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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.460 - Compensation and expenses of directors, officers, employees.

RCW 87.03.460
Compensation and expenses of directors, officers, employees.
(1) In addition to their reasonable expenses in accordance with chapter 42.24 RCW, the directors shall each receive ninety dollars for each day or portion thereof spent by a director for such actual attendance at official meetings of the district, or in performance of other official services or duties on behalf of the district. The total amount of such additional compensation received by a director may not exceed eight thousand six hundred forty dollars in a calendar year. The board shall fix the compensation of the secretary and all other employees.
(2) Any director may waive all or any portion of his or her compensation payable under this section as to any month or months during his or her term of office, by a written waiver filed with the secretary as provided in this section. The waiver, to be effective, must be filed any time after the director's election and prior to the date on which the compensation would otherwise be paid. The waiver shall specify the month or period of months for which it is made.
(3) The dollar thresholds established in this section must be adjusted for inflation by the office of financial management every five years, beginning January 1, 2024, based upon changes in the consumer price index during that time period. "Consumer price index" means, for any calendar year, that year's annual average consumer price index, for Washington state, for wage earners and clerical workers, all items, compiled by the bureau of labor and statistics, United States department of labor. If the bureau of labor and statistics develops more than one consumer price index for areas within the state, the index covering the greatest number of people, covering areas exclusively within the boundaries of the state, and including all items shall be used for the adjustments for inflation in this section. The office of financial management must calculate the new dollar threshold and transmit it to the office of the code reviser for publication in the Washington State Register at least one month before the new dollar threshold is to take effect.
(4) A person holding office as commissioner for two or more special purpose districts shall receive only that per diem compensation authorized for one of his or her commissioner positions as compensation for attending an official meeting or conducting official services or duties while representing more than one of his or her districts. However, such commissioner may receive additional per diem compensation if approved by resolution of all boards of the affected commissions.
[ 2020 c 83 § 15; 2009 c 145 § 2; 2007 c 469 § 13; 1998 c 121 § 14; 1990 c 38 § 1; 1984 c 168 § 4; 1980 c 23 § 1; 1979 c 83 § 3; 1975 1st ex.s. c 163 § 2; 1965 c 16 § 1; 1951 c 189 § 1; 1919 c 180 § 14; 1917 c 162 § 8; 1895 c 165 § 23; 1889-90 p 692 § 39; RRS § 7456. Formerly RCW 87.08.100.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.480 - Local improvement districts—Petition.

RCW 87.03.480
Local improvement districts—Petition.
Any desired special construction, reconstruction, betterment or improvement or purchase or acquisition of improvements already constructed, for any authorized district service, including but not limited to the safeguarding of open canals or ditches for the protection of the public therefrom, which are for the special benefit of the lands tributary thereto and within an irrigation district may be constructed or acquired and provision made to meet the cost thereof as follows:
The holders of title or evidence of title to one-quarter of the acreage proposed to be assessed, may file with the district board their petition reciting the nature and general plan of the desired improvement and specifying the lands proposed to be specially assessed therefor. A local improvement district may include adjoining, vicinal, or neighboring improvements even though the improvements and the properties benefited are not connected or continuous. Such improvements may be owned by the United States, the state of Washington, the irrigation district, or another local government. Upon approval of the board of an adjoining irrigation district, an irrigation district may form local improvement districts or utility local improvement districts that are composed entirely or in part of territory within that adjoining district. Upon the filing of the petition the board, with the assistance of a competent engineer, shall make an investigation of the feasibility, cost, and need of the proposed local improvement together with the ability of the lands to pay the cost, and if it appears feasible, they may elect to have plans and an estimate of the cost prepared. If a protest against the establishment of the proposed improvement signed by a majority of the holders of title in the proposed local district is presented at or before the hearing, or if the proposed improvement should be found not feasible, too expensive, or not in the best interest of the district, or the lands to be benefited insufficient security for the costs, they shall dismiss the petition.
[ 2013 c 177 § 3; 1959 c 75 § 9; 1941 c 171 § 1; 1919 c 180 § 15; 1917 c 162 § 10; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 7460. Formerly RCW 87.36.010.]
NOTES:
Safeguarding open canals or ditches: RCW 35.43.040, 35.43.045, 35.44.045, 36.88.015, 36.88.350, 36.88.380 through 36.88.400, and 87.03.526.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.486 - Local improvement districts—Notice to contain statement that assessments may vary from estimates.

