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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.86 - Roads and Bridges—Standards. › 36.86.040 - Uniform standard for signs, signals, guideposts—Railroad grade crossings.

RCW 36.86.040
Uniform standard for signs, signals, guideposts—Railroad grade crossings.
The county legislative authority shall erect and maintain upon the county roads such suitable and proper signs, signals, signboards, and guideposts and appropriate stop, caution, warning, restrictive, and directional signs and markings as it deems necessary or as may be required by law. This includes informational signs to address jumping from bridges as authorized in RCW 47.36.410. All such markings shall be in accordance with the uniform state standard of color, design, erection, and location adopted and designed by the Washington state department of transportation. In respect to existing and future railroad grade crossings over county roads the legislative authority shall install and maintain standard, nonmechanical railroad approach warning signs on both sides of the railroad upon the approaches of the county road. All such signs shall be located a sufficient distance from the crossing to give adequate warning to persons traveling on county roads.
[ 2023 c 54 § 5; 1984 c 7 § 40; 1963 c 4 § 36.86.040. Prior: 1955 c 310 § 1; 1937 c 187 § 37; RRS § 6450-37.]
NOTES:
Short title—Intent—Finding—2023 c 54: See notes following RCW 35.21.095.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.86 - Roads and Bridges—Standards. › 36.86.050 - Monuments at government survey corners.

RCW 36.86.050
Monuments at government survey corners.
The board and the road engineer, at the time of establishing, constructing, improving, or paving any county road, shall fix permanent monuments at the original positions of all United States government monuments at township corners, section corners, quarter section corners, meander corners, and witness markers, as originally established by the United States government survey, whenever any such original monuments or markers fall within the right-of-way of any county road, and shall aid in the reestablishment of any such corners, monuments, or markers destroyed or obliterated by the construction of any county road heretofore established, by permitting inspection of the records in the office of the board and the county engineering office.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.86.050. Prior: 1937 c 187 § 36; RRS § 6450-36.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.86 - Roads and Bridges—Standards. › 36.86.060 - Restrictions on use of oil at intersections or entrances to county roads.

RCW 36.86.060
Restrictions on use of oil at intersections or entrances to county roads.
No oil or other material shall be used in the treatment of any county road or private road or driveway, of such consistency, viscosity or nature or in such quantities and in such proximity to the entrance to or intersection with any state highway or county road, the roadway of which is surfaced with cement concrete or asphaltic concrete, that such oil or other material is or will be tracked by vehicles thereby causing a coating or discoloration of such cement concrete or asphaltic concrete roadway. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.86.060. Prior: 1937 c 187 § 43; RRS § 6450-43.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.86 - Roads and Bridges—Standards. › 36.86.070 - Classification of roads in accordance with designations under federal functional classification system.

RCW 36.86.070
Classification of roads in accordance with designations under federal functional classification system.
From time to time the legislative authority of each county shall classify and designate as the county primary road system such county roads as are designated rural minor collector, rural major collector, rural minor arterial, rural principal arterial, urban collector, urban minor arterial, and urban principal arterial in the federal functional classification system.
[ 1982 c 145 § 2; 1963 c 4 § 36.86.070. Prior: 1949 c 165 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 6450-8h.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.86 - Roads and Bridges—Standards. › 36.86.080 - Application of design standards to construction and reconstruction.

RCW 36.86.080
Application of design standards to construction and reconstruction.
Upon the adoption of uniform design standards the legislative authority of each county shall apply the same to all new construction within, and as far as practicable and feasible to reconstruction of old roads comprising, the county primary road system. No deviation from such design standards as to such primary system may be made without the approval of the state aid engineer for the department of transportation.
[ 1982 c 145 § 3; 1963 c 4 § 36.86.080. Prior: 1949 c 165 § 4; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 6450-8k.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.86 - Roads and Bridges—Standards. › 36.86.090 - Logs dumped on right-of-way—Removal—Confiscation.

RCW 36.86.090
Logs dumped on right-of-way—Removal—Confiscation.
Logs dumped on any county road right-of-way or in any county road drainage ditch due to hauling equipment failure, or for any other reason, shall be removed within ten days. Logs remaining within any county road right-of-way for a period of thirty days shall be confiscated and removed or disposed of as directed by the boards of county commissioners in the respective counties. Confiscated logs may be sold by the county commissioners and the proceeds thereof shall be deposited in the county road fund.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.86.090. Prior: 1951 c 143 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.86 - Roads and Bridges—Standards. › 36.86.100 - Railroad grade crossings—Obstructions.

