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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.565 - Special assessments—Budgets—Alternative methods.

RCW 85.08.565
Special assessments—Budgets—Alternative methods.
RCW 85.38.140 through 85.38.170 constitute a mutually exclusive alternative method by which diking, drainage, or sewerage improvement districts in existence as of July 28, 1985, may measure and impose special assessments and adopt budgets. RCW 85.38.150 through 85.38.170 constitute the exclusive method by which diking, drainage, or sewerage improvement districts created after July 28, 1985, may measure and impose special assessments and adopt budgets.
[ 1985 c 396 § 26.]
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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.630 - Waters developed—Defined—Disposal of.

RCW 85.08.630
Waters developed—Defined—Disposal of.
The use of any waters developed by the drainage system of any drainage improvement district shall be subject to the control of the drainage improvement district and such district shall have the right to dispose of and contract for the use of such waters for irrigation or other uses, as hereinafter provided: PROVIDED, That the waters developed by any existing drainage system, and the waters developed by any drainage system hereafter constructed which shall remain undisposed of for three years after the completion of the improvement and the levy of the assessment to pay the cost thereof, shall not be subject to disposal by such district where such waters shall have been appropriated by any person at a point below the outlet of the drainage system of such district. The term "waters developed" as used in this chapter shall not be held to include surface wastewaters from irrigation.
[ 1917 c 130 § 7; RRS § 4455.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.640 - Waters developed—Contracts for use and sale.

RCW 85.08.640
Waters developed—Contracts for use and sale.
The board of supervisors may enter into any contract for the use, sale or disposal of such waters that in their judgment shall be for the best interests of the district; but no such sale, contract or disposition shall be made except by the unanimous vote of the board. The district shall not guarantee nor warrant the amount or flow of, nor the title to, such waters; and no use, sale or disposition of such waters shall be lawful that will interfere with the efficiency of said drainage system.
[ 1917 c 130 § 8; RRS § 4456.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.650 - Waters developed—Application for use.

RCW 85.08.650
Waters developed—Application for use.
Any person or corporation desiring to acquire and use the waters developed by any drainage system, may make application therefor in writing to the board of supervisors of the district, accompanying such application with a bond to be approved by the board, conditioned that the applicant will pay the costs of the investigation and hearing in case no disposal of said waters be made thereat. Successive applications and proceedings may be made and had as long as there is any water remaining undisposed of in said drainage system.
[ 1917 c 130 § 9; RRS § 4457.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.660 - Waters developed—Notice of hearing—Form of application—Bond.

RCW 85.08.660
Waters developed—Notice of hearing—Form of application—Bond.
When any such application shall be filed, the board of supervisors of the district shall cause to be published in the county official paper, once a week for three successive weeks prior to the date of the hearing hereinafter referred to, a notice fixing the time and place within the district when the board will hear and consider such applications. All applications shall be in writing and contain a statement of the proposed use to be made of the water, specifying the time, place and manner of such proposed use; and in entering into any such contract, the board of supervisors of the district may require such security as they may deem reasonable for the proper construction and installation of works of diversion and for the use of said water by the party proposing to use the same.
[ 1917 c 130 § 10; RRS § 4458.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.670 - Prosecuting attorney—Duties.

RCW 85.08.670
Prosecuting attorney—Duties.
It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of each county to prepare suitable blanks for the use of the board of county commissioners under this chapter, not otherwise provided for, and to advise the board of county commissioners and other officers of the county and the boards provided for by this chapter in regard to the proceedings and in the performance of their duties under this chapter, and perform such other duties as in this chapter provided and required.
[ 1913 c 176 § 36; RRS § 4444.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.680 - Rules and regulations.

RCW 85.08.680
Rules and regulations.
The board of supervisors of each district shall make reasonable rules and regulations whereby any owner of land in the district may make connection for drainage, or sewerage purposes, with any drainage, or sewerage system thereof. They shall also maintain and keep efficient the system of improvement of the district.
[ 1923 c 46 § 12; 1917 c 130 § 38; 1913 c 176 § 37; RRS § 4445.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.690 - Penalty for injury to or interference with improvement.

