Chapter 85.05 RCW

DIKING DISTRICTS

Sections

HTMLPDF 85.05.010Districts authorized—Powers—Management.
HTMLPDF 85.05.065Certain powers and rights governed by chapter 85.38 RCW.
HTMLPDF 85.05.070Eminent domain—Powers of district.
HTMLPDF 85.05.071Resolution to construct drainage system.
HTMLPDF 85.05.072Resolution to construct drainage system—Notice of hearing.
HTMLPDF 85.05.073Resolution to construct drainage system—Procedure in absence of objections.
HTMLPDF 85.05.074Resolution to construct drainage system—Objections to improvement.
HTMLPDF 85.05.075Resolution to construct drainage system—Assessment of benefits.
HTMLPDF 85.05.076Resolution to construct drainage system—Appeal to supreme court—Trial de novo.
HTMLPDF 85.05.077Resolution to construct drainage system—Assessments for drains and dikes to be segregated.
HTMLPDF 85.05.078Resolution to construct drainage system—Bonds to construct drainage system.
HTMLPDF 85.05.079Resolution to construct drainage system—Appellate review.
HTMLPDF 85.05.080Rights-of-way on public land.
HTMLPDF 85.05.081Organization—Matters to be set in notices, petitions or proceedings.
HTMLPDF 85.05.082Beds and shores of streams granted to district.
HTMLPDF 85.05.083Auditor to sign petition for his county, when.
HTMLPDF 85.05.085Commissioners, duty of.
HTMLPDF 85.05.090Petition for improvement—Contents.
HTMLPDF 85.05.100Petition for improvement—Employment of assistants—Compensation as costs in suits.
HTMLPDF 85.05.110Summons—Contents—Service.
HTMLPDF 85.05.120Appearance of defendants—Jury—Verdict—Decree.
HTMLPDF 85.05.135Special assessments—Budgets—Alternative methods.
HTMLPDF 85.05.140Proceedings may be dismissed when.
HTMLPDF 85.05.150Procedure to claim awards.
HTMLPDF 85.05.160Transcript of benefits to auditor—Assessments—Collection.
HTMLPDF 85.05.170Tax to pay cost on dismissal.
HTMLPDF 85.05.180Construction—Contractors—Performance bonds.
HTMLPDF 85.05.190Substantial changes in plans—Procedure.
HTMLPDF 85.05.200Payments on contracts—Retained percentage.
HTMLPDF 85.05.210Private dikes, how connected—Additional plans—Costs.
HTMLPDF 85.05.220Connecting with other diking systems.
HTMLPDF 85.05.230Action by district to prevent washing away of stream banks.
HTMLPDF 85.05.240Action by district to prevent washing away of stream banks—Expenses for appropriation of land.
HTMLPDF 85.05.250Dikes along public road.
HTMLPDF 85.05.260Incorporated town may act as or be included in diking district.
HTMLPDF 85.05.270Estimate for maintenance and repair—Emergency expenditures.
HTMLPDF 85.05.280Organization of board—Warrants, how issued.
HTMLPDF 85.05.355Special assessment bonds.
HTMLPDF 85.05.360Warrants—When and how paid.
HTMLPDF 85.05.365Certificates of delinquency—Foreclosure—Sale—Use of proceeds.
HTMLPDF 85.05.366Funds to purchase delinquent certificates.
HTMLPDF 85.05.367Lands owned by district exempt from taxation.
HTMLPDF 85.05.370Trial—Findings and forms of verdict.
HTMLPDF 85.05.380Public lands subject to assessment—Rights and liabilities of public corporations.
HTMLPDF 85.05.390Assessments on public lands—How paid.
HTMLPDF 85.05.400Fees for service of process.
HTMLPDF 85.05.410Commissioners—Compensation and expenses.
HTMLPDF 85.05.420Powers of court—Injunctions.
HTMLPDF 85.05.430Sale of unneeded property—Authorized.
HTMLPDF 85.05.440Sale of unneeded property—Resolution of intention—Notice of hearing—Publication and posting.
HTMLPDF 85.05.450Sale of unneeded property—Protests—Resolution of final action—Conveyance.
HTMLPDF 85.05.460Sale of unneeded property—Conveyance delayed if protests filed—Appeal.
HTMLPDF 85.05.470Sale of unneeded property—Direct action in superior court by protestant on final order.
HTMLPDF 85.05.490Levy for preliminary expenses.
HTMLPDF 85.05.500Levy for preliminary expenses—Preliminary expenses defined.
HTMLPDF 85.05.540Plat of reclaimed land—Benefits to be determined and paid.
HTMLPDF 85.05.550Plat of reclaimed land—Construction, application of RCW 85.05.510 through 85.05.550.
HTMLPDF 85.05.605Annexation of territory—Consolidation of special districts—Suspension of operations—Reactivation.
HTMLPDF 85.05.610Authority to annex and assume diking and drainage systems erected and operated by United States upon permissive legislation by congress.
HTMLPDF 85.05.620Authority to annex and assume diking and drainage systems erected and operated by United States upon permissive legislation by congress—Indian trust lands and restricted lands may be included, when.
HTMLPDF 85.05.630Authority to annex and assume diking and drainage systems erected and operated by United States upon permissive legislation by congress—Vesting of right, title and interest to dikes and land.
HTMLPDF 85.05.640Authority to annex and assume diking and drainage systems erected and operated by United States upon permissive legislation by congress—Definitions.
HTMLPDF 85.05.650Authority to annex and assume diking and drainage systems erected and operated by United States upon permissive legislation by congress—Ratification and confirmation of prior acts.

