Other LanguagesThis is written in response to your recent letter requesting our advice regarding the financial obligations of Pend Oreille county and the intermediate school district in which it is located ‑ arising out of the recent retirement, in June of 1970, of the county superintendent of schools of Pend Oreille county.
By letter dated January 12, 1970, you requested the opinion of this office as to the "constitutionality and/or legality" of the recent decision of the director of the department of public assistance to implement a plan of program changes with respect to the expenditure of funds appropriated to the department of public assistance for the 1969-71 biennium, as more fully set forth in a document headed "Appropriation Balancing Program," referred to in your letter.
This is written in response to your recent letter requesting our opinion as to whether the provisions of RCW 81.44.0971 are permissive or mandatory.
We acknowledge receipt of your letter dated January 11, 1971, requesting our advice regarding the present status of the law pertaining to the availability to the news media of the names of persons involved in criminal prosecutions for the crimes of incest or sodomy.
This is written in response to your recent letter requesting our opinion on three questions pertaining to the rights of public school age children to attend a public school located in a school district other than that in which they reside.
This is written in response to your recent request for our opinion on a question pertaining to the tax exempt status on a private, non-profit [[nonprofit]]cemetery.
By recent letter you have requested an opinion of this office on the following question: "When a wife is awarded support and attorney's fees on an Order on Show Cause pursuant to RCW 26.08.090, is it proper for the Clerk of the Superior Court to, prior to entry of the Decree of Divorce issue either a Writ of Execution or a Writ of Garnishment to satisfy the obligations set forth in the prior Order on Show Cause?"
By letter previously acknowledged you have requested our opinion regarding the legality of a pending proposal by the governor and the secretary of social and health services to close down, and terminate the operation of, a certain facility in Kitsap county known as the Olympic Center. Your question, specifically, is whether, in view of the provisions of chapter 11, Laws of 1965, this facility may be closed down by administrative action without specific legislative authorization.
We have your letter of January 16, 1970, requesting the advice of this office as to whether service as a member of a fire‑fighting organization acquired by a municipality must have been continuous in order to be creditable under RCW 41.18.165.
We are in receipt of your recent letter requesting our opinion ". . . as to whether a Board of School Directors may conduct a hearing with respect to expelling a child from school in executive session, under terms of the 1971 open meeting act."