RCW 87.03.486
Local improvement districts—Notice to contain statement that assessments may vary from estimates.
Any notice given to the public or to the owners of specific lots, tracts, or parcels of land relating to the formation of a local improvement district shall contain a statement that actual assessments may vary from assessment estimates so long as they do not exceed a figure equal to the increased true and fair value the improvement adds to the property.
[ 1989 c 243 § 12.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.487 - Local improvement districts—Sanitary sewer or potable water facilities—Notice to certain property owners.

RCW 87.03.487
Local improvement districts—Sanitary sewer or potable water facilities—Notice to certain property owners.
Whenever it is proposed that a local improvement district finance sanitary sewers or potable water facilities, additional notice of the public hearing on the proposed local improvement district shall be mailed to the owners of any property located outside of the proposed local improvement district that would be required as a condition of federal housing administration loan qualification, at the time of notice, to be connected to the specific sewer or water facilities installed by the local improvement district. The notice shall include information about this restriction.
[ 1987 c 315 § 7.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.492 - Local improvement districts—Bonds, valid claim—General indebtedness.

RCW 87.03.492
Local improvement districts—Bonds, valid claim—General indebtedness.
Any local improvement district bonds, and interest thereon, issued against a bond redemption fund of a local improvement district pursuant to RCW 87.03.485 shall be a valid claim of the owner thereof only as against the local improvement guarantee fund, the local improvement district redemption fund, and the assessments or revenues pledged to such fund or funds and do not constitute a general indebtedness against the issuing irrigation district unless the board of directors by resolution expressly provides for a pledge of general indebtedness. Except where the board provides for a pledge of general indebtedness, each such bond must state upon its face that it is payable from the local improvement district redemption fund and the local improvement guarantee fund only.
[ 2013 c 177 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.500 - Local improvement districts—Payment of bonds.

RCW 87.03.500
Local improvement districts—Payment of bonds.
In the event of the failure of the lands within the local improvement district to furnish money sufficient for the payment of principal or interest of the bonds or the contract as provided for in RCW 87.03.485 for such local improvement work and there shall be a default in the payment of principal or interest as aforesaid, the amount delinquent shall be paid by the general warrants of the irrigation district at large or, in the event of a contract, by whatever means of payment is called for thereunder, but the lands of the local improvement district shall not thereby become released from liability for special assessment therefor. Such warrants, if issued, shall be redeemed as soon as there shall be available money in the bond redemption fund of the local improvement district.
[ 1970 ex.s. c 70 § 4; 1921 c 129 § 29; 1917 c 162 § 14; RRS § 7464. Formerly RCW 87.36.060.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.510 - Local improvement districts—Irrigation district L.I.D. guarantee fund.

RCW 87.03.510
Local improvement districts—Irrigation district L.I.D. guarantee fund.
There is hereby established for each irrigation district in this state having local improvement districts therein a fund for the purpose of guaranteeing to the extent of such fund and in the manner herein provided, the payment of its local improvement bonds and warrants issued or contract entered into to pay for the improvements provided for in this act. Such fund shall be designated "local improvement guarantee fund" and for the purpose of maintaining the same, every irrigation district shall hereafter levy from time to time, as other assessments authorized by RCW 87.03.240 are levied, such sums as may be necessary to meet the financial requirements thereof: PROVIDED, That such sums so assessed pursuant to RCW 87.03.240 in any year shall not be more than sufficient to pay the outstanding warrants or contract indebtedness on the fund and to establish therein a balance which shall not exceed ten percent of the outstanding obligations thereby guaranteed. The balance may also be established from the deposit of prepaid local improvement assessments or proceeds of local improvement district bonds. Whenever any bond redemption payment, interest payment, or contract payment of any local improvement district shall become due and there is insufficient funds in the local improvement district fund for the payment thereof, there shall be paid from the local improvement district guarantee fund, by warrant or by such other means as is called for in the contract, a sufficient amount, which together with the balance in the local improvement district fund shall be sufficient to redeem and pay the bond or coupon or contract payment in full. The warrants against the guarantee fund shall draw interest at a rate determined by the board and the bonds and interest payments shall be paid in their order of presentation or serial order. Whenever there shall be paid out of the guarantee fund any sum on account of principal or interest of a local improvement bond or warrant or contract the irrigation district, as trustee for the fund, shall be subrogated to all of the rights of the owner of the bond or contract amount so paid, and the proceeds thereof, or of the assessment underlying the same shall become part of the guarantee fund. There shall also be paid into such guarantee fund any interest received from bank deposits of the fund, as well as any surplus remaining in any local improvement district fund, after the payment of all of its outstanding bonds or warrants or contract indebtedness which are payable primarily out of such local improvement district fund.
[ 2013 c 177 § 7; 1983 c 167 § 224; 1981 c 156 § 31; 1970 ex.s. c 70 § 6; 1935 c 128 § 2; RRS § 7464-2. Formerly RCW 87.36.090.]
NOTES:
Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.
Levies, amount—Special funds: RCW 87.03.260.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.515 - Local improvement districts—Refunding bonds.

