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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.16 - Reclamation by State. › 89.16.045 - Loans from account—Contracts—Repayment.

RCW 89.16.045
Loans from account—Contracts—Repayment.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the director of ecology may, by written contract with a reclamation district, loan moneys from the reclamation account to said district for use in financing a project of construction, reconstruction or improvement of district facilities, or a project of additions to such facilities. No such contract shall exceed fifty thousand dollars per project or a term of ten years, or provide for an interest rate of more than eight percent per annum. The director shall not execute any contract as provided in this section until he or she determines that the project for which the moneys are furnished is within the scope of the district's powers to undertake, that the project is feasible, that its construction is in the best interest of the state and the district, and that the district proposing the project is in a sound financial condition and capable of repaying the loan with interest in not more than ten annual payments. Any district is empowered to enter into a contract, as provided for in this section, and to levy assessments based on the special benefits accruing to lands within the district as are necessary to satisfy the contract, when a resolution of the governing body of the reclamation district authorizing its execution is approved by the body: PROVIDED, That no district shall be empowered to execute with the director any such contract during the term of any previously executed contract authorized by this section.
[ 2013 c 23 § 556; 1972 ex.s. c 51 § 4; 1967 c 181 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.16 - Reclamation by State. › 89.16.055 - Additional powers and duties enumerated—Payment for from reclamation account.

RCW 89.16.055
Additional powers and duties enumerated—Payment for from reclamation account.
In addition to the powers provided in RCW 89.16.050, the department of ecology is authorized and empowered to:
(1) Conduct surveys, studies, investigations, and water right examinations for proposed reclamation projects or the rehabilitation of existing reclamation projects that may be funded fully or partially from the receipts of the sale of bonds issued by the state of Washington.
(2) Support the preparation for and administration of proceedings, provided in RCW 90.03.110 or 90.44.220, or both, pertaining to river systems or other water bodies that are associated with existing or proposed reclamation projects.
(3) Conduct a regulatory program for well construction as provided in chapter 18.104 RCW.
Funds of the account established by RCW 89.16.020 may, as appropriated by the legislature, be used in relation to the powers provided in this section, notwithstanding any other provisions of chapter 89.16 RCW that may be to the contrary.
[ 1993 c 387 § 27; 1981 c 216 § 1.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1993 c 387: See RCW 18.104.930.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.16 - Reclamation by State. › 89.16.060 - Contracts with United States.

RCW 89.16.060
Contracts with United States.
The department of ecology shall have the power to cooperate and to contract with the United States for the reclamation of lands in this state by the United States, and shall have the power to contract with the United States for the handling of such reclamation work by the United States and for the repayment of such moneys as the department of ecology shall invest from the reclamation account, under such terms and conditions as the United States laws and the regulations of the interior department shall provide for the repayment of reclamation costs by the lands reclaimed.
[ 1972 ex.s. c 51 § 6; 1919 c 158 § 6; RRS § 3009.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.16 - Reclamation by State. › 89.16.070 - Contracts with districts.

RCW 89.16.070
Contracts with districts.
A diking, drainage, diking and drainage, and irrigation district, and improvement districts thereof through the parent district, or such other district as is authorized and organized for the reclamation or development of waste or undeveloped lands, may enter into contracts with the director for the reclamation of the lands of the district in the manner provided herein, or in such manner as such districts may contract with the United States or with individuals or corporations, for making surveys and furnishing engineering plans and supervision for the construction of all works and improvements necessary for the reclamation of its lands, and for the sale or delivery of its bonds, and may issue bonds of the district for such purposes.
[ 1959 c 104 § 5; 1923 c 132 § 2; 1919 c 158 § 7; RRS § 3010.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.16 - Reclamation by State. › 89.16.080 - State lands may be included—Procedure.

