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WA Rev Code § 8.12.340 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.340 - Modification of assessment.

RCW 8.12.340 Modification of assessment.The court before which any such proceedings may be pending shall have authority at any time before final judgment to modify, alter, change, annul or confirm any assessment returned as aforesaid, or cause any such assessment to be recast by the same commissioners, whenever it shall be necessary for the obtainment of justice, or may appoint other commissioners in the place of all or any of the commissioners first appointed for the purpose of making such assessment or modifying, altering, changing or recasting the same, and may take all such proceedings and make all such orders as may be necessary to make a true and just assessment of the cost of such improvement according to the principles of this chapter, and may from time to time, as may be necessary, continue the application for that purpose as to the whole or any part of the premises.[ 1907 c 153 § 29; RRS § 9243. Prior: 1905 c 55 § 29; 1893 c 84 § 29.]
WA Rev Code § 8.12.350 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.350 - Judgment, effect—Lien.

RCW 8.12.350 Judgment, effect—Lien.The judgment of the court shall have the effect of a separate judgment as to each tract or parcel of land or other property assessed, and any appeal from such judgment shall not invalidate or delay the judgment except as to the property concerning which the appeal is taken. Such judgment shall be a lien upon the property assessed from the date thereof until payment shall be made, and said lien shall be paramount and superior to any other lien or encumbrance whatsoever, theretofore or thereafter created, except a lien for assessments for general taxes.[ 1915 c 154 § 4; 1907 c 153 § 30; RRS § 9244. Prior: 1905 c 55 § 30; 1893 c 84 § 30.]
WA Rev Code § 8.12.360 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.360 - Certification of roll to treasurer.

RCW 8.12.360 Certification of roll to treasurer.The clerk of the court in which such judgment is rendered shall certify a copy of the assessment roll and judgment to the treasurer of the city, or if there has been an appeal taken from any part of such judgment, then he or she shall certify such part of the roll and judgment as is not included in such appeal, and the remainder when final judgment is rendered: PROVIDED, That if upon such appeal, the judgment of the superior court shall be affirmed, the assessments on such property as to which appeal has been taken shall bear interest at the same rate and from the same date which other assessments not paid within the time hereafter provided shall bear. Such copy of the assessment roll shall describe the lots, blocks, tracts, parcels of land, or other property assessed, and the respective amounts assessed on each, and shall be sufficient warrant to the city treasurer to collect the assessment therein specified. In no case, however, shall a copy of such assessment roll and judgment be certified to the city treasurer unless and until the awards of the jury shall have first been accepted by the city council or other legislative body as provided by law, or the time for rejecting the same shall have expired.[ 2011 c 336 § 264; 1915 c 154 § 5; 1907 c 153 § 31; RRS § 9245. Prior: 1905 c 55 § 31; 1893 c 84 § 31.]
WA Rev Code § 8.12.370 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.370 - Treasurer's notice to pay when assessments immediately payable.

RCW 8.12.370 Treasurer's notice to pay when assessments immediately payable.Whenever the assessment for any such improvement shall be immediately payable, the owner of any such lot, tract, or parcel of land or other property so assessed may pay such entire assessment, or any part thereof, without interest, within thirty days after the notice of such assessment.The city treasurer shall, as soon as the certified copy of the assessment roll has been placed in his or her hands for collection, publish a notice in the official newspaper of the city for two consecutive daily, or two consecutive weekly issues, and then by posting four notices thereof in public places along the line of the proposed improvement, that the said roll is in his or her hands for collection, and that any assessment thereon, or any part thereof, may be paid within thirty days from the date of the first publication or posting of said notice, without penalty, interest or costs, and if not so paid, the same shall thereupon become delinquent.[ 2011 c 336 § 265; 1915 c 154 § 6; 1907 c 153 § 32; RRS § 9246. Prior: 1905 c 55 § 32; 1893 c 84 § 32.]
WA Rev Code § 8.12.380 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.380 - Notice by mail—Penalty for default.

RCW 8.12.380 Notice by mail—Penalty for default.It shall be the duty of the city treasurer into whose hands such judgment and assessment roll shall come, to mail notices of such assessment to the persons whose names appear on the assessment roll, so far as the addresses of such persons are known to him or her. Any such treasurer omitting so to do, shall be liable to a penalty of five dollars for every such omission; but the validity of the special assessment shall not be affected by such omission. When any assessment or assessments are paid, it shall be the duty of the treasurer to write the word "paid" opposite the same together with the name and post office address of the person making the payment and the date of payment. The owner may annually notify the treasurer of his or her address and it shall be the duty of the treasurer to mail the notice above provided for to such address.[ 2011 c 336 § 266; 1907 c 153 § 33; RRS § 9247. Prior: 1905 c 55 § 33; 1893 c 84 § 33.]
WA Rev Code § 8.12.390 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.390 - Bonds authorized.

