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WA Rev Code § 89.10.005 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.10 - Farmland Preservation.|89.10.005 - Findings.

RCW 89.10.005 Findings.The legislature finds that maintaining the capacity to provide adequate food and fiber resources is essential to the long-term sustainability of the state's citizens and economy. The nation's population has reached three hundred million and will continue to increase for the foreseeable future. Further, the world population is now over six billion and is projected to reach nine billion by the year 2050.In Washington state, the population is growing by over one million people every decade with much of this growth occurring in western Washington. This growth is increasing the competition for land not only for housing, but also associated retail, commercial, industrial, and leisure industries. The legislature finds that many once-productive agricultural areas in western Washington have been overtaken and irreversibly converted to nonagricultural uses. Other agricultural areas in the state have diminished to the point that they are dangerously close to losing the land mass necessary to be economically viable. Further, only a limited number of areas in western Washington still retain a sufficient agricultural land base and the necessary agricultural infrastructure to continue to be economically viable both in the short term and the long term.The legislature recognizes that because this significant decline has largely occurred in less than a half century, it is imperative that mechanisms be established at the state level to focus attention, take the action needed to retain agricultural land, and ensure the opportunity for future generations to farm these lands.The legislature finds that history shows that previous advanced civilizations in the world were founded on highly productive agricultural lands and food production systems but when the land or its productivity was lost, the civilizations declined. In contrast, other civilizations have existed for millennia because they maintained their agricultural land base, its productivity, and economic conditions sufficient to maintain stewardship of their land.The legislature finds that there is a finite quantity of high quality agricultural land and that often this agricultural land is mistakenly viewed as an expendable resource. The legislature finds that the retention of agricultural land is desirable, not only to produce food, livestock, and other agricultural products, but also to maintain our state economy and preferable environmental conditions. For these reasons, and because it is essential that agricultural production be sufficient to meet the needs of our growing population, commitment to the retention of agricultural land should be reflected at the state policy level by the creation of an office of farmland preservation to support the retention of farmland and the viability of farming for future generations.[ 2007 c 352 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 89.12.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas.|89.12.010 - Preamble.

RCW 89.12.010 Preamble.It is the policy of the state of Washington in connection with lands within the scope of this chapter which may be irrigated through works of federal reclamation projects, to assist the United States in the reduction or prevention of speculation in such lands and in limiting the size of the holdings thereof entitled to receive water by means of the works of such projects, and otherwise to cooperate with the United States with respect thereto.[ 1957 c 165 § 1; 1943 c 275 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-20.]NOTES:Severability—1943 c 275: "Each section and provision of this act shall be considered separable from every other section and provision of the act, and should any section or provision thereof be held unconstitutional, the unconstitutionality of such section or provision shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of the act, but in that event the unconstitutional section or provision shall be eliminated and the remainder of the act remain in full force and effect." [ 1943 c 275 § 16.]
WA Rev Code § 89.12.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas.|89.12.020 - Definitions.

RCW 89.12.020 Definitions.As used in this chapter,The term "secretary" shall mean the secretary of the interior of the United States, or his or her duly authorized representative.The term "appraised value" shall mean the value of lands within the scope of this chapter appraised or reappraised by the secretary without reference to or increment on account of the irrigation works built or to be built by the United States.The term "district" shall mean an irrigation or reclamation district governed by this chapter as provided in RCW 89.12.030.The term "federal reclamation laws" shall mean the act of congress of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388) and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto including the act of congress entitled "An Act to amend the Act approved May 27, 1937 (Ch. 269, 50 Stat. 208), by providing substitute and additional authority for the prevention of speculation in lands of the Columbia Basin project, and substitute an additional authority related to the settlement and development of the project, and for other purposes, enacted and approved in the Seventy-Eighth Session."The term "lands" shall mean, unless otherwise indicated, lands within the boundaries of a district contracting or intending to contract with the United States under the terms of this chapter.The term "owner," "landowner," and "any one landowner" shall mean any person, corporation, joint stock association or family owning lands that are within the scope of this chapter.The term "family" shall mean a group consisting of either or both husband and wife, together with their children under eighteen years of age, or all of such children if both parents are dead, the term "their children" including the issue and lawfully adopted children of either or both husband and wife. Within the meaning of this chapter, lands shall be deemed to be held by a family if held as separate property of husband or wife, or if held as a part or all of their community property, or if they are the property of any or all of their children under eighteen years of age.[ 2013 c 23 § 552; 1943 c 275 § 3; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-22.]
WA Rev Code § 89.12.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas.|89.12.030 - Applicability and purpose of chapter.

