§ 35.55.010 Authority — Second-class cities
§ 35.55.020 Alternative methods of financing
§ 35.55.030 Boundaries — Excepted property
§ 35.55.040 Damages — Eminent domain
§ 35.55.050 Estimates — Plans and specifications
§ 35.55.060 Assessment roll — Items — Assessment units — Installments
§ 35.55.070 Hearing on assessment roll — Notice — Council’s authority
§ 35.55.080 Hearings — Appellate review
§ 35.55.090 Lien — Collection of assessments
§ 35.55.100 Interest on assessments
§ 35.55.110 Payment of cost of improvement — Interest on warrants
§ 35.55.120 Local improvement bonds — Terms
§ 35.55.130 Local improvement bonds — Guaranties
§ 35.55.140 Local improvement bonds and warrants — Sale to pay damages, preliminary financing
§ 35.55.150 Local improvement fund — Investment
§ 35.55.160 Letting contract for improvement — Excess or deficiency of fund
§ 35.55.170 Payment of contractor — Bonds, warrants, cash
§ 35.55.180 Reassessments
§ 35.55.190 Provisions of chapter not exclusive

Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 35.55 - Local improvements -- Filling lowlands

  • Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • person: may be construed to include the United States, this state, or any state or territory, or any public or private corporation or limited liability company, as well as an individual. See Washington Code 1.16.080
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.