RCW Title 34 - Administrative law

Chapter 05 - Administrative Procedure Act.

§001 - Legislative intent.

§010 - Definitions.

§020 - Savings -- Authority of agencies to comply with chapter -- Effect of subsequent legislation.

§030 - Exclusions from chapter or parts of chapter.

§040 - Operation of chapter if in conflict with federal law.

§050 - Waiver.

§060 - Informal settlements.

§070 - Conversion of proceedings.

§080 - Variation from time limits.

§090 - Forest practices board -- Emergency rules.

§100 - Respectful language.

§110 - Violations of state law or agency rule by small businesses -- Notice requirements -- Waiver of penalty for first-time paperwork violations.

§120 - Extension of rights and responsibilities -- State registered domestic partnerships.

§210 - Code and register -- Publication and distribution -- Omissions, removals, revisions -- Judicial notice.

§220 - Rules for agency procedure -- Indexes of opinions and statements.

§230 - Interpretive and policy statements.

§240 - Declaratory order by agency -- Petition.

§250 - Model rules of procedure.

§260 - Electronic distribution.

§270 - Agency web sites for rule-making information.

§310 - Prenotice inquiry -- Negotiated and pilot rules.

§312 - Rules coordinator.

§313 - Feasibility studies -- Pilot projects.

§314 - Rules development agenda.

§315 - Rule-making docket.

§320 - Notice of proposed rule -- Contents -- Distribution by agency -- Institutions of higher education.

§322 - Scope of rule-making authority.

§325 - Public participation -- Concise explanatory statement.

§328 - Significant legislative rules, other selected rules.

§330 - Petition for adoption, amendment, repeal -- Agency action -- Appeal.

§335 - Withdrawal of proposal -- Time and manner of adoption.

§340 - Variance between proposed and final rule.

§345 - Failure to give twenty days notice of intended action -- Effect.

§350 - Emergency rules and amendments.

§353 - Expedited rule making.

§360 - Order adopting rule, contents.

§362 - Postadoption notice.

§365 - Incorporation by reference.

§370 - Rule-making file.

§375 - Substantial compliance with procedures.

§380 - Filing with code reviser -- Written record -- Effective dates.

§385 - Rules for rule making.

§390 - Style, format, and numbering -- Agency compliance.

§395 - Format and style of amendatory and new sections -- Failure to comply.

§410 - Application of Part IV.

§413 - Commencement -- When required.

§416 - Decision not to conduct an adjudication.

§419 - Agency action on applications for adjudication.

§422 - Rate changes, licenses.

§425 - Presiding officers -- Disqualification, substitution.

§428 - Representation.

§431 - Conference -- Procedure and participation.

§434 - Notice of hearing.

§437 - Pleadings, briefs, motions, service.

§440 - Default.

§443 - Intervention.

§446 - Subpoenas, discovery, and protective orders.

§449 - Procedure at hearing.

§452 - Rules of evidence -- Cross-examination.

§455 - Ex parte communications.

§458 - Separation of functions.

§461 - Entry of orders.

§464 - Review of initial orders.

§467 - Stay.

§470 - Reconsideration.

§473 - Effectiveness of orders.

§476 - Agency record.

§479 - Emergency adjudicative proceedings.

§4791 - Secure community transition facility -- Proceeding concerning public safety measures.

§482 - Brief adjudicative proceedings -- Applicability.

§485 - Brief adjudicative proceedings -- Procedure.

§488 - Brief proceedings -- Administrative review -- Applicability.

§491 - Brief proceedings -- Administrative review -- Procedures.

§494 - Agency record in brief proceedings.

§510 - Relationship between this chapter and other judicial review authority.

§514 - Petition for review -- Where filed.

§518 - Direct review by court of appeals.

§522 - Refusal of review by court of appeals.

§526 - Appellate review by supreme court or court of appeals.

§530 - Standing.

§534 - Exhaustion of administrative remedies.

§542 - Time for filing petition for review.

§546 - Petition for review -- Contents.

§550 - Stay and other temporary remedies.

§554 - Limitation on new issues.

§558 - Judicial review of facts confined to record.

§562 - New evidence taken by court or agency.

§566 - Agency record for review -- Costs.

§570 - Judicial review.

§574 - Type of relief.

§578 - Petition by agency for enforcement.

§582 - Petition by others for enforcement.

§586 - Defenses, limitations on.

§588 - Enforcement of agency subpoena.

§590 - Incorporation of other judicial review provisions.

§594 - Review by higher court.

§598 - Frivolous petitions.

§610 - Joint administrative rules review committee -- Members -- Appointment -- Terms -- Vacancies.

§620 - Review of proposed rules -- Notice.

§630 - Review of existing rules -- Policy and interpretive statements, etc. -- Notice -- Hearing.

§640 - Committee objections to agency intended action -- Statement in register and WAC -- Suspension of rule.

§650 - Recommendations by committee to legislature.

§655 - Petition for review.

§660 - Review and objection procedures -- No presumption established.

§665 - Submission of rule for review -- State employees protected.

§671 - Reports -- Advisory boards -- Staff.

§675 - Inspection of properties -- Oaths, subpoenas, witnesses, depositions.

§681 - Enforcement -- Committee subpoena -- Refusal to testify.

§900 - Captions and headings.

§901 - Severability -- 1988 c 288.

§902 - Effective date -- Application -- 1988 c 288.

§903 - Severability -- 1998 c 280.

Chapter 08 - Washington State Register Act of 1977.

§010 - Legislative finding.

§020 - Washington State Register -- Created -- Publication period -- Contents.

§030 - Preparation and transmittal of material by agencies to code reviser -- Rules regarding.

§040 - Publication in register deemed official notice -- Certification of material.

§050 - Institutions of higher education considered state agencies for certain purposes.

§900 - Short title.

§905 - Effective date -- 1977 ex.s. c 240.

§910 - Severability -- 1977 ex.s. c 240.

Chapter 12 - Office of administrative hearings.

§010 - Office created -- Conduct of hearings -- Chief administrative law judge, appointment, term, qualifications, removal.

§020 - Definitions.

§030 - Administrative law judges -- Appointment and contractual basis -- Clerical personnel -- Discipline and termination of administrative law judges -- Civil service -- Rules for operation of office.

§035 - State patrol disciplinary hearings.

§036 - Landlord-tenant proceedings.

§037 - Human rights commission proceedings.

§038 - Local government whistleblower proceedings.

§039 - Local government whistleblower proceedings -- Costs.

§040 - Hearings conducted by administrative law judges -- Criteria for assignment.

§050 - Administrative law judge -- Motion of prejudice against -- Request for assignment of.

§060 - Initial decision or proposal for decision -- Findings of fact and conclusions of law -- Inapplicability to state patrol disciplinary hearings.

§070 - Record of hearings.

§080 - Procedural conduct of hearings -- Rules.

§090 - Transfer of employees and equipment.

§100 - Salaries.

§110 - Application of chapter.

§120 - Appointment of chief administrative law judge.

§130 - Administrative hearings revolving fund -- Created, purposes.

§140 - Transfers and payments into revolving fund -- Limitation on employment security department payments -- Allotment by director of financial management -- Disbursements from fund by voucher.

§150 - Accounting procedures.

§160 - Direct payments by agencies, when authorized.