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WA Rev Code § 87.03.630 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 87 - Irrigation|Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally.|87.03.630 - Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Hearing—Order including lands.

RCW 87.03.630 Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Hearing—Order including lands.The board of directors of the district shall meet at the time and place specified in the notice and shall have full authority to determine all matters pertaining to the petition, including the denial as well as the granting of said petition or any part thereof; and if it appears at said hearing, or at any adjournment thereof which may be had not to exceed in all one hundred eighty days, that the land or any portion thereof petitioned to be included within the district, is susceptible of irrigation from the water supply and system of works of the said district and will be benefited by such irrigation; and if at said hearing or at any adjournment thereof as aforesaid, not more than fifty percent of the holders of title or evidence of title to the lands described in the petition and proposed to be included file their objections in writing to the inclusion of such land within the time and as provided in RCW 87.03.615 through 87.03.640, the said board shall make and enter in the records of their proceedings an order including said land, or such portion thereof as in their judgment is susceptible of irrigation and will be benefited as aforesaid, within the operation of said district.[ 2014 c 2 § 3; 1939 c 150 § 4; RRS § 7485-4. Formerly RCW 87.44.130, part and 87.44.140, part.]
WA Rev Code § 87.03.635 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 87 - Irrigation|Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally.|87.03.635 - Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Denial of petition.

RCW 87.03.635 Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Denial of petition.If at said hearing or at any adjournment thereof, the board of directors shall determine that said land is not susceptible of irrigation and will not be benefited as aforesaid by inclusion in the district, or if more than fifty percent of the holders of title to or evidence of title to the land described in the petition file their objections in writing within the time and as aforesaid, then the board of directors shall deny said petition and shall make and enter in the records of their proceedings an order to that effect.[ 1939 c 150 § 5; RRS § 7485-5. Formerly RCW 87.44.130, part.]
WA Rev Code § 87.03.640 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 87 - Irrigation|Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally.|87.03.640 - Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Order filed—Effect.

RCW 87.03.640 Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Order filed—Effect.A certified copy of the order of the board of directors including any lands within the operation of the district under the provisions of *this act shall be filed with the county assessor and with the county auditor of each county in which any part of such included lands is situated, and from and after the date of such filing such land shall be subject to all the obligations and entitled to all the privileges of lands within the operation of the district.[ 1939 c 150 § 6; RRS § 7485-6. Formerly RCW 87.44.140, part.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: "This act" is codified as RCW 87.03.615 through 87.03.640.
WA Rev Code § 87.03.645 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 87 - Irrigation|Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally.|87.03.645 - Exclusion of lands from district—Effect.

RCW 87.03.645 Exclusion of lands from district—Effect.The boundaries of any irrigation district or consolidated irrigation district, now or hereafter organized under the provisions of this chapter, may be changed, and tracts of land which were included within the boundaries of such district, or former irrigation districts which were included within the boundaries of such consolidated district, at or after its organization under the provisions of this chapter, may be excluded therefrom in the manner herein prescribed; but neither such change of the boundaries of the district or consolidated district, nor such exclusion of lands from the district, nor such exclusion of a former district from a consolidated district, shall impair or affect its organization or the rights of the district in or to property, except that all property of a consolidated district, the title to which was derived from a former district by, and at the time of, the consolidation shall revert to and become the property of such former district when reestablished as herein provided; nor shall it affect, impair or discharge any contract, obligation, lien, or charge for or upon which such district or such consolidated district was or might become liable or chargeable had such change of its boundaries not been made, or had not any such land been excluded from such district, or any such former district been excluded from such consolidated district, unless the holders of such lien, obligation, charge or contract right chargeable against the district, or consolidated district consent to such exclusion in the manner hereinafter provided in RCW 87.03.670 for the consent of the bondholders.[ 1921 c 129 § 35; 1915 c 179 § 23; 1889-90 p 698 § 60; RRS § 7486. Formerly RCW 87.44.150.]
WA Rev Code § 87.03.650 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 87 - Irrigation|Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally.|87.03.650 - Exclusion of lands from district—Petition to exclude lands—Contents.

