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87.03.450 | Income from sale of electricity. | All income derived from the sale, delivery and distribution of electrical energy, shall be deposited with the county treasurer of the county in which the office of the board of directors of the district is located, and shall be apportioned to such fund or funds of the district authorized by law, as the board of directo... |
87.03.455 | District's right to cross other property. | The board of directors shall have power to construct the *said works across any stream of water, water course, street, avenue, highway, railway, canal, ditch or flume, which the route of said canal or canals may intersect or cross, in such manner as to afford security for life and property; but said board shall restore... |
87.03.460 | Compensation and expenses of directors, officers, employees. | (1) In addition to their reasonable expenses in accordance with chapter 42.24 RCW, the directors shall each receive ninety dollars for each day or portion thereof spent by a director for such actual attendance at official meetings of the district, or in performance of other official services or duties on behalf of the ... |
87.03.470 | Special assessments—Election—Notes. | (1) The board of directors may, at any time when in their judgment it may be advisable, call a special election and submit to the qualified electors of the district the question whether or not a special assessment shall be levied for the purpose of raising money to be applied to any of the purposes provided in this cha... |
87.03.475 | Power as to incurring indebtedness. | (1) The board shall incur no debt or liability in excess of the express provisions of this title. It may without an election and levy therefor pay the necessary costs and expenses of organizing and may make surveys, do engineering work, and conduct a general investigation to determine the feasibility of the proposed ir... |
87.03.480 | Local improvement districts—Petition. | Any desired special construction, reconstruction, betterment or improvement or purchase or acquisition of improvements already constructed, for any authorized district service, including but not limited to the safeguarding of open canals or ditches for the protection of the public therefrom, which are for the special b... |
87.03.485 | Local improvement districts—Notice—Hearing—Initiation by board, procedure. | In the event that the board approves the petition, the board shall fix a time and place for the hearing thereof and shall publish a notice once a week for two consecutive weeks preceding the date of such hearing and the last publication shall not be more than seven days before such date and shall mail such a notice on ... |
87.03.486 | Local improvement districts—Notice to contain statement that assessments may vary from estimates. | Any notice given to the public or to the owners of specific lots, tracts, or parcels of land relating to the formation of a local improvement district shall contain a statement that actual assessments may vary from assessment estimates so long as they do not exceed a figure equal to the increased true and fair value th... |
87.03.487 | Local improvement districts—Sanitary sewer or potable water facilities—Notice to certain property owners. | Whenever it is proposed that a local improvement district finance sanitary sewers or potable water facilities, additional notice of the public hearing on the proposed local improvement district shall be mailed to the owners of any property located outside of the proposed local improvement district that would be require... |
87.03.490 | Local improvement districts—Adoption of plan—Bonds, form and contents—New lands may be included. | (1) If decision shall be rendered in favor of the improvement, the board shall enter an order establishing the boundaries of the improvement district and shall adopt plans for the proposed improvement and determine the number of annual installments not exceeding fifty in which the cost of the improvement shall be paid.... |
87.03.492 | Local improvement districts—Bonds, valid claim—General indebtedness. | Any local improvement district bonds, and interest thereon, issued against a bond redemption fund of a local improvement district pursuant to RCW 87.03.485 shall be a valid claim of the owner thereof only as against the local improvement guarantee fund, the local improvement district redemption fund, and the assessment... |
87.03.495 | Local improvement districts—Costs of the improvement—Assessments—Disposal of bonds. | (1)(a) The cost of the improvement and of the operation and maintenance thereof, if any, shall be especially assessed against the lands within such local improvement district in proportion to the benefits accruing thereto, and shall be levied and collected in the manner provided by law for the levy and collection of la... |
87.03.500 | Local improvement districts—Payment of bonds. | In the event of the failure of the lands within the local improvement district to furnish money sufficient for the payment of principal or interest of the bonds or the contract as provided for in RCW 87.03.485 for such local improvement work and there shall be a default in the payment of principal or interest as afores... |
87.03.505 | Local improvement districts—L.I.D. unable to pay costs—Survey—Reassessments. | Whenever, by reason of the sale of land within a local improvement district for unpaid taxes or assessments, or for any other reason, it may appear apparent that the remaining lands within any such local improvement district are and will be unable to pay out the cost of such improvement or the bond issue or contract in... |