RCW 87.03.515
Local improvement districts—Refunding bonds.
It shall be lawful for any irrigation district which has issued local improvement district bonds for the improvements, as in this chapter provided, to issue in place thereof an amount of local improvement district or revenue refunding bonds of the irrigation district in accordance with chapter 39.53 RCW: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That the issuance of the bonds shall not release the lands of the local improvement district or districts from liability for special assessments for the payment thereof: AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That the lien of any issue of bonds of the district prior in point of time to the issue of bonds or local improvement district bonds herein provided for shall be deemed a prior lien.
[ 2013 c 177 § 8; 1983 c 167 § 225; 1921 c 129 § 30; 1917 c 162 § 15; RRS § 7465. Formerly RCW 87.36.100.]
NOTES:
Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.520 - Local improvement districts—Contracts with state or United States for local improvement work.

RCW 87.03.520
Local improvement districts—Contracts with state or United States for local improvement work.
Any irrigation district may contract with the United States, or the state of Washington, for local improvement work, and for such purpose may form local improvement districts as herein provided.
Authorization of local improvement district bonds or of contract with the United States, or the state of Washington, for local improvement work may be confirmed in the same manner as provided in RCW 87.03.785 to 87.03.805, inclusive.
[ 1921 c 129 § 31; 1917 c 162 § 16; RRS § 7466. Formerly RCW 87.36.110.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.522 - Irrigation district authorized to finance local improvements with general district funds.

RCW 87.03.522
Irrigation district authorized to finance local improvements with general district funds.
In lieu of the issuance of local improvement district bonds or the entering into a contract with the United States or the state of Washington, or both, to secure the funds for or to repay the cost of any improvement to be charged, in whole or in part, against any local improvement district organized pursuant to this chapter, any irrigation district may finance the cost of said local improvement with any general district funds which may be available for said purpose and provide, in such manner as the district's directors may determine, for the repayment, with or without interest as the district's directors determine, through assessments against the lands in the local improvement district levied in the same manner authorized by this chapter of said general district moneys thus advanced.
[ 1983 c 167 § 226; 1970 ex.s. c 70 § 8.]
NOTES:
Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.525 - Local improvement districts—Provisions applicable to districts formerly organized.

RCW 87.03.525
Local improvement districts—Provisions applicable to districts formerly organized.
Any local improvement district heretofore duly organized may avail itself of and be subject to any of the provisions of this chapter increasing the number of annual installments, not to exceed fifty, after the directors of the irrigation district duly adopt a resolution to that effect, and it shall be the duty of the board of directors to adopt such resolution whenever in the judgment of the board the best interests of the local improvement district will be served thereby, and the interests of the irrigation district will not be jeopardized.
[ 1970 ex.s. c 70 § 7; 1919 c 180 § 17; RRS § 7467. Formerly RCW 87.36.120.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.526 - Local improvement districts—Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Assessments and benefits.

RCW 87.03.526
Local improvement districts—Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Assessments and benefits.
Whenever a local improvement district is established within an irrigation district for the safeguarding of the public from the dangers of open canals or ditches the rate of assessment per square foot in the local district may be determined by any of the methods provided for assessment of similar improvements in cities or towns in chapter 35.44 RCW, and the lands specially benefited by such improvements shall be the same as provided in chapter 35.43 RCW for similar improvements in cities or towns.
[ 1959 c 75 § 10. Formerly RCW 87.36.130.]
NOTES:
Safeguarding open canals or ditches: RCW 35.43.040, 35.43.045, 35.44.045, 36.88.015, 36.88.350, 36.88.380 through 36.88.400, and 87.03.480.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.527 - Local improvement districts—Alternative methods of formation.

