Other LanguagesAGO 2005 NO. 11 >
GROWTH MANAGEMENT ACT – COUNTIES – CITIES AND TOWNS – Authority of growth management boards to remand cases.
1. The Growth Management Hearings Boards have no authority to remand a case back to a county or city for the purpose of amending their comprehensive plans or development regulations,
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PUBLIC FACILITIES DISTRICTS – CITIES AND TOWNS – COUNTIES – SALES AND USE TAX – Extent of authority of cities which have individually formed public facilities districts to also form a joint public facilities district with additional taxing authority.
A group of cities which have formed individual
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PHYSICIANS – Extent of authority of physician to charge patient for diagnostic or screening services performed by a pathologist and charged back to the referring physician.
RCW 19.68 permits a referring physician to charge patients for actual services performed by the physician for the
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PUBLIC FACILITIES DISTRICTS – CITIES AND TOWNS – COUNTIES – TAXATION – Authority of public facilities district to begin one project and later switch funding to other projects.
A public facilities district created under RCW 35.57 may allocate properly collected sales and use tax revenues to one or
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PESTICIDE – AGRICULTURE – DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE – Extent to which lumber may be defined as “land” for purposes of RCW 17.21.
A commercial pesticide applicator license is required for any person in the business of applying pesticides to lumber located on the land of another; however, a private-
AGO 2005 NO. 16 >
PENSIONS – PUBLIC EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEMS – RETIREMENT – Effect of “non-contractual rights clause” on Legislature’s future obligation to provide “gain-sharing benefits”.
Where the Legislature has enacted statutes providing “gain-sharing” benefits to retirement system members if certain
AGO 2005 NO. 17 >
WATER – WATER RIGHTS – DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY – RULES AND REGULATIONS – Interpretation of statutory language exempting withdrawals of groundwater for stock-watering from permitting requirements.
1. RCW 90.44.050 exempts withdrawals of groundwater for
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COUNTIES – HIGHWAYS AND ROADS – MOTOR VEHICLES – LICENSING – Authority to operate off-road vehicles on public highways and roads.
1. A properly tagged off-road vehicle (ORV) is not permitted to be operated along a public highway.
2.
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LEGISLATURE – STATE BUDGET – PUGET SOUND ACTION TEAM – Status of certain funds appropriated by the 2005 Legislature for clean up of Hood Canal.
Section 116(2) of the 2005-07 biennial operating budget sets certain amounts aside for corrective actions to clean up Hood Canal as described in a