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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.815 - Lump sum payment to district for irrigable lands acquired for highway purposes—Order relieving further district assessments.

RCW 87.03.815
Lump sum payment to district for irrigable lands acquired for highway purposes—Order relieving further district assessments.
Upon the department of transportation making the lump sum payment to the district under RCW 87.03.810, the district shall make and enter an order relieving the lands from further district assessments for the delivery of water to the lands.
[ 1984 c 7 § 381; 1959 c 303 § 2. Formerly RCW 87.01.310.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.820 - Disposal of real property—Right of adjacent owners.

RCW 87.03.820
Disposal of real property—Right of adjacent owners.
Whenever as the result of abandonment of an irrigation district right-of-way real property held by an irrigation district is to be sold or otherwise disposed of, notice shall be given to the owners of lands adjoining that real property and such owners shall have a right of first refusal to purchase at the appraised price all or any part of the real property to be sold or otherwise disposed of which adjoins or is adjacent to their land.
Real property to be sold or otherwise disposed of under this section shall have been first appraised by the county assessor or by a person designated by him or her.
Notice under this section shall be sufficient if sent by registered mail to the owner, and at the address, as shown in the tax records of the county in which the land is situated. Notice under this section shall be in addition to any other notice required by law.
After sixty days from the date of sending of notice, if no applications for purchase have been received by the irrigation district or other person or entity sending notice, the rights of first refusal of owners of adjoining lands shall be deemed to have been waived, and the real property may be sold or otherwise disposed of. When no applications for purchase have been received, if the irrigation district board of directors determines that due to the configuration of the abandoned right-of-way, or other facts, it appears unlikely that the property, or a portion of the property, can be sold for the appraised price, and the property is considered a burden to the irrigation district, the real property may be sold at a negotiated price, including a transfer for no payment, without further publication or notice to all adjoining owners.
If two or more owners of adjoining lands apply to purchase the same real property, or apply to purchase overlapping parts of the real property, the respective rights of the applicants may be determined in the superior court of the county in which the real property is situated; and the court may divide the real property in question between some or all of the applicants or award the whole to one applicant, as justice may require.
Any sale or other disposal of real property pursuant to chapters 87.52, 87.53, and 87.56 RCW shall be made in accordance with the requirements of this section.
[ 2017 c 321 § 4; 2013 c 23 § 510; 1973 c 150 § 1; 1971 ex.s. c 125 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.825 - Hydroelectric resources—Development—Legislative findings.

RCW 87.03.825
Hydroelectric resources—Development—Legislative findings.
The legislature finds that a significant potential exists for the development of cost-effective renewable hydroelectric resources by irrigation districts, cities, towns, and public utility districts and further finds that it is in the best interests of the state and its citizens for such entities to develop that hydroelectric generating resource cooperatively whenever possible through the use of separate legal authorities. The legislature also finds that the development of such hydroelectric resources will be beneficial in meeting the present and future energy needs of the citizens of the state, will further a state purpose and policy, and will be in the public interest.
[ 1983 c 47 § 1.]
NOTES:
Severability—1983 c 47: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 1983 c 47 § 7.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.828 - Hydroelectric resources—Separate legal authority—Creation by irrigation districts and cities, towns, or public utility districts—Powers.

RCW 87.03.828
Hydroelectric resources—Separate legal authority—Creation by irrigation districts and cities, towns, or public utility districts—Powers.
One or more irrigation districts and any combination of cities, towns, or public utility districts may create a separate legal authority to construct, finance, acquire, own, operate, and maintain hydroelectric facilities including, but not limited to, dams, canals, plants, transmission lines, other power equipment and the necessary property and property rights therefor, located within or outside the boundaries of the entities creating the authority, for the purpose of utilizing for the generation of electricity water power made available by and as a part of the irrigation water storage, conveyance, and distribution facilities, wasteways, and drainage water facilities which serve or may in the future serve irrigation districts, and to sell by contract on such terms and conditions as deemed appropriate by the legislative body of the authority the electric power and energy created by or generated at such hydroelectric facilities to municipal or quasi municipal corporations or cooperatives authorized to engage in the business of distributing electricity, electrical companies subject to the jurisdiction of the utilities and transportation commission, or irrigation districts. Any authority so created shall have the same powers and only those powers granted to irrigation districts by chapter 185, Laws of 1979 ex. sess. and has such additional powers relating to its organization, right to contract in its own name, and general ability to exist and function as a separate legal authority as deemed appropriate by the entities creating it. The authority shall be created and organized by contract in the manner described in chapter 39.34 RCW and shall be a separate legal entity capable of exercising in its own name the powers granted it. No provision of chapter 39.34 RCW or any other provision of law may be interpreted to require the entities creating the authority to submit the contract creating the authority to any state, county, or municipal officer, entity, agency, or board for approval or disapproval.
[ 1983 c 47 § 2.]
NOTES:
Severability—1983 c 47: See note following RCW 87.03.825.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.831 - Hydroelectric resources—Separate legal authority—Procedures for membership and for construction and acquisition of facilities.