RCW 87.03.527
Local improvement districts—Alternative methods of formation.
Whenever the board establishes a local improvement district, in addition or as an alternative to the procedures provided in RCW 87.03.480 through 87.03.525, there may be employed any method authorized by law for the formation of improvement districts and the levying, collection, and enforcement by foreclosure of assessments therein, including without limitation the formation method employed by cities or towns.
[ 2013 c 177 § 9; 1959 c 104 § 7. Formerly RCW 87.36.140.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.530 - Consolidation of irrigation districts—Authorization—Merger of smaller irrigation districts.

RCW 87.03.530
Consolidation of irrigation districts—Authorization—Merger of smaller irrigation districts.
(1) Two or more irrigation districts may be consolidated into one district as provided in RCW 87.03.535 through 87.03.551 and may include in such district other lands susceptible of irrigation in the manner provided in this act, and upon the organization of such consolidated district it shall be an organized irrigation district subject to the provisions of this chapter.
(2) A smaller irrigation district may be merged into a larger irrigation district as provided in RCW 87.03.845 through 87.03.855 if the assessed acreage in the smaller district constitutes not more than thirty percent of the combined assessed acreage of the two districts. In such a proceeding, the smaller district is referred to as the "minor" irrigation district and the larger district is referred to as the "major" irrigation district. The district resulting from such a merger shall be an organized district subject to the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1993 c 235 § 1; 1919 c 180 § 18; RRS § 7468. Formerly RCW 87.40.010.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.540 - Consolidation of irrigation districts—Directors—Disposition of affairs of included districts.

RCW 87.03.540
Consolidation of irrigation districts—Directors—Disposition of affairs of included districts.
The board of directors of each included district shall hold office until the board of directors of the consolidated district shall have been elected and shall have qualified, and thereupon the term of office of the directors of such included district shall terminate, and the board of directors of such consolidated district shall have and exercise all the powers and duties in regard to such included district as were vested in the board of directors of such district. Each organized district included in a consolidated district shall either retain its corporate existence so far as necessary for the purpose of carrying out all contracts of such district, and until its indebtedness has been paid in full, or the board of directors of the consolidated district may constitute each such included district a local improvement district for the purpose of carrying out the obligations of, such included district and shall have all the power possessed by the board of directors of such included district to carry out all contracts of such included district to levy, assess and cause to be collected any and all assessments or charges against all of the land within such local improvement district that may be necessary or required to provide for the payment of all the bonds, warrants, and other indebtedness thereof, and to provide for the construction, reconstruction, betterment, improvement, maintenance and operation of all such work as are for the special benefit of the land in such local improvement district. Until such assessments shall have been collected and all indebtedness of the respective included districts paid, separate funds shall be maintained for each such district as were maintained in such included districts prior to the consolidation. A petition shall not be required for the establishment of the lands of such included districts as local improvement districts.
[ 1919 c 180 § 20; RRS § 7470. Formerly RCW 87.40.030.]
NOTES:
Board's powers and duties generally: RCW 87.03.140.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.545 - Consolidation of irrigation districts—Obligations of included districts unaffected.

RCW 87.03.545
Consolidation of irrigation districts—Obligations of included districts unaffected.
The inclusion of an organized district into a consolidated district shall not affect or impair any bonds or obligations of such included district and the holders of the bonds of any such included district shall be entitled to all remedies for the enforcement of the same as if such district had not been consolidated, and all obligations that shall have been incurred by any district prior to its being included in a consolidated district shall be a prior lien to any obligation that may be incurred against such land under such consolidated district: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That the board of directors of the consolidated district may when authorized thereto, exchange any bonds of the consolidated district for the bonds of such included districts upon obtaining the consent of such bond holders. If any included district shall prior to the time of its inclusion into a consolidated district have entered into any contract with the United States pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, and the board of directors of such consolidated district propose to enter into a contract with the United States by the consolidated district, said board of directors, when authorized thereto, shall enter into such contract with the United States, and may in such event, with the consent of the United States, cancel any contract previously entered into between any included district and the United States.
[ 1919 c 180 § 21; RRS § 7471. Formerly RCW 87.40.040.]
NOTES:
Bonds: RCW 87.03.200 through 87.03.235.
Powers and duties of board (contracts with the state and United States): RCW 87.03.140.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.550 - Consolidation of irrigation districts—Property vested in new district—Credit.

