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WA Rev Code § 36.88.310 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.310 - Acquisition of property—Eminent domain.

RCW 36.88.310 Acquisition of property—Eminent domain.All land, premises or property necessary for right-of-way or other purposes in the construction or improvement of any county road, including bridges, sidewalks, curbs and gutters and the drainage facilities therefor, under this chapter may be acquired by the county acting through its board of county commissioners, either by gift, purchase or by condemnation. In the event of any exercise of the power of eminent domain, the procedure shall be the same as is provided by law for the securing of right-of-way for county roads. The title to all property acquired for any construction or improvement under this chapter shall be taken in the name of the county. The county commissioners in any eminent domain action brought to secure any property for construction or improvement under this chapter may pay any final judgment entered in such action with county road funds and take possession of the particular property condemned. In the event of any such payment the county commissioners may require that the county road fund be reimbursed out of the particular county road improvement fund of the district for which the property was acquired.[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.310. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 31.]
WA Rev Code § 36.88.320 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.320 - Construction or improvement—Supervision—Contracts—Standards.

RCW 36.88.320 Construction or improvement—Supervision—Contracts—Standards.All construction or improvement performed under this chapter shall be under the direction of the board of county commissioners, acting by and through the county road engineer, or such other engineer as the board of county commissioners shall designate. Contracts let and/or work performed upon all construction or improvement hereunder shall be in accordance with the laws pertaining to work upon county roads. The construction and improvement standards of the respective counties for engineering and performance of work, shall apply to all construction or improvement under this chapter.[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.320. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 32.]
WA Rev Code § 36.88.330 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.330 - Warrants—Issuance—Priority—Acceptance.

RCW 36.88.330 Warrants—Issuance—Priority—Acceptance.The board may provide by resolution for the issuance of warrants in payment of the costs and expenses of any project, payable out of the county road improvement fund. The warrants shall be redeemed either in cash or by bonds for the same project authorized by the resolution.All warrants issued against any such improvement fund shall be claims and liens against said fund prior and superior to any right, lien or claim of any surety upon the bond given to the county by or for the contract to secure the performance of his or her contract or to secure the payment of persons who have performed work thereon, furnished materials therefor, or furnished provisions and supplies for the carrying on of the work.The county treasurer may accept warrants against any county road improvement fund upon such conditions as the board may prescribe in payment of: (1) Assessments levied to supply that fund in due order of priority; (2) judgments rendered against property owners who have become delinquent in the payment of assessments to that fund; and (3) certificates of purchase in cases where property of delinquents has been sold under execution or at tax sale for failure to pay assessments levied to supply that fund.[ 2009 c 549 § 4147; 1980 c 100 § 6; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.330. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 33.]
WA Rev Code § 36.88.340 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.340 - Participation of county road fund—Arrangements with other public agencies, private utilities.

RCW 36.88.340 Participation of county road fund—Arrangements with other public agencies, private utilities.Except as they may establish continuing guaranty fund requirements, the board of county commissioners shall be the sole judges as to the extent of county road fund participation in any project under this chapter and the decisions of the board shall be final; the said board may receive grants from or contract with any other county, municipal corporation, public agency or the state or federal government in order to effect any construction or improvement hereunder, including the construction, installation, improvement, operation, maintenance of and furnishing electric energy for any street and road lighting system, and to effect the construction, installation, improvement, operation and maintenance of and furnishing electric energy for any such street and road lighting system, may contract with any private utility corporation.[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.340. Prior: 1953 c 152 § 2; 1951 c 192 § 34.]
WA Rev Code § 36.88.350 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.350 - Maintenance—Expense.

RCW 36.88.350 Maintenance—Expense.After the completion of any construction or improvement under this chapter, all maintenance thereof shall be performed by the county at the expense of the county road fund, excepting furnishing electric energy for and operating and maintaining street and road lighting systems: PROVIDED, That maintenance of canal protection improvements may, at the option of the board of commissioners of the county, be required of the irrigation, drainage, flood control, or other district, agency, person, corporation, or association maintaining the canal or ditch. If such option is exercised reimbursement must be made by the county for all actual costs of such maintenance.[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.350. Prior: 1959 c 75 § 8; 1953 c 152 § 3; 1951 c 192 § 35.]
WA Rev Code § 36.88.360 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.360 - State, county, school, municipal corporation lands—Assessment—Recipients of notices, ballots.

RCW 36.88.360 State, county, school, municipal corporation lands—Assessment—Recipients of notices, ballots.Lands owned by the state, county, school district or any municipal corporation may be assessed and charged for road improvements authorized under this chapter in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as provided by law for assessments against such property for local improvements in cities and towns.All notices and ballots provided for herein affecting state lands shall be sent to the department of natural resources whose designated agent is hereby authorized to sign petitions or ballots on behalf of the state. In the case of counties or municipal or quasi municipal bodies notices and ballots shall be sent to the legislative authority of said counties or municipality and petitions or ballots shall be signed by the officer duly empowered to act by said legislative authority.[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.360. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 36.]
WA Rev Code § 36.88.370 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.370 - Signatures on petitions, ballots, objections—Determining sufficiency.

