Title 72 — Title 72 STATE INSTITUTIONS
33 chapters · 476 sections in this title.
RCW 72.27.010 Compact enacted.
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The Interstate Compact on Mental Health is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this state with all other states legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows:The contracting states solemnly agree that:ARTICLE IThe party states find that the proper and exped…
RCW 72.27.020 Secretary is compact administrator—Rules and regulations—Cooperation with other agencies.
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Pursuant to said compact provided in RCW 72.27.010, the secretary of social and health services shall be the compact administrator and who, acting jointly with like officers of other party states, shall have power to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out more effectively …
RCW 72.27.030 Supplementary agreements.
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The compact administrator is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into supplementary agreements with appropriate officials of other states pursuant to Articles VII and XI of the compact. In the event that such supplementary agreements shall require or contemplate the use of a…
RCW 72.27.040 Financial arrangements.
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The compact administrator, subject to the moneys available therefor, may make or arrange for any payments necessary to discharge any financial obligations imposed upon this state by the compact or by any supplementary agreement entered into thereunder.[ 1965 ex.s. c 26 s 4.]
RCW 72.27.050 Prerequisites for transfer of person to another party state—Release or return of residents, jurisdiction, laws applicable.
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No person shall be transferred to another party state pursuant to this chapter unless the compact administrator first shall have obtained either:(a) [(1)] The written consent to such transfer by the proposed transferee or by others on his or her behalf, which consent shall be exe…
RCW 72.27.060 Transmittal of copies of chapter.
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Duly authorized copies of this chapter shall, upon its approval be transmitted by the secretary of state to the governor of each state, the attorney general and the administrator of general services of the United States, and the council of state governments.[ 1965 ex.s. c 26 s 6.…
RCW 72.27.070 Right to deport aliens and return residents of nonparty states preserved.
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*** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 2632.SL) ***Nothing in this chapter shall affect the right of the secretary of social and health services to deport aliens and return residents of nonparty states as provided in chapter 72.25 RCW.[ 1979 c 141 s 234; 1965 ex.s. c 26 s 7.]