RCW 85.08.690
Penalty for injury to or interference with improvement.
Every person who shall wilfully damage or interfere with the operation of any dikes, drains, ditches or other improvements of any diking or drainage improvement district shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[ 1917 c 130 § 11; RRS § 4459.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.820 - Drainage bonds owned by state—Cancellation of interest and assessments—Levy omitted.

RCW 85.08.820
Drainage bonds owned by state—Cancellation of interest and assessments—Levy omitted.
Whenever the department of ecology shall have purchased and the state of Washington owns the entire issue of any series of bonds of any county in the state, the payment of which is to be made from and is secured by assessments upon the property included within any drainage improvement district organized and existing in such county, and it shall appear to the satisfaction of the director of ecology that owing to and by reason of the nature of the soil within and the topography of such drainage improvement district the lands contained therein were not or will not be drained sufficiently to permit the cultivation thereof within the time when assessments for the payment of the interest on said bonds and to constitute a sinking fund to retire said bonds as provided by law became or will become due, and that by reason thereof the owners of said lands were or will be unable to meet said assessment, the director of ecology shall have the power and he or she is hereby authorized under such terms and conditions as he or she shall deem advisable to enter into a contract in writing with the board of county commissioners of the county issuing such bonds, waiving the payment of interest upon such bonds from the date of their issue for not to exceed five years, and extending the time of payment of said bonds for not to exceed five years; and upon the execution of said contract the board of county commissioners of said county shall have the power and is hereby authorized to cancel all assessments made upon the lands included within such drainage improvement district for the payment of principal and/or interest on said bonds prior to the date of said contract, and to omit the levy of any assessments for said purposes until the expiration of the time of the waiver of interest payments upon said bonds specified in said contract.
[ 2013 c 23 § 417; 1988 c 127 § 38; 1925 ex.s. c 140 § 1; RRS § 4332-1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.830 - Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Authorized.

RCW 85.08.830
Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Authorized.
Whenever a drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district within an irrigation district or irrigation districts desires to merge with an irrigation district or irrigation districts in which lands of the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district are located, it may petition the board or boards of county commissioners, as the case may be, to do so: PROVIDED, That only that portion of the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district within a particular irrigation district may merge with the irrigation district within which it is situated.
[ 1957 c 94 § 2.]
NOTES:
Merger of improvement district with irrigation district: RCW 87.03.720 through 87.03.745.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.840 - Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Jurisdiction to hear, supervise, and conduct proceedings—Clerk, notice, records.

RCW 85.08.840
Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Jurisdiction to hear, supervise, and conduct proceedings—Clerk, notice, records.
The boards of county commissioners of the counties in which a joint drainage improvement district is situated shall have jurisdiction in joint session to hear, supervise, and conduct the merger proceedings relating to such a district. The auditor of the county in which the greater length of the system of improvements lies shall act as clerk of the joint sessions of the boards of county commissioners, and shall give the notice provided for in RCW 85.08.870. He or she shall furnish to the auditor of the other county duplicate copies of the records of proceedings of the joint sessions. Duplicate records of all proceedings had and papers filed in connection with the merger of a joint drainage improvement district shall be kept with the auditor of each county. The board of county commissioners of the county in which a drainage improvement district or consolidated drainage improvement district is situated shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear, supervise, and conduct merger proceedings relating to such districts.
[ 2013 c 23 § 418; 1957 c 94 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.850 - Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Petition—Signing—Presentation.

RCW 85.08.850
Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Petition—Signing—Presentation.
The petition requesting the merger shall be signed by the board of supervisors of, or by ten landowners located within, the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district and presented to the clerk or clerks of the appropriate county legislative authority or authorities, at a regular or special meeting.
[ 2001 c 149 § 2; 1996 c 313 § 1; 1957 c 94 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.860 - Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Assent by irrigation district—Election, order, notice.

