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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.200 - Improvement bonds—Form, contents, execution.

RCW 36.88.200
Improvement bonds—Form, contents, execution.
(1) Such bonds shall be numbered from one upwards consecutively, shall be in such denominations as may be provided by the county legislative authority in the resolution authorizing their issuance, shall mature on or before a date not to exceed twenty-two years from and after their date, shall bear interest at such rate or rates as authorized by the legislative authority payable annually or semiannually as may be provided by the legislative authority, shall be signed by the chair of the legislative authority and attested by the county auditor, shall have the seal of the county affixed thereto, and shall be payable at the office of the county treasurer or elsewhere as may be designated by the legislative authority. Such bonds may be in any form, including bearer bonds or registered bonds as provided in RCW 39.46.030. In lieu of any signatures required in this section, the bonds and any coupons may bear the printed or engraved facsimile signatures of said officials.
Such bonds shall refer to the improvement for which they are issued and to the resolution creating the road improvement district therefor.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, such bonds may be issued and sold in accordance with chapter 39.46 RCW.
[ 2009 c 549 § 4143; 1983 c 167 § 94; 1980 c 100 § 5; 1970 ex.s. c 56 § 55; 1969 ex.s. c 232 § 73; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.200. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 20.]
NOTES:
Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.
Purpose—1970 ex.s. c 56: See note following RCW 39.52.020.
Validation—Saving—Severability—1969 ex.s. c 232: See notes following RCW 39.52.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.210 - Improvement bonds—Issuance—Sale—Deposit of proceeds.

RCW 36.88.210
Improvement bonds—Issuance—Sale—Deposit of proceeds.
(1) The bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter may be issued to the contractor or sold by the county legislative authority as authorized by the resolution directing their issuance at not less than their par value and accrued interest to the date of delivery. No bonds shall be sold except at public sale upon competitive bids and a notice calling for bids shall be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in the official newspaper of the county. Such notice shall specify a place and designate a day and hour subsequent to the date of last publication thereof when sealed bids will be received and publicly opened for the purchase of said bonds. The proceeds of all sales of bonds shall be deposited in the county road improvement district fund and applied to the cost and expense of the district.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, such bonds may be sold in accordance with chapter 39.46 RCW.
[ 1983 c 167 § 95; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.210. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 21.]
NOTES:
Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.220 - Improvement bonds—Guaranty fund.

RCW 36.88.220
Improvement bonds—Guaranty fund.
All counties may establish a fund for the purpose of guaranteeing to the extent of such fund and in the manner hereinafter provided, the payment of its road improvement district bonds and warrants issued to pay for any road improvement ordered under this chapter. If the county legislative authority shall determine to establish such fund it shall be designated ". . . . . . county road improvement guaranty fund" and from moneys available for road purposes such county shall deposit annually in said guaranty fund such sums as may be necessary to establish and maintain a balance therein equal to at least five percent of the outstanding obligations guaranteed thereby and to make necessary provision in its annual budget therefor. The moneys held in the guaranty fund may be invested in accordance with the laws relating to county investments.
[ 1997 c 393 § 7; 1967 ex.s. c 145 § 63; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.220. Prior: 1959 c 134 § 2; 1951 c 192 § 22.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.235 - Improvement bonds—Guaranty fund assets may be transferred to county general fund—When.

RCW 36.88.235
Improvement bonds—Guaranty fund assets may be transferred to county general fund—When.
(1) Any county maintaining a local improvement guaranty fund under this chapter, upon certification by the county treasurer that the local improvement guaranty fund has sufficient funds currently on hand to meet all valid outstanding obligations of the fund and all other obligations of the fund reasonably expected to be incurred in the near future, may by ordinance transfer assets from such fund to its general fund. The net cash of the local improvement guaranty fund may be reduced by such transfer to an amount not less than five percent of the net outstanding obligations guaranteed by such fund.
(2) If, at any time within five years of any transfer of assets from the local improvement guaranty fund to the general fund of the county, the net cash of the local improvement guaranty fund is reduced below the minimum amount specified in subsection (1) of this section, the county shall, to the extent of the amount transferred, pay valid claims against the local improvement guaranty fund as a general obligation of the county. In addition, such county shall pay all reasonable costs of collection necessarily incurred by the holders of valid claims against the local improvement guaranty fund.
[ 1991 c 245 § 12.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.240 - Improvement bonds—Repayment restricted to special funds—Remedies of bond owner—Notice of restrictions.

