Other LanguagesThe county director of health may not legally transfer funds from one general class of his budget to another.
A board of county commissioners may authorize a loan of surplus (nonappropriated) amounts in the county road fund to a solvent county expense fund on a temporary basis provided interest on the loan is charged.
King County may not legally compel the Port of Seattle to defray the administrative costs of refunding taxes illegally assessed and collected for the Duwamish Industrial Survey.
There is no legal procedure for the disposition of stolen tangible property which has come into the county sheriff's possession in the course of his official duties.
The various subsections of § 1, chapter 262, Laws of 1961 (RCW 58.18.010), became operative only where the requisite maps are maintained by the assessor and he has, with the permission of the county commissioners, filed an assessor's plat.
The board of county commissioners of a county in which part of a joint school district is located may not expend federal forest funds for improvement or addition to school buildings situated in another county, where the joint district belongs to such other county under RCW 28.57.250.
(1) A sheriff may charge ten cents per mile in serving a summons and complaint where service is not obtained until the fifth trip.(2) A $2.00 fee is applicable to returns of execution, personal and real, attachments, personal and real, and order of sale, personal and real.(3) Under RCW 36.18.040 the fee for serving or executing any other writ or process in a civil action or proceeding not specifically covered by other provisions of the act is $2.00 and mileage; and for the execution of any process requiring or commanding something to be done in a criminal action the fee is $4.00. (4) The sheriff may charge $3.00 for levying each writ of attachment or execution and $2.00 for filing the same with the auditor.(5) In computing mileage traveled the sheriff may round off the mileage traveled at the nearest mile.(6) The fees to be charged for processing of a sale under order of sale and execution are set forth in the opinion.(7) Under RCW 6.16.020 (3) a television set may be included in the exemption from execution allowed a household.
(1) Only the decedent and persons who have the right to control the disposition of the decedent's remains may authorize the transplanting of organs to a living person. (2) Authorization for transplanting of the organs of a deceased person to a living person must be in writing. (3) Authorization to perform an autopsy is required to be in writing in certain instances. As a practical matter written authorization may be required in all cases. (4) Medical personnel appointed by the coroner to perform autopsies need not be deputized by him.
A mayor's salary may not be increased after his election. The salary may be increased after the close of time for filing or the primary election.
In counties where no county tuberculosis hospitals exist, the board of trustees of the county general hospital may provide for a department therein to care for tubercular patients.