RCW 89.12.030 Applicability and purpose of chapter.The provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to any irrigation or reclamation district organized under the laws of this state contracting or intending to contract with the United States under the federal reclamation laws with respect to a water supply for irrigation from the Columbia Basin project or from any project or division of a project hereafter undertaken in this state by the United States under those laws, and shall govern as to any lands which are now or may hereafter be included in any such district and as to the relationship between any such district and any such lands. The prospect of the construction of the irrigation features of the Columbia Basin project and of other works under the federal reclamation laws for the irrigation of lands in this state requires the granting of authority to irrigation and reclamation districts and to state and county officers to assist the United States, in accordance with the policy of this enactment, in meeting the problems of land speculation and in limiting the size of holdings of lands that may be benefited by such works, and otherwise to cooperate with the United States in connection with the irrigation of lands in this state. The provisions of this chapter, however, are supplemental to other provisions of the law of the state, not inconsistent herewith, which pertain to such districts.[ 1943 c 275 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 7525-21.]
WA Rev Code § 89.12.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas.|89.12.040 - Units and legal subdivisions authorized—Size—Plats—Excess land.

RCW 89.12.040 Units and legal subdivisions authorized—Size—Plats—Excess land.In connection with a district contracting or intending to contract with the United States under this chapter, the secretary for the purpose of administering the federal reclamation laws and of providing for the delivery of water thereto, the method thereof, and the turnout therefor may segregate such lands, or any part thereof, into units and/or legal subdivisions, having in mind the character of soil, topography, method or methods of irrigation best suited therefor, location with respect to the irrigation system, type of irrigation system, and such other relevant factors as enter into the determination of the area and boundaries thereof and the method or methods of irrigating the same. Plats or revisions thereof showing the units and/or the legal subdivisions and the exclusive method or methods of irrigating such units and/or legal subdivisions or portions thereof when approved, may be filed by the United States for record with the auditor of the county in which the land is located. Lands in excess of the acreage in the amount specified by applicable federal law as not being excess lands held by any one landowner shall be deemed excess land.[ 1970 ex.s. c 71 § 1; 1963 c 3 § 1; 1957 c 165 § 2; 1943 c 275 § 4; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-23.]
WA Rev Code § 89.12.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas.|89.12.050 - Contracts with United States—Permissible provisions.

RCW 89.12.050 Contracts with United States—Permissible provisions.(1) A district may enter into repayment and other contracts with the United States under the terms of the federal reclamation laws in matters relating to federal reclamation projects, and may with respect to lands within its boundaries include in the contract, among others, an agreement that:(a) The district will not deliver water by means of the project works provided by the United States to or for excess lands not eligible therefor under applicable federal law.(b) As a condition to receiving water by means of the project works, each excess landowner in the district, unless his or her excess lands are otherwise eligible to receive water under applicable federal law, shall be required to execute a recordable contract covering all of his or her excess lands within the district.(c) All excess lands within the district not eligible to receive water by means of the project works shall be subject to assessment in the same manner and to the same extent as lands eligible to receive water, subject to such provisions as the secretary may prescribe for postponement in payment of all or part of the assessment but not beyond a date five years from the time water would have become available for such lands had they been eligible therefor.(d) The secretary is authorized to amend any existing contract, deed, or other document to conform to the provisions of applicable federal law as it now exists. Any such amendment may be filed for record under RCW 89.12.080.(2) A district may enter into a contract with the United States for the transfer of operations and maintenance of the works of a federal reclamation project, but the contract does not impute to the district negligence for design or construction defects or deficiencies of the transferred works. Any contract, covenant, promise, agreement, or understanding purporting to indemnify against liability for damages caused by or resulting from the negligent acts or omissions of the United States, its employees, or agents is not enforceable unless expressly authorized by state law.[ 2013 c 177 § 13; 2013 c 23 § 553; 2009 c 145 § 3; 1963 c 3 § 2; 1957 c 165 § 3; 1951 c 200 § 1; 1943 c 275 § 5; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-24.]NOTES:Reviser's note: This section was amended by 2013 c 23 § 553 and by 2013 c 177 § 13, each without reference to the other. Both amendments are incorporated in the publication of this section under RCW 1.12.025(2). For rule of construction, see RCW 1.12.025(1).
WA Rev Code § 89.12.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas.|89.12.060 - Covenants running with the land—Contract provisions to govern.

