RCW 85.05.100
Petition for improvement—Employment of assistants—Compensation as costs in suits.
In the preparation of the facts and data to be inserted in said petition and filed therewith for the purpose of presenting the matter to the said superior court, the board of commissioners of said diking district may employ one or more good and competent surveyors and drafters to assist them in compiling data required to be presented to the court with said petition as hereinbefore provided, and such legal assistance as may be necessary, with full power to bind said district for the compensation of such assistants or employees employed by them, and such services shall be taxed as costs in the suit.
[ 2013 c 23 § 383; 1895 c 117 § 10; RRS § 4259. Formerly RCW 85.04.055, part.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 85 - Diking and Drainage
Chapter 85.05 - Diking Districts.
85.05.010 - Districts authorized—Powers—Management.
85.05.065 - Certain powers and rights governed by chapter 85.38 RCW.
85.05.070 - Eminent domain—Powers of district.
85.05.071 - Resolution to construct drainage system.
85.05.072 - Resolution to construct drainage system—Notice of hearing.
85.05.073 - Resolution to construct drainage system—Procedure in absence of objections.
85.05.074 - Resolution to construct drainage system—Objections to improvement.
85.05.075 - Resolution to construct drainage system—Assessment of benefits.
85.05.076 - Resolution to construct drainage system—Appeal to supreme court—Trial de novo.
85.05.078 - Resolution to construct drainage system—Bonds to construct drainage system.
85.05.079 - Resolution to construct drainage system—Appellate review.
85.05.080 - Rights-of-way on public land.
85.05.081 - Organization—Matters to be set in notices, petitions or proceedings.
85.05.082 - Beds and shores of streams granted to district.
85.05.083 - Auditor to sign petition for his county, when.
85.05.085 - Commissioners, duty of.
85.05.090 - Petition for improvement—Contents.
85.05.100 - Petition for improvement—Employment of assistants—Compensation as costs in suits.
85.05.110 - Summons—Contents—Service.
85.05.120 - Appearance of defendants—Jury—Verdict—Decree.
85.05.130 - Assessment of benefited lands formerly omitted—Procedure—Appeals.
85.05.135 - Special assessments—Budgets—Alternative methods.
85.05.140 - Proceedings may be dismissed when.
85.05.150 - Procedure to claim awards.
85.05.160 - Transcript of benefits to auditor—Assessments—Collection.
85.05.170 - Tax to pay cost on dismissal.
85.05.180 - Construction—Contractors—Performance bonds.
85.05.190 - Substantial changes in plans—Procedure.
85.05.200 - Payments on contracts—Retained percentage.
85.05.210 - Private dikes, how connected—Additional plans—Costs.
85.05.220 - Connecting with other diking systems.
85.05.230 - Action by district to prevent washing away of stream banks.
85.05.250 - Dikes along public road.
85.05.260 - Incorporated town may act as or be included in diking district.
85.05.270 - Estimate for maintenance and repair—Emergency expenditures.
85.05.280 - Organization of board—Warrants, how issued.
85.05.355 - Special assessment bonds.
85.05.360 - Warrants—When and how paid.
85.05.365 - Certificates of delinquency—Foreclosure—Sale—Use of proceeds.
85.05.366 - Funds to purchase delinquent certificates.
85.05.367 - Lands owned by district exempt from taxation.
85.05.370 - Trial—Findings and forms of verdict.
85.05.380 - Public lands subject to assessment—Rights and liabilities of public corporations.
85.05.390 - Assessments on public lands—How paid.
85.05.400 - Fees for service of process.
85.05.410 - Commissioners—Compensation and expenses.
85.05.420 - Powers of court—Injunctions.
85.05.430 - Sale of unneeded property—Authorized.
85.05.450 - Sale of unneeded property—Protests—Resolution of final action—Conveyance.
85.05.460 - Sale of unneeded property—Conveyance delayed if protests filed—Appeal.
85.05.470 - Sale of unneeded property—Direct action in superior court by protestant on final order.
85.05.490 - Levy for preliminary expenses.
85.05.500 - Levy for preliminary expenses—Preliminary expenses defined.
85.05.540 - Plat of reclaimed land—Benefits to be determined and paid.
85.05.550 - Plat of reclaimed land—Construction, application of RCW 85.05.510 through 85.05.550.