Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 35 Cities And Towns - Chapter 35.43 Local Improvements -- Authority -- Initiation Of Proceedings

35.43.005 Municipal local improvement statutes applicable to public corporations
The provisions of this and the following chapters relating to municipal local improvements apply to local improvements owned or operated by a public corporation or ...

35.43.010 Terms defined
Whenever the words "city council" or "town council" are used in this and the following chapters relating to municipal local improvements, they shall be construed ...

35.43.020 Construction
The rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed shall have no application to this and the following chapters ...

35.43.030 Charters superseded -- Application -- Ordinances -- Districts outside city authorized
This and the following chapters relating to municipal local improvements shall supersede the provisions of the charter of any city of the first class. They ...

35.43.035 Creation of district outside city subject to review by boundary review board
The creation of a local improvement district outside of the boundaries of a city or town to provide water or sewer facilities may be subject ...

35.43.040 Authority generally
Whenever the public interest or convenience may require, the legislative authority of any city or town may order the whole or any part of any ...

35.43.042 Authority to establish utility local improvement districts -- Procedure
Whenever the legislative authority of any city or town has provided pursuant to law for the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, purchase, condemnation and purchase, addition to, ...

35.43.043 Conversion of local improvement district into utility local improvement district
The legislative authority of any city or town may by ordinance convert any then existing local improvement district into a utility local improvement district at ...

35.43.045 Open canals or ditches -- Safeguards
Every city or town shall have the right of entry upon all irrigation, drainage, or flood control canal or ditch rights-of-way within its limits for ...

35.43.050 Authority -- Noncontinuous improvements
When the legislative body of any city or town finds that all of the property within a local improvement district or utility local improvement district ...

35.43.060 Consolidated cities -- Procedure
The city council of any city which is composed of two or more cities or towns which have been or may hereafter be consolidated may ...

35.43.070 Ordinance -- Action on petition or resolution
A local improvement may be ordered only by an ordinance of the city or town council, pursuant to either a resolution or petition therefor. The ...

35.43.075 Petition for district outside city may be denied
Whenever the formation of a local improvement district or utility local improvement district which lies entirely or in part outside of a city or town's ...

35.43.080 Ordinance -- Creation of district
Every ordinance ordering a local improvement to be paid in whole or in part by assessments against the property specially benefited shall describe the improvement ...

35.43.100 Ordinance -- Finality -- Limitation upon challenging jurisdiction or authority to proceed
The council may continue the hearing upon any petition or resolution provided for in this chapter and shall retain jurisdiction thereof until it is finally ...

35.43.110 Petition -- Mandatory, when
Proceedings to establish local improvement districts must be initiated by petition in the following cases: (1) Any local improvement payable in whole or in part ...

35.43.120 Petition -- Requirements
Any local improvement may be initiated upon a petition signed by the owners of property aggregating a majority of the area within the proposed district. ...

35.43.125 Petition -- Notice and public hearing required
A public hearing shall be held on the creation of a proposed local improvement district or utility local improvement district that is initiated by petition. ...

35.43.130 Preliminary estimates and assessment roll
Upon the filing of a petition or upon the adoption of a resolution, as the case may be, initiating a proceeding for the formation of ...

35.43.140 Resolutions -- Contents, publication -- Hearing, by whom held
Any local improvement to be paid for in whole or in part by the levy and collection of assessments upon the property within the proposed ...

35.43.150 Resolutions -- Hearing upon -- Notice
Notice of the hearing upon a resolution declaring the intention of the legislative authority of a city or town to order an improvement shall be ...

35.43.180 Restraint by protest
The jurisdiction of the legislative authority of a city or town to proceed with any local improvement initiated by resolution shall be divested by a ...

35.43.182 Waivers of protest -- Recording -- Limits on enforceability
If an owner of property enters into an agreement with a city or town waiving the property owner's right under RCW 35.43.180 to protest formation ...

35.43.184 Preformation expenditures
The city or town engineer or other designated official may contract with owners of real property to provide for payment by the owners of the ...

35.43.186 Credits for other assessments
A city or town ordering a local improvement upon which special assessments on property specifically benefited by the improvement are levied and collected, may provide ...

35.43.188 Assessment reimbursement accounts
A city or town ordering a local improvement upon which special assessments on property specifically benefitted by the improvement are levied and collected, may provide ...

35.43.190 Work -- By contract or by city or public corporation
All local improvements, the funds for the making of which are derived in whole or in part from assessments upon property specially benefited shall be ...

35.43.200 Street railways at expense of property benefited
Any city or town in this state owning and operating a municipal street railway over one hundred miles of track shall have power to provide ...

35.43.210 Street railways at expense of property benefited -- Petition -- Assessment district
Any improvement district created under RCW 35.43.200-35.43.230 shall be created only by ordinance defining its boundaries as specified and described in the petition therefor and ...

35.43.220 Street railways at expense of property benefited -- Assessment of cost
The cost and expense of any such improvement shall be distributed and assessed against all the property included in such local improvement district, in accordance ...

35.43.230 Street railways at expense of property benefited -- Procedure
Except as herein otherwise provided all matters and proceedings relating to such local improvement district, the levying and collecting of assessments, the issuance and redemption ...

35.43.250 Deferral of collection of assessments for economically disadvantaged persons -- Authorized
Any city of the first class in this state ordering any local improvement upon which shall be levied and collected special assessments on property specifically ...

35.43.260 Service fees for sewers not constructed within ten years after voter approval -- Credit against future assessments, service charges
Any municipal corporation, quasi municipal corporation, or political subdivision which has the authority to install sewers by establishing local improvement districts, which has charged and ...

35.43.270 Sanitary sewer or potable water facilities -- Notice to certain property owners
Whenever it is proposed that a local improvement district or utility local improvement district finance sanitary sewers or potable water facilities, additional notice of the ...

35.43.280 Settlement of Indian claims
(1) The settlement of Indian land and other claims against public and private property owners is declared to be in the interest of public health ...