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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.650 - Exclusion of lands from district—Petition to exclude lands—Contents.

RCW 87.03.650
Exclusion of lands from district—Petition to exclude lands—Contents.
The owner or owners in fee of one or more tracts of land which constitute a portion of an irrigation district, or fifty or a majority of the holders of title to lands constituting any portion of an irrigation district, or consolidated district as the case may be, for which lands similar grounds for exclusion may exist, or fifty or a majority of the holders of title to lands which constituted a former irrigation district included with a consolidated district, may file with the board of directors of such district, or of such consolidated district, as the case may be, a petition praying that such tracts, and any other tracts contiguous thereto, or such land which constituted such former district, may be excluded and taken from said district, or consolidated district, as the case may be, and in the latter case that such former district may be reestablished. The petition for the exclusion of tracts of land from a district shall describe the boundaries of the land which the petitioners desire to have excluded from the district, and also describe the land of such of said petitioners which are included within such boundaries; but the description of such lands need not be more particular or certain than is required when the lands are entered in the assessment book by the county assessor. The petition for the exclusion of a former district from a consolidated district shall give the corporate name and number of such former district and shall describe the lands of each of said petitioners by legal subdivision or lot and block numbers and name of city, town or addition of platted lands. Every such petition must be acknowledged in the same manner and form as is required in case of a conveyance of land, and the acknowledgment shall have the same force and effect as evidence as the acknowledgment of such conveyance.
[ 1921 c 129 § 36; 1889-90 p 699 § 61; RRS § 7487. Formerly RCW 87.44.160, part.]
NOTES:
Acknowledgments: Chapter 64.08 RCW.
Property taxes—Listing of property: Chapter 84.40 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.655 - Exclusion of lands from district—Notice—Contents—Service.

RCW 87.03.655
Exclusion of lands from district—Notice—Contents—Service.
The secretary of the board of directors shall cause a notice of the filing of the petition to be published for at least two weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the office of the board of directors is situated, and if any portion of the territory to be excluded lies within another county or counties, then the notice shall be so published in a newspaper of general circulation within each of the counties. The notice shall state the filing of the petition, the names of the petitioners, a description of the lands, or the name and number of the former district, mentioned in the petition, and the prayer of the petition; and it shall notify all persons interested in or that may be affected by the change of the boundaries of the district to appear at the office of the board at a time named in the notice, and show cause in writing, if any they have, why the change of the boundaries of the district, as proposed in the 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.
[ 1985 c 469 § 89; 1921 c 129 § 37; 1889-90 p 699 § 62; RRS § 7488. Formerly RCW 87.44.170.]
NOTES:
Official paper for publication: RCW 87.03.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.660 - Exclusion of lands from district—Hearing—Assent.

RCW 87.03.660
Exclusion of lands from district—Hearing—Assent.
The board of directors, at the time and place mentioned in the notice, or at the time or times to which the hearing of said petition may be adjourned, shall proceed to hear the petition, and all objections thereto presented in writing, by any person showing cause, as aforesaid, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. The failure of any person interested in said district or consolidated district to show cause, in writing, why the tract or tracts of land mentioned in said petition should not be excluded from said district, or the former district mentioned should not be excluded from the consolidated district, as the case may be, shall be deemed and taken as an assent by him or her to such exclusion, and the filing of such petition with such board, as aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken as an assent by each and all of such petitioners to such exclusion.
[ 2013 c 23 § 506; 1921 c 129 § 38; 1889-90 p 700 § 63; RRS § 7489. Formerly RCW 87.44.180.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.665 - Exclusion of lands from district—Order denying or granting petition.

RCW 87.03.665
Exclusion of lands from district—Order denying or granting petition.
The board of directors, if they deem it not for the best interest of the district, or consolidated district, as the case may be, that the lands, or the former district, mentioned in the petition, or some portion thereof, should be excluded from said district, or consolidated district, shall order that said petition be denied; but if they deem it for the best interests of the district, or consolidated district, as the case may be, that the lands, or the former district, as the case may be, be excluded from the district, or consolidated district, and if no person interested in the district shows cause, in writing, why the prayer of the petition should not be granted, or if having shown cause withdraws the same, and also, if there be no outstanding bonds of the district, and no contract between the district and the United States, or the state of Washington, then the board may order that the lands mentioned in the petition, or some defined portion thereof, or the former district mentioned in the petition, be excluded from the district, or consolidated district, as the case may be, and the former district be reestablished.
[ 1921 c 129 § 39; 1915 c 179 § 24; 1889-90 p 700 § 64; RRS § 7490. Formerly RCW 87.44.190.]
NOTES:
Board's powers and duties generally (contracts with state and United States): RCW 87.03.140.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.670 - Exclusion of lands from district—Assent of bondholders.

