Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 87 Irrigation - Chapter 87.03 Irrigation Districts Generally

87.03.001 Actions subject to review by boundary review board
The formation of an irrigation district may be subject to potential review by a boundary review board under chapter 36.93 RCW. The alteration of the ...

87.03.005 District proposed -- Powers, when organized
Whenever fifty or a majority of the holders of title to, or of evidence of title to land susceptible of "irrigation" desire to organize an ...

87.03.010 Certain purposes for which district may be formed
An irrigation district may be organized or maintained for any or all the following purposes: (1) The construction or purchase of works, or parts of ...

87.03.013 Development of hydroelectric generation capabilities -- Legislative finding, intent -- Limitation
The legislature finds that a significant potential exists for the development of the hydroelectric generation capabilities of present and future irrigation systems serving irrigation districts. ...

87.03.015 Certain powers of district enumerated
Any irrigation district, operating and maintaining an irrigation system, in addition to other powers conferred by law, shall have authority: (1) To purchase and sell ...

87.03.016 District may provide street lighting -- Limitations
In addition to other powers conferred by law, an irrigation district is authorized to construct, purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire, maintain, and operate a system ...

87.03.017 District may assist residential owners in financing for conservation of energy -- When -- Plan -- Limitations
Any irrigation district engaged in the distribution of energy is hereby authorized, within limits established by the Constitution of the state of Washington, to assist ...

87.03.0175 District assistance for conservation, improvement, preservation, and efficient use
(1) Any irrigation district organized under this chapter may, for compensation, reimbursement, or otherwise, within limits established by the state Constitution, assist the owners of ...

87.03.018 Creation of legal authority to carry out powers -- Method -- Indebtedness
Two or more irrigation districts may create a separate legal authority to carry out any or all of the powers described in RCW 87.03.015. To ...

87.03.019 Cooperative watershed management
In addition to the authority provided throughout this title, an irrigation district, reclamation district, and similar districts organized pursuant to the authority of this title ...

87.03.020 Organization of district -- Petition -- Bond -- Notice -- Hearing--Order -- Notice of election
For the purpose of organizing an irrigation district, a petition, signed by the required number of holders of title or evidence of title to land ...

87.03.025 State lands situated in or taken into district -- Procedure -- Assessments, collection
Whenever public lands of the state are situated in or taken into an irrigation district they shall be treated the same as other lands, except ...

87.03.030 Elections are governed by irrigation district laws
All elections of irrigation districts, general or special, for any district purpose and in any county of the state shall be called, noticed, and conducted ...

87.03.031 Absentee voting -- Certification of inconvenience
Any qualified district elector who certifies as provided in RCW 87.03.032 through 87.03.034 that he cannot conveniently be present to cast his ballot at his ...

87.03.032 Absentee voting -- Notice of election, contents -- Ballot and form of certificate of qualifications to be furnished
The notice of election shall conform to the requirements for election notices provided by Title 87 RCW for the election being held, and shall specify ...

87.03.033 Absentee voting -- Requirements for ballot to be counted -- Statement of qualifications -- Form of ballot
(1) To be counted in a given election, an absentee ballot must conform to these requirements: (a) It must be sealed in an unmarked envelope ...

87.03.034 Absentee voting -- How incoming ballots are handled -- Canvass -- Statement of result of both regular and absentee ballots
(1) Absentee ballots shall be accumulated and kept, unopened, by the district's secretary until the time in which such ballots may be received is closed. ...

87.03.035 Elections to form district -- How conducted
The board of county commissioners shall establish a convenient number of election precincts in the proposed district and define the boundaries thereof, and designate a ...

87.03.040 Elections to form district -- Canvass of returns -- Order
The board of county commissioners shall meet on the second Monday after the election and canvass the returns, and if it appears that at least ...

87.03.045 Qualifications of voters and directors -- Districts of two hundred thousand acres
In districts with two hundred thousand acres or more, a person eighteen years old, being a citizen of the United States and a resident of ...

87.03.051 Qualifications of voters and directors -- Districts of less than two hundred thousand acres
In districts with less than two hundred thousand acres, a person eighteen years old, being a citizen of the United States and a resident of ...

87.03.071 Certain districts -- Individual ownerships -- Two votes
In any irrigation district where more than fifty percent of the total acreage of the district is owned in individual ownerships of less than five ...

87.03.075 Ballots in all elections -- Declaration of candidacy -- Petition of nomination -- When election not required
Voting in an irrigation district shall be by ballot. Ballots shall be of uniform size and quality, provided by the district, and for the election ...

87.03.080 Directors -- Election -- Terms -- Increase and decrease
An election of directors in an irrigation district shall be held on the second Tuesday of December of each year, and the term of each ...

