Other LanguagesThis is written in response to your recent letter requesting our opinion regarding the applicability of Article II, § 19 to a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state constitution.
This is written in response to your recent letter requesting our opinion with regard to the right of members of the public to inspect certain records relating to real property valuation which are maintained in a county assessor's office.
Reference is made to your recent letter requesting our opinion on two questions pertaining to superior court reporters.
By your letter of March 30, 1971, you asked our opinion as to which tax collection year the increased property tax exemption granted under section 1, chapter 55, Laws of 1970 2nd ex. sess., applies. This law became effective July 1, 1970, and amended RCW 84.36.050 by increasing the acreage exemption for schools and colleges.
This is written in response to your letter dated June 12, 1972, requesting our opinion on the following two questions: "1. Does the 18th Amendment prohibit the deposit in the Motor Vehicle Fund of those revenues which by statute are currently deposited in the Highway Safety Fund created by RCW 46.68.060? "2. Do the uses of Highway Safety Fund Revenues identified in RCW 46.68.060 qualify as 'highway purposes' under the 18th Amendment?
This is written in response to your recent request for our opinion on the procedure to be followed by a seventh class county in adopting and implementing the provisions of the 1961 justice court act ‑ chapter 299, Laws of 1961. We paraphrase your question as follows:
As a follow up on the previous opinions which we have issued during the current legislative session regarding the procedures to be followed by the legislature in responding to an initiative which has been submitted to it under the provisions of Article II, § 1 (Amendment 7) of our state constitution, you have now asked for our opinion on the following additional questions: "(1) If the Legislature passes an alternative to an initiative to the Legislature, with the addition of both an emergency clause and a referendum, and if the Governor exercises a partial veto, does the bill that originally passed the Legislature take a position on the ballot, or does the measure as signed by the Governor with a partial veto assume a place on the ballot?"
By two letters previously acknowledged you have requested our opinion on several questions relating to county "home rule charter" elections under the provisions of Article XI, § 4 (Amendment 21) of our state Constitution. We paraphrase your questions as follows: (1) In view of the requirement contained in Article XI, § 4 (Amendment 21) that a proposal to elect a board of freeholders to frame a county charter is to be voted upon at a general election, should otherwise properly filed petitions for the election of such persons be deemed fatally defective because they call for the question be put to the voters at a primary election preceding the next general election? (2) Where only one legal newspaper is printed in a given county, will the requirement of Article XI, § 4 (Amendment 21) that a proposed county charter be published ". . . in two (2) legal newspapers published in said county, . . ." be complied with by publication of said charter in that newspaper and in some other legal newspaper which is circulated but not printed in the county? (3) Must a person, in order to be elected to the office of freeholder under the provisions of Article XI, § 4 (Amendment 21) be an owner of property situated within the county wherein he seeks election?
By letter previously acknowledged you requested our opinion as to the time when an election must be held to fill an existing vacancy on the board of commissioners of the Port of Tacoma. We paraphrase your question as follows:
This is written in response to your request for an opinion from this office on a question which we would paraphrase as follows: Are the services of those legislative employees who are employed during a legislative session and are paid solely on the basis of a fixed amount per day of employment without regard to the number of hours or days actually worked covered for unemployment compensation purposes by chapter 3, Laws of 1971?