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Washington Statutes, Title 36

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Title 36, COUNTIES

97 chapters · 1,836 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 361,836 Ch 36.70A, Growth management—Planning by select…148 Ch 36.70, Planning enabling act.115 Ch 36.32, County commissioners.83 Ch 36.88, County road improvement districts.65 Ch 36.94, Sewerage, water, and drainage systems.56 Ch 36.69, Park and recreation districts.51 Ch 36.01, General provisions.50 Ch 36.34, County property.41 Ch 36.04, County boundaries.40 Ch 36.28A, Association of sheriffs and police c…38 Ch 36.68, Parks and recreational facilities.38 Ch 36.57A, Public transportation benefit areas.35 Ch 36.75, Roads and bridges—General provisions.35 Ch 36.93, Local governmental organization—Boun…35

1,836 sections·Filtered byTitle 36✕

RCW 36.88.085 Exemption of farm and agricultural land from special benefit assessments.
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See RCW 84.34.300 through 84.34.380 and 84.34.922.
RCW 36.88.090 Assessment roll—Hearing—Notice—Objections—New hearing.
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Whenever the assessment roll for any county road improvement district has been prepared, such roll shall be filed with the clerk of the county legislative authority. The county legislative authority shall thereupon by resolution set the date for hearing upon such roll before a bo…
RCW 36.88.095 Assessment roll—Committee or officer may conduct hearing—Recommendations to legislative authority—Appeals.
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In lieu of the county legislative authority holding the hearing on assessment roll under RCW 36.88.090 as the board of equalization, the county legislative authority may adopt an ordinance providing for a committee of the county legislative authority or an officer to conduct the …
RCW 36.88.100 Appeal—Reassessment.
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The decision of the board upon any objections made within the time and in the manner herein prescribed may be reviewed by the superior court upon an appeal taken thereto in the manner provided for taking appeals from objections in local improvement districts of cities and towns. …

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RCW 36.88.110 Assessment roll—Conclusive.

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Whenever any assessment roll for construction or improvements shall have been confirmed by the board, as provided in this chapter, the regularity, validity and correctness of the proceedings relating to such construction or improvement and to the assessment therefor, including th…

RCW 36.88.120 Assessment is lien on property—Superiority.

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The charge on the respective lots, tracts, parcels of land and other property for the purpose of special assessment to pay the cost and expense in whole or in part of any construction or improvement authorized in this chapter, when assessed, and the assessment roll confirmed by t…

RCW 36.88.130 County treasurer—Duties.

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The county treasurer is hereby designated as the treasurer of all county road improvement districts created hereunder, and shall collect all road improvement district assessments, and the duties and responsibilities herein imposed upon him or her shall be among the duties and res…

RCW 36.88.140 Payment of assessment—Delinquent assessments—Penalties—Lien foreclosure.

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The county legislative authority shall prescribe by resolution within what time such assessment or installments thereof shall be paid, and shall provide for the payment and collection of interest and the rate of interest to be charged on that portion of any assessment which remai…

RCW 36.88.145 Property donations—Credit against assessments.

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The county legislative authority may give credit for all or any portion of any property donation against an assessment, charge, or other required financial contribution for transportation improvements within a county road improvement district. The credit granted is available agai…

RCW 36.88.150 Payment of assessment—Record of.

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Whenever before the sale of any property the amount of any assessment thereon, with interest, penalty, costs and charges accrued thereon, shall be paid to the treasurer, he or she shall thereon mark the same paid with the date of payment thereof on the assessment roll. [ 2009 c 5…

RCW 36.88.160 District fund—Purposes—Bond redemptions.

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All moneys collected by the treasurer upon any assessments under this chapter shall be kept as a separate fund to be known as ". . . . . ., county road improvement district No. . . . . fund." Such funds shall be used for no other purpose than the payment of costs and expense of c…

RCW 36.88.170 Foreclosed property—Held in trust for district.

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Whenever any property shall be bid in by any county or be stricken off to any county under and by virtue of any proceeding for enforcement of the assessment provided in this chapter said property shall be held in trust by said county for the fund of the improvement district for t…

RCW 36.88.180 Foreclosed property—Sale or lease—Disposition of proceeds.

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Any county may at any time after a deed is issued to it under and by virtue of any proceeding mentioned in this chapter, lease or sell or convey any such property at public or private sale for such price and on such terms as may be determined by resolution of the board, and all p…

RCW 36.88.190 Improvement bonds, warrants authorized.

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(1) The county legislative authority may provide for the payment of the whole or any portion of the cost and expense of any duly authorized road improvement by bonds and/or warrants of the improvement district which bonds shall be issued and sold as herein provided, but no bonds …

RCW 36.88.200 Improvement bonds—Form, contents, execution.

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(1) Such bonds shall be numbered from one upwards consecutively, shall be in such denominations as may be provided by the county legislative authority in the resolution authorizing their issuance, shall mature on or before a date not to exceed twenty-two years from and after thei…

RCW 36.88.210 Improvement bonds—Issuance—Sale—Deposit of proceeds.

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(1) The bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter may be issued to the contractor or sold by the county legislative authority as authorized by the resolution directing their issuance at not less than their par value and accrued interest to the date of delivery. No bonds s…

RCW 36.88.220 Improvement bonds—Guaranty fund.

