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WA Rev Code § 85.08.500 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.500 - Resale or lease by county—Disposition of proceeds—Tax statements.

RCW 85.08.500 Resale or lease by county—Disposition of proceeds—Tax statements.Property subject to a drainage or diking or sewerage improvement district assessment, acquired by a county pursuant to a foreclosure and sale for general taxes, when offered for sale by the county, shall be offered for the amount of the general taxes for which the same was struck off to the county, together with all drainage or diking or sewerage improvement district assessments or installments thereof, due at the time of such resale, including maintenance assessments, and supplemental assessments levied pursuant to the provisions of RCW 85.08.520, coming due while the property was held in the name of the county; and the property shall be sold subject to the lien of all drainage or diking or sewerage improvement district assessments or installments thereof not yet due at the time of such sale, and the notice of sale and deed shall so state. PROVIDED, That the county board may in its discretion, sell said property at a lesser sum than the amount for which the property is offered in the notice of sale. The proceeds of such sale shall be applied first to discharge in full the lien or liens for general taxes for which said property was sold, and the remainder, or such portion thereof as may be necessary, shall be applied toward the discharge of all drainage or diking or sewerage improvement district assessment liens upon such property, and the surplus, if any, shall be applied toward the payment of any delinquent or due local assessments or local assessment installments outstanding against the property levied by any authority other than that of the county, taking them in the order of their maturities, beginning with the earliest; after which if any money remains the treasurer shall hold the same for the person whose interest in the property entitles him or her thereto. If there be no purchaser, the property shall again be offered for sale within one year thereafter, and shall be successively offered for sale each year until a sale thereof be effected.Property struck off to or bid in by a county may be leased pursuant to resolution of the county commissioners on such terms as the commissioners shall determine for a period ending not later than the time at which such property shall again be offered for sale as required by law. Rentals received under such lease shall be applied in the manner hereinabove provided for the proceeds of sale of such property.All statements of general state taxes where drainage, diking, or sewer [sewerage] improvement district assessments against the land described therein are due shall include a notation thereon or be accompanied by a statement showing such fact.[ 2013 c 23 § 415; 1923 c 46 § 11, part; 1917 c 130 § 33; 1913 c 176 § 31; RRS § 4439-4.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.510 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.510 - Invalid levy—Reassessment.

RCW 85.08.510 Invalid levy—Reassessment.Whenever any improvement, any extension or betterment thereof shall have been constructed in whole or in part, either heretofore in a district established or attempted to be established under and by virtue of *chapter 66 of the Laws of 1901, or in a district heretofore or hereafter established or attempted to be established under this chapter, and the assessment therefor or any part thereof shall be invalid by reason of any omission, irregularity or defect in any proceeding whatever, a reassessment shall be made upon the property benefited by the improvement to provide a fund for the payment of the costs thereof, and any bonds or warrants issued therefor in the following manner:The board of county commissioners shall by order cause the clerk of the board to compile and file with the board an itemized statement of the total cost of the improvement in the manner prescribed by RCW 85.08.360. Upon the filing of such statement the same proceedings shall be had assessing the costs of said improvement against the lands benefited thereby and the counties, cities and towns within the district, as are prescribed by RCW 85.08.360 and **subsequent sections of this act. In case no bonds have been issued or warrants sold to pay the costs of said improvement, the same may be issued and sold and disposed of as hereinbefore provided. In case an assessment for such improvement shall have been theretofore made or attempted, and any payment has been made thereon, proper credit for the amount of such payment shall be made upon the reassessment.[1923 c 46 § 11, part; 1917 c 130 § 33; 1913 c 176 § 31; RRS § 4439-5.]NOTES:Reviser's note: *(1) "chapter 66 of the Laws of 1901" refers to a prior drainage district law which was repealed by the basic act, 1913 c 176, codified in this chapter; see 1913 c 176 §§ 39, 40; see notes following chapter digest.**(2) The language "subsequent sections of this act" first appears in 1917 c 130 § 33 amending 1913 c 176 § 31. The 1917 amendatory act was a 39 section act with sections 34 through 39 being codified as RCW 85.08.530, 85.08.540, 85.08.560, and 85.08.680. Section 34 thereof was repealed by 1949 c 26 § 18 and new subject matter thereof is in chapter 85.16 RCW. Section 39 was a construction section. The basic act in chapter 176, Laws of 1913 was a 42 section act with sections 32 through 41 being codified as RCW 85.08.530, 85.08.540, 85.08.560, 85.08.570, 85.08.670, and 85.08.680. Section 32 was repealed in the 1949 act and the new subject matter is in chapter 85.16 RCW. The other sections being construction sections are footnoted herein following the chapter digest. Notice that this section itself was a single section in the basic act of 1913 but it was divided into separate sections in 1923 c 46 § 11 codified herein as RCW 85.08.470 through 85.08.520.
WA Rev Code § 85.08.520 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.520 - Supplemental assessments.