RCW 85.08.860
Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Assent by irrigation district—Election, order, notice.
If it appears to the board or boards of county commissioners that all portions of the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district will, as a result of the proceedings, be merged with the irrigation district or irrigation districts and that the board or boards of directors of the irrigation district or irrigation districts into which the drainage improvement, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district will be merged, which irrigation district or irrigation districts shall be named in the petition, are agreeable to the merger, and that the assent or assents thereto, in writing, by said irrigation district board or boards have been filed with the board or boards of county commissioners, the board or boards of county commissioners shall order an election to be held in the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district or consolidated drainage improvement district to approve or disapprove the merger and shall fix the time thereof and cause notice to be published.
[ 1957 c 94 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.870 - Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Notice, contents—Election, ballots.

RCW 85.08.870
Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Notice, contents—Election, ballots.
The notice shall be given and the election conducted in the manner, so far as is applicable, as for the election of members of the board of supervisors of a drainage improvement district. The notice shall advise of the election so ordered and the date, time and place thereof, state the filing of the petition, the names of those signing the petition and prayer thereof, and shall require the voters to cast ballots with the words "Merger, Yes" or "Merger, No."
[ 1957 c 94 § 6.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.880 - Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Proceedings and costs on approval or disapproval.

RCW 85.08.880
Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Proceedings and costs on approval or disapproval.
If a majority of the votes cast favor merger, the board or boards of county commissioners shall enter an order approving the petition and ordering the merger and file a certified copy thereof with the county auditor or auditors of the county or counties in which the district is situated, and the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district shall thereupon be dissolved and its system of improvements vested in the irrigation district or irrigation districts without further proceedings. If a majority of the votes cast are against merger, the board of commissioners shall enter an order dismissing the proceedings. If the merger is approved, the expenses of the county or counties in connection with the election will be paid by the irrigation district or irrigation districts, with each irrigation district, if there is more than one, paying the same portion of the expenses as that portion of the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage district which is merged into the irrigation district. If the merger is not approved, the expenses of the county or counties in connection with the election will be paid by the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district.
[ 1957 c 94 § 7.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.890 - Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Prior indebtedness.

RCW 85.08.890
Merger of improvement district with irrigation district—Prior indebtedness.
None of the indebtedness of the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district, or of the drainage improvement districts taken into the consolidated drainage improvement district, shall be affected by the merger and dissolution, and all lands liable to be assessed to pay such indebtedness shall remain liable to the same extent as if the merger and dissolution had not taken place, and all assessments theretofore levied shall remain unimpaired and shall be collected in the same manner as if no merger had taken place. The board or boards of directors of the irrigation district or irrigation districts with which the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district was merged shall have all the powers possessed at the time of the merger by the board of supervisors of the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district and the board or boards of county commissioners may levy and cause to be collected any and all assessments against any of the lands formerly within the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district necessary for the payment of all indebtedness thereof, and of the drainage improvement districts taken into the consolidated drainage improvement district. Until the assessments are collected and all indebtedness of each drainage improvement district or joint drainage improvement district included in the merger, either as such or, in the case of the former, as a part of a consolidated drainage improvement district, is paid, separate funds shall be maintained for each such drainage improvement district or joint drainage improvement district as were maintained before the merger.
[ 1957 c 94 § 8.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.895 - Annexation of territory—Consolidation of special districts—Suspension of operations—Reactivation.

RCW 85.08.895
Annexation of territory—Consolidation of special districts—Suspension of operations—Reactivation.
Diking or drainage improvement districts may annex territory, consolidate with other special districts, and have their operations suspended and be reactivated, in accordance with chapter 85.38 RCW.
[ 1986 c 278 § 13.]
NOTES:
Severability—1986 c 278: See note following RCW 36.01.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.900 - Alternative methods of formation of improvement districts.

RCW 85.08.900
Alternative methods of formation of improvement districts.
Whenever an improvement district is sought to be established, in addition to the procedures authorized by this chapter there may be employed any other method authorized by law for the formation of districts or improvement districts so that the improvement district will qualify under the provisions of chapter 89.16 RCW.
[ 1959 c 104 § 6.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.905 - Sewerage improvement districts—Powers.