RCW 87.03.670
Exclusion of lands from district—Assent of bondholders.
If there be outstanding bonds of the district, or consolidated district, as the case may be, or if such district shall have entered into a contract with the United States, or the state of Washington, then the board may adopt a resolution to the effect that the board deems it to the best interest of the district that the lands mentioned in the petition, or some portion thereof, or the former district mentioned in the petition, as the case may be, should be excluded from the district, or consolidated district, and the former district reestablished. The resolution shall describe such lands so that the boundaries can readily be traced, or shall give the corporate name and number of the former district. The holders of such outstanding bonds may give their assent, in writing, to the effect that they severally consent that the board may make an order by which the lands, or the former district, mentioned in the resolution may be excluded from the district, and in case contract has been made with the United States, or the state of Washington, the secretary of the interior or the director of ecology may assent to such change. The assent must be acknowledged by the several holders of such bonds in the same manner and form as is required in case of a conveyance of land, and the acknowledgment shall have the same force and effect, as evidence, as the acknowledgment of such conveyance. The assent of the secretary of the interior need not be acknowledged. The assent shall be filed with the board, and in the office of the county clerk in each county comprised within the district and must be recorded in the minutes of the board; and said minutes, or certified copy thereof, shall be admissible in evidence with the same effect as the said assent; but if such assent of the bondholders, and in case of contract with the United States, or the state of Washington, such assent of the secretary of the interior or the director of ecology, be not filed, the board shall deny and dismiss said petition.
[ 1988 c 127 § 47; 1921 c 129 § 40; 1915 c 179 § 25; 1889-90 p 701 § 65; RRS § 7491. Formerly RCW 87.44.200.]
NOTES:
Acknowledgments: Chapter 64.08 RCW.
Board's powers and duties generally (contracts with state and United States): RCW 87.03.140.
Certificate of acknowledgment—Evidence: RCW 64.08.050.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.675 - Exclusion of lands from district—Order for election—Notice—Conduct of election.

RCW 87.03.675
Exclusion of lands from district—Order for election—Notice—Conduct of election.
If the assent aforesaid of the holders of said bonds be filed and entered of record as aforesaid, and if there be objections presented by any person showing cause as aforesaid, which have not been withdrawn, then the board may order an election to be held in each district to determine whether an order shall be made excluding said land from said district, or excluding said former district from said consolidated district, as the case may be, and such former district be reestablished, as mentioned in said resolution. The notice of such election shall describe the boundary of all lands, or shall give the corporate name and number of the former district, which it is proposed to exclude, and such notice shall be published for at least two weeks prior to such election, in a newspaper published within the county where the office of the board of directors is situated; and if any portion of such territory to be excluded lie within another county or counties, then said notice shall be so published in a newspaper published within each of such counties. Such notice shall require the electors to cast ballots, which shall contain the words "For exclusion" and "Against exclusion", or words equivalent thereto. Such election shall be conducted in the manner prescribed in this chapter for the holding of special elections on the issuance of bonds. In every case where the petition is for the exclusion of a former district from a consolidated district the resolution of the board ordering an election shall provide for the holding of such election separately in the territory comprising such former district and in the territory comprising that portion of the consolidated district not included in such former district, and for canvassing and counting of the votes cast at such election separately.
[ 1921 c 129 § 41; 1915 c 179 § 26; 1889-90 p 701 § 66; RRS § 7492. Formerly RCW 87.44.210.]
NOTES:
Special elections on the issuance of bonds: RCW 87.03.200.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.680 - Exclusion of lands from district—Procedure following election—Order of exclusion.