RCW 85.08.520 Supplemental assessments.If upon the foreclosure of the assessment upon any property the same shall not sell for enough to pay the assessment against it, or if any property assessed was not subject to assessment, or if any assessment made shall have been eliminated by foreclosure of a tax lien or made void in any other manner, the board of county commissioners shall cause a supplemental assessment to be made on the property benefited by the improvement, including property upon which any assessment shall have been so eliminated or made void, and against the county, cities and towns chargeable therewith in the manner provided for the original assessment, to cover the deficiency so caused in the original assessment.If by inadvertence or for any cause the assessment levied shall be found to be insufficient to meet the entire cost of construction, a supplemental assessment shall be made by the board of county commissioners upon the lands of the district in the same proportion as the original assessment is levied, same being spread over not to exceed three years as the commissioners may determine.Duplicate assessments or other errors that may by inadvertence be found to have been incorporated in the assessment roll may be corrected by order of the county commissioners upon same being certified to them by the treasurer and the engineer.[1923 c 46 § 11, part; 1917 c 130 § 33; 1913 c 176 § 31; RRS § 4439-6.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.530 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.530 - Levies against county, city or town, how paid.

RCW 85.08.530 Levies against county, city or town, how paid.The amount of the costs of construction or maintenance of any system of improvement assessed against any city, town or county may be met by levies to be paid in similar installments and extending over a like period of time as the assessments against property benefited are spread, or such amounts may be met by the issue and sale of the bonds of such city, town or county in the manner in which bonds to meet general indebtedness of such city, town or county are issued. The proper authorities of such city, town or county shall make the necessary levies to meet such amounts thus apportioned thereto as a general levy on all property therein.[ 1917 c 130 § 35; 1913 c 176 § 33; RRS § 4441.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.540 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.540 - Abandonment or change in system—Subdistricts.

RCW 85.08.540 Abandonment or change in system—Subdistricts.Upon a petition and bond being filed by one or more landowners, either within or without the boundaries of a district, and like proceedings being had as in the case of the original establishment and construction of a system of improvement, the county commissioners may declare any system of improvement or any part thereof, abandoned or may strike from the district lands no longer benefited or served thereby, or they may cause any system of improvement to be altered, reduced, enlarged, added to or in any other manner bettered or improved, either within or without the district, and to effect such subsequent improvements, may exercise any of the powers which are in this chapter, or may be hereafter conferred upon such districts. But the striking of any lands from a district shall not in any way affect any assessment theretofore levied against such lands. When such improvements shall have been completed the costs thereof shall be apportioned and assessed against the lands benefited thereby in the manner hereinbefore provided for such apportionment and assessment in the case of original proceedings. New lands assessed for any such improvement shall become a part of such district. The construction and maintenance of any such new improvement, unless let by contract by the board of county commissioners, shall be under the direction of the board of supervisors of the district in which they are made or to which said improvement is added. The lands assessed for such new improvements, of less than the entire district, shall be designated, alphabetically, "subdistrict . . . . . . of . . . . . . improvement district No. . . . . ."[ 1917 c 130 § 36; 1913 c 176 § 34; RRS § 4442.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.560 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.560 - Extension of existing system—Apportionment of cost.