RCW 36.88.240
Improvement bonds—Repayment restricted to special funds—Remedies of bond owner—Notice of restrictions.
The owner of any bond or warrant issued under the provisions of this chapter shall not have any claim therefor against the county by which the same is issued, except for payment from the special assessments made for the improvement for which said bond or warrant was issued and except as against the improvement guaranty fund of such county, and the county shall not be liable to any owner of such bond or warrant for any loss to the guaranty fund occurring in the lawful operation thereof by the county. The remedy of the owner of a bond, or warrant in case of nonpayment, shall be confined to the enforcement of any assessments made in such road improvement district and to the guaranty fund. In case the bonds are guaranteed in accordance herewith a copy of the foregoing part of this section shall be plainly written, printed or engraved on each bond issued and guaranteed hereunder.
[ 1983 c 167 § 97; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.240. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 24.]
NOTES:
Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.250 - Improvement bonds—Remedies of bond owners—Enforcement.

RCW 36.88.250
Improvement bonds—Remedies of bond owners—Enforcement.
If the board fails to cause any bonds to be paid when due or to promptly collect any assessments when due, the owner of any of the bonds may proceed in his or her own name to collect the assessments and foreclose the lien thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction and shall recover in addition to the amount of the bonds outstanding in his or her name, interest thereon at five percent per annum, together with the costs of suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the court. Any number of owners of bonds for any single project may join as plaintiffs and any number of the owners of property upon which the assessments are liens may be joined as defendants in the same suit.
[ 2009 c 549 § 4144; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.250. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 25.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.260 - Assessment where bonds issued—Payment in installments.

RCW 36.88.260
Assessment where bonds issued—Payment in installments.
In all cases where the board shall issue bonds to pay the cost and expense of any county road improvement district and shall provide that the whole or any part of the cost and expense shall be assessed against the lots, tracts, parcels of land, and other property therein, the resolution levying such assessment shall provide that the sum charged thereby against each lot, tract, or parcel of land or any portion of said sum may be paid during the thirty day period provided for in RCW 36.88.270 and that thereafter the sum remaining unpaid may be paid in equal annual installments, the number of which installments shall be less by two than the number of years which the bonds issued to pay for the improvement may run. Interest upon all unpaid installments shall be charged at a rate fixed by said resolution. Each year such installments together with interest due thereon shall be collected in the manner provided in the resolution for the collection of the assessments.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.260. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 26.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.270 - Assessment where bonds issued—Payment in cash—Notice of assessment.

RCW 36.88.270
Assessment where bonds issued—Payment in cash—Notice of assessment.
The owner of any lot, tract, or parcel of land, or other property charged with any such assessments may redeem the same from all or any portion of the liability for the cost and expense of such improvement by paying the entire assessment or any portion thereof charged against such lot, tract, or parcel of land without interest within thirty days after notice to him or her of such assessment, which notice shall be given as follows: The county treasurer shall, as soon as the assessment roll has been placed in his or her hands for collection, publish a notice for two consecutive daily or weekly issues in the official newspaper of the county in which the district is located, which notice shall state that the assessment roll is in his or her hands for collection and that any assessment thereon or any portion of such assessment may be paid at any time within thirty days from the date of the first publication of said notice without penalty interest or costs.
[ 2009 c 549 § 4145; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.270. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 27.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.280 - Assessment where bonds issued—Payment in cash during installment period—Duties of county treasurer—Use of funds.

