Chapter 11.04
LOCAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS
Sections:
11.04.020 PENALTY FOR VIOLATION.
11.04.040 PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES AND ASSESSMENT ROLLS.
11.04.050 DELINQUENT ASSESSMENTS.
11.04.010 RCW ADOPTED.
RCW 35.43 and 35.44 are hereby adopted insofar as the same may be applicable to the creation of local improvement districts, assessments, reassessments, and financing thereof in the city. For the purposes of this chapter, the term "local improvement district" also means "utility local improvement district". (Ord. 4834, Amended, 12/20/2002; Ord. 2477 §2, 1961)
11.04.020 PENALTY FOR VIOLATION.
Any person violating any provision of the RCW provisions adopted by Section 11.04.010 will be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not to exceed three hundred dollars or imprisonment in the city jail not to exceed ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Ord. 2477 §3, 1961)
11.04.030 SPECIFIC CITATIONS.
In citing the specific provisions of the code referred to in Section 11.04.010 the same may be cited by reference to the RCW or by reference to any compilations published by the Bureau of Governmental Research at the University of Washington, or by reference to the Session Laws of the state of Washington. (Ord. 2477 §4, 1961)
11.04.040 PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES AND ASSESSMENT ROLLS.
The Director of Public Works and Utilities, or his/her designee, is hereby designated as the proper authority for making the preliminary estimates and assessment rolls relating to the formation of local improvement districts and utility local improvement districts and certifying the same to the City Council, together with all other papers and information pursuant to and as required by RCW 35.43.130. (Ord. 4825, Added, 11/22/02)
11.04.050 DELINQUENT ASSESSMENTS.
Whenever any local improvement district assessment shall have been made payable in installments and, if on the first day of January in any year, two or more installments are delinquent, or if the final installment has been delinquent for more than one year, then, as authorized pursuant to RCW 35.50.040, the entire assessment shall be due and payable and the collection thereof shall be enforced in the manner prescribed by the laws of the State of Washington. Proceedings brought to foreclose such delinquent assessments shall be commenced on or before December 1 of that year, but not before the City Treasurer has notified by certified mail, pursuant to RCW 35.50.030 as enacted and thereafter amended, the persons whose names appear on the assessment roll as owning the property charged with the assessments or installments which are delinquent at the address last known to the Treasurer, a notice 30 days before the commencement of the proceedings. This section shall apply to all local improvement districts formed pursuant to RCW 35.43 after the effective date of the ordinance creating this section. (Ord. 4834, Added, 12/20/2002)