RCW 87.03.550
Consolidation of irrigation districts—Property vested in new district—Credit.
The board of directors of an included district shall before the expiration of their term of office cause to be prepared and filed with the board of directors of the consolidated district a statement of all property of such included district, and upon the organization of such consolidated district, the property, of such included district shall, subject to the rights of the holders of the bonds or other obligations of such district, become the property of such consolidated district, and the board of directors of such consolidated district shall in making assessments for such consolidated district cause equitable credit to be given to the lands of such included district for such property received as is of value and benefit to the consolidated district.
[ 1919 c 180 § 22; RRS § 7472. Formerly RCW 87.40.050.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.551 - Consolidation of irrigation districts—Procedures supplemental to boundary change provisions.

RCW 87.03.551
Consolidation of irrigation districts—Procedures supplemental to boundary change provisions.
The procedure herein provided for the consolidation of districts shall not supersede or repeal any provisions of this act providing for changing the boundaries of any irrigation district, but shall be additional and supplemental thereto.
[ 1919 c 180 § 23; RRS § 7473.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.553 - Consolidated local improvement districts for bond issuance.

RCW 87.03.553
Consolidated local improvement districts for bond issuance.
For the purpose of issuing bonds only, the governing body of any irrigation district may authorize the establishment of consolidated local improvement districts. The local improvements within such consolidated districts need not be adjoining, vicinal, or neighboring. If the governing body orders the creation of such consolidated local improvement districts, the moneys received from the installment payment of the principal of and interest on assessments levied within original local assessment districts shall be deposited in a consolidated local improvement district bond redemption fund to be used to redeem outstanding consolidated local improvement district bonds.
[ 1991 c 8 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.555 - Change of boundaries authorized—Effect.

RCW 87.03.555
Change of boundaries authorized—Effect.
The boundaries of any irrigation district now or hereafter organized under the provisions of this chapter may be changed in the manner herein prescribed, but such change of the boundaries of the district shall not impair or affect its organization, or its rights in or to property, or any of its rights or privileges of whatsoever kind or nature; nor shall it affect, impair or discharge any contract, obligation, lien or charge for or upon which it was or might become liable or chargeable, had such change of its boundaries not been made, except as hereinafter expressly in RCW 87.03.645 prescribed: PROVIDED, That in case contract has been made between the district and the United States, or the state of Washington, as in RCW 87.03.140 provided, no change shall be made in the boundaries of the district, and the board of directors shall make no order changing the boundaries of the district until the secretary of the interior or the director of ecology shall assent thereto in writing and such assent be filed with the board of directors.
[ 1988 c 127 § 46; 1921 c 129 § 32; 1915 c 179 § 21; 1889-90 p 694 § 47; RRS § 7474. Formerly RCW 87.44.010.]
NOTES:
Consolidation of irrigation districts: RCW 87.03.530 through 87.03.551.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.560 - Adding lands to district—Petition, contents—Acknowledgment.

RCW 87.03.560
Adding lands to district—Petition, contents—Acknowledgment.
The holder or holders of title, or evidence of title, representing one-half or more of any body of lands may file with the board of directors of an irrigation district a petition in writing, praying that the boundaries of the district may be so changed as to include such lands. The petition shall describe the boundaries of the parcel or tract of land, and shall also describe the boundaries of the several parcels owned by the petitioners, if the petitioners be the owners respectively of distinct parcels, but such descriptions need not be more particular than they are required to be when such lands are entered by the county assessor in the assessment book. Such petition must contain the assent of the petitioners to the inclusion within the district of the parcels or tracts of land described in the petition, and of which the petition alleges they are respectively the owners; and it must be acknowledged in the same manner that conveyances of land are required to be acknowledged.
[ 2001 c 149 § 3; 1889-90 p 694 § 48; RRS § 7475. Formerly RCW 87.44.020, part.]
NOTES:
Acknowledgments: Chapter 64.08 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.565 - Adding lands to district—Notice—Contents—Service.