RCW 36.88.280
Assessment where bonds issued—Payment in cash during installment period—Duties of county treasurer—Use of funds.
The owners of any lot, tract, or parcel of land may save the same from all liability for the unpaid amount of the assessment, at any time after the thirty-day period herein provided for their payment without interest, by paying the entire amount or all installments on said assessment together with all interest due to the date of maturity of any installment next falling due. All such payments shall be made to the county treasurer whose duty it shall be to collect all assessments under this chapter and all sums so paid or collected shall be applied solely to the payment of the cost and expense of the district and payment of principal and/or interest of any bonds issued.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.280. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 28.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.290 - Limitation of actions.

RCW 36.88.290
Limitation of actions.
An action to collect any special assessment or installment thereof for road improvements, or to enforce the lien of any such assessment or installment, whether such action be brought by the county or by the holder of any certificate of delinquency, or by any other person having the right to bring such action, shall be commenced within ten years after such assessment shall have become delinquent or within ten years after the last installment of any such assessment shall have become delinquent, when said special assessment is payable in installments.
Actions to set aside or cancel any deed issued after midnight, June 6, 1951, upon the sale of property for road improvement assessments, or for the recovery of property sold for delinquent road improvement assessments must be brought within three years from and after date of the issuance of such deed.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.290. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 29.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.295 - Refunding bonds—Limitations.

RCW 36.88.295
Refunding bonds—Limitations.
The legislative authority of any county may issue and sell bonds to refund outstanding road improvement district or consolidated road improvement district bonds issued after June 7, 1984, on the earliest date such outstanding bonds may be redeemed following the date of issuance of such refunding bonds. Such refunding shall be subject to the following:
(1) The refunding shall result in a net interest cost savings after paying the costs and expenses of the refunding, and the principal amount of the refunding bonds may not exceed the principal balance of the assessment roll or rolls pledged to pay the bonds being refunded at the time of the refunding.
(2) The refunding bonds shall be paid from the same local improvement fund or bond redemption fund as the bonds being refunded.
(3) The costs and expenses of the refunding shall be paid from the proceeds of the refunding bonds, or the same road improvement district fund or bond redemption fund for the bonds being refunded, except the county may advance such costs and expenses to such fund pending the receipt of assessment payments available to reimburse such advances.
(4) The last maturity of refunding bonds shall be no later than one year after the last maturity of bonds being refunded.
(5) The refunding bonds may be exchanged for the bonds being refunded or may be sold in the same manner permitted at the time of sale for road improvement district bonds.
(6) All other provisions of law applicable to the refunded bonds shall apply to the refunding bonds.
[ 1984 c 186 § 67.]
NOTES:
Purpose—1984 c 186: See note following RCW 39.46.110.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.300 - District costs and expenses—What to include.

RCW 36.88.300
District costs and expenses—What to include.
Whenever any district is organized hereunder, there shall be included in the cost and expense thereof: (1) The cost of all of the construction or improvement authorized in the district, including that portion of the construction or improvement within the limits of any street or road intersection, space or spaces; (2) the estimated costs and expenses of all engineering and surveying necessary to be done by the county engineer or under his or her direction or by such other engineer as may be employed by the county commissioners; (3) the cost of all advertising, mailing, and publishing of all notices; (4) the cost of legal services and any other expenses incurred by the county for the district or in the formation thereof, or by the district in connection with such construction or improvement and in the financing thereof, including the issuance of any bonds.
[ 2009 c 549 § 4146; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.300. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 30.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.305 - District costs and expenses—Credit or reduction of assessments.

RCW 36.88.305
District costs and expenses—Credit or reduction of assessments.
At its option, a county may include the value of right-of-way or property that is donated or given to the county for purposes of an improvement to be financed by a road improvement district, together with the costs of acquiring other rights-of-way or property for the improvement that was not donated or given to the county, in the costs of the improvement and credit or reduce the assessments imposed on benefited property for the value of the right-of-way or property that the owner of the benefited property donated or gave to the county for the improvement.
[ 1991 c 363 § 90.]
NOTES:
Purpose—Captions not law—1991 c 363: See notes following RCW 2.32.180.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.310 - Acquisition of property—Eminent domain.

