Washington § 85.06.700 - Additional improvements — Powers are additional — "Drainage district" defined.

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§ 85.06.700. Additional improvements — Powers are additional — "Drainage district" defined.

The powers and rights *herein granted are additional to, but not in substitution of, existing rights or powers of drainage districts. Drainage district as used *herein shall mean a regularly established drainage, or drainage improvement district, combined diking and drainage improvement district, or drainage district exercising combined diking and drainage power.
[ 1935 c 170 s 7; RRS s 4342-7. Formerly RCW 85.04.630.]

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*Reviser's note: "herein" appears in chapter 170, Laws of 1935, codified as RCW 85.06.640 through 85.06.700.
Severability—1935 c 170: "If any section, provision, or subdivision of a section of this act shall be adjudged to be invalid or unconstitutional, such adjudgment shall not affect the validity of the act as a whole, or any other section, subdivision, or provision thereof." [ 1935 c 170 s 8.] This applies to RCW 85.06.640 through 85.06.700.

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