RCW 87.03.831
Hydroelectric resources—Separate legal authority—Procedures for membership and for construction and acquisition of facilities.
Cities, towns, and public utility districts not engaged in the generation, transmission, or distribution of electricity on April 19, 1983, may be members of a separate legal authority created under the provisions of RCW 87.03.828 without the necessity of obtaining prior approval of their voters. However, no such city, town, or public utility district member of such a separate legal authority may construct or acquire facilities for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electricity independently of the separate legal authority without complying with the election requirements applicable to each individual entity.
[ 1983 c 47 § 4.]
NOTES:
Severability—1983 c 47: See note following RCW 87.03.825.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.834 - Hydroelectric resources—Separate legal authority—Voter ratification of actions.

RCW 87.03.834
Hydroelectric resources—Separate legal authority—Voter ratification of actions.
After demand made by a majority of the authority's members, the actions of an authority shall become subject to ratification and approval by the voters of its members in accordance with procedures agreed to by its members. Every contract establishing an authority shall provide appropriate procedures for ratification and approval of actions taken by the authority by the voters of its members.
[ 1983 c 47 § 5.]
NOTES:
Severability—1983 c 47: See note following RCW 87.03.825.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.837 - Hydroelectric resources—Separate legal authority—Repayment of indebtedness—Powers.

RCW 87.03.837
Hydroelectric resources—Separate legal authority—Repayment of indebtedness—Powers.
A separate legal authority shall only have power to incur indebtedness that is repayable from rates, tolls, charges, or contract payments for services or electricity provided by the authority and to pledge such revenues for the payment and retirement of indebtedness issued for the construction or acquisition of hydroelectric facilities. An authority shall not have power to levy taxes or to impose assessments for the payment of obligations of the authority. Every bond or other evidence of indebtedness issued by an authority shall provide (1) that repayment shall be limited solely to the revenues of the authority, and (2) that no member of the authority shall be obligated to repay directly or indirectly any obligation of the authority except to the extent of fair value for services actually received from the authority. No member may pledge its revenues to support the issuance of revenue bonds or other indebtedness of an authority. This section shall not be construed to prohibit members of an authority from paying the necessary expenses of organizing and administering the authority and of studies performed, applications prepared, and consultants retained with regard to projects the authority is studying, developing, constructing, or operating.
[ 1983 c 47 § 6.]
NOTES:
Severability—1983 c 47: See note following RCW 87.03.825.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.840 - Chapter supplementary—When.

RCW 87.03.840
Chapter supplementary—When.
This chapter supplements and neither restricts nor limits any powers which a city, town, public utility district, or irrigation district might otherwise have under any laws of this state, except that no such authority created by RCW 87.03.828 and no city, town, or public utility district member of an authority may condemn for the benefit of the authority any plant, works, dam, facility, right, or property owned by any city, town, irrigation district, public utility district, or electrical company subject to the jurisdiction of the utilities and transportation commission.
[ 1983 c 47 § 3.]
NOTES:
Severability—1983 c 47: See note following RCW 87.03.825.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.849 - Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Board of directors—Transfer of property and assets.

