RCW 36.08.010 Petition and notice of election. If a harbor, inlet, bay, or mouth of river is embraced within two adjoining counties, and an incorporated city is located upon the shore of such harbor, bay, inlet, or mouth of river and it is desired to embrace within the limits of one county, the full extent […]
RCW 36.08.020 Conduct of election—Proclamation of change. The election shall be conducted in all respects as general elections are conducted under the laws governing general elections, in so far as they may be applicable, except that there shall be triplicate returns made, one to each of the respective county auditors and another to the office […]
RCW 36.08.030 Official proceedings not disturbed by transfer. All assessments and collection of taxes, and all judicial or other official proceedings commenced prior to the governor’s proclamation transferring territory to a contiguous county, shall be continued, prosecuted, and completed in the same manner as if no such transfer had been made. [ 1963 c 4 […]
RCW 36.08.040 Local officers to serve out terms. All township, precinct, school, and road district officers within the transferred territory shall continue to hold their respective offices within the county to which they may be transferred until their respective terms of office expire, and until their successors are elected and qualified. [ 1963 c 4 […]
RCW 36.08.050 Transferee county liable for existing debts—Exception. Every county which is thus enlarged by territory taken from another county shall be liable for a just proportion of the existing debts of the county from which such territory is stricken, which proportion shall be paid by the county to which such territory is transferred at […]
RCW 36.08.060 Adjustment of indebtedness. The county auditors of the respective counties interested in the transfer of territory, as in this chapter provided, are constituted a board of appraisers and adjusters, to appraise the property, both real and personal, owned by the county from which the territory is taken, and to adjust the indebtedness of […]
RCW 36.08.070 Arbitration of differences. If the board of appraisers and adjusters do not agree on any subject, value, or settlement, they shall choose a third person from an adjoining county to settle their differences, and the decision thus arrived at shall be final. [ 2009 c 549 § 4002; 1963 c 4 § 36.08.070. […]
RCW 36.08.080 Expense of proceedings. The expense of the proceedings and election provided for in this chapter shall be paid by the county to which the territory is attached. [ 1963 c 4 § 36.08.080. Prior: 1891 c 144 § 8; RRS § 3979.]
RCW 36.08.090 Transcript of records by county auditor. The county auditor of the county to which any territory may be transferred may take transcripts of all records, books, papers, etc., on file in the office of the county auditor of the county from which the territory has been transferred, which may be necessary to perfect […]
RCW 36.08.100 Construction—Limitations. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the annexing of territory of one county to a neighboring county, where the territory proposed to be annexed, or any part thereof, is at a greater distance than ten miles from the courthouse in the county seat of the county to which said […]