RCW 89.16.080
State lands may be included—Procedure.
Whenever in the judgment of the department of natural resources any state, school, granted, or other public lands of the state will be specially benefited by any proposed reclamation project approved by the department of ecology, it may consent that such lands be included in any reclamation district organized for the purpose of carrying out such reclamation project, and in that event the department of natural resources shall be authorized to pay, out of current appropriations, the district assessments levied as provided by law against such lands, and any such assessments paid shall be made a charge against the lands upon which they were levied, and the amount thereof, but without interest, shall be included in the appraised value of such lands when sold or leased.
[ 1972 ex.s. c 51 § 7; 1919 c 158 § 8; RRS § 3011.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.001 - District authorized—Area not less than one million acres—No fees.

RCW 89.30.001
District authorized—Area not less than one million acres—No fees.
Reclamation districts including an area of not less than one million acres of land may be created and maintained in this state, as herein provided, for the reclamation and improvement of arid and semiarid lands situated in such districts, and for the generation and/or sale of hydroelectric energy: PROVIDED, That no appropriation, license, filing, recording, examination or other fee or fees, as provided in RCW 90.16.050 through 90.16.090 or in RCW 90.03.470 shall be applicable to a district or districts created under this chapter.
[ 1933 c 149 § 1; 1927 c 254 § 1; RRS § 7402-1. Formerly RCW 89.20.020 and 89.20.040, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.004 - Lands in one or more counties.

RCW 89.30.004
Lands in one or more counties.
Such reclamation districts may include all or part of the territory of any county and may combine the territory in two or more counties, in which any of the lands to be reclaimed and improved are situated, or in which hydroelectric energy may be generated in connection with project works.
[ 1933 c 149 § 2; 1927 c 254 § 2; RRS § 7402-2. Formerly RCW 89.20.200.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.007 - General purposes of district.

RCW 89.30.007
General purposes of district.
Such reclamation districts may be organized or maintained for any or all the following general purposes:
(1) The construction or purchase and the operation and maintenance of dams, power and pumping works, transmission power lines, reservoirs, pipe lines, and other works or parts of same for the irrigation of lands within the operation of the district or districts and for the transmission and sale of power generated by such works.
(2) The reconstruction, repair or improvement of existing irrigation works.
(3) The operation or maintenance of existing irrigation works.
(4) The construction, reconstruction, repair or maintenance of a system of diverting canals or conduits, from a natural source of water supply to the point of individual distribution for irrigation purposes.
(5) The execution and performance of any contract authorized by law with any department of the United States or any state therein for power, reclamation and irrigation purposes.
(6) The performance of all things necessary to enable the district or districts to exercise the powers granted in this chapter.
(7) That no permits or licenses for the appropriation of water for irrigation and/or power purposes shall be granted by the state of Washington which will interfere with the irrigation and/or power requirements of the district or districts created under this chapter.
[ 1933 c 149 § 3; 1927 c 254 § 3; RRS § 7402-3. Formerly RCW 89.20.030 and 89.20.040, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.010 - Petition—Filing.

RCW 89.30.010
Petition—Filing.
Whenever fifty, or a majority of the holders of title to, or of evidence of title to, lands susceptible of irrigation in each of the several counties in which lands coming within the proposed district are located, desire to organize an irrigation [reclamation] district for any, or all, of the purposes mentioned in RCW 89.30.007, they may propose the organization of an irrigation [reclamation] district by filing a petition signed by the required number of holders of title, or evidence of title, to land within the proposed district with the board of county commissioners of the county in which the greatest portion of the land susceptible of irrigation, to be included in the proposed district, is located.
[ 1933 c 149 § 4; 1927 c 254 § 4; RRS § 7402-4. Formerly RCW 89.20.500.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.013 - Petition—Contents.

RCW 89.30.013
Petition—Contents.
Said petition shall describe the lands proposed to be irrigated in township and ranges and in case of smaller bodies of land, in legal subdivisions or fractions thereof, shall give the name of the county in which said respective irrigable lands are situated, and shall state all the possible sources of water supply from which said lands can be irrigated: PROVIDED, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit the power of any district organized under the provisions of this chapter to utilize any other source of water supply not mentioned in the petition. Said petition shall also define the boundaries of the proposed district, which said boundaries shall include all of the lands, a major portion of which can be irrigated from the proposed sources of water supply, shall give the name by which the petitioners desire the district to be designated and shall state that the petitioners desire to have the territory included within the boundaries defined, organized into a reclamation district under the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1927 c 254 § 5; RRS § 7402-5. Formerly RCW 89.20.510.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.016 - Public lands of state may be included.

