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Bob Ferguson

AGO 1955 NO. 11 >
COUNTIES ‑- HOSPITALS ‑- TAX LEVY ‑- LIMITATION. A county must levy a tax under RCW 36.62.090, for hospital purposes, but in doing so may not exceed the eight mill limitation imposed under RCW 84.52.050.                
AGO 1955 NO. 12 >
NON-HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTS ‑- CONSTITUTIONAL LAW ‑- PARTICIPATION BY NON-HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN FINANCING HIGH SCHOOL FACILITIES IN HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTS WITH WHICH THEY ARE AFFILIATED.  1. Section 1, ch. 299, Laws of 1953, providing that non-high school districts may contribute funds to be
AGO 1955 NO. 13 >
PENSIONS ‑- TOLL BRIDGE AUTHORITY ‑- IMPLIED POWER TO NEGOTIATE.  The Washington Toll Bridge Authority has implied power to negotiate pension benefits for the employees of Washington State Ferries.                
AGO 1955 NO. 14 >
JUSTICE OF PEACE ‑- POLICE JUDGE ‑- APPOINTMENT NOT CONTRACT.  The elected justice of the peace in a city of the third class over 5,000 population must be appointed police judge, and the fact that his wife is a member of the city council is not such a disability that will bar his appointment
AGO 1955 NO. 15 >
OFFICERS AND OFFICES ‑- IRRIGATION DISTRICT DIRECTORS ‑- QUALIFICATIONS.  1. Acreage ownership qualifications of irrigation district director are possessed by reversioner, but not by vendee under real estate contract.  2. Appointee to unexpired term of irrigation director must possess
AGO 1955 NO. 16 >
HOUSING AUTHORITY ‑- COUNTY ‑- OPERATION OF COMMERCIAL BUILDING.  A housing authority as authorized to operate an existing commercial building embraced within its limits.                     
AGO 1955 NO. 17 >
APPROPRIATIONS Legislature may make appropriation to pay salary earned in previous biennium.                                   
AGO 1955 NO. 18 >
OFFICES AND OFFICERS ‑- COUNTY AUDITOR ‑- DUTIES ‑- MARGINAL NOTATIONS ON GENERAL INDEX TO RECORDS. A county auditor is under no duty, as such, to make in the general index to record a marginal notation on a previously recorded real estate contract indicating the name, volume and page of an
AGO 1955 NO. 19 >
JURY ‑- WITNESSES ‑- MILEAGE FEES.  Jurors and witnesses are entitled to mileage compensation each way for each day of attendance upon superior court that mileage is actually incurred therefor.                 
AGO 1955 NO. 20 >
JUDGES ‑- JUSTICE OF PEACE ‑- MUST ACCEPT APPOINTMENT AS POLICE JUDGE.  The one elected justice of the peace in a city of the third class must accept the appointment as police judge as part of the duties of his office.