RCW 36.86.100
Railroad grade crossings—Obstructions.
Each railroad company shall keep its right-of-way clear of all brush and timber in the vicinity of a railroad grade crossing with a county road for a distance of one hundred feet from the crossing in such a manner as to permit a person upon the road to obtain an unobstructed view in both directions of an approaching train or other on-track equipment. The county legislative authority shall cause brush and timber to be cleared from the right-of-way of county roads in the proximity of a railroad grade crossing for a distance of one hundred feet from the crossing in such a manner as to permit a person traveling upon the road to obtain an unobstructed view in both directions of an approaching train or other on-track equipment. It is unlawful to erect or maintain a sign, signboard, or billboard within a distance of one hundred feet from the point of intersection of the road and railroad grade crossing located outside the corporate limits of any city or town unless, after thirty days notice to the Washington utilities and transportation commission and the railroad operating the crossing, the county legislative authority determines that it does not obscure the sight distance of a person operating a vehicle or train approaching the grade crossing.
When a person who has erected or who maintains such a sign, signboard, or billboard or when a railroad company permits such brush or timber in the vicinity of a railroad grade crossing with a county road or permits the surface of a grade crossing to become inconvenient or dangerous for passage and who has the duty to maintain it, fails, neglects, or refuses to remove or cause to be removed such brush, timber, sign, signboard, or billboard, or maintain the surface of the crossing, the utilities and transportation commission upon complaint of the county legislative authority or upon complaint of any party interested, or upon its own motion, shall enter upon a hearing in the manner now provided for hearings with respect to railroad-highway grade crossings, and make and enforce proper orders for the removal of the brush, timber, sign, signboard or billboard, or maintenance of the crossing. Nothing in this section prevents the posting or maintaining thereon of highway or road signs or traffic devices giving directions or distances for the information of the public when the signs conform to the "Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Devices" issued by the state department of transportation. The county legislative authority shall inspect highway grade crossings and make complaint of the violation of any provisions of this section.
[ 2017 c 87 § 4; 1983 c 19 § 1; 1963 c 4 § 36.86.100. Prior: 1955 c 310 § 6.]
NOTES:
Railroad grade crossings, obstructions: RCW 47.32.140.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.87 - Roads and Bridges—Vacation. › 36.87.010 - Resolution of intention to vacate.

RCW 36.87.010
Resolution of intention to vacate.
When a county road or any part thereof is considered useless, the board by resolution entered upon its minutes, may declare its intention to vacate and abandon the same or any portion thereof and shall direct the county road engineer to report upon such vacation and abandonment.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 185 § 1; 1963 c 4 § 36.87.010. Prior: 1937 c 187 § 48; RRS § 6450-48.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.87 - Roads and Bridges—Vacation. › 36.87.020 - County road frontage owners' petition—Bond, cash deposit, or fee.

RCW 36.87.020
County road frontage owners' petition—Bond, cash deposit, or fee.
Owners of the majority of the frontage on any county road or portion thereof may petition the county legislative authority to vacate and abandon the same or any portion thereof. The petition must show the land owned by each petitioner and set forth that such county road is useless as part of the county road system and that the public will be benefited by its vacation and abandonment. The legislative authority may (1) require the petitioners to make an appropriate cash deposit or furnish an appropriate bond against which all costs and expenses incurred in the examination, report, and proceedings pertaining to the petition shall be charged; or (2) by ordinance or resolution require the petitioners to pay a fee adequate to cover such costs and expenses.
[ 1991 c 363 § 89; 1985 c 369 § 4; 1963 c 4 § 36.87.020. Prior: 1937 c 187 § 49, part; RRS § 6450-49, part.]
NOTES:
Purpose—Captions not law—1991 c 363: See notes following RCW 2.32.180.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.87 - Roads and Bridges—Vacation. › 36.87.030 - County road frontage owners' petition—Action on petition.

RCW 36.87.030
County road frontage owners' petition—Action on petition.
On the filing of the petition and bond and on being satisfied that the petition has been signed by petitioners residing in the vicinity of the county road or portion thereof, the board shall direct the county road engineer to report upon such vacation and abandonment.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.87.030. Prior: 1937 c 187 § 49, part; RRS § 6450-49, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.87 - Roads and Bridges—Vacation. › 36.87.040 - Engineer's report.