RCW 89.30.016
Public lands of state may be included.
State, granted, school or other public lands of the state of Washington may be included in such districts, and may be included in any general improvement district or divisional district authorized herein within the reclamation district and subjected to special assessments for general improvement or divisional district purposes.
[ 1927 c 254 § 6; RRS § 7402-6. Formerly RCW 89.20.210.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.019 - Interest in public lands treated as private property—Public title unaffected, liens barred.

RCW 89.30.019
Interest in public lands treated as private property—Public title unaffected, liens barred.
All leases, contracts, or other form of holding any interest in any state or public land shall be treated as the private property of the lessee or owner of the contractual or possessory interest; PROVIDED, That nothing in this chapter shall be construed to affect the title of the state or other public ownership, nor shall any lien for assessments or taxes attach to the fee simple title of the state or other public ownership.
[ 1927 c 254 § 7; RRS § 7402-7. Formerly RCW 89.20.220.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.022 - Federal lands may be included.

RCW 89.30.022
Federal lands may be included.
Lands of the federal government may be included within such districts; and such lands may be included in any general improvement or divisional district authorized herein, in the manner and subject to the conditions specified in the statutes of the United States.
[ 1927 c 254 § 8; RRS § 7402-8. Formerly RCW 89.20.230.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.025 - Possessory interest in federal lands—Water rent, credit for prior payment.

RCW 89.30.025
Possessory interest in federal lands—Water rent, credit for prior payment.
Lands held by private persons under possessory rights from the federal government may be included within the operation of the district, and as soon as such lands are held under title of private ownership, the owner thereof shall be entitled to receive his or her proportion of water as in case of other landowners upon payment by him or her of such sums as shall be determined by the district board and at the time to be fixed by said district board, which sum shall be such equitable amount as such lands should pay having regard to placing said lands on the basis of equality with other lands in the district as to benefits received, and giving credit if equitable for any sums paid as water rent by the occupant of said lands prior to the vesting of private ownership, and such lands shall also become subject to all taxes and assessments of the district thereafter imposed.
[ 2013 c 23 § 558; 1927 c 254 § 9; RRS § 7402-9. Formerly RCW 89.20.240.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.028 - Petitioners to describe their lands—Petitioners deemed owners thereof.

RCW 89.30.028
Petitioners to describe their lands—Petitioners deemed owners thereof.
Persons signing said petition shall state following their respective names, in a place provided in said petition for that purpose, the legal description of the lands owned by them and the estimated irrigable acreage contained in the same: PROVIDED, That the petitioners shall be prima facie deemed to be the owners of lands susceptible of irrigation for the purposes of the petition in the absence of evidence to the contrary submitted prior to the day of the hearing hereinafter provided for on said petition.
[ 1927 c 254 § 10; RRS § 7402-10. Formerly RCW 89.20.520.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.031 - Proof of ownership by tax roll.

RCW 89.30.031
Proof of ownership by tax roll.
The ownership of land of any of the petitioners may be shown by the county general tax roll of the county in which such land is situated, last equalized prior to the time of the filing of said petition with the county board. Any item on said assessment roll may be proved by a certificate of the county officer having the custody of said tax roll at the time of making said certificate.
[ 1927 c 254 § 11; RRS § 7402-11. Formerly RCW 89.20.530.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.034 - Petition on separate sheets—Withdrawals.

RCW 89.30.034
Petition on separate sheets—Withdrawals.
The petition for organization of such reclamation district shall consist of any number of separate instruments of uniform similarity, numbered consecutively. For convenience, lands represented on said instruments may be grouped separately according to the county in which said lands are situated. No petitioner shall have the right to withdraw his or her name from the petition after the same has been filed with said county board.
[ 2013 c 23 § 559; 1927 c 254 § 12; RRS § 7402-12. Formerly RCW 89.20.540.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.037 - Correction of deficient petition.