RCW 85.08.560 Extension of existing system—Apportionment of cost.When any extension of or addition to any existing system of improvement shall be thus constructed, the cost thereof shall be assessed to all the property, counties, cities and towns in the enlarged district benefited thereby in proportion to the benefits received therefrom. Any new lands thus brought into the district shall be assessed in addition a proper and equitable share of the then value of the original system of improvement in proportion to the benefits which such new lands derive therefrom. In determining the value to be so assessed the board of appraisers shall take into consideration the amount, if any, which the property to be assessed has already paid toward the construction of the original system and all other matters that may be pertinent. If at any time it shall appear to the board of supervisors of any drainage or diking improvement district that any lands without the boundaries of such district are being benefited by the improvements of the district and are not being assessed for the benefits received, they shall file a petition with the board of county commissioners praying the benefits received by such lands be determined and an assessment made upon such lands for the benefits so received. Thereupon, the board of county commissioners shall appoint a board of appraisers as provided in RCW 85.08.360 for the apportionment of the cost of construction of the original system of improvement, and an apportionment of the then value of the improvements of the district shall be made to such lands in proportion to the benefits received therefrom as nearly as may be in the manner provided for the apportionment of the cost of the original system of improvement. In determining what share of the value of the improvements of the district shall be apportioned to such lands the board of appraisers shall take into consideration the benefits already received by such lands and all other matters that may be pertinent. The amount of the value of the original system assessed upon any new property brought within the district shall be rebated pro rata upon the assessments, if any, outstanding against the lands of the district on account of the construction of such original system. If the assessment against any land has been paid in full, or if the assessment remaining outstanding against such land is less than the rebate apportioned to such land, the amount so rebated or excess of rebate over assessment shall be paid into the maintenance fund of the district and a proper credit on any existing or future assessment for maintenance shall be entered in favor of the land entitled thereto. The lands in the original district shall remain bound for the whole of the original unpaid assessment thereon for the payment of any outstanding unpaid warrants or bonds secured to be paid by such assessments.[ 1917 c 130 § 37; 1913 c 176 § 35; RRS § 4443.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.565 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.565 - Special assessments—Budgets—Alternative methods.

RCW 85.08.565 Special assessments—Budgets—Alternative methods.RCW 85.38.140 through 85.38.170 constitute a mutually exclusive alternative method by which diking, drainage, or sewerage improvement districts in existence as of July 28, 1985, may measure and impose special assessments and adopt budgets. RCW 85.38.150 through 85.38.170 constitute the exclusive method by which diking, drainage, or sewerage improvement districts created after July 28, 1985, may measure and impose special assessments and adopt budgets.[ 1985 c 396 § 26.]NOTES:
WA Rev Code § 85.08.630 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.630 - Waters developed—Defined—Disposal of.

RCW 85.08.630 Waters developed—Defined—Disposal of.The use of any waters developed by the drainage system of any drainage improvement district shall be subject to the control of the drainage improvement district and such district shall have the right to dispose of and contract for the use of such waters for irrigation or other uses, as hereinafter provided: PROVIDED, That the waters developed by any existing drainage system, and the waters developed by any drainage system hereafter constructed which shall remain undisposed of for three years after the completion of the improvement and the levy of the assessment to pay the cost thereof, shall not be subject to disposal by such district where such waters shall have been appropriated by any person at a point below the outlet of the drainage system of such district. The term "waters developed" as used in this chapter shall not be held to include surface wastewaters from irrigation.[ 1917 c 130 § 7; RRS § 4455.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.640 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.640 - Waters developed—Contracts for use and sale.

RCW 85.08.640 Waters developed—Contracts for use and sale.The board of supervisors may enter into any contract for the use, sale or disposal of such waters that in their judgment shall be for the best interests of the district; but no such sale, contract or disposition shall be made except by the unanimous vote of the board. The district shall not guarantee nor warrant the amount or flow of, nor the title to, such waters; and no use, sale or disposition of such waters shall be lawful that will interfere with the efficiency of said drainage system.[ 1917 c 130 § 8; RRS § 4456.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.650 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.650 - Waters developed—Application for use.

RCW 85.08.650 Waters developed—Application for use.Any person or corporation desiring to acquire and use the waters developed by any drainage system, may make application therefor in writing to the board of supervisors of the district, accompanying such application with a bond to be approved by the board, conditioned that the applicant will pay the costs of the investigation and hearing in case no disposal of said waters be made thereat. Successive applications and proceedings may be made and had as long as there is any water remaining undisposed of in said drainage system.[ 1917 c 130 § 9; RRS § 4457.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.660 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.660 - Waters developed—Notice of hearing—Form of application—Bond.

