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Title 87 - Irrigation
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Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally.
Chapter 87.03 - Irrigation Districts Generally.
87.03.001 Actions subject to review by boundary review board—Exceptions.
87.03.005 District proposed—Powers, when organized.
87.03.010 Certain purposes for which district may be formed.
87.03.013 Development of hydroelectric generation capabilities—Legislative finding, intent—Limitation.
87.03.015 Certain powers of district enumerated.
87.03.0155 Contract and formation powers.
87.03.016 District may provide street lighting—Limitations.
87.03.017 District may assist residential owners in financing for conservation of energy—When—Plan—Limitations.
87.03.0175 District assistance for conservation, improvement, preservation, and efficient use.
87.03.018 Creation of legal authority to carry out powers—Method—Indebtedness.
87.03.019 Cooperative watershed management.
87.03.020 Organization of district—Petition—Bond—Notice—Hearing—Order—Notice of election.
87.03.025 State lands situated in or taken into district—Procedure—Assessments, collection.
87.03.030 Elections are governed by irrigation district laws.
87.03.031 Absentee voting—Certification of inconvenience.
87.03.032 Absentee voting—Notice of election, contents—Ballot and form of certificate of qualifications to be furnished.
87.03.033 Absentee voting—Requirements for ballot to be counted—Statement of qualifications—Form of ballot.
87.03.034 Absentee voting—How incoming ballots are handled—Canvass—Statement of result of both regular and absentee ballots.
87.03.035 Elections to form district—How conducted.
87.03.040 Elections to form district—Canvass of returns—Order.
87.03.045 Qualifications of voters and directors—Districts of two hundred thousand acres.
87.03.051 Qualifications of voters and directors—Districts of less than two hundred thousand acres.
87.03.071 Certain districts—Individual ownerships—Two votes.
87.03.075 Ballots in all elections—Declaration of candidacy—Petition of nomination—When election not required.
87.03.080 Directors—Election—Terms—Increase and decrease.
87.03.081 Directors—Vacancies, how filled.
87.03.082 Directors—Oaths of office—Secretary.
87.03.083 Directors—Recall and discharge.
87.03.085 Post-organization district elections—Election boards—Notice.
87.03.090 Post-organization district elections—Election officers—Voting hours.
87.03.095 Post-organization district elections—Counting votes—Record of ballots.
87.03.100 Post-organization district elections—Certification of returns—Preservation for recount.
87.03.105 Post-organization district elections—Canvass.
87.03.110 Post-organization district elections—Statement of result of election—Certificate of election.
87.03.115 Organization of board—Meetings—Quorum—Certain powers and duties.
87.03.120 System of drainage, sanitary sewers, or sewage disposal or treatment plants—Question—Notice—Meeting—Resolution.
87.03.125 System of drainage, sanitary sewers, or sewage disposal or treatment plants—Powers upon passage of resolution.
87.03.130 District change of name.
87.03.135 Sale or lease of district personal property.
87.03.136 Sale or lease of district real property.
87.03.137 Purchase or condemnation for developing hydroelectric generation capabilities—Limitations.
87.03.138 Civil immunity of directors, officers, employees, or agents for good faith performance of official duties.
87.03.139 Lawful disposal of sewage and waste by others—Immunity.
87.03.140 Board's powers and duties generally—Condemnation procedure.
87.03.145 Condemnation—Finding of benefits and damages—Judgment—Costs.
87.03.150 Condemnation—Title acquired by district.
87.03.155 Conveyances—Actions by and against district.
87.03.158 Officers, employees, agents—Legal representation—Costs of defense.
87.03.160 Group insurance—Purchase.
87.03.162 Liability insurance for officials and employees.
87.03.165 Proposed works—Surveys, maps and plans to be prepared.
87.03.170 Proposed works—Certification filed with director of ecology.
87.03.175 Proposed works—Director's findings to district board.
87.03.180 Proposed works—Substance of director's findings.
87.03.185 Proposed works—Reclamation Service may make findings.
87.03.190 Proposed works—Plan of development—Special election.
87.03.195 Proposed works—Certain irrigation districts excepted.
87.03.200 Bonds—Election for—Form and contents—Exchange—Cancellation—Sale and issue—Reissue—Election concerning contract with United States—Penalty.
