delinquency—Foreclosure. | The respective installments of assessments for construction or maintenance of improvements made under the provisions of this chapter, shall be collected in the same manner and shall become delinquent at the same time as general taxes, certificates of delinquency shall be issued, and the lien of the assessment shall be ... |
85.08.490 | Title acquired at sale—Foreclosure for general taxes—Lien of assessments preserved. | The purchaser, upon the foreclosure of any certificate of delinquency for any assessment or installment thereof, shall acquire title to such property subject to the installments of the assessment not yet due at the date of the decree of foreclosure, and the complaint, decree of foreclosure, order of sale, sale, certifi... |
85.08.500 | Resale or lease by county—Disposition of proceeds—Tax statements. | Property subject to a drainage or diking or sewerage improvement district assessment, acquired by a county pursuant to a foreclosure and sale for general taxes, when offered for sale by the county, shall be offered for the amount of the general taxes for which the same was struck off to the county, together with all dr... |
85.08.510 | Invalid levy—Reassessment. | Whenever any improvement, any extension or betterment thereof shall have been constructed in whole or in part, either heretofore in a district established or attempted to be established under and by virtue of *chapter 66 of the Laws of 1901, or in a district heretofore or hereafter established or attempted to be establ... |
85.08.520 | Supplemental assessments. | If upon the foreclosure of the assessment upon any property the same shall not sell for enough to pay the assessment against it, or if any property assessed was not subject to assessment, or if any assessment made shall have been eliminated by foreclosure of a tax lien or made void in any other manner, the board of cou... |
85.08.530 | Levies against county, city or town, how paid. | The amount of the costs of construction or maintenance of any system of improvement assessed against any city, town or county may be met by levies to be paid in similar installments and extending over a like period of time as the assessments against property benefited are spread, or such amounts may be met by the issue... |
85.08.540 | Abandonment or change in system—Subdistricts. | Upon a petition and bond being filed by one or more landowners, either within or without the boundaries of a district, and like proceedings being had as in the case of the original establishment and construction of a system of improvement, the county commissioners may declare any system of improvement or any part there... |
85.08.560 | Extension of existing system—Apportionment of cost. | When any extension of or addition to any existing system of improvement shall be thus constructed, the cost thereof shall be assessed to all the property, counties, cities and towns in the enlarged district benefited thereby in proportion to the benefits received therefrom. Any new lands thus brought into the district ... |
85.08.565 | Special assessments—Budgets—Alternative methods. | RCW 85.38.140 through 85.38.170 constitute a mutually exclusive alternative method by which diking, drainage, or sewerage improvement districts in existence as of July 28, 1985, may measure and impose special assessments and adopt budgets. RCW 85.38.150 through 85.38.170 constitute the exclusive method by which diking,... |
85.08.570 | Districts in two or more counties—Notice—Hearings. | When a drainage, diking, or sewerage system is proposed which will require a location, or the assessment of lands, in more than one county, application therefor shall be made to the board of county commissioners in each of said counties, and the county engineers shall make preliminary reports for their respective count... |
85.08.630 | Waters developed—Defined—Disposal of. | The use of any waters developed by the drainage system of any drainage improvement district shall be subject to the control of the drainage improvement district and such district shall have the right to dispose of and contract for the use of such waters for irrigation or other uses, as hereinafter provided: PROVIDED, T... |
85.08.640 | Waters developed—Contracts for use and sale. | The board of supervisors may enter into any contract for the use, sale or disposal of such waters that in their judgment shall be for the best interests of the district; but no such sale, contract or disposition shall be made except by the unanimous vote of the board. The district shall not guarantee nor warrant the am... |
85.08.650 | Waters developed—Application for use. | Any person or corporation desiring to acquire and use the waters developed by any drainage system, may make application therefor in writing to the board of supervisors of the district, accompanying such application with a bond to be approved by the board, conditioned that the applicant will pay the costs of the investi... |
85.08.660 | Waters developed—Notice of hearing—Form of application—Bond. | When any such application shall be filed, the board of supervisors of the district shall cause to be published in the county official paper, once a week for three successive weeks prior to the date of the hearing hereinafter referred to, a notice fixing the time and place within the district when the board will hear an... |
85.08.670 | Prosecuting attorney—Duties. | It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of each county to prepare suitable blanks for the use of the board of county commissioners under this chapter, not otherwise provided for, and to advise the board of county commissioners and other officers of the county and the boards provided for by this chapter in rega... |
85.08.680 | Rules and regulations. | The board of supervisors of each district shall make reasonable rules and regulations whereby any owner of land in the district may make connection for drainage, or sewerage purposes, with any drainage, or sewerage system thereof. They shall also maintain and keep efficient the system of improvement of the district.
