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WA Rev Code § 35.56.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.56 - Local Improvements—Filling and Draining Lowlands—Waterways.|35.56.130 - Local improvement bonds—Terms.

RCW 35.56.130 Local improvement bonds—Terms.The city council or commission shall have full authority to provide for the issuance of such bonds against the improvement district fund in such denominations as the city council or commission may provide, which shall bear such rate of interest as the city council or commission may fix. Interest shall be paid annually and the bonds shall become due and payable at such time, not exceeding fifteen years from the date thereof, as may be fixed by the said council or commission and shall be payable out of the assessment district funds.If so ordered by the council or commission, the bonds may be issued in such a way that different numbers of the bonds may become due and payable at different intervals of time, or they may be so issued that all of the bonds against said district mature together. The city may reserve the right to call or mature any bond on any interest paying date when sufficient funds are on hand for its redemption; but bonds shall be called in numerical order.[ 1981 c 156 § 8; 1965 c 7 § 35.56.130. Prior: 1913 c 16 § 10, part; RRS § 9458, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.56.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.56 - Local Improvements—Filling and Draining Lowlands—Waterways.|35.56.140 - Local improvement bonds—Guaranties.

RCW 35.56.140 Local improvement bonds—Guaranties.The city may guarantee the payment of the whole or any part of the bonds issued against a local improvement district, but the guaranties on the part of the city shall be made only by ordinance passed by the vote of not less than two-thirds of the councilmembers and the approval of the mayor, or three commissioners in case the governing body consist of three commissioners, or four where such city is governed by five commissioners.[ 2009 c 549 § 2096; 1965 c 7 § 35.56.140. Prior: 1913 c 16 § 10, part; RRS § 9458, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.56.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.56 - Local Improvements—Filling and Draining Lowlands—Waterways.|35.56.150 - Local improvement bonds and warrants—Sale to pay damages—Preliminary financing.

RCW 35.56.150 Local improvement bonds and warrants—Sale to pay damages—Preliminary financing.The city council or commission may negotiate sufficient warrants or bonds against any local improvement district at a price not less than ninety-five percent of their par value to raise sufficient money to pay any and all compensation which may be awarded for property damaged or taken in the eminent domain proceedings, including the costs of such proceedings. In lieu of so doing, the city council or commission may negotiate current or general expense fund warrants at par to raise funds for the payment of such compensation and expenses in the first instance, but in that event the current or general expense fund shall be reimbursed out of the first moneys collected in any such local assessment district or realized from the negotiation or sale of local improvement warrants or bonds.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.56.150. Prior: 1913 c 16 § 11; RRS § 9459.]
WA Rev Code § 35.56.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.56 - Local Improvements—Filling and Draining Lowlands—Waterways.|35.56.160 - Local improvement fund—Investment.

RCW 35.56.160 Local improvement fund—Investment.If money accumulates in an improvement fund and is likely to lie idle waiting the maturity of the bonds against the district, the city council or commission, under proper safeguards, may invest it temporarily, or may borrow it temporarily, at a reasonable rate of interest, but when so invested or borrowed, the city shall be responsible and liable for the restoration to such fund of the money so invested or borrowed with interest thereon, whenever required for the redemption of bonds maturing against such district.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.56.160. Prior: 1913 c 16 § 15; RRS § 9463.]
WA Rev Code § 35.56.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.56 - Local Improvements—Filling and Draining Lowlands—Waterways.|35.56.170 - Letting contracts for improvement—Excess or deficiency of fund.

RCW 35.56.170 Letting contracts for improvement—Excess or deficiency of fund.The contract for the making of the improvement may be let either before or after the making up of the equalization of the assessment roll, and warrants or bonds may be issued against the local improvement district fund either before or after the equalization of the roll as in the judgment of the council or commission may best subserve the public interest.If after the assessment roll is made up and equalized, based in whole or in part upon an estimate of the cost of the improvement, and it is found that the estimate was too high, the excess shall be rebated pro rata to the property owners on the assessment roll, the rebates to be deducted from the last installment, or installments, when the assessment is upon the installment plan.If it is found that the estimated cost was too low and that the actual bona fide cost of the improvement is greater than the estimate, the city council or commission after due notice and a hearing, as in case of the original equalization of the roll, may add the required additional amount to the assessment roll to be apportioned among the several parcels of property upon the same rules and principles as if it had been originally included except that the additional amount shall be added to the last installment of an assessment if assessments are payable upon the installment plan. The same notice shall be required for adding to the assessment roll in this manner as is required for the original equalization of the roll, and the property owner shall have the right of appeal.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.56.170. Prior: 1913 c 16 § 13; RRS § 9461.]
WA Rev Code § 35.56.180 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.56 - Local Improvements—Filling and Draining Lowlands—Waterways.|35.56.180 - Payment of contractor—Bonds—Warrants—Cash.