NOTES:

Reviser's note: The language "this act," "this chapter," and words of similar import appear throughout chapter 85.05 RCW. This chapter is almost entirely comprised of the basic diking district act of chapter 117, Laws of 1895, 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. Some sections were 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 some sections were amended by reference to the compilation number only. Some of these sections contain the language "this act," "this chapter," or both which appear in the session law either as original language or as reenactments of the compiler's translation. Therefore, throughout chapter 85.05 RCW such language is retained, wherever it appears, in the most recent session law reenactment. Situations concerning effective dates of particular acts or having express restrictive applications are otherwise specially noted.
Validation—1915 c 163: "Section 1. Whenever a petition for the formation of a diking district, under the provisions of section 4092 of Rem. & Bal. Code, shall have been filed with the board of county commissioners of any county, and such petition shall have conformed to the requirements of said section, except that the description of the proposed system of diking, the route over which the same is to be constructed, and the proposed spurs or branches, and the termini thereof, shall not have been definitely set forth in said petition, or said petition shall have been defective in any particular, and whenever said petition shall have been published, as required in section 4093 of Rem. & Bal. Code and a hearing shall have been held thereon, and supplemental petitions shall have been filed, and the board of county commissioners shall have, at the final hearing, entered findings and an order granting the prayer of the petitioners, in whole or in part, as provided in said section 4093, and said board of county commissioners shall have given notice of an election to be held in such proposed diking district, and shall have appointed officers of election in the manner prescribed in section 4094 of Rem. & Bal. Code, and such election shall have been held, and the board of county commissioners shall have counted and canvassed the votes cast thereat, and it shall have appeared that a majority of the votes cast were for "Dike Districts Yes," and the board shall have entered an order upon its records declaring the proposed territory duly organized as a diking district, and given such district a proper number, followed by the name of the county and state, and declared the three persons receiving respectively the highest number of votes the duly elected dike commissioners of such diking district, and caused a copy of the order entered of record, to be duly certified and filed in the office of the secretary of state, in the manner prescribed in section 4095 of Rem. & Bal. Code, the organization of said diking district so attempted to be organized shall be deemed complete, and the organization of any such diking district so attempted to be organized in the manner hereinabove set forth, is hereby validated, and said diking district is hereby declared to be a duly organized and established diking district." [1915 c 163 § 1.]
Special district creation and operation: Chapter 85.38 RCW.