RCW 87.03.680
Exclusion of lands from district—Procedure following election—Order of exclusion.
If at any such election a majority of all the votes cast shall be against exclusion the board shall deny and dismiss said petition and proceed no further in said matter; but if in the case of a petition for the exclusion of lands from a district a majority of such votes be in favor of the exclusion of said lands from the district, the board shall thereupon order that the said lands mentioned in said resolution be excluded from the district; if in the case of a petition for the exclusion of a former district from a consolidated district, a majority of the votes cast in such former district shall be against exclusion, or a majority of the votes cast in the remaining portion of the consolidated district shall be against exclusion, the board shall deny and dismiss the petition and proceed no further in the matter; but if in the case of a petition for such exclusion of a former district a majority of the votes cast in such former district and a majority of the votes cast in the remaining portion of the consolidated district shall be in favor of the exclusion of such former district, the board shall thereupon order that the lands comprising such former district be excluded from the consolidated district and that such former district shall be and is reestablished as an irrigation district created and established under the provision of this chapter and that the title to all property formerly belonging to, and all property within the boundaries of said former district, shall be and is vested in such reestablished district, and shall call an election to be held in such reestablished district for the election of a board of directors thereof, and direct the publication of notices of such election in the manner provided in this chapter for the publication of notice of special elections. The board entering such order shall continue to administer the affairs of such reestablished district until the directors elected at such election shall have qualified.
The said order excluding land from a district shall describe the boundaries of the lands excluded, should the exclusion change the boundaries of the district, and in case of the exclusion of a former district from a consolidated district, shall describe the boundaries of the reestablished district and the boundaries of the district remaining; and for that purpose the board may cause a survey to be made of such portions of the boundaries as the board may deem necessary.
[ 1961 c 18 § 4. Prior: 1947 c 241 § 2; 1921 c 129 § 42; 1889-90 p 702 § 67; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 7482 (RRS § 7493). Formerly RCW 87.44.220.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.685 - Exclusion of lands from district—Orders to be recorded—Effect.

RCW 87.03.685
Exclusion of lands from district—Orders to be recorded—Effect.
Upon the entry in the minutes of the board of any of the orders hereinbefore mentioned, a copy thereof, certified by the president and the secretary of the board, shall be filed for record in the offices of the county auditor and the county assessor of each county within which are situated any of the lands of the district, and thereupon said district, and said consolidated district and said reestablished district, if any, shall each be and remain an irrigation district as fully, as to every intent and purpose, as it would be had no change been made in the boundaries thereof, or had the lands excluded therefrom never constituted a portion thereof.
[ 1921 c 129 § 43; 1889-90 p 702 § 68; RRS § 7494. Formerly RCW 87.44.230.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.690 - Exclusion of lands from district—Guardian, executor or administrator may sign and acknowledge.

RCW 87.03.690
Exclusion of lands from district—Guardian, executor or administrator may sign and acknowledge.
A guardian, and executor or an 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 thereto properly authorized by the proper court, sign and acknowledge the petition in this act mentioned, and may show cause, as in this act provided, why the boundaries of the district should not be changed.
[ 2013 c 23 § 507; 1889-90 p 703 § 71; RRS § 7496. Formerly RCW 87.44.160, part.]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: (1) "Petition in this act mentioned" apparently refers to the petition provided for in RCW 87.03.650.
(2) "Show cause, as in this act provided" apparently refers to the show cause provided for in RCW 87.03.655.
Guardians, etc., when land added to district: RCW 87.03.610.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.695 - Exclusion of lands from district—Refunds—Cancellation of assessments.

RCW 87.03.695
Exclusion of lands from district—Refunds—Cancellation of assessments.
In case of the exclusion of any lands under the provisions of this act, the board of directors shall determine what refund, if any, shall be made to any person or persons who have paid any assessments to such district on any lands so excluded, but such refund, if any, shall be on a basis equitable alike to lands remaining in the district and lands excluded therefrom. Such payment shall be made in the manner as other claims against the district, and from such fund or funds as the board of directors may designate, and which may be legally applied to such payments. The board may, in its discretion, determine what portion, if any, of the assessments remaining unpaid shall be canceled. Said cancellation, if any, shall be accomplished by an order entered upon the minutes of the board and certified to the office of the county treasurer. Upon the filing of such certified order, said assessments, or any portion thereof, canceled by said order shall be marked "Canceled" upon the treasurer's records. The lien of such portion of said assessments, if any, as the board shall refuse to cancel, shall continue against the lands excluded, and the district shall retain all of its rights to such assessments or portions thereof as if said lands had not been excluded.
[ 1921 c 129 § 44; 1913 c 165 § 22; 1889-90 p 703 § 72; RRS § 7497. Formerly RCW 87.44.240.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.700 - Connecting system to lower drainage district—Procedure.