87.03.081 Directors -- Vacancies, how filled
A vacancy in the office of director shall be filled by appointment by the board of county commissioners of the county in which the proceedings ...

87.03.082 Directors -- Oaths of office and official bonds -- Secretary
Each director shall take and subscribe an official oath for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office, and shall execute a bond to ...

87.03.083 Directors -- Recall and discharge
Every member of an irrigation district board of directors is subject to recall and discharge by the legal voters of such district pursuant to the ...

87.03.085 Post-organization district elections -- Election boards -- Notice
Fifteen days before any election held under this chapter, subsequent to the organization of any district, the secretary of the board of directors shall cause ...

87.03.090 Post-organization district elections -- Election officers -- Voting hours
The inspector is chairman of the election board, and may First: Administer all oaths required in the progress of an election. Second: Appoint judges and ...

87.03.095 Post-organization district elections -- Counting votes -- Record of ballots
Voting may commence as soon as the polls are opened, and may be continued during all the time the polls remain opened. As soon as ...

87.03.100 Post-organization district elections -- Certification of returns -- Preservation for recount
As soon as all the votes are read off and counted, a certificate shall be drawn upon each of the papers containing the poll list ...

87.03.105 Post-organization district elections -- Canvass
No list, tally paper or certificate returned from any election shall be set aside or rejected for want of form, if it can be satisfactorily ...

87.03.110 Post-organization district elections -- Statement of result of election -- Certificate of election
The secretary of the board of directors must, as soon as the result is declared, enter in the records of such board a statement of ...

87.03.115 Organization of board -- Meetings -- Quorum -- Certain powers and duties
The directors of the district shall organize as a board and shall elect a president from their number, and appoint a secretary, who shall keep ...

87.03.120 System of drainage, sanitary sewers, or sewage disposal or treatment plants -- Question -- Notice -- Meeting -- Resolution
Whenever, in the judgment of the district board, a system of drainage, sanitary sewers, or sewage disposal or treatment plants for any lands included in ...

87.03.125 System of drainage, sanitary sewers, or sewage disposal or treatment plants -- Powers upon passage of resolution
Upon the passing of said resolution, the district shall in all respects have the same power and authority as is now, or may hereafter be, ...

87.03.130 District change of name
Any district heretofore or hereafter organized and existing, may change its name by filing with the board of county commissioners of the county in which ...

87.03.135 Sale or lease of district personal property
An irrigation district has the power to sell or lease personal property owned by the district whenever its board of directors, by resolution: Determines that ...

87.03.136 Sale or lease of district real property
An irrigation district has the power to sell or lease real property owned by the district whenever its board of directors, by resolution: Determines that ...

87.03.137 Purchase or condemnation for developing hydroelectric generation capabilities -- Limitations
For the purpose of developing hydroelectric generation capabilities in connection with irrigation facilities, the board of directors of an irrigation district shall have the power, ...

87.03.138 Civil immunity of directors, officers, employees, or agents for good faith performance of official duties
Directors, officers, employees, or agents of irrigation districts shall be immune from civil liability for any cause of action or claim for damages for any ...

87.03.139 Lawful disposal of sewage and waste by others -- Immunity
No irrigation district, its directors, officers, employees, or agents operating and maintaining irrigation works for any purpose authorized by law, including the production of food ...

87.03.140 Board's powers and duties generally -- Condemnation procedure
The board, and its agents and employees, shall have the right to enter upon any land to make surveys, and may locate the necessary irrigation ...

87.03.145 Condemnation -- Finding of benefits and damages -- Judgment -- Costs
The jury, or the court if the jury be waived, in such condemnation proceedings shall find and return a verdict for the amount of damages ...

87.03.150 Condemnation -- Title acquired by district
The title to all property acquired under the provisions of this chapter shall immediately, and by operation of law, vest in such irrigation district and ...

87.03.155 Conveyances -- Actions by and against district
The said board is hereby authorized and empowered to take conveyances or other assurances for all property acquired by it under the provisions of this ...

87.03.158 Officers, employees, agents -- Legal representation -- Costs of defense
The board of directors of an irrigation district may authorize an attorney of its choosing to defend an officer, employee, or agent of the district, ...

87.03.160 Group insurance -- Purchase
The board of directors of irrigation districts shall have the authority and power to contract for and to pay the premium upon group life, health ...

87.03.162 Liability insurance for officials and employees
The board of directors of each irrigation district may purchase liability insurance with such limits as they may deem reasonable for the purpose of protecting ...

87.03.164 Liability insurance for officers and employees authorized
See RCW 36.16.138. ...

87.03.165 Proposed works -- Surveys, maps and plans to be prepared
For the purpose of construction, reconstruction, betterment, extension or acquisition of the necessary property and rights therefor, and otherwise carrying out the provisions of law ...

