Other LanguagesThe Board of County Commissioners of any county has authority to establish facilities for the care of senile patients in available buildings and grounds; however, priority for admission to these facilities must be given to recipients of public assistance and medical indigents of our state.
1. The auditors should require candidates to pay a filing fee based upon annual salary for the class of county as shown by the unofficial census bulletins. 2. The salaries of county officials elected in 1950 will not be affected by the fact that the filing fee was paid upon a different classification than was finally determined to be the correct classification by the Bureau of Census.
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.
County hospitals are not required by statute to observe the legal holidays defined by law but only those designated by the board of trustees of such institutions.
Where a city and a county rural library district have joined together to establish and maintain a regional library pursuant to RCW 27.12.080, the city may condemn land for a situs for the library building within the city limits.
Automobiles and other personal property supplied by a county to the sheriff is to be treated and dealt with as other county property (overruling Opinion No. 51-53-259).
The county has authority to establish and operate nursing homes for the care of aged indigents, such authority not being impaired by the public assistance laws of 1953.
The Board of County Commissioners of Clallam County cannot establish a civil service or merit system without a statute enabling them to do so.
Counties may enter into exclusive contracts for the collection of garbage in unincorporated areas of the county which are not included within a sanitary district.
A county has no legal authority to gratuitously surface a town street.