RCW 85.08.905
Sewerage improvement districts—Powers.
Sewerage improvement districts may investigate, plan, construct, acquire, repair, maintain, and operate improvements, works, projects, and facilities to collect, treat, and dispose of sanitary, industrial, and other sewage. Such facilities include on-site and off-site sewerage facilities, including approved septic tanks or septic tank systems.
[ 1985 c 396 § 30.]
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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.910 - Sewerage improvement districts located in counties with populations of from forty thousand to less than seventy thousand become water-sewer districts.

RCW 85.08.910
Sewerage improvement districts located in counties with populations of from forty thousand to less than seventy thousand become water-sewer districts.
See RCW 57.04.120.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.08 - Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.08.920 - Sewerage improvement districts operating as sewer districts become water-sewer districts—Procedure.

RCW 85.08.920
Sewerage improvement districts operating as sewer districts become water-sewer districts—Procedure.
See RCW 57.04.130.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.12 - Federal Aid to Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.12.010 - Commissioners may accept federal aid, or contract for work by federal agency—No bond required.

RCW 85.12.010
Commissioners may accept federal aid, or contract for work by federal agency—No bond required.
Whenever, under the provisions of any act of the congress of the United States, the corps of engineers of the United States army, or any other agency of the United States, shall be authorized to reconstruct, improve, repair or maintain any system of improvements of any diking, drainage or sewerage improvement district under the laws of the state of Washington, the board of county commissioners of the county in which such district is situated, on behalf of such district may consent to and permit the United States, or any agency thereof, to perform any work or service upon or with regard to such district's system of improvements which shall by the board be found to be for the benefit of such district and the property therein, or, if the enlargement, betterment or other improvement of such district's system of improvements, or the performance of extraordinary maintenance work upon or with respect to its existing system of improvements shall have been authorized, the board may contract, on behalf of said district, upon such terms as may be agreed upon by the United States and the board for the performance of the work so authorized by said corps of engineers, or other agency of the United States. No bond shall be required by the district for any work performed by or under the supervision of said corps of engineers, or other agency of the United States.
[ 1949 c 175 § 1; RRS § 4459-50. Formerly RCW 85.12.010 and 85.12.020.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.12 - Federal Aid to Diking, Drainage, and Sewerage Improvement Districts. › 85.12.030 - Disposition of federal aid funds.

RCW 85.12.030
Disposition of federal aid funds.
If at any time, whether prior or subsequent to the making of any contract authorized by the preceding section, there shall be made available and paid to a district fund appropriated by the congress of the United States to pay the costs and expenses of reconstruction, improvement, repair or maintenance of the district's system of improvements or any part thereof, said funds shall be paid into the district's maintenance or construction fund, according as the work is maintenance or new construction, and thereafter used and disbursed upon the order of the board, provided that if the district shall have theretofore issued extraordinary maintenance warrants or maintenance bonds or construction bonds, said funds shall be used to pay and retire said bonds or warrants to the extent of said funds. When all said warrants or bonds have been paid, the assessment levied to pay said warrants or bonds, or those installments of such assessment not then due and payable, shall be canceled. If the funds made available and paid to the district by the United States shall be more than sufficient to pay and retire all then outstanding warrants or bonds issued to pay the cost of the particular work, whether maintenance or new construction, then the excess of such federal aid funds, up to the amount of the total of the assessments to pay for such work theretofore paid, shall be paid by the treasurer to those who have paid such assessment or assessments in the proportion that the total of all such assessments paid by any one bears to the total of all such assessments theretofore paid, and any balance of such federal aid funds remaining shall become and be part of the maintenance fund of the district. Any assessment or installment of assessment not canceled under the provisions hereof, or any balance thereof which when collected shall not be required for the payment of interest or principal of any of said warrants or bonds, shall, after all said warrants or bonds have been paid, be paid into and become part of the maintenance fund of the district.
[ 1949 c 175 § 2; RRS § 4459-51.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act. › 85.15.010 - Declaration of purpose.