RCW 36.88.310
Acquisition of property—Eminent domain.
All land, premises or property necessary for right-of-way or other purposes in the construction or improvement of any county road, including bridges, sidewalks, curbs and gutters and the drainage facilities therefor, under this chapter may be acquired by the county acting through its board of county commissioners, either by gift, purchase or by condemnation. In the event of any exercise of the power of eminent domain, the procedure shall be the same as is provided by law for the securing of right-of-way for county roads. The title to all property acquired for any construction or improvement under this chapter shall be taken in the name of the county. The county commissioners in any eminent domain action brought to secure any property for construction or improvement under this chapter may pay any final judgment entered in such action with county road funds and take possession of the particular property condemned. In the event of any such payment the county commissioners may require that the county road fund be reimbursed out of the particular county road improvement fund of the district for which the property was acquired.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.310. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 31.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.320 - Construction or improvement—Supervision—Contracts—Standards.

RCW 36.88.320
Construction or improvement—Supervision—Contracts—Standards.
All construction or improvement performed under this chapter shall be under the direction of the board of county commissioners, acting by and through the county road engineer, or such other engineer as the board of county commissioners shall designate. Contracts let and/or work performed upon all construction or improvement hereunder shall be in accordance with the laws pertaining to work upon county roads. The construction and improvement standards of the respective counties for engineering and performance of work, shall apply to all construction or improvement under this chapter.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.320. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 32.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.330 - Warrants—Issuance—Priority—Acceptance.

RCW 36.88.330
Warrants—Issuance—Priority—Acceptance.
The board may provide by resolution for the issuance of warrants in payment of the costs and expenses of any project, payable out of the county road improvement fund. The warrants shall be redeemed either in cash or by bonds for the same project authorized by the resolution.
All warrants issued against any such improvement fund shall be claims and liens against said fund prior and superior to any right, lien or claim of any surety upon the bond given to the county by or for the contract to secure the performance of his or her contract or to secure the payment of persons who have performed work thereon, furnished materials therefor, or furnished provisions and supplies for the carrying on of the work.
The county treasurer may accept warrants against any county road improvement fund upon such conditions as the board may prescribe in payment of: (1) Assessments levied to supply that fund in due order of priority; (2) judgments rendered against property owners who have become delinquent in the payment of assessments to that fund; and (3) certificates of purchase in cases where property of delinquents has been sold under execution or at tax sale for failure to pay assessments levied to supply that fund.
[ 2009 c 549 § 4147; 1980 c 100 § 6; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.330. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 33.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.340 - Participation of county road fund—Arrangements with other public agencies, private utilities.

RCW 36.88.340
Participation of county road fund—Arrangements with other public agencies, private utilities.
Except as they may establish continuing guaranty fund requirements, the board of county commissioners shall be the sole judges as to the extent of county road fund participation in any project under this chapter and the decisions of the board shall be final; the said board may receive grants from or contract with any other county, municipal corporation, public agency or the state or federal government in order to effect any construction or improvement hereunder, including the construction, installation, improvement, operation, maintenance of and furnishing electric energy for any street and road lighting system, and to effect the construction, installation, improvement, operation and maintenance of and furnishing electric energy for any such street and road lighting system, may contract with any private utility corporation.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.340. Prior: 1953 c 152 § 2; 1951 c 192 § 34.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.350 - Maintenance—Expense.

RCW 36.88.350
Maintenance—Expense.
After the completion of any construction or improvement under this chapter, all maintenance thereof shall be performed by the county at the expense of the county road fund, excepting furnishing electric energy for and operating and maintaining street and road lighting systems: PROVIDED, That maintenance of canal protection improvements may, at the option of the board of commissioners of the county, be required of the irrigation, drainage, flood control, or other district, agency, person, corporation, or association maintaining the canal or ditch. If such option is exercised reimbursement must be made by the county for all actual costs of such maintenance.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.350. Prior: 1959 c 75 § 8; 1953 c 152 § 3; 1951 c 192 § 35.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.360 - State, county, school, municipal corporation lands—Assessment—Recipients of notices, ballots.

