Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 85 Diking And Drainage - Chapter 85.28 Private Ditches And Drains

85.28.010 Private parties authorized to establish ditches and drains
The owner or owners of any land which requires drainage and which is so situated that it is necessary to the proper drainage of the ...

85.28.020 Petition to appropriate -- Contents
The person or persons desiring the location and establishment of such ditch or drain may file in the superior court of the county in which ...

85.28.030 Cost bond by petitioner
The petitioner, or someone in his behalf, shall enter into a bond in the penal sum of one hundred dollars, with two or more sureties, ...

85.28.040 Viewers to be appointed -- Duties
Upon the filing of said petition the court shall appoint three viewers, two of whom shall be resident freeholders of said county, and not interested ...

85.28.050 Report of viewers and plat to be filed
When said viewers shall have made said examination they shall, within ten days after the day appointed by the court for such examination, report to ...

85.28.060 Summons to landowners -- Contents and form
Upon the filing of the report of the viewers aforesaid, a summons shall be issued in the same manner as summons are issued in civil ...

85.28.080 Service by publication
In case any person interested in any of the lands to be crossed by such ditch, as aforesaid, does not reside in the county, or ...

85.28.090 Trial -- Findings or verdict -- Decree -- Time for payment of award
Upon the expiration of the time within which exceptions may be filed to the report of the viewers aforesaid, the court shall set a day ...

85.28.100 Appeal
No appeal shall be taken from the finding of the court as to the necessity of such ditch or as to the route thereof until ...

85.28.110 Compensation of viewers -- Costs
The viewers appointed under the provisions of this chapter shall receive the sum of two dollars per day for their services, and the *county surveyor ...

85.28.120 New viewers may be appointed if report not adopted
In case the court should not for any reason adopt the report of the viewers, or the same should be deemed insufficient for any reason, ...

85.28.130 Drainage of tide or marsh lands -- Division of cost between contiguous tracts
Persons owning or desiring to improve contiguous tracts of tide marsh or swampy lands exposed to the overflow of the tide and capable of being ...

85.28.140 Dike or ditch as common boundary -- Division of costs
Any person or persons who may hereafter take a tract of tide land or marsh and shall desire to adopt as his or her boundary ...

85.28.150 Dike, dam, or causeway at Bachelor Slough
It shall be lawful for any adjacent or abutting owner or owners, to construct a dike, dam, or causeway over or in the waters of ...