RCW 85.15.010
Declaration of purpose.
The maintenance, enlargement and extension of diking, drainage and sewerage improvement districts formed under chapter 85.08 RCW is essential to the public welfare and economy of the state. The influx of population and changes in land use since many such districts were formed, has made obsolete, expensive and unjust the method used under existing law to provide funds for the operation of such districts and for the maintenance and expansion of their systems of improvement.
[ 1967 c 184 § 2.]
NOTES:
Severability—1967 c 184: See note following RCW 85.05.610.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act. › 85.15.020 - Definitions.

RCW 85.15.020
Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
"District" means a diking, drainage or sewerage improvement district organized under chapter 85.08 RCW.
"Maintenance" means and includes not merely operating expenses and such upkeep and other work commonly classed as maintenance as shall be necessary to restore and preserve the district's systems of improvement and the machinery and equipment operated in connection therewith in the same or as good condition as when originally constructed and installed, but also the making of such changes in and betterments to the original works, improvements and installations as shall, subject to approval of the board of county commissioners, be by the board deemed necessary to put the systems of improvements into such condition as will provide protection and services as contemplated and intended by the original construction and any enlargement and extensions thereof thereafter made.
[ 1967 c 184 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act. › 85.15.030 - Property roll—Basis and requisites—Separate levies for prior indebtedness.

RCW 85.15.030
Property roll—Basis and requisites—Separate levies for prior indebtedness.
To operate under this chapter, the board of commissioners of the improvement district shall cause to be prepared and filed with the board of county commissioners a property roll. The roll shall contain: (1) A description of all properties benefited and improvements thereon which receive protection and service from the systems of the district with the name of the owner or the reputed owner thereof and his or her address as shown on the tax rolls of the assessor or treasurer of the county wherein the property is located and (2) the determined value of such land and improvements thereon as last assessed and equalized by the assessor of such county or counties. Such assessed and equalized values shall be deemed prima facie to be just, fair, and correct valuations against which annual taxes shall be levied for the operation of the district and the maintenance and expansion of its facilities.
If property outside of the limits of the original district are upon the roll as adopted ultimately, and the original district has outstanding bonds or long-term warrants, the board of county commissioners shall set up separate dollar rate levies for the full retirement thereof.
[ 2013 c 23 § 419; 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 111; 1967 c 184 § 4.]
NOTES:
Severability—Effective dates and termination dates—Construction—1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act. › 85.15.040 - Public hearing—Notice, publication.

RCW 85.15.040
Public hearing—Notice, publication.
When a property roll is filed with the county legislative authority, the county legislative authority shall hold a public hearing to determine whether the facts and conditions heretofore recited in this chapter as a prerequisite to its application do or do not exist, and shall give notice of hearing as follows:
The notice shall be published at least once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the area involved. The last publication shall be more than fifteen days prior to date of hearing.
[ 1985 c 469 § 75; 1967 c 184 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act. › 85.15.050 - Written objections—Filing—Grounds—Waiver.

RCW 85.15.050
Written objections—Filing—Grounds—Waiver.
Any person, owner or reputed owner having any interest in any property against which the board of county commissioners seeks to make a protection and service charge under this chapter, may object thereto. All such objections must be in writing and filed with the board of county commissioners before the hearing is commenced upon the roll containing such properties and must state clearly the grounds of such objection. Objections not made within this time and in this manner shall be deemed conclusively to have been waived.
[ 1967 c 184 § 6.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act. › 85.15.060 - Reexamination of properties on roll—Adjustment, periodic revision, of valuations.

RCW 85.15.060
Reexamination of properties on roll—Adjustment, periodic revision, of valuations.
The board of county commissioners may at any time reexamine the properties on any roll, and upon receipt of a petition from the board of supervisors of the district or the written request of a property owner shall do so. If it is found that the condition of such property or properties has changed so that such property should be eliminated from any rolls on file, or the valuation against which dollar rate is levied should be lowered, it shall so determine and enter an order adjusting the valuation as to such properties and shall certify and file a copy thereof with the treasurer of the county wherein the property is situated, and the treasurer shall alter and change the existing rolls accordingly. Valuations may be revised periodically to reflect changes in real property valuations by the county assessor.
[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 112; 1967 c 184 § 7.]
NOTES:
Severability—Effective dates and termination dates—Construction—1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act. › 85.15.070 - Roll constitutes valuations against which levy made and collected—Hearing on adjustments.

