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WA Rev Code § 35.43.260 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.43 - Local Improvements—Authority—Initiation of Proceedings.|35.43.260 - Service fees for sewers not constructed within ten years after voter approval—Credit against future assessments, service charges.

RCW 35.43.260 Service fees for sewers not constructed within ten years after voter approval—Credit against future assessments, service charges.Any municipal corporation, quasi municipal corporation, or political subdivision which has the authority to install sewers by establishing local improvement districts, which has charged and collected monthly service fees for sewers, that have been authorized and approved by the voters and have not been constructed for a period of ten or more years since the voter approval, is hereby authorized and directed to grant a credit against the future assessment to be assessed at the time of actual completion of construction of the sewers for each parcel of real property in an amount equal in dollars to the total amount of service fees charged and collected since voter approval for each such parcel, plus interest at six percent compounded annually: PROVIDED, That if such service fees and interest exceed the future assessment for construction of the sewers, such excess funds shall be used to defray future sewer service charge fees.It is the intent of the legislature that the provisions of this section are procedural and remedial and shall have retroactive effect.[ 1977 c 72 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 35.43.270 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.43 - Local Improvements—Authority—Initiation of Proceedings.|35.43.270 - Sanitary sewer or potable water facilities—Notice to certain property owners.

RCW 35.43.270 Sanitary sewer or potable water facilities—Notice to certain property owners.Whenever it is proposed that a local improvement district or utility local improvement district finance sanitary sewers or potable water facilities, additional notice of the public hearing on the proposed improvement district shall be mailed to the owners of any property located outside of the proposed improvement district that would be required as a condition of federal housing administration loan qualification, at the time of notice, to be connected to the specific sewer or water facilities installed by the local improvement district. The notice shall include information about this restriction.[ 1987 c 315 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 35.43.280 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.43 - Local Improvements—Authority—Initiation of Proceedings.|35.43.280 - Settlement of Indian claims.

RCW 35.43.280 Settlement of Indian claims.(1) The settlement of Indian land and other claims against public and private property owners is declared to be in the interest of public health and safety, orderly government, environmental protection, economic development, and the social well-being of the citizens of this state, and to specifically benefit the properties released from those claims.It is the purpose of chapter 4, Laws of 1989 1st ex. sess. to encourage the settlement of such Indian land and other claims lawsuits by permitting the establishment and use of local improvement districts to finance all or a portion of the settlement costs of such lawsuits.(2) A local improvement district may be established by a local government legislative authority to finance all or part of the settlement costs in an Indian land and other claims settlement related to public and private property located within the local government. The settlement of an Indian land claim lawsuit shall be deemed to be an improvement that may be financed in whole or in part through use of a local improvement district.Except as expressly provided in this section, all matters relating to the establishment and operation of such a local improvement district, the levying and collection of special assessments, the issuance of local improvement district bonds and other obligations, and all related matters, shall be subject to the provisions of chapters 35.43 through 35.54 RCW. The resolution or petition initiating the creation of a local improvement district used to finance all or a portion of an Indian land and other claims settlement shall describe the general nature of the Indian land and other claims and the proposed settlement. The value of a contribution by any person, municipal corporation, political subdivision, or the state of money, real property, or personal property to the settlement of Indian land and other claims shall be credited to any assessment for a local improvement district under this section.[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 4 § 2.]NOTES:Severability—1989 1st ex.s. c 4: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 1989 1st ex.s. c 4 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 35.44.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.010 - Assessment district—All property to be assessed—Basis.

RCW 35.44.010 Assessment district—All property to be assessed—Basis.All property included within the limits of a local improvement district or utility local improvement district shall be considered to be the property specially benefited by the local improvement and shall be the property to be assessed to pay the cost and expense thereof or such part thereof as may be chargeable against the property specially benefited. The cost and expense shall be assessed upon all the property in accordance with the special benefits conferred thereon.[ 1985 c 397 § 3; 1967 c 52 § 9; 1965 c 7 § 35.44.010. Prior: 1957 c 144 § 16; prior: 1947 c 155 § 1, part; 1941 c 90 § 1, part; 1915 c 168 § 2, part; 1911 c 98 § 13, part; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 9365, part.]NOTES:Authority supplemental—1985 c 397: See RCW 35.51.900.Construction—Severability—1967 c 52: See notes following RCW 35.43.042.
WA Rev Code § 35.44.015 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.015 - Special benefit assessments for farm and agricultural land—Exemption from assessments, etc.

RCW 35.44.015 Special benefit assessments for farm and agricultural land—Exemption from assessments, etc.See RCW 84.34.300 through 84.34.380 and 84.34.922.
WA Rev Code § 35.44.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.020 - Assessment district—Cost items to be included.

