Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 85 Diking And Drainage - Chapter 85.08 Diking, Drainage, And Sewerage Improvement Districts

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 ...

85.08.015 Certain powers and rights governed by chapter 85.38 RCW
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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 § 25.]Notes: Severability -- 1986 c 278: ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

85.08.900 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 ...

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, ...

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. ...