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WA Rev Code § 36.94.250 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.94 - Sewerage, Water, and Drainage Systems.|36.94.250 - Local improvement districts and utility local improvement districts—Notice of filing roll—Hearing on protests.

RCW 36.94.250 Local improvement districts and utility local improvement districts—Notice of filing roll—Hearing on protests.Before the approval of the roll a notice shall be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the local district, stating that the roll is on file and open to inspection in the office of the county legislative authority, and fixing the time, not less than fifteen or more than forty-five days from the date of the first publication of the notice, within which protests must be filed with the clerk against any assessments shown thereon, and fixing a time when a hearing will be held on the protests. The hearing shall be held before the county legislative authority, or the county legislative authority may direct that the hearing shall be held before either a committee of the legislative authority or a designated officer. The notice shall also be given by mailing at least fifteen days before the hearing, a similar notice to the owners or reputed owners of the land in the local district as they appear on the books of the treasurer of the county.[ 1981 c 313 § 17; 1967 c 72 § 25.]NOTES:Severability—1981 c 313: See note following RCW 36.94.020.
WA Rev Code § 36.94.260 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.94 - Sewerage, Water, and Drainage Systems.|36.94.260 - Local improvement districts and utility local improvement districts—Hearing on protests—Order—Appeal.

RCW 36.94.260 Local improvement districts and utility local improvement districts—Hearing on protests—Order—Appeal.(1) At such hearing on a protest to an assessment, or any adjournment thereof, the county legislative authority or committee or officer shall sit as a board of equalization. If the protest is heard by the county legislative authority, it shall have power to correct, revise, raise, lower, change, or modify such roll, or any part thereof, and to set aside such roll, and order that such assessment be made de novo, as shall appear equitable and just. If the protest is heard by a committee or officer, the committee or officer shall make recommendations to the county 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: PROVIDED, That any county providing for an officer to hear such protests shall adopt an ordinance providing for an appeal from a decision made by the officer that any person protesting his or her assessment may make to the legislative authority. The county legislative authority shall, in all instances, approve the assessment roll by ordinance or resolution.(2) In the event of any assessment being raised a new notice similar to such first notice shall be given, after which final approval of such roll may be made by the county legislative authority or committee or officer. Whenever any property has been entered originally upon such roll and the assessment upon any such property shall not be raised, no objection thereto may be considered by the county legislative authority or committee or officer or by any court on appeal unless such objection be made in writing at, or prior, to the date fixed for the original hearing upon such roll.[ 1981 c 313 § 18; 1967 c 72 § 26.]NOTES:Severability—1981 c 313: See note following RCW 36.94.020.
WA Rev Code § 36.94.270 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.94 - Sewerage, Water, and Drainage Systems.|36.94.270 - Local improvement districts and utility local improvement districts—Enlarged local district may be formed.

RCW 36.94.270 Local improvement districts and utility local improvement districts—Enlarged local district may be formed.If any portion of the system after its installation in such local district is not adequate for the purpose for which it was intended, or that for any reason changes, alterations, or betterments are necessary in any portion of the system after its installation, then such district, with boundaries which may include one or more existing local districts, may be created in the same manner as is provided herein for the creation of local districts. Upon the organization of such local district as provided for in this section the plan of the improvement and the payment of the cost of the improvement shall be carried out in the same manner as is provided herein for the carrying out of and the paying for the improvement in the utility local improvement districts or local improvement districts previously provided for in this chapter.[ 1981 c 313 § 6; 1967 c 72 § 27.]NOTES:Severability—1981 c 313: See note following RCW 36.94.020.
WA Rev Code § 36.94.280 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.94 - Sewerage, Water, and Drainage Systems.|36.94.280 - Local improvement districts and utility local improvement districts—Conclusiveness of roll when approved—Adjustments to assessments if other funds become available.