87.03.510 | Local improvement districts—Irrigation district L.I.D. guarantee fund. | There is hereby established for each irrigation district in this state having local improvement districts therein a fund for the purpose of guaranteeing to the extent of such fund and in the manner herein provided, the payment of its local improvement bonds and warrants issued or contract entered into to pay for the im... |
87.03.515 | Local improvement districts—Refunding bonds. | It shall be lawful for any irrigation district which has issued local improvement district bonds for the improvements, as in this chapter provided, to issue in place thereof an amount of local improvement district or revenue refunding bonds of the irrigation district in accordance with chapter 39.53 RCW: PROVIDED, HOWE... |
87.03.520 | Local improvement districts—Contracts with state or United States for local improvement work. | Any irrigation district may contract with the United States, or the state of Washington, for local improvement work, and for such purpose may form local improvement districts as herein provided. Authorization of local improvement district bonds or of contract with the United States, or the state of Washington, for loca... |
87.03.522 | Irrigation district authorized to finance local improvements with general district funds. | In lieu of the issuance of local improvement district bonds or the entering into a contract with the United States or the state of Washington, or both, to secure the funds for or to repay the cost of any improvement to be charged, in whole or in part, against any local improvement district organized pursuant to this ch... |
87.03.525 | Local improvement districts—Provisions applicable to districts formerly organized. | Any local improvement district heretofore duly organized may avail itself of and be subject to any of the provisions of this chapter increasing the number of annual installments, not to exceed fifty, after the directors of the irrigation district duly adopt a resolution to that effect, and it shall be the duty of the b... |
87.03.526 | Local improvement districts—Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Assessments and benefits. | Whenever a local improvement district is established within an irrigation district for the safeguarding of the public from the dangers of open canals or ditches the rate of assessment per square foot in the local district may be determined by any of the methods provided for assessment of similar improvements in cities ... |
87.03.527 | Local improvement districts—Alternative methods of formation. | Whenever the board establishes a local improvement district, in addition or as an alternative to the procedures provided in RCW 87.03.480 through 87.03.525 , there may be employed any method authorized by law for the formation of improvement districts and the levying, collection, and enforcement by foreclosure of asses... |
87.03.530 | Consolidation of irrigation districts—Authorization—Merger of smaller irrigation districts. | (1) Two or more irrigation districts may be consolidated into one district as provided in RCW 87.03.535 through 87.03.551 and may include in such district other lands susceptible of irrigation in the manner provided in this act, and upon the organization of such consolidated district it shall be an organized irrigation... |
87.03.535 | Consolidation of irrigation districts—Proceedings for consolidation—Elections. | For the purpose of organizing a consolidated irrigation district a petition signed by fifty or a majority of the holders of title to, or evidence of title to land susceptible of irrigation within the proposed district shall be presented to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the lands or the greate... |
87.03.540 | Consolidation of irrigation districts—Directors—Disposition of affairs of included districts. | The board of directors of each included district shall hold office until the board of directors of the consolidated district shall have been elected and shall have qualified, and thereupon the term of office of the directors of such included district shall terminate, and the board of directors of such consolidated dist... |
87.03.545 | Consolidation of irrigation districts—Obligations of included districts unaffected. | The inclusion of an organized district into a consolidated district shall not affect or impair any bonds or obligations of such included district and the holders of the bonds of any such included district shall be entitled to all remedies for the enforcement of the same as if such district had not been consolidated, an... |
87.03.550 | Consolidation of irrigation districts—Property vested in new district—Credit. | The board of directors of an included district shall before the expiration of their term of office cause to be prepared and filed with the board of directors of the consolidated district a statement of all property of such included district, and upon the organization of such consolidated district, the property, of such... |
87.03.551 | Consolidation of irrigation districts—Procedures supplemental to boundary change provisions. | The procedure herein provided for the consolidation of districts shall not supersede or repeal any provisions of this act providing for changing the boundaries of any irrigation district, but shall be additional and supplemental thereto.