87.03.205 Sections exclusive of other bonding methods—Validation.
87.03.210 Sale or pledge of bonds.
87.03.215 Payment of bonds and interest, other indebtedness—Lien, enforcement of—Scope of section.
87.03.235 Rights of federal agencies as to certain district bonds.
87.03.240 Assessments, how and when made—Assessment roll.
87.03.245 Deputy secretaries for assessment.
87.03.250 Assessment roll to be filed—Notice of equalization.
87.03.255 Equalization of assessments.
87.03.260 Levies, amount—Special funds—Failure to make levy, procedure.
87.03.265 Lien of assessment.
87.03.270 Assessments, when delinquent—Assessment book, purpose—Statement of assessments due—Collection—Additional fee for delinquency.
87.03.271 Lien for delinquent assessment to include costs and interest.
87.03.272 Secretary may act as collection agent of nondelinquent assessments—Official bond—Collection procedure—Delinquency list.
87.03.275 Medium of payment of assessments.
87.03.277 Payment by credit cards, charge cards, and other electronic communication.
87.03.280 Cancellation of assessments due United States—Procedure.
87.03.285 Segregation of assessment—Authorization.
87.03.290 Segregation of assessment—Hearing.
87.03.295 Segregation of assessment—Notice of hearing.
87.03.300 Segregation of assessment—Order.
87.03.305 Segregation of assessment—Amendment of roll—Effect.
87.03.420 Evidence of assessment, what is.
87.03.430 Bonds—Interest payments.
87.03.435 Construction work—Notice—Bids—Contracts—Bonds.
87.03.436 Small works roster.
87.03.437 Competitive bids—Use of purchase contract process in RCW 39.04.190.
87.03.438 "County treasurer," "treasurer of the county," defined.
87.03.440 Treasurer—County treasurer as ex officio district treasurer—Designated district treasurer—Duties and powers—Bond—Claims—Preliminary notice requirements when claim for crop damage.
87.03.441 Temporary funds.
87.03.442 Bonds of secretary and depositaries.
87.03.443 Upgrading and improvement fund authorized—Deposits—Use of funds.
87.03.445 Acquisition, construction, and operating funds—Tolls and assessments, alternative methods of—Liens, foreclosure of—Delinquencies by tenants.
87.03.450 Income from sale of electricity.
87.03.455 District's right to cross other property.
87.03.460 Compensation and expenses of directors, officers, employees.
87.03.470 Special assessments—Election—Notes.
87.03.475 Power as to incurring indebtedness.
87.03.480 Local improvement districts—Petition.
87.03.485 Local improvement districts—Notice—Hearing—Initiation by board, procedure.
87.03.486 Local improvement districts—Notice to contain statement that assessments may vary from estimates.
87.03.487 Local improvement districts—Sanitary sewer or potable water facilities—Notice to certain property owners.
87.03.490 Local improvement districts—Adoption of plan—Bonds, form and contents—New lands may be included.
87.03.492 Local improvement districts—Bonds, valid claim—General indebtedness.
87.03.495 Local improvement districts—Costs of the improvement—Assessments—Disposal of bonds.
87.03.500 Local improvement districts—Payment of bonds.
87.03.505 Local improvement districts—L.I.D. unable to pay costs—Survey—Reassessments.
87.03.510 Local improvement districts—Irrigation district L.I.D. guarantee fund.
87.03.515 Local improvement districts—Refunding bonds.
87.03.520 Local improvement districts—Contracts with state or United States for local improvement work.
87.03.522 Irrigation district authorized to finance local improvements with general district funds.
87.03.525 Local improvement districts—Provisions applicable to districts formerly organized.
87.03.526 Local improvement districts—Safeguarding open canals or ditches—Assessments and benefits.
87.03.527 Local improvement districts—Alternative methods of formation.
87.03.530 Consolidation of irrigation districts—Authorization—Merger of smaller irrigation districts.
87.03.535 Consolidation of irrigation districts—Proceedings for consolidation—Elections.
87.03.540 Consolidation of irrigation districts—Directors—Disposition of affairs of included districts.
87.03.545 Consolidation of irrigation districts—Obligations of included districts unaffected.
87.03.550 Consolidation of irrigation districts—Property vested in new district—Credit.
87.03.551 Consolidation of irrigation districts—Procedures supplemental to boundary change provisions.
87.03.553 Consolidated local improvement districts for bond issuance.
87.03.555 Change of boundaries authorized—Effect.
87.03.560 Adding lands to district—Petition, contents—Acknowledgment.
87.03.565 Adding lands to district—Notice—Contents—Service.
87.03.570 Adding lands to district—Hearing—Assent.
87.03.575 Adding lands to district—Payment for benefits received required.
87.03.580 Adding lands to district—Order.
87.03.585 Adding lands to district—Resolution.
87.03.590 Adding lands to district—Election—Notice—How conducted.
87.03.595 Adding lands to district—Order changing boundaries—Record.
87.03.600 Adding lands to district—Change of boundaries recorded—Effect.
87.03.605 Adding lands to district—Petition to be recorded—Admissible as evidence.
87.03.610 Adding lands to district—Guardian, administrator or executor may act.
87.03.615 Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Petition.
