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WA Rev Code § 85.08.840 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.840 - Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Jurisdiction to hear, supervise, and conduct proceedings—Clerk, notice, records.

RCW 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, supervise, and conduct the merger proceedings relating to such a district. The auditor of the county in which the greater length of the system of improvements lies shall act as clerk of the joint sessions of the boards of county commissioners, and shall give the notice provided for in RCW 85.08.870. He or she shall furnish to the auditor of the other county duplicate copies of the records of proceedings of the joint sessions. Duplicate records of all proceedings had and papers filed in connection with the merger of a joint drainage improvement district shall be kept with the auditor of each county. The board of county commissioners of the county in which a drainage improvement district or consolidated drainage improvement district is situated shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear, supervise, and conduct merger proceedings relating to such districts.[ 2013 c 23 § 418; 1957 c 94 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.850 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.850 - Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Petition—Signing—Presentation.

RCW 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 drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district and presented to the clerk or clerks of the appropriate county legislative authority or authorities, at a regular or special meeting.[ 2001 c 149 § 2; 1996 c 313 § 1; 1957 c 94 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.860 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.860 - Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Assent by irrigation district—Election, order, notice.

RCW 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 drainage improvement district will, as a result of the proceedings, be merged with the irrigation district or irrigation districts and that the board or boards of directors of the irrigation district or irrigation districts into which the drainage improvement, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district will be merged, which irrigation district or irrigation districts shall be named in the petition, are agreeable to the merger, and that the assent or assents thereto, in writing, by said irrigation district board or boards have been filed with the board or boards of county commissioners, the board or boards of county commissioners shall order an election to be held in the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district or consolidated drainage improvement district to approve or disapprove the merger and shall fix the time thereof and cause notice to be published.[ 1957 c 94 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.870 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.870 - Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Notice, contents—Election, ballots.

RCW 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 board of supervisors of a drainage improvement district. The notice shall advise of the election so ordered and the date, time and place thereof, state the filing of the petition, the names of those signing the petition and prayer thereof, and shall require the voters to cast ballots with the words "Merger, Yes" or "Merger, No."[ 1957 c 94 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.880 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.880 - Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Proceedings and costs on approval or disapproval.

RCW 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 the merger and file a certified copy thereof with the county auditor or auditors of the county or counties in which the district is situated, and the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district shall thereupon be dissolved and its system of improvements vested in the irrigation district or irrigation districts without further proceedings. If a majority of the votes cast are against merger, the board of commissioners shall enter an order dismissing the proceedings. If the merger is approved, the expenses of the county or counties in connection with the election will be paid by the irrigation district or irrigation districts, with each irrigation district, if there is more than one, paying the same portion of the expenses as that portion of the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage district which is merged into the irrigation district. If the merger is not approved, the expenses of the county or counties in connection with the election will be paid by the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district.[ 1957 c 94 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.890 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.890 - Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Prior indebtedness.

RCW 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 into the consolidated drainage improvement district, shall be affected by the merger and dissolution, and all lands liable to be assessed to pay such indebtedness shall remain liable to the same extent as if the merger and dissolution had not taken place, and all assessments theretofore levied shall remain unimpaired and shall be collected in the same manner as if no merger had taken place. The board or boards of directors of the irrigation district or irrigation districts with which the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district was merged shall have all the powers possessed at the time of the merger by the board of supervisors of the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district and the board or boards of county commissioners may levy and cause to be collected any and all assessments against any of the lands formerly within the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district necessary for the payment of all indebtedness thereof, and of the drainage improvement districts taken into the consolidated drainage improvement district. Until the assessments are collected and all indebtedness of each drainage improvement district or joint drainage improvement district included in the merger, either as such or, in the case of the former, as a part of a consolidated drainage improvement district, is paid, separate funds shall be maintained for each such drainage improvement district or joint drainage improvement district as were maintained before the merger.[ 1957 c 94 § 8.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.895 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.895 - Annexation of territory—Consolidation of special districts—Suspension of operations—Reactivation.

RCW 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 85.38 RCW.[ 1986 c 278 § 13.]NOTES:Severability—1986 c 278: See note following RCW 36.01.010.
WA Rev Code § 85.08.900 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.900 - Alternative methods of formation of improvement districts.

RCW 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 authorized by law for the formation of districts or improvement districts so that the improvement district will qualify under the provisions of chapter 89.16 RCW.[ 1959 c 104 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.905 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.905 - Sewerage improvement districts—Powers.