RCW 87.03.565
Adding lands to district—Notice—Contents—Service.
The secretary of the board of directors shall cause a notice of the filing of such petition to be published in the same manner and for the same time that notice of special elections for the issue of bonds are required by this chapter to be given. The notice shall state the filing of such petition and the names of the petitioners, a description of the lands mentioned in said petition, and the prayer of said petition, and it shall notify all persons interested in or that may be affected by such change of the boundaries of the district to appear at the office of said board at a time named in said notice, and show cause in writing, if any they have, why the change in the boundaries of said district, as proposed in said petition, should not be made. The time to be specified in the notice at which they shall be required to show cause shall be the regular meeting of the board next after the expiration of the time for the publication of the notice. The petitioners shall advance to the secretary sufficient money to pay the estimated costs of all proceedings under this chapter, however should the board of directors determine that the annexation would be of benefit to the irrigation district as a whole, the board of directors may waive payment and deposits in whole or in part for the cost of the annexation proceedings.
[ 2017 c 321 § 3; 1963 c 68 § 3; 1921 c 129 § 33; 1889-90 p 695 § 49; RRS § 7476. Formerly RCW 87.44.030.]
NOTES:
Notice of special elections for the issue of bonds: RCW 87.03.200.
Official paper for publication: RCW 87.03.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.570 - Adding lands to district—Hearing—Assent.

RCW 87.03.570
Adding lands to district—Hearing—Assent.
The board of directors, at the time and place mentioned in said notice, or at such other time or times to which the hearing of said petition may be adjourned, shall proceed to hear the petition and all the objections thereto presented in writing by any person showing cause, as aforesaid, why said proposed change of the boundaries of the district should not be made. The failure by any person interested in said district, or in the matter of the proposed change of its boundaries, to show cause in writing, as aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken as an assent on his or her part to a change of the boundaries of the district as prayed for in said petition, or to such a change thereof as will include a part of said lands. And the filing of such petition with said board, as aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken as an assent on the part of each and all of such petitioners to such a change of said boundaries that they may include the whole or any portion of the lands described in said petition.
[ 2013 c 23 § 504; 1889-90 p 695 § 50; RRS § 7477. Formerly RCW 87.44.040.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.575 - Adding lands to district—Payment for benefits received required.

RCW 87.03.575
Adding lands to district—Payment for benefits received required.
The board of directors to whom such petition to include other lands in the district is presented, shall require, as a condition precedent to the granting of the petition, that the petitioners shall severally pay, or give approved security upon such terms as may be prescribed by the board to pay, to such district such respective sums as shall be determined by the board at the hearing above provided for, which sums shall be such equitable amount as such land shall pay having regard to placing said lands on the basis of equality with other lands in the district as to benefits received, and such lands shall also become subject to all taxes and assessments of the district thereafter imposed.
[ 1915 c 179 § 22; 1913 c 165 § 21; 1889-90 p 696 § 51; RRS § 7478. Formerly RCW 87.44.050.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.580 - Adding lands to district—Order.

RCW 87.03.580
Adding lands to district—Order.
The board of directors, if they deem it not for the best interests of the district that a change of its boundaries be so made as to include therein the lands mentioned in the petition, shall order that the petition be rejected. But if they deem it for the best interests of the district that the boundaries of said district be changed, and if no person interested in said district, or the proposed change of its boundaries, shows cause in writing why the proposed change should not be made, or if, having shown cause, withdraws the same, the board may order that the boundaries of the district be so changed as to include therein the lands mentioned in said petition, or some part thereof. The order shall describe the boundaries of lands included, as aforesaid; and for that purpose the board may cause a survey to be made of such portions of such boundary as is deemed necessary and may at its option redefine the boundaries of the district, or so much of the same as it deems advisable.
[ 1947 c 241 § 1; 1889-90 p 696 § 52; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 7479. Formerly RCW 87.44.060, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.585 - Adding lands to district—Resolution.

RCW 87.03.585
Adding lands to district—Resolution.
If any person interested in said district, or the proposed change of its boundaries, shall show cause, as aforesaid, why such boundaries should not be changed and shall not withdraw the same, and if the board of directors deem it for the best interests of the district that the boundaries thereof be so changed as to include therein the lands mentioned in the petition, or some part thereof, the board shall adopt a resolution to that effect. The resolution shall describe the exterior boundaries of the lands which the board are of the opinion should be included within the boundaries of the district when changed.
[1889-90 p 696 § 53; RRS § 7480. Formerly RCW 87.44.060, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.590 - Adding lands to district—Election—Notice—How conducted.

