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WA Rev Code § 35.44.390 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.390 - Supplemental assessments—When authorized.

RCW 35.44.390 Supplemental assessments—When authorized.If by reason of any mistake, inadvertence, or other cause, the amount assessed was not equal to the cost and expense of a local improvement or that portion thereof to be paid by assessment of the property benefited the city or town council shall make supplemental assessments on all the property in the district. The property found to be specially benefited shall not be limited to the property included in the original assessment district.These assessments shall be made in accordance with the provisions of law, charter, and ordinances existing at the time of the levy.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.44.390. Prior: 1911 c 98 § 42, part; 1893 c 96 § 3, part; RRS § 9395, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.44.400 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.400 - Supplemental assessments—Limitation of time for.

RCW 35.44.400 Supplemental assessments—Limitation of time for.No city or town shall have jurisdiction to proceed with any supplemental assessment unless the ordinance ordering it is passed by the city or town council within ten years from and after the time that it was finally determined that the total amount of valid assessments levied and assessed on account of a local improvement was insufficient to pay the whole or that portion of the cost and expense thereof to be paid by special assessment.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.44.400. Prior: 1911 c 98 § 45, part; RRS § 9398, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.44.410 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.410 - Segregation of assessments.

RCW 35.44.410 Segregation of assessments.Whenever any land against which there has been levied any special assessment by any city or town shall have been sold in part or subdivided, the legislative authority of that city or town shall have the power to order a segregation of the assessment.Any person desiring to have such a special assessment against a tract of land segregated to apply to smaller parts thereof shall apply to the city or town which levied the assessment. If the legislative authority thereof determines that a segregation should be made, it shall by resolution order the city or town treasurer to make segregation on the original assessment roll as directed in the resolution. The segregation shall be made as nearly as possible on the same basis as the original assessment was levied, and the total of the segregated parts of the assessment shall equal the assessment before segregation. The resolution shall describe the original tract, the amount and date of the original assessment, and shall define the boundaries of the divided parts and the amount of the assessment chargeable to each part. A certified copy of the resolution shall be delivered to the city or town treasurer who shall proceed to make the segregation ordered upon being tendered a fee of ten dollars for each tract of land for which a segregation is to be made. In addition to such charge the legislative authority of the city or town may require as a condition to the order of segregation that the person seeking it pay the city or town the reasonable engineering and clerical costs incident to making the segregation. No segregation need be made if the legislative authority of the city or town shall find that by such segregation the security of the lien for such assessment will be so jeopardized as to reduce the security for any outstanding local improvement district obligations payable from such assessment.[ 1969 ex.s. c 258 § 10.]
WA Rev Code § 35.44.420 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.44 - Local Improvements—Assessments and Reassessments.|35.44.420 - Property donations—Credit against assessments.

RCW 35.44.420 Property donations—Credit against assessments.A city legislative authority may give credit for all or any portion of any property donation against an assessment, charge, or other required financial contribution for transportation improvements within a local improvement district. The credit granted is available against any assessment, charge, or other required financial contribution for any transportation purpose that uses the donated property.[ 1987 c 267 § 9.]NOTES:Right-of-way donations: Chapter 47.14 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 35.45.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.45 - Local Improvements—Bonds and Warrants.|35.45.010 - Authority to issue bonds.

RCW 35.45.010 Authority to issue bonds.The city or town council may provide by ordinance for the payment of the whole or any portion of the cost and expense of any local improvement by bonds of the improvement district, but no bonds shall be issued in excess of the cost and expense of the improvement, nor shall they be issued prior to twenty days after the thirty days allowed for the payment of assessments without penalty or interest.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.45.010. Prior: (i) 1911 c 98 § 46, part; 1899 c 124 § 1; RRS § 9399, part. (ii) 1917 c 139 § 1, part; 1915 c 168 § 4, part; 1911 c 98 § 47, part; 1899 c 124 § 2, part; RRS § 9400, part. (iii) 1911 c 98 § 50, part; RRS § 9403, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.45.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.45 - Local Improvements—Bonds and Warrants.|35.45.020 - Bond issue—Due date—Interest.

RCW 35.45.020 Bond issue—Due date—Interest.Local improvement bonds shall be issued pursuant to ordinance and shall be made payable on or before a date not to exceed thirty years from and after the date of issue, which latter date may be fixed by ordinance or resolution of the council, and bear interest at such rate or rates as authorized by the council. The council may, in addition to issuing bonds callable under the provisions of RCW 35.45.050 whenever sufficient moneys are available, issue bonds with a fixed maturity schedule or with a fixed maximum annual retirement schedule.[ 1971 ex.s. c 116 § 10; 1970 ex.s. c 56 § 35; 1969 ex.s. c 258 § 11; 1969 c 81 § 1; 1965 c 7 § 35.45.020. Prior: 1917 c 139 § 1, part; 1915 c 168 § 4, part; 1911 c 98 § 47, part; 1899 c 124 § 2, part; RRS § 9400, part.]NOTES:Purpose—1970 ex.s. c 56: See note following RCW 39.52.020.Rights not impaired—1969 c 81: "No phrase, clause, subdivision or section of this 1969 amendatory act shall be construed to impair the rights of bondholders as to any bonds issued prior to the effective date of this 1969 amendatory act." [ 1969 c 81 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 35.45.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.45 - Local Improvements—Bonds and Warrants.|35.45.030 - Bonds—Form—Content.

