Title 36 — Title 36 COUNTIES
97 chapters · 1,831 sections in this title.
RCW 36.88.370 Signatures on petitions, ballots, objections—Determining sufficiency.
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Wherever herein petitions, ballots or objections are required to be signed by the owners of property, the following rules shall govern the sufficiency thereof: (1) The signature of the record owner as determined by the records of the county auditor shall be sufficient without the…
RCW 36.88.375 Consolidated road improvement districts—Establishment—Bonds.
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For the purpose of issuing bonds only, the governing body of any county may authorize the establishment of consolidated road improvement districts. The road improvements within such consolidated districts need not be adjoining, vicinal, or neighboring. If the governing body order…
RCW 36.88.380 Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Assessments and benefits.
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Whenever a county road improvement district is established for the safeguarding of open canals or ditches as authorized by RCW 36.88.015 the rate of assessment per square foot in the district may be determined by any one of the methods provided in chapter 35.44 RCW for similar im…
RCW 36.88.390 Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Authority.
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Every county shall have the right of entry upon every irrigation, drainage, or flood control canal or ditch right-of-way within its boundaries for all purposes necessary to safeguard the public from the hazards of open canals or ditches, including the right to clean such canals o…
RCW 36.88.400 Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Installation and construction—Costs.
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Any county, establishing a road improvement district for canal protection, notwithstanding any laws to the contrary, may require the district, agency, person, corporation, or association, public or private, which operates and maintains the canal or ditch to supervise the installa…
RCW 36.88.410 Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Declaration of public interest and purpose.
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It is hereby found and declared that the conversion of overhead electric and communication facilities to underground facilities and the initial underground installation of such facilities is substantially beneficial to the public safety and welfare, is in the public interest and …
RCW 36.88.420 Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Definitions.
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As used in RCW 36.88.410 through 36.88.480, unless specifically defined otherwise, or unless the context indicates otherwise:"Conversion area" means that area in which existing overhead electric and communication facilities are to be converted to underground facilities pursuant t…
RCW 36.88.430 Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Powers of county relating to—Contracts—County road improvement districts—Special assessments.
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Every county shall have the power to contract with electric and communication utilities, as hereinafter provided, for any or all of the following purposes:(1) The conversion of existing overhead electric facilities to underground facilities.(2) The conversion of existing overhead…
RCW 36.88.440 Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Contracts with electric and communication utilities—Authorized—Provisions.
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Every county shall have the power to contract with electric and communication utilities for the conversion of existing overhead electric and communication facilities to underground facilities, for the conversion of existing street and road lighting facilities to ornamental street…
RCW 36.88.450 Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Notice to owners to convert service lines to underground—Objections—Hearing—Time limitation for conversion.
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When service from the underground electric and communication facilities is available in all or part of a conversion area, the county shall mail a notice to the owners of all structures or improvements served from the existing overhead facilities in the area, which notice shall st…
RCW 36.88.460 Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Utility conversion guaranty fund—Establishment authorized—Purpose—Deposits—Investments.
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Every county may establish a fund for the purpose of guaranteeing to the extent of such fund and in the manner hereinafter provided, the payment of its county road improvement district bonds and warrants issued to pay for the underground conversion of electric and communication f…
RCW 36.88.470 Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Utility conversion guaranty fund—Operation.
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Whenever there shall be paid out of the guaranty fund any sum on account of principal or interest of a county road improvement district bond or warrant, the county, as trustee for the fund, shall be subrogated to all the rights of the owner of the bond or any interest coupon or w…
RCW 36.88.480 Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Applicability of general provisions relating to county road improvement districts.
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Unless otherwise provided in RCW 36.88.410 through 36.88.480, the general provisions relating to county road improvement districts shall apply to local improvements authorized by RCW 36.88.410 through 36.88.480.[ 1967 c 194 s 8.]
RCW 36.88.485 Underground electric and communication facilities, installation or conversion to—Recording of underground utility installations.
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All installations of underground utilities made on and after August 9, 1971 shall be recorded on an "as constructed" map and filed with the county engineer of the county in which the underground utilities are installed.[ 1971 ex.s. c 103 s 4.]
RCW 36.88.900 Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
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For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to …