RCW 87.03.849
Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Board of directors—Transfer of property and assets.
The members of the board of directors of the major irrigation district shall hold office as directors of the district formed by the merger until the end of their terms of office. If the major district is divided into director divisions, the board of the major district shall propose a plan for redividing the district into divisions that reflect the boundaries of the district created by the merger and this requirement regarding the directors of the major district. If the major district is considering a merger with more than one minor district, the board shall submit plans for the various possible mergers. The proposal or proposals shall be filed with the county legislative authority before the merger is approved in the major district or the minor district or districts. Following the merger, the county legislative authority shall approve the plan submitted for the districts that actually merged.
On the effective date of the merger, the directors of the minor district shall transfer the property and other assets of the district as required in RCW 87.03.853. Following the transfer of the property and other assets, the minor irrigation district and the office of director of the minor district shall cease to exist.
The board of directors of the district formed by the merger shall have all the powers and obligations of the boards of the major and minor districts that were merged to form the district including, but not limited to, such boards' powers and obligations for any local improvement districts created in the minor or major district under this chapter.
[ 1993 c 235 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.851 - Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Bonds or obligations not impaired—Enforcement of assessments and obligations—Establishment of local improvement district to carry out obligations.

RCW 87.03.851
Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Bonds or obligations not impaired—Enforcement of assessments and obligations—Establishment of local improvement district to carry out obligations.
(1) The merger of irrigation districts shall not affect or impair any bonds or obligations of the merged districts and the holders of the bonds of any merged district shall be entitled to all remedies for their enforcement as if the district had not been merged. All obligations incurred by the district prior to its merger shall be a prior lien to any obligation that may be incurred against the district created by the merger. However, the board of directors of the merged district may, when authorized under RCW 87.03.200 and with the consent of the bondholders, exchange the bonds of the district created by the merger for the bonds of the districts that merged. If the major or minor district entered, prior to the merger, into a contract with the United States under this chapter and the board of directors of the district created by the merger proposes that the merged district enter into a contract with the United States, the board may do so when authorized under RCW 87.03.200 and may, with the consent of the United States, cancel any contract previously entered into between the major or minor district and the United States.
(2) The district created by the merger shall be entitled to all remedies for the enforcement of the irrigation district assessments and other obligations of lands to the districts that merged as if the districts had not merged. All obligations incurred for irrigation district or local improvement district purposes by the lands within the major or minor district prior to its merger shall be a prior lien to any obligation that may be incurred against those lands after the merger.
(3) Until premerger assessments have been collected and all of the premerger indebtedness of the major and minor districts that merged have been paid, separate funds shall be maintained for each district as were maintained in each prior to the merger. The board of directors of the irrigation district created by the merger may establish a local improvement district for each district included in the merger to carry out the obligations of each such district. This board shall have all the powers possessed by the boards of directors of the districts included in the merger to carry out all contracts of the included districts and to levy, assess, and cause to be collected any and all assessments or charges against the lands of each of the included districts. A petition shall not be required for the formation of a local improvement district created for this purpose.
[ 1993 c 235 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.853 - Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Statement of property and assets of minor district.

RCW 87.03.853
Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Statement of property and assets of minor district.
Prior to or on the effective date of a merger of a minor irrigation district and a major irrigation district, the board of directors of the minor district shall cause to be prepared a statement of all property and other assets of the minor district. The statement shall be filed with the board of directors of the district created by the merger and on the effective date of the merger. The statement shall also be filed with the county auditor of the county containing the majority of the territory of the district after the merger. Upon the filing with the board, the property and other assets of the minor district shall, subject to the rights of the holders of bonds or other obligations of the minor district, become the property and other assets of the district created by the merger.
[ 1993 c 235 § 6.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.855 - Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Merger of more than two districts.

RCW 87.03.855
Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Merger of more than two districts.
More than two irrigation districts may merge under RCW 87.03.530(2) and 87.03.845 through 87.03.853 in one merger process. However, only one of the districts may be a "major" irrigation district and the assessed acreage in all of the other districts merging in the process, when taken collectively, shall not constitute more than thirty percent of the combined assessed acreage of all of the merging districts. In such a case, each of these other, nonmajor districts is considered to be a "minor" irrigation district under RCW 87.03.530(2) and 87.03.845 through 87.03.853.
[ 1993 c 235 § 7.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.857 - Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Existing water rights not impaired.