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All counties 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 road improvement district bonds and warrants issued to pay for any road improvement ordered under this chapter. If the county le…

RCW 36.88.230 Improvement bonds—Guaranty fund in certain counties—Operation.

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Whenever there shall be paid out of a guaranty fund any sum on account of principal or interest of a 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 warrant so…

RCW 36.88.235 Improvement bonds—Guaranty fund assets may be transferred to county general fund—When.

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(1) Any county maintaining a local improvement guaranty fund under this chapter, upon certification by the county treasurer that the local improvement guaranty fund has sufficient funds currently on hand to meet all valid outstanding obligations of the fund and all other obligati…

RCW 36.88.240 Improvement bonds—Repayment restricted to special funds—Remedies of bond owner—Notice of restrictions.

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The owner of any bond or warrant issued under the provisions of this chapter shall not have any claim therefor against the county by which the same is issued, except for payment from the special assessments made for the improvement for which said bond or warrant was issued and ex…

RCW 36.88.250 Improvement bonds—Remedies of bond owners—Enforcement.

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If the board fails to cause any bonds to be paid when due or to promptly collect any assessments when due, the owner of any of the bonds may proceed in his or her own name to collect the assessments and foreclose the lien thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction and shall r…

RCW 36.88.260 Assessment where bonds issued—Payment in installments.

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In all cases where the board shall issue bonds to pay the cost and expense of any county road improvement district and shall provide that the whole or any part of the cost and expense shall be assessed against the lots, tracts, parcels of land, and other property therein, the res…

RCW 36.88.270 Assessment where bonds issued—Payment in cash—Notice of assessment.

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The owner of any lot, tract, or parcel of land, or other property charged with any such assessments may redeem the same from all or any portion of the liability for the cost and expense of such improvement by paying the entire assessment or any portion thereof charged against suc…

RCW 36.88.280 Assessment where bonds issued—Payment in cash during installment period—Duties of county treasurer—Use of funds.

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The owners of any lot, tract, or parcel of land may save the same from all liability for the unpaid amount of the assessment, at any time after the thirty-day period herein provided for their payment without interest, by paying the entire amount or all installments on said assess…

RCW 36.88.290 Limitation of actions.

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An action to collect any special assessment or installment thereof for road improvements, or to enforce the lien of any such assessment or installment, whether such action be brought by the county or by the holder of any certificate of delinquency, or by any other person having t…

RCW 36.88.295 Refunding bonds—Limitations.

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The legislative authority of any county may issue and sell bonds to refund outstanding road improvement district or consolidated road improvement district bonds issued after June 7, 1984, on the earliest date such outstanding bonds may be redeemed following the date of issuance o…

RCW 36.88.300 District costs and expenses—What to include.

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Whenever any district is organized hereunder, there shall be included in the cost and expense thereof: (1) The cost of all of the construction or improvement authorized in the district, including that portion of the construction or improvement within the limits of any street or r…

RCW 36.88.305 District costs and expenses—Credit or reduction of assessments.

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At its option, a county may include the value of right-of-way or property that is donated or given to the county for purposes of an improvement to be financed by a road improvement district, together with the costs of acquiring other rights-of-way or property for the improvement …

RCW 36.88.310 Acquisition of property—Eminent domain.

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All land, premises or property necessary for right-of-way or other purposes in the construction or improvement of any county road, including bridges, sidewalks, curbs and gutters and the drainage facilities therefor, under this chapter may be acquired by the county acting through…

RCW 36.88.320 Construction or improvement—Supervision—Contracts—Standards.

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All construction or improvement performed under this chapter shall be under the direction of the board of county commissioners, acting by and through the county road engineer, or such other engineer as the board of county commissioners shall designate. Contracts let and/or work p…

RCW 36.88.330 Warrants—Issuance—Priority—Acceptance.

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The board may provide by resolution for the issuance of warrants in payment of the costs and expenses of any project, payable out of the county road improvement fund. The warrants shall be redeemed either in cash or by bonds for the same project authorized by the resolution. All …

RCW 36.88.340 Participation of county road fund—Arrangements with other public agencies, private utilities.

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Except as they may establish continuing guaranty fund requirements, the board of county commissioners shall be the sole judges as to the extent of county road fund participation in any project under this chapter and the decisions of the board shall be final; the said board may re…

RCW 36.88.350 Maintenance—Expense.

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After the completion of any construction or improvement under this chapter, all maintenance thereof shall be performed by the county at the expense of the county road fund, excepting furnishing electric energy for and operating and maintaining street and road lighting systems: PR…

RCW 36.88.360 State, county, school, municipal corporation lands—Assessment—Recipients of notices, ballots.

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Lands owned by the state, county, school district or any municipal corporation may be assessed and charged for road improvements authorized under this chapter in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as provided by law for assessments against such property for local …

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 …

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 overhe…

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 …

RCW 36.89.010 Definitions.

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The words "governmental agency" as used in this chapter mean the United States of America, the state or any agency, subdivision, taxing district or municipal or quasi municipal corporation thereof. The word "highways" as used in this chapter means all public roads, streets, expre…