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WA Rev Code § 86.12.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 86 - Flood Control|Chapter 86.12 - Flood Control by Counties.|86.12.220 - Advisory committees.

RCW 86.12.220 Advisory committees.A county may create one or more advisory committees to assist in the development of proposed comprehensive flood control management plans and to provide general advice on flood problems. The advisory committees may include city and town officials, officials of special districts subject to chapter 85.38 RCW, conservation districts, appropriate state and federal officials, and officials of other counties and other interested persons.[ 1991 c 322 § 5.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—Purpose—1991 c 322: See notes following RCW 86.12.200.
WA Rev Code § 86.13.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 86 - Flood Control|Chapter 86.13 - Flood Control by Counties Jointly.|86.13.020 - Expenditure of funds—Joint action generally.

RCW 86.13.020 Expenditure of funds—Joint action generally.When such a contract shall have been entered into the prosecution of the work of improvement and the expenditure of funds thereof shall be determined upon, controlled and provided for by joint action of the boards of county commissioners of the two counties. So acting jointly, they shall have power to employ subordinates, purchase material or equipment in open market or by contract, let contracts for work, or cause work to be done by day labor, and to reject any and all bids received for work or material. All vouchers, pay rolls, reports, contracts and bonds on contracts shall be in duplicate, one copy to be filed in the office of the county auditor of each county: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That the expenditure of said funds must be made in such manner so that the fund from each county is drawn on or expended alternately and such alternate expenditure shall be in proportion to the amount contributed by each county as nearly as may be practicable.[ 1913 c 54 § 2; RRS § 9652. Formerly RCW 86.12.050 and 86.12.060, part.]
WA Rev Code § 86.13.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 86 - Flood Control|Chapter 86.13 - Flood Control by Counties Jointly.|86.13.030 - Tax levy in each county—Intercounty river improvement fund.

RCW 86.13.030 Tax levy in each county—Intercounty river improvement fund.When such a contract shall have been entered into it shall be the duty of each of the boards of county commissioners to make for their respective counties, each year, a tax levy at a rate sufficient to meet the requirements of the contract to be performed by the county, or sufficient to provide such lesser amount as the boards of county commissioners shall agree upon for such year, to be evidenced by separate resolution of each board, and when such levy shall be made the same shall be extended upon the tax rolls of the county levying the same as other taxes shall be extended, and shall be collected in the same manner and shall be a lien upon the property as in the case of other taxes. The fund realized in each county by such tax levy shall go into a separate fund in the treasury of the county collecting the same, to be designated intercounty river improvement fund, and the entire fund so collected in the two counties shall be devoted to and be disbursed for the purposes specified in such contract and as in this chapter provided, and for no other purpose, but without regard to the particular county in which the work is performed, material required or expenditure made, it being the intent that the entire fund realized in the two counties shall be devoted to the one common purpose as if the two counties were one county and the two funds one fund. The fund in each county shall be disbursed by the county treasurer of such county upon warrants signed by the county auditor of that county. Such warrants shall be issued by order of the board of county commissioners of such county, or a majority thereof. Each county auditor shall, whenever requested by the county auditor of the other county, furnish the county auditor of the other county a statement of payments into and warrants drawn upon the fund of his or her county from time to time, and in addition thereto, each county auditor shall on the first Monday of January, April, July and October each year during the life of the contract furnish the other a complete statement thereof. Obligations incurred in the prosecution of such improvement and warrants issued shall be payable only out of said special funds, and no general obligation against or debt of either county shall be created thereby or by any contract entered into by virtue of this chapter, but it is not the intent of this chapter to deny to either county the right to have in the courts any proper proceeding to compel compliance with such contract on the part of the other county.[ 2013 c 23 § 471; 1913 c 54 § 3; RRS § 9653. Formerly RCW 86.12.100.]NOTES:Limitation on levies: State Constitution Art. 7 § 2 (Amendments 55 and 59); chapter 84.52 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 86.13.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 86 - Flood Control|Chapter 86.13 - Flood Control by Counties Jointly.|86.13.060 - Special commissioner—Powers and duties—Compensation.