RCW 35.56.180 Payment of contractor—Bonds—Warrants—Cash.The city council or commission may provide in letting the contract for an improvement, that the contractor shall accept special fund warrants or local improvement bonds against the local improvement district within which such improvement is to be made, in payment for the contract price of the work, and that the warrants or bonds may be issued to the contractor from time to time as the work progresses, or the city council or commission may negotiate the special fund warrants or bonds against the local improvement district at not less than ninety-five cents in money for each dollar of warrants or bonds, and with the proceeds pay the contractor for the work and pay the other costs of such improvement.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.56.180. Prior: 1913 c 16 § 14; RRS § 9462.]
WA Rev Code § 35.56.190 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.56 - Local Improvements—Filling and Draining Lowlands—Waterways.|35.56.190 - Tax levy—General—Purposes—Limit.

RCW 35.56.190 Tax levy—General—Purposes—Limit.For the purpose of raising revenues to carry on any project under this chapter including funds for the payment for the lands taken, purchased, acquired or condemned and the expenses incident to the acquiring thereof, or any other cost or expenses incurred by the city under the provisions of this chapter but not including the cost of actually filling the lands for which the local improvement district was created, a city may levy an annual tax of not exceeding seventy-five cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation of all property within the city. The city council or commission may create a fund into which all moneys so derived from taxation and moneys derived from rents and issues of the lands shall be paid and against which special fund warrants may be drawn or negotiable bonds issued to meet expenditures under this chapter.[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 22; 1965 c 7 § 35.56.190. Prior: 1913 c 16 § 19; RRS § 9467.]NOTES:Severability—Effective dates—Construction—1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043.
WA Rev Code § 35.56.200 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.56 - Local Improvements—Filling and Draining Lowlands—Waterways.|35.56.200 - Waterways constructed—Requirements.

RCW 35.56.200 Waterways constructed—Requirements.In the filling of any marshland, swampland, tideland or tideflats no canal or waterway shall be constructed in connection therewith less than three hundred feet wide at the top between the shore lines and with sufficient slope to the sides or banks thereof to as nearly as practicable render bulkheadings or other protection against caving or falling in of said sides or banks unnecessary and of sufficient depth to meet all ordinary requirements of navigation and commerce.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.56.200. Prior: 1913 c 16 § 17, part; RRS § 9465, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.56.210 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.56 - Local Improvements—Filling and Draining Lowlands—Waterways.|35.56.210 - Waterways constructed—Control.

RCW 35.56.210 Waterways constructed—Control.The canal or waterway shall be and remain under the control of the city and immediately upon its completion the city shall establish outer dock lines lengthwise of said canal or waterway on both sides thereof in such manner and position that not less than two hundred feet of the width thereof shall always remain open between such lines and beyond and between which lines no right shall ever be granted to build wharves or other obstructions except bridges; nor shall any permanent obstruction to the free use of the channel so laid out between said wharf or dock lines excepting bridges, their approaches, piers, abutments and spans, ever be permitted but the same shall be kept open for navigation.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.56.210. Prior: 1913 c 16 § 17, part; RRS § 9465, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.56.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.56 - Local Improvements—Filling and Draining Lowlands—Waterways.|35.56.220 - Waterways constructed—Leasing facilities.

RCW 35.56.220 Waterways constructed—Leasing facilities.The city shall have the right to lease the area so created between the said shore lines and the wharf lines so established or any part, parts or parcels thereof during times when the use thereof is not required by the city, for periods not exceeding thirty years, to private individuals or concerns for wharf, warehouse or manufacturing purposes at such annual rate or rental per lineal foot of frontage on the canal or waterway as it may deem reasonable.The rates of wharfage, and other charges to the public which any lessee may impose shall be reasonable; and the city council or commission may regulate such rates. The lease so granted by the city shall never be transferred or assigned without the consent of the city council or commission having been first obtained.A city shall never lease to any individual or concern more than four hundred lineal feet of frontage of the area lying between the shore lines and the dock lines and no individual or concern shall ever hold or occupy by lease, sublease or otherwise more than the said four hundred lineal feet of frontage of such area: PROVIDED, That any individual or concern may acquire by lease or sublease whatever additional number of lineal feet of frontage of such area may in the judgment of the city council or commission be necessary for the use of such individual or concern, upon petition therefor to the city council or commission signed by not less than five hundred resident freeholders of the city.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.56.220. Prior: 1913 c 16 § 17, part; RRS § 9465, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.56.230 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.56 - Local Improvements—Filling and Draining Lowlands—Waterways.|35.56.230 - Waterway shoreline front—Lessee must lease abutting property.

