Other LanguagesThis is written in response to your letter dated May 4, 1972, requesting our advice with regard to the legal status of the state finance committee, Washington public deposit protection commission and state building authority.
Reference is made to your letter dated November 25, 1969, requesting our opinion on several questions pertaining to the transitional procedures to be followed by a certain city in order to come under the provisions of the optional municipal code (chapter 35A, RCW). Following receipt of your letter we had several conversations with you from which we were led to understand that the city in question was the city of Renton, and that the particular option selected by it under the provisions of the code was that of becoming a noncharter code city, as provided for in chapter 35A.02 RCW, operating under the mayor-council plan of government provided for in chapter 35A.12 RCW.1/
"I am advised that the Department of Social and Health Services is planning to adopt certain program changes which concern medical care for the "medical needy" not on continuing grants under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, and for the "medical only" participants who receive only State monies. These changes are set forth as the following assumptions upon which I base three questions.
By letter previously acknowledged you requested our opinion on three questions relating to certain provisos contained in chapter 275, Laws of 1971, 1st Ex. Sess. ‑ the omnibus appropriations act for the 1971-73 biennium.
Does the Washington State Council on Aging have authority to provide grants of state funds to local communities to operate specific services on aging?
By recent letter you have requested our opinion on two questions which you anticipate will arise out of adjournment sine die of the regular session of the 42nd legislature and the convening of a special session. Your questions are as follows:
This is written in response to your recent letter requesting our opinion on a question pertaining to the scope of the term "covered claims" as used in the Washington insurance guaranty association act ‑ chapter 265, Laws of 1971, 1st Ex. Sess. Your question reads as follows: "May obligations under insurance policies be properly termed to be 'covered claims' under the above act when such obligations arose out of a declaration of insolvency made after April 1, 1971, but before May 21, 1971, the effective date of the above act, particularly in view of the Ohio case cited in the attached letter?"
We acknowledge receipt of your letter dated March 17, 1970, requesting our opinion on a question pertaining to the authority of local governmental units to combine in employing on their behalf a professional negotiator in public employee collective bargaining matters.
This is written in response to your recent request for our opinion regarding the applicability of Senate Bill No. 445 to the employees of an irrigation district.
This is written in response to your recent letter, previously acknowledged, requesting our opinion on two questions pertaining to the appointment of police officers under the civil service system which is provided for in chapter 41.12 RCW. We paraphrase these questions as follows: (1) Where the mayor or other person empowered by law to appoint police officers in a city governed by chapter 41.12 RCW has submitted a requisition to the civil service commission for a person eligible to be appointed to fill a vacancy, and the commission has responded by certifying the name of the person highest on the eligible list for the class to which the vacant position has been allocated who is willing to accept the appointment, does the appointing authority retain any discretion, at this point in time, to refuse to follow through with the appointment?