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WA Rev Code § 35.50.250 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.50 - Local Improvements—Foreclosure of Assessments.|35.50.250 - Procedure—Summons and service.

RCW 35.50.250 Procedure—Summons and service.In foreclosing local improvement assessments, if the lot, tract, or parcel contains a residential structure with an assessed value of at least two thousand dollars, the summons shall be served upon the defendants in the manner required by RCW 4.28.080. For all other lots, tracts, or parcels the summons shall be served by either personal service on the defendants or by certified and regular mail.[ 1983 c 303 § 20; 1982 c 91 § 5; 1965 c 7 § 35.50.250. Prior: 1933 c 9 § 2, part; RRS § 9386-1, part.]NOTES:Severability—1982 c 91: See note following RCW 35.50.030.Commencement of actions: Chapter 4.28 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 35.50.270 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.50 - Local Improvements—Foreclosure of Assessments.|35.50.270 - Procedure—Sale—Right of redemption.

RCW 35.50.270 Procedure—Sale—Right of redemption.In foreclosing local improvement assessments, all sales shall be subject to the right of redemption within two years from the date of sale.[ 1983 c 303 § 22; 1982 c 91 § 8; 1965 c 7 § 35.50.270. Prior: 1933 c 9 § 2, part; RRS § 9386-1, part.]NOTES:Severability—1982 c 91: See note following RCW 35.50.030.
WA Rev Code § 35.51.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.51 - Local Improvements—Classification of Property—Reserve Funds.|35.51.010 - Definitions.

RCW 35.51.010 Definitions.The definitions set forth in this section apply throughout this chapter.(1) "Local improvement district" means any local improvement district, local utility district, or any other similar special assessment district.(2) "Municipality" means any city, town, county, metropolitan municipal corporation, or any other municipal corporation or quasi-municipal corporation of the state of Washington authorized to order local improvements, to establish local improvement districts, and to levy special assessments on property specially benefited thereby to pay the expense of the improvements.(3) "Permissible floor area" means the maximum total floor area, at grade and above and below grade, of a building or other structure that may lawfully be developed on a property.(4) "Private land use restriction" means any restriction on the use of property imposed by agreement and enforceable by a court of law and that the legislative authority of a municipality determines is useful in measuring special benefits to a property from an improvement. Such restrictions include but are not limited to easements, covenants, and equitable servitudes that are not mere personal obligations.(5) "Public land use restriction" means any restriction on the use of property imposed by federal, state, or local laws, regulations, ordinances, or resolutions. Such restrictions include but are not limited to local zoning ordinances and historic preservation statutes.[ 1985 c 397 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 35.51.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.51 - Local Improvements—Classification of Property—Reserve Funds.|35.51.020 - Joint planning, construction, and operation of improvements.

RCW 35.51.020 Joint planning, construction, and operation of improvements.A municipality may contract with any other municipality, with a public corporation, or with the state of Washington, for the following purposes:(1) To have the acquisition or construction of the whole or any part of an improvement performed by another municipality, by a public corporation, or by the state of Washington;(2) To pay, from assessments on property within a local improvement district or from the proceeds of local improvement district bonds, notes or warrants, the whole or any part of the expense of an improvement ordered, constructed, acquired, or owned by another municipality or a public corporation; or(3) To integrate the planning, financing, construction, acquisition, management, or operation, or any combination thereof, of the improvements of one municipality or a public corporation with the planning, financing, construction, acquisition, management, or operation, or any combination thereof, of the improvements of another municipality or public corporation on such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon including, but not limited to, the allocation of the costs of the improvements and the allocation of planning, financing, construction, management, operation, or other responsibilities.[ 1987 c 242 § 5; 1985 c 397 § 6.]NOTES:Policy—1987 c 242: See note following RCW 35.43.005.
WA Rev Code § 35.51.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.51 - Local Improvements—Classification of Property—Reserve Funds.|35.51.050 - Loan agreements—Assessments may be pledged.