RCW 89.12.060 Covenants running with the land—Contract provisions to govern.Any or all of the provisions which may be required to be included in recordable contracts may be made covenants running with any tract of land covered by the contract by expressly so providing therein. Recordable contracts expressly providing that any or all of such provisions shall be covenants running with the land covered thereby shall not be destroyed or extinguished by any tax or assessment foreclosure or deed issued pursuant thereto.Such of the limitations and provisions of RCW 89.12.050 as are included in the repayment contract between the district and the United States, shall govern all the lands within the district unless otherwise provided in such contract and shall govern notwithstanding any other provisions of the laws of this state.[ 1963 c 3 § 3; 1953 c 148 § 1; 1943 c 275 § 6; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-25.]
WA Rev Code § 89.12.071 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas.|89.12.071 - Fraudulent and unlawful conveyances—Preservation of rights acquired prior to repeal of RCW 89.12.070.

RCW 89.12.071 Fraudulent and unlawful conveyances—Preservation of rights acquired prior to repeal of RCW 89.12.070.The rights of any vendee or grantee as defined in section 7(b), chapter 275, Laws of 1943 as amended by section 2(b), chapter 200, Laws of 1951 and in RCW 89.12.070(2) are hereby preserved as to any transactions that were consummated by contract or deed prior to the repeal of said sections by this chapter.[ 1963 c 3 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 89.12.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas.|89.12.080 - Instruments may be filed—Filing imparts notice.

RCW 89.12.080 Instruments may be filed—Filing imparts notice.There may be filed for record in the office of the county auditor in the county in which the land lies any of the following: (1) Copies of any plat of established farm units approved by the secretary as provided in RCW 89.12.040, when authenticated in the manner authorized by law; (2) copies of any instrument, action, determination, rule or regulation of the secretary made in connection with the provisions of RCW 89.12.050 or otherwise under the federal reclamation laws and which is or may be determinative of title to lands or interest in lands, when authenticated in the manner authorized by law; and (3) any contract or instrument required to be executed by an owner, land purchaser or other person in connection with provisions incorporated in repayment contracts between a district and the United States as authorized by RCW 89.12.050. Such filing shall impart legal notice to the public of the matters and things set out therein.[ 1943 c 275 § 8; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-27.]
WA Rev Code § 89.12.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas.|89.12.090 - State lands in district—State consent to assessment, conditions.

RCW 89.12.090 State lands in district—State consent to assessment, conditions.Whenever a district to which this chapter applies is organized or in process of organization, the state of Washington, by and through its proper officials, is authorized and directed to have any state lands within the exterior boundaries of such district included as a part of the lands of such district. The state hereby consents to the assessment by the district of such state lands so included in any such irrigation district, and to the enforcement of the payment of such assessments in like manner and to the same extent as applicable to private lands in such districts, except that the payment of such assessment against such state lands shall not be enforced by transfer of title, by tax sale, tax foreclosure or otherwise, until the state has sold or transferred such lands to a private party.[ 1943 c 275 § 9; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-28.]
WA Rev Code § 89.12.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas.|89.12.100 - State lands—Terms and conditions of sale.

RCW 89.12.100 State lands—Terms and conditions of sale.If state lands within a district have been segregated into farm units and the appraised value thereof established, the state shall recognize and accept the appraisal as determining the market value of such lands, and shall offer the state lands for sale for cash on the following terms and conditions:(1) Sales shall be made only at the appraised value; (2) only the number of farm units or acreage specified by applicable federal law as not being excess lands shall be sold to any person or family; (3) applicants for the purchase of a farm unit shall be selected, as nearly as practicable, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (C) of section 4 of the act of congress of December 5, 1924 (43 Stat. 702); and (4) each applicant shall be required to execute a recordable contract within six months from the date the state's conveyance or contract to convey is made, whichever is the earlier, if such a contract is required as a condition to the delivery of water under the terms of the district's repayment contract with the United States; except as the carrying out of any such terms or conditions as to particular state lands may be precluded by provisions of the state Constitution.The state shall cooperate with the secretary in carrying out the purposes of this chapter and in connection therewith, may execute recordable contracts covering any state lands and such other agreements as are necessary in connection with the administration of this chapter.[ 1957 c 165 § 4; 1951 c 200 § 3; 1943 c 275 § 10; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-29.]
WA Rev Code § 89.12.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas.|89.12.110 - County lands—Contracts with United States.

