Stone v. Southwest Suburban Sewer District

Cox, A.C.J.

RCW 35.91.020 provides that a sewer district and certain other municipalities may contract with owners of real estate for the construction of water or sewer facilities to serve the area of the owners’ real estate. The statute further provides that such municipalities may provide for the reimbursement of the owners who construct such facilities by any owner of real estate who did not contribute to the original cost of the facilities and who subsequently taps onto them (latecomers). The measure of the reimbursement by latecomers is the “fair pro rata share of the cost of the…