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Bob Ferguson

AGLO 1973 NO. 32 >

If a protest against the formation of a local improvement district in a particular city under RCW 35.43.140 is signed by property owners whose property will bear sixty percent or more of the total cost of the improvement to be assessed against and borne by property owners within the proposed district, the city must be regarded as having been divested of jurisdiction and may not proceed.

AGLO 1973 NO. 75 >

A school district, acting through its board of directors, may sign a petition for the formation of a utility local improvement district under RCW 36.94.230, or sign a protest petition against the formation of such a district under RCW 36.94.240.