RCW 36.94.280 Local improvement districts and utility local improvement districts—Conclusiveness of roll when approved—Adjustments to assessments if other funds become available.Whenever any assessment roll for local improvements has been confirmed by the county legislative authority, the regularity, validity and correctness of the proceedings relating to the improvement and to the assessment therefor, including the action of the county legislative authority upon the assessment roll and the confirmation thereof, shall be conclusive in all things upon all parties, and cannot in any manner be contested or questioned in any proceeding by any person not filing written objections to the assessment roll in the manner and within the time provided in this chapter, and not appealing from the action of the county legislative authority in confirming the assessment roll in the manner and within the time in this chapter provided. No proceedings of any kind shall be commenced or prosecuted for the purpose of defeating or contesting any assessment, or the sale of any property to pay an assessment, or any certificate of delinquency issued therefor, or the foreclosure of any lien issued therefor: PROVIDED, That this section shall not be construed as prohibiting the bringing of injunction proceedings to prevent the sale of any real estate upon the grounds:(1) That the property about to be sold does not appear upon the assessment roll, or(2) That the assessment has been paid.If federal, local, or state funds become available for a local improvement after the assessment roll has been confirmed by the county legislative authority, the funds may be used to lower the assessments on a uniform basis. Any adjustments to the assessments because of the availability of federal or state funds may be made on the next annual payment.[ 1985 c 397 § 10; 1967 c 72 § 28.]
WA Rev Code § 36.94.300 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.94 - Sewerage, Water, and Drainage Systems.|36.94.300 - Local improvement districts and utility local improvement districts—Segregation of special assessment—Fee—Costs.

RCW 36.94.300 Local improvement districts and utility local improvement districts—Segregation of special assessment—Fee—Costs.Whenever any land against which there has been levied any special assessment by a county shall have been sold in part or subdivided, the board of county commissioners of such county shall have the power to order a segregation of the assessment.Any person desiring to have such a special assessment against a tract of land segregated to apply to smaller parts thereof shall apply to the board of county commissioners which levied the assessment. If the board determines that a segregation should be made, they shall by resolution order the county treasurer to make segregation on the original assessment roll as directed in the resolution. The segregation shall be made as nearly as possible on the same basis as the original assessment was levied, and the total of the segregated parts of the assessment shall equal the assessment before segregation. The resolution shall describe the original tract, the amount and date of the original assessment, and shall define the boundaries of the divided parts and the amount of the assessment chargeable to each part. A certified copy of the resolution shall be delivered to the county treasurer who shall proceed to make the segregation ordered upon being tendered a fee of three dollars for each tract of land for which a segregation is to be made. In addition to such charge the board of county commissioners may require as a condition to the order of segregation that the person seeking it pay the county the reasonable engineering and clerical costs incident to making the segregation.[ 1967 c 72 § 30.]
WA Rev Code § 36.94.305 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.94 - Sewerage, Water, and Drainage Systems.|36.94.305 - Service fees for sewers not constructed within ten years after voter approval—Credit against future assessments, service charges.

RCW 36.94.305 Service fees for sewers not constructed within ten years after voter approval—Credit against future assessments, service charges.See RCW 35.43.260.
WA Rev Code § 36.94.310 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.94 - Sewerage, Water, and Drainage Systems.|36.94.310 - Transfer of system from municipal corporation to county—Authorized.

RCW 36.94.310 Transfer of system from municipal corporation to county—Authorized.Subject to the provisions of RCW 36.94.310 through 36.94.350 a municipal corporation may transfer to the county within which all of its territory lies, all or part of the property constituting its system of sewerage, system of water or combined water and sewerage system, together with any of its other real or personal property used or useful in connection with the operation, maintenance, repair, replacement, extension, or financing of that system, and the county may acquire such property on such terms as may be mutually agreed upon by the governing body of the municipal corporation and the legislative authority of the county, and approved by the superior court for such county.[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 188 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 36.94.320 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.94 - Sewerage, Water, and Drainage Systems.|36.94.320 - Transfer of system from municipal corporation to county—Assumption of indebtedness.