87.03.170 Proposed works -- Certification filed with director of ecology
Such examinations, surveys, maps, plans and specifications with estimates of cost as are deemed necessary for an understanding of the proposed plan of development shall ...

87.03.175 Proposed works -- Director's findings to district board
Said director shall forthwith consider said certified report and if he deem it advisable make, through the appropriate divisions of his department, additional studies of ...

87.03.180 Proposed works -- Substance of director's findings
In his findings said state director shall give generally his conclusions regarding the supply of water available for the project, the nature of the soil ...

87.03.185 Proposed works -- Reclamation Service may make findings
In the case of an irrigation district under contract or in cooperation with the United States under the provisions of the United States Reclamation Act, ...

87.03.190 Proposed works -- Plan of development -- Special election
Upon receipt of said findings the district board shall thereupon finally determine the plan of development and estimate and determine the amount of money to ...

87.03.195 Proposed works -- Certain irrigation districts excepted
As to irrigation districts existing on March 17, 1923, the provisions of RCW 87.03.165 through 87.03.190 relating to the filing of examinations, surveys, maps, plans ...

87.03.200 Bonds -- Election for -- Form and contents -- Exchange -- Cancellation -- Sale and issue -- Reissue -- Election concerning contract with United States -- Penalty
(1) At the election provided for in RCW 87.03.190, there shall be submitted to the electors of the district possessing the qualifications prescribed by law ...

87.03.205 Sections exclusive of other bonding methods -- Validation
The procedure outlined in RCW 87.03.165 through 87.03.190, 87.03.200, and in 87.03.210, for the authorization, issuance and disposal of bonds as heretofore constituted and shall ...

87.03.210 Sale or pledge of bonds
(1) The board may sell the bonds of the district or pledge the same to the United States from time to time in such quantities ...

87.03.215 Payment of bonds and interest, other indebtedness -- Lien, enforcement of -- Scope of section
Said bonds and interest thereon and all payments due or to become due to the United States or the state of Washington under any contract ...

87.03.220 Refunding bonds, 1923 act
See chapter 87.19 RCW. ...

87.03.225 Refunding bonds, 1929 act
See chapter 87.22 RCW. ...

87.03.230 Revenue bonds for water, power, drains, sewers, sewage disposal, etc
See chapter 87.28 RCW. ...

87.03.235 Rights of federal agencies as to certain district bonds
If the United States under any act of congress or under rules and regulations adopted by the secretary of the interior, shall be willing to ...

87.03.240 Assessments, how and when made -- Assessment roll
Assessments made in order to carry out the purpose of this act shall be made in proportion to the benefits accruing to the lands assessed ...

87.03.242 Exemption of farm and agricultural land from special benefit assessments
See RCW 84.34.300 through 84.34.380 and 84.34.922. ...

87.03.245 Deputy secretaries for assessment
The board of directors must allow the secretary as many deputies, to be appointed by them, as will, in the judgment of the board, enable ...

87.03.250 Assessment roll to be filed -- Notice of equalization
On or before the first Tuesday in September in each year to and including the year 1923, and on or before the first Tuesday in ...

87.03.255 Equalization of assessments
Upon the day specified in the notice required by RCW 87.03.250 for the meeting, the board of directors, which is hereby constituted a board of ...

87.03.260 Levies, amount -- Special funds -- Failure to make levy, procedure
The board of directors shall in each year before said roll is delivered by the secretary to the respective county treasurers, levy an assessment sufficient ...

87.03.265 Lien of assessment
The assessment upon real property shall be a lien against the property assessed, from and after the first day of January in the year in ...

87.03.270 Assessments, when delinquent -- Assessment book, purpose -- Statement of assessments due -- Collection -- Additional fee for delinquency
The assessment roll, before its equalization and adoption, shall be checked and compared as to descriptions and ownerships, with the county treasurer's land rolls. On ...

87.03.271 Lien for delinquent assessment to include costs and interest
The lien for delinquent assessments shall include the district's and treasurer's costs attributable to the delinquency and interest at the rate of twelve percent per ...

87.03.272 Secretary may act as collection agent of nondelinquent assessments -- Official bond -- Collection procedure -- Delinquency list
Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 87.03.260, 87.03.270, 87.03.440 and 87.03.445 the board of directors of any district acting as fiscal agent for the United States ...

87.03.275 Medium of payment of assessments
All assessments and tolls authorized under this act shall be paid in legal tender of the United States except that assessments and tolls levied for ...

87.03.277 Payment by credit cards, charge cards, and other electronic communication
Irrigation districts that have designated their own treasurers as provided in RCW 87.03.440 may accept credit cards, charge cards, debit cards, smart cards, stored value ...