RCW 89.30.037
Correction of deficient petition.
If it shall appear that said petition or any part thereof does not contain the matters and things required by the statute, said county board shall make an order specifying the deficiency and shall return said petition or the part thereof found to be deficient to the persons filing the same.
[ 1927 c 254 § 13; RRS § 7402-13. Formerly RCW 89.20.550.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.040 - Conflicting petitions—Largest territory considered first.

RCW 89.30.040
Conflicting petitions—Largest territory considered first.
In the event that more than one petition for the organization of a reclamation district covering any of the same territory, is filed with the same board or with different boards of county commissioners prior to the date of the issuance of the order fixing the time and place for a hearing on one of said petitions as herein provided, the petition covering the largest territory shall first be determined and voted upon by the electors concerned.
[ 1927 c 254 § 14; RRS § 7402-14. Formerly RCW 89.20.560.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.043 - Order for hearing—Notice.

RCW 89.30.043
Order for hearing—Notice.
If and when said county board finds that the petition is sufficient it shall enter an order to that effect and shall fix a time and place for a hearing on said petition which said time shall be not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days from the date of said order and shall direct the clerk of the board to publish notice of said hearing, setting forth the matters and things hereinafter required in a newspaper of general circulation published in each county in which any lands to be included in the district are situated. If there should be no newspaper of general circulation published in any county involved, then the county board shall designate some newspaper of general circulation published outside said county for the publication of said notice as to the lands situated in said county.
[ 1927 c 254 § 15; RRS § 7402-15. Formerly RCW 89.20.570, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.046 - Publication of notice.

RCW 89.30.046
Publication of notice.
Said notice shall be published once a week for at least two weeks (three issues) before the time when the hearing on said petition is to be held.
[ 1927 c 254 § 16; RRS § 7402-16. Formerly RCW 89.20.570, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.049 - Contents of notice.

RCW 89.30.049
Contents of notice.
Said notice shall state that a petition has been filed with said county board for the purpose of creating a reclamation district under the provisions of this chapter and may be inspected during office hours by any interested person, shall specify the boundaries of the district proposed in the petition, shall mention the time and place of hearing on said petition and shall state that all persons having or claiming any interest in said land, or any part thereof, and all persons otherwise interested are required at or before the time of said hearing to file in writing with the clerk of the county board such objections as they may have, if any, to the creation of said district. Said notice shall be signed by the clerk of the board.
[ 1927 c 254 § 17; RRS § 7402-17. Formerly RCW 89.20.590.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.052 - Copy of notice to each member of commission.

RCW 89.30.052
Copy of notice to each member of commission.
Said clerk shall also mail a copy of said notice to each member of the commission hereinafter provided for, at least two weeks before the day of said hearing.
[ 1927 c 254 § 18; RRS § 7402-18. Formerly RCW 89.20.580.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.055 - Commission—Creation—Composition.

RCW 89.30.055
Commission—Creation—Composition.
Upon the giving of notice of hearing on the petition by the clerk of the county board aforesaid, there is hereby authorized and created a commission composed of the chair of the board of county commissioners of each of the counties in which any of the lands to be included in the proposed reclamation district are situated, and of the state director of ecology, which commission shall consider and determine said petition.
[ 2013 c 23 § 560; 1988 c 127 § 70; 1933 c 149 § 5; 1927 c 254 § 19; RRS § 7402-19. Formerly RCW 89.20.700.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.058 - Commission—Chair—Clerk—Quorum.

RCW 89.30.058
Commission—Chair—Clerk—Quorum.
The state director of ecology shall be ex officio chair of said commission, and the clerk of the county board of the county in which the petition is filed, shall be ex officio clerk of said commission. A majority of the members of said commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction or exercise of any of its powers, functions, duties and business.
[ 2013 c 23 § 561; 1988 c 127 § 71; 1933 c 149 § 6; 1927 c 254 § 20; RRS § 7402-20. Formerly RCW 89.20.710, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.061 - Commission—Clerk not to vote unless tie.

RCW 89.30.061
Commission—Clerk not to vote unless tie.
The clerk of the commission shall not be entitled to vote on matters coming before it, except in case of a tie vote of the members thereof, in which event said clerk shall cast the deciding vote.
[ 1927 c 254 § 21; RRS § 7402-21. Formerly RCW 89.20.710, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.064 - Commission—General powers.