RCW 89.12.110 County lands—Contracts with United States.In the case of any county owned land within any district has been segregated into farm units as provided in RCW 89.12.040 and the appraised value thereof established, the board of county commissioners of the county shall have authority at its option of entering into a contract with the United States to bring any of such county lands as the county board shall determine under the provisions of the recordable contracts provided for in RCW 89.12.040, whenever such contracts are required as a condition to the delivery of water under the terms of the contract between the district and the United States, upon such terms as shall be agreed upon between the county and the United States: PROVIDED, That such contract shall not obligate the county to pay any district assessments levied against such lands except such, if any, as the board of county commissioners of said county shall elect to pay: PROVIDED FURTHER, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive the district of the right to assess such lands, if otherwise assessable and to enforce the collection of the same in the manner provided by law.[ 1943 c 275 § 11; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-30.]
WA Rev Code § 89.12.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas.|89.12.120 - Acceptance of federal act—Assessment and taxation authorized.

RCW 89.12.120 Acceptance of federal act—Assessment and taxation authorized.The provisions and limitations of subsection 5(b) and 5(c) of the act of congress, as above entitled in RCW 89.12.020, concerning assessment and taxation of lands within the Columbia Basin project while legal title remains vested in the United States are hereby accepted; and assessment and taxation by the state, political subdivisions thereof, and districts are hereby authorized to be made in accordance with such provisions and limitations.[ 1943 c 275 § 14; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-33.]
WA Rev Code § 89.12.131 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas.|89.12.131 - Adoption of Columbia Basin project act—Revocation of state's consent.

RCW 89.12.131 Adoption of Columbia Basin project act—Revocation of state's consent.Section 15, chapter 275, Laws of 1943 as amended by section 4, chapter 200, Laws of 1951 and RCW 89.12.130 are each repealed and any adoption, enactment, or consent of this state to the provisions of the federal act, as amended, cited therein are hereby revoked.[ 1963 c 3 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 89.12.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas.|89.12.140 - Subdivision and sale of state lands in reclamation project.

RCW 89.12.140 Subdivision and sale of state lands in reclamation project.The commissioner of public lands of the state of Washington is authorized to cooperate with the secretary of the interior of the United States with a view to facilitate the execution of plans approved by the secretary of the interior for subdivision and disposal of lands under federal reclamation projects constructed or to be constructed under the provisions of the act of congress of June 17, 1902, (32 Stat., 388) and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto in farm units bounded by lines considered more economical and convenient for irrigation and reclamation than the lines of legal subdivisions and for such purpose is authorized to cause to be prepared and filed a plat or plats of any state lands in any such federal reclamation project showing said state lands subdivided into blocks, lots or farm units, with boundary lines other than those of legal subdivisions, and located with a view to greater convenience, economy or efficiency in irrigation and reclamation, and such subdivision into lots, blocks or farm units may be made in harmony with any general plan approved by the secretary of the interior for subdivision of the lands of any such federal reclamation project or any part or division of any such project into blocks, lots or farm units with boundary lines other than the boundary lines of legal subdivisions and designed for more convenient, economical or efficient reclamation and irrigation. And the commissioner of public lands is authorized to offer for sale and to sell such state lands, in the lots, blocks or farm units designated on such plat or plats instead of offering and selling the same in the legal subdivisions of the U.S. public land surveys.[ 1927 c 246 § 1; RRS § 7402-280.]NOTES:Severability—1927 c 246: "Sections 1 and 2 of this act are each declared to be separable from the remainder of the act, and, should either of said sections be held unconstitutional or void, the remainder of the act shall nevertheless remain effective and in such event such unconstitutional section shall be eliminated without affecting the remainder of the act." [ 1927 c 246 § 3.]