RCW 36.87.040
Engineer's report.
When directed by the board the county road engineer shall examine any county road or portion thereof proposed to be vacated and abandoned and report his or her opinion as to whether the county road should be vacated and abandoned, whether the same is in use or has been in use, the condition of the road, whether it will be advisable to preserve it for the county road system in the future, whether the public will be benefited by the vacation and abandonment, and all other facts, matters, and things which will be of importance to the board, and also file his or her cost bill.
[ 2009 c 549 § 4139; 1963 c 4 § 36.87.040. Prior: 1937 c 187 § 50; RRS § 6450-50.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.87 - Roads and Bridges—Vacation. › 36.87.050 - Notice of hearing on report.

RCW 36.87.050
Notice of hearing on report.
Notice of hearing upon the report for vacation and abandonment of a county road shall be published at least once a week for two consecutive weeks preceding the date fixed for the hearing, in the county official newspaper and a copy of the notice shall be posted for at least twenty days preceding the date fixed for hearing at each termini of the county road or portion thereof proposed to be vacated or abandoned.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.87.050. Prior: 1937 c 187 § 51, part; RRS § 6450-51, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.87 - Roads and Bridges—Vacation. › 36.87.060 - Hearing.

RCW 36.87.060
Hearing.
(1) On the day fixed for the hearing, the county legislative authority shall proceed to consider the report of the engineer, together with any evidence for or objection against such vacation and abandonment. If the county road is found useful as a part of the county road system it shall not be vacated, but if it is not useful and the public will be benefited by the vacation, the county legislative authority may vacate the road or any portion thereof. Its decision shall be entered in the minutes of the hearing.
(2) As an alternative, the county legislative authority may appoint a hearing officer to conduct a public hearing to consider the report of the engineer and to take testimony and evidence relating to the proposed vacation. Following the hearing, the hearing officer shall prepare a record of the proceedings and a recommendation to the county legislative authority concerning the proposed vacation. Their decision shall be made at a regular or special public meeting of the county legislative authority.
[ 1985 c 369 § 5; 1963 c 4 § 36.87.060. Prior: 1937 c 187 § 51, part; RRS § 6450-51, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.87 - Roads and Bridges—Vacation. › 36.87.070 - Expense of proceeding.

RCW 36.87.070
Expense of proceeding.
If the county legislative authority has required the petitioners to make a cash deposit or furnish a bond, upon completion of the hearing, it shall certify all costs and expenses incurred in the proceedings to the county treasurer and, regardless of its final decision, the county legislative authority shall recover all such costs and expenses from the bond or cash deposit and release any balance to the petitioners.
[ 1985 c 369 § 6; 1963 c 4 § 36.87.070. Prior: 1937 c 187 § 51, part; RRS § 6450-51, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.87 - Roads and Bridges—Vacation. › 36.87.080 - Majority vote required.

RCW 36.87.080
Majority vote required.
No county road shall be vacated and abandoned except by majority vote of the board properly entered, or by operation of law, or judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 185 § 2; 1963 c 4 § 36.87.080. Prior: 1937 c 187 § 51, part; RRS § 6450-51, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.87 - Roads and Bridges—Vacation. › 36.87.090 - Vacation of road unopened for five years—Exceptions.

RCW 36.87.090
Vacation of road unopened for five years—Exceptions.
Any county road, or part thereof, which remains unopen for public use for a period of five years after the order is made or authority granted for opening it, shall be thereby vacated, and the authority for building it barred by lapse of time: PROVIDED, That this section shall not apply to any highway, road, street, alley, or other public place dedicated as such in any plat, whether the land included in such plat is within or without the limits of an incorporated city or town, or to any land conveyed by deed to the state or to any county, city or town for highways, roads, streets, alleys, or other public places.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.87.090. Prior: 1937 c 187 § 52; RRS § 6450-52.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.87 - Roads and Bridges—Vacation. › 36.87.100 - Classification of roads for which public expenditures made—Compensation of county.

RCW 36.87.100
Classification of roads for which public expenditures made—Compensation of county.
Any board of county commissioners may, by ordinance, classify all county roads for which public expenditures were made in the acquisition, improvement or maintenance of the same, according to the type and amount of expenditures made and the nature of the county's property interest in the road; and may require persons benefiting from the vacation of county roads within some or all of the said classes to compensate the county as a condition precedent to the vacation thereof.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 185 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.87 - Roads and Bridges—Vacation. › 36.87.110 - Classification of roads for which no public expenditures made—Compensation of county.

