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Bob Ferguson

AGO 1953 NO. 1 >
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ‑- UNIFORM BUILDING CODE ‑- PUBLICATION OF NOTICE OF HEARING ‑-  INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE.  (1) A county may not adopt a uniform building code by incorporating by reference such code in its publication of notice of hearing thereon. (2) An ordinance by the county
AGO 1953 NO. 2 >
CITIES ‑‑ BUSINESS TAX ‑‑MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS --LIQUOR ‑‑TAVERNS AND "H" LICENSED PREMISES ‑‑ POWER TO TAX ‑‑ PREEMPTION BY STATE -- POWER TO IMPOSE UPON TAVERNS AND "H" LICENSED PREMISES. Municipal corporations do not have the power to impose a business tax upon taverns and "H" licensed premises
AGO 1953 NO. 3 >
LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD ‑- ADVERTISING OF LIQUOR ‑- EXTENT OF POWER OF REGULATION. In the absence of specific statutory authority the Washington State Liquor Control Board may not prohibit all advertising of liquor.  The board, however, does have broad powers of regulation and may adopt such
AGO 1953 NO. 4 >
IRRIGATION DISTRICTS ‑- ELECTIONS ‑- MANNER OF CHALLENGING THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A PERSON OFFERING TO VOTE IN AN IRRIGATION DISTRICT ELECTION. The election procedure prescribed for irrigation districts being exclusive, contains no provision allowing the challenge of an individual offering to vote
AGO 1953 NO. 5 >
POWERS OF GOVERNOR ‑- VETO ‑- LEGISLATIVE POWER ‑- CONSTITUTIONAL LAW ‑- EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF LEGISLATURE. The call of a special extraordinary session of the legislature does not deprive the Governor of his constitutional power to veto bills within ten days after presentment to him and after
AGO 1953 NO. 6 >
REAL ESTATE SALES TAX ‑- APPLICATION TO FEDERAL INSTRUMENTALITIES ‑- RECORDATION ‑- APPLICATION TO ASSIGNMENT OF VENDEE'S INTEREST ‑- SHERIFF'S SALE ‑- EXECUTION SALES ‑- FEDERAL INSTRUMENTALITIES, CONSTITUTIONAL EXEMPTIONS FROM REAL ESTATE SALES TAX. The real estate sales tax applies to the
AGO 1953 NO. 7 >
INTERIM COMMITTEES ‑- LEGISLATIVE BUDGET COMMITTEE ‑- LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ‑- FUNDS AVAILABLE.  (1) The legislative budget committee may lawfully expend funds remaining from the appropriation for paying the expenses of the thirty-third legislature.  (2) The legislative council may make
AGO 1953 NO. 8 >
SCHOOLS ‑- KINDERGARTENS ‑- EFFECT OF TERMINATION OF STATE SUPPORT.  1. The proviso to Substitute Senate Bill No. 400, terminating state support of kindergartens does not violate Article I, section 23 or Article II, section 19 of the State Constitution.  2. The effect of the proviso to
AGO 1953 NO. 9 >
FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTS ‑- ASSESSMENTS ‑- EXEMPTION ‑- LANDS ALSO SUBJECT TO FOREST PATROL ASSESSMENT.  The present procedure by which certain county assessors are collecting both fire patrol assessments and fire protection district levies from a given piece of forest land is unlawful, being
AGO 1953 NO. 10 >
COUNTIES ‑- LICENSING ‑- AUTHORITY OF COMMISSIONERS TO LICENSE TRANSIENT VENDORS AND AUCTIONEERS. County commissioners have no authority to impose additional license requirements upon "peddlers."  They may, however, impose reasonable conditions upon the issuance of auctioneers' licenses.