RCW 36.88.360
State, county, school, municipal corporation lands—Assessment—Recipients of notices, ballots.
Lands owned by the state, county, school district or any municipal corporation may be assessed and charged for road improvements authorized under this chapter in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as provided by law for assessments against such property for local improvements in cities and towns.
All notices and ballots provided for herein affecting state lands shall be sent to the department of natural resources whose designated agent is hereby authorized to sign petitions or ballots on behalf of the state. In the case of counties or municipal or quasi municipal bodies notices and ballots shall be sent to the legislative authority of said counties or municipality and petitions or ballots shall be signed by the officer duly empowered to act by said legislative authority.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.360. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 36.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.370 - Signatures on petitions, ballots, objections—Determining sufficiency.

RCW 36.88.370
Signatures on petitions, ballots, objections—Determining sufficiency.
Wherever herein petitions, ballots or objections are required to be signed by the owners of property, the following rules shall govern the sufficiency thereof: (1) The signature of the record owner as determined by the records of the county auditor shall be sufficient without the signature of his or her spouse; (2) in the case of mortgaged property, the signature of the mortgagor shall be sufficient; (3) in the case of property purchased on contract the signature of the contract purchaser shall be deemed sufficient; (4) any officer of a corporation owning land in the district duly authorized to execute deeds or encumbrances on behalf of the corporation may sign on behalf of such corporation: PROVIDED, That there shall be attached to the ballot or petition a certified excerpt from the bylaws showing such authority; (5) if any property in the district stands in the name of a deceased person or any person for whom a guardian has been appointed, the signature of the executor, administrator or guardian as the case may be shall be equivalent to the signature of the owner of the property.
[ 1963 c 84 § 6; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.370. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 37.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.375 - Consolidated road improvement districts—Establishment—Bonds.

RCW 36.88.375
Consolidated road improvement districts—Establishment—Bonds.
For the purpose of issuing bonds only, the governing body of any county may authorize the establishment of consolidated road improvement districts. The road improvements within such consolidated districts need not be adjoining, vicinal, or neighboring. If the governing body orders the creation of such consolidated road improvement districts, the money received from the installment payments of the principal of and interest on assessments levied within original road improvement districts shall be deposited in a consolidated road improvement district bond redemption fund to be used to redeem outstanding consolidated road improvement district bonds. The issuance of bonds of a consolidated road improvement district shall not change the number of assessment installments in the original road improvement districts, but such bonds shall run two years longer than the longest assessment installment of such original districts.
[ 1981 c 313 § 19.]
NOTES:
Severability—1981 c 313: See note following RCW 36.94.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.380 - Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Assessments and benefits.

RCW 36.88.380
Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Assessments and benefits.
Whenever a county road improvement district is established for the safeguarding of open canals or ditches as authorized by RCW 36.88.015 the rate of assessment per square foot in the district may be determined by any one of the methods provided in chapter 35.44 RCW for similar improvements in cities or towns, and the land specially benefited by such improvements shall be the same as provided in chapter 35.43 RCW for similar improvements in cities or towns.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.380. Prior: 1959 c 75 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.390 - Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Authority.

RCW 36.88.390
Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Authority.
Every county shall have the right of entry upon every irrigation, drainage, or flood control canal or ditch right-of-way within its boundaries for all purposes necessary to safeguard the public from the hazards of open canals or ditches, including the right to clean such canals or ditches to prevent their flooding adjacent lands, and the right to cause to be constructed and maintained on such rights-of-way or adjacent thereto safeguards as authorized by RCW 36.88.015: PROVIDED, That such safeguards must not unreasonably interfere with maintenance of the canal or ditch or with the operation thereof.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.390. Prior: 1959 c 75 § 6.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.400 - Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Installation and construction—Costs.

