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Special District Creation and Operation (Revised Code of Washington (RCW): Title 85 Diking and Drainage; Chapter 85.38)

Pays/Territoire
États-Unis d'Amérique
Sous-division territoriale
State of Washington
Type du document
Législation
Date
2018
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Sujet
Eau
Mot clé
Inondation Drainage/assèchement Collectivité locale Gouvernance Questions de procédures Participation du public Royalties/redevances Taxe/impôt Fonds spécial Bassin/captage/bassin versant Eaux continentales
Aire géographique
Amériques, Arctique, Pacifique du Est, Amérique du Nord, Atlantique Nord
Résumé

This Chapter of the Revised Code of Washington (RCW) concerns special district creation and operation. Its purpose is to provide uniform and simplified procedures for the creation, elections, and operations of various special districts that provide diking, drainage, and flood control facilities and services. More specifically, the Chapter provides for actions subject to review by boundary review board; establishment of special districts, petition or resolution, and contents; investigation of proposed boundaries and districts, and report; proposed special districts, public hearing, notice; public hearing, elections; elections, notice, costs; governing board, terms of office, election, appointment, vacancies, and qualifications; governing body, compensation and expenses; governing body, bond; governing body, reduction in size; general elections; voting rights; presumed eligible voters' list, notice of requirements of voting authority, copy of voter's list to county auditor; special district financing and alternative method; rates and charges; special assessments, valuation, assessment zones, criteria for assessments; systems of assessment, hearing, notice, adoption of ordinance, appeals, review, and emergency assessment; applicable assessed value; budgets, special assessments, notice, delinquent special assessments, and collection fee; special districts and powers; construction of improvements, when public bidding not required, and use of district employees or volunteers; annexation of contiguous territory and procedures; consolidation of contiguous districts and procedures; withdrawal of area within city or town; transfer of territory from one special district to another; drainage and drainage improvement districts, removal of area by first­class city, and notice; suspension of operations, procedure, and reactivation; alternative dissolution procedure, drainage and drainage improvement districts, and conditions; special assessment bonds authorized; special assessment bonds, issuance, and terms; special assessment bonds, and guaranty fund; special assessment bonds, and refunding; cooperative watershed management; and flood control districts, three or more counties, and governing body.

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Anglais
Site web
leg.wa.gov