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WA Rev Code § 85.16.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.16 - Maintenance Costs and Levies—Improvement Districts.|85.16.130 - Conduct of hearing on appraisers' report—Correction, etc., of schedules.

RCW 85.16.130 Conduct of hearing on appraisers' report—Correction, etc., of schedules.At the hearing upon the report of the appraisers, which may be adjourned from time to time until finally completed, the board shall carefully examine and consider the special benefits and the apportionment of estimated costs determined by the appraisers and reported in the schedule or schedules, and any objections thereto which shall have been made in writing and filed with the board on or prior to ten o'clock a.m. of the date fixed for such hearing. Each objector shall be given reasonable time and opportunity to submit evidence and be heard on the merits of his or her objections. At the conclusion of such hearing, the board shall so correct, revise, raise, lower, change, or modify such schedule or schedules, or any part thereof, or strike therefrom any property not specially benefited, as to said board shall appear equitable and just. The board shall cause the clerk of the board to enter on each such schedule or schedules all such additions, cancellations, changes, and modifications made by it.[ 2013 c 23 § 423; 1949 c 26 § 9; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 4459-28. Formerly RCW 85.16.130 and 85.16.140.]
WA Rev Code § 85.16.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.16 - Maintenance Costs and Levies—Improvement Districts.|85.16.150 - Approval of schedules—Separate funds for diking, drainage systems.

RCW 85.16.150 Approval of schedules—Separate funds for diking, drainage systems.When the board shall have determined that the schedule or schedules of benefits and/or apportionment of costs as filed or as changed and modified by it are fair, just and equitable and, if estimated costs have been apportioned, that said benefits equal or exceed said costs apportioned, the members of the board approving the same shall sign said schedule or schedules and cause the clerk of the board to attest their signatures under his or her seal, and shall enter an order in the journal approving and confirming the final determination of such benefits and apportionment of costs and all proceedings leading thereto and in connection therewith. If separate schedules be established for maintenance of the diking system and of the drainage system, the board shall by order establish two separate maintenance funds, one for the maintenance of the diking system and one for the maintenance of the drainage system.[ 2013 c 23 § 424; 1949 c 26 § 10; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 4459-29.]
WA Rev Code § 85.16.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.16 - Maintenance Costs and Levies—Improvement Districts.|85.16.160 - Roll of benefits—Benefits to be basis of levies.

RCW 85.16.160 Roll of benefits—Benefits to be basis of levies.Upon the approval and final determination of benefits the auditor shall immediately prepare a completed roll thereof, which shall contain a copy of the order of the board approving and confirming said benefits as finally determined, and shall deliver said roll to the treasurer. Said benefits shall be the basis for the apportionment and collection of maintenance levies thereafter made by the board.[ 1949 c 26 § 11; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 4459-30.]
WA Rev Code § 85.16.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.16 - Maintenance Costs and Levies—Improvement Districts.|85.16.170 - Levy for extraordinary expenditures—Roll.

RCW 85.16.170 Levy for extraordinary expenditures—Roll.Upon the approval and final determination of the apportionment of estimated costs of extraordinary maintenance expenditures as provided in RCW 85.16.120 and 85.16.130, the board shall levy the amounts so apportioned against all the properties benefited and the amounts assessed against the state, county, cities and towns, and other municipal corporations benefited, and the auditor shall immediately prepare a completed roll thereof, which shall contain a copy of the order of the board approving and confirming said apportionment of estimated costs as finally determined and fixing and levying the assessments therefor, and shall deliver said roll to the treasurer for collection in accordance with the order of the board.[ 1949 c 26 § 12; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 4459-31.]
WA Rev Code § 85.16.180 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.16 - Maintenance Costs and Levies—Improvement Districts.|85.16.180 - Authorizing extraordinary work—Temporary construction warrants.

RCW 85.16.180 Authorizing extraordinary work—Temporary construction warrants.The county legislative authority shall thereupon enter an order authorizing the contemplated extraordinary maintenance work to be done and authorizing the issuance of temporary construction warrants to pay the cost of said work as it progresses, which warrants may bear interest at such rate or rates of interest as the county legislative authority shall determine. Warrants to pay the costs of such extraordinary maintenance may be issued and sold at one time or from time to time and in such series and amounts as may be found practicable and as determined by the board.[ 1986 c 278 § 34; 1983 c 167 § 198; 1970 ex.s. c 56 § 92; 1969 ex.s. c 232 § 54; 1949 c 26 § 13; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 4459-32. Formerly RCW 85.16.040 and 85.16.180.]NOTES:Severability—1986 c 278: See note following RCW 36.01.010.Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.Purpose—1970 ex.s. c 56: See note following RCW 39.52.020.Validation—Saving—Severability—1969 ex.s. c 232: See notes following RCW 39.52.020.
WA Rev Code § 85.16.190 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.16 - Maintenance Costs and Levies—Improvement Districts.|85.16.190 - Judicial review—Regularity, validity of proceedings.

