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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5132

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senators McCaslin and Rasmussen

Read first time 1/16/89 and referred to Committee on Governmental Operations.

AN ACT Relating to local improvement district notices; and amending RCW 35.43.150 and 35.44.080.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 35.43.150, chapter 7, Laws of 1965 as amended by section 2, chapter 303, Laws of 1983 and RCW 35.43.150 are each amended to read as follows:

          Notice of the hearing upon a resolution declaring the intention of the legislative authority of a city or town to order an improvement shall be given by mail at least fifteen days before the day fixed for hearing to the owners or reputed owners of all lots, tracts, and parcels of land or other property to be specially benefited by the proposed improvement, as shown on the rolls of the county assessor, directed to the address thereon shown.

          The notice shall include a complete copy of the legal description of the lot, tract, or parcel as it appears on the deed as recorded in the office in which deeds are recorded for the county, and shall set forth the nature of the proposed improvement, the estimated cost, and the estimated benefits of the particular lot, tract, or parcel.

        Sec. 2.  Section 35.44.080, chapter 7, Laws of 1965 as amended by section 2, chapter 100, Laws of 1979 ex. sess. and RCW 35.44.080 are each amended to read as follows:

          The notice of hearing upon the assessment roll shall include a complete copy of the legal description of the lot, tract, or parcel as it appears on the deed as recorded in the office in which deeds are recorded for the county, shall specify the time and place of hearing, and shall notify all persons who may desire to object thereto:

          (1) To make their objections in writing and to file them with the city or town clerk at or prior to the date fixed for the hearing;

          (2) That at the time and place fixed and at times to which the hearing may be adjourned, the council will sit as a board of equalization for the purpose of considering the roll; and

          (3) That at the hearing the council or committee or officer will consider the objections made and will correct, revise, raise, lower, change, or modify the roll or any part thereof or set aside the roll and order the assessment to be made de novo.

          Following the hearing the council shall confirm the roll by ordinance.