RCW 87.03.700
Connecting system to lower drainage district—Procedure.
When an irrigation district desires to connect its system of drainage with that of a lower drainage district or districts, it shall make the lower district or districts a party to the proceedings to construct its system, and allege in its petition that the connection is needed to afford a proper outlet and that the outlet is sufficient for both districts. If the lower system or systems must be improved to support the additional burden, the petition shall be accompanied by plans and specifications therefor. The owners of all lands in the lower district or districts affected thereby and also persons having an interest therein shall be made parties to the action and assessment for damages shall be the same as is provided by law for the establishment of the drainage system in the irrigation district.
[ 1955 c 367 § 2. Formerly RCW 87.08.250.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.705 - Connecting system to lower drainage district—Negative finding by jury or court.

RCW 87.03.705
Connecting system to lower drainage district—Negative finding by jury or court.
The jury, or the court if jury be waived, shall first determine whether the lower drainage system or systems when so improved will afford a sufficient drainage and outlet for both the drainage district and irrigation district, and if it finds that it will not, the finding shall terminate the proceedings so far as the connecting with the lower drainage district or districts is concerned and the costs shall be paid as in other suits: PROVIDED, That the irrigation district may maintain said suit for the purpose of acquiring the necessary rights-of-way from the lower drainage district or districts and the landowners in said lower district or districts that will not interfere with the operation and maintenance of the drainage system in the lower district or districts.
[ 1955 c 367 § 3. Formerly RCW 87.08.260.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.710 - Connecting system to lower drainage district—Affirmative finding by jury or court—Assessments.

RCW 87.03.710
Connecting system to lower drainage district—Affirmative finding by jury or court—Assessments.
If the jury, or the court if jury be waived, finds the outlet and drainage sufficient it shall assess the damages sustained by the lands in the lower drainage district or districts by reason of the improvement, together with awards for damaging and taking lands for rights-of-way required, which shall be paid by the irrigation district in the same manner as such payments are made in establishing the system in the irrigation district, and the cost of improving the lower system or systems to the extent the improvement benefits lands in the irrigation district shall be assessed to the lands in the irrigation district as other costs of drainage improvement are assessed.
[ 1955 c 367 § 4. Formerly RCW 87.08.270.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.715 - Connecting system to lower drainage district—Increased maintenance costs.

RCW 87.03.715
Connecting system to lower drainage district—Increased maintenance costs.
The lower district or districts may require the jury or court to determine any increased cost to it in annual maintenance of its system as improved, and judgment shall be rendered against the irrigation district in favor of the lower drainage district or districts for any amount so found, and it shall be paid annually as the cost of construction is paid, and the amount so paid shall be used by the lower drainage district or districts for maintenance.
[ 1955 c 367 § 5. Formerly RCW 87.08.280.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.720 - Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, consolidated drainage improvement, or water-sewer district—Power to assent.

RCW 87.03.720
Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, consolidated drainage improvement, or water-sewer district—Power to assent.
The board of directors of an irrigation district shall, after being notified by the legislative authority of the county or counties within which the irrigation district lies of the filing of the petition therefor, have the power to assent to the proposed merger with the irrigation district of that portion of a drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, consolidated drainage improvement district, or water-sewer district within its boundaries at a hearing duly called by the board to consider the proposed merger if sufficient objections thereto have not been presented, as hereinafter provided.
[ 1999 c 153 § 75; 1977 ex.s. c 208 § 1; 1957 c 94 § 10. Formerly RCW 87.01.240.]
NOTES:
Part headings not law—1999 c 153: See note following RCW 57.04.050.
Merger of drainage improvement district with irrigation district: RCW 85.08.830 through 85.08.890.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.725 - Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, consolidated drainage improvement, or water-sewer district—Notice—Contents—Publication—Show cause against merger.