RCW 8.12.390 Bonds authorized.The city council or other legislative body of any city may, in their discretion, provide by ordinance for the payment of the whole or any portion of the cost and expense of any local improvement authorized by law, by bonds of the improvement district, which bonds shall be issued and sold as herein provided.[ 1915 c 154 § 10; 1907 c 153 § 47; RRS § 9262.]NOTES:Cities and towns: Title 35 RCW.Public contracts and indebtedness: Title 39 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 8.12.400 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.400 - Maturity—Interest—Payment.

RCW 8.12.400 Maturity—Interest—Payment.(1) Such bonds shall be issued only in pursuance of ordinances of the city directing the issuance of the same, and by their terms shall be made payable on or before a date not to exceed twelve years from and after their date, which latter date may be fixed by resolution or ordinance by council or other legislative body of said city and shall bear interest at such rate or rates as may be authorized by the council or other legislative body of said city, which interest shall be payable annually, or semiannually, as may be provided by resolution or ordinance: PROVIDED, That the legislative body of any city of the first class having a population of three hundred thousand inhabitants, or more, issuing any bonds hereunder may by ordinance, passed by unanimous vote, authorize the issuance of such bonds payable on or before a date not to exceed twenty-two years from and after the date of the issue of such bonds, and shall in such ordinance provide that said bonds shall be sold at not less than par and shall bear interest at such rate or rates as may be authorized by the legislative body.Such bonds shall be in such denominations as shall be provided in the resolution or ordinance authorizing their issuance and shall be numbered from one upwards, consecutively, and each bond and any coupon shall be signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk or comptroller of such city: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That any coupons may in lieu of being so signed have printed thereon a facsimile of the signature of said officers and each bond shall have the seal of such city affixed thereto and shall refer to the improvement to pay for which the same shall be issued and to the ordinance authorizing the same. Each bond shall provide that the principal sum therein named, and the interest thereon, shall be payable out of the local improvement fund created for the payment of the cost and expense of such improvement, and not otherwise. Such bonds shall not be issued in any amount in excess of the cost and expense of the improvement. The bonds may be in any form, including bearer bonds or registered bonds as provided in RCW 39.46.030.(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, such bonds may be issued and sold in accordance with chapter 39.46 RCW.[ 1983 c 167 § 12; 1970 ex.s. c 56 § 2; 1969 ex.s. c 232 § 64; 1925 ex.s. c 115 § 1; 1915 c 154 § 11; RRS § 9263.]NOTES: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 § 8.12.410 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.410 - Sale—Application of proceeds.

RCW 8.12.410 Sale—Application of proceeds.(1) The bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter or any portion thereof may be sold by any authorized officer or officers of the city at not less than their par value and accrued interest, and the proceeds thereof shall be applied in payment of the awards, interest and costs of the improvement.(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, such bonds may be sold in accordance with chapter 39.46 RCW.[ 1983 c 167 § 13; 1915 c 154 § 12; RRS § 9264.]NOTES:Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.
WA Rev Code § 8.12.420 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.420 - Installment payment of assessments.

RCW 8.12.420 Installment payment of assessments.In all cases where any city shall issue bonds as provided for in this chapter, the whole or any portion of the separate assessments for any such improvement may be paid during the thirty day period provided for in RCW 8.12.430, and thereafter the sum remaining unpaid may be paid in equal annual installments; the number of which installments shall be less by two than the number of years which the bonds issued to pay for the improvements may run, with interest upon the whole unpaid sum at the bond rate, and each year thereafter one of such installments, together with the interest due thereon and on all installments thereafter to become due, shall be collected in the same manner as shall be provided by law and the resolutions and ordinances of such city for the collection of assessments for such improvements in cases where no bonds are issued: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That whenever the legislative body of any city of the first class having a population of three hundred thousand inhabitants, or more, shall have, as provided in RCW 8.12.400, by unanimous vote determined that any bonds issued hereunder shall be payable in twenty-two years, such legislative body may by ordinance provide that the principal sum remaining unpaid after the thirty day period specified in RCW 8.12.430 may be paid in ten equal annual installments, beginning with the eleventh year and ending with the twentieth year after said thirty day period, together with interest upon the unpaid installments at the bond rate, and that in each year after the said thirty day period, to and including the tenth year thereafter, one installment of interest on the principal sum of said assessment shall be paid and collected, and that, beginning with the eleventh year after said thirty day period, one installment of the principal, together with the interest due thereon and on all installments thereafter to become due, shall be paid and collected in the same manner as shall be provided by law and the resolutions and ordinances of such city for the collection of assessments for such improvements in cases where no bonds are issued.In all cases of improvements authorized in this chapter, where, at the time this chapter shall become effective, the notice by the city treasurer of the assessment for such improvement shall not have been published, the city council or other legislative body of such city may by ordinance or resolution provide for the issuance and sale of bonds for such improvement and for the payment of such assessments in installments.[ 1925 ex.s. c 115 § 2; 1915 c 154 § 13; RRS § 9265.]
WA Rev Code § 8.12.440 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.440 - Bond owner may enforce collection.

