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RCWs > Title 35 > Chapter 35.43

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Chapter 35.43 RCW

LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS — AUTHORITY — INITIATION OF PROCEEDINGS

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35.43.005	Municipal local improvement statutes applicable to public corporations.
35.43.010	Terms defined.
35.43.020	Construction.
35.43.030	Charters superseded -- Application -- Ordinances -- Districts outside city authorized, within city authorized for transportation and infrastructure purposes.
35.43.035	Creation of district outside city subject to review by boundary review board.
35.43.040	Authority generally.
35.43.042	Authority to establish utility local improvement districts -- Procedure.
35.43.043	Conversion of local improvement district into utility local improvement district.
35.43.045	Open canals or ditches -- Safeguards.
35.43.050	Authority -- Noncontinuous improvements.
35.43.060	Consolidated cities -- Procedure.
35.43.070	Ordinance -- Action on petition or resolution.
35.43.075	Petition for district outside city may be denied.
35.43.080	Ordinance -- Creation of district.
35.43.100	Ordinance -- Finality -- Limitation upon challenging jurisdiction or authority to proceed.
35.43.110	Petition -- Mandatory, when.
35.43.120	Petition -- Requirements.
35.43.125	Petition -- Notice and public hearing required.
35.43.130	Preliminary estimates and assessment roll.
35.43.140	Resolutions -- Contents, publication -- Hearing, by whom held.
35.43.150	Resolutions -- Hearing upon -- Notice.
35.43.180	Restraint by protest.
35.43.182	Waivers of protest -- Recording -- Limits on enforceability.
35.43.184	Preformation expenditures.
35.43.186	Credits for other assessments.
35.43.188	Assessment reimbursement accounts.
35.43.190	Work -- By contract or by city or public corporation.
35.43.200	Street railways at expense of property benefited.
35.43.210	Street railways at expense of property benefited -- Petition -- Assessment district.
35.43.220	Street railways at expense of property benefited -- Assessment of cost.
35.43.230	Street railways at expense of property benefited -- Procedure.
35.43.250	Deferral of collection of assessments for economically disadvantaged persons -- Authorized.
35.43.260	Service fees for sewers not constructed within ten years after voter approval -- Credit against future assessments, service charges.
35.43.270	Sanitary sewer or potable water facilities -- Notice to certain property owners.
35.43.280	Settlement of Indian claims.

Notes:

Assessment rolls, eminent domain improvements, objections to: RCW 8.12.330.

Assessments
   fire protection districts: RCW 52.20.010.
   first-class cities, special: RCW 35.22.280(10).
   local improvements, may be made by: State Constitution Art. 7 § 9.
   public utility districts: RCW 54.16.160, 54.16.165.

Authority of cities to levy special taxes for: State Constitution Art. 7 § 9.

Bonds, savings and loan associations may invest in: RCW 33.24.080.

Bridges, elevated, ordinance ordering improvement: RCW 35.85.020.

Curbs along streets, construction, reconstruction and repair: Chapter 35.68 RCW.

Eminent domain: Chapter 8.12 RCW.

First-class cities, authority for special assessments: RCW 35.22.280 (10), (13).

Foreclosure of assessments
   curbs and gutter construction and repair: RCW 35.68.070.
   sidewalk construction, second-class cities: RCW 35.70.090.
   sidewalks and driveways across: RCW 35.68.070.

Local improvement districts
   bridges, elevated: RCW 35.85.020.
   metropolitan municipal corporations, effect on: RCW 35.58.500.
   roadways, elevated: RCW 35.85.020.
   subways: RCW 35.85.050.
   tunnels: RCW 35.85.050.
   viaducts: RCW 35.85.020.
   water rights acquisition: RCW 35.92.220.

Metropolitan park districts, assessment against lands adjoining: RCW 35.61.220.

Parking, off-street facilities: RCW 35.86.020.

Pedestrian malls, financing: RCW 35.71.060.

Prepayment of taxes and assessments: RCW 35.21.650.

Roadways, elevated, ordinance ordering improvement: RCW 35.85.020.

Sanitary fills: Chapter 35.73 RCW.

Second-class cities, providing for improvements: RCW 35.23.440(47).

Special assessments: State Constitution Art. 7 § 9.

Streets and alleys
   agreements with county: RCW 35.77.020.
   county furnishing construction and maintenance: RCW 35.77.020.
   county use of road fund: RCW 35.77.030.
   establishing grade, procedure: Chapter 35.73 RCW.

Subways, authority to construct: RCW 35.85.050.

Tunnels, authority to construct: RCW 35.85.050.

Unfit dwellings, assessments for: RCW 35.80.030(1)(h).

Viaducts, ordinance ordering improvement: RCW 35.85.020.

Water rights, acquisition of: RCW 35.92.220.