RCW 36.87.110
Classification of roads for which no public expenditures made—Compensation of county.
Any board of county commissioners may, by ordinance, separately classify county roads for which no public expenditures have been made in the acquisition, improvement or maintenance of the same, according to the nature of the county's property interest in the road; and may require persons benefiting from the vacation of county roads within some or all of the said classes to compensate the county as a condition precedent to the vacation thereof.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 185 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.87 - Roads and Bridges—Vacation. › 36.87.120 - Appraised value as basis for compensation—Appraisal costs.

RCW 36.87.120
Appraised value as basis for compensation—Appraisal costs.
Any ordinance adopted pursuant to this chapter may require that compensation for the vacation of county roads within particular classes shall equal all or a percentage of the appraised value of the vacated road as of the effective date of the vacation. In determining the appropriate compensation for the road or right-of-way, the board may adjust the appraised value to reflect the value of the transfer of liability or risk, the increased value to the public in property taxes, the avoided costs for management or maintenance, and any limits on development or future public benefit. Costs of county appraisals of roads pursuant to such ordinances shall be deemed expenses incurred in vacation proceedings, and shall be paid in the manner provided by RCW 36.87.070.
[ 2016 c 19 § 2; 1969 ex.s. c 185 § 6.]
NOTES:
Intent—2016 c 19: "The intent of the legislature is to update outdated local road statutes to provide taxpayers with lower road maintenance costs and greater road efficiencies." [ 2016 c 19 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.87 - Roads and Bridges—Vacation. › 36.87.130 - Vacation of roads abutting bodies of water—When authorized.

RCW 36.87.130
Vacation of roads abutting bodies of water—When authorized. (Effective until December 31, 2023.)
No county shall vacate a county road or part thereof which abuts on a body of salt or freshwater unless:
(1) The purpose of the vacation is to enable any public authority to acquire the vacated property for port purposes, boat moorage or launching sites, or for park, viewpoint, recreational, educational, or other public purposes;
(2) The property is zoned for industrial uses; or
(3) In a county west of the crest of the Cascade mountains and bordered by the Columbia river with a population over four hundred fifty thousand, the county determines that:
(a) The road has been used as an access point to trespass onto private property;
(b) Such trespass has caused loss of human life, and that public use of the county road creates an ongoing risk to public safety; and
(c) Public access to the same body of water abutting the county road is available at not less than three public access sites within two miles in any direction of the terminus of the road subject to vacation.
[ 2020 c 300 § 1; 1969 ex.s. c 185 § 7.]
NOTES:
Expiration date—2020 c 300 § 1: "Section 1 of this act expires December 31, 2023." [ 2020 c 300 § 2.]
No county shall vacate a county road or part thereof which abuts on a body of salt or fresh water unless the purpose of the vacation is to enable any public authority to acquire the vacated property for port purposes, boat moorage or launching sites, or for park, viewpoint, recreational, educational or other public purposes, or unless the property is zoned for industrial uses.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 185 § 7.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.87 - Roads and Bridges—Vacation. › 36.87.140 - Retention of easement for public utilities and services.

RCW 36.87.140
Retention of easement for public utilities and services.
Whenever a county road or any portion thereof is vacated the legislative body may include in the resolution authorizing the vacation a provision that the county retain an easement in respect to the vacated land for the construction, repair, and maintenance of public utilities and services which at the time the resolution is adopted are authorized or are physically located on a portion of the land being vacated: PROVIDED, That the legislative body shall not convey such easement to any public utility or other entity or person but may convey a permit or franchise to a public utility to effectuate the intent of this section. The term "public utility" as used in this section shall include utilities owned, operated, or maintained by every gas company, electrical company, telephone company, telegraph company, and water company whether or not such company is privately owned or owned by a governmental entity.
[ 1975 c 22 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.010 - Districts authorized—Purposes.