RCW 85.16.190 Judicial review—Regularity, validity of proceedings.The decision of the board upon any objections to the determination of benefits and/or apportionment of costs and/or the levy of the assessments therefor, made within the time and in the manner prescribed in RCW 85.16.130, may be reviewed by the superior court of the county in which the district is situated and thereafter by the supreme court or the court of appeals within the time and in the manner and upon the conditions, so far as applicable, provided in RCW 85.08.440, with respect to appeals from and appellate review of the board's apportionment of the cost of construction of the district's system of improvements. The provisions of RCW 85.08.450, shall be controlling as to the regularity, validity, and conclusiveness of all the proceedings hereunder.[ 1988 c 202 § 79; 1971 c 81 § 164; 1949 c 26 § 14; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 4459-33.]NOTES:Severability—1988 c 202: See note following RCW 2.24.050.
WA Rev Code § 85.16.200 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.16 - Maintenance Costs and Levies—Improvement Districts.|85.16.200 - Redetermination of special benefits—Hearing.

RCW 85.16.200 Redetermination of special benefits—Hearing.Whenever, after the determination of special benefits accruing from the maintenance of the district's system of improvements, it appears to the board from a petition filed by the affected property owner or owners or otherwise, that by reason of permanent improvements or additions made, removed, abandoned or destroyed by fire or other casualty, or of other changes in the character or condition of the property, the benefits theretofore determined in respect to any one or more pieces or parcels of property are no longer fair, just and equitable, then the board shall appoint three appraisers who shall qualify as in RCW 85.08.360 hereof. Said appraisers shall proceed immediately to carefully examine the pieces or parcels of property as to which since the last determination of special benefits thereto there have been permanent improvements or additions made, removed, abandoned or destroyed by fire or other casualty or other changes in the character or condition of the property. Said appraisers shall file their sworn report with the board setting forth the special benefits determined by them as accruing to each piece and parcel of property examined by them not less than ten days prior to the date of hearing. The board shall hold a hearing thereon at the county seat at the time of equalization of the real property assessment and shall give notice thereof as provided in RCW 85.16.070.[ 1951 c 63 § 2; 1949 c 26 § 15; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 4459-34.]
WA Rev Code § 85.16.210 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.16 - Maintenance Costs and Levies—Improvement Districts.|85.16.210 - Conduct of hearing on special benefits—Modification of schedules—Judicial review.

RCW 85.16.210 Conduct of hearing on special benefits—Modification of schedules—Judicial review.At such hearing, which may be adjourned from time to time as may be necessary to give all persons interested or affected a reasonable opportunity to be heard, and after consideration of all evidence offered and all factors, situations, and conditions bearing upon or determinative of the benefits accruing and to accrue to such pieces or parcels of property, the board shall correct, revise, raise, lower, or otherwise change or confirm the benefits as theretofore determined, in respect of such pieces or parcels of property, as to it shall seem fair, just, and equitable under the circumstances, and thereafter such proceedings shall be had with respect to the confirmation or determination of the benefits and making and filing of a roll thereof, as are in RCW 85.16.130, 85.16.150, and 85.16.160 provided. Any property owner affected by any change thus made in the determination of benefits accruing to his or her property who shall have appeared at the hearing by the board and made written objections thereto as provided in RCW 85.16.130, may appeal from the action of the board to the superior court and seek appellate review by the supreme court or the court of appeals, within the time, in the manner and upon the conditions, so far as applicable, provided in RCW 85.08.440, with respect to appeals from the order of the board confirming the apportionment of the original cost of construction.[ 2013 c 23 § 426; 1988 c 202 § 80; 1971 c 81 § 165; 1949 c 26 § 16; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 4459-35.]NOTES:Severability—1988 c 202: See note following RCW 2.24.050.
WA Rev Code § 85.16.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.16 - Maintenance Costs and Levies—Improvement Districts.|85.16.220 - Other provisions shall apply—Exceptions.

