Washington State

Office of the Attorney General

Attorney General

Bob Ferguson

AGLO 1972 NO. 24 >

This is in response to your recent request for our opinion as to the legal rules regarding the impact upon voting residence which results from a voter's absence from his home, and for suggested revisions of present voter registration forms in accordance with those rules.

AGLO 1972 NO. 25 >

1972 No.This is written in response to your recent letter requesting our opinion with regard to the extent that a state employee may participate in certain partisan political campaigns.

AGLO 1970 NO. 25 >

We acknowledge receipt of your letter dated February 27, 1970, requesting our opinion on a question pertaining to the compensation of a district justice court judge who is also serving as municipal judge of a city in accordance with chapter 3.46 RCW.

AGLO 1971 NO. 25 >

By letter dated February 9, 1971, you requested the advice of this office on a question pertaining to the authority of a public employer covered by chapter 41.56 RCW (the public employees' collective bargaining act) to make retroactive salary adjustments to employees based upon a provision in the applicable collective bargaining agreement covering such employees which provides for such adjustments.

AGLO 1972 NO. 26 >

This is in response to your recent memorandum in which you requested an opinion of this office on two questions which we paraphrase as follows: (1) May the Public Employees' Retirement Board invest the funds of the Public Employees' Retirement System in savings and loan associations? (2) Assuming that your answer to Question No. (1) is in the affirmative, what standards govern the Public Employees' Retirement Board in making such investments?

AGLO 1970 NO. 26 >

We acknowledge receipt of your letter dated February 27, 1970, requesting our opinion as to the composition of a county law enforcement officers' and fire fighters' disability board in the case of a county, such as yours, which has no "fire fighters" as defined in RCW 41.26.030 (4).

AGLO 1971 NO. 26 >

By letter previously acknowledged you requested an opinion of this office on the constitutionality of House Bill No. 76, currently pending before the legislature, in so far as this bill would impose the following mandatory filing requirements upon land surveyors in this state:

AGLO 1972 NO. 27 >

This is written in response to your recent letter requesting our opinion on a question relating to the authority of the state supervisor of savings and loan associations under RCW 33.28.020.  We paraphrase this question as follows:  May the supervisor of savings and loan associations charge a per diem rate for the examination of state chartered savings and loan associations which is higher than the maximum rate charged at the time of the examination by the federal home loan bank for its examinations of federally regulated savings and loan associations?

AGLO 1970 NO. 27 >

We acknowledge receipt of your letter dated February 20, 1970, requesting our opinion on a question pertaining to the levying of property taxes by a port district under RCW 53.36.070.

AGLO 1971 NO. 27 >

You have requested our opinion on the following questions relating to industrial insurance coverage for state employees: