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Attorney General

Bob Ferguson

AGO 1953 NO. 92 >
COURTS --  SUPERIOR COURT CLERKS' FILING FEES UNDER SPECIAL STATUTES Inasmuch as section 1, chapter 213, Laws of 1941, requires the presentation of a petition to and the entering of an order of the superior court, it is our opinion that the fee to be charged by the clerk of the superior court
AGO 1953 NO. 93 >
PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICTS ‑- LABOR UNIONS ‑- POWER TO CONTRACT ‑- RETROACTIVE PAYMENTS P.U.D. Commissioners may approve deferred pay to the anniversary date of a contract (March 1, 1953) for electrical workers who were previously covered by the union contract, although the contract is not signed
AGO 1953 NO. 94 >
COUNTY TREASURER --  DUTY TO DISTRAIN FOR PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX --  AUTHORITY TO CHARGE REALTY FOR PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX --  LIABILITY FOR PENALTY AND LOSS THROUGH NON-FEASANCE [[NONFEASANCE]] --  REMEDIES FOR LOSS, PENALTY OR NON-FEASANCE [[NONFEASANCE]]. Treasurer:1. Cannot
AGO 1953 NO. 95 >
PARKING SPACE, NEW CAPITOL OFFICE BUILDING -- LOCATION Statute does not require that parking facility authorized for new building be adjacent thereto; only that result of construction is to make parking space available for the building.          
AGO 1953 NO. 96 >
LIMITATION OF HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT IN THE OPERATION OF POWER DRIVEN MACHINERY ON WATERFRONT PROPERTIES Employees actually engaged in operating power driven machinery on waterfront properties are limited to twelve and one‑half hours of employment at any one time without giving such employees an
AGO 1953 NO. 97 >
UNIFORM ENFORCEMENT OF FOREIGN JUDGMENTS ‑- COUNTY CLERKS ‑- REGISTRATION OF FOREIGN JUDGMENTS ‑- ATTACHMENT BONDS ‑- AFFIDAVIT FOR ATTACHMENT ‑- JUDGMENT FEES ‑- NOTICE OF REGISTRATION 1. An application for registering a foreign judgment does not require a court order as a condition precedent to
AGO 1953 NO. 98 >
TRANSFER OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE ACCIDENT AND MEDICAL AID FUNDS TO INDUSTRIAL INSURANCE AND MEDICAL AID FUNDS There is no constitutional or statutory prohibition which would bar a transfer of the occupational disease accident and occupational disease medical aid funds to the industrial insurance
AGO 1953 NO. 99 >
CITIES ‑- COUNTIES ‑- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ‑- JAILS ‑- JUVENILE DETENTION HOMES ‑- MEDICAL CARE 1. When an inmate of a city or county jail becomes ill or is injured and requires medical attention, being unable to pay for the services and not a recipient of public assistance, the city or county, i.e
AGO 1953 NO. 100 >
CRIMINAL LAW ‑- PUNISHMENT ‑- CONCURRENT OR CONSECUTIVE TERMS Where a person is convicted of a gross misdemeanor and sentenced while serving a sentence for a prior gross misdemeanor and the court fails to specify in pronouncing the sentence whether or not the sentences shall run concurrently, the
AGO 1953 NO. 101 >
TAXATION ‑- PERSONAL PROPERTY LOCATED ON INDIAN LANDS ‑- PERSONAL PROPERTY OF COMMUNITY COMPOSED OF INDIAN WOMAN AND WHITE MAN ‑- LAND WITHIN COLVILLE INDIAN RESERVATION OWNED BY NON-INDIANS ‑- PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS ON INDIAN LANDS (1) Personal property (farm machinery) is subject to property