[ 1919 c 180 s 23 ; RRS s 7473.] |
87.03.553 | Consolidated local improvement districts for bond issuance. | For the purpose of issuing bonds only, the governing body of any irrigation district may authorize the establishment of consolidated local improvement districts. The local improvements within such consolidated districts need not be adjoining, vicinal, or neighboring. If the governing body orders the creation of such co... |
87.03.555 | Change of boundaries authorized—Effect. | The boundaries of any irrigation district now or hereafter organized under the provisions of this chapter may be changed in the manner herein prescribed, but such change of the boundaries of the district shall not impair or affect its organization, or its rights in or to property, or any of its rights or privileges of ... |
87.03.560 | Adding lands to district—Petition, contents—Acknowledgment. | The holder or holders of title, or evidence of title, representing one-half or more of any body of lands may file with the board of directors of an irrigation district a petition in writing, praying that the boundaries of the district may be so changed as to include such lands. The petition shall describe the boundarie... |
87.03.565 | Adding lands to district—Notice—Contents—Service. | The secretary of the board of directors shall cause a notice of the filing of such petition to be published in the same manner and for the same time that notice of special elections for the issue of bonds are required by this chapter to be given. The notice shall state the filing of such petition and the names of the p... |
87.03.570 | Adding lands to district—Hearing—Assent. | The board of directors, at the time and place mentioned in said notice, or at such other time or times to which the hearing of said petition may be adjourned, shall proceed to hear the petition and all the objections thereto presented in writing by any person showing cause, as aforesaid, why said proposed change of the... |
87.03.575 | Adding lands to district—Payment for benefits received required. | The board of directors to whom such petition to include other lands in the district is presented, shall require, as a condition precedent to the granting of the petition, that the petitioners shall severally pay, or give approved security upon such terms as may be prescribed by the board to pay, to such district such r... |
87.03.580 | Adding lands to district—Order. | The board of directors, if they deem it not for the best interests of the district that a change of its boundaries be so made as to include therein the lands mentioned in the petition, shall order that the petition be rejected. But if they deem it for the best interests of the district that the boundaries of said distr... |
87.03.585 | Adding lands to district—Resolution. | If any person interested in said district, or the proposed change of its boundaries, shall show cause, as aforesaid, why such boundaries should not be changed and shall not withdraw the same, and if the board of directors deem it for the best interests of the district that the boundaries thereof be so changed as to inc... |
87.03.590 | Adding lands to district—Election—Notice—How conducted. | Upon the adoption of the resolution mentioned in RCW 87.03.585 , the board shall order that an election be held within said district, to determine whether the boundaries of the district shall be changed as mentioned in said resolution; and shall fix the time at which such election shall be held, and shall cause notice ... |
87.03.595 | Adding lands to district—Order changing boundaries—Record. | If at such election a majority of all the votes cast at said election shall be against such change of the boundaries of the district, the board shall order that said petition be denied, and shall proceed no further in the matter. But if a majority of the votes be in favor of such change of the boundaries of the distric... |
87.03.600 | Adding lands to district—Change of boundaries recorded—Effect. | Upon a change of the boundaries of a district being made, a copy of the order of the board of directors ordering such change, certified by the president and secretary of the board, shall be filed for record in the offices of county auditor and county assessor of each county within which are situated any of the lands of... |
87.03.605 | Adding lands to district—Petition to be recorded—Admissible as evidence. | Upon the filing of the copies of the order, as in RCW 87.03.600 mentioned, the secretary shall record in the minutes of the board the petition aforesaid; and the said minutes, or a certified copy thereof, shall be admissible in evidence with the same effect as the petition.