RCW 86.13.060 Special commissioner—Powers and duties—Compensation.When such a contract shall have been entered into there shall be designated at the first legal joint meeting, or adjournment thereof, held in each calendar year a special commissioner to serve as such until the first joint meeting held in the ensuing year. If such designation shall not be made at any such first annual meeting, the United States engineer in charge of the district in which such improvement is located shall be such special commissioner until the next succeeding first annual meeting. If a special commissioner shall for any reason fail to serve as such officer, or be removed by unanimous vote of any legal meeting, a successor to him or her may be chosen at any subsequent legal joint meeting during his or her term. Such special commissioner shall have power to attend and vote at any joint meeting in the following cases and none other, to wit: (1) In cases specially so provided in RCW 86.13.050 hereof; (2) in any case where the vote of any such joint meeting shall stand equally divided upon any question arising under this chapter or such contract or in the prosecution of the work of improvement. The special commissioner shall have no voice or vote except upon questions on which the vote of the county commissioners is equally divided. The procedure in cases covered by the foregoing subdivision (2) of this section shall be substantially as follows: It shall be the duty of the secretary of the meeting at which the division shall occur, if the attendance of the special commissioner at that meeting is not secured, to forthwith transmit to the special commissioner written notice of the fact of disagreement and the question involved, and of the time and place to which the meeting shall have been adjourned or at which the question will recur. If there shall be no such adjournment of the meeting, or if the secretary shall not give such notice, any two commissioners may in the manner provided in RCW 86.13.050 call a joint meeting for the consideration of the question in dispute, and in such event either county auditor may give such notice to the special commissioner. No informality in the mode of securing the attendance of the special commissioner shall invalidate the proceedings of or any vote taken at any meeting which he or she shall attend and which he or she is empowered to attend by the provisions of this chapter. The special commissioner shall receive, to be paid equally out of the two funds, his or her traveling and other expenses incurred in attending meetings or otherwise in connection with the work of improvement, and such compensation for his or her services as shall be fixed by the joint meeting which shall have selected him or her, or failing to be so fixed, his or her compensation shall be ten dollars per day of actual service.[ 2013 c 23 § 473; 1913 c 54 § 6; RRS § 9656. Formerly RCW 86.12.150 and 86.12.160.]
WA Rev Code § 86.13.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 86 - Flood Control|Chapter 86.13 - Flood Control by Counties Jointly.|86.13.070 - Chapter not exclusive.

RCW 86.13.070 Chapter not exclusive.Nothing in this chapter contained shall be construed to prevent any county which may be a party to such contract from further caring for any such river or the banks thereof, as authorized so to do by existing laws or by such laws as may be hereafter enacted, provided the rights of neither county, as fixed by contract, shall be impaired thereby.[ 1913 c 54 § 7; RRS § 9657. Formerly RCW 86.12.190.]
WA Rev Code § 86.13.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 86 - Flood Control|Chapter 86.13 - Flood Control by Counties Jointly.|86.13.080 - Liability as between counties.

