STATE LAND LAWS 

 SECS. 257-259 CONDEMNATION WATERWAYS DIKES. 



domain as the lands of private persons or corporations. (Laws 

 '11, p. 87, sec. 56; 3 Rem.-BaL, sec. 8212-56; 437 sec. 241 

 Pierce.) 



SEC. 257. WATERWAYS SERVICE OF PROCESS. 



In case the land or other property sought to be taken or 

 damaged is state land, the summons and copy of petition shall 

 be served upon the Commissioner of Public Lands ; if it is 

 county land it shall be served upon the county auditor, and if 

 school [district] land, upon the county auditor and the chair- 

 man of the board of directors of the school district. If the state 

 is made a defendant the attorney general shall represent it. 

 (Laws '11, p. 70, sec. 13; 3 Rem.-Bal., sec. 8212-13; 437 sec. 

 155 Pierce.) 



Service of process generally: sec. 246, supra. 



Duties of Attorney General: sec. 50^, supra. 



SEC. 258. DIKING DISTRICTS MAY CONDEMN. 



All state, county, school district or other lands belonging 

 to other public corporations requiring to be diked as a protec- 

 tion from overflow shall be subjected to the provisions of chapter 

 117 of the Session Laws of 1895, [relating to diking districts], 

 and such corporations, by and through the proper authorities, 

 shall be made parties in all proceedings therein affecting said 

 lands and shall have the same rights and [be] liable to the 

 same right of eminent domain as private persons, and their 

 lands shall be subject to the right of eminent domain the same 

 as the lands of private persons or corporations. (Laws '95, p. 

 327, sec. 38; sec. 4132 Rem.-Bal.; 151 sec. 83 Pierce.) 



Former Laws: Laws '93, pp. 218-219. 



Grant of reclaimed beds and shores to such districts: sec. 232, ante. 

 Local improvement assessments in such districts: sec. 343, post. 

 Former laws unconstitutional : Askam v. King County, 9 Wash. 1 ; Skagit 

 County v. Stiles, 10 Wash. 388. 



SEC. 259. SAME RIGHTS OF WAY. 



The right, power and authority to acquire the necessary and 

 needed rights of way for any and all purposes now existing by 

 law or created by this act,* may be acquired by the commis- 



