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HOUSE BILL 1692
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By Representative Rayburn
Read first time 02/05/93. Referred to Committee on Local Government.
AN ACT Relating to irrigation districts; and amending RCW 87.03.135.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 87.03.135 and 1975 1st ex.s. c 163 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
Any irrigation district shall have power to
sell or lease any real estate or personal property owned by such district,
whenever the board of directors shall, by unanimous vote, determine that such
property is not necessary or needed for the use of the district. No sale or
lease of such property shall be made until notice thereof shall be given by
publication at least twenty days before the date of said sale or lease of said
property in some newspaper of general circulation in the county where the
property or part thereof is located, if there be one, and if there be none,
then in some newspaper of general circulation published in an adjoining county,
said publication to be made at least once a week during three consecutive weeks
before the day fixed for the making of such sale or lease, and shall contain
notice of intention of the board of directors to make such sale or lease and
state the time and place at which proposals for such sale or lease will be
considered and at which the sale or lease will be made: PROVIDED, That the
provisions of this section relating to publication of notice shall not apply
when the value of the property to be sold or leased is less than five hundred
dollars. Any such property so sold or leased shall be sold or leased to the
highest and best bidder. ((The provisions of this section shall not apply
to the sale or lease of lands acquired by an irrigation district through its
purchase of said lands for the nonpayment of its irrigation assessments.))
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