RCW 35.45.030 Bonds—Form—Content.(1) Local improvement bonds shall be in such denominations as may be provided in the ordinance authorizing their issue and shall be numbered from one upwards consecutively. Each bond shall (a) be signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk, (b) have the seal of the city or town affixed thereto, (c) refer to the improvement to pay for which it is issued and the ordinance ordering it, (d) provide that the principal sum therein named and the interest thereon shall be payable out of the local improvement fund created for the cost and expense of the improvement and out of the local improvement guaranty fund, unless the ordinance under which it was issued provides that the bonds shall not be secured by the local improvement guaranty fund; and out of a reserve fund, if one is established for such bonds pursuant to RCW 35.51.040; or, with respect to interest only, shall be payable out of the general revenues of the city or town, but only if pledged to the payment of such interest pursuant to RCW 35.45.065, and not otherwise, (e) provide that the bond owners' remedy in case of nonpayment shall be confined to the enforcement of the special assessments made for the improvement and to the guaranty fund and reserve fund, as applicable, and (f) be in any form, including bearer bonds or registered bonds as provided in RCW 39.46.030. Any interest coupons may be signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk, or in lieu thereof, may have printed thereon a facsimile of their signatures.(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, but subject to RCW 35.45.010, such bonds may be issued and sold in accordance with chapter 39.46 RCW.[ 2002 c 41 § 1; 1983 c 167 § 41; 1967 ex.s. c 44 § 1; 1965 c 7 § 35.45.030. Prior: (i) 1917 c 139 § 1, part; 1915 c 168 § 4, part; 1911 c 98 § 47, part; 1899 c 124 § 2; RRS § 9400, part. (ii) 1927 c 209 § 5, part; 1925 ex.s. c 183 § 5, part; 1923 c 141 § 5, part; RRS § 9351-5, part. (iii) 1911 c 98 § 52, part; RRS § 9405, part.]NOTES:Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.
WA Rev Code § 35.45.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.45 - Local Improvements—Bonds and Warrants.|35.45.040 - Bonds—Sale of.

RCW 35.45.040 Bonds—Sale of.(1) Local improvement bonds may be issued to the contractor or sold by the officers authorized by the ordinance directing their issue to do so, in the manner prescribed therein at the price established by the legislative authority of the city or town. Any portion of the bonds of any issue remaining unsold may be issued to the contractor constructing the improvement in payment thereof.The proceeds of all sales of bonds shall be applied in payment of the cost and expense 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 § 42; 1981 c 323 § 2; 1965 c 7 § 35.45.040. Prior: (i) 1911 c 98 § 46, part; 1899 c 124 § 1; RRS § 9399, part. (ii) 1911 c 98 § 48; 1899 c 124 § 3; RRS § 9401.]NOTES:Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.
WA Rev Code § 35.45.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.45 - Local Improvements—Bonds and Warrants.|35.45.050 - Call of bonds.

RCW 35.45.050 Call of bonds.Except when bonds have been issued with a fixed maturity schedule or with a fixed maximum annual retirement schedule as authorized in RCW 35.45.020, the city or town treasurer shall call in and pay the principal of one or more bonds of any issue (1) in their numerical order; or (2) where bonds are issued with an estimated redemption schedule, in either numerical order or chronological order by maturity and within each maturity by date of estimated redemption as determined in the bond authorizing ordinance, whenever there is sufficient money in any local improvement fund, against which the bonds have been issued, over and above that which is sufficient for the payment of interest on all unpaid bonds of that issue. The call shall be made for publication in the city or town official newspaper in its first publication following the date of delinquency of any installment of the assessment or as soon thereafter as practicable. The call shall state that bonds No. . . . . (giving the serial number or numbers of the bonds called) will be paid on the day the next interest payments are due and that interest on those bonds will cease upon that date.[ 2003 c 139 § 2; 1983 c 167 § 43; 1971 ex.s. c 116 § 11; 1965 c 7 § 35.45.050. Prior: 1911 c 98 § 54, part; RRS § 9407, part.]NOTES:Effective date—2003 c 139: See note following RCW 35.45.180.Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.
WA Rev Code § 35.45.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.45 - Local Improvements—Bonds and Warrants.|35.45.060 - Interest on bonds—How payable.

