Other Languages(1 and 2) The Commissioner of Public Lands and the Board of Natural Resources are not covered by the new state civil service law.(3) Confidential secretaries and administrative assistants in the immediate administrative structure of the office organization of an elected official are not covered by the civil service law.(4) Part time or seasonal help in the Department of Natural Resources who have been determined by the Director to be skilled or unskilled labor employed temporarily on force‑account construction and maintenance projects or employed on temporary seasonal single phases of agricultural production or harvesting are not covered by the civil service law.
(1) The members of the Public Employees' or Law Enforcement Officers' and Firefighters' Retirement Boards may be held personally liable for their actions relating to the investment or reinvestment of the funds of the Public Employees' or Law Enforcement Officers' and Fire Fighters' Retirement Systems. (2) Identification and discussion of conditions or circumstances under which such liability could be found to exist. (3) Although the respective retirement boards do not, themselves, have the authority to purchase insurance to provide protection to the board members from such liability, the state budget director's office, in conjunction with the State Employees' Insurance Board, has the ability to authorize the procurement of such insurance.
An individual, upon becoming a judge or justice within the state judicial system by reason of his or her election to such office, should be deemed to be subject to the jurisdiction of the Judicial Qualifications Commission and to possible disciplinary action by the Supreme Court under Article IV, § 31 (Amendment 71) of the state constitution for a violation of Canon 7 of the Code of Judicial Conduct occurring during the election campaign and prior to the individual becoming a judge.
(1) For the purposes of RCW 43.43.852, "an organized, disciplined association" refers, generally, to any group of two or more individuals which sets about to engage in a course of criminal conduct and whose members are dedicated and internally disciplined to a pattern of illegal behavior and maintain a loyalty, express or tacit, to the other members of the organization and its criminal ends.
(1) The Washington State Convention and Trade Center corporation which was created pursuant to § 2, chapter 34, Laws of 1982 to construct and operate the State convention and Trade Center is a state agency for purposes of the state civil service law, chapter 41.06 RCW.(2) Identification, based upon the foregoing conclusion, of those offices or positions within the corporation which are, nevertheless, exempt from civil service coverage under RCW 41.06.070.
RCW 66.28.010 prohibits a liquor manufacturer or wholesaler from extending thirty days credit on sales of liquor to retail licensees.
The state auditor has the statutory authority to authorize the use by various municipalities of a "long and short" account within the prescribed system of accounting of municipal funds, pursuant to his finding that it meets standards of accuracy required by RCW 43.09.200.
(1) There is, at present, no state statutory authority whereby a state employee may cause portions of his or her salary or wages to be withheld, through a payroll deduction system, for the specified purpose of making voluntary political contributions to a labor union or other employee organization. (2) Nothing contained in the Federal Elections Campaign Act of 1971, as amended, either authorizes or requires a state to provide for a system of payroll deductions in order to facilitate voluntary political contributions by state employees.
(1) The 1975 Vocational Education Act establishes a trichotomous relationship between the Commission for Vocational Education, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board for Community College Education whereby those three agencies share the responsibility and authority for directing public vocational education in the state.
The Washington Transportation Commission did not violate any contractual rights of persons who previously purchased undated ferry system commuter ticket books when, by Resolution No. 72, it provided that commutation ticket books shall be valid only for ninety days from the date of purchase.