RCW 87.03.725
Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, consolidated drainage improvement, or water-sewer district—Notice—Contents—Publication—Show cause against merger.
The secretary of the board of directors shall cause a notice of the proposed merger to be posted and published in the same manner and for the same time as notice of a special election for the issue of bonds. The notice shall state that a petition has been filed with the legislative authority of the county or counties within which the irrigation districts lies by the board of supervisors of the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, or consolidated drainage improvement district or by the board of commissioners of a water-sewer district requesting that the drainage improvement district, joint drainage improvement district, consolidated drainage improvement district, or water-sewer district be merged with the irrigation district or irrigation districts, the names of the petitioners and the prayer thereof, and it shall notify all persons interested in the irrigation district to appear at the office of the board at the time named in the notice, and show cause in writing why the proposed merger should not take place. The time to show cause shall be the regular meeting of the board of directors of the irrigation district next after the expiration of the time for the publication of the notice.
[ 1999 c 153 § 76; 1977 ex.s. c 208 § 2; 1957 c 94 § 11. Formerly RCW 87.01.250.]
NOTES:
Part headings not law—1999 c 153: See note following RCW 57.04.050.
Official paper for publication: RCW 87.03.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.730 - Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, or consolidated drainage improvement district—Hearing—Failure to show cause deemed assent.

RCW 87.03.730
Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, or consolidated drainage improvement district—Hearing—Failure to show cause deemed assent.
At the time of hearing, or at such other time to which the hearing may be adjourned, the board of directors of the irrigation district shall hear the proposal of merger and any objections thereto. Failure to show cause shall be deemed as assent to the proposed merger.
[ 1957 c 94 § 12. Formerly RCW 87.01.260.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.735 - Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, or consolidated drainage improvement district—Assent, refusal to assent—Effect of show cause against merger.

RCW 87.03.735
Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, or consolidated drainage improvement district—Assent, refusal to assent—Effect of show cause against merger.
The board of directors of the irrigation district, if it deems it not for the best interest of the irrigation district that the proposed merger take place, shall enter an order refusing to assent to the merger. But, if it deems it to be to the best interest of the irrigation district that the merger take place and, if twenty-five or more persons interested in the irrigation district have not shown cause in writing why the proposed merger should not take place, or, if having shown cause, withdraw the same, the board of directors of the irrigation district may enter an order assenting to the proposed merger.
If twenty-five or more persons interested in the irrigation district shall show cause, as aforesaid, why the proposed merger should not take place and shall not withdraw the same, and if the irrigation district board nevertheless deems it for the best interest of the irrigation district that the proposed merger take place, the board shall adopt a resolution to that effect.
[ 1957 c 94 § 13. Formerly RCW 87.01.270.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.740 - Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, or consolidated drainage improvement district—Election.

RCW 87.03.740
Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, or consolidated drainage improvement district—Election.
Upon the adoption of the resolution, the board shall order an election held within the irrigation district on the question of the proposed merger and shall fix the time thereof and cause notice to be published. The notice shall be given and the election conducted in the manner as for special elections on a bond issue of the district. The ballots shall contain the words "Merger, Yes" and "Merger, No" or words equivalent thereto.
[ 1957 c 94 § 14. Formerly RCW 87.01.280.]
NOTES:
Bonds—Election: RCW 87.03.200.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.745 - Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, or consolidated drainage improvement district—Order of assent or refusal—Filing.

RCW 87.03.745
Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, or consolidated drainage improvement district—Order of assent or refusal—Filing.
If a majority of the votes cast at the election are against the merger, the irrigation district board shall enter an order refusing to assent to the merger. If a majority of the votes cast favor the merger, the board shall enter an order assenting to the proposed merger. A copy of the order certified by the president and secretary of the board shall be filed with the board of county commissioners or, in case the merger involves a joint drainage improvement district, with the boards of county commissioners of the counties in which the joint drainage improvement district is situated.
[ 1957 c 94 § 15. Formerly RCW 87.01.290.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.750 - Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Resolution.