RCW 36.88.370 Signatures on petitions, ballots, objections—Determining sufficiency.Wherever herein petitions, ballots or objections are required to be signed by the owners of property, the following rules shall govern the sufficiency thereof: (1) The signature of the record owner as determined by the records of the county auditor shall be sufficient without the signature of his or her spouse; (2) in the case of mortgaged property, the signature of the mortgagor shall be sufficient; (3) in the case of property purchased on contract the signature of the contract purchaser shall be deemed sufficient; (4) any officer of a corporation owning land in the district duly authorized to execute deeds or encumbrances on behalf of the corporation may sign on behalf of such corporation: PROVIDED, That there shall be attached to the ballot or petition a certified excerpt from the bylaws showing such authority; (5) if any property in the district stands in the name of a deceased person or any person for whom a guardian has been appointed, the signature of the executor, administrator or guardian as the case may be shall be equivalent to the signature of the owner of the property.[ 1963 c 84 § 6; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.370. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 37.]
WA Rev Code § 36.88.375 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.375 - Consolidated road improvement districts—Establishment—Bonds.

RCW 36.88.375 Consolidated road improvement districts—Establishment—Bonds.For the purpose of issuing bonds only, the governing body of any county may authorize the establishment of consolidated road improvement districts. The road improvements within such consolidated districts need not be adjoining, vicinal, or neighboring. If the governing body orders the creation of such consolidated road improvement districts, the money received from the installment payments of the principal of and interest on assessments levied within original road improvement districts shall be deposited in a consolidated road improvement district bond redemption fund to be used to redeem outstanding consolidated road improvement district bonds. The issuance of bonds of a consolidated road improvement district shall not change the number of assessment installments in the original road improvement districts, but such bonds shall run two years longer than the longest assessment installment of such original districts.[ 1981 c 313 § 19.]NOTES:Severability—1981 c 313: See note following RCW 36.94.020.
WA Rev Code § 36.88.380 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.380 - Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Assessments and benefits.

RCW 36.88.380 Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Assessments and benefits.Whenever a county road improvement district is established for the safeguarding of open canals or ditches as authorized by RCW 36.88.015 the rate of assessment per square foot in the district may be determined by any one of the methods provided in chapter 35.44 RCW for similar improvements in cities or towns, and the land specially benefited by such improvements shall be the same as provided in chapter 35.43 RCW for similar improvements in cities or towns.[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.380. Prior: 1959 c 75 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 36.88.390 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.390 - Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Authority.

RCW 36.88.390 Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Authority.Every county shall have the right of entry upon every irrigation, drainage, or flood control canal or ditch right-of-way within its boundaries for all purposes necessary to safeguard the public from the hazards of open canals or ditches, including the right to clean such canals or ditches to prevent their flooding adjacent lands, and the right to cause to be constructed and maintained on such rights-of-way or adjacent thereto safeguards as authorized by RCW 36.88.015: PROVIDED, That such safeguards must not unreasonably interfere with maintenance of the canal or ditch or with the operation thereof.[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.390. Prior: 1959 c 75 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 36.88.400 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.400 - Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Installation and construction—Costs.

RCW 36.88.400 Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Installation and construction—Costs.Any county, establishing a road improvement district for canal protection, notwithstanding any laws to the contrary, may require the district, agency, person, corporation, or association, public or private, which operates and maintains the canal or ditch to supervise the installation and construction of safeguards, and must make reimbursement to said operator for all actual costs incurred and expended.[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.400. Prior: 1959 c 75 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 36.88.410 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.410 - Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Declaration of public interest and purpose.

RCW 36.88.410 Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Declaration of public interest and purpose.It is hereby found and declared that the conversion of overhead electric and communication facilities to underground facilities and the initial underground installation of such facilities is substantially beneficial to the public safety and welfare, is in the public interest and is a public purpose, notwithstanding any resulting incidental private benefit to any electric or communication utility affected by such conversion or installation.[ 1971 ex.s. c 103 § 1; 1967 c 194 § 1.]NOTES:Severability—1967 c 194: "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." [ 1967 c 194 § 9.]Cities and towns, conversion of overhead electric and communication facilities to underground facilities: Chapter 35.96 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 36.88.420 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.420 - Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Definitions.

RCW 36.88.420 Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Definitions.As used in RCW 36.88.410 through 36.88.480, unless specifically defined otherwise, or unless the context indicates otherwise:"Conversion area" means that area in which existing overhead electric and communication facilities are to be converted to underground facilities pursuant to the provisions of RCW 36.88.410 through 36.88.480."Electric utility" means any publicly or privately owned utility engaged in the business of furnishing electric energy to the public in all or part of the conversion area and includes electrical companies as defined by RCW 80.04.010 and public utility districts."Communication utility" means any utility engaged in the business of affording telephonic, telegraphic, cable television or other communication service to the public in all or part of the conversion area and includes telephone companies and telegraph companies as defined by RCW 80.04.010.[ 1967 c 194 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 36.88.430 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.430 - Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Powers of county relating to—Contracts—County road improvement districts—Special assessments.