RCW 36.88.010
Districts authorized—Purposes.
All counties have the power to create county road improvement districts for the acquisition of rights-of-way and improvement of county roads, existing private roads that will become county roads as a result of this improvement district process and, with the approval of the state department of transportation, state highways; for the construction or improvement of necessary drainage facilities, bulkheads, retaining walls, and other appurtenances therefor, bridges, culverts, sidewalks, curbs and gutters, escalators, or moving sidewalks; and for the draining or filling of drainage potholes or swamps. Such counties have the power to levy and collect special assessments against the real property specially benefited thereby for the purpose of paying the whole or any part of the cost of such acquisition of rights-of-way, construction, or improvement.
[ 1985 c 400 § 3; 1985 c 369 § 7; 1965 c 60 § 1; 1963 c 84 § 1; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.010. Prior: 1959 c 134 § 1; 1951 c 192 § 1.]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: This section was amended by 1985 c 369 § 7 and by 1985 c 400 § 3, each without reference to the other. Both amendments are incorporated in the publication of this section pursuant to RCW 1.12.025(2). For rule of construction, see RCW 1.12.025(1).
County may fund improvements to state highways: RCW 36.75.035.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.015 - Additional purposes.

RCW 36.88.015
Additional purposes.
All counties have the power to create county road improvement districts for the construction, installation, improvement, operation, and maintenance of street and road lighting systems for any county roads, and subject to the approval of the state department of transportation, for state highways, and for safeguards to protect the public from hazards of open canals, flumes, or ditches, and the counties have the power to levy and collect special assessments against the real property specially benefited thereby for the purpose of paying the whole or any part of the cost of the construction, installation, or improvement together with the expense of furnishing electric energy, maintenance, and operation.
[ 1984 c 7 § 41; 1965 c 60 § 2; 1963 c 84 § 2; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.015. Prior: 1959 c 75 § 4; 1953 c 152 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.020 - Formation of district—How initiated.

RCW 36.88.020
Formation of district—How initiated.
County road improvement districts may be initiated either by resolution of the board of county commissioners or by petition signed by the owners according to the records of the office of the county auditor of property to an aggregate amount of the majority of the lineal frontage upon the contemplated improvement and of the area within the limits of the county road improvement district to be created therefor.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.020. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.035 - Notice must contain statement that assessments may vary from estimates.

RCW 36.88.035
Notice must 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 county road 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 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.040 - Formation of district—By resolution of intention—Election—Rules.

RCW 36.88.040
Formation of district—By resolution of intention—Election—Rules.
The election provided herein for cases where the improvement is initiated by resolution shall be governed by the following rules: (1) All ballots must be signed by the owner or reputed owner of property within the proposed district according to the records of the county auditor; (2) each ballot must be returned to the clerk of the board not later than one week after the public hearing; (3) each property owner shall have one vote for each full dollar of estimated assessment against his or her property as determined by the preliminary estimates and assessment roll; (4) the valid ballots shall be tabulated and a majority of the votes cast shall determine whether the formation of the district shall be approved or rejected.
[ 2009 c 549 § 4140; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.040. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.062 - Formation of district—Committee or hearing officer may conduct hearings—Report to legislative authority.

RCW 36.88.062
Formation of district—Committee or hearing officer may conduct hearings—Report to legislative authority.
In lieu of the county legislative authority holding the hearing under RCW 36.88.060 to create the road improvement district, the county legislative authority may adopt an ordinance providing for a committee of the county legislative authority or an officer to conduct the hearings. The committee or hearing officer shall report recommendations on the resolution to the full county legislative authority for final action, which need not hold a hearing on the proposed assessment role and shall either adopt or reject the recommendations.
[ 1994 c 71 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.065 - Formation of district—Alternative method.

RCW 36.88.065
Formation of district—Alternative method.
If the county legislative authority desires to initiate the formation of a county road improvement district by resolution, it may elect to follow either the procedure set forth in chapter 35.43 RCW or the procedure set forth in RCW 36.88.030, and shall indicate the procedure selected in the resolution of intention.
[ 1985 c 369 § 10.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.070 - Diagram only preliminary determination.

RCW 36.88.070
Diagram only preliminary determination.
The diagram or print herein directed to be submitted to the board shall be in the nature of a preliminary determination upon the method, and estimated amounts, of assessments to be levied upon the property specially benefited by such improvement and shall in no case be construed as being binding or conclusive as to the amount of any assessments which may ultimately be levied.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.070. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 7.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.072 - Waivers of protest—Recording—Limits on enforceability.