RCW 36.88.400
Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Installation and construction—Costs.
Any county, establishing a road improvement district for canal protection, notwithstanding any laws to the contrary, may require the district, agency, person, corporation, or association, public or private, which operates and maintains the canal or ditch to supervise the installation and construction of safeguards, and must make reimbursement to said operator for all actual costs incurred and expended.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.400. Prior: 1959 c 75 § 7.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.410 - Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Declaration of public interest and purpose.

RCW 36.88.410
Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Declaration of public interest and purpose.
It is hereby found and declared that the conversion of overhead electric and communication facilities to underground facilities and the initial underground installation of such facilities is substantially beneficial to the public safety and welfare, is in the public interest and is a public purpose, notwithstanding any resulting incidental private benefit to any electric or communication utility affected by such conversion or installation.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 103 § 1; 1967 c 194 § 1.]
NOTES:
Severability—1967 c 194: "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." [ 1967 c 194 § 9.]
Cities and towns, conversion of overhead electric and communication facilities to underground facilities: Chapter 35.96 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.420 - Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Definitions.

RCW 36.88.420
Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Definitions.
As used in RCW 36.88.410 through 36.88.480, unless specifically defined otherwise, or unless the context indicates otherwise:
"Conversion area" means that area in which existing overhead electric and communication facilities are to be converted to underground facilities pursuant to the provisions of RCW 36.88.410 through 36.88.480.
"Electric utility" means any publicly or privately owned utility engaged in the business of furnishing electric energy to the public in all or part of the conversion area and includes electrical companies as defined by RCW 80.04.010 and public utility districts.
"Communication utility" means any utility engaged in the business of affording telephonic, telegraphic, cable television or other communication service to the public in all or part of the conversion area and includes telephone companies and telegraph companies as defined by RCW 80.04.010.
[ 1967 c 194 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.430 - Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Powers of county relating to—Contracts—County road improvement districts—Special assessments.

RCW 36.88.430
Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Powers of county relating to—Contracts—County road improvement districts—Special assessments.
Every county shall have the power to contract with electric and communication utilities, as hereinafter provided, for any or all of the following purposes:
(1) The conversion of existing overhead electric facilities to underground facilities.
(2) The conversion of existing overhead communication facilities to underground facilities.
(3) The conversion of existing street and road lighting facilities to ornamental street and road lighting facilities to be served from underground electrical facilities.
(4) The initial installation, in accordance with the limitations set forth in RCW 36.88.015, or [of] ornamental street and road lighting facilities to be served from underground electrical facilities.
(5) The initial installation of underground electric and communication facilities.
(6) Any combination of the improvements provided for in this section.
To provide funds to pay the whole or any part of the cost of any such conversion or initial installation, together with the expense of furnishing electric energy, maintenance and operation to any ornamental street lighting facilities served from underground electrical facilities, every county shall have the power to create county road improvement districts and to levy and collect special assessments against the real property specially benefited by such conversion or initial installation. For the purpose of ascertaining the amount to be assessed against each lot or parcel of land within any county road improvement district established pursuant to RCW 36.88.410 through 36.88.480, in addition to other methods provided by law for apportioning special benefits, the county commissioners may apportion all or part of the special benefits accruing on a square footage basis or on a per lot basis.
That portion of the assessments levied in any county road improvement district to pay part of the cost of the initial installation of underground electric and communication facilities shall not exceed the cost of such installation, less the estimated cost of constructing overhead facilities providing equivalent service.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 103 § 2; 1967 c 194 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.440 - Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Contracts with electric and communication utilities—Authorized—Provisions.