RCW 87.03.857
Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Existing water rights not impaired.
Nothing in RCW 87.03.530(2) and 87.03.845 through 87.03.855 shall authorize the impairment or operate to impair any existing water rights.
[ 1993 c 235 § 8.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.860 - Assumption of substandard water system—Limited immunity from liability.

RCW 87.03.860
Assumption of substandard water system—Limited immunity from liability.
An irrigation district assuming responsibility for a water system that is not in compliance with state or federal requirements for public drinking water systems, and its agents and employees, are immune from lawsuits or causes of action, based on noncompliance with state or federal requirements for public drinking water systems, which predate the date of assuming responsibility and continue after the date of assuming responsibility, provided that the irrigation district has submitted and is complying with a plan and schedule of improvements approved by the department of health. This immunity shall expire on the earlier of the date the plan of improvements is completed or four years from the date of assuming responsibility. This immunity does not apply to intentional injuries, fraud, or bad faith.
[ 1994 c 292 § 11.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—1994 c 292: See note following RCW 57.04.050.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.870 - Mutual aid agreements for emergency interdistrict assistance—Authority—Liability.

RCW 87.03.870
Mutual aid agreements for emergency interdistrict assistance—Authority—Liability.
(1) Under the interlocal cooperation act, chapter 39.34 RCW, an irrigation district may enter into a mutual aid agreement with any other irrigation district to provide emergency interdistrict assistance to respond to a breach or other failure of an irrigation water conveyance system when the required response exceeds the existing resources available to the district requesting assistance. Assistance may be provided without compensation.
(2) Whenever the employees of an irrigation district are rendering outside aid pursuant to the authority contained in this section, the employees have the same powers, duties, rights, privileges, and immunities as if they were performing their duties in the irrigation district in which they are normally employed. Supervision of the employees may be temporarily delegated as provided by the mutual aid agreement.
(3) The irrigation district in which any equipment is used pursuant to this section is liable for any loss or damage caused to the equipment and shall pay any ordinary expense incurred in the daily operation and maintenance of the equipment. No claim for loss, damage, or expense may be allowed unless, within sixty days after the loss, damage, or expense is sustained or incurred, an itemized notice of the claim under oath is served by mail or otherwise upon the secretary of the irrigation district where the equipment was used.
[ 1996 c 214 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.880 - Tariff for irrigation pumping service—Authority to buy back electricity.

RCW 87.03.880
Tariff for irrigation pumping service—Authority to buy back electricity.
The board may approve a tariff for irrigation pumping service that allows the irrigation district to buy back electricity from customers to reduce electricity usage by those customers during the irrigation district's particular irrigation season.
[ 2001 c 122 § 6.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2001 c 122: See note following RCW 80.28.310.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.900 - Construction—1913 c 165.

RCW 87.03.900
Construction—1913 c 165.
All irrigation districts in the state of Washington, and all proceedings had for the organization of any irrigation district, and all proceedings now pending in or relating to any irrigation district, shall be governed and controlled by the terms of this act, and this act shall not be construed as abridging or abrogating any of the rights or privileges of any irrigation district now organized, or being organized, and any contract, obligation, lien or charge, or bonds of any district, which may have been made, incurred, authorized or issued, prior to the taking effect of this act shall not be abridged or impaired by the terms of this act, but this act shall be construed as being a continuation of, and in aid of the previously existing laws relating to irrigation districts, except as to the sections specially repealed; and if in any instance relating to an existing district or any of its proceedings, the term of this amendatory act shall not be legally applicable, the district may proceed, and any contract, obligation, lien or charge against it may be enforced, under the terms and provisions of the law relating to irrigation districts in force and in effect prior to the taking effect of this act.
[ 1913 c 165 § 23.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.920 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.

RCW 87.03.920
Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married persons, and references to dissolution of marriage shall apply equally to state registered domestic partnerships that have been terminated, dissolved, or invalidated, to the extent that such interpretation does not conflict with federal law. Where necessary to implement chapter 521, Laws of 2009, gender-specific terms such as husband and wife used in any statute, rule, or other law shall be construed to be gender neutral, and applicable to individuals in state registered domestic partnerships.
[ 2009 c 521 § 197.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.04 - Director Divisions. › 87.04.010 - Divisions of certain districts required—Number—Directors—Who are electors.