RCW 89.30.064
Commission—General powers.
Said commission is hereby given full authority to receive evidence, to make independent investigation, to determine and establish the boundaries of the district, to adjourn its meeting from time to time and place to place, and to do any and all things necessary or incidental to the determination of the petition and the establishment of the boundaries of the reclamation district.
[ 1927 c 254 § 22; RRS § 7402-22. Formerly RCW 89.20.770.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.067 - Commission—Adjournments.

RCW 89.30.067
Commission—Adjournments.
The period of such adjournments, however, shall not exceed ninety days in all and in case of lack of a quorum, one or more members of the commission may adjourn to a day certain and notify the absent members of the day to which said hearing was adjourned.
[ 1927 c 254 § 23; RRS § 7402-23. Formerly RCW 89.20.740.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.070 - Commission—Expenses.

RCW 89.30.070
Commission—Expenses.
Except as otherwise herein provided the necessary expenses of the commission and of the members thereof in performing the duties and functions of said commission shall be borne by the respective counties concerned in proportion to the taxable value of the acreage of each included in the proposed reclamation district and said respective counties are hereby made liable for such expenses. The individual expenses of the state director of ecology shall be borne by the state.
[ 1988 c 127 § 72; 1933 c 149 § 7; 1927 c 254 § 24; RRS § 7402-24. Formerly RCW 89.20.720.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.073 - Hearing on petition—Place.

RCW 89.30.073
Hearing on petition—Place.
The hearing on said petition shall be held at the office of the county board of the county where the petition is filed or at such other convenient place as said county board shall designate.
[ 1927 c 254 § 25; RRS § 7402-25. Formerly RCW 89.20.730.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.076 - Hearing on petition—Proof of notice.

RCW 89.30.076
Hearing on petition—Proof of notice.
At the time and place designated in said notice the commission shall meet to consider said petition. Said commission shall first determine whether notice of the hearing on said petition has been published in the manner and for the time required by this chapter and shall file the affidavits of the publishers as to the time of publication in their respective newspapers among the records of the hearing.
[ 1927 c 254 § 26; RRS § 7402-26. Formerly RCW 89.20.750.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.079 - Hearing on petition—Consideration of petition—Evidence.

RCW 89.30.079
Hearing on petition—Consideration of petition—Evidence.
If it is determined that the notice of the hearing has been properly published, the commission shall proceed to consider the petition, and to receive any pertinent evidence that may be offered.
[ 1927 c 254 § 27; RRS § 7402-27. Formerly RCW 89.20.760.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.082 - Hearing on petition—Boundaries to be fixed.

RCW 89.30.082
Hearing on petition—Boundaries to be fixed.
Said commission shall have full authority to increase or diminish and change the boundaries of the proposed district and to fix the same so as to subserve the best interests of the district and to enable it to carry out the objects of its creation, and shall establish and define said boundaries.
[ 1927 c 254 § 28; RRS § 7402-28. Formerly RCW 89.20.780.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.085 - Hearing on petition—Name—Election to be ordered.

RCW 89.30.085
Hearing on petition—Name—Election to be ordered.
At said hearing the commission shall give the district a name, shall fix a day for and order an election to be held therein for the purpose of determining whether or not the district shall be created under the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1927 c 254 § 29; RRS § 7402-29. Formerly RCW 89.20.790.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.088 - Order for election to county auditors.

RCW 89.30.088
Order for election to county auditors.
The clerk of the commission shall forthwith mail by registered mail a copy of said order for an election to the county auditors of each of the counties in which any lands within the boundaries of the proposed reclamation district are located.
[ 1927 c 254 § 30; RRS § 7402-30. Formerly RCW 89.20.870.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.091 - Records of commission to be preserved.

RCW 89.30.091
Records of commission to be preserved.
Upon full determination of the petition and the ordering of said election, the commission shall turn all papers and records involved in its deliberations over to the board of the county where the petition to organize the reclamation district was filed, and said papers and records shall be preserved among the records of said county board.
[ 1927 c 254 § 31; RRS § 7402-31. Formerly RCW 89.20.800.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.094 - Election—How conducted—Qualifications of electors.