RCW 85.15.070
Roll constitutes valuations against which levy made and collected—Hearing on adjustments.
The roll approved and certified to the county officers by the board of county commissioners as in this chapter provided shall constitute the valuations of land, buildings and improvements furnished protection and services by the systems of the district against which valuation taxes shall be levied and collected annually in the same manner as general taxes for the continuing operations of the district and its systems. The valuations on said roll shall be subject to adjustment from time to time in the manner provided in RCW 85.15.060.
The board of county commissioners shall hold a hearing on such adjustments at the county seat at the time of equalization of real property assessments for the purpose of considering written objections to any revision of valuations filed at least ten days prior to the hearing and shall give published notice only of such hearing as provided in RCW 85.15.040.
[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 113; 1967 c 184 § 8.]
NOTES:
Severability—Effective dates and termination dates—Construction—1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act. › 85.15.080 - Roll and proceedings conclusive—Remedies.

RCW 85.15.080
Roll and proceedings conclusive—Remedies.
Wherever any roll shall have been adopted by the board of county commissioners, the regularity, validity and correctness of the proceedings relating thereto shall be conclusive upon all parties, and it cannot in any manner be contested or questioned in any proceeding whatsoever by any person not filing written objections to the roll as provided in RCW 85.15.050 and appealing from the action of said board in confirming the roll in the manner and within the time in this chapter provided. No proceeding of any kind, except proceedings had throughout the process of appeal as in this chapter provided, shall be commenced or prosecuted or may be maintained, for the purpose of defeating or contesting any assessment or charge made through levies under this chapter, or the sale of any property to pay such charges: PROVIDED, That suit in injunction may be brought to prevent collection of charges of assessments or sale of property thereunder upon the following grounds and no other:
(1) That the property charged or about to be sold does not appear upon the district roll, or
(2) The charge has been paid.
[ 1967 c 184 § 9.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act. › 85.15.090 - Review by superior court—How taken.

RCW 85.15.090
Review by superior court—How taken.
The decision of the board of county commissioners upon any objection made within the time and in the manner prescribed may be reviewed by the superior court of the county wherein the property in question is located, upon appeal thereto taken in the following manner: Any person aggrieved must file his or her petition for writ of review with the clerk of the superior court wherein the property is located within ten days after the roll affecting such aggrieved party was adopted by resolution, and serve a copy thereof upon the county treasurer. The petition shall describe the property in question, shall set forth the written objections which were made to the decision, and the date of filing of such objections, and shall be signed by such party or someone in his or her behalf. The court shall forthwith grant such petition if correct as to form and filed in accordance with this chapter.
[ 2013 c 23 § 420; 1967 c 184 § 10.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act. › 85.15.100 - Review by superior court—Transcript—Contents—Filing.

RCW 85.15.100
Review by superior court—Transcript—Contents—Filing.
Within ten days from the filing of such petition for review, the county treasurer, unless the court shall grant additional time, shall file with the clerk of the superior court its certified transcript containing such portion of the roll as is subject to review, any written objections thereto filed with the board by the person reviewing before the roll was adopted, and a copy of the resolution adopting the roll.
[ 1967 c 184 § 11.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act. › 85.15.110 - Review by superior court—Filing fees—Bond—Priority of cause.