RCW 35.56.230 Waterway shoreline front—Lessee must lease abutting property.If the city owns the land abutting upon any part of the area between the shore lines and dock lines, no portion of the area which has city owned property abutting upon it shall ever be leased unless an equal frontage of the abutting property immediately adjoining it is leased at the same time for the same period to the same individual or concern.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.56.230. Prior: 1913 c 16 § 17, part; RRS § 9465, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.56.240 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.56 - Local Improvements—Filling and Draining Lowlands—Waterways.|35.56.240 - Waterways constructed—Acquisition of abutting property.

RCW 35.56.240 Waterways constructed—Acquisition of abutting property.While acquiring the rights-of-way for such canals or waterways or at any time thereafter such city may acquire for its own use and public use by purchase, gift, condemnation or otherwise, and pay therefor by any lawful means including but not restricted to payment out of the current expense fund of such city or by bonding the city or by pledging revenues to be derived from rents and issues therefrom, lands abutting upon the shore lines or right-of-way of such canals or waterways to a distance, depth or width of not more than three hundred feet back from the banks or shore lines of such canals or waterways on either side or both sides thereof, or not more than three hundred lineal feet back from and abutting on the outer lines of such rights-of-way on either side or both sides of such rights-of-way, and such area of such abutting lands as the council or commission may deem necessary for its use for public docks, bridges, wharves, streets and other conveniences of navigation and commerce and for its own use and benefit generally.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.56.240. Prior: 1913 c 16 § 18, part; RRS § 9466, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.56.250 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.56 - Local Improvements—Filling and Draining Lowlands—Waterways.|35.56.250 - Waterways—Abutting city owned lands—Lease of.

RCW 35.56.250 Waterways—Abutting city owned lands—Lease of.If the city is not using the abutting lands so acquired it may lease any parcels thereof as may be deemed for the best interest and convenience of navigation, commerce and the public interest and welfare to private individuals or concerns for terms not exceeding thirty years each at such annual rate or rental as the city council or commission of such city may deem just, proper and fair, for the purpose of erecting wharves for wholesale and retail warehouses and for general commercial purposes and manufacturing sites, but the said city shall never convey or part with title to the abutting lands above mentioned and so acquired nor with the control other than in the manner herein specified. Any lease or leases granted by the city on such abutting lands shall never be transferred or assigned without the consent of the city council or commission having been first obtained.A city shall never lease to any individual or concern more than four hundred lineal feet of canal or waterway frontage of said land and no individual or concern shall ever hold or occupy by lease, sublease, or otherwise more than the said four hundred lineal feet of said frontage: PROVIDED, That any individual or concern may acquire by lease or sublease whatever additional frontage of such abutting land may be in the judgment of the city council or commission necessary for the use of such individual or concern, upon petition presented to the city council or commission therefor signed by not less than five hundred resident freeholders of such city.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.56.250. Prior: 1913 c 16 § 18, part; RRS § 9466, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.56.260 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.56 - Local Improvements—Filling and Draining Lowlands—Waterways.|35.56.260 - Waterways—Abutting lands—Lessee must lease shoreline property.

RCW 35.56.260 Waterways—Abutting lands—Lessee must lease shoreline property.At the time that the city leases to any individual or concern any of the land abutting on the area between the shore lines and the dock lines the same individual or concern must likewise for the same period of time lease all of the area between the shore line and dock line of such canal or waterway lying contiguous to and immediately in front of the abutting land so leased.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.56.260. Prior: 1913 c 16 § 18, part; RRS § 9466, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.56.270 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.56 - Local Improvements—Filling and Draining Lowlands—Waterways.|35.56.270 - Work by day labor.

RCW 35.56.270 Work by day labor.When a city undertakes any improvement authorized by this chapter and the expenditures required exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, it shall be done by contract and shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, after due notice, under such regulation as may be prescribed by ordinance: PROVIDED, That the city council or commission may reject all bids presented and readvertise, or, if in the judgment of the city council or commission the work can be performed, or supplies or materials furnished by the city independent of contract, cheaper than under the bid submitted, it may after having so advertised and examined the bids, cause the work to be performed or supplies or materials to be furnished independent of contract. This section shall be construed as a concurrent and cumulative power conferred on cities and shall not be construed as in any wise repealing or affecting any law now in force relating to the performing, execution and construction of public works.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.56.270. Prior: 1913 c 16 § 20; RRS § 9468.]
WA Rev Code § 35.56.280 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.56 - Local Improvements—Filling and Draining Lowlands—Waterways.|35.56.280 - Reassessments.