RCW 87.03.750
Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Resolution.
Whenever any irrigation district organized and existing under the laws of this state, shall have entered into a contract, or contracts, with the department of ecology, for the sale to and purchase by the department of an entire authorized issue of the bonds of the district, for the purpose of procuring funds for district purposes, including the construction of an irrigation system for the district, and the department of ecology has advanced, under such contract, or contracts, funds for such purposes, and such funds have been expended for the purposes advanced, and there are no outstanding bonds of the district other than those which the district has contracted to sell the department of ecology, and it shall appear to the satisfaction of the board of directors of the district that the irrigation system, for the construction of which such funds were advanced and expended, will not furnish sufficient water for the successful irrigation of all of the lands within the district and that the district as constituted will be unable by assessments upon the lands of the district, as provided by law, to collect sufficient funds to meet the interest payments upon and pay the bonds at maturity, the board of directors of the district shall have the power by unanimous resolution to adopt a comprehensive proposed plan for reducing the boundaries of the district, excluding therefrom such portions of the lands of the district as in the judgment of the board cannot be furnished with sufficient water for successful irrigation, and refunding to the owners of such excluded lands, respectively, any moneys paid for assessments levied by the district upon the lands excluded, and to release any such excluded lands from all unpaid assessments levied by the district, which resolution shall give the boundaries to which it is proposed to reduce the district and the description of the lands it is proposed to exclude from the district by government subdivisions, or metes and bounds.
[ 1988 c 127 § 48; 1925 ex.s. c 138 § 1; RRS § 7505-1. Formerly RCW 87.44.250.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.755 - Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Notice of hearing—Contents.

RCW 87.03.755
Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Notice of hearing—Contents.
Upon the adoption of the resolution as provided in RCW 87.03.750, the board of directors of the district shall cause to be served upon the director of the department of ecology, and to be published once a week for four successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the district is situated a notice that at the time and place fixed in the notice, the board will hold a public hearing for the further consideration of the plan proposed, which notice shall set forth a copy of the resolution adopted by the board, and state that at the hearing the board will receive and consider any objections to the proposed plan and/or suggestions for modification thereof, of any person interested, and at the conclusion of the hearing, or the final adjournment thereof, the board will proceed by resolution to adopt the plan proposed, or the modification of the plan as may be determined by the board, and reduce the boundaries of the district and exclude therefrom such lands as cannot be furnished with sufficient water for successful irrigation, and provide for the repayment to the owners of the excluded lands of any assessments paid thereon, and the cancellation of all unpaid assessments against excluded lands.
[ 1985 c 469 § 90; 1925 ex.s. c 138 § 2; RRS § 7505-2. Formerly RCW 87.44.260.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.765 - Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Indebtedness may be reduced.

RCW 87.03.765
Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Indebtedness may be reduced.
Whenever it shall appear, to the satisfaction of the director of ecology, that the irrigation system of any irrigation district, to which the department of ecology of the state of Washington under a contract with the district for the purchase of its bonds, has advanced funds for the purpose of constructing an irrigation system for the district, has been found incapable of furnishing sufficient water for the successful irrigation of all of the lands of such district, and that the board of directors of such district has reduced the boundaries thereof and excluded from the district, as provided in RCW 87.03.750 through 87.03.760, sufficient lands to render such irrigation system adequate for the successful irrigation of the lands of the district, and that more than thirty days have elapsed since the adoption of the resolution by the board of directors reducing the boundaries of the district and excluding lands therefrom, and no appeal has been taken from the action of the board, or that the action of the board has been confirmed by the superior court of the county in which the district is situated and no appeal has been taken to the supreme court or the court of appeals, or that upon review by the supreme court or the court of appeals the action of the board of directors of the district has been confirmed, the director of ecology shall be and he or she is hereby authorized to cancel and reduce the obligation of the district to the department of ecology, for the repayment of moneys advanced for the construction of an irrigation system for the district, to such amount as, in his or her judgment, the district will be able to pay from revenues derived from assessments upon the remaining lands of the district, and to accept, in payment of the balance of the obligation of the district, the authorized bonds of the district, in numerical order beginning with the lowest number, on the basis of the percentage of the face value thereof fixed in contracts between the district and the department of ecology, in an amount equal to said balance of the obligation of the district, in full and complete satisfaction of all claims of the department of ecology against the district.
[ 2013 c 23 § 509; 1988 c 202 § 87; 1971 c 81 § 172; 1925 ex.s. c 138 § 4; RRS § 7505-4. Formerly RCW 87.44.280.]
NOTES:
Severability—1988 c 202: See note following RCW 2.24.050.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.770 - Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Reconveyance of excluded land formerly foreclosed to district.

