State ex rel. Sherman v. Pape

Citations

• 103 Wash. 319
• 174 P. 468

Syllabus

<p>States — Funds — Collections for Fire Protection — Constitutional and Statutory Provisions. Sums paid or contracted to be paid by the state forester for fire protection, and, by Laws 1917, p. 349, to be made a lien upon the property protected and extended on the tax rolls and upon collection by county officials to be “repaid” to the state forester to be applied to the expenses incurred unless he is “reimbursed by the owner,” are not “state” funds or taxes levied or collected for state purposes to be paid into the state treasury and paid out only on appropriations hy the legislature, within the provisions of Const., art. 7, § 6, art. 8, § 4, or art. 11, § 15; since the act was within the police power, without the necessity of mating the funds state funds, and they were not taxes levied for state purposes, hut assessments laid on private lands particularly for the benefit done thereto.</p>