RCW 35.51.050 Loan agreements—Assessments may be pledged.Assessments for local improvements in a local improvement district created by a municipality may be pledged and applied when collected to the payment of its obligations under a loan agreement entered into under chapter 39.69 RCW to pay costs of improvements in such a local improvement district.[ 1997 c 426 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 35.51.900 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.51 - Local Improvements—Classification of Property—Reserve Funds.|35.51.900 - Authority supplemental—1985 c 397.

RCW 35.51.900 Authority supplemental—1985 c 397.The authority granted by sections 1 through 8 of this act is supplemental and in addition to the authority granted by Title 35 RCW and to any other authority granted to cities, towns, or municipal corporations to levy special assessments.[ 1985 c 397 § 12.]
WA Rev Code § 35.51.9001 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.51 - Local Improvements—Classification of Property—Reserve Funds.|35.51.9001 - Authority supplemental—1997 c 426.

RCW 35.51.9001 Authority supplemental—1997 c 426.The authority granted by RCW 35.51.050 is supplemental and in addition to the authority granted by Title 35 RCW and to any other authority granted to cities, towns, or municipal corporations to levy, pledge, and apply special assessments.[ 1997 c 426 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 35.53.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.53 - Local Improvements—Disposition of Property Acquired.|35.53.010 - Property to be held in trust—Taxability.

RCW 35.53.010 Property to be held in trust—Taxability.Property bid in by the city or town or struck off to it pursuant to proceedings for the foreclosure of local improvement assessment liens shall be held in trust by the city or town for the fund of the improvement district or the revenue bond fund into which assessments in utility local improvement districts are pledged to be paid for the benefit of which the property was sold. Any property so held in trust shall be exempt from taxation for general state, county and municipal purposes during the period that it is so held.[ 1967 c 52 § 20; 1965 c 7 § 35.53.010. Prior: 1933 c 107 § 1, part; 1927 c 275 § 3, part; 1911 c 98 § 31, part; RRS § 9383, part.]NOTES:Construction—Severability—1967 c 52: See notes following RCW 35.43.042.
WA Rev Code § 35.53.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.53 - Local Improvements—Disposition of Property Acquired.|35.53.020 - Discharge of trust.

RCW 35.53.020 Discharge of trust.The city or town may relieve itself of its trust relation to a local improvement district fund or revenue bond fund into which utility local improvement assessments are pledged to be paid as to any lot, tract, or parcel of property by paying into the fund the amount of the delinquent assessment for which the property was sold and all accrued interest, together with interest to the time of the next call of bonds or warrants against such fund at the rate provided thereon. Upon such payment the city or town shall hold the property discharged of the trust.[ 1967 c 52 § 21; 1965 c 7 § 35.53.020. Prior: 1933 c 107 § 1, part; 1927 c 275 § 3, part; 1911 c 98 § 31, part; RRS § 9383, part.]NOTES:Construction—Severability—1967 c 52: See notes following RCW 35.43.042.
WA Rev Code § 35.53.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.53 - Local Improvements—Disposition of Property Acquired.|35.53.030 - Sale or lease of trust property.

RCW 35.53.030 Sale or lease of trust property.A city or town may lease or sell and convey any such property held in trust by it, by virtue of the conveyance thereof to it by a local improvement assessment deed. The sale may be public or private and for such price and upon such terms as may be determined by resolution of the council, any provisions of law, charter, or ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding. After first reimbursing any funds which may have advanced moneys on account of any lot, tract, or parcel, all proceeds resulting from lease or sale thereof shall ratably belong and be paid into the funds of the local improvement concerned.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.53.030. Prior: 1927 c 275 § 4; 1911 c 98 § 32; RRS § 9384.]
WA Rev Code § 35.53.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.53 - Local Improvements—Disposition of Property Acquired.|35.53.040 - Termination of trust in certain property.

