Title 42 — Title 42 PUBLIC OFFICERS AND AGENCIES
20 chapters · 471 sections in this title.
RCW 42.20.020 Powers may not be delegated for profit.
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Every public officer who, for any reward, consideration, or gratuity paid or agreed to be paid, shall, directly or indirectly, grant to another the right or authority to discharge any function of his or her office, or permit another to perform any of his or her duties, shall be g…
RCW 42.20.030 Intrusion into and refusal to surrender public office.
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Every person who shall falsely personate or represent any public officer, or who shall willfully intrude himself or herself into a public office to which he or she has not been duly elected or appointed, or who shall willfully exercise any of the functions or perform any of the d…
RCW 42.20.040 False report.
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Every public officer who shall knowingly make any false or misleading statement in any official report or statement, under circumstances not otherwise prohibited by law, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.[ 1909 c 249 s 98; RRS s 2350.]
RCW 42.20.050 Public officer making false certificate.
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Every public officer who, being authorized by law to make or give a certificate or other writing, shall knowingly make and deliver as true such a certificate or writing containing any statement which he or she knows to be false, in a case where the punishment thereof is not expre…
RCW 42.20.060 Falsely auditing and paying claims.
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Every public officer, or person holding or discharging the duties of any public office or place of trust under the state or in any county, town or city, a part of whose duty it is to audit, allow or pay, or take part in auditing, allowing or paying, claims or demands upon the sta…
RCW 42.20.070 Misappropriation and falsification of accounts by public officer.
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Every public officer, and every other person receiving money on behalf or for or on account of the people of the state or of any department of the state government or of any bureau or fund created by law in which the people are directly or indirectly interested, or for or on acco…
RCW 42.20.080 Other violations by officers.
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Every officer or other person mentioned in RCW 42.20.070, who shall willfully disobey any provision of law regulating his or her official conduct in cases other than those specified in said section, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.[ 2012 c 117 s 116; 1909 c 249 s 318; RRS …
RCW 42.20.090 Misappropriation, etc., by treasurer.
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Every state, county, city, or town treasurer who willfully misappropriates any moneys, funds, or securities received by or deposited with him or her as such treasurer, or who shall be guilty of any other malfeasance or willful neglect of duty in his or her office, is guilty of a …
RCW 42.20.100 Failure of duty by public officer a misdemeanor.
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Whenever any duty is enjoined by law upon any public officer or other person holding any public trust or employment, their wilful neglect to perform such duty, except where otherwise specially provided for, shall be a misdemeanor.[ 1909 c 249 s 16; RRS s 2268. Prior: Code 1881 s …
RCW 42.20.110 Improper conduct by certain justices.
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It shall be a misdemeanor for any judge or justice of any court not of record, during the hearing of any cause or proceeding therein, to address any person in his or her presence in unfit, unseemly, or improper language.[ 2012 c 117 s 117; 1911 c 115 s 1; RRS s 2696-1.]