RCW 85.05.230
Action by district to prevent washing away of stream banks.
Where any diking system is sought to be constructed by any district organized under the provisions of this act along any river or watercourse to prevent overflow therefrom, and it shall become necessary to provide against the washing away of the banks of said river or watercourse so as to prevent injury to such proposed diking system, or any system which may have already been completed, such district, by and through its board of commissioners, may make such portions of lands lying along said dikes which are threatened to be washed away by said river or watercourse part of the right-of-way of said dike system, and may construct along the banks of said river or watercourse, as a part of said diking system, such protection as may be necessary to protect said dike, and in such cases such tract or parcel of land may be condemned and appropriated under the law of eminent domain as provided herein as a part of the right-of-way of such dike system; and when not condemned or appropriated at the time said system is established and constructed, said diking district, by and through its board of commissioners, may, at any time thereafter, when any portion of said system is threatened to be washed away by such river or watercourse, file their petition with the court condemning and appropriating for the use of said district so much of the land lying along said river or watercourse as may be necessary to be used for the protection of said diking system, and the proceedings therein for the making of compensation therefor and the payment of damages by reason of such appropriation shall be the same, or as near as may be applicable, as other proceedings for the condemnation of right-of-way provided for in this act.
[ 1895 c 117 § 23; RRS § 4272. Formerly RCW 85.04.420, 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.