RCW 85.16.220 Other provisions shall apply—Exceptions.The provisions of *RCW 85.08.280, 85.08.310, 85.08.320, 85.08.420, 85.08.430, and 85.08.480 through 85.08.520, shall be deemed and hereby are made a part of this chapter insofar as they may be applicable hereto, except that the unpaid assessments or installments thereof, which may have been levied for extraordinary maintenance costs as provided in RCW 85.16.170, shall bear interest at a rate determined by the county legislative authority.[ 1981 c 156 § 25; 1949 c 26 § 17; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 4459-36.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: RCW 85.08.280 was repealed by 1986 c 278 § 46.
WA Rev Code § 85.16.230 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.16 - Maintenance Costs and Levies—Improvement Districts.|85.16.230 - Erroneous assessment—Correction.

RCW 85.16.230 Erroneous assessment—Correction.Whenever any payer of a diking, drainage, or sewerage improvement district maintenance assessment believes that, through obvious error in name, number, description, amount of benefit valuation, double assessment, or extension, or other obvious error, property on which he or she has paid an assessment has been erroneously assessed, he or she may pay such assessment under protest. If, within thirty days after such payment under protest, he or she files with the board a written verified petition setting out his or her name, address, and legal description of the property, the nature of the obvious error alleged to have been made, and the date and amount of any assessment paid thereon, the board shall cause such claim to be investigated. If upon investigation any assessment is found to be erroneous through obvious error, the board shall order such assessment to be corrected if no bond or long term warrant issue is affected. Where correction is ordered of an erroneous assessment already collected, the auditor, upon receipt of a certified copy of the board's order of correction, shall refund to the person paying the assessment the difference between the correct assessment and the erroneous assessment, plus legal interest on such difference from date of payment, by a warrant drawn on the maintenance fund of the district.[ 2013 c 23 § 427; 1951 c 63 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 85.18.005 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.18 - Levy for Continuous Benefits—Diking Districts.|85.18.005 - Declaration of purpose.

RCW 85.18.005 Declaration of purpose.The state declares that it has an interest in protecting and preserving productive land and buildings needed to make business function continuously. Where organized diking districts, through their improvements, have reclaimed land or protected it from overflow and have enabled erection of improvements thereon or have furnished such land and buildings protection against flood water, it is necessary to provide a just and equitable method to enable such diking districts continuously to function effectively. It is declared that there is a direct relationship, where such conditions exist, between the continuous functioning of such districts and the fair value of the lands and buildings thereon, or to be erected thereon, thus afforded protection.[ 1951 c 45 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 85.18.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.18 - Levy for Continuous Benefits—Diking Districts.|85.18.010 - Levy for continuous benefits authorized—Base benefits.

RCW 85.18.010 Levy for continuous benefits authorized—Base benefits.When any diking district has been organized and the improvements made afford protection to land and buildings within such district against damage or destruction from overflow waters in that the level of the land and of the foundational structures of buildings thereon is below the water level at flood or high tide stages of the waters, fresh or salt, against which such district improvements furnished protection, the board of diking commissioners of such district may, under the procedure established in this chapter, determine such fact and by resolution so declare; and may provide that the cost of continued functioning of the district shall be paid through levies of dollar rates made and collected according to this chapter against the land and buildings thus protected, based upon the determined base benefits received by such land and buildings.[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 115; 1951 c 45 § 2.]NOTES:Severability—Effective dates and termination dates—Construction—1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043.
WA Rev Code § 85.18.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.18 - Levy for Continuous Benefits—Diking Districts.|85.18.020 - Roll of protected property.

RCW 85.18.020 Roll of protected property.To operate under this chapter, the board shall cause to be prepared and filed with it a roll containing descriptions of the land and buildings thereon within the district to which its improvements furnish the nature of protection set forth in RCW 85.18.010. The roll shall show descriptions of the land and the name of its owner, or reputed owner, and such owner's address, as shown upon the tax roll of the treasurer of the county wherein the property is located, and the determined value of such land and any buildings thereon as last assessed and equalized by the taxing agencies of such county.[ 1951 c 45 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 85.18.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.18 - Levy for Continuous Benefits—Diking Districts.|85.18.030 - Hearing on roll—Determining continuous base benefit.