[1889-90 p 698 s 57; RRS s 7484. Formerly RCW... |
87.03.610 | Adding lands to district—Guardian, administrator or executor may act. | A guardian, an executor or administrator of an estate, who is appointed as such under the laws of this state, and who, as such guardian, executor or administrator, is entitled to the possession of the lands belonging to the estate which he or she represents, may, on behalf of his or her ward or the estate which he or s... |
87.03.615 | Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Petition. | Whenever five or a majority of the holders of title to or evidence of title to any land susceptible of irrigation from the water supply and system of works of any irrigation district in this state, comprising within its boundaries two hundred thousand or more acres of land now existing or hereafter organized, desire to... |
87.03.620 | Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Time and place of hearing—Notice. | Upon the filing of the petition, the board shall fix a time and place for the hearing of the same which shall not be less than thirty days and not more than one hundred eighty days from the date of said filing; and the board shall cause a notice of such hearing to be published prior to said hearing in three consecutive... |
87.03.625 | Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Contents of notice. | Said notice shall state the filing of the petition, describe generally the lands petitioned to be included within the operation of the district and the prayer of the petition and shall notify all persons interested in or that may be affected by such inclusion to appear at the time and place named in the notice, and sho... |
87.03.630 | Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Hearing—Order including lands. | The board of directors of the district shall meet at the time and place specified in the notice and shall have full authority to determine all matters pertaining to the petition, including the denial as well as the granting of said petition or any part thereof; and if it appears at said hearing, or at any adjournment t... |
87.03.635 | Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Denial of petition. | If at said hearing or at any adjournment thereof, the board of directors shall determine that said land is not susceptible of irrigation and will not be benefited as aforesaid by inclusion in the district, or if more than fifty percent of the holders of title to or evidence of title to the land described in the petitio... |
87.03.640 | Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Order filed—Effect. | A certified copy of the order of the board of directors including any lands within the operation of the district under the provisions of *this act shall be filed with the county assessor and with the county auditor of each county in which any part of such included lands is situated, and from and after the date of such ... |
87.03.645 | Exclusion of lands from district—Effect. | The boundaries of any irrigation district or consolidated irrigation district, now or hereafter organized under the provisions of this chapter, may be changed, and tracts of land which were included within the boundaries of such district, or former irrigation districts which were included within the boundaries of such ... |
87.03.650 | Exclusion of lands from district—Petition to exclude lands—Contents. | The owner or owners in fee of one or more tracts of land which constitute a portion of an irrigation district, or fifty or a majority of the holders of title to lands constituting any portion of an irrigation district, or consolidated district as the case may be, for which lands similar grounds for exclusion may exist,... |
87.03.655 | Exclusion of lands from district—Notice—Contents—Service. | The secretary of the board of directors shall cause a notice of the filing of the petition to be published for at least two weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the office of the board of directors is situated, and if any portion of the territory to be excluded lies within another county or c... |
87.03.660 | Exclusion of lands from district—Hearing—Assent. | The board of directors, at the time and place mentioned in the notice, or at the time or times to which the hearing of said petition may be adjourned, shall proceed to hear the petition, and all objections thereto presented in writing, by any person showing cause, as aforesaid, why the prayer of said petition should no... |
87.03.665 | Exclusion of lands from district—Order denying or granting petition. | The board of directors, if they deem it not for the best interest of the district, or consolidated district, as the case may be, that the lands, or the former district, mentioned in the petition, or some portion thereof, should be excluded from said district, or consolidated district, shall order that said petition be ... |
87.03.670 | Exclusion of lands from district—Assent of bondholders. | If there be outstanding bonds of the district, or consolidated district, as the case may be, or if such district shall have entered into a contract with the United States, or the state of Washington, then the board may adopt a resolution to the effect that the board deems it to the best interest of the district that th... |
87.03.675 | Exclusion of lands from district—Order for election—Notice—Conduct of election. | If the assent aforesaid of the holders of said bonds be filed and entered of record as aforesaid, and if there be objections presented by any person showing cause as aforesaid, which have not been withdrawn, then the board may order an election to be held in each district to determine whether an order shall be made exc... |
87.03.680 | Exclusion of lands from district—Procedure following election—Order of exclusion. | If at any such election a majority of all the votes cast shall be against exclusion the board shall deny and dismiss said petition and proceed no further in said matter; but if in the case of a petition for the exclusion of lands from a district a majority of such votes be in favor of the exclusion of said lands from t... |
87.03.685 | Exclusion of lands from district—Orders to be recorded—Effect. | Upon the entry in the minutes of the board of any of the orders hereinbefore mentioned, a copy thereof, certified by the president and the secretary of the board, shall be filed for record in the offices of the county auditor and the county assessor of each county within which are situated any of the lands of the distr... |
87.03.690 | Exclusion of lands from district—Guardian, executor or administrator may sign and acknowledge. | A guardian, and executor or an administrator of an estate who is appointed as such under the laws of this state, and who, as such guardian, executor or administrator, is entitled to the possession of the lands belonging to the estate which he or she represents, may, on behalf of his or her ward or the estate which he o... |
