Title 1 — Title 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
11 chapters · 148 sections in this title.
RCW 1.04.010 Revised Code of Washington enacted.
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The ninety-one titles with chapters and sections designated as the "Revised Code of Washington" and attested by the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house of representatives of the legislature of the state of Washington, are hereby enacted and designated as the …
RCW 1.04.013 1950 Supplement enacted.
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The titles, chapters, and sections designated as the "1950 Supplement to the Revised Code of Washington" attested by the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house of representatives of the legislature of the state of Washington, and filed with the secretary of stat…
RCW 1.04.014 Numbering system adopted—Application.
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The system of numbering employed in the 1950 supplement is hereby adopted as the general system to be followed in designating sections of the revised code. Specific numbers, in accordance with such system, are authorized to be assigned to sections of the revised code as follows:T…
RCW 1.04.015 Numbering new sections, chapters—Corrections.
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New chapters or sections added to the Revised Code of Washington (as supplemented or modified by the 1950 supplement), as the result of laws enacted at this or subsequent sessions of the legislature, shall be numbered in harmony with said general numbering system, and shall bear …
RCW 1.04.016 Expansion of numbering system—Decimal factor.
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It is the intent that under said numbering system the section factor of the section number shall be treated as a decimal figure, and where new sections must hereafter in codifying be inserted between sections then already consecutively numbered, the proper number for such new sec…
RCW 1.04.020 Code as evidence of the law—Rule of construction—Effect of amendment.
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The contents of the Revised Code of Washington, after striking therefrom sections repealed or superseded by laws of the state of Washington enacted since January 1, 1949, as the revised code is supplemented or modified in the 1950 supplement, shall establish the laws of this stat…
RCW 1.04.021 Rule of construction—Prima facie law.
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The contents of said code shall establish prima facie the laws of this state of a general and permanent nature in effect on January 1, 1949, but nothing herein shall be construed as changing the meaning of any such laws. In case of any omissions, or any inconsistency between any …
RCW 1.04.030 New laws to be added to code.
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All laws of a general and permanent nature enacted after January 1, 1949, shall, from time to time, be incorporated into and become a part of said code.[ 1950 ex.s. c 16 s 3.]
RCW 1.04.040 Code may be cited as "RCW."
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The code may be cited by the abbreviation "RCW."[ 1950 ex.s. c 16 s 4.]