RCW 85.06.210
Connecting private drains—Procedure—Costs.
Any person or corporation owning land within said district shall have a right to connect any private drains or ditches for the proper drainage of such land with said system, and in case any persons or corporations shall desire to drain such lands into said system and shall find it necessary, in order to do so, to procure the right-of-way over the land of another, or others, and if consent thereto cannot be procured from such person or persons, then such landowner may present in writing a request to the board of commissioners of said district, setting forth therein the necessity of being able to connect his or her private drainage with said system, and pray therein that said system be extended to such point as he or she may designate in said writing, and immediately thereon said board of commissioners shall cause a petition to be filed in the superior court, for and in the name of said drainage district, requesting in said petition that said system be extended as requested, setting forth therein the necessity thereof and praying that leave be granted by the board to extend the system in accordance with the prayer of said petition, and the proceedings in such case, upon the presentation of such petition and the hearing thereof, shall be, in all matters, the same as in the hearing and presentation of the original petition for the establishment of the original system of drainage in said district, as far as applicable. That the costs in such proceedings shall be paid from the assessment of benefits to be made on the lands of the person or persons benefited by such extension, and the assessment and compensation for the right-of-way, damages and benefits, and payment of damages and compensation, and the collection of the assessments for benefits, shall be the same as in the proceedings under the original petition, and the construction of the said extension shall be made under the same provisions as the construction of the original improvement; and all things that may be done or performed in connection therewith shall be, as near as may be applicable, in accordance with the provisions already set forth herein for the establishment and construction of said original improvement: PROVIDED, That such petitioner or petitioners shall, at the time of filing such petition by said drainage commissioners, enter into a good and sufficient bond to said drainage district in the full penal sum of five hundred dollars, with two or more sureties, to be approved by the court, conditioned for the payment of all costs in case the prayer of said petition should not be granted, which bond shall be filed in said cause.
[ 2013 c 23 § 395; 1895 c 115 § 21; RRS § 4321. Formerly RCW 85.04.640.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 85 - Diking and Drainage
Chapter 85.06 - Drainage Districts and Miscellaneous Drainage Provisions.
85.06.010 - Districts authorized—Powers—Management.
85.06.015 - Certain powers and rights governed by chapter 85.38 RCW.
85.06.070 - Eminent domain powers—Purchase of real property authorized.
85.06.080 - Commissioners—Powers and duties.
85.06.090 - Petition for improvement—Contents.
85.06.100 - Petition for improvement—Employment of assistants—Compensation as costs in suit.
85.06.110 - Summons—Contents—Service.
85.06.120 - Appearance of defendants—Jury—Verdict—Assessment of damages and benefits—Decree.
85.06.125 - Special assessments—Budgets—Alternative methods.
85.06.130 - Assessment of benefited lands formerly omitted—Procedure—Appeals.
85.06.140 - Dismissal of proceedings, when—Costs.
85.06.150 - Procedure to claim awards.
85.06.160 - Transcript of benefits to auditor—Assessments—Collection—Supplemental assessment.
85.06.180 - Construction—Contractors—Performance bonds.
85.06.190 - Substantial changes in plans—Procedure.
85.06.200 - Payments on contracts—Retained percentage.
85.06.210 - Connecting private drains—Procedure—Costs.
85.06.220 - Connecting with lower districts—Procedure.
85.06.230 - City or town may act as or be included in drainage district.
85.06.240 - Estimate for maintenance and repair—Emergency expenditures.
85.06.250 - Organization of board—Warrants, how issued.
85.06.255 - Special assessment bonds.
85.06.330 - Warrants presented for indorsement—When and how paid.
85.06.340 - Trial—Findings and forms of verdict.
85.06.350 - Public lands subject to assessment—Rights and liabilities of public corporations.
85.06.360 - Assessments on public lands—How paid.
85.06.370 - Fees for service of process.
85.06.380 - Commissioners—Compensation and expenses.
85.06.390 - Improvement of watercourses—Preservation of vested rights.
85.06.400 - Powers of court—Injunctions.
85.06.500 - Extension or enlargement of system.
85.06.550 - Payment of preliminary expense where proceedings are dropped.
85.06.620 - Payment of preliminary expense where proceedings are dropped—Dismissal of petition.
85.06.630 - Payment of preliminary expense where proceedings are dropped—Appellate review.
85.06.640 - Additional improvements—Authorized—Change in plans.
85.06.650 - Additional improvements—Methods of payment.
85.06.670 - Additional improvements—Acquisition, sale of property—Contracts to share expense.
85.06.680 - Additional improvements—Private property not to be taken without compensation.
85.06.690 - Additional improvements—Right of eminent domain.
85.06.700 - Additional improvements—Powers are additional—"Drainage district" defined.
85.06.710 - Costs in excess of estimate—Authorized—Warrants validated.
85.06.730 - Costs in excess of estimate—Summons on petition—Contents—Service—Answer.
85.06.740 - Costs in excess of estimate—Hearing by jury—Verdict.
85.06.750 - Costs in excess of estimate—Judgment—Appellate review.