87.03.695 | Exclusion of lands from district—Refunds—Cancellation of assessments. | In case of the exclusion of any lands under the provisions of this act, the board of directors shall determine what refund, if any, shall be made to any person or persons who have paid any assessments to such district on any lands so excluded, but such refund, if any, shall be on a basis equitable alike to lands remain... |
87.03.700 | Connecting system to lower drainage district—Procedure. | When an irrigation district desires to connect its system of drainage with that of a lower drainage district or districts, it shall make the lower district or districts a party to the proceedings to construct its system, and allege in its petition that the connection is needed to afford a proper outlet and that the out... |
87.03.705 | Connecting system to lower drainage district—Negative finding by jury or court. | The jury, or the court if jury be waived, shall first determine whether the lower drainage system or systems when so improved will afford a sufficient drainage and outlet for both the drainage district and irrigation district, and if it finds that it will not, the finding shall terminate the proceedings so far as the c... |
87.03.710 | Connecting system to lower drainage district—Affirmative finding by jury or court—Assessments. | If the jury, or the court if jury be waived, finds the outlet and drainage sufficient it shall assess the damages sustained by the lands in the lower drainage district or districts by reason of the improvement, together with awards for damaging and taking lands for rights-of-way required, which shall be paid by the irr... |
87.03.715 | Connecting system to lower drainage district—Increased maintenance costs. | The lower district or districts may require the jury or court to determine any increased cost to it in annual maintenance of its system as improved, and judgment shall be rendered against the irrigation district in favor of the lower drainage district or districts for any amount so found, and it shall be paid annually ... |
87.03.720 | Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, consolidated drainage improvement, or water-sewer district—Power to assent. | The board of directors of an irrigation district shall, after being notified by the legislative authority of the county or counties within which the irrigation district lies of the filing of the petition therefor, have the power to assent to the proposed merger with the irrigation district of that portion of a drainage... |
87.03.725 | Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, consolidated drainage improvement, or water-sewer district—Notice—Contents—Publication—Show cause against merger. | The secretary of the board of directors shall cause a notice of the proposed merger to be posted and published in the same manner and for the same time as notice of a special election for the issue of bonds. The notice shall state that a petition has been filed with the legislative authority of the county or counties w... |
87.03.730 | Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, or consolidated drainage improvement district—Hearing—Failure to show cause deemed assent. | At the time of hearing, or at such other time to which the hearing may be adjourned, the board of directors of the irrigation district shall hear the proposal of merger and any objections thereto. Failure to show cause shall be deemed as assent to the proposed merger.
[ 1957 c 94 s 12 . Formerly RCW 87.01.260 .] |
87.03.735 | Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, or consolidated drainage improvement district—Assent, refusal to assent—Effect of show cause against merger. | The board of directors of the irrigation district, if it deems it not for the best interest of the irrigation district that the proposed merger take place, shall enter an order refusing to assent to the merger. But, if it deems it to be to the best interest of the irrigation district that the merger take place and, if ... |
87.03.740 | Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, or consolidated drainage improvement district—Election. | Upon the adoption of the resolution, the board shall order an election held within the irrigation district on the question of the proposed merger and shall fix the time thereof and cause notice to be published. The notice shall be given and the election conducted in the manner as for special elections on a bond issue o... |
87.03.745 | Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, or consolidated drainage improvement district—Order of assent or refusal—Filing. | If a majority of the votes cast at the election are against the merger, the irrigation district board shall enter an order refusing to assent to the merger. If a majority of the votes cast favor the merger, the board shall enter an order assenting to the proposed merger. A copy of the order certified by the president a... |
87.03.750 | Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Resolution. | Whenever any irrigation district organized and existing under the laws of this state, shall have entered into a contract, or contracts, with the department of ecology, for the sale to and purchase by the department of an entire authorized issue of the bonds of the district, for the purpose of procuring funds for distri... |
87.03.755 | Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Notice of hearing—Contents. | Upon the adoption of the resolution as provided in RCW 87.03.750 , the board of directors of the district shall cause to be served upon the director of the department of ecology, and to be published once a week for four successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the district is situat... |
87.03.760 | Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Adoption of resolution—Appellate review. | At the conclusion, or final adjournment, of the hearing provided for in RCW 87.03.755 , the board of directors of the district shall have the power, by unanimous resolution to adopt the proposed plan, or such modification thereof as may be determined by the board, and reduce the boundaries of the district to such area ... |
87.03.765 | Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Indebtedness may be reduced. | Whenever it shall appear, to the satisfaction of the director of ecology, that the irrigation system of any irrigation district, to which the department of ecology of the state of Washington under a contract with the district for the purchase of its bonds, has advanced funds for the purpose of constructing an irrigatio... |
87.03.770 | Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Reconveyance of excluded land formerly foreclosed to district. | Whenever the boundaries of any irrigation district have been reduced and lands excluded from such district, as provided in *this act, the directors of such district shall be authorized and directed to execute and deliver to the owners, respectively, of any lands excluded from the district, which have been deeded to the... |
87.03.775 | Map of district. | Said board of directors shall cause a map to be made of the irrigation districts showing each forty acres, subdivision or fraction thereof, and place the same on file in their office.