RCW 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, and other sewage. Such facilities include on-site and off-site sewerage facilities, including approved septic tanks or septic tank systems.[ 1985 c 396 § 30.]NOTES:
WA Rev Code § 85.08.910 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.910 - Sewerage improvement districts located in counties with populations of from forty thousand to less than seventy thousand become water-sewer districts.

RCW 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.
WA Rev Code § 85.08.920 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.920 - Sewerage improvement districts operating as sewer districts become water-sewer districts—Procedure.

RCW 85.08.920 Sewerage improvement districts operating as sewer districts become water-sewer districts—Procedure.See RCW 57.04.130.
WA Rev Code § 85.12.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.12 - Federal Aid to Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.12.010 - Commissioners may accept federal aid, or contract for work by federal agency—No bond required.

RCW 85.12.010 Commissioners may accept federal aid, or contract for work by federal agency—No bond required.Whenever, under the provisions of any act of the congress of the United States, the corps of engineers of the United States army, or any other agency of the United States, shall be authorized to reconstruct, improve, repair or maintain any system of improvements of any diking, drainage or sewerage improvement district under the laws of the state of Washington, the board of county commissioners of the county in which such district is situated, on behalf of such district may consent to and permit the United States, or any agency thereof, to perform any work or service upon or with regard to such district's system of improvements which shall by the board be found to be for the benefit of such district and the property therein, or, if the enlargement, betterment or other improvement of such district's system of improvements, or the performance of extraordinary maintenance work upon or with respect to its existing system of improvements shall have been authorized, the board may contract, on behalf of said district, upon such terms as may be agreed upon by the United States and the board for the performance of the work so authorized by said corps of engineers, or other agency of the United States. No bond shall be required by the district for any work performed by or under the supervision of said corps of engineers, or other agency of the United States.[ 1949 c 175 § 1; RRS § 4459-50. Formerly RCW 85.12.010 and 85.12.020.]
WA Rev Code § 85.12.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.12 - Federal Aid to Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.12.030 - Disposition of federal aid funds.

RCW 85.12.030 Disposition of federal aid funds.If at any time, whether prior or subsequent to the making of any contract authorized by the preceding section, there shall be made available and paid to a district fund appropriated by the congress of the United States to pay the costs and expenses of reconstruction, improvement, repair or maintenance of the district's system of improvements or any part thereof, said funds shall be paid into the district's maintenance or construction fund, according as the work is maintenance or new construction, and thereafter used and disbursed upon the order of the board, provided that if the district shall have theretofore issued extraordinary maintenance warrants or maintenance bonds or construction bonds, said funds shall be used to pay and retire said bonds or warrants to the extent of said funds. When all said warrants or bonds have been paid, the assessment levied to pay said warrants or bonds, or those installments of such assessment not then due and payable, shall be canceled. If the funds made available and paid to the district by the United States shall be more than sufficient to pay and retire all then outstanding warrants or bonds issued to pay the cost of the particular work, whether maintenance or new construction, then the excess of such federal aid funds, up to the amount of the total of the assessments to pay for such work theretofore paid, shall be paid by the treasurer to those who have paid such assessment or assessments in the proportion that the total of all such assessments paid by any one bears to the total of all such assessments theretofore paid, and any balance of such federal aid funds remaining shall become and be part of the maintenance fund of the district. Any assessment or installment of assessment not canceled under the provisions hereof, or any balance thereof which when collected shall not be required for the payment of interest or principal of any of said warrants or bonds, shall, after all said warrants or bonds have been paid, be paid into and become part of the maintenance fund of the district.[ 1949 c 175 § 2; RRS § 4459-51.]
WA Rev Code § 85.15.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act.|85.15.010 - Declaration of purpose.

RCW 85.15.010 Declaration of purpose.The maintenance, enlargement and extension of diking, drainage and sewerage improvement districts formed under chapter 85.08 RCW is essential to the public welfare and economy of the state. The influx of population and changes in land use since many such districts were formed, has made obsolete, expensive and unjust the method used under existing law to provide funds for the operation of such districts and for the maintenance and expansion of their systems of improvement.[ 1967 c 184 § 2.]NOTES:Severability—1967 c 184: See note following RCW 85.05.610.
WA Rev Code § 85.15.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act.|85.15.020 - Definitions.