RCW 85.18.030 Hearing on roll—Determining continuous base benefit.After the roll is prepared the board shall give notice of a time and place at which the board will hold a public hearing to determine whether the facts and conditions heretofore recited in this chapter as a prerequisite to its application do or do not exist, and if so found to exist by said board at said hearing, then the board shall by resolution so declare. The notice shall also state that at said hearing, or any continuance thereof, the board will sit to consider said roll and to determine the continuous base benefits which each of the properties thereon are receiving and will receive from the continued operation and functioning of such district, which shall in no instance exceed one hundred percent of the true and fair value of such property in money, will consider all objections made thereto or to any part thereof, and will correct, revise, lower, change, or modify such roll as shall appear just and equitable; that when correct benefits are fixed upon said roll by said board, it will adopt said roll by resolution as establishing, until modified as hereinafter provided, the continuous base benefit to said protected lands and buildings against which will be levied and collected dollar rates to provide funds for the continuous functioning of said district.[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 116; 1951 c 45 § 4.]NOTES:Severability—Effective dates and termination dates—Construction—1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043.
WA Rev Code § 85.18.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.18 - Levy for Continuous Benefits—Diking Districts.|85.18.040 - Notice of hearing.

RCW 85.18.040 Notice of hearing.The notice of the time and place of hearing shall be given to any owner, or reputed owner, of the property which is listed on the roll as aforesaid, by mailing a copy thereof at least thirty days before the date fixed for the hearing to the owner or owners at his or her or their address as shown on the tax rolls of the county treasurer for the property described. In addition thereto, the notice shall be published at least once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the district. At least fifteen days must elapse between the last date of publication thereof and the date fixed for the hearing.[ 2013 c 23 § 428; 1985 c 469 § 76; 1951 c 45 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 85.18.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.18 - Levy for Continuous Benefits—Diking Districts.|85.18.050 - Procedure on hearing—Objections.

RCW 85.18.050 Procedure on hearing—Objections.At said hearing, or adjournments thereof, the board shall review said roll and determine the continuous base benefits to land and buildings furnished continuous protection by the improvement system of the district; hear objections to the adoption of said roll; correct, revise, change, modify or set aside such roll, or any part thereof, as to the board shall appear equitable and just; and then adopt the same by resolution. All objections to this or any subsequent roll must be in writing and filed with the board during the hearing before the roll is adopted and must state clearly the grounds of objection. Objections not made within the time and in the manner herein prescribed shall be conclusively presumed to have been waived.[ 1951 c 45 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 85.18.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.18 - Levy for Continuous Benefits—Diking Districts.|85.18.060 - Additional roll as to particular property—Procedure.

RCW 85.18.060 Additional roll as to particular property—Procedure.The board shall, from time to time, examine the properties within said district, and if it finds that any protected land or buildings thereon have been omitted from the existing roll, or new buildings have been added to lands, or the condition of land or buildings has changed, and in the initial judgment of the board such land or the buildings thereon was such that it was furnished the protective benefits of the improvements of the district, the board shall cause at each such time an additional roll of such property to be filed with it, and hold a hearing to determine and make such corrections, additions, alterations and modifications of the benefits to such property only, and to hear any objections filed as to such property only. The board shall give notice of such hearing to the owner, or reputed owner, of the property involved, at the address of such owner as then shown on the tax rolls of the treasurer of the county wherein the property is located, in the same way and manner as herein provided for consideration of the original roll, but such notice need not be published.At the hearing, or any adjournment thereof, the board shall have power to correct, revise, change, modify, or set aside such roll, or any part thereof, as shall be deemed just and equitable, and then adopt the same by resolution.[ 1951 c 45 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 85.18.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.18 - Levy for Continuous Benefits—Diking Districts.|85.18.070 - Roll to be certified and filed.

RCW 85.18.070 Roll to be certified and filed.When any roll or additional or supplemental roll be adopted by the board of commissioners, the same shall be certified to, and filed with, the auditor of the county wherein the property contained on said roll is situated, and shall supplement said original roll.[ 1951 c 45 § 8.]
WA Rev Code § 85.18.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.18 - Levy for Continuous Benefits—Diking Districts.|85.18.080 - Roll to provide basis for levy.

RCW 85.18.080 Roll to provide basis for levy.Until further modified, amended, or changed by an additional or supplemental roll certified to the county auditor after the foregoing procedure is had, the original roll, as modified or supplemented, if the same is done, shall serve as the base of benefits to the land and buildings protected by the improvement system of said district against which dollar rate is levied and collected from time to time for the continued functioning of said diking district.[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 117; 1951 c 45 § 9.]NOTES:Severability—Effective dates and termination dates—Construction—1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043.