87.03.280 Cancellation of assessments due United States -- Procedure
Where any district under contract with the United States has levied any assessment for the collection of money payable to the United States under such ...

87.03.285 Segregation of assessment -- Authorization
Whenever in the discretion of the board of directors of any irrigation district of the state as determined by resolution, after an assessment roll has ...

87.03.290 Segregation of assessment -- Hearing
When the irrigation district directors shall deem it advisable to make such segregation of assessments they shall by resolution fix the time and place for ...

87.03.295 Segregation of assessment -- Notice of hearing
Not less than ten days prior to the time and date fixed for said hearing the directors of said irrigation district shall cause notice of ...

87.03.300 Segregation of assessment -- Order
In the event said hearing shall result in a determination that in the discretion of the directors of said irrigation district it is advisable that ...

87.03.305 Segregation of assessment -- Amendment of roll -- Effect
Upon the filing of the certified copy of said order the county treasurer shall alter and amend the original assessment roll in accordance with said ...

87.03.420 Evidence of assessment, what is
The assessment book or delinquent list, or a copy thereof, certified by the secretary, showing unpaid assessments against any person or property, is prima facie ...

87.03.430 Bonds -- Interest payments
Whenever interest payments on bonds are due, the treasurer of the county shall pay the same from the bond fund belonging to the district and ...

87.03.435 Construction work -- Notice -- Bids -- Contracts -- Bonds
(1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section and RCW 87.03.436, whenever in the construction of the district canal or canals, ...

87.03.436 Small works roster
All contract projects, the estimated cost of which is less than one hundred thousand dollars, may be awarded to a contractor on the small works ...

87.03.437 Competitive bids -- Use of purchase contract process in RCW 39.04.190
(1) Purchases of any materials, supplies, or equipment by the district shall be based on competitive bids except as provided in RCW 87.03.435 and 39.04.280. ...

87.03.438 "County treasurer," "treasurer of the county," defined
As used in this chapter, in accordance with RCW 87.03.440, the term "county treasurer" or "treasurer of the county" or other reference to that office ...

87.03.440 Treasurer -- County treasurer as ex officio district treasurer -- Designated district treasurer -- Duties and powers -- Bond -- Claims -- Preliminary notice requirements when claim for crop damage
The treasurer of the county in which is located the office of the district shall be ex officio treasurer of the district, and any county ...

87.03.441 Temporary funds
The directors may provide by resolution that the secretary may deposit the following temporary funds in a local bank in the name of the district: ...

87.03.442 Bonds of secretary and depositaries
The secretary or other authorized person shall issue receipts for all moneys received for deposit in such funds and he and any other person handling ...

87.03.443 Upgrading and improvement fund authorized -- Deposits -- Use of funds
There may be created for each irrigation district a fund to be known as the upgrading and improvement fund. The board of directors shall determine ...

87.03.445 Acquisition, construction and operating funds -- Tolls and assessments, alternative methods of -- Liens, foreclosure of -- Delinquencies by tenants
(1) The cost and expense of purchasing and acquiring property, and construction, reconstruction, extension, and betterment of the works and improvements herein provided for, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

87.03.460 Compensation and expenses of directors, officers, employees
In addition to their reasonable expenses in accordance with chapter 42.24 RCW, the directors shall each receive an amount for attending meetings and while performing ...

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 ...

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 ...

87.03.480 Local improvement districts -- Petition -- Bond
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 ...

87.03.485 Local improvement districts -- Notice -- Hearing -- Initiation by board, procedure
In the event that the said board shall approve said petition, the board shall fix a time and place for the hearing thereof and shall ...

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 ...

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 ...

87.03.490 Local improvement districts -- Adoption of plan -- Bonds -- Form and contents -- Facsimile signatures, when, procedure -- New lands may be included -- Penalty
(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 ...

87.03.495 Local improvement districts -- Assessments, how made and collected -- Disposal of bonds
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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

87.03.515 Local improvement districts -- Refunding bonds
It shall be lawful for any irrigation district which has issued local improvement district bonds for said improvements, as in this chapter provided, to issue ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

87.03.527 Local improvement districts -- Alternative methods of formation
Whenever a local improvement district is sought to be established within an irrigation district, in addition to the procedures provided in RCW 87.03.480 through 87.03.525 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 § 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

87.03.905 Severability -- 1921 c 129
If any section or provision of this act shall be adjudged to be invalid or unconstitutional, such adjudication shall not affect the validity of the ...

87.03.910 Severability -- 1923 c 138
If any section or provision of this act shall be adjudged to be invalid or unconstitutional, such adjudication shall not affect the validity of the ...

87.03.915 Severability -- 1935 c 128
In case any part or portion of this act shall be held unconstitutional, such holding shall not affect the validity of this act as a ...