RCW 8.12.440 Bond owner may enforce collection.If the city shall fail, neglect, or refuse to pay said bonds or to promptly collect any such assessments when due, the owner of any such bonds may proceed in his or her own name to collect such assessment and foreclose the lien thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, and shall in addition to the principal of such bonds and interest thereon, recover five percent of such sum, together with the costs of such suit. Any number of owners of such bonds for any single improvement may join as plaintiffs and any number of owners of the property on which the same are a lien may be joined as defendants in such suit.[ 2011 c 336 § 268; 1983 c 167 § 14; 1915 c 154 § 15; RRS § 9267.]NOTES:Rules of court: CR 17 through 25.Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.
WA Rev Code § 8.12.450 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.450 - Bondholder's remedy limited to assessments.

RCW 8.12.450 Bondholder's remedy limited to assessments.Neither the holder nor owner of any bond issued under the authority of this chapter shall have any claim therefor against the city by which the same is issued, except from the special assessment made for the improvement for which such bond was issued, but his or her remedy in case of nonpayment, shall be confined to the enforcement of such assessments. A copy of this section shall be plainly written, printed, or engraved on each bond so issued.[ 2011 c 336 § 269; 1915 c 154 § 16; RRS § 9268.]
WA Rev Code § 8.12.460 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.460 - Payment of bonds—Call—Notice.

RCW 8.12.460 Payment of bonds—Call—Notice.The city treasurer shall pay the interest on the bonds authorized to be issued by this chapter out of the respective local improvement funds from which they are payable. Whenever there shall be sufficient money in any local improvement fund against which bonds have been issued under the provisions of this chapter, over and above sufficient for the payment of interest on all unpaid bonds, to pay the principal of one or more bonds, the treasurer shall call in and pay such bonds. The bonds shall be called in and paid in their numerical order, commencing with number one. The call shall be made by publication in the city official newspaper in its first publication following the delinquency of the installment of the assessment or as soon thereafter as is practicable, and shall state that bonds No. . . . . . (giving the serial numbers of the bonds called) will be paid on the day the next interest payments on the bonds shall become due, and interest on the bonds shall cease upon such date.[ 1985 c 469 § 5; 1983 c 167 § 15; 1915 c 154 § 18; RRS § 9270.]NOTES:Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.
WA Rev Code § 8.12.470 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.470 - Enforcement of collection—Interest on delinquency.

RCW 8.12.470 Enforcement of collection—Interest on delinquency.Wherever any assessment or installment thereof shall become delinquent, the city treasurer shall enforce the collection thereof in the same manner as provided in chapter 9, Laws of 1933 [as codified in chapter 35.50 RCW], or such other laws as may be hereafter enacted for the foreclosure of delinquent local (physical) improvement assessments. All assessments or installments unpaid at the expiration of the time fixed herein for the payment of the same, shall bear interest at the rate of ten percent per annum, from said date until paid.[ 1947 c 152 § 1; 1915 c 154 § 7; 1907 c 153 § 34; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 9248. Prior: 1905 c 55 § 34; 1893 c 84 § 34.]
WA Rev Code § 8.12.480 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.480 - Assessment fund to be kept separate.

RCW 8.12.480 Assessment fund to be kept separate.All moneys collected by the treasurer upon assessments under this chapter shall be kept as a separate fund and shall be used for no other purpose than the redemption of warrants or bonds drawn or issued against the fund.[ 1907 c 153 § 42; RRS § 9257. Prior: 1905 c 55 § 42; 1893 c 84 § 42.]
WA Rev Code § 8.12.490 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.490 - Record of payment and redemption.