RCW 35.53.040 Termination of trust in certain property.A city or town which has heretofore acquired or hereafter acquires any property through foreclosure of delinquent assessments for local improvements initiated or proceedings commenced before June 8, 1927, may terminate its trust therein by an action in the superior court, if all the bonds and warrants outstanding in the local improvement district in which the assessments were levied are delinquent.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.53.040. Prior: 1929 c 142 § 1, part; RRS § 9384-1, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.53.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.53 - Local Improvements—Disposition of Property Acquired.|35.53.050 - Termination of trust in certain property—Complaint—Allegations.

RCW 35.53.050 Termination of trust in certain property—Complaint—Allegations.The complaint in any such action by a city or town to terminate its trust in property acquired at a local improvement assessment sale shall set forth:(1) The number of the local improvement district or utility local improvement district,(2) The bonds and warrants owing thereby,(3) The owners thereof or that the owners are unknown,(4) A description of the assets of the district with the estimated value thereof,(5) The amount of the assessments, including penalty and interest, of any other local improvement districts or utility local improvement districts which are a lien upon the same property,(6) The amount of the bonds and warrants owing by such other districts and the names of the owners thereof unless they are unknown, except where the bonds and warrants are guaranteed by a local improvement guaranty fund or pursuant to any other form of guaranty authorized by law.[ 1967 c 52 § 22; 1965 c 7 § 35.53.050. Prior: 1929 c 142 § 1, part; RRS § 9384-1, part.]NOTES:Construction—Severability—1967 c 52: See notes following RCW 35.43.042.
WA Rev Code § 35.53.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.53 - Local Improvements—Disposition of Property Acquired.|35.53.060 - Termination of trust in certain property—Property—Parties—Summons.

RCW 35.53.060 Termination of trust in certain property—Property—Parties—Summons.Two or more delinquent districts and all property, bonds and warrants therein may be included in one action to terminate the trust.All persons owning any bonds or warrants of the districts involved in the action or having an interest therein shall be made parties defendant except in cases where the bonds or warrants are guaranteed by a local improvement guaranty fund or pursuant to any other form of guaranty authorized by law.Summons shall be served as in other actions. Unknown owners and unknown parties shall be served by publication.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.53.060. Prior: 1929 c 142 § 1, part; RRS § 9384-1, part.]NOTES:Commencement of actions: Chapter 4.28 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 35.53.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.53 - Local Improvements—Disposition of Property Acquired.|35.53.070 - Termination of trust in certain property—Receivership—Regulations.

RCW 35.53.070 Termination of trust in certain property—Receivership—Regulations.In such an action the court after acquiring jurisdiction shall proceed as in the case of a receivership except that the city or town shall serve as trustee in lieu of a receiver.The assets of the improvement districts involved shall be sold at such prices and in such manner as the court may deem advisable and be applied to the costs and expenses of the action and the liquidation of the bonds and warrants of the districts or revenue bonds to which utility local improvement assessments are pledged to pay.No notice to present claims other than the summons in the action shall be necessary. Any claim presented shall be accompanied by the bonds and warrants upon which it is based. Dividends upon any bonds or warrants for which no claim was filed shall be paid into the general fund of the city or town, but the owner thereof may obtain it at any time within five years thereafter upon surrender and cancellation of his or her bonds and warrants.Upon the termination of the receivership the city or town shall be discharged from all trusts relating to the property, funds, bonds, and warrants involved in the action.[ 2009 c 549 § 2091; 1967 c 52 § 23; 1965 c 7 § 35.53.070. Prior: 1929 c 142 § 1, part; RRS § 9384-1, part.]NOTES:Construction—Severability—1967 c 52: See notes following RCW 35.43.042.
WA Rev Code § 35.54.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.54 - Local Improvements—Guaranty Funds.|35.54.010 - Establishment.

