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RCWs > Title 85 > Chapter 85.05

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Chapter 85.05 RCW

DIKING DISTRICTS

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RCW Sections

85.05.010	Districts authorized -- Powers -- Management.
85.05.065	Certain powers and rights governed by chapter 85.38 RCW.
85.05.070	Eminent domain -- Powers of district.
85.05.071	Resolution to construct drainage system.
85.05.072	Resolution to construct drainage system -- Notice of hearing.
85.05.073	Resolution to construct drainage system -- Procedure in absence of objections.
85.05.074	Resolution to construct drainage system -- Objections to improvement.
85.05.075	Resolution to construct drainage system -- Assessment of benefits.
85.05.076	Resolution to construct drainage system -- Appeal to supreme court -- Trial de novo.
85.05.077	Resolution to construct drainage system -- Assessments for drains and dikes to be segregated.
85.05.078	Resolution to construct drainage system -- Bonds to construct drainage system.
85.05.079	Resolution to construct drainage system -- Appellate review.
85.05.080	Rights-of-way on public land.
85.05.081	Organization -- Matters to be set in notices, petitions or proceedings.
85.05.082	Beds and shores of streams granted to district.
85.05.083	Auditor to sign petition for his county, when.
85.05.085	Commissioners, duty of.
85.05.090	Petition for improvement -- Contents.
85.05.100	Petition for improvement -- Employment of assistants -- Compensation as costs in suits.
85.05.110	Summons -- Contents -- Service.
85.05.120	Appearance of defendants -- Jury -- Verdict -- Decree.
85.05.130	Assessment of benefited lands formerly omitted -- Procedure -- Appeals.
85.05.135	Special assessments -- Budgets -- Alternative methods.
85.05.140	Proceedings may be dismissed when.
85.05.150	Procedure to claim awards.
85.05.160	Transcript of benefits to auditor -- Assessments -- Collection.
85.05.170	Tax to pay cost on dismissal.
85.05.180	Construction -- Contractors -- Performance bonds.
85.05.190	Substantial changes in plans -- Procedure.
85.05.200	Payments on contracts -- Retained percentage.
85.05.210	Private dikes, how connected -- Additional plans -- Costs.
85.05.220	Connecting with other diking systems.
85.05.230	Action by district to prevent washing away of stream banks.
85.05.240	Action by district to prevent washing away of stream banks -- Expenses for appropriation of land.
85.05.250	Dikes along public road.
85.05.260	Incorporated town may act as or be included in diking district.
85.05.270	Estimate for maintenance and repair -- Emergency expenditures.
85.05.280	Organization of board -- Warrants, how issued.
85.05.355	Special assessment bonds.
85.05.360	Warrants -- When and how paid.
85.05.365	Certificates of delinquency -- Foreclosure -- Sale -- Use of proceeds.
85.05.366	Funds to purchase delinquent certificates.
85.05.367	Lands owned by district exempt from taxation.
85.05.370	Trial -- Findings and forms of verdict.
85.05.380	Public lands subject to assessment -- Rights and liabilities of public corporations.
85.05.390	Assessments on public lands -- How paid.
85.05.400	Fees for service of process.
85.05.410	Commissioners -- Compensation and expenses.
85.05.420	Powers of court -- Injunctions.
85.05.430	Sale of unneeded property -- Authorized.
85.05.440	Sale of unneeded property -- Resolution of intention -- Notice of hearing -- Publication and posting.
85.05.450	Sale of unneeded property -- Protests -- Resolution of final action -- Conveyance.
85.05.460	Sale of unneeded property -- Conveyance delayed if protests filed -- Appeal.
85.05.470	Sale of unneeded property -- Direct action in superior court by protestant on final order.
85.05.490	Levy for preliminary expenses.
85.05.500	Levy for preliminary expenses -- Preliminary expenses defined.
85.05.540	Plat of reclaimed land -- Benefits to be determined and paid.
85.05.550	Plat of reclaimed land -- Construction, application of RCW 85.05.510 through 85.05.550.
85.05.605	Annexation of territory -- Consolidation of special districts -- Suspension of operations -- Reactivation.
85.05.610	Authority to annex and assume diking and drainage systems erected and operated by United States upon permissive legislation by congress.
85.05.620	Authority to annex and assume diking and drainage systems erected and operated by United States upon permissive legislation by congress -- Indian trust lands and restricted lands may be included, when.
85.05.630	Authority to annex and assume diking and drainage systems erected and operated by United States upon permissive legislation by congress -- Vesting of right, title and interest to dikes and land.
85.05.640	Authority to annex and assume diking and drainage systems erected and operated by United States upon permissive legislation by congress -- Definitions.
85.05.650	Authority to annex and assume diking and drainage systems erected and operated by United States upon permissive legislation by congress -- Ratification and confirmation of prior acts.

Notes:

Reviser's note: The language "this act," "this chapter," and words of similar import appear throughout chapter 85.05 RCW. This chapter is almost entirely comprised of the basic diking district act of chapter 117, Laws of 1895, as amended and as expressly added thereto by subsequent enactments. The chapter is codified in the session law order of the basic act with a few independent sections which are in pari materia being also codified herein. Some sections were expressly added to the chapter of the code or compilation in which the basic act was currently published at the time of the particular enactment. Similarly some sections were amended by reference to the compilation number only. Some of these sections contain the language "this act," "this chapter," or both which appear in the session law either as original language or as reenactments of the compiler's translation. Therefore, throughout chapter 85.05 RCW such language is retained, wherever it appears, in the most recent session law reenactment. Situations concerning effective dates of particular acts or having express restrictive applications are otherwise specially noted.

Validation -- 1915 c 163: "Section 1. Whenever a petition for the formation of a diking district, under the provisions of section 4092 of Rem. & Bal. Code, shall have been filed with the board of county commissioners of any county, and such petition shall have conformed to the requirements of said section, except that the description of the proposed system of diking, the route over which the same is to be constructed, and the proposed spurs or branches, and the termini thereof, shall not have been definitely set forth in said petition, or said petition shall have been defective in any particular, and whenever said petition shall have been published, as required in section 4093 of Rem. & Bal. Code and a hearing shall have been held thereon, and supplemental petitions shall have been filed, and the board of county commissioners shall have, at the final hearing, entered findings and an order granting the prayer of the petitioners, in whole or in part, as provided in said section 4093, and said board of county commissioners shall have given notice of an election to be held in such proposed diking district, and shall have appointed officers of election in the manner prescribed in section 4094 of Rem. & Bal. Code, and such election shall have been held, and the board of county commissioners shall have counted and canvassed the votes cast thereat, and it shall have appeared that a majority of the votes cast were for "Dike Districts Yes," and the board shall have entered an order upon its records declaring the proposed territory duly organized as a diking district, and given such district a proper number, followed by the name of the county and state, and declared the three persons receiving respectively the highest number of votes the duly elected dike commissioners of such diking district, and caused a copy of the order entered of record, to be duly certified and filed in the office of the secretary of state, in the manner prescribed in section 4095 of Rem. & Bal. Code, the organization of said diking district so attempted to be organized shall be deemed complete, and the organization of any such diking district so attempted to be organized in the manner hereinabove set forth, is hereby validated, and said diking district is hereby declared to be a duly organized and established diking district." [1915 c 163 § 1.]

Special district creation and operation: Chapter 85.38 RCW.