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Chapter 87.03 RCW

IRRIGATION DISTRICTS GENERALLY

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

NOTES:

Reviser's note: The language "this act," "this chapter," and words of similar import appear throughout chapter 87.03 RCW. This chapter is almost entirely comprised of the basic irrigation act of 1889-90 p 671 et seq. as amended and as expressly added thereto by subsequent enactments. The chapter is codified in the session law order of the basic act with a few independent sections which are in pari materia being also codified herein. Many sections were added to the basic law by being expressly added to the chapter of the code or compilation in which the basic act was currently published at the time of the particular enactment. Similarly many sections have been amended by reference to the compilation number only. Some of these sections contain legislative language "this act," "this chapter," or both, which appear in the session law either as original legislative language or reenactments by the legislature of a compiler's translation. Therefore, throughout chapter 87.03 RCW such language is retained wherever it appears in the most recent session law enactment. Situations concerning effective dates of particular acts or having express restrictive application are otherwise specially noted.
Deferral of special assessments: Chapter 84.38 RCW.
Disposal of real property on abandonment of irrigation district right-of-way—Right of adjacent owners: RCW 57.90.100.
Local governmental organizations, actions affecting boundaries, etc., review by boundary review board: Chapter 36.93 RCW.
Plats, approval of plat within irrigation districts prohibited without provision for irrigation water: RCW 58.17.310.
Special purpose districts, expenditures to recruit job candidates: RCW 42.24.170.