Washington State

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Attorney General

Bob Ferguson

AGO 1961 NO. 11 >
OFFICES AND OFFICERS ‑- STATE ‑- DIRECTOR OF FISHERIES ‑- REGULATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES COMMISSION WHERE STATE REGULATION IS INCONSISTENT. If the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission promulgates a regulation which is contrary to a state regulation which creates
AGO 1961 NO. 12 >
DISTRICTS ‑- PORT ‑- EMPLOYEES ‑- CONTRACT FOR ADDITIONAL PENSION PROGRAM. Under the provisions of RCW 53.08.170 a port district may contribute to an additional pension program established by contract between a trade association acting as collective bargaining agent for various employers including
AGO 1961 NO. 13 >
CITIES AND TOWNS ‑- ORDINANCES ‑- MUNICIPAL JUDGE ‑- SERVICE OF WARRANT OF ARREST. A warrant of arrest issued by a municipal judge of a city of the fourth class charging a violation of a town ordinance is not valid for service outside the corporate limits of the town.     
AGO 1961 NO. 14 >
TAXATION ‑- LEGISLATURE ‑- AUTHORITY TO VEST CITIES AND TOWNS WITH ASSESSMENT POWER AND THEIR LEGISLATIVE BODIES TO SERVE AS EQUALIZATION BOARDS (1) The legislature by statute may vest cities and towns with the power to make their own property assessments for the purpose of determining the base for
AGO 1961 NO. 15 >
OFFICES AND OFFICERS ‑- CITY ‑- POLICE ‑- AUTHORITY OF OFFICER TO ARREST WITHIN CITY WITH ARREST WARRANT ISSUED BY SEATTLE MUNICIPAL COURT FOR VIOLATION OF SEATTLE ORDINANCES AND ACCEPTING BAIL IN CASH OR CHECK. (1) An officer of the Seattle police department may not arrest a person within another
AGO 1961 NO. 16 >
COUNTIES ‑- ROADS ‑- ANNEXATION TO CITY, DISPOSITION OF ROAD DISTRICT TAXES LEVIED. Where territory which is part of a county road district is annexed to a city, the annexing city is entitled upon collection to receive from the county treasurer such road district taxes as have been levied but not
AGO 1961 NO. 17 >
OFFICES AND OFFICERS ‑- STATE ‑- EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT ‑- NEW PENSION PLAN FOR SURVIVING SPOUSE A statute providing that whenever any person presently receiving a retirement allowance from the state employees' retirement system shall die leaving a surviving spouse, a monthly payment shall be made
AGO 1961 NO. 18 >
DISTRICTS ‑- FIRE PROTECTION ‑- AUTHORITY TO PAY PREMIUMS FOR GROUP LIFE INSURANCE The board of commissioners of a fire protection district is not legally authorized to pay part or all of the premiums of group life insurance for the nonpaid volunteer firemen or the paid fire chief and secretary of
AGO 1961 NO. 19 >
DISTRICTS ‑- FIRE PROTECTION ‑- GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS ‑- AUTHORIZED PURPOSES AND METHOD OF ISSUANCE AND SALE (1) A fire protection district authorized by the electors to issue general obligation bonds to finance replacement of equipment on a need basis may issue only a portion of the authorized
AGO 1961 NO. 20 >
DISTRICTS ‑- SCHOOL ‑- ATTENDANCE OF NONRESIDENT PUPILS IN HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTS. In the absence of an agreement, a high school district may charge the parents of elementary or secondary students of another high school district, either adjoining or nonadjoining, a reasonable tuition for attending