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WATERWAY DISTRICTS. SEC. 245 



in such manner as may be from time to time ordered by the re- 

 spective officer or officers at such time having jurisdiction of 

 the same, and such orders may be enforced by appropriate 

 action at law or in equity at the suit of the state. (Laws '09, 

 p. 606, sec. 2; sec. 7869 Rem.-Bal. ; 77 sec. 507 Pierce.) 



Cited : 66 Wash. 288. 



The ownership of tide lands being absolute, a drawbridge constructed over 

 navigable waters under Federal and state authority must be operated so as not 

 to obstruct a wharf on tide lands in private ownership : Nor. Pac. R. Co. v. 

 Slade Lbr. Co., 61 Wash. 195. 



SEC. 245. STATE LANDS INCLUDED IN COMMERCIAL WATER- 

 WAY DISTRICTS. 



Whenever the State of Washington owns any land situated 

 within the boundaries of a proposed commercial waterway dis- 

 trict the Commissioner of Public Lands of the State of Wash- 

 ington, when so directed by the Board of State Land Commis- 

 sioners of said state, is hereby authorized to sign the petition 

 praying for the formation of such commercial waterway dis- 

 trict for and on behalf and as the act and deed of such state, 

 and when so signed the same shall be considered in determining 

 the question of majority signature in the area of the land to the 

 petition for the formation of such district. (Laws '11, p. 22, 

 sec. 9c. ; 3 Rem.-Bal., sec. 8174a.) 



Former Laws: Laws '09, special session, p. 18, sec. 9c. 



Grant of reclaimed lands to such districts: sec. 238, supra. 



Eminent domain to such districts: sees. 253-254, infra. 



Local improvements in such districts, sec. 346, infra. 