[ 1895 c 165 s 28 ; RRS s 7495. Formerly RCW 87.08.120 .]
Surveys, maps and plans to be prepared: RCW 87.03.165 through 87.03.170 . |
87.03.780 | Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Authorization. | The board of directors of an irrigation district, now or hereafter organized under the provisions of this chapter, may commence a special proceeding in and by which the proceedings for organizing such district or the proceedings of said board and of said district, providing for and authorizing the issue and sale of the... |
87.03.785 | Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Petition—Contents. | The board of directors of the irrigation district shall file in the superior court of the county in which the lands of the district, or some portion thereof, are situated, a petition praying in effect, that the proceedings aforesaid may be examined, approved, and confirmed by the court. The petition shall state the fac... |
87.03.790 | Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Notice of hearing. | The court shall fix the time for the hearing of said petition, and shall order the clerk of the court to give and publish a notice of the filing of said petition. The notice shall be given and published in the same manner and for the same length of time that a notice of a special election provided for by this chapter t... |
87.03.795 | Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Demurrer or answer—Procedure. | Any person interested in said district or in the issue or sale of said bonds in the issue or sale of refunding bonds or in the making of a contract with the United States or any contract referred to in said petition may demur to or answer said petition. The statutes of this state respecting the demurrer, and the answer... |
87.03.800 | Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Jurisdiction of court—Order—Costs. | Upon the hearing of such special proceedings, the court shall have full power and jurisdiction to examine and determine the legality and validity of and approve and confirm each and all of the proceedings for the organization of said district under the provisions of this chapter from and including the petition for the ... |
87.03.805 | Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Appeal. | An appeal from an order granting or refusing a new trial, or from the judgment, must be taken by the party aggrieved within thirty days after the entry of said order or said judgment.
[ 1915 c 179 s 32 ; 1889-90 p 705 s 78; RRS s 7504. Formerly RCW 87.08.240 .] |
87.03.810 | Lump sum payment to district for irrigable lands acquired for highway purposes. | Whenever lands situated in an irrigation district are acquired by the department of transportation, and the lands, at the time of their acquisition by the department of transportation, were irrigable and were being served or were capable of being served by facilities of the district to the same extent and in the same m... |
87.03.815 | Lump sum payment to district for irrigable lands acquired for highway purposes—Order relieving further district assessments. | Upon the department of transportation making the lump sum payment to the district under RCW 87.03.810 , the district shall make and enter an order relieving the lands from further district assessments for the delivery of water to the lands.