RCW 8.12.490 Record of payment and redemption.Whenever before the sale of any property the amount of any assessment thereon, with interest and costs accrued thereon, shall be paid to the treasurer, he or she shall thereupon mark the same paid, with the date of payment thereof on the assessment roll, and whenever after sale of any property for any assessments, the same shall be redeemed, he or she shall thereupon enter the same redeemed with the date of such redemption on such record. Such entry shall be made on the margin of the record opposite the description of such property.[ 2011 c 336 § 270; 1907 c 153 § 43; RRS § 9258. Prior: 1905 c 55 § 43; 1893 c 84 § 43.]
WA Rev Code § 8.12.500 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.500 - Liability of treasurer.

RCW 8.12.500 Liability of treasurer.If the treasurer shall receive any moneys for assessments, giving a receipt therefor, for any property and afterwards return the same as unpaid, or shall receive the same after making such return, and the same be sold for assessment which has been so paid and receipted for by himself or herself or his or her clerk or assistant, he or she and his or her bond shall be liable to the holder of the certificate given to the purchaser at the sale for the amount of the face of the certificate, and a penalty of fifteen percent additional thereto besides legal interest, to be demanded within two years from the date of the sale and recovered in any court having jurisdiction of the amount, and the city shall in no case be liable to the holder of such certificate.[ 2011 c 336 § 271; 1907 c 153 § 44; RRS § 9259. Prior: 1905 c 55 § 44; 1893 c 84 § 44.]
WA Rev Code § 8.12.510 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.510 - Reassessment.

RCW 8.12.510 Reassessment.If any assessment be annulled or set aside by any court, or be invalid for any cause, a new assessment may be made, and return and like notice given and proceedings had as herein required in relation to the first; and all parties in interest shall have the like rights, and the city council or other legislative body, and the superior court, shall perform the like duties and have like power in relation to any subsequent assessment as are hereby given in relation to the first assessment.[ 1907 c 153 § 45; RRS § 9260. Prior: 1905 c 55 § 45; 1893 c 84 § 45.]
WA Rev Code § 8.12.520 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.520 - Lien of assessment—Enforcement by civil action.

RCW 8.12.520 Lien of assessment—Enforcement by civil action.All the assessments levied by any city under this chapter shall, from the date of the judgment confirming the assessment be a lien upon the real estate upon which the same may be imposed, and such lien shall continue until such assessments are paid; if any proceedings taken for the enforcement thereof, shall be held void or invalid, such city shall provide by ordinance for new proceedings and a new sale for the enforcement thereof in like manner as hereinbefore provided; and in addition to the remedy hereinbefore provided, any city may enforce such lien by civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction in like manner and with like effect as actions for the foreclosure of mortgage.[ 1907 c 153 § 46; RRS § 9261. Prior: 1905 c 55 § 46; 1893 c 84 § 46.]NOTES:Foreclosure actions, real estate mortgages: Chapter 61.12 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 8.12.530 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.530 - Discontinuance of proceedings.

RCW 8.12.530 Discontinuance of proceedings.At any time within six months from the date of rendition of the last judgment awarding compensation for any such improvement in the superior court, or if appellate review is sought, then within two months after the final determination of the proceeding in the supreme court or the court of appeals, any such city may discontinue the proceedings by ordinance passed for that purpose before making payment or proceeding with the improvement by paying or depositing in court all taxable costs incurred by any parties to the proceedings up to the time of such discontinuance. Except as provided in RCW 8.25.290(3), if any such improvement be discontinued, no new proceedings shall be undertaken therefor until the expiration of one year from the date of such discontinuance.[ 2007 c 68 § 7; 1988 c 202 § 11; 1971 c 81 § 40; 1915 c 154 § 21; 1907 c 153 § 49; RRS § 9274. Prior: 1905 c 55 § 48; 1893 c 84 § 48.]NOTES:Severability—1988 c 202: See note following RCW 2.24.050.
WA Rev Code § 8.12.540 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 8 - Eminent Domain|Chapter 8.12 - Eminent Domain by Cities.|8.12.540 - Subsequent compensation for property taken or damaged.

RCW 8.12.540 Subsequent compensation for property taken or damaged.If any city has heretofore taken or shall hereafter take possession of any land or other property, or has damaged or shall hereafter damage the same for any of the public purposes mentioned in this chapter, or for any other purpose within the authority of such city or town, without having made just compensation therefor, such city or town may cause such compensation to be ascertained and paid to the persons entitled thereto by proceedings taken in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and the payment of such compensation and costs as shall be adjudged in favor of the persons entitled thereto in such proceedings shall be a defense to any other action for the taking or damaging of such property.[ 1907 c 153 § 53; RRS § 9278. Prior: 1905 c 55 § 52; 1893 c 84 § 52.]