RCW 87.03.590
Adding lands to district—Election—Notice—How conducted.
Upon the adoption of the resolution mentioned in RCW 87.03.585, the board shall order that an election be held within said district, to determine whether the boundaries of the district shall be changed as mentioned in said resolution; and shall fix the time at which such election shall be held, and shall cause notice thereof to be given and published. Such notice shall be given and published, and such election shall be held and conducted, the returns thereof shall be made and canvassed, and the result of the election ascertained and declared, and all things pertaining thereto conducted, in the manner prescribed by *this act in case of a special election to determine whether bonds of an irrigation district shall be issued. The ballots cast at said election shall contain the words "For change of boundary," or "Against change of boundary," or words equivalent thereto. The notice of election shall describe the proposed change of the boundaries in such manner and terms that it can readily be traced.
[1889-90 p 697 § 54; RRS § 7481. Formerly RCW 87.44.070.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: "This act" appears to refer to 1889-90 p. 697.
Official paper for publication: RCW 87.03.020.
Special election for the issue of bonds: RCW 87.03.200.
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RCW 87.03.595
Adding lands to district—Order changing boundaries—Record.
If at such election a majority of all the votes cast at said election shall be against such change of the boundaries of the district, the board shall order that said petition be denied, and shall proceed no further in the matter. But if a majority of the votes be in favor of such change of the boundaries of the district, the board shall thereupon order that the boundaries of the district be changed in accordance with said resolution adopted by the board. The said order shall describe the entire boundaries of said district, and for that purpose the board may cause a survey of such portions thereof to be made as the board may deem necessary.
[ 1961 c 18 § 2. Prior: 1889-90 p 697 § 55; RRS § 7482. Formerly RCW 87.44.080, part.]
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RCW 87.03.600
Adding lands to district—Change of boundaries recorded—Effect.
Upon a change of the boundaries of a district being made, a copy of the order of the board of directors ordering such change, certified by the president and secretary of the board, shall be filed for record in the offices of county auditor and county assessor of each county within which are situated any of the lands of the district, and thereupon the district shall be and remain an irrigation district, as fully and to every intent and purpose as if the lands which are included in the district by the change of the boundaries as aforesaid had been included therein at the original organization of the district.
[ 1961 c 18 § 3. Prior: 1921 c 129 § 34; 1889-90 p 697 § 56; RRS § 7483. Formerly RCW 87.44.080, part.]
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RCW 87.03.605
Adding lands to district—Petition to be recorded—Admissible as evidence.
Upon the filing of the copies of the order, as in RCW 87.03.600 mentioned, the secretary shall record in the minutes of the board the petition aforesaid; and the said minutes, or a certified copy thereof, shall be admissible in evidence with the same effect as the petition.
[1889-90 p 698 § 57; RRS § 7484. Formerly RCW 87.44.090.]
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RCW 87.03.610
Adding lands to district—Guardian, administrator or executor may act.
A guardian, an executor or administrator of an estate, who is appointed as such under the laws of this state, and who, as such guardian, executor or administrator, is entitled to the possession of the lands belonging to the estate which he or she represents, may, on behalf of his or her ward or the estate which he or she represents, upon being thereunto authorized by the proper court, sign and acknowledge the petition in this act mentioned, and may show cause, as in this act mentioned, why the boundaries of the district should not be changed.
[ 2013 c 23 § 505; 1889-90 p 698 § 58; RRS § 7485. Formerly RCW 87.44.020, part.]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: (1) "Petition in this act mentioned" apparently refers to the petition provided for in RCW 87.03.560.
(2) "Show cause, as in this act mentioned" apparently refers to the show cause provided for in RCW 87.03.565.
Guardians, etc., when land excluded from district: RCW 87.03.690.
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RCW 87.03.615
Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Petition.
Whenever five or a majority of the holders of title to or evidence of title to any land susceptible of irrigation from the water supply and system of works of any irrigation district in this state, comprising within its boundaries two hundred thousand or more acres of land now existing or hereafter organized, desire to have such land included in said irrigation district, they may file a petition, in writing, with the board of directors thereof praying that such land be included in such district.
[ 1939 c 150 § 1; RRS § 7485-1. Formerly RCW 87.44.100.]
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RCW 87.03.620
Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Time and place of hearing—Notice.
Upon the filing of the petition, the board shall fix a time and place for the hearing of the same which shall not be less than thirty days and not more than one hundred eighty days from the date of said filing; and the board shall cause a notice of such hearing to be published prior to said hearing in three consecutive weekly issues of the official newspaper of each county in which any of said land prayed to be included is situated.