RCW 36.88.072
Waivers of protest—Recording—Limits on enforceability.
If an owner of property enters into an agreement with a county waiving the property owner's right under RCW 36.88.030, 36.88.040, 36.88.050, 36.88.060, and 36.88.065 to protest formation of a road improvement district, the agreement must specify the improvements to be financed by the district and shall set forth the effective term of the agreement, which shall not exceed ten years. The agreement must be recorded with the auditor of the county in which the property is located. It is against public policy and void for an owner, by agreement, as a condition imposed in connection with proposed property development, or otherwise, to waive rights to object to the property owner's individual assessment (including the determination of special benefits allocable to the property), or to appeal to the superior court the decision of the county council affirming the final assessment roll.
[ 1988 c 179 § 12.]
NOTES:
Severability—Prospective application—Section captions—1988 c 179: See RCW 39.92.900 and 39.92.901.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.074 - Preformation expenditures.

RCW 36.88.074
Preformation expenditures.
The county engineer or other designated official may contract with owners of real property to provide for payment by the owners of the cost of the preparation of engineering plans, surveys, studies, appraisals, legal services, and other expenses associated with improvements to be financed in whole or in part by a local improvement district (not including the cost of actual construction of such improvements), that the owners elect to undertake. The contract may provide for reimbursement to the owner of such costs from the proceeds of bonds issued by the district after formation of a district under this chapter, from assessments paid to the district as appropriate, or by a credit in the amount of such costs against future assessments assessed against such property. Such reimbursement shall be made to the owner of the property at the time of reimbursement. The contract shall also provide that such costs shall not be reimbursed to the owner if a district to construct the specified improvements (as the project may be amended) is not formed within six years of the date of the contract. The contract shall provide that any preformation work shall be conducted only under the direction of the county engineer or other appropriate county authority.
[ 1988 c 179 § 13.]
NOTES:
Severability—Prospective application—Section captions—1988 c 179: See RCW 39.92.900 and 39.92.901.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.076 - Credits for other assessments.

RCW 36.88.076
Credits for other assessments.
A county ordering a road improvement upon which special assessments on property specifically benefited by the improvements are levied and collected, may provide as part of the ordinance creating the road improvement district that moneys paid or the cost of facilities constructed by a property owner in the district in satisfaction of obligations under chapter 39.92 RCW, shall be credited against assessments due from the owner of such property at the time the credit is made, if those moneys paid or facilities constructed directly defray the cost of the specified improvements under the district and if credit for such amounts is reflected in the final assessment roll confirmed for the district.
[ 1988 c 179 § 14.]
NOTES:
Severability—Prospective application—Section captions—1988 c 179: See RCW 39.92.900 and 39.92.901.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.078 - Assessment reimbursement accounts.

RCW 36.88.078
Assessment reimbursement accounts.
A county ordering a road improvement upon which special assessments on property specifically benefited by the improvement are levied and collected, may provide as part of the ordinance creating the road improvement district that the payment of an assessment levied for the district on underdeveloped properties may be made by owners of other properties within the district if they so elect, subject to terms of reimbursement set forth in the ordinance. The terms for reimbursement shall require the owners of underdeveloped properties on whose behalf payments of assessments have been made to reimburse all such assessment payments to the party who made them when those properties are developed or redeveloped, together with interest at a rate specified in the ordinance. The ordinance may provide that reimbursement shall be made on a one-time, lump sum basis, or may provide that reimbursement shall be made over a period not to exceed five years. The ordinance may provide that reimbursement shall be made no later than the time of dissolution of the district, or may provide that no reimbursement is due if the underdeveloped properties are not developed or redeveloped before the dissolution of the district. Reimbursement amounts due from underdeveloped properties under this section are liens upon the underdeveloped properties in the same manner and with like effect as assessments made under this chapter. For the purposes of this section, "underdeveloped properties" may include those properties that, in the discretion of the county legislative authority, (1) are undeveloped or are not developed to their highest and best use, and (2) are likely to be developed or redeveloped before the dissolution of the district.
[ 1988 c 179 § 15.]
NOTES:
Severability—Prospective application—Section captions—1988 c 179: See RCW 39.92.900 and 39.92.901.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.080 - Property included in district—Method of assessment—Assessment limited by benefit.

RCW 36.88.080
Property included in district—Method of assessment—Assessment limited by benefit.
Every resolution ordering any improvement mentioned in this chapter, payment for which shall be in whole or in part by special assessments shall establish a road improvement district which shall embrace as near as may be all the property specially benefited by such improvement and the board shall apply thereto such method of assessment as shall be deemed most practical and equitable under the conditions prevailing: PROVIDED, That no assessment as determined by the board of commissioners shall be levied which shall be greater than the special benefits derived from the improvements.
[ 1963 c 84 § 5; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.080. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 8.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.085 - Exemption of farm and agricultural land from special benefit assessments.