RCW 35.44.020 Assessment district—Cost items to be included.There shall be included in the cost and expense of every local improvement for assessment against the property in the district created to pay the same, or any part thereof:(1) The cost of all of the construction or improvement authorized for the district including, but not limited to, that portion of the improvement within the street intersections;(2) The estimated cost and expense of all engineering and surveying necessary for the improvement done under the supervision of the city or town engineer;(3) The estimated cost and expense of ascertaining the ownership of the lots or parcels of land included in the assessment district;(4) The estimated cost and expense of advertising, mailing, and publishing all necessary notices;(5) The estimated cost and expense of accounting, clerical labor, and of books and blanks extended or used on the part of the city or town clerk and city or town treasurer in connection with the improvement;(6) All cost of the acquisition of rights-of-way, property, easements, or other facilities or rights, including without limitation rights to use property, facilities, or other improvements appurtenant, related to, and/or useful in connection with the local improvement, whether by eminent domain, purchase, gift, payment of connection charges, capacity charges, or other similar charges or in any other manner;(7) The cost for legal, financial, and appraisal services and any other expenses incurred by the city, town, or public corporation for the district or in the formation thereof, or by the city, town, or public corporation in connection with such construction or improvement and in the financing thereof, including the issuance of any bonds and the cost of providing for increases in the local improvement guaranty fund, or providing for a separate reserve fund or other security for the payment of principal of and interest on such bonds.Any of the costs set forth in this section may be excluded from the cost and expense to be assessed against the property in such local improvement district and may be paid from any other moneys available therefor if the legislative body of the city or town so designates by ordinance at any time.[ 1995 c 382 § 1; 1987 c 242 § 4; 1985 c 397 § 4; 1971 ex.s. c 116 § 8; 1969 ex.s. c 258 § 6; 1965 c 7 § 35.44.020. Prior: 1955 c 364 § 1; 1911 c 98 § 55; RRS § 9408.]NOTES:Policy—1987 c 242: See note following RCW 35.43.005.Authority supplemental—1985 c 397: See RCW 35.51.900.
WA Rev Code § 35.44.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.030 - Assessment district—Zones.

RCW 35.44.030 Assessment district—Zones.For the purpose of ascertaining the amount to be assessed against each separate lot, tract, parcel of land or other property therein, the local improvement district or utility local improvement district shall be divided into subdivisions or zones paralleling the margin of the street, avenue, lane, alley, boulevard, park drive, parkway, public place or public square to be improved, numbered respectively first, second, third, fourth, and fifth.The first subdivision shall include all lands within the district lying between the street margins and lines drawn parallel therewith and thirty feet therefrom.The second subdivision shall include all lands within the district lying between lines drawn parallel with and thirty and sixty feet respectively from the street margins.The third subdivision shall include all lands within the district lying between lines drawn parallel with and sixty and ninety feet respectively from the street margins.The fourth subdivision shall include all lands, if any, within the district lying between lines drawn parallel with and ninety and one hundred twenty feet respectively from the street margins.The fifth subdivision shall include all lands, if any, within the district lying between a line drawn parallel with and one hundred twenty feet from the street margin and the outer limit of the improvement district.[ 1967 c 52 § 10; 1965 c 7 § 35.44.030. Prior: 1957 c 144 § 17; prior: 1947 c 155 § 1, part; 1941 c 90 § 1, part; 1915 c 168 § 2, part; 1911 c 98 § 13, part; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 9365, part.]NOTES:Construction—Severability—1967 c 52: See notes following RCW 35.43.042.
WA Rev Code § 35.44.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.040 - Assessment rate per square foot.