RCW 36.94.320 Transfer of system from municipal corporation to county—Assumption of indebtedness.In consideration of a transfer of property by a municipal corporation to a county in the manner provided in RCW 36.94.310 through 36.94.350, a county may assume and agree to pay or provide for the payment of all or part of the indebtedness of a municipal corporation including the payment and retirement of outstanding general obligation and revenue bonds issued by a municipal corporation. Until the indebtedness of a municipal corporation thus assumed by a county has been discharged, all property within the municipal corporation and the owners and occupants of that property, shall continue to be liable for taxes, special assessments, and other charges legally pledged to pay such indebtedness. The county may assume the obligation of causing the payment of such indebtedness, collecting such taxes, assessments, and charges and observing and performing the other contractual obligations of the municipal corporation. The legislative authority of the county may act in the same manner as the governing body of the municipal corporation for the purpose of certifying the amount of any property tax to be levied and collected therein, and may cause service and other charges and assessments to be collected from such property or owners or occupants thereof, enforce such collection and perform all other acts necessary to insure performance of the contractual obligations of the municipal corporation in the same manner and by the same means as if the property of the municipal corporation had not been acquired by the county.When a county assumes the obligation of paying indebtedness of a municipal corporation and if property taxes or assessments have been levied and service and other charges have accrued for such purpose but have not been collected by the municipal corporation prior to such assumption, the same when collected shall belong and be paid to the county and be used by such county so far as necessary for payment of the indebtedness of the municipal corporation existing and unpaid on the date such county assumed that indebtedness. Any funds received by the county which have been collected for the purpose of paying any bonded or other indebtedness of the municipal corporation shall be used for the purpose for which they were collected and for no other purpose until such indebtedness has been paid and retired or adequate provision has been made for such payment and retirement. No transfer of property as provided in *this amendatory act shall derogate from the claims or rights of the creditors of the municipal corporation or impair the ability of the municipal corporation to respond to its debts and obligations.[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 188 § 8.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: For codification of "this amendatory act" [1975 1st ex.s. c 188], see Codification Tables.
WA Rev Code § 36.94.330 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.94 - Sewerage, Water, and Drainage Systems.|36.94.330 - Transfer of system from municipal corporation to county—Transfer agreement.

RCW 36.94.330 Transfer of system from municipal corporation to county—Transfer agreement.The governing body of a municipal corporation proposing to transfer all or part of its property to a county in the manner provided by RCW 36.94.310 through 36.94.350 and the legislative authority of a county proposing to accept such property, and to assume if it so agrees any indebtedness of the municipal corporation in consideration of such transfer, shall adopt resolutions or ordinances authorizing respectively the execution of a written agreement setting forth the terms and conditions upon which they have agreed and finding the transfer and acquisition of property pursuant to such agreement to be in the public interest and conducive to the public health, safety, welfare, or convenience. Such written agreement may include provisions, by way of description and not by way of limitation, for the rights, powers, duties, and obligations of such municipal corporation and county with regard to the use and ownership of property, the providing of services, the maintenance and operation of facilities, the allocation of costs, the financing and construction of new facilities, the application and use of assets, the disposition of liabilities and indebtedness, the performance of contractual obligations, and any other matters relating to the proposed transfer of property, which may be preceded by an interim period of operation by the county of the property and facilities subsequently to be transferred to that county. The agreement may provide for a period of time during which the municipal corporation may continue to exercise certain rights, privileges, powers, and functions authorized to it by law including the ability to promulgate rules and regulations, to levy and collect special assessments, rates, charges, service charges and connection fees, and to adopt and carry out the provisions of a comprehensive plan, and amendments thereto, for a system of improvements and to issue general obligation bonds or revenue bonds in the manner provided by law, or the agreement may provide for the exercise for a period of time of all or some of such rights, privileges, powers, and functions by the county. The agreement may provide that either party thereto may authorize, issue and sell, in the manner provided by law, revenue bonds to provide funds for new water or sewer improvements or to refund or advance refund any water revenue, sewer revenue or combined water and sewer revenue bonds outstanding of either or both such parties. The agreement may provide that either party thereto may authorize and issue, in the manner provided by law, general obligation or revenue bonds of like amounts, terms, conditions and covenants as the outstanding bonds of either or both such parties and such new bonds may be substituted or exchanged for such outstanding bonds to the extent permitted by law.[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 188 § 9.]
WA Rev Code § 36.94.340 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.94 - Sewerage, Water, and Drainage Systems.|36.94.340 - Transfer of system from municipal corporation to county—Petition for court approval of transfer—Hearing—Decree.