RCW 87.04.010
Divisions of certain districts required—Number—Directors—Who are electors.
An irrigation district comprising two hundred thousand or more acres, or irrigation districts comprising less than two hundred thousand acres which have followed the optional procedure specified in *this amendatory act, shall be divided into divisions of as nearly equal area as practical, consistent with being fair and equitable to the electors of the district. The number of divisions shall be the same as the number of directors, which shall be numbered first, second, third, etc. One director, who shall be an elector of the division, shall be elected for each division of the district by the electors of his or her division. A district elector shall be considered an elector of the division in which he or she holds title to or evidence of title to land. An elector holding title to or evidence of title to land in more than one division shall be considered an elector of the division nearest his or her place of residence.
[ 2013 c 23 § 511; 1961 c 192 § 1; 1939 c 13 § 1; RRS § 7505-5a.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: The language "this amendatory act" refers to 1961 c 192 codified as RCW 87.04.010 through 87.04.900, 87.03.045, 87.03.080, 87.03.081, and 87.03.082.
Directors—Election, terms, etc.: RCW 87.03.080 through 87.03.082.
Organization of board, meetings, etc.: RCW 87.03.115.
Qualifications of voters and directors: RCW 87.03.045.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.04 - Director Divisions. › 87.04.020 - Director vacancies, how filled.

RCW 87.04.020
Director vacancies, how filled.
Vacancies in the representation of director divisions on the board of directors of the irrigation district shall be filled by appointment of an elector of the division concerned, in the same manner and for the same time as provided by law for the filling of vacancies on the board of directors of irrigation districts generally.
[ 1961 c 192 § 2; 1939 c 13 § 2; RRS § 7505-5b.]
NOTES:
Directors—Vacancies, how filled: RCW 87.03.081.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.04 - Director Divisions. › 87.04.030 - New district to be divided by county commissioners—Objections, denial, election.

RCW 87.04.030
New district to be divided by county commissioners—Objections, denial, election.
When a new irrigation district comprising more than two hundred thousand acres has been authorized, pursuant to law, the board of county commissioners shall, within thirty days from the canvassing of the returns, divide the district into director divisions equal to the number of directors, and in the resolution organizing the district, they shall include an order designating the director divisions and describing the boundaries thereof. When a petition for the formation of a new irrigation district comprising less than two hundred thousand acres has been filed pursuant to law and said petition includes a request that the district be divided into director divisions, the board of county commissioners shall divide the district into director divisions as provided in this section unless objections to director divisions are made at the hearing held pursuant to RCW 87.03.020; and in the event objections to director divisions are made and not withdrawn, the board of county commissioners may deny the request for director divisions or if it determines that it is to the best interests of the district that director divisions be established, it may, in its order calling an election for organization of the district, include a separate proposition on the question of director divisions; and if a majority of the votes cast on said proposition are in favor of director divisions, then the resolution organizing the district shall include an order designating the director divisions and describing the boundaries thereof.
[ 1961 c 192 § 3; 1939 c 13 § 3; RRS § 7505-5c.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.04 - Director Divisions. › 87.04.040 - Petition to divide or redivide.

RCW 87.04.040
Petition to divide or redivide.
Proceedings to divide or redivide a district comprising less than two hundred thousand acres into director divisions, or to redivide the director divisions heretofore established for districts comprising more than two hundred thousand acres, may be initiated by a petition filed with the county commissioners of the county in which the principal office of the district is situated. The petition shall designate the name of the district and pray that it be divided into director divisions, or that existing director divisions be redivided, and shall be signed by at least two-thirds of the directors of the district or in lieu thereof by at least twenty electors of the district. A petition to divide or redivide a district shall not be filed more than once in each five-year period except for redivisions necessitated by reason of a change in the total number of directors of the district.
[ 1961 c 192 § 4; 1939 c 13 § 4; RRS § 7505-5d.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.04 - Director Divisions. › 87.04.050 - Redivision when number of directors changed or new lands included.

