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WA Rev Code § 90.94.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.94 - Streamflow Restoration.|90.94.070 - Watershed restoration and enhancement taxable bond account.

RCW 90.94.070 Watershed restoration and enhancement taxable bond account.(1) The watershed restoration and enhancement taxable bond account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts from direct appropriations from the legislature or moneys directed to the account from any other source must be deposited in the account. The account is intended to fund projects using taxable bonds. Expenditures from the account may be used only as provided for in this section. Only the director or the director's designee may authorize expenditures from the account. The account is subject to allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW, but an appropriation is not required for expenditures.(2) Expenditures from the watershed restoration and enhancement taxable bond account may be used to assess, plan, and develop projects that include acquiring senior water rights, water conservation, water reuse, stream gaging, groundwater monitoring, and developing natural and constructed infrastructure, which includes, but is not limited to, projects such as floodplain restoration, off-channel storage, and aquifer recharge, or other actions designed to provide access to new water supplies with priority given to projects in watersheds developing plans as directed by RCW 90.94.020 and 90.94.030 and watersheds participating in the pilot project in RCW 90.94.040.[ 2018 c 1 § 207.]NOTES:Intent—2018 c 1: See note following RCW 90.94.010.
WA Rev Code § 90.94.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.94 - Streamflow Restoration.|90.94.080 - Watershed restoration and enhancement bond account.

RCW 90.94.080 Watershed restoration and enhancement bond account.(1) The watershed restoration and enhancement bond account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts from direct appropriations from the legislature or moneys directed to the account from any other source must be deposited in the account. The account is intended to fund projects using tax exempt bonds. Expenditures from the account may be used only as provided for in this section. Only the director or the director's designee may authorize expenditures from the account. The account is subject to allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW, but an appropriation is not required for expenditures.(2) Expenditures from the watershed restoration and enhancement bond account may be used to assess, plan, and develop projects that include acquiring senior water rights, water conservation, water reuse, stream gaging, groundwater monitoring, and developing natural and constructed infrastructure, which includes, but is not limited to, projects such as floodplain restoration, off-channel storage, and aquifer recharge, or other actions designed to provide access to new water supplies with priority given to projects in watersheds developing plans as directed by RCW 90.94.020 and 90.94.030 and watersheds participating in the pilot project in RCW 90.94.040.[ 2018 c 1 § 208.]NOTES:Intent—2018 c 1: See note following RCW 90.94.010.
WA Rev Code § 90.94.900 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.94 - Streamflow Restoration.|90.94.900 - Effective date—2018 c 1.

RCW 90.94.900 Effective date—2018 c 1.This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately [January 19, 2018].[ 2018 c 1 § 307.]
WA Rev Code § 91.08.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.010 - Public waterways authorized.

RCW 91.08.010 Public waterways authorized.Whenever in any county of this state the owners of lands bordering upon or accessible to any navigable water shall desire to improve their said lands, hereinafter designated as the "district," by the construction of a new public waterway, or the deepening or enlargement of an existing public waterway, for the floatage of vessels and the drainage of swamp and overflowed lands, and the proposed improvement will increase the public revenues and be of other public benefit, they may present the plan of such proposed waterway to the board of county commissioners of such county, hereinafter designated the "board," and have the same acted upon as provided in this chapter.[ 1911 c 23 § 1; RRS § 9777.]
WA Rev Code § 91.08.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.020 - Accessible lands defined.

RCW 91.08.020 Accessible lands defined.Lands shall be deemed accessible to such waterway when by reason of their nearness to the same their value will be materially increased by the construction or deepening or widening of such waterway.[ 1911 c 23 § 2; RRS § 9778.]
WA Rev Code § 91.08.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.060 - Cost bond filed with petition.

RCW 91.08.060 Cost bond filed with petition.Said petitioners shall at the time of filing their petition with the board, file a bond executed by one or more of their number as principals, and in behalf of all, and by a surety corporation authorized to become surety upon public bonds in this state, which bond shall run to the state of Washington as obligee and be in the sum of five hundred dollars, conditioned that they will pay all costs of the proceeding in case for any reason the petition shall not be granted, or in case no fund shall thereafter be created for the payment of the expense attending said proposed waterway improvement. And said petitioners shall, from time to time as the board shall estimate and order, pay the costs and expenses of such proceeding.[ 1911 c 23 § 4; RRS § 9780.]
WA Rev Code § 91.08.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.070 - Petition may be amended—Order for hearing—Notice—Record.

