Washington State

Office of the Attorney General

Attorney General

Bob Ferguson

AGLO 1974 NO. 99 >

WAC 131-16-300(2)(a) and (b), relating to salary increases for non-civil [[*sic (noncivil)]]service community college employees, authorize alternative choices or approaches which are legally available to all community colleges operating within the state system.

AGO 1962 NO. 115 >

(1) A regional planning commission organized under RCW 35.63.070 is an agency of the participating municipal corporation and not a separate municipal corporation. (2) Employees of such a commission are employees of the participating municipal corporations.

AGO 1955 NO. 115 >

Port district cannot submit plan for optional OASI coverage for employees covered by State Employees Retirement System.

AGO 1964 NO. 120 >

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.

AGO 1964 NO. 128 >

(1) A city of the fourth class utilizing the provisions of RCW 35.23.460 may pay all or a part of the costs of disability monthly income coverage for its employees if the coverage is obtained on a group insurance basis.(2) A city of the fourth class having less than twenty-five employees is authorized but not required to make payroll deductions for purposes of paying the costs of group health and accident disability coverage.

AGO 1956 NO. 183 >

(a) A legislative act permitting private corporations to construct, own, and rent housing on grounds of state institutions to employees thereof probably would be constitutional. (b) Legislation permitting rental housing for employees of state institutions such housing to be constructed from the proceeds of a bond issue, the bonds being retired from the rentals, would be constitutional. (c) Legislation pledging rentals from existing housing, for employees of state institutions, in aid of the retirement of a bond issue for new housing for the same purpose, would be constitutional. (d) Legislation providing for one bond issue for all rental housing to be constructed for employees of state institutions would be valid if the overall financing plan is constitutional.

AGO 1954 NO. 287 >

A county may pay its employees under its rules relating to sick leave for the first three days following an injury while engaged in county work.

AGO 1956 NO. 337 >

State business and occupation and sales taxes apply to charges made by persons who work by the day in the construction and remodeling of homes or buildings furnishing only labor if their status is that of an independent contractor.   Said taxes do not apply if their status is that of an employee.