4.3.4.1.1

Definitions

Effective Date:

June 30, 1985

4.3.4.1.1.a	Assessment - A compulsory levy made against certain properties to defray part or all of the cost of a specific improvement on service deemed to primarily benefit those properties.
4.3.4.1.1.b	Assessment Role - The official list showing the amount of special assessments levied against each property presumed to be benefited by an improvement or service.

4.3.4.1.2

Notice of Intention to Make Improvements

Effective Date:

June 30, 1985

Assessing district officials will submit a notice of intention to make improvements, together with an estimate of the amount to be charged to each lot, tract, or parcel of land or other properties owned by the state to be assessed for such improvements. The notice will be forwarded by registered or certified mail, to the Director of the Office of Financial Management and to the agency head occupying or having jurisdiction over such lands, at least thirty days prior to the date fixed for the hearing of the resolution or petition initiating such improvements. In the case of irrigation districts where state lands are situated in or to be taken into an irrigation district, the Commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources will be served with a copy of the petition proposing to include such lands as is prescribed by RCW 87.03.025.

4.3.4.1.3

Improvements in Harbor Areas and State Tidelands

Effective Date:

June 30, 1985

Assessing districts will not order local improvements that relate to the interest of the state in harbor areas and state tidelands until the written consent of the Commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources to the making of such improvements has been obtained and/or the other conditions of RCW 79.44.040 have been satisfied.

4.3.4.1.4

Liens and Sales for Unpaid Assessments

Effective Date:

June 30, 1985

No lands of the state will be subject to a lien for unpaid assessments, nor will the interest of the state in any land be sold for unpaid assessments where assessment liens were attached to the lands prior to state ownership.