RCW 35.44.040 Assessment rate per square foot.The rate of assessment per square foot in each subdivision of an improvement district shall be fixed on the basis that the special benefits conferred on a square foot of land in subdivisions first, second, third, fourth and fifth, respectively, are related to each other as are the numbers, forty-five, twenty-five, twenty, ten, and five, respectively, and shall be ascertained in the following manner:(1) The products of the number of square feet in subdivisions first, second, third, fourth, and fifth, respectively, and the numbers forty-five, twenty-five, twenty, ten, and five, respectively, shall be ascertained;(2) The aggregate sum thereof shall be divided into the total cost and expense of the improvement;(3) The resultant quotient multiplied by forty-five, twenty-five, twenty, ten, and five, respectively, shall be the respective rate of assessment per square foot for subdivisions first, second, third, fourth and fifth: PROVIDED, That in lieu of the above formula the rate of assessment per square foot in each subdivision of an improvement district may be fixed on the basis that the special benefits conferred on a square foot of land in subdivisions first, second, third, fourth and fifth, respectively, are related to each other as are the numbers 0.015000, 0.008333, 0.006666, 0.003333, and 0.001666, respectively; and the method of determining the assessment on each lot, tract, or parcel of land in the improvement district may be ascertained in the following manner:(1) The products of the number of square feet in subdivisions first, second, third, fourth and fifth, respectively, for each lot, tract or parcel of land in the improvement district and the numbers 0.015000, 0.008333, 0.006666, 0.003333 and 0.001666, respectively, shall be ascertained. The sum of all such products for each such lot, tract or parcel of land shall be the number of "assessable units of frontage" therein;(2) The rate for each assessable unit of frontage shall be determined by dividing that portion of the total cost of the improvement representing special benefits by the aggregate sum of all assessable units of frontage;(3) The assessment for each lot, tract or parcel of land in the improvement district shall be the product of the assessable units of frontage therefor, multiplied by the rate per assessable unit of frontage.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.44.040. Prior: 1957 c 144 § 18; prior: 1947 c 155 § 1, part; 1941 c 90 § 1, part; 1915 c 168 § 2, part; 1911 c 98 § 13, part; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 9365, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.44.045 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.045 - Open canals or ditches—Safeguards—Ascertaining assessments.

RCW 35.44.045 Open canals or ditches—Safeguards—Ascertaining assessments.As an alternative to other methods of ascertaining assessments for local improvements, in a local improvement district established for safeguarding open canals or ditches, the district may be sectioned into subdivisions or zones paralleling the canal or ditch, numbered respectively, first, second, third and fourth. Each subdivision shall be equal to one-quarter of the width of the district as measured back from the margin of the canal right-of-way. The rate of assessment per square foot in each subdivision so formed shall be fixed on the basis that the special benefits conferred on a square foot of land in subdivisions first, second, third, and fourth, respectively, are related to each other as are the numbers, forty, thirty, twenty, and ten, respectively, and shall be ascertained in the following manner:(1) The products of the number of square feet in subdivisions first, second, third, and fourth, respectively, and the numbers forty, thirty, twenty, and ten, respectively, shall be ascertained;(2) The aggregate sum thereof shall be divided into the total cost and expense of the local improvement;(3) The resultant quotient multiplied by forty, thirty, twenty, and ten, respectively, shall be the respective rate of assessment per square foot for each subdivision.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.44.045. Prior: 1959 c 75 § 3.]NOTES:Safeguarding open canals or ditches, assessments: RCW 35.43.040, 35.43.045, 36.88.015, 36.88.350, 36.88.380 through 36.88.400, 87.03.480, 87.03.526.
WA Rev Code § 35.44.047 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.047 - Other methods of computing assessments may be used.

RCW 35.44.047 Other methods of computing assessments may be used.Notwithstanding the methods of assessment provided in RCW 35.44.030, 35.44.040 and 35.44.045, the city or town may use any other method or combination of methods to compute assessments which may be deemed to more fairly reflect the special benefits to the properties being assessed. The failure of the council to specifically recite in its ordinance ordering the improvement and creating the local improvement district that it will not use the zone and termini method of assessment shall not invalidate the use of any other method or methods of assessment.[ 1969 ex.s. c 258 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 35.44.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.050 - Assessment roll—Entry of assessments against property.

RCW 35.44.050 Assessment roll—Entry of assessments against property.The total assessment thus ascertained against each separate lot, tract, parcel of land, or other property in the district shall be entered upon the assessment roll as the amount to be levied and assessed against each separate lot, tract, parcel of land, or other property.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.44.050. Prior: 1957 c 144 § 19; prior: 1947 c 155 § 1, part; 1941 c 90 § 1, part; 1915 c 168 § 2, part; 1911 c 98 § 13, part; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 9365, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.44.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.060 - Assessment roll—Diagram on preliminary survey not conclusive.

RCW 35.44.060 Assessment roll—Diagram on preliminary survey not conclusive.The diagram or print directed to be submitted to the council shall be in the nature of a preliminary determination by the designated administrative board, officer, or authority upon the method and relative estimated amounts of assessments to be levied upon the property specially benefited by the improvement and shall not be binding or conclusive in any way upon the board, officer, or authority in the preparation of the assessment roll for the improvement or upon the council in any hearing affecting the assessment roll.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.44.060. Prior: 1911 c 98 § 11; RRS § 9362.]
WA Rev Code § 35.44.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.070 - Assessment roll—Filing—Hearing, date, by whom held.