[ 1984 c 7 s 381 ; 1959 c 303 s 2 . Formerly RCW 87.01.310 .] |
87.03.820 | Disposal of real property—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 lands adjoining that real property and such owners shall have a right of first refusal to purchase at the appraised pri... |
87.03.825 | Hydroelectric resources—Development—Legislative findings. | The legislature finds that a significant potential exists for the development of cost-effective renewable hydroelectric resources by irrigation districts, cities, towns, and public utility districts and further finds that it is in the best interests of the state and its citizens for such entities to develop that hydroe... |
87.03.828 | Hydroelectric resources—Separate legal authority—Creation by irrigation districts and cities, towns, or public utility districts—Powers. | One or more irrigation districts and any combination of cities, towns, or public utility districts may create a separate legal authority to construct, finance, acquire, own, operate, and maintain hydroelectric facilities including, but not limited to, dams, canals, plants, transmission lines, other power equipment and ... |
87.03.831 | Hydroelectric resources—Separate legal authority—Procedures for membership and for construction and acquisition of facilities. | Cities, towns, and public utility districts not engaged in the generation, transmission, or distribution of electricity on April 19, 1983, may be members of a separate legal authority created under the provisions of RCW 87.03.828 without the necessity of obtaining prior approval of their voters. However, no such city, ... |
87.03.834 | Hydroelectric resources—Separate legal authority—Voter ratification of actions. | After demand made by a majority of the authority's members, the actions of an authority shall become subject to ratification and approval by the voters of its members in accordance with procedures agreed to by its members. Every contract establishing an authority shall provide appropriate procedures for ratification an... |
87.03.837 | Hydroelectric resources—Separate legal authority—Repayment of indebtedness—Powers. | A separate legal authority shall only have power to incur indebtedness that is repayable from rates, tolls, charges, or contract payments for services or electricity provided by the authority and to pledge such revenues for the payment and retirement of indebtedness issued for the construction or acquisition of hydroel... |
87.03.840 | Chapter supplementary—When. | This chapter supplements and neither restricts nor limits any powers which a city, town, public utility district, or irrigation district might otherwise have under any laws of this state, except that no such authority created by RCW 87.03.828 and no city, town, or public utility district member of an authority may cond... |
87.03.845 | Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Proceedings to initiate—Notice—Hearing. | This section and RCW 87.03.847 through 87.03.855 provide the procedures by which a minor irrigation district may be merged into a major irrigation district as authorized by RCW 87.03.530 (2). To institute proceedings for such a merger, the board of directors of the minor district shall adopt a resolution requesting the... |
87.03.847 | Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Denial or adoption of request for merger—Notice—Elections—Notification of merger. | (1) If, following the public hearing conducted under RCW 87.03.845 , the board of directors of the major irrigation district denies the request for a merger, no further action shall be taken on the request. If, following the public hearing, the board adopts a resolution approving the merger, the merger is approved by t... |
87.03.849 | Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Board of directors—Transfer of property and assets. | The members of the board of directors of the major irrigation district shall hold office as directors of the district formed by the merger until the end of their terms of office. If the major district is divided into director divisions, the board of the major district shall propose a plan for redividing the district in... |
87.03.851 | Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Bonds or obligations not impaired—Enforcement of assessments and obligations—Establishment of local improvement district to carry out obligations. | (1) The merger of irrigation districts shall not affect or impair any bonds or obligations of the merged districts and the holders of the bonds of any merged district shall be entitled to all remedies for their enforcement as if the district had not been merged. All obligations incurred by the district prior to its mer... |
87.03.853 | Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Statement of property and assets of minor district. | Prior to or on the effective date of a merger of a minor irrigation district and a major irrigation district, the board of directors of the minor district shall cause to be prepared a statement of all property and other assets of the minor district. The statement shall be filed with the board of directors of the distri... |
87.03.855 | Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Merger of more than two districts. | More than two irrigation districts may merge under RCW 87.03.530 (2) and 87.03.845 through 87.03.853 in one merger process. However, only one of the districts may be a "major" irrigation district and the assessed acreage in all of the other districts merging in the process, when taken collectively, shall not constitute... |
87.03.857 | Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Existing water rights not impaired. | Nothing in RCW 87.03.530 (2) and 87.03.845 through 87.03.855 shall authorize the impairment or operate to impair any existing water rights.
[ 1993 c 235 s 8 .] |
87.03.860 | Assumption of substandard water system—Limited immunity from liability. | An irrigation 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 wate... |
87.03.870 | Mutual aid agreements for emergency interdistrict assistance—Authority—Liability. | (1) Under the interlocal cooperation act, chapter 39.34 RCW, an irrigation district may enter into a mutual aid agreement with any other irrigation district to provide emergency interdistrict assistance to respond to a breach or other failure of an irrigation water conveyance system when the required response exceeds t... |
87.03.880 | Tariff for irrigation pumping service—Authority to buy back electricity. | The board may approve a tariff for irrigation pumping service that allows the irrigation district to buy back electricity from customers to reduce electricity usage by those customers during the irrigation district's particular irrigation season.
[ 2001 c 122 s 6 .]
Effective date — 2001 c 122: See note following RCW 8... |
87.03.900 | Construction—1913 c 165. | All irrigation districts in the state of Washington, and all proceedings had for the organization of any irrigation district, and all proceedings now pending in or relating to any irrigation district, shall be governed and controlled by the terms of this act, and this act shall not be construed as abridging or abrogati... |
87.03.920 | Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521. | For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married person... |
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