RCW 36.88.085
Exemption of farm and agricultural land from special benefit assessments.
See RCW 84.34.300 through 84.34.380 and 84.34.922.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.095 - Assessment roll—Committee or officer may conduct hearing—Recommendations to legislative authority—Appeals.

RCW 36.88.095
Assessment roll—Committee or officer may conduct hearing—Recommendations to legislative authority—Appeals.
In lieu of the county legislative authority holding the hearing on assessment roll under RCW 36.88.090 as the board of equalization, the county legislative authority may adopt an ordinance providing for a committee of the county legislative authority or an officer to conduct the hearing on the assessment roll as the board of equalization.
A committee or an officer that sits as a board of adjustment [equalization] shall conduct a hearing on the proposed assessment roll and shall make recommendations to the full county legislative authority, which need not hold a hearing on the proposed assessment roll and shall either adopt or reject the recommendations. The ordinance shall provide for an appeal procedure by which a property owner may protest his or her assessment that is proposed by the committee or officer to the full county legislative authority and the full county legislative authority may reject or accept any appealed protested assessment and if accepted shall modify the assessment roll accordingly.
[ 1994 c 71 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.100 - Appeal—Reassessment.

RCW 36.88.100
Appeal—Reassessment.
The decision of the board upon any objections made within the time and in the manner herein prescribed may be reviewed by the superior court upon an appeal taken thereto in the manner provided for taking appeals from objections in local improvement districts of cities and towns.
The board shall have the same powers of reassessment and shall proceed to make such reassessments in the same manner and subject to the same limitations as are provided by law for the making of reassessments in local improvement districts of cities and towns.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.100. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 10.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.110 - Assessment roll—Conclusive.

RCW 36.88.110
Assessment roll—Conclusive.
Whenever any assessment roll for construction or improvements shall have been confirmed by the board, as provided in this chapter, the regularity, validity and correctness of the proceedings relating to such construction or improvement and to the assessment therefor, including the action of the board on such assessment roll and the confirmation thereof, shall be conclusive in all things upon all parties and cannot in any manner be contested or questioned in any proceeding whatsoever by any person not filing written objection to such roll in the manner and within the time provided in this chapter, and not appealing from the action of the board in confirming such assessment roll in the manner and within the time provided in this chapter. No proceedings of any kind shall be commenced or prosecuted for the purpose of defeating or contesting any such assessment or for the sale of any property to pay such assessment or any certificate of delinquency issued therefor or the foreclosure of any lien issued therefor, but this section shall not be construed as prohibiting the bringing of injunction proceedings to prevent the sale of any real estate upon the grounds that the property about to be sold does not appear upon the assessment roll, or that the assessment has been paid.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.110. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 11.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.120 - Assessment is lien on property—Superiority.

RCW 36.88.120
Assessment is lien on property—Superiority.
The charge on the respective lots, tracts, parcels of land and other property for the purpose of special assessment to pay the cost and expense in whole or in part of any construction or improvement authorized in this chapter, when assessed, and the assessment roll confirmed by the board shall be a lien upon the property assessed from the time said assessment rolls shall be placed in the hands of the county treasurer for collection. Said liens shall be paramount and superior to any other lien or encumbrance whatsoever, theretofore or thereafter created, except a lien for general taxes.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.120. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 12.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.130 - County treasurer—Duties.

RCW 36.88.130
County treasurer—Duties.
The county treasurer is hereby designated as the treasurer of all county road improvement districts created hereunder, and shall collect all road improvement district assessments, and the duties and responsibilities herein imposed upon him or her shall be among the duties and responsibilities of his or her office for which his or her bond is given as county treasurer.
[ 2009 c 549 § 4141; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.130. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 13.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.140 - Payment of assessment—Delinquent assessments—Penalties—Lien foreclosure.

RCW 36.88.140
Payment of assessment—Delinquent assessments—Penalties—Lien foreclosure.
The county legislative authority shall prescribe by resolution within what time such assessment or installments thereof shall be paid, and shall provide for the payment and collection of interest and the rate of interest to be charged on that portion of any assessment which remains unpaid over thirty days after such date. Assessments or installments thereof which are delinquent, shall bear, in addition to such interest, such penalty not less than five percent as shall be prescribed by resolution. Interest and penalty shall be included in and shall be a part of the assessment lien. All liens acquired by the county hereunder shall be foreclosed by the appropriate county officers in the same manner and subject to the same rights of redemption provided by law for the foreclosure of liens held by cities or towns against property in local improvement districts.
[ 1981 c 156 § 11; 1970 ex.s. c 66 § 3; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.140. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 14.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.145 - Property donations—Credit against assessments.