RCW 35.54.010 Establishment.(1) There is established in every city and town a fund to be designated the "local improvement guaranty fund" for the purpose of guaranteeing, to the extent of the fund, the payment of its local improvement bonds and warrants or other short-term obligations issued to pay for any local improvement ordered in the city or town or in any area wholly or partly outside its corporate boundaries: (a) In any city of the first class having a population of more than three hundred thousand, subsequent to June 8, 1927; (b) in any city or town having created and maintained a guaranty fund under chapter 141, Laws of 1923, subsequent to the date of establishment of such fund; and (c) in any other city or town subsequent to April 7, 1926: PROVIDED, That this shall not apply to any city of the first class which maintains a local improvement guaranty fund under chapter 138, Laws of 1917, but any such city maintaining a guaranty fund under chapter 138, Laws of 1917 may by ordinance elect to operate under the provisions of this chapter and may transfer to the guaranty fund created hereunder all the assets of the former fund and, upon such election and transfer, all bonds guaranteed under the former fund shall be guaranteed under the provisions of this chapter.(2) The local improvement guaranty fund established under subsection (1) of this section shall not be subject to any claim by the owner or holder of any local improvement bond, warrant, or other short-term obligation issued under an ordinance that provides that such obligations shall not be secured by the local improvement guaranty fund.[ 2002 c 41 § 4; 1971 ex.s. c 116 § 7; 1965 c 7 § 35.54.010. Prior: (i) 1917 c 138 § 1; RRS § 8986. (ii) 1917 c 138 § 2; RRS § 8987. (iii) 1917 c 138 § 3; RRS § 8988. (iv) 1917 c 138 § 4; RRS § 8989. (v) 1917 c 138 § 5; RRS § 8990. (vi) 1917 c 138 § 6; RRS § 8991. (vii) 1927 c 209 § 1; 1925 ex.s. c 183 § 1; 1923 c 141 § 1; RRS § 9351-1. (viii) 1927 c 209 § 2, part; 1925 ex.s. c 183 § 2, part; 1923 c 141 § 2, part; RRS § 9351-2, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.54.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.54 - Local Improvements—Guaranty Funds.|35.54.020 - Rules and regulations.

RCW 35.54.020 Rules and regulations.Every city and town operating under the provisions of this chapter shall prescribe by ordinance appropriate rules and regulations for the maintenance and operation of the guaranty fund not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.54.020. Prior: 1933 c 109 § 1, part; 1927 c 209 § 3, part; 1925 ex.s. c 183 § 3, part; 1923 c 141 § 3, part; RRS § 9351-3, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.54.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.54 - Local Improvements—Guaranty Funds.|35.54.030 - Source—Interest and earnings.

RCW 35.54.030 Source—Interest and earnings.Interest and earnings from the local improvement guaranty fund shall be paid into the fund.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.54.030. Prior: 1933 c 109 § 1, part; 1927 c 209 § 3, part; 1925 ex.s. c 183 § 3, part; 1923 c 141 § 3, part; RRS § 9351-3, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.54.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.54 - Local Improvements—Guaranty Funds.|35.54.040 - Source—Subrogation rights to assessments.

RCW 35.54.040 Source—Subrogation rights to assessments.Whenever any sum is paid out of the local improvement guaranty fund on account of principal or interest of a local improvement bond or warrant, the city or town as trustee of the fund shall be subrogated to all the rights of the holder of the bond or interest coupon or warrant so paid, and the proceeds thereof, or of the underlying assessment, shall become part of the guaranty fund.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.54.040. Prior: 1933 c 109 § 1, part; 1927 c 209 § 3, part; 1925 ex.s. c 183 § 3, part; 1923 c 141 § 3, part; RRS § 9351-3, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.54.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.54 - Local Improvements—Guaranty Funds.|35.54.050 - Source—Surplus from improvement funds.

RCW 35.54.050 Source—Surplus from improvement funds.If in any local improvement fund guaranteed by a local improvement guaranty fund there is a surplus remaining after the payment of all outstanding bonds and warrants payable therefrom, it shall be paid into the local improvement guaranty fund.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.54.050. Prior: 1933 c 109 § 1, part; 1927 c 209 § 3, part; 1925 ex.s. c 183 § 3, part; 1923 c 141 § 3, part; RRS § 9351-3, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.54.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.54 - Local Improvements—Guaranty Funds.|35.54.060 - Source—Taxation.

