Revised Code of Washington

Wash. Rev. Code § 35.27.380 (2026)

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Whenever it becomes necessary for a town to take or damage private property for the purpose of establishing, laying out, extending, and widening streets and other public highways and places within the town, or for the purpose of rights-of-way for drains, sewers, and aqueducts, and for the purpose of widening, straightening, or diverting the channels of streams and the improvement of waterfronts, and the council cannot agree with the owner thereof as to the price to be paid, the council may direct proceedings to be taken under the general laws of the state to procure the same.

[ 1965 c 7 s 35.27.380. Prior: 1890 p 207 s 162; RRS s 9182.]

Notes:

Eminent domain: Chapter 8.12 RCW.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1955–1966 · leading case: Town of Othello v. Harder, 284 P.2d 1099 (Wash. 1955).

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Town of Othello v. Harder, 284 P.2d 1099 (Wash. 1955). · cites it 2× “*753 This section is immediately followed by RCW 35.27.380, reading as follows: “Whenever it becomes necessary for a town to take or damage private property for the purpose of establishing, laying out, extending, and widening streets and other public highways and places within…”

Town of Steilacoom v. Thompson, 419 P.2d 989 (Wash. 1966). “220 in accordance with general powers of eminent domain to construct sewers under RCW 35.27.380; or through other statutory methods relating generally to municipal improvements; or under the aegis of RCW 35.”

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