RCW 86.13.080 Liability as between counties.No legal claim of any kind or character whatsoever in favor of one county and against the other shall be based upon or created by the enactment hereof, except such as may arise when the contract herein provided for shall have been entered into. After such contract shall have been entered into, should any loss or damage be sustained by either county occasioned by the overflow of any such river, if caused by any act or omission to act of the other county, its officers or agents, or any other cause whatsoever, then such county so suffering or sustaining said loss shall not be entitled to recover therefor from the other county, nor shall any cause of action, legal or equitable be based thereon: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That if either county shall suffer loss or damage because of the failure or refusal of the other county to perform any such contract on its part to be performed, the injured county shall have a cause of action against the defaulting county to recover the same, but the limit of recovery for any loss or damage suffered in any one year shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars, and any such recovery shall be limited to such special fund, and in no event be recoverable out of the general fund of such defaulting county. If any such loss or damage shall be liquidated in an amount by agreement or by judgment, the defaulting county shall increase its tax levy for said special fund for the ensuing year sufficiently to provide for such liquidated amount: AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That either county may have any proper action in the courts to compel the performance of the contract or any duty imposed thereby or by this chapter.[ 1913 c 54 § 8; RRS § 9658. Formerly RCW 86.12.170.]
WA Rev Code § 86.13.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 86 - Flood Control|Chapter 86.13 - Flood Control by Counties Jointly.|86.13.090 - Issuance of warrants.

RCW 86.13.090 Issuance of warrants.When such a contract shall have been entered into, it shall be lawful to issue warrants upon said fund though there be at the time of such issuance no money in the fund, but in such cases the aggregate of such warrants so issued in any year shall not exceed one-half the amount of the next annual tax levy required by such contract. Such warrants shall be stamped by the county treasurer when presented to him or her for payment, to bear interest at a certain rate thereafter until paid, such rate to be the then current rate as determined by the county auditor.[ 2013 c 23 § 474; 1913 c 54 § 9; RRS § 9659. Formerly RCW 86.12.110.]
WA Rev Code § 86.13.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 86 - Flood Control|Chapter 86.13 - Flood Control by Counties Jointly.|86.13.100 - Lease or disposal of property—Disposition of proceeds.

RCW 86.13.100 Lease or disposal of property—Disposition of proceeds.Whenever two counties of this state, acting under a contract made pursuant to RCW 86.13.010 through 86.13.090, shall make an improvement in connection with the course, channel, or flow of a river, shall acquire property by statute, purchase, gift, or otherwise, said counties, acting through their boards of county commissioners jointly shall have the power, and are hereby authorized to sell, transfer, trade, lease, or otherwise dispose of said property by public or private, negotiation or sale. The deeds to the property so granted, transferred, leased, or sold shall be executed by the chair of the meeting of the joint boards of county commissioners, and attested by the secretary of said joint meeting where the sale is authorized. The proceeds of the sale of said property shall be used by said counties for the carrying on, completion or maintenance of said improvement, as directed by the boards of county commissioners of said counties acting jointly.[ 2013 c 23 § 475; 1915 c 103 § 1; RRS § 9660. Formerly RCW 86.12.080.]NOTES:Construction—1915 c 103: "This act is not intended to modify, change, alter or amend chapter 54 of the Session Laws of 1913 [RCW 86.13.010 through 86.13.090]." [ 1915 c 103 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 86.13.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 86 - Flood Control|Chapter 86.13 - Flood Control by Counties Jointly.|86.13.110 - State's title to abandoned channels granted to counties.

RCW 86.13.110 State's title to abandoned channels granted to counties.Whenever two counties of this state, acting under a contract made pursuant to RCW 86.13.010 through 86.13.090, shall make an improvement in connection with the course, channel or flow of a river, thereby causing it to abandon its existing channel, bed, bank or banks for the entire distance covered by said improvement, or for any part or portion thereof, or by said improvement shall prevent a river from resuming at a future time an ancient or abandoned channel or bed, or shall construct improvements intended so to do, all the right, title and interest of the state of Washington in and to said abandoned channel or channels, bed or beds, bank or banks, up to and including the line of ordinary high water, shall be and the same is hereby given, granted and conveyed jointly to the counties making such improvement.[ 1915 c 140 § 1; RRS § 9662. Formerly RCW 86.12.090.]
WA Rev Code § 86.13.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 86 - Flood Control|Chapter 86.13 - Flood Control by Counties Jointly.|86.13.120 - Liability of county or counties to others.

