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Code · Washington · Title 85 — Diking and Drainage · Chapter 85.18

RCW 85.18.010

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When any diking district has been organized and the improvements made afford protection to land and buildings within such district against damage or destruction from overflow waters in that the level of the land and of the foundational structures of buildings thereon is below the water level at flood or high tide stages of the waters, fresh or salt, against which such district improvements furnished protection, the board of diking commissioners of such district may, under the procedure established in this chapter, determine such fact and by resolution so declare; and may provide that the cost of continued functioning of the district shall be paid through levies of dollar rates made and collected according to this chapter against the land and buildings thus protected, based upon the determined base benefits received by such land and buildings.
[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 s 115 ; 1951 c 45 s 2 .]
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Severability — Effective dates and termination dates — Construction — 1973 1st ex.s. c 195: See notes following RCW 84.52.043 .
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