RCW 35.56.280 Reassessments.If any assessment is found to be invalid for any cause or if it is set aside for any reason in judicial proceeding, a reassessment may be made and all laws then in force relative to the reassessment of local assessments, for street or other improvements, shall, as far as practical, be applicable hereto.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.56.280. Prior: 1913 c 16 § 16; RRS § 9464.]NOTES:Local improvements, assessments and reassessments: Chapter 35.44 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 35.56.290 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.56 - Local Improvements—Filling and Draining Lowlands—Waterways.|35.56.290 - Provisions of chapter not exclusive.

RCW 35.56.290 Provisions of chapter not exclusive.The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed as repealing or in any wise affecting other existing laws relative to the making of any such improvements but shall be considered as concurrent therewith.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.56.290. Prior: 1929 c 63 § 5; 1913 c 16 § 22; RRS § 9470.]
WA Rev Code § 35.57.025 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.57 - Public Facilities Districts.|35.57.025 - Independent financial feasibility review—When required—Public document.

RCW 35.57.025 Independent financial feasibility review—When required—Public document.(1) An independent financial feasibility review under this section is required to be performed prior to any of the following events:(a) The formation of a public facilities district under this chapter;(b) The issuance of any indebtedness, excluding the issuance of obligations to refund or replace such indebtedness, by a public facilities district under this chapter; or(c) The long-term lease, purchase, or development of a facility under RCW 35.57.020.(2) The independent financial feasibility review required by this section must be conducted by the department of commerce through the municipal research and services center under RCW 43.110.030 or under a contract with another entity under the authority of RCW 43.110.080. The review must examine the potential costs to be incurred by the public facility [facilities] district and the adequacy of revenues or expected revenues to meet those costs. The cost of the independent financial feasibility review must be borne by the public facility [facilities] district or the local government proposing to form a public facility [facilities] district.(3) The independent financial feasibility review, upon completion, must be a public document and must be submitted to the governor, the state treasurer, the state auditor, the public facility [facilities] district and participating local political subdivisions, and appropriate committees of the legislature.[ 2012 c 4 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 35.57.027 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.57 - Public Facilities Districts.|35.57.027 - Statutorily authorized taxing authority.

RCW 35.57.027 Statutorily authorized taxing authority.After June 7, 2012, the statutorily authorized taxing authority of a public facility [facilities] district may not be restricted in any manner by the forming jurisdiction or jurisdictions or by any action of the public facility [facilities] district.[ 2012 c 4 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 35.57.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.57 - Public Facilities Districts.|35.57.030 - General obligation bonds.

RCW 35.57.030 General obligation bonds.(1) To carry out the purpose of this chapter, a public facilities district may issue general obligation bonds, not to exceed an amount, together with any outstanding nonvoter-approved general obligation indebtedness, equal to one-half of one percent of the value of the taxable property within the district, as the term "value of the taxable property" is defined in RCW 39.36.015. A facilities district additionally may issue general obligation bonds for capital purposes only, together with any outstanding general obligation indebtedness, not to exceed an amount equal to one and one-fourth percent of the value of the taxable property within the district, as the term "value of the taxable property" is defined in RCW 39.36.015, when authorized by the voters of the public facilities district pursuant to Article VIII, section 6 of the state Constitution, and to provide for the retirement thereof by taxes authorized in chapter 165, Laws of 1999.(2) General obligation bonds may be issued with a maturity of up to thirty years, and shall be issued and sold in accordance with the provisions of chapter 39.46 RCW.(3) The general obligation bonds may be payable from the operating revenues of the public facilities district in addition to the tax receipts of the district.[ 1999 c 165 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 35.57.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.57 - Public Facilities Districts.|35.57.040 - Authorized charges, fees, and taxes—Gifts.

RCW 35.57.040 Authorized charges, fees, and taxes—Gifts.(1) The board of directors of the public facilities district may impose the following for the purpose of funding a regional center:(a) Charges and fees for the use of any of its facilities;(b) Admission charges under RCW 35.57.100;(c) Vehicle parking charges under RCW 35.57.110; and(d) Sales and use taxes authorized under RCW 82.14.048 and 82.14.390.(2) The board may accept and expend or use gifts, grants, and donations for the purpose of a regional center. The revenue from the charges, fees, and taxes imposed under this section shall be used only for the purposes authorized by this chapter.[ 1999 c 165 § 4.]