RCW 35.45.060 Interest on bonds—How payable.The city or town treasurer shall pay interest on the bonds issued against local improvement funds out of the local improvement fund from which the bonds are payable.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.45.060. Prior: 1911 c 98 § 54, part; RRS § 9407, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.45.065 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.45 - Local Improvements—Bonds and Warrants.|35.45.065 - Interest on bonds—Payment from general revenues—Authority—Procedure.

RCW 35.45.065 Interest on bonds—Payment from general revenues—Authority—Procedure.The city or town council may provide by ordinance that all or part of the interest upon said bonds shall be paid from the general revenues of the city or town and may create a local improvement district bond interest fund for this purpose. If the city or town council determine that the city or town shall pay all interest on such bonds from its general revenues, the interest coupons attached to the bond shall recite that the interest thereby evidenced is payable from general revenues. If the city or town council determines that the city or town council shall pay a part of the interest on such bonds from its general revenues, the interest coupons representing interest payable from the general revenues of the city or town shall be denominated as "B" coupons and shall recite that the interest payable thereunder is payable from the general revenues of the city or town.[ 1967 ex.s. c 44 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 35.45.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.45 - Local Improvements—Bonds and Warrants.|35.45.070 - Nonliability of city or town.

RCW 35.45.070 Nonliability of city or town.(1)(a) Neither the holder nor owner of any bond, interest coupon, warrant, or other short-term obligation issued against a local improvement fund shall have any claim therefor against the city or town by which it is issued, except for payment from the special assessments made for the improvement for which the bond or warrant was issued and except also for payment from the local improvement guaranty fund of the city or town as to bonds issued after the creation of a local improvement guaranty fund of that city or town. The city or town shall not be liable to the holder or owner of any bond, interest coupon, warrant, or other short-term obligation for any loss to the local improvement guaranty fund occurring in the lawful operation thereof.(b) A copy of the foregoing in (a) of this subsection shall be plainly written, printed, or engraved on each bond, interest coupon, warrant, or other short-term obligation.(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, with respect to bonds, interest coupons, warrants, or other short-term obligations issued under an ordinance providing that the obligations are not secured by the local improvement guaranty fund:(a) Neither the holder nor owner of any obligation issued against a local improvement fund shall have any claim against the city or town by which it is issued, except for payment from the special assessments made for the improvement for which the obligation was issued.(b) A copy of the foregoing in (a) of this subsection shall be plainly written, printed, or engraved on each bond, interest coupon, warrant, or other short-term obligation.[ 2002 c 41 § 2; 1965 c 7 § 35.45.070. Prior: (i) 1911 c 98 § 52, part; RRS § 9405, part. (ii) 1927 c 209 § 5; 1925 ex.s. c 183 § 5; 1923 c 141 § 5, part; RRS § 9351-5, part.]
WA Rev Code § 35.45.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.45 - Local Improvements—Bonds and Warrants.|35.45.080 - Remedy of bondholders.

RCW 35.45.080 Remedy of bondholders.If a city or town fails to pay any bonds or to promptly collect any local improvement assessments when due, the owner of the bonds may proceed in his or her own name to collect the assessment and foreclose the lien thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction and shall recover in addition to the amount of the bond and interest thereon, five percent, together with the cost of suit. Any number of holders of bonds for any single improvement may join as plaintiffs and any number of owners of property upon which the assessments are liens may be joined as defendants in the same suit.The owners of local improvement bonds issued by a city or town after the creation of a local improvement guaranty fund therein, shall also have recourse against the local improvement guaranty fund of such city or town unless the ordinance under which the bonds were issued provides that the bonds are not secured by the local improvement guaranty fund.[ 2009 c 549 § 2081; 2002 c 41 § 3; 1965 c 7 § 35.45.080. Prior: (i) 1927 c 209 § 5, part; 1925 ex.s. c 183 § 5, part; 1923 c 141 § 5, part; RRS § 9351-5, part. (ii) 1911 c 98 § 51; 1899 c 124 § 6; RRS § 9404.]
WA Rev Code § 35.45.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.45 - Local Improvements—Bonds and Warrants.|35.45.090 - Excess to be refunded—Demand—Right of action.