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85.08.690 | Penalty for injury to or interference with improvement. | Every person who shall wilfully damage or interfere with the operation of any dikes, drains, ditches or other improvements of any diking or drainage improvement district shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[ 1917 c 130 s 11 ; RRS s 4459.] |
85.08.820 | Drainage bonds owned by state—Cancellation of interest and assessments—Levy omitted. | Whenever the department of ecology shall have purchased and the state of Washington owns the entire issue of any series of bonds of any county in the state, the payment of which is to be made from and is secured by assessments upon the property included within any drainage improvement district organized and existing in... |
85.08.830 | Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Authorized. | Whenever a drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district within an irrigation district or irrigation districts desires to merge with an irrigation district or irrigation districts in which lands of the drainage improvement district, joint drainage impr... |
85.08.840 | Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Jurisdiction to hear, supervise, and conduct proceedings—Clerk, notice, records. | The boards of county commissioners of the counties in which a joint drainage improvement district is situated shall have jurisdiction in joint session to hear, supervise, and conduct the merger proceedings relating to such a district. The auditor of the county in which the greater length of the system of improvements l... |
85.08.850 | Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Petition—Signing—Presentation. | The petition requesting the merger shall be signed by the board of supervisors of, or by ten landowners located within, the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district and presented to the clerk or clerks of the appropriate county legislative authori... |
85.08.860 | Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Assent by irrigation district—Election, order, notice. | If it appears to the board or boards of county commissioners that all portions of the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district will, as a result of the proceedings, be merged with the irrigation district or irrigation districts and that the board ... |
85.08.870 | Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Notice, contents—Election, ballots. | The notice shall be given and the election conducted in the manner, so far as is applicable, as for the election of members of the board of supervisors of a drainage improvement district. The notice shall advise of the election so ordered and the date, time and place thereof, state the filing of the petition, the names... |
85.08.880 | Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Proceedings and costs on approval or disapproval. | If a majority of the votes cast favor merger, the board or boards of county commissioners shall enter an order approving the petition and ordering the merger and file a certified copy thereof with the county auditor or auditors of the county or counties in which the district is situated, and the drainage improvement di... |
85.08.890 | Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Prior indebtedness. | None of the indebtedness of the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district, or of the drainage improvement districts taken into the consolidated drainage improvement district, shall be affected by the merger and dissolution, and all lands liable to ... |
85.08.895 | Annexation of territory—Consolidation of special districts—Suspension of operations—Reactivation. | Diking or drainage improvement districts may annex territory, consolidate with other special districts, and have their operations suspended and be reactivated, in accordance with chapter 85.38 RCW.
[ 1986 c 278 s 13 .]
Severability — 1986 c 278: See note following RCW 36.01.010 . |
85.08.900 | Alternative methods of formation of improvement districts. | Whenever an improvement district is sought to be established, in addition to the procedures authorized by this chapter there may be employed any other method authorized by law for the formation of districts or improvement districts so that the improvement district will qualify under the provisions of chapter 89.16 RCW.... |
85.08.905 | Sewerage improvement districts—Powers. | Sewerage improvement districts may investigate, plan, construct, acquire, repair, maintain, and operate improvements, works, projects, and facilities to collect, treat, and dispose of sanitary, industrial, and other sewage. Such facilities include on-site and off-site sewerage facilities, including approved septic tank... |
85.08.910 | Sewerage improvement districts located in counties with populations of from forty thousand to less than seventy thousand become water-sewer districts. | See RCW 57.04.120 . |
85.08.920 | Sewerage improvement districts operating as sewer districts become water-sewer districts—Procedure. | See RCW 57.04.130 . |
85.12.010 | Commissioners may accept federal aid, or contract for work by federal agency—No bond required. | Whenever, under the provisions of any act of the congress of the United States, the corps of engineers of the United States army, or any other agency of the United States, shall be authorized to reconstruct, improve, repair or maintain any system of improvements of any diking, drainage or sewerage improvement district ... |
85.12.030 | Disposition of federal aid funds. | If at any time, whether prior or subsequent to the making of any contract authorized by the preceding section, there shall be made available and paid to a district fund appropriated by the congress of the United States to pay the costs and expenses of reconstruction, improvement, repair or maintenance of the district's... |
85.15.010 | Declaration of purpose. | The maintenance, enlargement and extension of diking, drainage and sewerage improvement districts formed under chapter 85.08 RCW is essential to the public welfare and economy of the state. The influx of population and changes in land use since many such districts were formed, has made obsolete, expensive and unjust th... |
85.15.020 | Definitions. | As used in this chapter: "District" means a diking, drainage or sewerage improvement district organized under chapter 85.08 RCW. "Maintenance" means and includes not merely operating expenses and such upkeep and other work commonly classed as maintenance as shall be necessary to restore and preserve the district's syst... |
85.15.030 | Property roll—Basis and requisites—Separate levies for prior indebtedness. | To operate under this chapter, the board of commissioners of the improvement district shall cause to be prepared and filed with the board of county commissioners a property roll. The roll shall contain: (1) A description of all properties benefited and improvements thereon which receive protection and service from the ... |
85.15.040 | Public hearing—Notice, publication. | When a property roll is filed with the county legislative authority, the county legislative authority shall hold a public hearing to determine whether the facts and conditions heretofore recited in this chapter as a prerequisite to its application do or do not exist, and shall give notice of hearing as follows: The not... |
85.15.050 | Written objections—Filing—Grounds—Waiver. | Any person, owner or reputed owner having any interest in any property against which the board of county commissioners seeks to make a protection and service charge under this chapter, may object thereto. All such objections must be in writing and filed with the board of county commissioners before the hearing is comme... |
85.15.060 | Reexamination of properties on roll—Adjustment, periodic revision, of valuations. | The board of county commissioners may at any time reexamine the properties on any roll, and upon receipt of a petition from the board of supervisors of the district or the written request of a property owner shall do so. If it is found that the condition of such property or properties has changed so that such property ... |
85.15.070 | Roll constitutes valuations against which levy made and collected—Hearing on adjustments. | The roll approved and certified to the county officers by the board of county commissioners as in this chapter provided shall constitute the valuations of land, buildings and improvements furnished protection and services by the systems of the district against which valuation taxes shall be levied and collected annuall... |
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