RCW 85.15.110
Review by superior court—Filing fees—Bond—Priority of cause.
The county clerk shall charge the same filing fees for petitions for review as in civil actions. At the time of the filing of such a petition with the clerk, the appellant shall execute and file a bond in the penal sum of two hundred dollars, with at least two sureties, to be approved by the judge of the court, conditioned upon his or her prosecuting his or her appeal without delay and to guarantee all costs which may be assessed against him or her by reason of such review. The court shall, on motion of either party to the cause, with notice to the other party, set the cause for trial at the earliest time available to the court, fixing a date for hearing and trial without a jury. The cause shall have preference over all civil actions pending in the court except eminent domain and forcible entry and detainer proceedings.
[ 2013 c 23 § 421; 1967 c 184 § 12.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act. › 85.15.120 - Review by superior court—Scope—Judgment.

RCW 85.15.120
Review by superior court—Scope—Judgment.
At the trial the court shall determine whether the board of county commissioners has acted within its discretion and has correctly construed and applied the law. If it finds that it has, the finding of the board shall be affirmed; otherwise it shall be reversed or modified. The judgment of the court may change, confirm, correct, or modify the values of the property in question as shown upon the roll, and a certified copy thereof shall be filed with the county treasurer, who shall change, modify, or correct the roll as and if required by the judgment.
[ 1967 c 184 § 13.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act. › 85.15.130 - Appellate review.

RCW 85.15.130
Appellate review.
Appellate review may be sought as in other civil cases: PROVIDED, That review must be sought within fifteen days after the date of entry of the judgment of the superior court. The supreme court or the court of appeals may change, conform, correct, or modify the values of the property in question as shown upon the roll. A certified copy of any judgment of the supreme court or the court of appeals shall be filed with the county treasurer having custody of such roll, who shall thereupon change, modify, or correct such roll in accordance with such judgment as and if required.
[ 1988 c 202 § 78; 1971 c 81 § 163; 1967 c 184 § 14.]
NOTES:
Severability—1988 c 202: See note following RCW 2.24.050.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act. › 85.15.140 - Levy is for continuous benefits to protected property.

RCW 85.15.140
Levy is for continuous benefits to protected property.
The dollar rate levies collected from time to time under this chapter are solely assessments for benefits received continuously by the protected properties, calculated in the manner specified in this chapter as a just and equitable way for all protected property to share the expense of such required protection and services.
[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 114; 1967 c 184 § 15.]
NOTES:
Severability—Effective dates and termination dates—Construction—1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act. › 85.15.150 - Annual estimate of costs—Levy added to general taxes—Delinquencies—Disposition of revenue.

RCW 85.15.150
Annual estimate of costs—Levy added to general taxes—Delinquencies—Disposition of revenue.
The board of any improvement district proceeding under this chapter shall, on or before the first day of September of each year, make an estimate of the costs reasonably anticipated to be required for the effective functioning of the district during the ensuing year and until further revenue therefor can be made available, and shall cause its chair or secretary to file the same with the board of county commissioners of the county containing the district and other benefited area. The board of county commissioners shall, on or before the first Monday in October next ensuing, certify the amount of the district's estimate, or such amount as it shall deem advisable, to the county treasurer. The amount so certified shall be applied by the regular taxing agencies against the benefit valuation of lands, buildings and improvements as shown by the then current complete roll of such properties certified to and filed with such county treasurer by the board of county commissioners. When thus levied, the amount of assessment produced thereby shall be added by the general taxing authorities to the general taxes against said lands and collected therewith as a part thereof. If unpaid, any delinquencies in such assessments shall bear interest at the same rate and in the same manner as general taxes and they shall be included in and be made a part of any general tax foreclosure proceedings, according to the provisions of law with relation to such foreclosures. As assessment collections are made, the county treasurer shall credit the same to the funds of the district.
[ 2013 c 23 § 422; 1967 c 184 § 16.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act. › 85.15.160 - Emergency expenditures—Warrants.

RCW 85.15.160
Emergency expenditures—Warrants.
In the case of an emergency or disaster occurring after the time of making the annual estimate of costs, declared to be such by resolution of the board, the board of the district may incur additional obligations and issue valid warrants therefor in excess of such estimate, in the manner provided by law for issuance of warrants by districts and the servicing thereof. All such warrants so issued shall be valid and legal obligations of the district and its taxable lands and improvements as shown upon the then current roll of the district filed with the county treasurer.
[ 1967 c 184 § 17.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.15 - Diking, Drainage, Sewerage Improvement Districts—1967 Act. › 85.15.170 - Concurrent use of other methods of raising revenue.