RCW 36.88.430 Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Powers of county relating to—Contracts—County road improvement districts—Special assessments.Every county shall have the power to contract with electric and communication utilities, as hereinafter provided, for any or all of the following purposes:(1) The conversion of existing overhead electric facilities to underground facilities.(2) The conversion of existing overhead communication facilities to underground facilities.(3) The conversion of existing street and road lighting facilities to ornamental street and road lighting facilities to be served from underground electrical facilities.(4) The initial installation, in accordance with the limitations set forth in RCW 36.88.015, or [of] ornamental street and road lighting facilities to be served from underground electrical facilities.(5) The initial installation of underground electric and communication facilities.(6) Any combination of the improvements provided for in this section.To provide funds to pay the whole or any part of the cost of any such conversion or initial installation, together with the expense of furnishing electric energy, maintenance and operation to any ornamental street lighting facilities served from underground electrical facilities, every county shall have the power to create county road improvement districts and to levy and collect special assessments against the real property specially benefited by such conversion or initial installation. For the purpose of ascertaining the amount to be assessed against each lot or parcel of land within any county road improvement district established pursuant to RCW 36.88.410 through 36.88.480, in addition to other methods provided by law for apportioning special benefits, the county commissioners may apportion all or part of the special benefits accruing on a square footage basis or on a per lot basis.That portion of the assessments levied in any county road improvement district to pay part of the cost of the initial installation of underground electric and communication facilities shall not exceed the cost of such installation, less the estimated cost of constructing overhead facilities providing equivalent service.[ 1971 ex.s. c 103 § 2; 1967 c 194 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 36.88.440 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.440 - Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Contracts with electric and communication utilities—Authorized—Provisions.

RCW 36.88.440 Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Contracts with electric and communication utilities—Authorized—Provisions.Every county shall have the power to contract with electric and communication utilities for the conversion of existing overhead electric and communication facilities to underground facilities, for the conversion of existing street and road lighting facilities to ornamental street and road lighting facilities to be served from underground electrical facilities[,] for the initial installation of ornamental street and road lighting facilities to be served from underground electrical facilities and for the initial installation of underground electric and communication facilities. Such contracts may provide, among other provisions, any of the following:(1) For the supplying and approval by the electric and communication utilities of plans and specifications for such conversion or installation;(2) For the payment to the electric and communication utilities for any work performed or services rendered by it in connection with the conversion project or installation;(3) For the payment to the electric and communication utilities for the value of the overhead facilities removed pursuant to the conversion;(4) For ownership of the underground facilities and the ornamental street and road lighting facilities by the electric and communication utilities.[ 1971 ex.s. c 103 § 3; 1967 c 194 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 36.88.460 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.460 - Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Utility conversion guaranty fund—Establishment authorized—Purpose—Deposits—Investments.

RCW 36.88.460 Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Utility conversion guaranty fund—Establishment authorized—Purpose—Deposits—Investments.Every county may establish a fund for the purpose of guaranteeing to the extent of such fund and in the manner hereinafter provided, the payment of its county road improvement district bonds and warrants issued to pay for the underground conversion of electric and communication facilities and the underground conversion or installation of ornamental road and street lighting facilities ordered under this chapter. If the board of county commissioners shall determine to establish such fund it shall be designated ". . . . . . utility conversion guaranty fund" and from moneys available such county shall deposit annually in said guaranty fund such sums as may be necessary to establish and maintain a balance therein equal to at least five percent of the outstanding obligations guaranteed thereby and to make necessary provision in its annual budget therefor. The moneys held in the guaranty fund may be invested in certificates, notes, or bonds of the United States of America, or in state, county, municipal or school district bonds, or in warrants of taxing districts of the state; provided, only, that such bonds and warrants shall be general obligations.[ 1967 c 194 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 36.88.480 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.480 - Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Applicability of general provisions relating to county road improvement districts.

RCW 36.88.480 Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Applicability of general provisions relating to county road improvement districts.Unless otherwise provided in RCW 36.88.410 through 36.88.480, the general provisions relating to county road improvement districts shall apply to local improvements authorized by RCW 36.88.410 through 36.88.480.[ 1967 c 194 § 8.]
WA Rev Code § 36.88.485 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.485 - Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Recording of underground utility installations.

RCW 36.88.485 Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Recording of underground utility installations.All installations of underground utilities made on and after August 9, 1971 shall be recorded on an "as constructed" map and filed with the county engineer of the county in which the underground utilities are installed.[ 1971 ex.s. c 103 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 36.88.900 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 36 - Counties|Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts.|36.88.900 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.

RCW 36.88.900 Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married persons, and references to dissolution of marriage shall apply equally to state registered domestic partnerships that have been terminated, dissolved, or invalidated, to the extent that such interpretation does not conflict with federal law. Where necessary to implement chapter 521, Laws of 2009, gender-specific terms such as husband and wife used in any statute, rule, or other law shall be construed to be gender neutral, and applicable to individuals in state registered domestic partnerships.[ 2009 c 521 § 82.]