RCW 36.88.145
Property donations—Credit against assessments.
The county legislative authority may give credit for all or any portion of any property donation against an assessment, charge, or other required financial contribution for transportation improvements within a county road improvement district. The credit granted is available against any assessment, charge, or other required financial contribution for any transportation purpose that uses the donated property.
[ 1987 c 267 § 11.]
NOTES:
Right-of-way donations: Chapter 47.14 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.150 - Payment of assessment—Record of.

RCW 36.88.150
Payment of assessment—Record of.
Whenever before the sale of any property the amount of any assessment thereon, with interest, penalty, costs and charges accrued thereon, shall be paid to the treasurer, he or she shall thereon mark the same paid with the date of payment thereof on the assessment roll.
[ 2009 c 549 § 4142; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.150. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 15.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.160 - District fund—Purposes—Bond redemptions.

RCW 36.88.160
District fund—Purposes—Bond redemptions.
All moneys collected by the treasurer upon any assessments under this chapter shall be kept as a separate fund to be known as ". . . . . ., county road improvement district No. . . . . fund." Such funds shall be used for no other purpose than the payment of costs and expense of construction and improvement in such district and the payment of interest or principal of warrants and bonds drawn or issued upon or against said fund for said purposes. Whenever after payment of the costs and expenses of the improvement there shall be available in the local improvement district fund a sum, over and above the amount necessary to meet the interest payments next accruing on outstanding bonds, sufficient to retire one or more outstanding bonds the treasurer shall forthwith call such bond or bonds for redemption as determined in the bond authorizing ordinance.
[ 2003 c 139 § 3; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.160. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 16.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2003 c 139: See note following RCW 35.45.180.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.170 - Foreclosed property—Held in trust for district.

RCW 36.88.170
Foreclosed property—Held in trust for district.
Whenever any property shall be bid in by any county or be stricken off to any county under and by virtue of any proceeding for enforcement of the assessment provided in this chapter said property shall be held in trust by said county for the fund of the improvement district for the creation of which fund said assessment was levied and for the collection of which assessment said property was sold: PROVIDED, Such county may at any time after the procuring of a deed pay in to such fund the amount of the delinquent assessment for which said property was sold and all accrued interest and interest to the time of the next call for bonds or warrants issued against such assessment fund at the rate provided thereon, and thereupon shall take and hold said property discharged of such trust: PROVIDED FURTHER, That property deeded to any county and which shall become a part of the trust being exercised by the said county for the benefit of any local improvement district fund of the said county, shall be exempt from taxation for general, state, county and municipal purposes during the period that it is so held.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.170. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 17.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.180 - Foreclosed property—Sale or lease—Disposition of proceeds.

RCW 36.88.180
Foreclosed property—Sale or lease—Disposition of proceeds.
Any county may at any time after a deed is issued to it under and by virtue of any proceeding mentioned in this chapter, lease or sell or convey any such property at public or private sale for such price and on such terms as may be determined by resolution of the board, and all proceeds resulting from such sale shall ratably belong to and be paid into the fund of the county road improvement district or districts concerned after first reimbursing any fund or funds having advanced any money on account of said property.
[ 1963 c 4 § 36.88.180. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 18.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 36 - Counties › Chapter 36.88 - County Road Improvement Districts. › 36.88.190 - Improvement bonds, warrants authorized.

RCW 36.88.190
Improvement bonds, warrants authorized.
(1) The county legislative authority may provide for the payment of the whole or any portion of the cost and expense of any duly authorized road improvement by bonds and/or warrants of the improvement district which bonds shall be issued and sold as herein provided, but no bonds shall be issued in excess of the cost and expense of the project nor shall they be issued prior to twenty days after the thirty days allowed for the payment of assessments without penalty or interest.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, such bonds and warrants may be issued and sold in accordance with chapter 39.46 RCW.
[ 1983 c 167 § 93; 1963 c 4 § 36.88.190. Prior: 1951 c 192 § 19.]
NOTES:
Liberal construction—Severability—1983 c 167: See RCW 39.46.010 and note following.