RCW 36.94.340 Transfer of system from municipal corporation to county—Petition for court approval of transfer—Hearing—Decree.When a municipal corporation and a county have entered into a written agreement providing for the transfer to such county of all or part of the property of such municipal corporation, proceedings may be initiated in the superior court for that county by the filing of a petition to which there shall be attached copies of the agreement of the parties and of the resolutions of the governing body of the municipal corporation and the legislative authority of the county authorizing its execution. Such petition shall ask that the court approve and direct the proposed transfer of property, and any assumption of indebtedness agreed to in consideration thereof by the county, after finding such transfer and acquisition of property to be in the public interest and conducive to the public health, safety, welfare, or convenience. Such petition shall be signed by the members of the legislative authority of the county or chief administrative officer of the municipal corporation and the chair of the legislative authority of the county, respectively, upon authorization by the governing body of the municipal corporation and the legislative authority of the county.Within thirty days after the filing of the petition of the parties with copies of their agreement and the resolutions authorizing its execution attached thereto, the court shall by order fix a date for a hearing on the petition not less than twenty nor more than ninety days after the entry of such order which also shall prescribe the form and manner of notice of such hearing to be given. After considering the petition and such evidence as may be presented at the hearing thereon, the court may determine by decree that the proposed transfer of property is in the public interest and conducive to the public health, safety, welfare, or convenience, approve the agreement of the parties and direct that such transfer be accomplished in accordance with that agreement at the time and in the manner prescribed by the court decree.[ 2009 c 549 § 4156; 1975 1st ex.s. c 188 § 10.]
WA Rev Code § 36.94.350 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.94 - Sewerage, Water, and Drainage Systems.|36.94.350 - Transfer of system from municipal corporation to county—Dissolution of municipal corporation.

RCW 36.94.350 Transfer of system from municipal corporation to county—Dissolution of municipal corporation.In the event the agreement of the parties provides for the transfer to the county of all the property of the municipal corporation or all such property except bond redemption funds in the possession of the county treasurer from which outstanding bonds of the municipal corporation are payable, and the agreement also provides for the assumption and payment by the county of all the indebtedness of the municipal corporation including the payment and retirement of all its outstanding bonds, and if the petition of the parties so requests, the court in the decree approving and directing the transfer of property, or in a subsequent decree, may dissolve the municipal corporation effective as of the time of transfer of property or at such time thereafter as the court may determine and establish.[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 188 § 11.]
WA Rev Code § 36.94.360 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.94 - Sewerage, Water, and Drainage Systems.|36.94.360 - Transfer of system from municipal corporation to county—RCW 36.94.310 through 36.94.350 deemed alternative method.

RCW 36.94.360 Transfer of system from municipal corporation to county—RCW 36.94.310 through 36.94.350 deemed alternative method.The provisions of RCW 36.94.310 through 36.94.350 shall be deemed to provide an alternative method for the doing of the things therein authorized and shall not be construed as imposing any additional conditions upon the exercise of any other powers vested in municipal corporations or counties.[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 188 § 12.]
WA Rev Code § 36.94.370 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.94 - Sewerage, Water, and Drainage Systems.|36.94.370 - Waiver or delay of collection of tap-in charges, connection or hookup fees for low income persons.

RCW 36.94.370 Waiver or delay of collection of tap-in charges, connection or hookup fees for low income persons.Whenever a county waives or delays collection of tap-in charges, connection fees or hookup fees for low income persons, or class of low income persons, to connect to a system of sewerage or a system of water, the waiver or delay shall be pursuant to a program established by ordinance.[ 1980 c 150 § 2.]