RCW 36.88.440
Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Contracts with electric and communication utilities—Authorized—Provisions.
Every county shall have the power to contract with electric and communication utilities for the conversion of existing overhead electric and communication facilities to underground facilities, for the conversion of existing street and road lighting facilities to ornamental street and road lighting facilities to be served from underground electrical facilities[,] for the initial installation of ornamental street and road lighting facilities to be served from underground electrical facilities and for the initial installation of underground electric and communication facilities. Such contracts may provide, among other provisions, any of the following:
(1) For the supplying and approval by the electric and communication utilities of plans and specifications for such conversion or installation;
(2) For the payment to the electric and communication utilities for any work performed or services rendered by it in connection with the conversion project or installation;
(3) For the payment to the electric and communication utilities for the value of the overhead facilities removed pursuant to the conversion;
(4) For ownership of the underground facilities and the ornamental street and road lighting facilities by the electric and communication utilities.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 103 § 3; 1967 c 194 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.460 - Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Utility conversion guaranty fund—Establishment authorized—Purpose—Deposits—Investments.

RCW 36.88.460
Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Utility conversion guaranty fund—Establishment authorized—Purpose—Deposits—Investments.
Every county may establish a fund for the purpose of guaranteeing to the extent of such fund and in the manner hereinafter provided, the payment of its county road improvement district bonds and warrants issued to pay for the underground conversion of electric and communication facilities and the underground conversion or installation of ornamental road and street lighting facilities ordered under this chapter. If the board of county commissioners shall determine to establish such fund it shall be designated ". . . . . . utility conversion guaranty fund" and from moneys available such county shall deposit annually in said guaranty fund such sums as may be necessary to establish and maintain a balance therein equal to at least five percent of the outstanding obligations guaranteed thereby and to make necessary provision in its annual budget therefor. The moneys held in the guaranty fund may be invested in certificates, notes, or bonds of the United States of America, or in state, county, municipal or school district bonds, or in warrants of taxing districts of the state; provided, only, that such bonds and warrants shall be general obligations.
[ 1967 c 194 § 6.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.480 - Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Applicability of general provisions relating to county road improvement districts.

RCW 36.88.480
Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Applicability of general provisions relating to county road improvement districts.
Unless otherwise provided in RCW 36.88.410 through 36.88.480, the general provisions relating to county road improvement districts shall apply to local improvements authorized by RCW 36.88.410 through 36.88.480.
[ 1967 c 194 § 8.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.485 - Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Recording of underground utility installations.

RCW 36.88.485
Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Recording of underground utility installations.
All installations of underground utilities made on and after August 9, 1971 shall be recorded on an "as constructed" map and filed with the county engineer of the county in which the underground utilities are installed.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 103 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.900 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.

RCW 36.88.900
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 § 82.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.89 - Highways—Open Spaces—Parks—Other Public Facilities—Stormwater Control. › 36.89.010 - Definitions.

RCW 36.89.010
Definitions.
The words "governmental agency" as used in this chapter mean the United States of America, the state or any agency, subdivision, taxing district or municipal or quasi municipal corporation thereof.
The word "highways" as used in this chapter means all public roads, streets, expressways, parkways, scenic drives, bridges and other public ways, including without limitation, traffic control facilities, special lanes, turnouts or structures in, upon, over or under such public ways for exclusive or nonexclusive use by public transit vehicles, and landscaping, visual and sound buffers between such public ways and adjacent properties.
The words "open space, park, recreation and community facilities" as used in this chapter mean any public facility, improvement, development, property or right or interest therein for public park, recreational, green belt, arboretum, multi-purpose community center (as defined in RCW 35.59.010), museum, zoo, aquarium, auditorium, exhibition, athletic, historic, scenic, viewpoint, aesthetic, ornamental or natural resource preservation purposes.
The words "public health and safety facilities" as used in this chapter mean any public facility, improvement, development, property or right or interest therein, made, constructed or acquired for the purpose of protecting life from disease or injury, enforcing the criminal and civil laws or protecting property from damage caused by breach of law, including but not limited to public hospitals, health laboratories, public health clinics or service centers, custodial, correction or rehabilitation facilities, courtrooms, crime laboratories, law enforcement equipment and facilities, training facilities for specialized personnel, facilities for the collection, storage, retrieval or communication of information, and mobile, support or administrative facilities, all as necessary for the foregoing purpose, or any combination of the facilities herein described.
The words "stormwater control facilities" as used in this chapter mean any facility, improvement, development, property or interest therein, made, constructed or acquired for the purpose of controlling, or protecting life or property from, any storm, waste, flood or surplus waters wherever located within the county, and shall include but not be limited to the improvements and authority described in RCW 86.12.020 and chapters 86.13 and 86.15 RCW.
The word "county" as used in this chapter shall mean any county of the state of Washington.
[ 1970 ex.s. c 30 § 1; 1967 c 109 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.89 - Highways—Open Spaces—Parks—Other Public Facilities—Stormwater Control. › 36.89.020 - Purpose.