RCW 85.15.170
Concurrent use of other methods of raising revenue.
Any diking, drainage, or sewerage improvement district operating under this chapter shall not use concurrently the processes provided for raising revenue for maintenance purposes under any other law: PROVIDED, That any other method of raising such revenue provided by law may be used concurrently for the sole purpose of extinguishing indebtedness incurred before the district adopts the procedures of this chapter, and no funds raised hereunder shall be used to pay such prior indebtedness.
[ 1967 c 184 § 18.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.16 - Maintenance Costs and Levies—Improvement Districts. › 85.16.010 - Definitions.

RCW 85.16.010
Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Appraisers" means the board of appraisers;
(2) "Supervisors" means the district board of supervisors;
(3) "Board" means the board of county commissioners;
(4) "Auditor" means the county auditor;
(5) "Treasurer" means the county treasurer; and
(6) "Maintenance", "maintenance of the system of improvements", "maintenance work", and other terms of similar import, mean and include not merely operating expenses and such upkeep and other work commonly classed as maintenance as shall be necessary to restore and preserve the district's system of improvement and the machinery and equipment operated in connection therewith in the same or as good condition as when originally constructed and installed, but also: (a) The making of such changes in and betterments to the original works, improvements and installations as shall, subject to the approval of the board, be by the supervisors deemed necessary to put the system of improvements into such condition that it shall provide adequate drainage and protection from overflow for the lands within the district as contemplated and intended by the original construction and any enlargement and extension thereof thereafter made; and (b) all costs and expenses incident to any determination or redetermination of benefits and apportionment of costs made under the terms of this chapter.
[ 1949 c 26 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 4459-20.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.16 - Maintenance Costs and Levies—Improvement Districts. › 85.16.020 - Maintenance estimate and levy.

RCW 85.16.020
Maintenance estimate and levy.
On or before the first Monday in September in each year the supervisors of each diking, drainage or sewerage improvement district shall make and file with the board of the county containing such district, a statement and estimate in writing of the amount required for the maintenance of the system of improvements of said district for the ensuing fiscal year. The board shall, on or before the first Monday in October next ensuing, levy assessments for the amount of said estimate, or such amount as it shall deem advisable, upon the property within the district and against the state, the county containing such district, and the cities, towns and other municipal corporations within such district in respect of all highways, roads and streets and other lands, improvements, and facilities chargeable therewith owned by them respectively within such district. Said assessments shall be levied in the same proportion as the assessments to pay the original cost of construction of said system of improvements: PROVIDED HOWEVER, That when a determination or redetermination of benefits accruing to the properties within the district from the maintenance of the district's system of improvements or from the maintenance of the district's diking system and drainage system separately shall have been made, as hereinafter in this chapter provided, then the assessments for maintenance shall be levied in proportion to the benefits accruing to each piece or parcel of property and improvements benefited according to the latest determination of such benefits. Each such levy as made shall be certified by the auditor to the treasurer, who shall extend the same upon the district assessment roll.
[ 1949 c 26 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 4459-21.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 85 - Diking and Drainage › Chapter 85.16 - Maintenance Costs and Levies—Improvement Districts. › 85.16.030 - Excess expenditures.

RCW 85.16.030
Excess expenditures.
In maintaining a system of improvements of any such district the supervisors thereof may at any time, with the approval of the county legislative authority and upon determination by such county legislative authority that an emergency exists, make expenditures in excess of the last annual maintenance assessments theretofore made, which excess amount or amounts shall in such event be included in the maintenance assessments for the succeeding year except as otherwise herein provided.
[ 1986 c 278 § 33; 1983 c 167 § 197; 1949 c 26 § 3; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 4459-22. Formerly RCW 85.16.030, 85.16.040, part and 85.16.050.]
NOTES:
Severability—1986 c 278: See note following RCW 36.01.010.
Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.