RCW 91.08.070 Petition may be amended—Order for hearing—Notice—Record.The petition, after the filing thereof, shall be taken up and considered by the county legislative authority at the next regular or special meeting thereof, or as soon thereafter as may be convenient, and if the petition be defective in any particular it may be amended and an adjournment of the matter may be had to permit of the amendment, for a time not exceeding thirty days. If the petition be defective and be not sufficiently amended within the adjournment taken, it shall be dismissed. But if the petition is sufficient, or if by amendment it be made sufficient, it shall be the duty of the county legislative authority to enter an order setting a time for a public hearing thereon within thirty days from the date of the order, and directing the clerk of the county legislative authority to give notice of the time and place of the hearing in the official newspaper of the county by publication therein at least once each week for three successive weeks before the time of hearing. The notice shall be addressed to the owners of lands not petitioning, as shown by the petition or as may be ascertained to be the fact, and to all other persons known and unknown having or claiming an interest in the lands in the district, and shall state the pendency of the proceeding, its object, the names of the signers of the petition, the number of acres of land they claim to own, the whole number of acres proposed to be improved, the boundaries of the lands to be included in the improvement district, and the time and place of hearing. And notice shall also be given that at the time and place named, or at such time as the same may be adjourned to, the board will consider the petition under the provisions of this chapter, and will hear all objections offered by interested parties and grant or refuse the petition as it may be advised. The clerk of the board shall keep a record of all orders, hearings and proceedings of the board in reference to the waterway district in a separate bound book, designated as the record of proceedings as to such district.[ 1985 c 469 § 96; 1911 c 23 § 5; RRS § 9781.]
WA Rev Code § 91.08.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.080 - Hearing—Findings—Order.

RCW 91.08.080 Hearing—Findings—Order.At the time and place prescribed in the said notice any owner of land within said proposed improvement district may file with the board his or her written consent to the proposed improvement, and he or she shall then be considered as a petitioner; and if the owners of more than one half of the lands within the district, including the lands represented by the petition, shall assent to the prayer of said petition, the board shall then proceed to hear and consider any objections which may have been filed at that or any previous time, and may adjourn such hearing from day to day. If the board after full hearing on the merits of the proposed waterway shall be satisfied that the same will be of benefit to the public interests, and that private benefit will result to the lands within the district sufficient to equal the cost of the proposed improvement, they may make findings accordingly and declare their intention to establish the waterway district under the name of the ". . . . . . Waterway District" and make the improvement as prayed for; but if the owners of less than one half of the lands in the district shall assent to the creation thereof and the making of the proposed improvement, the board shall deny the petition and the proceeding shall be dismissed.[ 2013 c 23 § 616; 1911 c 23 § 6; RRS § 9782.]
WA Rev Code § 91.08.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.090 - Board's powers and duties—In general—County immune from expense.

RCW 91.08.090 Board's powers and duties—In general—County immune from expense.Upon the entry of an order creating such waterway district by the board, it shall have power to perform all the duties and exercise all of the authority conferred upon it by this chapter, and shall have the right to sue and be sued in all matters pertaining to such district as the representative thereof, in the same manner and to the same extent as in all other county affairs. But such district shall bear all the expenses of such action on the part of the board, and the county shall be at no expense or charge therefor.[ 1911 c 23 § 7; RRS § 9783.]
WA Rev Code § 91.08.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.100 - Board's powers and duties—Right of eminent domain.

RCW 91.08.100 Board's powers and duties—Right of eminent domain.Said board shall have the right of eminent domain for the acquisition of lands necessary to the construction or widening of the proposed waterway, and may cause all necessary lands to be condemned and appropriated or damaged for the use of said waterway, and make just compensation therefor. The private property of the state, the county, and other public or quasi-public corporations (except incorporated cities and towns), and of private corporations, shall be subject to the same rights of eminent domain at the suit of said board as the property of private individuals.[ 1911 c 23 § 8; RRS § 9784.]
WA Rev Code § 91.08.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.110 - Bridging part of cost.

RCW 91.08.110 Bridging part of cost.Whenever in aid of the construction or widening of any such waterway it shall be necessary to cross or disturb any existing public highway or railroad, the cost of bridging the waterway or otherwise substantially continuing the highway or railroad may be ascertained and paid as a part of the cost of the improvement if such cost is not otherwise provided for.[ 1911 c 23 § 9; RRS § 9785.]
WA Rev Code § 91.08.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.120 - Eminent domain—Order to acquire or condemn property.

