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Chapter 35.43 RCW

LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS—AUTHORITY—INITIATION OF PROCEEDINGS

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HTMLPDF 35.43.005Municipal local improvement statutes applicable to public corporations.
HTMLPDF 35.43.010Terms defined.
HTMLPDF 35.43.020Construction.
HTMLPDF 35.43.030Charters superseded—Application—Ordinances—Districts outside city authorized, within city authorized for transportation and infrastructure purposes.
HTMLPDF 35.43.035Creation of district outside city subject to review by boundary review board.
HTMLPDF 35.43.040Authority generally.
HTMLPDF 35.43.042Authority to establish utility local improvement districts—Procedure.
HTMLPDF 35.43.043Conversion of local improvement district into utility local improvement district.
HTMLPDF 35.43.045Open canals or ditches—Safeguards.
HTMLPDF 35.43.050Authority—Noncontinuous improvements.
HTMLPDF 35.43.060Consolidated cities—Procedure.
HTMLPDF 35.43.070Ordinance—Action on petition or resolution.
HTMLPDF 35.43.075Petition for district outside city may be denied.
HTMLPDF 35.43.080Ordinance—Creation of district.
HTMLPDF 35.43.100Ordinance—Finality—Limitation upon challenging jurisdiction or authority to proceed.
HTMLPDF 35.43.110Petition—Mandatory, when.
HTMLPDF 35.43.120Petition—Requirements.
HTMLPDF 35.43.125Petition—Notice and public hearing required.
HTMLPDF 35.43.130Preliminary estimates and assessment roll.
HTMLPDF 35.43.140Resolutions—Contents, publication—Hearing, by whom held.
HTMLPDF 35.43.150Resolutions—Hearing upon—Notice.
HTMLPDF 35.43.180Restraint by protest.
HTMLPDF 35.43.182Waivers of protest—Recording—Limits on enforceability.
HTMLPDF 35.43.184Preformation expenditures.
HTMLPDF 35.43.186Credits for other assessments.
HTMLPDF 35.43.188Assessment reimbursement accounts.
HTMLPDF 35.43.190Work—By contract or by city or public corporation.
HTMLPDF 35.43.200Street railways at expense of property benefited.
HTMLPDF 35.43.210Street railways at expense of property benefited—Petition—Assessment district.
HTMLPDF 35.43.220Street railways at expense of property benefited—Assessment of cost.
HTMLPDF 35.43.230Street railways at expense of property benefited—Procedure.
HTMLPDF 35.43.250Deferral of collection of assessments for economically disadvantaged persons—Authorized.
HTMLPDF 35.43.260Service fees for sewers not constructed within ten years after voter approval—Credit against future assessments, service charges.
HTMLPDF 35.43.270Sanitary sewer or potable water facilities—Notice to certain property owners.
HTMLPDF 35.43.280Settlement of Indian claims.

Notes:

Assessment rolls, eminent domain improvements, objections to: RCW 8.12.330.
Assessments
fire protection districts: RCW 52.20.010.
first-class cities, special: RCW 35.22.280(10).
local improvements, may be made by: State Constitution Art. 7 s 9.
public utility districts: RCW 54.16.160, 54.16.165.
Authority of cities to levy special taxes for: State Constitution Art. 7 s 9.
Bonds, savings and loan associations may invest in: RCW 33.24.080.
Bridges, elevated, ordinance ordering improvement: RCW 35.85.020.
Curbs along streets, construction, reconstruction and repair: Chapter 35.68 RCW.
Eminent domain: Chapter 8.12 RCW.
First-class cities, authority for special assessments: RCW 35.22.280 (10), (13).
Foreclosure of assessments
curbs and gutter construction and repair: RCW 35.68.070.
sidewalk construction, second-class cities: RCW 35.70.090.
sidewalks and driveways across: RCW 35.68.070.
Local improvement districts
bridges, elevated: RCW 35.85.020.
metropolitan municipal corporations, effect on: RCW 35.58.500.
roadways, elevated: RCW 35.85.020.
subways: RCW 35.85.050.
tunnels: RCW 35.85.050.
viaducts: RCW 35.85.020.
water rights acquisition: RCW 35.92.220.
Metropolitan park districts, assessment against lands adjoining: RCW 35.61.220.
Parking, off-street facilities: RCW 35.86.020.
Pedestrian malls, financing: RCW 35.71.060.
Prepayment of taxes and assessments: RCW 35.21.650.
Roadways, elevated, ordinance ordering improvement: RCW 35.85.020.
Sanitary fills: Chapter 35.73 RCW.
Second-class cities, providing for improvements: RCW 35.23.440(47).
Special assessments: State Constitution Art. 7 s 9.
Streets and alleys
agreements with county: RCW 35.77.020.
county furnishing construction and maintenance: RCW 35.77.020.
county use of road fund: RCW 35.77.030.
establishing grade, procedure: Chapter 35.73 RCW.
Subways, authority to construct: RCW 35.85.050.
Tunnels, authority to construct: RCW 35.85.050.
Unfit dwellings, assessments for: RCW 35.80.030(1)(h).
Viaducts, ordinance ordering improvement: RCW 35.85.020.
Water rights, acquisition of: RCW 35.92.220.