87.03.620 Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Time and place of hearing—Notice.
87.03.625 Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Contents of notice.
87.03.630 Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Hearing—Order including lands.
87.03.635 Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Denial of petition.
87.03.640 Adding lands to districts of two hundred thousand acres—Order filed—Effect.
87.03.645 Exclusion of lands from district—Effect.
87.03.650 Exclusion of lands from district—Petition to exclude lands—Contents.
87.03.655 Exclusion of lands from district—Notice—Contents—Service.
87.03.660 Exclusion of lands from district—Hearing—Assent.
87.03.665 Exclusion of lands from district—Order denying or granting petition.
87.03.670 Exclusion of lands from district—Assent of bondholders.
87.03.675 Exclusion of lands from district—Order for election—Notice—Conduct of election.
87.03.680 Exclusion of lands from district—Procedure following election—Order of exclusion.
87.03.685 Exclusion of lands from district—Orders to be recorded—Effect.
87.03.690 Exclusion of lands from district—Guardian, executor or administrator may sign and acknowledge.
87.03.695 Exclusion of lands from district—Refunds—Cancellation of assessments.
87.03.700 Connecting system to lower drainage district—Procedure.
87.03.705 Connecting system to lower drainage district—Negative finding by jury or court.
87.03.710 Connecting system to lower drainage district—Affirmative finding by jury or court—Assessments.
87.03.715 Connecting system to lower drainage district—Increased maintenance costs.
87.03.720 Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, consolidated drainage improvement, or water-sewer district—Power to assent.
87.03.725 Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, consolidated drainage improvement, or water-sewer district—Notice—Contents—Publication—Show cause against merger.
87.03.730 Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, or consolidated drainage improvement district—Hearing—Failure to show cause deemed assent.
87.03.735 Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, or consolidated drainage improvement district—Assent, refusal to assent—Effect of show cause against merger.
87.03.740 Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, or consolidated drainage improvement district—Election.
87.03.745 Merger of district with drainage, joint drainage, or consolidated drainage improvement district—Order of assent or refusal—Filing.
87.03.750 Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Resolution.
87.03.755 Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Notice of hearing—Contents.
87.03.760 Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Adoption of resolution—Appellate review.
87.03.765 Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Indebtedness may be reduced.
87.03.770 Exclusion of nonirrigable land when state holds all outstanding bonds—Reconveyance of excluded land formerly foreclosed to district.
87.03.775 Map of district.
87.03.780 Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Authorization.
87.03.785 Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Petition—Contents.
87.03.790 Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Notice of hearing.
87.03.795 Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Demurrer or answer—Procedure.
87.03.800 Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Jurisdiction of court—Order—Costs.
87.03.805 Proceedings for judicial confirmation—Appeal.
87.03.810 Lump sum payment to district for irrigable lands acquired for highway purposes.
87.03.815 Lump sum payment to district for irrigable lands acquired for highway purposes—Order relieving further district assessments.
87.03.820 Disposal of real property—Right of adjacent owners.
87.03.825 Hydroelectric resources—Development—Legislative findings.
87.03.828 Hydroelectric resources—Separate legal authority—Creation by irrigation districts and cities, towns, or public utility districts—Powers.
87.03.831 Hydroelectric resources—Separate legal authority—Procedures for membership and for construction and acquisition of facilities.
87.03.834 Hydroelectric resources—Separate legal authority—Voter ratification of actions.
87.03.837 Hydroelectric resources—Separate legal authority—Repayment of indebtedness—Powers.
87.03.840 Chapter supplementary—When.
87.03.845 Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Proceedings to initiate—Notice—Hearing.
87.03.847 Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Denial or adoption of request for merger—Notice—Elections—Notification of merger.
87.03.849 Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Board of directors—Transfer of property and assets.
87.03.851 Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Bonds or obligations not impaired—Enforcement of assessments and obligations—Establishment of local improvement district to carry out obligations.
87.03.853 Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Statement of property and assets of minor district.
87.03.855 Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Merger of more than two districts.
87.03.857 Merger of minor irrigation district into major irrigation district—Existing water rights not impaired.
87.03.860 Assumption of substandard water system—Limited immunity from liability.
87.03.870 Mutual aid agreements for emergency interdistrict assistance—Authority—Liability.
87.03.880 Tariff for irrigation pumping service—Authority to buy back electricity.
87.03.900 Construction—1913 c 165.
87.03.920 Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.