RCW 36.89.020
Purpose.
The legislature finds that the open spaces, park, recreation and community facilities, public health and safety facilities, stormwater control facilities and highways within any county of this state, whether located partly or wholly within or without the cities and towns of such county are of general benefit to all of the residents of such county. The open spaces, park, recreation and community facilities within such county provide public recreation, aesthetic, conservation and educational opportunities and other services and benefits accessible to all of the residents of such county. The public health and safety facilities within such county provide protection to life and property throughout the county, are functionally inter-related and affect the health, safety and welfare of all the residents of such county. The stormwater control facilities within such county provide protection from stormwater damage for life and property throughout the county, generally require planning and development over the entire drainage basins, and affect the prosperity, interests and welfare of all the residents of such county. The highways within such county, whether under the general control of the county or the state or within the limits of any incorporated city or town, provide an inter-connected system for the convenient and efficient movement of people and goods within such county. The use of general county funds for the purpose of acquisition, development, construction, or improvement of open space, park, recreation and community facilities, public health and safety facilities, stormwater control facilities, or highways or to participate with any governmental agency to perform such purposes within such county pursuant to this chapter is hereby declared to be a strictly county purpose.
[ 1970 ex.s. c 30 § 2; 1967 c 109 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.89 - Highways—Open Spaces—Parks—Other Public Facilities—Stormwater Control. › 36.89.030 - Authority to establish, acquire, develop, construct, and improve highways, open spaces, parks, etc.

RCW 36.89.030
Authority to establish, acquire, develop, construct, and improve highways, open spaces, parks, etc.
Counties are authorized to establish, acquire, develop, construct, and improve open space, park, recreation, and community facilities, public health and safety facilities, stormwater control facilities, and highways or any of them pursuant to the provisions of this chapter within and without the cities and towns of the county and for such purposes have the power to acquire lands, buildings and other facilities by gift, grant, purchase, condemnation, lease, devise, and bequest, to construct, improve, or maintain buildings, structures, and facilities necessary for such purposes, and to use and develop for such purposes the air rights over and the subsurface rights under any highway. The approval of the state department of transportation shall be first secured for such use and development of any state highway. For visual or sound buffer purposes the county shall not acquire by condemnation less than an owner's entire interest or right in the particular real property to be so acquired if the owner objects to the taking of a lesser interest or right.
[ 1984 c 7 § 42; 1970 ex.s. c 30 § 3; 1967 c 109 § 3.]
NOTES:
Acquisition of interests in land for conservation, protection, preservation, or open space purposes by counties: RCW 64.04.130.
Flood control, county powers: RCW 86.12.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.89 - Highways—Open Spaces—Parks—Other Public Facilities—Stormwater Control. › 36.89.042 - Issuance of general obligation bonds—Payment from revenue—Additional method.

RCW 36.89.042
Issuance of general obligation bonds—Payment from revenue—Additional method.
In issuing general obligation bonds at any time after February 20, 1970 for the purpose of providing all or part of the cost and expense of planning and design, establishing, acquiring, developing, constructing or improving the county capital purposes authorized by this chapter and RCW 86.12.020, the board of county commissioners may provide that such bonds also be made payable from any otherwise unpledged revenue which may be derived from the ownership or operation of any such properties or facilities.
[ 1970 ex.s. c 30 § 6.]