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Office of the Attorney General

Attorney General

Bob Ferguson

AGO 1956 NO. 261 >
SCHOOL DISTRICTS ‑- EXTRATERRITORIAL POWERS  School districts have no authority to acquire land outside the district for school building sites.                         
AGO 1956 NO. 262 >
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ‑- FEDERAL AID FOR HOSPITAL SURVEY AND CONSTRUCTION ACT  1. Public Law 725 enacted by the 79th Congress, August 13, 1946, entitled "Hospital Survey and Construction Act" was not adopted by reference in ch. 197, L. 1949.  2. Chapter 197, L. 1949, is broad enough to and
AGO 1956 NO. 263 >
CITIES & TOWNS ‑- OFF-STREET PARKING ‑- RIGHT OF MUNICIPALITIES TO ENTER INTO FIELD  A city of any class has the right to enter into the field of off-street parking under the provisions of Article XI, section 11, of the Washington constitution.       
AGO 1956 NO. 264 >
COURTS ‑- JUSTICE ‑- CLERKS FOR SAME IN CITIES OF THIRD CLASS.  County Commissioners have no authority to provide for clerical assistance to justice of peace in third class city.                    
AGO 1956 NO. 265 >
HOSPITALS, ANNEXATION BY EXISTING HOSPITAL DISTRICT LOCATED IN ONE COUNTY OF CONTIGUOUS TERRITORY LOCATED IN A NEIGHBORING COUNTY. Petitions for the annexation of contiguous territory by an existing hospital district should be submitted to the commissioners of the district.  A majority of the
AGO 1956 NO. 266 >
HOSPITALS, VALIDITY OF AN ELECTION FOR THE FORMATION OF A JOINT PUBLIC HOSPITAL DISTRICT.  Hospitals, Districts, Joint Public‑-Election for Formation, Validity of.  1. Election for formation, date when held.2. Notices of election, publication of.3. Notice signed by auditor of each county
AGO 1956 NO. 267 >
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON ‑- RELATIONSHIP TO STATE AND TO UNIVERSITY ‑- NECESSITY OF DEALING THROUGH DIVISION OF PURCHASING ‑- STATE RETIREMENT ELIGIBILITY OF ASUW EMPLOYEES ‑- SEVERANCE PAY  1. Although ASUW is arm and agency of state it need not deal thru the Division
AGO 1956 NO. 268 >
INITIATIVES AND REFERENDUMS ‑- WITHDRAWAL OF SIGNATURE FROM PETITIONS.  (1) The secretary of state has authority to accept withdrawal of signatures from a petition to submit a proposed law to the electors;  (2) The secretary of state may adopt a regulation governing the time within which
AGO 1956 NO. 269 >
DEAD BODIES -- DISSECTION OF -- WHEN LAWFUL -- INDIGENT DECEDENTS -- CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION (KERATOPLASTY) Physicians and/or surgeons cannot legally remove the eyes of deceased welfare recipients for the purpose of transplanting the corneas of the eyes into the eyes of living
AGO 1956 NO. 270 >
FEES -- APPEARANCE FEES -- GUARDIAN AD LITEM MINOR DEFENDANT -- DEFAULT DIVORCE Neither the appointment of a guardian ad litem for a minor defendant in a divorce action upon the application of the plaintiff, nor the guardian's oral report to the court at the time a default judgment