Other LanguagesA town of the fourth class may not annex unplatted property of more than twenty acres without the consent of the owner; and this applies to state‑owned land, as well as to land privately owned.
Extent to which an alcoholism administrative board is required in order for a city and county to receive liquor taxes and profits under chapter 70.96 RCW, as amended by chapter 155, Laws of 1973, 1st Ex. Sess.
It is not legally necessary for the legislature to make an appropriation from the state employees' insurance revolving fund in order to permit expenditures therefrom; where, however, an appropriation from this fund is made it constitutes a limitation upon the amount that may be expended during the period covered by the appropriation.
Review of the functions of the state capitol committee with respect to its various powers of approval or disapproval of particular state building projects on state owned property.
Where the commissioner of public lands, pursuant to RCW 79.01.340, has granted a right of way across public lands to the state highway department, or to a board of county commissioners, for the establishment and construction of a road or street, and has received legally required compensation therefor, the right of way grantee may, in turn, grant a franchise to a public utility for power lines, telephone and telegraph lines, gas lines, water mains, or sewer lines without the payment of additional compensation to the commissioner.
Where, in the process of selling an automobile on a conditional sales contract, a dealer solicits and obtains an application for group credit life and/or health and accident insurance from the automobile purchaser which the dealer then forwards, together with an assignment of the conditional sales contract, to a bank which holds the master group insurance policy, the dealer is required to be licensed as an insurance agent under RCW 48.17.060 if by arrangement the assignee bank discounts the conditional sales contract at a more favorable discount rate than when the conditional sales contract is not accompanied by an insurance application for coverage under the bank's master group insurance policy.
The insurance commissioner has the authority in the exercise of his discretion to issue a solicitation permit for subsequent financing under RCW 48.06.180 for an initial effective period in excess of two years.
The state acting through the department of labor and industries may not require each electrician-employee of an electrical contracting firm (which firm is licensed by the state under chapter 19.28 RCW) to obtain an individual state license. The state license issued to the firm which entitles it to engage in business "in any and all places in the state of Washington" precludes a city or town from requiring a local license of the employees of such firm.
Fees that are assessed for the necessary licenses permitting use of commercial fishing vessels in this state are to be predicated upon the residency of the owners of the vessels rather than the operators.
The director of fisheries is not legally authorized to close an area to commercial fishing for the sole purpose of establishing an area for sports fishing.