RCW 87.04.050
Redivision when number of directors changed or new lands included.
If the number of directors is changed for a district which is divided into director divisions or new lands outside of existing director divisions are included into a district but cannot be added to director divisions as provided in RCW 87.04.055 due to geographic limitations, a petition for redivision or addition shall be filed with the board of county commissioners by the directors of the district and all proceedings thereon shall be conducted in the manner as provided in RCW 87.04.060 and 87.04.070: PROVIDED, That even if objections are filed at the hearing on said petition, no election shall be held but the board of county commissioners shall make such division or addition that they determine to be fair and equitable to the electors of the district.
[ 1967 c 205 § 1; 1961 c 192 § 5; 1939 c 13 § 7; RRS § 7505-5g.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.04 - Director Divisions. › 87.04.055 - Procedure for adding land to director divisions when new land included in district.

RCW 87.04.055
Procedure for adding land to director divisions when new land included in district.
When land located outside existing director divisions is included in an irrigation district such land shall thereby be added to the nearest director division, except that where added lands are adjacent to two or more director divisions, the common boundary lines between the divisions shall be extended in a straight line so as to include the new lands in such divisions: PROVIDED, That where the provisions of this section cannot be applied due to geographic limitations, the procedures provided for in RCW 87.04.050 shall apply.
[ 1967 c 205 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.04 - Director Divisions. › 87.04.058 - Application of RCW 87.04.030 through 87.04.055 following merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district.

RCW 87.04.058
Application of RCW 87.04.030 through 87.04.055 following merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district.
RCW 87.04.030 through 87.04.055 do not apply to redividing a district immediately following a merger as provided in RCW 87.03.849.
[ 1993 c 235 § 9.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.04 - Director Divisions. › 87.04.060 - Time for hearing on petition—Notice, contents.

RCW 87.04.060
Time for hearing on petition—Notice, contents.
Upon the filing of the petition the board of county commissioners shall fix a time and place for hearing thereon, which shall be not less than thirty days nor more than forty-five days from the date of filing, and shall cause notice thereof, stating the time, place, and general purpose of the hearing, to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in each county in which any of the lands of the district are situated, in at least three consecutive weekly issues; if there is no such newspaper published in a county, then in a newspaper of general circulation therein, designated by the county commissioner. The notice shall state the filing of the petition and its prayer, but need not describe with particularity the boundaries of the divisions recommended in the petition, and shall notify all electors of the district to appear at the time and place named in the notice to show cause, if any they have, why the district should not be divided or redivided into director divisions.
[ 1961 c 192 § 6; 1939 c 13 § 5; RRS § 7505-5e.]
NOTES:
Official paper for publication: RCW 87.03.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.04 - Director Divisions. › 87.04.070 - Hearing—Order of denial or rejection—Election to divide or redivide.

RCW 87.04.070
Hearing—Order of denial or rejection—Election to divide or redivide.
At the hearing or adjournments thereof, which shall not be for more than sixty days in all, the board of county commissioners shall consider the petition and shall hear electors of the district for or against the division or redivision of director divisions and recommendations for the manner in which division should be made. If the board deems it against the best interests of the district to divide the district into director divisions or to redivide existing divisions, it shall order the petition rejected, but if it deems it for the best interests of the district that the petition be granted, and if no elector of the district files cause in writing at said hearing why the petition should not be granted, or if having filed said cause in writing withdraws the same, the board shall enter an order dividing or redividing the district into the same number of director divisions as there are directors of the district, and designating the divisions and describing the boundaries thereof. The division to be made shall be such as the commissioners consider fair and equitable to the electors of the district. A copy of the commissioners' order shall be filed for record, without charge, with the auditor of each county in which any part of the district is situated, and thereafter the directors shall be elected or appointed as provided in this chapter. If any elector shall appear in person at said hearing and shall file cause in writing as aforesaid why the petition should not be granted and shall not withdraw the same, and if the board nevertheless deems it for the best interests of the district that the petition be granted, the board shall adopt a resolution to that effect and shall order an election held within the district on whether the district should be divided into director divisions or its existing director divisions be redivided, and shall fix the time thereof and cause notice to be published. The notice shall be given and the election conducted in the manner as for special elections on a bond issue of the district. The notice shall state the general plan of division or redivision but need not describe with particularity the boundaries of the proposed division or redivision. Such boundaries shall be described on the ballot. If the majority of votes cast at the election are in favor of dividing or redividing the district into director divisions, the board of county commissioners shall enter an order dividing or redividing the district into the same number of director divisions as there are directors of the district, and designating the divisions and designating the boundaries thereof. If a majority of the votes cast are against division or redivision into director districts, the board shall order the petition denied.
[ 1961 c 192 § 7; 1939 c 13 § 6; RRS § 7505-5f.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.04 - Director Divisions. › 87.04.080 - Election of directors—Terms.

RCW 87.04.080
Election of directors—Terms.
At the next general election of directors of a district which has been divided into director divisions, the electors of the first division shall select the director then to be elected on the board, and if more than one director is to be selected, the second division shall select one, and so on in numerical order, until, as the terms of incumbent directors expire, all the divisions are represented on the board, and thereafter directors shall be elected from the divisions in rotation, as their respective terms of office expire: PROVIDED, That if following the numerical order of director divisions will result in any year in one division having more than one director and one division having no director, then the numerical order of the divisions shall not be followed for the year or years in question but the electors of the next highest numbered division without representation on the board of directors shall select the director then to be elected on the board. If such a district is organized but has not yet held an annual election of officers, it shall, at its next annual election, select directors for three, two and one-year terms respectively, and if the district is managed by a board of three directors, the first division shall select a director for the three-year term, the second division shall select one for the two-year term, and the third division shall select one for the one-year term, and thereafter their successors shall be elected for three-year terms, respectively. If the district has five directors, the first and second divisions shall each select a director for the three-year term, the third and fourth divisions shall each select one for the two-year term, and the fifth division shall select one for the one-year term, and thereafter their successors shall be elected for three-year terms respectively. If the district has seven directors, the first, second and third divisions shall each select a director for the three-year term, the fourth and fifth divisions shall each select a director for the two-year term, and the sixth and seventh divisions shall each select a director for the one-year term, and thereafter their successors shall be elected for three-year terms respectively.
[ 1961 c 192 § 8; 1939 c 13 § 8; RRS § 7505-5h.]
NOTES:
Ballots, declaration of candidacy, nominating petitions: RCW 87.03.075.
Elections are governed by irrigation district laws: RCW 87.03.030.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.04 - Director Divisions. › 87.04.090 - Levy limitation until water received when federal works or contracts involved—Exception.

RCW 87.04.090
Levy limitation until water received when federal works or contracts involved—Exception.
Lands in a district so divided into director divisions, which are to receive water from a system of works to be constructed by the federal government or under a contract between the district and the federal government shall not be assessed more than five cents an acre in any one calendar year until the secretary of the interior announces that water is ready for delivery to the land: PROVIDED, That this section shall not be applicable to districts comprising less than two hundred thousand acres.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 93 § 1; 1961 c 192 § 9; 1939 c 13 § 9; RRS § 7505-5i.]
NOTES:
Assessment: RCW 87.03.240 through 87.03.305.
Board's powers and duties (contracts with state or United States): RCW 87.03.140.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.04 - Director Divisions. › 87.04.100 - Certain excess lands under federal contracts, assessment limitation—Exception.

RCW 87.04.100
Certain excess lands under federal contracts, assessment limitation—Exception.
Lands in such a district, which are designated as excess lands under the act of congress of May 27, 1937, and which have been subscribed by the owner thereof to the excess land contract, shall not be assessed more than above specified until after the date fixed in the contract for the sale of such excess lands, unless they have been sooner sold or the owner has sooner called for water thereon: PROVIDED, That this section shall not be applicable to districts comprising less than two hundred thousand acres.
[ 1961 c 192 § 10; 1939 c 13 § 10; RRS § 7505-5j.]
NOTES:
Assessments: RCW 87.03.240 through 87.03.305.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.04 - Director Divisions. › 87.04.900 - Chapter supplemental to other laws—General repealer.

RCW 87.04.900
Chapter supplemental to other laws—General repealer.
This chapter is intended, and shall be construed, to be supplemental to and shall become a part of the law relating to irrigation districts, and any act or part of the same inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this act or any part thereof are hereby repealed.
[ 1961 c 192 § 11; 1939 c 13 § 11; RRS § 7505-5k.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.06 - Delinquent Assessments. › 87.06.010 - Definitions.