RCW 87.03.770
Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Reconveyance of excluded land formerly foreclosed to district.
Whenever the boundaries of any irrigation district have been reduced and lands excluded from such district, as provided in *this act, the directors of such district shall be authorized and directed to execute and deliver to the owners, respectively, of any lands excluded from the district, which have been deeded to the district for the nonpayment of assessments theretofore levied, deeds of reconveyance and quit claim of all right, title and interest of the district in such lands, respectively.
[ 1925 ex.s. c 138 § 5; RRS § 7505-5. Formerly RCW 87.44.290.]
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*Reviser's note: "This act" is codified as RCW 87.03.750 through 87.03.770.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.775 - Map of district.

RCW 87.03.775
Map of district.
Said board of directors shall cause a map to be made of the irrigation districts showing each forty acres, subdivision or fraction thereof, and place the same on file in their office.
[ 1895 c 165 § 28; RRS § 7495. Formerly RCW 87.08.120.]
NOTES:
Surveys, maps and plans to be prepared: RCW 87.03.165 through 87.03.170.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.780 - Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Authorization.

RCW 87.03.780
Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Authorization.
The board of directors of an irrigation district, now or hereafter organized under the provisions of this chapter, may commence a special proceeding in and by which the proceedings for organizing such district or the proceedings of said board and of said district, providing for and authorizing the issue and sale of the bonds or refunding bonds of said district whether said bonds or refunding bonds or any of them have or have not then been sold or any contract entered or proposed to be entered into by the district, or any contract made or entered into, or to be made or entered into, for the payment of moneys to the United States or the state of Washington in connection with which bonds be not deposited with the United States or the state of Washington as provided in RCW 87.03.140, may be judicially examined, approved and confirmed.
There may be combined with the proceeding for the confirmation of the organization and formation of said district, either of the other confirmation proceedings above mentioned.
[ 1931 c 60 § 6; 1921 c 129 § 45; 1917 c 162 § 17; 1915 c 179 § 27; 1889-90 p 703 § 73; RRS § 7499. Formerly RCW 87.08.190.]
NOTES:
Refunding bonds, 1929 act—Judicial confirmation: RCW 87.22.280.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.785 - Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Petition—Contents.

RCW 87.03.785
Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Petition—Contents.
The board of directors of the irrigation district shall file in the superior court of the county in which the lands of the district, or some portion thereof, are situated, a petition praying in effect, that the proceedings aforesaid may be examined, approved, and confirmed by the court. The petition shall state the facts, showing the proceedings had for the organization of said district or the proceedings had for the issue and sale of said bonds or for the issue and sale of said refunding bonds, or for the authorization of contract with the United States, or other contract described in said petition; and shall state generally that the irrigation district was duly organized, and that the first board of directors was duly elected; but the petition need not state the facts showing such organization of the district, or the election of said first board of directors.
[ 1931 c 60 § 7; 1917 c 162 § 18; 1915 c 179 § 28; 1889-90 p 703 § 74; RRS § 7500. Formerly RCW 87.08.200.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.790 - Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Notice of hearing.

RCW 87.03.790
Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Notice of hearing.
The court shall fix the time for the hearing of said petition, and shall order the clerk of the court to give and publish a notice of the filing of said petition. The notice shall be given and published in the same manner and for the same length of time that a notice of a special election provided for by this chapter to determine whether the bonds of said district shall be issued is required to be given and published. The notice shall state the time and place fixed for the hearing of the petition, and the prayer of the petition, and that any person interested in the organization of said district or in the proceedings for the issue or sale of said bonds or refunding bonds or for the authorization of contract with the United States, or the state of Washington, or any other contract, may, on or before the day fixed for the hearing of said petition, demur to or answer said petition. The petition may be referred to and described in said notice as the petition of the board of directors of irrigation district (giving its name) praying that the proceedings for the organization of said district or the proceedings for the issue and sale of the bonds of said district or for the authorization of contract with the United States, or the state of Washington, or other contracts, may be examined, approved, and confirmed by said court.
[ 1931 c 60 § 8; 1921 c 129 § 46; 1917 c 162 § 19; 1915 c 179 § 29; 1889-90 p 704 § 75; RRS § 7501. Formerly RCW 87.08.210.]
NOTES:
Notice of a special election on 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. › 87.03.795 - Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Demurrer or answer—Procedure.