RCW 87.03.650 Exclusion of lands from district—Petition to exclude lands—Contents.The owner or owners in fee of one or more tracts of land which constitute a portion of an irrigation district, or fifty or a majority of the holders of title to lands constituting any portion of an irrigation district, or consolidated district as the case may be, for which lands similar grounds for exclusion may exist, or fifty or a majority of the holders of title to lands which constituted a former irrigation district included with a consolidated district, may file with the board of directors of such district, or of such consolidated district, as the case may be, a petition praying that such tracts, and any other tracts contiguous thereto, or such land which constituted such former district, may be excluded and taken from said district, or consolidated district, as the case may be, and in the latter case that such former district may be reestablished. The petition for the exclusion of tracts of land from a district shall describe the boundaries of the land which the petitioners desire to have excluded from the district, and also describe the land of such of said petitioners which are included within such boundaries; but the description of such lands need not be more particular or certain than is required when the lands are entered in the assessment book by the county assessor. The petition for the exclusion of a former district from a consolidated district shall give the corporate name and number of such former district and shall describe the lands of each of said petitioners by legal subdivision or lot and block numbers and name of city, town or addition of platted lands. Every such petition must be acknowledged in the same manner and form as is required in case of a conveyance of land, and the acknowledgment shall have the same force and effect as evidence as the acknowledgment of such conveyance.[ 1921 c 129 § 36; 1889-90 p 699 § 61; RRS § 7487. Formerly RCW 87.44.160, part.]NOTES:Acknowledgments: Chapter 64.08 RCW.Property taxes—Listing of property: Chapter 84.40 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 87.03.655 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 87 - Irrigation|Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally.|87.03.655 - Exclusion of lands from district—Notice—Contents—Service.

RCW 87.03.655 Exclusion of lands from district—Notice—Contents—Service.The secretary of the board of directors shall cause a notice of the filing of the petition to be published for at least two weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the office of the board of directors is situated, and if any portion of the territory to be excluded lies within another county or counties, then the notice shall be so published in a newspaper of general circulation within each of the counties. The notice shall state the filing of the petition, the names of the petitioners, a description of the lands, or the name and number of the former district, mentioned in the petition, and the prayer of the petition; and it shall notify all persons interested in or that may be affected by the change of the boundaries of the district to appear at the office of the board at a time named in the notice, and show cause in writing, if any they have, why the change of the boundaries of the district, as proposed in the petition, should not be made. The time to be specified in the notice at which they shall be required to show cause shall be the regular meeting of the board next after the expiration of the time for the publication of the notice.[ 1985 c 469 § 89; 1921 c 129 § 37; 1889-90 p 699 § 62; RRS § 7488. Formerly RCW 87.44.170.]NOTES:Official paper for publication: RCW 87.03.020.
WA Rev Code § 87.03.660 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 87 - Irrigation|Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally.|87.03.660 - Exclusion of lands from district—Hearing—Assent.

RCW 87.03.660 Exclusion of lands from district—Hearing—Assent.The board of directors, at the time and place mentioned in the notice, or at the time or times to which the hearing of said petition may be adjourned, shall proceed to hear the petition, and all objections thereto presented in writing, by any person showing cause, as aforesaid, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. The failure of any person interested in said district or consolidated district to show cause, in writing, why the tract or tracts of land mentioned in said petition should not be excluded from said district, or the former district mentioned should not be excluded from the consolidated district, as the case may be, shall be deemed and taken as an assent by him or her to such exclusion, and the filing of such petition with such board, as aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken as an assent by each and all of such petitioners to such exclusion.[ 2013 c 23 § 506; 1921 c 129 § 38; 1889-90 p 700 § 63; RRS § 7489. Formerly RCW 87.44.180.]
WA Rev Code § 87.03.665 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 87 - Irrigation|Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally.|87.03.665 - Exclusion of lands from district—Order denying or granting petition.

RCW 87.03.665 Exclusion of lands from district—Order denying or granting petition.The board of directors, if they deem it not for the best interest of the district, or consolidated district, as the case may be, that the lands, or the former district, mentioned in the petition, or some portion thereof, should be excluded from said district, or consolidated district, shall order that said petition be denied; but if they deem it for the best interests of the district, or consolidated district, as the case may be, that the lands, or the former district, as the case may be, be excluded from the district, or consolidated district, and if no person interested in the district shows cause, in writing, why the prayer of the petition should not be granted, or if having shown cause withdraws the same, and also, if there be no outstanding bonds of the district, and no contract between the district and the United States, or the state of Washington, then the board may order that the lands mentioned in the petition, or some defined portion thereof, or the former district mentioned in the petition, be excluded from the district, or consolidated district, as the case may be, and the former district be reestablished.[ 1921 c 129 § 39; 1915 c 179 § 24; 1889-90 p 700 § 64; RRS § 7490. Formerly RCW 87.44.190.]NOTES:Board's powers and duties generally (contracts with state and United States): RCW 87.03.140.
WA Rev Code § 87.03.670 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 87 - Irrigation|Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally.|87.03.670 - Exclusion of lands from district—Assent of bondholders.