RCW 89.30.094
Election—How conducted—Qualifications of electors.
Notice of said election shall be given by the same officer in the same manner and for the same length of time, electors shall have the same qualifications, and said election shall be provided for, held and conducted by the same officers and the results thereof determined by the same officers in the same manner, and with the same force and effect as nearly as may be as that provided in this chapter for general reclamation district elections.
[ 1927 c 254 § 32; RRS § 7402-32. Formerly RCW 89.20.890.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.097 - Election—Notice, contents—Ballots.

RCW 89.30.097
Election—Notice, contents—Ballots.
The notice of said election shall specify the boundaries of the proposed district as established by the commission and shall state that the object of said election is to determine whether or not said district shall be created under the provisions of this chapter, shall state that votes will be received at the regular polling places of the county precincts, except in the following new precincts for such election, (new precincts and voting places for the same shall be specified) and shall state that the polls will be open from eight o'clock a.m. to eight o'clock p.m. on said election day. The ballot for said election shall contain the words: Reclamation district—"Yes", and Reclamation district—"No".
[ 1927 c 254 § 33; RRS § 7402-33. Formerly RCW 89.20.880.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.100 - Election—Canvass of returns.

RCW 89.30.100
Election—Canvass of returns.
The board of county commissioners of the county in which the petition to organize the district is filed shall receive from the several county auditors concerned their abstracts of election returns, herein provided for, shall tabulate the same and declare the result of the election.
[ 1927 c 254 § 34; RRS § 7402-34. Formerly RCW 89.20.900.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.103 - Order organizing district.

RCW 89.30.103
Order organizing district.
If upon the tabulation of said abstracts of the returns of said election as herein provided, it appears that a majority of the votes cast at said election were in favor of the creation of the district, the said county board shall by order entered in the minutes of its proceedings declare the territory included within the boundaries defined in the notice of election duly organized into a reclamation district within the provisions of this chapter, under the name and style theretofore designated and thereafter no other reclamation district including any of the same territory shall be organized under the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1927 c 254 § 35; RRS § 7402-35. Formerly RCW 89.20.910.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.106 - Order organizing district—Copy to be filed with county commissioners of other counties.

RCW 89.30.106
Order organizing district—Copy to be filed with county commissioners of other counties.
Said county board shall then cause a copy of such order, duly certified by the clerk of the board to be immediately filed for record in the office of the county commissioners of any other county in which any portion of the territory embraced in such district is situated.
[ 1927 c 254 § 36; RRS § 7402-36. Formerly RCW 89.20.920.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.109 - Certified statement to be filed for record.

RCW 89.30.109
Certified statement to be filed for record.
It shall be the duty of the clerk of the board of county commissioners of every county in which any lands included in the district are situated forthwith to certify and file for record in the county auditor's office of his or her county, a statement to the effect that, under the provisions of this chapter, certain lands (describing them in township and range and in case of smaller bodies of land in legal subdivisions or fractions thereof) were, by order of the board of county commissioners of . . . . . . county (naming the county) entered on the . . . . day of . . . . . . (naming the day, month and year) included in the . . . . reclamation district (using the name designated in the order of the county board establishing the district). Said statement certified by the clerk of the county board shall be entitled to record in the office of the county auditor without payment of filing or recording fee.
[ 2013 c 23 § 562; 1927 c 254 § 37; RRS § 7402-37. Formerly RCW 89.20.930.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.112 - When creation complete—Proceedings conclusive, exception.

RCW 89.30.112
When creation complete—Proceedings conclusive, exception.
From and after such filing the creation of the district shall be complete and its existence cannot thereafter be legally questioned by any person except the state of Washington in an appropriate court action brought within six months from the date of the order of the county board tabulating the abstracts of the returns of the organization election and creating said district. If the existence of said district is not challenged within the period above specified, the state of Washington shall thereafter be forever barred from questioning the legal existence of said district by reason of any defect in the organization thereof.
[ 1927 c 254 § 38; RRS § 7402-38. Formerly RCW 89.20.940.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.115 - District liable for formation costs.