RCW 85.15.020 Definitions.As used in this chapter:"District" means a diking, drainage or sewerage improvement district organized under chapter 85.08 RCW."Maintenance" means and includes not merely operating expenses and such upkeep and other work commonly classed as maintenance as shall be necessary to restore and preserve the district's systems of improvement and the machinery and equipment operated in connection therewith in the same or as good condition as when originally constructed and installed, but also the making of such changes in and betterments to the original works, improvements and installations as shall, subject to approval of the board of county commissioners, be by the board deemed necessary to put the systems of improvements into such condition as will provide protection and services as contemplated and intended by the original construction and any enlargement and extensions thereof thereafter made.[ 1967 c 184 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 85.15.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act.|85.15.030 - Property roll—Basis and requisites—Separate levies for prior indebtedness.

RCW 85.15.030 Property roll—Basis and requisites—Separate levies for prior indebtedness.To operate under this chapter, the board of commissioners of the improvement district shall cause to be prepared and filed with the board of county commissioners a property roll. The roll shall contain: (1) A description of all properties benefited and improvements thereon which receive protection and service from the systems of the district with the name of the owner or the reputed owner thereof and his or her address as shown on the tax rolls of the assessor or treasurer of the county wherein the property is located and (2) the determined value of such land and improvements thereon as last assessed and equalized by the assessor of such county or counties. Such assessed and equalized values shall be deemed prima facie to be just, fair, and correct valuations against which annual taxes shall be levied for the operation of the district and the maintenance and expansion of its facilities.If property outside of the limits of the original district are upon the roll as adopted ultimately, and the original district has outstanding bonds or long-term warrants, the board of county commissioners shall set up separate dollar rate levies for the full retirement thereof.[ 2013 c 23 § 419; 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 111; 1967 c 184 § 4.]NOTES:Severability—Effective dates and termination dates—Construction—1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043.
WA Rev Code § 85.15.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act.|85.15.040 - Public hearing—Notice, publication.

RCW 85.15.040 Public hearing—Notice, publication.When a property roll is filed with the county legislative authority, the county legislative authority shall hold a public hearing to determine whether the facts and conditions heretofore recited in this chapter as a prerequisite to its application do or do not exist, and shall give notice of hearing as follows:The notice shall be published at least once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the area involved. The last publication shall be more than fifteen days prior to date of hearing.[ 1985 c 469 § 75; 1967 c 184 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 85.15.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act.|85.15.050 - Written objections—Filing—Grounds—Waiver.

RCW 85.15.050 Written objections—Filing—Grounds—Waiver.Any person, owner or reputed owner having any interest in any property against which the board of county commissioners seeks to make a protection and service charge under this chapter, may object thereto. All such objections must be in writing and filed with the board of county commissioners before the hearing is commenced upon the roll containing such properties and must state clearly the grounds of such objection. Objections not made within this time and in this manner shall be deemed conclusively to have been waived.[ 1967 c 184 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 85.15.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act.|85.15.060 - Reexamination of properties on roll—Adjustment, periodic revision, of valuations.

RCW 85.15.060 Reexamination of properties on roll—Adjustment, periodic revision, of valuations.The board of county commissioners may at any time reexamine the properties on any roll, and upon receipt of a petition from the board of supervisors of the district or the written request of a property owner shall do so. If it is found that the condition of such property or properties has changed so that such property should be eliminated from any rolls on file, or the valuation against which dollar rate is levied should be lowered, it shall so determine and enter an order adjusting the valuation as to such properties and shall certify and file a copy thereof with the treasurer of the county wherein the property is situated, and the treasurer shall alter and change the existing rolls accordingly. Valuations may be revised periodically to reflect changes in real property valuations by the county assessor.[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 112; 1967 c 184 § 7.]NOTES:Severability—Effective dates and termination dates—Construction—1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043.
WA Rev Code § 85.15.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act.|85.15.070 - Roll constitutes valuations against which levy made and collected—Hearing on adjustments.

RCW 85.15.070 Roll constitutes valuations against which levy made and collected—Hearing on adjustments.The roll approved and certified to the county officers by the board of county commissioners as in this chapter provided shall constitute the valuations of land, buildings and improvements furnished protection and services by the systems of the district against which valuation taxes shall be levied and collected annually in the same manner as general taxes for the continuing operations of the district and its systems. The valuations on said roll shall be subject to adjustment from time to time in the manner provided in RCW 85.15.060.The board of county commissioners shall hold a hearing on such adjustments at the county seat at the time of equalization of real property assessments for the purpose of considering written objections to any revision of valuations filed at least ten days prior to the hearing and shall give published notice only of such hearing as provided in RCW 85.15.040.[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 113; 1967 c 184 § 8.]NOTES:Severability—Effective dates and termination dates—Construction—1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043.