RCW 87.03.670 Exclusion of lands from district—Assent of bondholders.If there be outstanding bonds of the district, or consolidated district, as the case may be, or if such district shall have entered into a contract with the United States, or the state of Washington, then the board may adopt a resolution to the effect that the board deems it to the best interest of the district that the lands mentioned in the petition, or some portion thereof, or the former district mentioned in the petition, as the case may be, should be excluded from the district, or consolidated district, and the former district reestablished. The resolution shall describe such lands so that the boundaries can readily be traced, or shall give the corporate name and number of the former district. The holders of such outstanding bonds may give their assent, in writing, to the effect that they severally consent that the board may make an order by which the lands, or the former district, mentioned in the resolution may be excluded from the district, and in case contract has been made with the United States, or the state of Washington, the secretary of the interior or the director of ecology may assent to such change. The assent must be acknowledged by the several holders of such bonds in the same manner and form as is required in case of a conveyance of land, and the acknowledgment shall have the same force and effect, as evidence, as the acknowledgment of such conveyance. The assent of the secretary of the interior need not be acknowledged. The assent shall be filed with the board, and in the office of the county clerk in each county comprised within the district and must be recorded in the minutes of the board; and said minutes, or certified copy thereof, shall be admissible in evidence with the same effect as the said assent; but if such assent of the bondholders, and in case of contract with the United States, or the state of Washington, such assent of the secretary of the interior or the director of ecology, be not filed, the board shall deny and dismiss said petition.[ 1988 c 127 § 47; 1921 c 129 § 40; 1915 c 179 § 25; 1889-90 p 701 § 65; RRS § 7491. Formerly RCW 87.44.200.]NOTES:Acknowledgments: Chapter 64.08 RCW.Board's powers and duties generally (contracts with state and United States): RCW 87.03.140.Certificate of acknowledgment—Evidence: RCW 64.08.050.
WA Rev Code § 87.03.675 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 87 - Irrigation|Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally.|87.03.675 - Exclusion of lands from district—Order for election—Notice—Conduct of election.

RCW 87.03.675 Exclusion of lands from district—Order for election—Notice—Conduct of election.If the assent aforesaid of the holders of said bonds be filed and entered of record as aforesaid, and if there be objections presented by any person showing cause as aforesaid, which have not been withdrawn, then the board may order an election to be held in each district to determine whether an order shall be made excluding said land from said district, or excluding said former district from said consolidated district, as the case may be, and such former district be reestablished, as mentioned in said resolution. The notice of such election shall describe the boundary of all lands, or shall give the corporate name and number of the former district, which it is proposed to exclude, and such notice shall be published for at least two weeks prior to such election, in a newspaper published within the county where the office of the board of directors is situated; and if any portion of such territory to be excluded lie within another county or counties, then said notice shall be so published in a newspaper published within each of such counties. Such notice shall require the electors to cast ballots, which shall contain the words "For exclusion" and "Against exclusion", or words equivalent thereto. Such election shall be conducted in the manner prescribed in this chapter for the holding of special elections on the issuance of bonds. In every case where the petition is for the exclusion of a former district from a consolidated district the resolution of the board ordering an election shall provide for the holding of such election separately in the territory comprising such former district and in the territory comprising that portion of the consolidated district not included in such former district, and for canvassing and counting of the votes cast at such election separately.[ 1921 c 129 § 41; 1915 c 179 § 26; 1889-90 p 701 § 66; RRS § 7492. Formerly RCW 87.44.210.]NOTES:Special elections on the issuance of bonds: RCW 87.03.200.
WA Rev Code § 87.03.680 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 87 - Irrigation|Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally.|87.03.680 - Exclusion of lands from district—Procedure following election—Order of exclusion.