RCW 89.30.115
District liable for formation costs.
Any reclamation district created under the provisions of this chapter shall be liable for the necessary costs preliminary to and involved in preparing the petition for the organization of the district, in publishing any notice required and in conducting the election approving the creation of the district.
[ 1927 c 254 § 39; RRS § 7402-39. Formerly RCW 89.20.080.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.118 - Change of name procedure—Effect.

RCW 89.30.118
Change of name procedure—Effect.
Any reclamation district created under the provisions of this chapter may change its corporate name by filing with the board of county commissioners of each of the counties in which any of the lands included within the operation of the district are situated a certified copy of a resolution of its board of directors adopted by a unanimous vote of all the members of said board at a regular meeting thereof providing for such change of name; and thereafter all proceedings of such district shall be had under such changed name, but all existing obligations and contracts of the district entered into under its former name shall remain outstanding without change and with the validity thereof unimpaired and unaffected by such change of name.
[ 1927 c 254 § 40; RRS § 7402-40. Formerly RCW 89.20.050.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.121 - District is political subdivision.

RCW 89.30.121
District is political subdivision.
Reclamation districts created under this chapter shall be political subdivisions of the state and shall be held and construed to be municipal corporations within the provisions of the state Constitution relating to exemptions from taxation and within the provisions relating to the debt limits of municipal corporations: PROVIDED, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as a limitation on general improvement and divisional districts, authorized herein, to contract obligations.
[ 1967 c 164 § 10; 1927 c 254 § 41; RRS § 7402-41. Formerly RCW 89.20.070.]
NOTES:
Purpose—Severability—1967 c 164: See notes following RCW 4.96.010.
Tortious conduct of political subdivisions, municipal corporations and quasi municipal corporations, liability for damages: Chapter 4.96 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.124 - Judgments against district—When chargeable against improvement and divisional districts.

RCW 89.30.124
Judgments against district—When chargeable against improvement and divisional districts.
Any judgment obtained against the reclamation district on account of any contract or transaction, made for or on behalf of any general improvement district or divisional district herein authorized, or on account of the construction or maintenance of any improvement for such improvement district or divisional district, shall be chargeable exclusively against the improvement district or divisional district concerned and assessments may be levied against the lands therein to satisfy said judgment.
[ 1927 c 254 § 42; RRS § 7402-42. Formerly RCW 89.24.250.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.127 - District a corporate body—Powers.

RCW 89.30.127
District a corporate body—Powers.
A reclamation district created under this chapter shall constitute a body corporate and shall possess all the usual powers of a corporation for public purposes as well as all powers that may now or hereafter be specifically conferred by law.
[ 1927 c 254 § 43; RRS § 7402-43. Formerly RCW 89.20.300.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.130 - Powers—In general.

RCW 89.30.130
Powers—In general.
Said reclamation districts shall have full authority to carry out the objects of their creation and to that end are authorized to acquire, purchase, hold, lease, manage, occupy, and sell real and personal property or any interest therein, to enter into and perform any and all necessary contracts, to appoint and employ the necessary officers, agents and employees, to sue and be sued, to exercise the right of eminent domain, to levy and enforce the collection of taxes and special assessments in the manner herein provided against the lands within the district, for district revenues, and to do any and all lawful acts required and expedient to carry out the purpose of this chapter.
[ 1927 c 254 § 44; RRS § 7402-44. Formerly RCW 89.20.310.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.133 - Powers—Improvement and divisional districts, purposes.

RCW 89.30.133
Powers—Improvement and divisional districts, purposes.
Said reclamation districts shall have authority to create general improvement districts and divisional districts to include any or all the lands within the reclamation district, to provide for the levy and collection of special assessments against the respective lands benefited, and to issue bonds, and other evidences of indebtedness, as in this chapter provided.
[ 1927 c 254 § 45; RRS § 7402-45. Formerly RCW 89.24.010.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.136 - Powers—Development, sale, use, etc., of water or electric energy.