RCW 86.13.120 Liability of county or counties to others.See RCW 86.12.037.
WA Rev Code § 86.15.001 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 86 - Flood Control|Chapter 86.15 - Flood Control Zone Districts.|86.15.001 - Actions subject to review by boundary review board.

RCW 86.15.001 Actions subject to review by boundary review board.The creation of a flood control zone district may be subject to potential review by a boundary review board under chapter 36.93 RCW. Extensions of service outside of the boundaries of a flood control zone district may be subject to potential review by a boundary review board under chapter 36.93 RCW.[ 1989 c 84 § 65.]
WA Rev Code § 86.15.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 86 - Flood Control|Chapter 86.15 - Flood Control Zone Districts.|86.15.010 - Definitions.

RCW 86.15.010 Definitions.The definitions set forth in this section apply through this chapter.(1) "Board" means the county legislative authority.(2) "Flood control improvement" means any works, projects, or other facilities necessary for the control of flood waters within the county or any zone or zones.(3) "Flood waters" and "stormwaters" means any storm waste or surplus waters, including surface water, wherever located within the county or a zone or zones where such waters endanger public highways, streams and water courses, harbors, life, or property.(4) "Participating zones" means two or more zones found to benefit from a single flood control improvement or stormwater control improvement.(5) "Stormwater control improvement" means any works, projects, or other facilities necessary to control and treat stormwater within the county or any zone or zones.(6) "Supervisors" means the board of supervisors, or governing body, of a zone.(7) "Zones" means flood control zone districts which are quasi municipal corporations of the state of Washington created by this chapter.[ 1983 c 315 § 11; 1961 c 153 § 1.]NOTES:Severability—1983 c 315: See note following RCW 90.03.500.
WA Rev Code § 86.15.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 86 - Flood Control|Chapter 86.15 - Flood Control Zone Districts.|86.15.020 - Zones—Creation.

RCW 86.15.020 Zones—Creation.The board may initiate, by affirmative vote of a majority of the board, the creation of a zone or additional zones within the county, and without reference to an existing zone or zones, for the purpose of undertaking, operating, or maintaining flood control projects or stormwater control projects or groups of projects that are of special benefit to specified areas of the county. Formation of a zone may also be initiated by a petition signed by twenty-five percent of the electors within a proposed zone based on the vote cast in the last county general election. If the formation of the zone is initiated by petition, the board shall incorporate the terms of the petition in a resolution within forty days after receiving the petition from the county auditor. Thereafter, the procedures for establishing a zone shall be the same whether initiated by motion of the board or by a petition of electors.Petitions shall be in a form prescribed and approved by the county auditor and shall include the necessary legal descriptions and other information necessary for establishment of a zone by resolution. When the sponsors of a petition have acquired the necessary signatures, they shall present the petition to the county auditor who shall thereafter certify the sufficiency of the petition within forty-five days. If the petition is found to meet the requirements specified in this chapter, the auditor shall transmit the petition to the board for their action; if the petition fails to meet the requirements of this chapter, it shall be returned to the sponsors.[ 1983 c 315 § 12; 1961 c 153 § 2.]NOTES:Severability—1983 c 315: See note following RCW 90.03.500.
WA Rev Code § 86.15.023 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 86 - Flood Control|Chapter 86.15 - Flood Control Zone Districts.|86.15.023 - Zones not to include area in other zones.

RCW 86.15.023 Zones not to include area in other zones.A board may not establish a zone including an area located in another zone unless this area is removed from the other zone, or the other zone is dissolved, as part of the action creating the new zone.[ 1991 c 322 § 9.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—Purpose—1991 c 322: See notes following RCW 86.12.200.
WA Rev Code § 86.15.025 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 86 - Flood Control|Chapter 86.15 - Flood Control Zone Districts.|86.15.025 - Districts incorporating watersheds authorized—Subzones authorized—Creation, procedure—Administration—Powers.

