RCW 85.05.010 Districts authorized—Powers—Management. Any portion of a county requiring diking may be organized into a diking district, and when so organized, such district, and the board of commissioners hereinafter provided for, shall have and possess the power herein conferred or that may hereafter be conferred by law upon such district and board of commissioners, […]
RCW 85.05.065 Certain powers and rights governed by chapter 85.38 RCW. Diking districts shall possess the authority and shall be created, district voting rights shall be determined, and district elections shall be held as provided in chapter 85.38 RCW. [ 1985 c 396 § 31.] NOTES:
RCW 85.05.070 Eminent domain—Powers of district. All diking districts organized under the provisions of this act shall have the right of eminent domain with the power by and through its board of commissioners to cause to be condemned and appropriated private property for the use of said organization, in the construction and maintenance of a […]
RCW 85.05.071 Resolution to construct drainage system. Before entering upon the construction of any system of drainage for the land situated within such diking district, the commissioners thereof shall adopt a resolution which shall contain a brief and general description of the proposed improvement, a statement that the costs thereof shall be paid by warrants […]
RCW 85.05.072 Resolution to construct drainage system—Notice of hearing. Notice of the hearing shall be given by posting in three public places within the district a true copy of the resolution signed by the commissioners of the diking district and attested with the seal thereof, which notice shall be posted for at least ten days […]
RCW 85.05.073 Resolution to construct drainage system—Procedure in absence of objections. At the time fixed, the commissioners shall meet and if no objections have been made to the proposed improvement or to the proposed method of paying the costs thereof, they shall adopt an order reciting that fact and shall thereupon proceed to construct such […]
RCW 85.05.074 Resolution to construct drainage system—Objections to improvement. But if objections in writing are filed either to the proposed improvement or to the proposed method of paying the costs thereof, the commissioners shall proceed to hear and consider the same and may, thereupon, order that such proposed improvement be abandoned for the time being […]
RCW 85.05.075 Resolution to construct drainage system—Assessment of benefits. In case the commissioners at such hearing shall determine that the benefits accruing to any lot or parcel of lands within said district by reason of the construction of such drainage system are greater or less than the amount theretofore fixed in the original or any […]
RCW 85.05.076 Resolution to construct drainage system—Appeal to supreme court—Trial de novo. Any person deeming himself or herself aggrieved by the assessment for benefits made against any lot or parcel of land owned by him or her, may appeal therefrom to the superior court for the county in which the diking district is situated; such […]
RCW 85.05.077 Resolution to construct drainage system—Assessments for drains and dikes to be segregated. In all cases wherein it is finally determined that the assessments for the system of drainage differ from the assessment theretofore made, as to any tract or parcel of land within said diking district, the diking commissioners in making their annual […]
RCW 85.05.078 Resolution to construct drainage system—Bonds to construct drainage system. Authority is hereby given to any diking district heretofore organized, or that may be hereafter organized, to issue bonds of such diking district for the purpose of procuring funds with which to construct a drainage system, such bonds to be issued in accordance with […]
RCW 85.05.079 Resolution to construct drainage system—Appellate review. Either the dike commissioners or any landowner who has appealed to the superior court in accordance with the provisions of *this act may seek appellate review within the time and in the manner prescribed by existing law. [ 1988 c 202 § 72; 1971 c 81 § […]
RCW 85.05.080 Rights-of-way on public land. The right, power and authority to acquire the necessary and needed rights-of-way for any and all purposes now existing by law or created by this act, may be acquired by the commissioners of any diking district over, across and upon any land, or interest therein, of the state of […]
RCW 85.05.081 Organization—Matters to be set in notices, petitions or proceedings. In all proceedings hereafter had to organize diking districts, all notices, petitions or proceedings shall contain and set forth all matters and things required by existing law, and in addition thereto shall contain and set forth, so far as is necessary or applicable, all […]
RCW 85.05.082 Beds and shores of streams granted to district. All the right, title and interest of the state of Washington in and to so much of the beds and shores of any navigable river, stream, waterway or watercourse located within the boundaries of any diking district up to and including the line of ordinary […]
RCW 85.05.083 Auditor to sign petition for his county, when. Whenever the county owns any land situated within the boundaries of a proposed diking district, the county auditor, when so directed by the board of county commissioners of the county in which such lands are situated, is hereby authorized to sign the petition praying for […]
RCW 85.05.085 Commissioners, duty of. The board of dike commissioners shall consist of three elected commissioners. The initial commissioners shall be appointed, and the elected commissioners elected, as provided in chapter 85.38 RCW. The board of dike commissioners shall have the exclusive charge of the construction and maintenance of all dikes or dike systems which […]
RCW 85.05.090 Petition for improvement—Contents. Whenever it is desired to prosecute the construction of a system of dikes within said district, said district, by and through its board of commissioners, shall file a petition in the superior court of the county in which said district is located, setting forth therein the route over which the […]
RCW 85.05.100 Petition for improvement—Employment of assistants—Compensation as costs in suits. In the preparation of the facts and data to be inserted in said petition and filed therewith for the purpose of presenting the matter to the said superior court, the board of commissioners of said diking district may employ one or more good and […]
RCW 85.05.110 Summons—Contents—Service. A summons stating briefly the objects of the petition and containing a description of the land, real estate, premises or property sought to be appropriated, and those which it is claimed will be benefited by the improvement, and stating the court wherein the petition is filed, the date of the filing thereof […]