RCW 89.30.136
Powers—Development, sale, use, etc., of water or electric energy.
Said reclamation districts shall have authority to develop and sell, lease or rent the use of water or electric energy for use or distribution within or without the district on such terms and under such regulations as may be determined by the district board or as shall be set out and prescribed in the contract between the district and the United States or the state of Washington for the construction of the district irrigation works, and to use the income derived therefrom for district purposes.
[ 1933 c 149 § 8; 1927 c 254 § 46; RRS § 7402-46. Formerly RCW 89.20.330.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.139 - Powers—Bonds payable from income.

RCW 89.30.139
Powers—Bonds payable from income.
Said reclamation districts shall also have authority to issue and sell bonds of the district payable from the income derived from the sale or rental of water or electric power as in this chapter provided.
[ 1927 c 254 § 47; RRS § 7402-47. Formerly RCW 89.26.240.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.142 - Powers—Sale or lease of water—Drains—Land settlement.

RCW 89.30.142
Powers—Sale or lease of water—Drains—Land settlement.
Said reclamation districts shall also have authority:
(1) To construct, repair, purchase, maintain, or lease a system or systems for the sale or lease of water to the owners of irrigated lands within the district for domestic purposes.
(2) To construct, repair, operate and maintain a system of drains as in this chapter provided.
(3) To regulate the settlement of lands within the district under the provisions of any contract with the state of Washington or the United States.
This section shall not be construed as in any manner affecting or abridging any other powers of said reclamation district conferred by law.
[ 1927 c 254 § 48; RRS § 7402-48. Formerly RCW 89.20.320.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.145 - Powers—Fiscal agent for United States.

RCW 89.30.145
Powers—Fiscal agent for United States.
Reclamation districts created under this chapter may accept appointment as fiscal agent or other authority of the United States to make collections of money for or on behalf of the United States in connection with any federal or other reclamation project whereupon the reclamation district and the county treasurer for said district shall be authorized to act and to assume the duties and liabilities incident to such action and the district board shall have full power to do any and all things required by the said statute now or hereafter enacted in connection therewith and to do all things required by the rules and regulations now or that may hereafter be established by any department of the federal government in regard thereto.
[ 1927 c 254 § 49; RRS § 7402-49. Formerly RCW 89.20.340.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.148 - Surety bond from contractor.

RCW 89.30.148
Surety bond from contractor.
Any person, firm or corporation except the state of Washington or the United States, to whom or to which a contract may have been awarded by the district for construction purposes, or for labor or material entered into when the total amount to be paid therefor exceeds one thousand dollars, shall enter into a surety bond to be approved by the district board, payable to the district for at least seventy-five percent of the contract price conditioned for the faithful performance of said contract and with such further conditions as may be required by law.
[ 1927 c 254 § 50; RRS § 7402-50. Formerly RCW 89.24.510.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.151 - Payments under contracts—Retained percentage.

RCW 89.30.151
Payments under contracts—Retained percentage.
Contracts entered into by reclamation districts authorized under this chapter for construction or for services or materials, may provide that payments shall be made in such monthly amounts or in such monthly proportion of the contract price as the board shall determine as the work progresses or as the services or materials are furnished on monthly estimates of the value thereof approved by the board; PROVIDED, That at least ten percent of each of the monthly estimates shall be retained until the contract is completed and its completion approved by the district board.
[ 1927 c 254 § 51; RRS § 7402-51. Formerly RCW 89.24.520.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.30 - Reclamation Districts of One Million Acres. › 89.30.154 - Contracts—Public bidding—Notice.

RCW 89.30.154
Contracts—Public bidding—Notice.
Contracts for labor or materials entering into the construction of any improvement authorized by the district shall be awarded at public bidding except as herein otherwise provided. A notice calling for sealed proposals shall be published in such newspaper or newspapers of such general circulation as the board shall designate for a period of not less than two weeks (three issues) prior to the date of the opening of the bids. Such proposals shall be accompanied by a certified check for such amount as the board shall decide upon to guarantee compliance with the bid, and shall be opened in public at the time and place designated in the notice. The contract shall be awarded to the lowest and best responsible bidder; PROVIDED, That the board shall have authority to reject any and all bids.
[ 1927 c 254 § 52; RRS § 7402-52. Formerly RCW 89.24.500.]