RCW 86.15.025 Districts incorporating watersheds authorized—Subzones authorized—Creation, procedure—Administration—Powers.(1) The board is authorized to establish a countywide flood control zone district incorporating the boundaries of any and all watersheds located within the county which are not specifically organized into flood control zone districts established pursuant to chapter 86.15 RCW. Upon establishment of a countywide flood control zone district as authorized by this section, the board is authorized and may divide any or all of the zone so created into separately designated subzones and such subzones shall then be operated and be legally established in the same manner as any flood control zone district established pursuant to chapter 86.15 RCW.(2) Countywide flood control zone districts shall be established pursuant to the requirements of RCW 86.15.020, 86.15.030 and * 86.15.040 as now law of [or] hereafter amended. Subzones established from countywide flood control zone districts shall be established by resolution of the board and the provisions of RCW 86.15.020, 86.15.030 and shall not apply to the establishment of such subzone as authorized by this section.(3) Such subzones shall be operated and administered in the same manner as any other flood control zone district in accordance with the provisions of chapter 86.15 RCW.(4) Such subzones shall have authority to exercise any and all powers conferred by the provisions of RCW 86.15.080 as now law or hereafter amended.(5) The board shall exercise the same power, authority, and responsibility over such subzones as it exercises over flood control zone districts in accordance with the provisions of chapter 86.15 RCW as now law or hereafter amended, and without limiting the generality of this subsection, the board may exercise over such subzones, the powers granted to it by RCW 86.15.160, 86.15.170, 86.15.176 and 86.15.178 as now law or hereafter amended.[ 1969 ex.s. c 195 § 1.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: RCW 86.15.040 was repealed by 1991 c 322 § 13.
WA Rev Code § 86.15.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 86 - Flood Control|Chapter 86.15 - Flood Control Zone Districts.|86.15.030 - Districts incorporating watersheds authorized—Formation, hearing and notice.

RCW 86.15.030 Districts incorporating watersheds authorized—Formation, hearing and notice.Upon receipt of a petition asking that a zone be created, or upon motion of the board, the board shall adopt a resolution which shall describe the boundaries of such proposed zone; describe in general terms the flood control needs or requirements within the zone; set a date for public hearing upon the creation of such zone, which shall be not more than thirty days after the adoption of such resolution. Notice of such hearing and publication shall be had in the manner provided in RCW 36.32.120(7).At the hearing scheduled upon the resolution, the board shall permit all interested parties to be heard. Thereafter, the board may reject the resolution or it may modify the boundaries of such zone and make such other corrections or additions to the resolutions as they deem necessary to the accomplishment of the purpose of this chapter: PROVIDED, That if the boundaries of such zone are enlarged, the board shall hold an additional hearing following publication and notice of such new boundaries: PROVIDED FURTHER, That the boundaries of any zone shall generally follow the boundaries of the watershed area affected: PROVIDED FURTHER, That the immediately preceding proviso shall in no way limit or be construed to prohibit the formation of a countywide flood control zone district authorized to be created by RCW 86.15.025.Within ten days after final hearing on a resolution, the board shall issue its order.[ 1969 ex.s. c 195 § 2; 1961 c 153 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 86.15.035 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 86 - Flood Control|Chapter 86.15 - Flood Control Zone Districts.|86.15.035 - Cooperative watershed management.

RCW 86.15.035 Cooperative watershed management.In addition to the authority provided in this chapter, flood control zone districts may participate in and expend revenue on cooperative watershed management arrangements and actions, including without limitation those under chapter 39.34 RCW, under chapter 39.106 RCW, and under other intergovernmental agreements authorized by law, for purposes of water supply, water quality, and water resource and habitat protection and management.[ 2011 c 258 § 16; 2003 c 327 § 19.]NOTES:Short title—Purpose—Intent—2011 c 258: See RCW 39.106.010.Finding—Intent—2003 c 327: See note following RCW 39.34.190.