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Attorney General

Bob Ferguson

AGO 1954 NO. 317 >
PUBLIC OFFICERS ‑- SCHOOL DIRECTORS ‑- INTEREST IN CONTRACT OF DISTRICT AS AVOIDING CONTRACT ‑- EFFECT OF NON-PARTICIPATION BY OFFICER IN OFFICIAL ACTION ON CONTRACT WHEN SO INTERESTED 1. Where school director's husband is officer of private corporation and holds stock therein for marital community
AGO 1954 NO. 319 >
PROBATIONER ‑- RETURN OF ‑- COSTS --INTERSTATE COMPACT ‑- DUTY OF BOARD OF PRISON TERMS AND PAROLES The Board of Prison Terms and Paroles has jurisdiction to return to this state a person on probation under a suspended sentence, who has been permitted by the board to return to her home state under
AGO 1954 NO. 320 >
CONSTITUTIONALITY OF A LEGISLATIVE CLASSIFICATION OF ALL INCOME AS A SINGLE CLASS OF PROPERTY FOR TAXATION PURPOSES Classification of income from real property leading to its taxation renders any act so classifying it, unconstitutional because of non-uniformity.      
AGO 1954 NO. 321 >
WASHINGTON PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION CONTROL OVER DIVIDENDS OF A PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION DOING BUSINESS AS A BUS COMPANY The Action of the Washington Public Service Commission in rejecting an asset from a carrier's rate base for making purposes does not itself bind the Commission to disallow the
AGO 1954 NO. 322 >
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ‑- MEDICAL CARE ‑- CONTRACT PRICE PAID TO COUNTIES ‑- FACTORS CONSIDERED --COUNTIES ‑-ALSO UNDER DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH The State Department of Health may consider the cost of adapting an existing county facility to the care of senile patients, in determining the contract price to
AGO 1954 NO. 323 >
ROAD BUILDING POWERS OF SEWER DISTRICT A sewer district may not construct a road upon private land, in lieu of money consideration, to pay the owner thereof for a parcel of land purchased from him for a sewage treatment plant site.            
AGO 1954 NO. 324 >
GROUND WATER ‑- ARTIFICIAL STORAGE ‑- FILING OF CLAIM THERETO An owner of artificially stored ground water who fails to file his declaration of claim thereto does not jeopardize his rights to said water where the supervisor of water resources of the State of Washington has not yet designated the
AGO 1954 NO. 325 >
REAL ESTATE BROKERS ‑- LICENSING BRANCH OFFICES Brokers who employ salesmen in distant cities for the purpose of transacting business there must establish a branch office in accordance with RCW 18.85.190.                
AGO 1954 NO. 326 >
REAL ESTATE BROKERS ‑- TRUSTEE ACCOUNT ‑- COLLECTIONS All moneys received or collected by a real estate broker for a client are required to be kept in a special trust account. Where a person acts only as a collection agency it is not necessary that he be licensed under the real estate laws of
AGO 1954 NO. 327 >
REGISTRATION AND TAXATION OF AIRCRAFT OF NON-RESIDENT MILITARY PERSONNEL Non-resident military personnel based in this state are not subject to Washington State registration and excise tax requirements on their civil aircraft where they have complied with such laws as affect these aircraft in their