RCW 91.08.120 Eminent domain—Order to acquire or condemn property.Whenever the said board shall desire to condemn and acquire land, or damage lands or property for any purpose authorized by this chapter, said board shall make an order therefor wherein it shall be provided that such land or damages shall be paid for wholly by special assessment upon the property within said waterway district, and the proceeding thereafter shall be as herein specified.[ 1911 c 23 § 10; RRS § 9786.]
WA Rev Code § 91.08.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.130 - Eminent domain—Petition to condemn.

RCW 91.08.130 Eminent domain—Petition to condemn.The board shall file a petition, verified by its chair and signed by the prosecuting attorney, in the superior court of the county, praying that the property described may be taken or damaged for the purpose specified and that compensation therefor be ascertained by a jury or by the court in case a jury be waived. Such petition shall allege the creation of the waterway district and contain a copy of the order directing the proceeding, a reasonably accurate description of the lots or parcels of land or other property which will be taken or damaged, and the names of the owners and occupants of said lands and of said persons having any interest therein so far as known to the said board, or as appears from the records in the office of the county auditor.[ 2013 c 23 § 617; 1911 c 23 § 11; RRS § 9787.]
WA Rev Code § 91.08.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.140 - Eminent domain—Summons.

RCW 91.08.140 Eminent domain—Summons.Upon the filing of the petition aforesaid a summons returnable as summons in other civil actions, shall be issued and served upon the persons made parties defendant, together with a copy of the petition, as in other civil actions; and in case any of the defendants are unknown or reside out of the state, a summons for publication shall issue and publication be made and return and proof thereof be made in the same manner as is or shall be provided by the laws of the state for service upon nonresident or unknown defendants in other civil actions. Notice so given by publication shall be sufficient to authorize the court to hear and determine the suit as though all parties had been sued by their proper names and had been personally served.[ 1911 c 23 § 12; RRS § 9788.]NOTES:Civil procedure—Commencement of actions: Chapter 4.28 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 91.08.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.150 - Eminent domain—Service in case of public lands—Legal counsel.

RCW 91.08.150 Eminent domain—Service in case of public lands—Legal counsel.In case the land or other property sought to be taken or damaged is state land, the summons and copy of petition shall be served upon the commissioner of public lands; if it is county land it shall be served upon the county auditor, and if school land, upon the county auditor and the chair of the board of directors of the school district. Service upon other parties defendant, public or private, shall be made in the same manner as is or shall be provided by law for service of summons in other civil actions. If the state is made a defendant the attorney general shall represent it. If the county is a defendant the court shall appoint an attorney to represent it at all stages of the proceedings, and may allow him or her compensation for his or her services as costs of the proceeding.[ 2013 c 23 § 618; 1911 c 23 § 13; RRS § 9789.]NOTES:Civil procedure—Commencement of actions: Chapter 4.28 RCW.Department of natural resources to exercise powers and duties—Indemnification of private parties: RCW 43.30.411.Eminent domain where state land is involved: RCW 8.28.010.Public lands treated as private lands: RCW 91.08.570.
WA Rev Code § 91.08.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.160 - Eminent domain—Finding of public use—Jury—Dismissal.

RCW 91.08.160 Eminent domain—Finding of public use—Jury—Dismissal.Upon the return of said summons, or as soon thereafter as the business of the court will permit, the said court shall proceed to the hearing of such petition and shall adjudicate whether the proposed condemnation is for a public use, and if its judgment is that the proposed use is public, it shall empanel a jury to ascertain the just compensation to be paid for the lands or property taken or damaged, unless a jury be waived; but if any defendant or party in interest shall demand, and the court shall deem it proper, separate juries may be empaneled as to the separate compensation or damages to be paid to any one or more of such defendants or parties in interest. Should the court determine that the proposed use is not public, it shall dismiss the proceeding.[ 1911 c 23 § 14; RRS § 9790.]
WA Rev Code § 91.08.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.170 - Eminent domain—New parties may be admitted.

RCW 91.08.170 Eminent domain—New parties may be admitted.The jury or court shall also ascertain the just compensation to be paid to any person found to have an interest in any lot or parcel of land or property which may be taken or damaged for such improvement, whether or not such person's name or such lot or parcel of land or other property is mentioned or described in said petition: PROVIDED, That such person shall first be admitted as a party defendant to such suit by such court and shall file a statement of his or her interest in, and a description of, the lot or parcel of land or other property in respect to which he or she claims compensation.[ 2013 c 23 § 619; 1911 c 23 § 15; RRS § 9791.]NOTES:Procedure after findings: RCW 91.08.210.Substitute defendant: RCW 91.08.220.
WA Rev Code § 91.08.180 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.180 - Eminent domain—Jury may view property.

RCW 91.08.180 Eminent domain—Jury may view property.The court may upon motion of the petitioners, or of any defendant, direct that the jury under the charge of an officer of the court and accompanied by such person or persons as may be appointed by the court to point out the property sought to be taken or damaged, shall view the lands or property taken or damaged for the proposed improvement.[ 1911 c 23 § 16; RRS § 9792.]
WA Rev Code § 91.08.190 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.190 - Eminent domain—Measure of damage to buildings.

RCW 91.08.190 Eminent domain—Measure of damage to buildings.If there be any building standing in whole or in part upon any land to be taken, the jury or court shall add to the finding of the value of the land taken, the value or damage to such building as the case may require. If the entire building is taken, or if it is damaged so that it cannot be readjusted to premises of the owner, then the measure of damages shall include the fair market value of the building. If part of the building is taken, or it is damaged but can be readjusted or replaced on premises of the owner, then the measure of damages shall be the cost of readjusting or moving the building or part thereof left, together with the depreciation in the market value of said building by reason of said readjustment or moving.[ 1911 c 23 § 17; RRS § 9793.]
WA Rev Code § 91.08.200 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.200 - Eminent domain—Findings as interests appear—Interpleader.

RCW 91.08.200 Eminent domain—Findings as interests appear—Interpleader.If the land and buildings belong to different parties, or if the title to the property be divided into different interests by lease or otherwise, the damage done to each of such parties or interests may be separately found by the jury or court on the written request of any party. And in making such findings the jury or court shall first find and set forth the total amount of the damage to said lands and buildings and all premises therein, estimating the same as an entire estate and as if the same were the sole property of one owner in fee simple; and they shall then apportion the damages so found among the several parties entitled to the same in proportion to their several interests and claims. But no delay in ascertaining the amount of compensation shall be occasioned by any doubt or contest which may arise as to the ownership of the property or any part thereof, or as to the extent of the interest of any defendant in the property to be taken or damaged, but in such case the jury or court shall ascertain the entire compensation or damage that should be paid for the property and the court may thereafter require adverse claimants to interplead so as to fully determine their rights and interests in the compensation so ascertained, and may make such order as may be necessary in regard to the deposit or payment of such compensation and the division thereof.[ 1911 c 23 § 18; RRS § 9794.]
WA Rev Code § 91.08.210 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.210 - Eminent domain—Procedure after findings.

RCW 91.08.210 Eminent domain—Procedure after findings.Upon the filing of the findings of the jury or court, the proceedings of the court regarding new trial and the entry of judgment thereon, shall be the same as in other civil actions, and the judgment shall be such as the nature of the case may require. The final judgment of the court shall be that the lands and property taken and damaged shall, upon payment of the sums awarded, vest in the county as and for a public waterway. The court shall continue or adjourn the case from time to time as to all defendants named in such petition who shall not have been served with process or brought in by publication, and new summons may issue or new publication be made at any time, and upon such defendants being brought in the court may empanel a jury to ascertain the compensation so to be made to such defendants for property taken or damaged, or may proceed without a jury if none be demanded, and like proceedings shall be had for such purpose as are herein provided.[ 1911 c 23 § 19; RRS § 9795.]NOTES:Civil procedurejudgments: Chapters 4.56 through 4.64, 4.72 RCW.new parties may be admitted: RCW 91.08.170.new trials: Chapter 4.76 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 91.08.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 91 - Waterways|Chapter 91.08 - Public Waterways.|91.08.220 - Eminent domain—Substitution of new owner as defendant.

RCW 91.08.220 Eminent domain—Substitution of new owner as defendant.The court shall have power at any time, upon proof that any defendant who has not been served with process has ceased to be an owner since the filing of such petition, to substitute the new owner as a defendant, and after due service of the summons and petition upon him or her proceed as though he or she had been a party in the first instance; and the court may upon any finding of the jury, or at any time during the course of the proceedings, enter every such order, rule, judgment, or decree as the nature of the case may require.[ 2013 c 23 § 620; 1911 c 23 § 20; RRS § 9796.]NOTES:New parties may be admitted: RCW 91.08.170.Procedure after findings: RCW 91.08.210.