RCW 35.44.070 Assessment roll—Filing—Hearing, date, by whom held.The assessment roll for local improvements when prepared as provided by law shall be filed with the city or town clerk. The council or other legislative authority shall thereupon fix a date for a hearing thereon before such legislative authority or may direct that the hearing shall be held before a committee thereof or the legislative authority of any city or town may designate an officer to conduct such hearings. The committee or officer designated shall hold a hearing on the assessment roll and consider all objections filed following which the committee or officer shall make recommendations to such legislative authority which shall either adopt or reject the recommendations of the committee or officer. If a hearing is held before such a committee or officer it shall not be necessary to hold a hearing on the assessment roll before such legislative authority. A local ordinance shall provide for an appeal by any person protesting his or her assessment to the legislative authority of a decision made by such officer. The same procedure may if so directed by such legislative authority be followed with respect to any assessment upon the roll which is raised or changed to include omitted property. Such legislative authority shall direct the clerk to give notice of the hearing and of the time and place thereof.[ 1994 c 71 § 1; 1979 ex.s. c 100 § 1; 1965 c 7 § 35.44.070. Prior: 1953 c 177 § 2; 1929 c 97 § 3, part; 1911 c 98 § 21, part; RRS § 9373, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.44.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.080 - Assessment roll—Notice of hearing.

RCW 35.44.080 Assessment roll—Notice of hearing.The notice of hearing upon the assessment roll shall specify the time and place of hearing and shall notify all persons who may desire to object thereto:(1) To make their objections in writing and to file them with the city or town clerk at or prior to the date fixed for the hearing;(2) That at the time and place fixed and at times to which the hearing may be adjourned, the council will sit as a board of equalization for the purpose of considering the roll; and(3) That at the hearing the council or committee or officer will consider the objections made and will correct, revise, raise, lower, change, or modify the roll or any part thereof or set aside the roll and order the assessment to be made de novo.Following the hearing the council shall confirm the roll by ordinance.[ 1979 ex.s. c 100 § 2; 1965 c 7 § 35.44.080. Prior: 1929 c 97 § 3, part; 1911 c 98 § 21, part; RRS § 9373, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.44.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.090 - Assessment roll—Notice—Mailing—Publication.

RCW 35.44.090 Assessment roll—Notice—Mailing—Publication.At least fifteen days before the date fixed for hearing, notice thereof shall be mailed to the owner or reputed owner of the property whose name appears on the assessment roll, at the address shown on the tax rolls of the county treasurer for each item of property described on the list. In addition thereto the notice shall be published at least once a week for two consecutive weeks in the official newspaper of the city or town, the last publication to be at least fifteen days before the date fixed for hearing.[ 1986 c 278 § 48; 1985 c 469 § 30; 1965 c 7 § 35.44.090. Prior: 1929 c 97 § 3, part; 1911 c 98 § 21, part; RRS § 9373, part.]NOTES:Severability—1986 c 278: See note following RCW 36.01.010.
WA Rev Code § 35.44.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.100 - Assessment roll—Hearing—Objections—Authority of council.

RCW 35.44.100 Assessment roll—Hearing—Objections—Authority of council.At the time fixed for hearing objections to the confirmation of the assessment roll, and at the times to which the hearing may be adjourned, the council may correct, revise, raise, lower, change, or modify the roll or any part thereof, or set aside the roll and order the assessment to be made de novo and at the conclusion thereof confirm the roll by ordinance.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.44.100. Prior: 1929 c 97 § 3, part; 1911 c 98 § 21, part; RRS § 9373, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.44.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.110 - Assessment roll—Objections—Timeliness.

RCW 35.44.110 Assessment roll—Objections—Timeliness.All objections to the confirmation of the assessment roll shall state clearly the grounds of objections. Objections not made within the time and in the manner prescribed in this chapter shall be conclusively presumed to have been waived.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.44.110. Prior: 1929 c 97 § 3, part; 1911 c 98 § 21, part; RRS § 9373, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.44.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.120 - Assessment roll—Amendment—Procedure.

RCW 35.44.120 Assessment roll—Amendment—Procedure.If an assessment roll is amended so as to raise any assessment appearing thereon or to include omitted property, a new time and place for hearing shall be fixed and a new notice of hearing on the roll given as in the case of an original hearing: PROVIDED, That as to any property originally entered upon the roll the assessment upon which has not been raised, no objections to confirmation of the assessment roll shall be considered by the council or by any court on appeal unless the objections were made in writing at or prior to the date fixed for the original hearing upon the assessment roll.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.44.120. Prior: 1929 c 97 § 3, part; 1911 c 98 § 21, part; RRS § 9373, part.]