RCW 35.54.060 Source—Taxation.For the purpose of maintaining the local improvement guaranty fund, every city and town shall, at the time of making its annual budget and tax levy, provide for the levy of a sum sufficient, with the other sources of the fund, to pay the warrants issued against the fund during the preceding fiscal year and to establish a balance therein: PROVIDED, That the levy in any one year shall not exceed the greater of: (1) Twelve percent of the outstanding obligations guaranteed by the fund, or (2) the total amount of delinquent assessments and interest accumulated on the delinquent assessments before the levy as of September 1.The taxes levied for the maintenance of the local improvement guaranty fund shall be additional to and, if need be, in excess of all statutory and charter limitations applicable to tax levies in any city or town.[ 1981 c 323 § 7; 1965 c 7 § 35.54.060. Prior: (i) 1933 c 109 § 1, part; 1927 c 209 § 3, part; 1925 ex.s. c 183 § 3, part; 1923 c 141 § 3, part; RRS § 9351-3, part. (ii) 1927 c 209 § 2, part; 1925 ex.s. c 183 § 2, part; 1923 c 141 § 2, part; RRS § 9351-2, part.]NOTES:Special assessments or taxation for local improvements: State Constitution Art. 7 § 9.
WA Rev Code § 35.54.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.54 - Local Improvements—Guaranty Funds.|35.54.070 - Use of fund—Purchase of bonds, coupons and warrants.

RCW 35.54.070 Use of fund—Purchase of bonds, coupons and warrants.Defaulted bonds, interest coupons and warrants against local improvement funds shall be purchased out of the guaranty fund, and as between the several issues of bonds, coupons, or warrants no preference shall exist, but they shall be purchased in the order of their presentation.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.54.070. Prior: 1933 c 109 § 1, part; 1927 c 209 § 3, part; 1925 ex.s. c 183 § 3, part; 1923 c 141 § 3, part; RRS § 9351-3, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.54.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.54 - Local Improvements—Guaranty Funds.|35.54.080 - Use of fund—Purchase of general tax certificates or property on or after foreclosure—Disposition.

RCW 35.54.080 Use of fund—Purchase of general tax certificates or property on or after foreclosure—Disposition.For the purpose of protecting the guaranty fund, so much of the guaranty fund as is necessary may be used to purchase certificates of delinquency for general taxes on property subject to local improvement assessments which underlie the bonds, coupons, or warrants guaranteed by the fund, or to purchase such property at county tax foreclosures, or from the county after foreclosure.The city or town, as trustee of the fund, may foreclose the lien of general tax certificates of delinquency and purchase the property at foreclosure sale; when doing so the court costs, costs of publication, expense for clerical work and other expenses incidental thereto shall be charged to and paid from the local improvement guaranty fund.After acquiring title to property by purchase at general tax foreclosure sale or from the county after foreclosure, a city or town may lease it or sell it at public or private sale at such price on such terms as may be determined by resolution of the council. All proceeds shall belong to and be paid into the local improvement guaranty fund.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.54.080. Prior: 1933 c 109 § 1, part; 1927 c 209 § 3, part; 1925 ex.s. c 183 § 3, part; 1923 c 141 § 3, part; RRS § 9351-3, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.54.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.54 - Local Improvements—Guaranty Funds.|35.54.090 - Warrants against fund.

RCW 35.54.090 Warrants against fund.Warrants drawing interest at a rate established by the issuing officer under the direction of the legislative authority of the city or town shall be issued against the local improvement guaranty fund to meet any liability accruing against it. The warrants so issued shall at no time exceed five percent of the outstanding obligations guaranteed by the fund.[ 1981 c 323 § 8; 1965 c 7 § 35.54.090. Prior: 1933 c 109 § 1, part; 1927 c 209 § 3, part; 1925 ex.s. c 183 § 3, part; 1923 c 141 § 3, part; RRS § 9351-3, part.]