RCW 87.06.010
Definitions.
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.
(1) "Date of delinquency" means the date when the assessment first became delinquent under chapter 87.03 RCW.
(2) "Description of property" means a legal description, the parcel number, tax number, or other description that sufficiently describes the property or specific parcel of land.
(3) "Minimum bid sheet" means the informational sheet which is prepared by the treasurer for use at the treasurer's sale and which contains a description of the various properties and the minimum bid required for each.
(4) "Party in interest" means an occupant of the property, the owner of record, and any other person having a financial interest of record in the property.
(5) "Treasurer" means the irrigation district treasurer. However, if the county treasurer acts as ex officio district treasurer in accordance with RCW 87.03.440, then "treasurer" means the county treasurer.
[ 1988 c 134 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.06 - Delinquent Assessments. › 87.06.020 - Certificates of delinquency—Posting of certificates.

RCW 87.06.020
Certificates of delinquency—Posting of certificates.
(1) After thirty-six calendar months from the month of the date of delinquency, or twenty-four months from the month of the date of delinquency with respect to any local improvement district assessment, the treasurer shall prepare certificates of delinquency on the property for the unpaid irrigation district assessments, and for costs and interest. An individual certificate of delinquency may be prepared for each property or the individual certificates may be compiled and issued in one general certificate including all delinquent properties. Each certificate shall contain the following information:
(a) Description of the property assessed;
(b) Street address of property, if available;
(c) Years for which assessed;
(d) Amount of delinquent assessments, costs, and interest;
(e) Name appearing on the treasurer's most current assessment roll for the property; and
(f) A statement that interest will be charged on the amount listed in (d) of this subsection at a rate of twelve percent per year, computed monthly and without compounding, from the date of the issuance of the certificate and that additional costs, incurred as a result of the delinquency, will be imposed, including the costs of a title search.
(2) The treasurer may provide for the posting of the certificates or other measures designed to advertise the certificates and encourage the payment of the amounts due.
[ 2013 c 177 § 10; 1988 c 134 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.06 - Delinquent Assessments. › 87.06.030 - Provision and review of list of delinquent properties subject to foreclosure—Cost comparison, determination not to foreclose.

RCW 87.06.030
Provision and review of list of delinquent properties subject to foreclosure—Cost comparison, determination not to foreclose.
Before preparing a certificate of delinquency, the treasurer of a district that has designated its own treasurer as provided in RCW 87.03.440 , shall provide to the board of directors a list of properties that may be subject to foreclosure for delinquent assessments. The board of directors shall review the list of delinquent properties. After comparing the amount of the delinquent assessment with the costs of foreclosure, including but not limited to title search, court filing fees, costs of service, and attorneys' fees, the board of directors may determine that it is not in the best interest of the district to commence legal action to foreclose the delinquent assessment liens. Nothing in this section precludes a county treasurer from proceeding with foreclosure on parcels otherwise delinquent and, in those actions, from collecting delinquent assessments due under this title.
[ 2014 c 2 § 4; 2004 c 215 § 4; 1988 c 134 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.06 - Delinquent Assessments. › 87.06.050 - Payment on certificate of delinquency before foreclosure.

RCW 87.06.050
Payment on certificate of delinquency before foreclosure.
(1) Any party in interest of property for which a certificate of delinquency has been prepared, but against which a foreclosure judgment has not been entered, may pay to the treasurer, in person or by agent, the total amount of the assessment lien, as listed under RCW 87.06.020(1)(d), plus any additional costs and interest, including any title search costs. If a foreclosure judgment has been entered, then any party in interest may pay to the treasurer, in person or by agent, the lien amount for which the judgment has been rendered, so long as payment is received by the treasurer during regular business hours before the day of the foreclosure sale. The treasurer shall give a receipt for each payment received under this subsection.
(2) Upon receipt of payment under this section, the district shall abandon any foreclosure proceedings commenced against the property. If a notice of lis pendens has been filed with the county auditor, the treasurer shall record a release of lis pendens with the auditor.
[ 1988 c 134 § 5.]