RCW 85.08.660 Waters developed—Notice of hearing—Form of application—Bond.When any such application shall be filed, the board of supervisors of the district shall cause to be published in the county official paper, once a week for three successive weeks prior to the date of the hearing hereinafter referred to, a notice fixing the time and place within the district when the board will hear and consider such applications. All applications shall be in writing and contain a statement of the proposed use to be made of the water, specifying the time, place and manner of such proposed use; and in entering into any such contract, the board of supervisors of the district may require such security as they may deem reasonable for the proper construction and installation of works of diversion and for the use of said water by the party proposing to use the same.[ 1917 c 130 § 10; RRS § 4458.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.670 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.670 - Prosecuting attorney—Duties.

RCW 85.08.670 Prosecuting attorney—Duties.It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of each county to prepare suitable blanks for the use of the board of county commissioners under this chapter, not otherwise provided for, and to advise the board of county commissioners and other officers of the county and the boards provided for by this chapter in regard to the proceedings and in the performance of their duties under this chapter, and perform such other duties as in this chapter provided and required.[ 1913 c 176 § 36; RRS § 4444.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.680 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.680 - Rules and regulations.

RCW 85.08.680 Rules and regulations.The board of supervisors of each district shall make reasonable rules and regulations whereby any owner of land in the district may make connection for drainage, or sewerage purposes, with any drainage, or sewerage system thereof. They shall also maintain and keep efficient the system of improvement of the district.[ 1923 c 46 § 12; 1917 c 130 § 38; 1913 c 176 § 37; RRS § 4445.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.690 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.690 - Penalty for injury to or interference with improvement.

RCW 85.08.690 Penalty for injury to or interference with improvement.Every person who shall wilfully damage or interfere with the operation of any dikes, drains, ditches or other improvements of any diking or drainage improvement district shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.[ 1917 c 130 § 11; RRS § 4459.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.820 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.820 - Drainage bonds owned by state—Cancellation of interest and assessments—Levy omitted.

RCW 85.08.820 Drainage bonds owned by state—Cancellation of interest and assessments—Levy omitted.Whenever the department of ecology shall have purchased and the state of Washington owns the entire issue of any series of bonds of any county in the state, the payment of which is to be made from and is secured by assessments upon the property included within any drainage improvement district organized and existing in such county, and it shall appear to the satisfaction of the director of ecology that owing to and by reason of the nature of the soil within and the topography of such drainage improvement district the lands contained therein were not or will not be drained sufficiently to permit the cultivation thereof within the time when assessments for the payment of the interest on said bonds and to constitute a sinking fund to retire said bonds as provided by law became or will become due, and that by reason thereof the owners of said lands were or will be unable to meet said assessment, the director of ecology shall have the power and he or she is hereby authorized under such terms and conditions as he or she shall deem advisable to enter into a contract in writing with the board of county commissioners of the county issuing such bonds, waiving the payment of interest upon such bonds from the date of their issue for not to exceed five years, and extending the time of payment of said bonds for not to exceed five years; and upon the execution of said contract the board of county commissioners of said county shall have the power and is hereby authorized to cancel all assessments made upon the lands included within such drainage improvement district for the payment of principal and/or interest on said bonds prior to the date of said contract, and to omit the levy of any assessments for said purposes until the expiration of the time of the waiver of interest payments upon said bonds specified in said contract.[ 2013 c 23 § 417; 1988 c 127 § 38; 1925 ex.s. c 140 § 1; RRS § 4332-1.]
WA Rev Code § 85.08.830 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 85 - Diking and Drainage|Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts.|85.08.830 - Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Authorized.

RCW 85.08.830 Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Authorized.Whenever a drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district within an irrigation district or irrigation districts desires to merge with an irrigation district or irrigation districts in which lands of the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district are located, it may petition the board or boards of county commissioners, as the case may be, to do so: PROVIDED, That only that portion of the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district within a particular irrigation district may merge with the irrigation district within which it is situated.[ 1957 c 94 § 2.]NOTES:Merger of improvement district with irrigation district: RCW 87.03.720 through 87.03.745.