RCW 87.03.680 Exclusion of lands from district—Procedure following election—Order of exclusion.If at any such election a majority of all the votes cast shall be against exclusion the board shall deny and dismiss said petition and proceed no further in said matter; but if in the case of a petition for the exclusion of lands from a district a majority of such votes be in favor of the exclusion of said lands from the district, the board shall thereupon order that the said lands mentioned in said resolution be excluded from the district; if in the case of a petition for the exclusion of a former district from a consolidated district, a majority of the votes cast in such former district shall be against exclusion, or a majority of the votes cast in the remaining portion of the consolidated district shall be against exclusion, the board shall deny and dismiss the petition and proceed no further in the matter; but if in the case of a petition for such exclusion of a former district a majority of the votes cast in such former district and a majority of the votes cast in the remaining portion of the consolidated district shall be in favor of the exclusion of such former district, the board shall thereupon order that the lands comprising such former district be excluded from the consolidated district and that such former district shall be and is reestablished as an irrigation district created and established under the provision of this chapter and that the title to all property formerly belonging to, and all property within the boundaries of said former district, shall be and is vested in such reestablished district, and shall call an election to be held in such reestablished district for the election of a board of directors thereof, and direct the publication of notices of such election in the manner provided in this chapter for the publication of notice of special elections. The board entering such order shall continue to administer the affairs of such reestablished district until the directors elected at such election shall have qualified.The said order excluding land from a district shall describe the boundaries of the lands excluded, should the exclusion change the boundaries of the district, and in case of the exclusion of a former district from a consolidated district, shall describe the boundaries of the reestablished district and the boundaries of the district remaining; and for that purpose the board may cause a survey to be made of such portions of the boundaries as the board may deem necessary.[ 1961 c 18 § 4. Prior: 1947 c 241 § 2; 1921 c 129 § 42; 1889-90 p 702 § 67; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 7482 (RRS § 7493). Formerly RCW 87.44.220.]
WA Rev Code § 87.03.685 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 87 - Irrigation|Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally.|87.03.685 - Exclusion of lands from district—Orders to be recorded—Effect.

RCW 87.03.685 Exclusion of lands from district—Orders to be recorded—Effect.Upon the entry in the minutes of the board of any of the orders hereinbefore mentioned, a copy thereof, certified by the president and the secretary of the board, shall be filed for record in the offices of the county auditor and the county assessor of each county within which are situated any of the lands of the district, and thereupon said district, and said consolidated district and said reestablished district, if any, shall each be and remain an irrigation district as fully, as to every intent and purpose, as it would be had no change been made in the boundaries thereof, or had the lands excluded therefrom never constituted a portion thereof.[ 1921 c 129 § 43; 1889-90 p 702 § 68; RRS § 7494. Formerly RCW 87.44.230.]
WA Rev Code § 87.03.690 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 87 - Irrigation|Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally.|87.03.690 - Exclusion of lands from district—Guardian, executor or administrator may sign and acknowledge.

RCW 87.03.690 Exclusion of lands from district—Guardian, executor or administrator may sign and acknowledge.A guardian, and executor or an administrator of an estate who is appointed as such under the laws of this state, and who, as such guardian, executor or administrator, is entitled to the possession of the lands belonging to the estate which he or she represents, may, on behalf of his or her ward or the estate which he or she represents, upon being thereto properly authorized by the proper court, sign and acknowledge the petition in this act mentioned, and may show cause, as in this act provided, why the boundaries of the district should not be changed.[ 2013 c 23 § 507; 1889-90 p 703 § 71; RRS § 7496. Formerly RCW 87.44.160, part.]NOTES:Reviser's note: (1) "Petition in this act mentioned" apparently refers to the petition provided for in RCW 87.03.650.(2) "Show cause, as in this act provided" apparently refers to the show cause provided for in RCW 87.03.655.Guardians, etc., when land added to district: RCW 87.03.610.
WA Rev Code § 87.03.695 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 87 - Irrigation|Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally.|87.03.695 - Exclusion of lands from district—Refunds—Cancellation of assessments.

RCW 87.03.695 Exclusion of lands from district—Refunds—Cancellation of assessments.In case of the exclusion of any lands under the provisions of this act, the board of directors shall determine what refund, if any, shall be made to any person or persons who have paid any assessments to such district on any lands so excluded, but such refund, if any, shall be on a basis equitable alike to lands remaining in the district and lands excluded therefrom. Such payment shall be made in the manner as other claims against the district, and from such fund or funds as the board of directors may designate, and which may be legally applied to such payments. The board may, in its discretion, determine what portion, if any, of the assessments remaining unpaid shall be canceled. Said cancellation, if any, shall be accomplished by an order entered upon the minutes of the board and certified to the office of the county treasurer. Upon the filing of such certified order, said assessments, or any portion thereof, canceled by said order shall be marked "Canceled" upon the treasurer's records. The lien of such portion of said assessments, if any, as the board shall refuse to cancel, shall continue against the lands excluded, and the district shall retain all of its rights to such assessments or portions thereof as if said lands had not been excluded.[ 1921 c 129 § 44; 1913 c 165 § 22; 1889-90 p 703 § 72; RRS § 7497. Formerly RCW 87.44.240.]