Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 85 Diking And Drainage - Chapter 85.06 Drainage Districts And Miscellaneous Drainage Provisions

85.06.010 Districts authorized -- Powers -- Management
Any portion of a county, requiring drainage, which contains five or more inhabitants and freeholders therein may be organized into a drainage district, and when ...

85.06.015 Certain powers and rights governed by chapter 85.38 RCW
Drainage districts shall possess the authority and shall be created, district voting rights shall be determined, and district elections shall be held as provided in ...

85.06.070 Eminent domain powers -- Purchase of real property authorized
All drainage districts organized or that may hereafter be organized under the provisions of this chapter or the acts amendatory thereof shall have the right ...

85.06.080 Commissioners -- Powers and duties
The board of drainage commissioners shall consist of three elected commissioners. The initial commissioners shall be appointed, and the elected commissioners elected, as provided in ...

85.06.090 Petition for improvement -- Contents
Whenever it is desired to prosecute the construction of a system of drainage by said drainage district, said district, by and through its board of ...

85.06.100 Petition for improvement -- Employment of assistants -- Compensation as costs in suit
In the preparation of the facts and data to be inserted in said petition and filed therewith for the purpose of presenting the matter to ...

85.06.110 Summons -- Contents -- Service
A summons stating briefly the objects of the petition and containing a description of the land, real estate, premises or property sought to be appropriated, ...

85.06.120 Appearance of defendants -- Jury -- Verdict -- Assessment of damages and benefits -- Decree
Any or all of said defendants may appear jointly or separately and admit or deny the allegations of said petition and plead any affirmative matter ...

85.06.125 Special assessments -- Budgets -- Alternative methods
RCW 85.38.140 through 85.38.170 constitute a mutually exclusive alternative method by which drainage districts in existence as of July 28, 1985, may measure and impose ...

85.06.130 Assessment of benefited lands formerly omitted -- Procedure -- Appeals
If at any time it shall appear to the board of drainage commissioners that any lands within or without said district as originally established are ...

85.06.140 Dismissal of proceedings, when -- Costs
In case the damages or amount of compensation for such right-of-way, together with the estimated costs of the improvement, amount to more than the maximum ...

85.06.150 Procedure to claim awards
Any person or corporation claiming to be entitled to any money ordered paid by the court, as provided in this chapter, may apply to the ...

85.06.160 Transcript of benefits to auditor -- Assessments -- Collection -- Supplemental assessment
Upon the entry of the judgment upon the verdict of the jury, the clerk of said court shall immediately prepare a transcript, which shall contain ...

85.06.180 Construction -- Contractors -- Performance bonds
After the filing of said certificate said commissioners of such drainage district shall proceed at once in the construction of said improvement, and in carrying ...

85.06.190 Substantial changes in plans -- Procedure
The work on said improvement shall begin and shall be completed with all expedition possible, and said board of commissioners of such drainage district, or ...

85.06.200 Payments on contracts -- Retained percentage
During the construction of said improvement said commissioners shall have the right to allow payment thereof, in installments as the work progresses, in proportion to ...

85.06.210 Connecting private drains -- Procedure -- Costs
Any person or corporation owning land within said district shall have a right to connect any private drains or ditches for the proper drainage of ...

85.06.220 Connecting with lower districts -- Procedure
In case of the establishment of a drainage district and system of drainage under the provisions of this chapter above any other district that may ...

85.06.230 City or town may act as or be included in drainage district
Any town or city already incorporated, or which may hereafter be incorporated, may exercise the functions of a drainage district under the provisions of this ...

85.06.240 Estimate for maintenance and repair -- Emergency expenditures
See RCW 85.05.270. ...

85.06.250 Organization of board -- Warrants, how issued
The board of commissioners of such district shall elect one of their number chairman and shall either elect one of their number, or appoint a ...

85.06.255 Special assessment bonds
Special assessment bonds and notes shall be issued and sold in accordance with chapter 85.38 RCW.[1986 c 278 § 24.]Notes: Severability -- 1986 c 278: ...

85.06.330 Warrants presented for indorsement -- When and how paid
All warrants issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be presented by the owners thereof to the county treasurer, who shall indorse thereon the ...

85.06.340 Trial -- Findings and forms of verdict
Upon the trial of any questions of issue by a jury under the provisions of this chapter the trial court may, in its discretion, submit ...

85.06.350 Public lands subject to assessment -- Rights and liabilities of public corporations
All state, county, school district or other lands belonging to other public corporations requiring drainage shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter, and ...

85.06.360 Assessments on public lands -- How paid
In case lands belonging to the state, county, school district or other public corporations are benefited by any improvement instituted under the provisions of this ...

85.06.370 Fees for service of process
Fees for service of all process necessary to be served under the provisions of this chapter shall be the same as for like services in ...

85.06.380 Commissioners -- Compensation and expenses
In performing their duties under the provisions of this title the board and members of the board of drainage commissioners may receive as compensation up ...

85.06.390 Improvement of watercourses -- Preservation of vested rights
The whole or any portion of any natural watercourse, the whole or any portion of which lies within any district established under this chapter, or ...

85.06.400 Powers of court -- Injunctions
The superior court may compel the performance of the duties imposed by this chapter, and may, in its discretion, on proper application therefor, issue its ...

85.06.500 Extension or enlargement of system
Whenever it shall appear to the board of commissioners of any drainage district now organized or that may be hereafter organized under the laws of ...

85.06.545 Annexation of territory -- Consolidation of special districts -- Suspension of operations -- Reactivation
Drainage 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 aggrieved thereby may seek ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...