RCW 87.03.795
Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Demurrer or answer—Procedure.
Any person interested in said district or in the issue or sale of said bonds in the issue or sale of refunding bonds or in the making of a contract with the United States or any contract referred to in said petition may demur to or answer said petition. The statutes of this state respecting the demurrer, and the answer to a verified complaint, shall be applicable to a demurrer and answer to said petition. The person so demurring to or answering said petition shall be the defendant to said special proceeding, and the board of directors shall be the plaintiff. Every material statement of the petition not specifically controverted by the answer must, for the purposes of said special proceeding, be taken as true, and each person failing to answer the petition shall be deemed to admit as true all the material statements of the petition. The rules of pleading and practice provided by the statutes of this state, which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, are applicable to the special proceeding herein provided for. A motion for a new trial must be made upon the minutes of the court. The order granting a new trial must specify the issue to be reexamined on such new trial, and the findings of the court upon the other issues shall not be affected by such order granting a new trial.
[ 1931 c 60 § 9; 1915 c 179 § 30; 1889-90 p 704 § 76; RRS § 7502. Formerly RCW 87.08.220.]
NOTES:
Rules of court: Cf. Superior Court Civil Rules.
Civil procedure: Title 4 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.800 - Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Jurisdiction of court—Order—Costs.

RCW 87.03.800
Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Jurisdiction of court—Order—Costs.
Upon the hearing of such special proceedings, the court shall have full power and jurisdiction to examine and determine the legality and validity of and approve and confirm each and all of the proceedings for the organization of said district under the provisions of this chapter from and including the petition for the organization of the district, and all other proceedings which may affect the legality of the formation of said district or the legality or validity of said bonds, or refunding bonds, and the order for the sale, and the sale thereof, and all proceedings which may affect the authorization or validity of the contract with the United States, or the state of Washington, or other contract. The court, in inquiring into the regularity, legality or correctness of said proceedings, must disregard any error, irregularity or omission which does not affect the substantial rights of the parties to said special proceedings, and it may approve and confirm such proceedings, in part, and disapprove and declare illegal or invalid other or subsequent parts of the proceedings. The court shall find and determine whether the notice of the filing of said petition has been duly given and published for the time and in the manner in this chapter prescribed. The costs of the special proceedings may be allowed and apportioned between all of the parties, in the discretion of the court.
[ 1931 c 60 § 10; 1921 c 129 § 47; 1917 c 162 § 20; 1915 c 179 § 31; 1889-90 p 705 § 77; RRS § 7503. Formerly RCW 87.08.230.]
NOTES:
Notice of special election on bonds: RCW 87.03.200.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.805 - Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Appeal.

RCW 87.03.805
Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Appeal.
An appeal from an order granting or refusing a new trial, or from the judgment, must be taken by the party aggrieved within thirty days after the entry of said order or said judgment.
[ 1915 c 179 § 32; 1889-90 p 705 § 78; RRS § 7504. Formerly RCW 87.08.240.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 87 - Irrigation › Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally. › 87.03.810 - Lump sum payment to district for irrigable lands acquired for highway purposes.

RCW 87.03.810
Lump sum payment to district for irrigable lands acquired for highway purposes.
Whenever lands situated in an irrigation district are acquired by the department of transportation, and the lands, at the time of their acquisition by the department of transportation, were irrigable and were being served or were capable of being served by facilities of the district to the same extent and in the same manner as lands of like character held under private ownership were served, the department of transportation, as part of the cost and expense of the acquisition of rights-of-way and with funds available for the acquisition and at the time of the acquisition, shall make a lump sum payment to the irrigation district in an amount that is:
(1) Sufficient to pay the pro rata share of the district's bonded indebtedness, if any, and the pro rata share of the district's contract indebtedness to the United States or to the state of Washington, if any, allocable to the lands, plus interest on the pro rata share if the indebtedness is not callable in advance of maturity; and
(2) Further, sufficient to pay any deferred installments of local improvement district assessments against the lands, if any; and
(3) Further, sufficient to produce, if invested at an annual rate of interest equivalent to that set forth in current tables issued by the state insurance commissioner, a sum of money equal to the annual increase in operation and maintenance costs against remaining lands in the district resulting from the severance from the district of the lands thus acquired by the department of transportation. For the purposes of determining the amount of the lump sum payment, the annual maintenance and operation assessment of the district shall be considered to be the average for the ten years, or so many years as the district has assessment experience if less than ten years, preceding the date of acquisition.
[ 1984 c 7 § 380; 1959 c 303 § 1. Formerly RCW 87.01.300.]