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Bob Ferguson

AGO 1952 NO. 342 >
RIGHT OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO PROHIBIT MOTOR BOATS UPON NON-NAVIGABLE [[NONNAVIGABLE]]LAKES County commissioners do not have the power to prohibit the use of motor boats upon non-navigable [[nonnavigable]]lakes.               
AGO 1952 NO. 343 >
RIGHT TO VOTE OF PERSONS LIVING IN AREA OF CONCURRENT FEDERAL JURISDICTION A resident of Fairchild Air Force Base whereon the state and federal government exercise concurrent jurisdiction, resides in the State of Washington and, if otherwise qualified, may be eligible to vote.    
AGO 1952 NO. 344 >
"IS A FILING FEE REQUIRED TO BE PAID BY A PERSON FILING OBJECTIONS IN A PROBATE PROCEEDING PURSUANT TO SECTION 5, CHAPTER 51, LAWS OF 1951, RCW 36.18.020?" Clerks of superior courts cannot require the payment of filing fee for filing objections in a probate proceeding.     
AGO 1952 NO. 345 >
ISSUE OF WARRANTS BY SCHOOL DISTRICT OVER ITS DEBT LIMIT A county auditor may not safely issue warrants of a school district after it has exceeded its constitutional debt limitation.                    
AGO 1952 NO. 346 >
AMOUNT OF WARRANTS WHICH MAY BE ISSUED BY A HOSPITAL DISTRICT A public hospital district may issue warrants in anticipation of tax revenues in an amount not to exceed the anticipated revenues from all sources for one year.             
AGO 1952 NO. 347 >
PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICTS ‑- FUNDS OF ‑- DEPOSIT IN SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS A public utility district may invest its funds in any state or federal savings and loan association doing business in this state, up to the amount which is insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
AGO 1952 NO. 348 >
RELEASE OF PORTION OF REGIONAL LIBRARY BUILDING TO PRIVATE FIRM A regional library may erect a building large enough for future needs and rent space presently unused to a private firm and may pledge the rental to the payment of indebtedness incurred in erecting the building.    
AGO 1952 NO. 349 >
REDUCTION OF FIRE FIGHTING CREWS A logging operator incurs no civil liability by reducing the fire fighting crew upon verbal directions of the supervisor of forestry, but he would incur a civil liability for totally withdrawing his crew from a fire unless authorized to do so in writing.  There
AGO 1952 NO. 350 >
LIQUOR ACT ‑- SUCCESSIVE VIOLATIONS OF ‑- PENALTIES The penalty for violation of the Liquor Act must be that set out in RCW 66.44.180 (Rem. Rev. Stat. § 7306-93).                        
AGO 1952 NO. 351 >
RIGHT OF SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ACQUIRE PLAYGROUND JOINTLY WITH CITY A school district may expend its fund in conjunction with a city to acquire land and facilities for playground purposes and the school district may hold such property jointly with a city.