RCW 35.45.090 Excess to be refunded—Demand—Right of action.Any funds in the treasury of any municipal corporation belonging to the fund of any local improvement district after the payment of the whole cost and expense of such improvement, in excess of the total sum required to defray all the expenditures by such municipal corporation on account thereof, shall be refunded, on demand, to the payers into such fund. Each such payer shall be entitled to such proportion of such excess as his or her original assessment bears to the entire original assessment levied for such improvement. Such municipal corporation may, after one year from the date on which the last installment becomes due, transfer any balance remaining on hand to the general fund of such municipal corporation, but shall, notwithstanding such transfer remain liable for the refund herein provided for until such refund shall have been made, unless the actual cost involved in making such refund shall exceed the excess in such fund.Such demand shall be made in writing to the treasurer of such municipal corporation. No action shall be commenced in any court to obtain any such refund, except upon such demand, and until ninety days after making such demand. No excess shall be recovered in any action where the excess in the fund does not average the sum of one dollar in favor of all payers into such fund.This section shall not be deemed to require the refunding of any balance left in any local improvement fund after the payment of all outstanding obligations issued against such fund, where such balance accrues from any saving in interest or from penalties collected upon delinquent assessments, but any such balance, whether accruing heretofore or hereafter, may be turned into the general fund or otherwise disposed of, as the legislative authority of the city may direct.The provisions of this chapter relating to the refund of excess local improvement district funds shall not apply to any district whose obligations are guaranteed by the local improvement guaranty fund.[ 2009 c 549 § 2082; 1965 c 7 § 35.45.090. Prior: 1917 c 140 § 1; 1909 c 108 § 1; RRS § 9351.]
WA Rev Code § 35.45.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.45 - Local Improvements—Bonds and Warrants.|35.45.130 - Warrants against local improvement fund authorized.

RCW 35.45.130 Warrants against local improvement fund authorized.Every city and town may provide by ordinance for the issuance of warrants in payment of the cost and expense of any local improvement, payable out of the local improvement district fund. The warrants shall bear interest at a rate or rates established by the issuing officer under the direction of the legislative authority of the city or town and shall be redeemed either in cash or by local improvement bonds for the same improvement authorized by ordinance.All warrants against any local improvement fund sold by the city or town or issued to a contractor and by him or her sold or hypothecated for a valuable consideration shall be claims and liens against the improvement fund against which they are drawn prior and superior to any right, lien, or claim of any surety upon the bond or bonds given to the city or town by or for the contractor to secure the performance of his or her contract or to secure the payment of persons who have performed work thereon, furnished materials therefor, or provisions and supplies for the carrying on of the work.[ 2009 c 549 § 2083; 1981 c 323 § 3; 1970 ex.s. c 56 § 36; 1965 c 7 § 35.45.130. Prior: 1953 c 117 § 1; prior: 1915 c 168 § 3; 1911 c 98 § 72; 1899 c 146 § 7; RRS 9425.]NOTES:Purpose—1970 ex.s. c 56: See note following RCW 39.52.020.
WA Rev Code § 35.45.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.45 - Local Improvements—Bonds and Warrants.|35.45.140 - Warrants acceptable in payment of assessments.

RCW 35.45.140 Warrants acceptable in payment of assessments.Cities and towns may accept warrants drawn against any local improvement fund upon such conditions as they may by ordinance or resolution prescribe, in satisfaction of:(1) Assessments levied to supply such fund, in due order of priority of right;(2) Judgments rendered against property owners who have become delinquent in the payment of assessments levied to supply such fund; and(3) In payment of certificates of purchase in cases where property of delinquents has been sold under execution or at tax sale for failure to pay assessments levied to supply such fund.[ 1965 c 7 § 35.45.140. Prior: (i) 1899 c 97 § 1; RRS § 9346. (ii) 1899 c 97 § 2; RRS § 9347. (iii) 1899 c 97 § 3; RRS § 9348. (iv) 1899 c 97 § 4; RRS § 9349. (v) 1899 c 97 § 5; RRS § 9350.]
WA Rev Code § 35.45.155 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 35 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35.45 - Local Improvements—Bonds and Warrants.|35.45.155 - Installment notes—Refunding.

RCW 35.45.155 Installment notes—Refunding.Any city or town having issued one or more installment notes pursuant to RCW 35.45.150 may refund all of such notes or the principal thereof then outstanding payable from any one local improvement district fund by the issuance of local improvement district bonds pursuant to chapter 35.45 RCW and by the payment into the city or town fund or funds holding such notes the then outstanding principal amount of such notes plus the interest thereon accrued to the date of such refunding. The bonds shall be payable from the same local improvement district fund from which such notes were payable; shall be payable no later than the final payment date of the notes being refunded; shall be in the same total principal amount as the outstanding principal amount of the notes being refunded less any sums in the local improvement district fund the city or town applies to the redemption of such notes; and shall be sold at not less than par plus accrued interest to date of delivery. Any interest payable on the bonds in excess of the interest payable on assessment installments payable into the local improvement district fund shall be paid from the general fund of the city or town in accordance with RCW 35.45.065. The principal proceeds and interest accrued to date of delivery of the bonds shall be paid into the local improvement district fund and the notes shall be redeemed on that date. The city or town shall pay all costs and expenses of such refunding from moneys available therefor.[ 1969 ex.s. c 258 § 12.]