[ 2014 c 2 § 2; 1939 c 150 § 2; RRS § 7485-2. Formerly RCW 87.44.110.]
NOTES:
Official paper for publication: RCW 87.03.020.
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RCW 87.03.625
Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Contents of notice.
Said notice shall state the filing of the petition, describe generally the lands petitioned to be included within the operation of the district and the prayer of the petition and shall notify all persons interested in or that may be affected by such inclusion to appear at the time and place named in the notice, and show cause in writing, if any they have, why such lands or any part of the same should not be included within operation of the district. Such notice shall have the name of the secretary and of the district either subscribed or subprinted thereto.
[ 1939 c 150 § 3; RRS § 7485-3. Formerly RCW 87.44.120.]
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RCW 87.03.630
Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Hearing—Order including lands.
The board of directors of the district shall meet at the time and place specified in the notice and shall have full authority to determine all matters pertaining to the petition, including the denial as well as the granting of said petition or any part thereof; and if it appears at said hearing, or at any adjournment thereof which may be had not to exceed in all one hundred eighty days, that the land or any portion thereof petitioned to be included within the district, is susceptible of irrigation from the water supply and system of works of the said district and will be benefited by such irrigation; and if at said hearing or at any adjournment thereof as aforesaid, not more than fifty percent of the holders of title or evidence of title to the lands described in the petition and proposed to be included file their objections in writing to the inclusion of such land within the time and as provided in RCW 87.03.615 through 87.03.640, the said board shall make and enter in the records of their proceedings an order including said land, or such portion thereof as in their judgment is susceptible of irrigation and will be benefited as aforesaid, within the operation of said district.
[ 2014 c 2 § 3; 1939 c 150 § 4; RRS § 7485-4. Formerly RCW 87.44.130, part and 87.44.140, part.]
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RCW 87.03.635
Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Denial of petition.
If at said hearing or at any adjournment thereof, the board of directors shall determine that said land is not susceptible of irrigation and will not be benefited as aforesaid by inclusion in the district, or if more than fifty percent of the holders of title to or evidence of title to the land described in the petition file their objections in writing within the time and as aforesaid, then the board of directors shall deny said petition and shall make and enter in the records of their proceedings an order to that effect.
[ 1939 c 150 § 5; RRS § 7485-5. Formerly RCW 87.44.130, part.]
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RCW 87.03.640
Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Order filed—Effect.
A certified copy of the order of the board of directors including any lands within the operation of the district under the provisions of *this act shall be filed with the county assessor and with the county auditor of each county in which any part of such included lands is situated, and from and after the date of such filing such land shall be subject to all the obligations and entitled to all the privileges of lands within the operation of the district.
[ 1939 c 150 § 6; RRS § 7485-6. Formerly RCW 87.44.140, part.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: "This act" is codified as RCW 87.03.615 through 87.03.640.
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RCW 87.03.645
Exclusion of lands from district—Effect.
The boundaries of any irrigation district or consolidated irrigation district, now or hereafter organized under the provisions of this chapter, may be changed, and tracts of land which were included within the boundaries of such district, or former irrigation districts which were included within the boundaries of such consolidated district, at or after its organization under the provisions of this chapter, may be excluded therefrom in the manner herein prescribed; but neither such change of the boundaries of the district or consolidated district, nor such exclusion of lands from the district, nor such exclusion of a former district from a consolidated district, shall impair or affect its organization or the rights of the district in or to property, except that all property of a consolidated district, the title to which was derived from a former district by, and at the time of, the consolidation shall revert to and become the property of such former district when reestablished as herein provided; nor shall it affect, impair or discharge any contract, obligation, lien, or charge for or upon which such district or such consolidated district was or might become liable or chargeable had such change of its boundaries not been made, or had not any such land been excluded from such district, or any such former district been excluded from such consolidated district, unless the holders of such lien, obligation, charge or contract right chargeable against the district, or consolidated district consent to such exclusion in the manner hereinafter provided in RCW 87.03.670 for the consent of the bondholders.
[ 1921 c 129 § 35; 1915 c 179 § 23; 1889-90 p 698 § 60; RRS § 7486. Formerly RCW 87.44.150.]