Title 43 — Title 43 STATE GOVERNMENT—EXECUTIVE
178 chapters · 3,474 sections in this title.
RCW 43.30.520 Property transactions, restrictive conveyances, highway purpose—Existing law to continue.
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Nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted as changing existing law with respect to:(1) Property given to a state agency on restrictive conveyance with provision for reversion to the grantor or for the vesting of title in another if and when such property is not used by the age…
RCW 43.30.530 Real property—Services and facilities available to other state agencies, cost.
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Upon request by any state agency vested by law with the authority to acquire or manage real property, the department shall make available to such agency the facilities and services of the department with respect to such acquisition or management, upon condition that such agency r…
RCW 43.30.540 Acting as harbor line commission.
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The board acting as the harbor line commission shall keep a full and complete record of its proceedings relating to the establishment of harbor lines and the determination of harbor areas. The board shall have the power from time to time to make and enforce rules for the carrying…
RCW 43.30.545 Washington conservation corps.
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The department shall cooperate, when appropriate, as a partner in the Washington conservation corps established in chapter 43.220 RCW.[ 2011 c 20 s 12.]Notes:Findings—Intent—2011 c 20: See note following RCW 43.220.020.Intent—Application—2011 c 20: See RCW 43.220.905.
RCW 43.30.550 Department to make examples of forest practices applications and resulting approvals available to the public.
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(1) By December 31, 2013, the department must make examples of complete, high quality forest practices applications and the resulting approvals readily available to the public on its internet site, as well as the internet site of the office of regulatory assistance established in…
RCW 43.30.555 Geoduck harvest safety committee.
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(1) The department shall establish a geoduck harvest safety committee. The geoduck harvest safety committee consists of one representative from the department, one representative from the department's geoduck diver advisory committee, one representative from an organization repre…
RCW 43.30.560 Geoduck diver safety program—Rule-making authority—Limitation on civil suit or action.
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(1) By December 1, 2014, the department must, by rule, create a geoduck diver safety program and establish safety requirements for geoduck divers licensed under RCW 77.65.410. The department must adopt rules based on the recommendation of the geoduck harvest safety committee esta…
RCW 43.30.565 Transfer of ownership of department-owned vessel—Review of vessel's physical condition.
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(1) Prior to transferring ownership of a department-owned vessel, the department shall conduct a thorough review of the physical condition of the vessel, the vessel's operating capability, and any containers and other materials that are not fixed to the vessel.(2) If the departme…
RCW 43.30.570 Transfer of ownership of department-owned vessel—Further requirements.
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(1) Following the inspection required under RCW 43.30.565 and prior to transferring ownership of a department-owned vessel, the department shall obtain the following from the transferee:(a) The purposes for which the transferee intends to use the vessel; and(b) Information demons…
RCW 43.30.575 Wildfire areas—Funding wildfire risk reduction in certain counties.
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Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, in order to prevent homelessness in any county located east of the crest of the Cascade mountain range that shares a common border with Canada and has a population of one hundred thousand or less, the …
RCW 43.30.580 Wildland urban interface areas—Grant program—Statewide wildfire hazard and base-level wildfire risk maps.
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(1) The department shall, to the extent practical within existing resources, establish a program of technical assistance to counties, cities, and towns for the development of findings of fact and maps establishing the wildland urban interface areas of jurisdictions in accordance …
RCW 43.30.582 Marbled murrelet conservation strategy—Reports.
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(1)(a) By December 1, 2018, and each December 1st until the year after the United States fish and wildlife service issues an incidental take permit on the state trust land habitat conservation plan for the long-term conservation strategy for the marbled murrelet, the department m…
RCW 43.30.583 Marbled murrelet advisory committee.
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(1) To assist the department in developing and providing the report to the legislature required in RCW 43.30.582, the commissioner must appoint a marbled murrelet advisory committee.(2) The marbled murrelet advisory committee may include one or more representatives from the follo…
RCW 43.30.600 State geological survey.
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The department shall assume full charge and supervision of the state geological survey and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law.[ 2003 c 334 s 107; 1988 c 127 s 3; 1965 c 8 s 43.21.050. Prior: 1921 c 7 s 69; RRS s 10827. Formerly RCW 43.30.125, 43.21.050.]Notes:I…
RCW 43.30.610 Mining.
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The department shall:(1) Collect, compile, publish, and disseminate statistics and information relating to mining, milling, and metallurgy;(2) Make special studies of the mineral resources and industries of the state;(3) Collect and assemble an exhibit of mineral specimens, both …
RCW 43.30.630 Sealing of open holes and mine shafts.
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The department shall work with federal officials and private mine owners to ensure the prompt sealing of open holes and mine shafts that constitute a threat to safety.[ 2003 c 334 s 101; 1985 c 459 s 7. Formerly RCW 43.12.025.]Notes:Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02…
RCW 43.30.640 Mine owners—Maps of property surface and underground workings—Filing.
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The owner of each mine shall make a map of the surface of the property. The owner of each active mine shall make a map of the underground workings. All maps shall be filed with the department. The department shall establish by rule the scale and contents required for the maps.[ 2…
RCW 43.30.650 Gifts and bequests relating to mining.
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The department may receive on behalf of the state, for the benefit of mining and mineral development, gifts, bequests, devises, and legacies of real or personal property and use them in accordance with the wishes of the donors and manage, use, and dispose of them for the best int…
RCW 43.30.660 Collection of minerals for exhibition.
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The department may, from time to time, prepare special collections of ores and minerals representative of the mineral industry of the state to be displayed or used at any world fair, exposition, mining congress, or state exhibition, in order to promote information relating to the…
RCW 43.30.700 Powers of department—Forested lands.
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(1) The department may:(a) Inquire into the production, quality, and quantity of second growth timber to ascertain conditions for reforestation; and(b) Publish information pertaining to forestry and forest products which it considers of benefit to the people of the state.(2) The …
RCW 43.30.710 Sale or exchange of tree seedling stock and tree seed—Provision of stock or seed to local governments or nonprofit organizations.
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The department is authorized to sell to or exchange with persons intending to restock forest areas, tree seedling stock and tree seed produced at the state nursery.The department may provide at cost, stock or seed to local governments or nonprofit organizations for urban tree pla…
RCW 43.30.720 Use of proceeds specified.
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All receipts from the sale of stock or seed shall be deposited in a state forest nursery revolving fund to be maintained by the department, which is hereby authorized to use all money in said fund for the maintenance of the state tree nursery or the planting of denuded state owne…
RCW 43.30.800 Olympic natural resources center—Finding, intent.
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The legislature finds that conflicts over the use of natural resources essential to the state's residents, especially forest and ocean resources, have increased dramatically. There are growing demands that these resources be fully utilized for their commodity values, while simult…
RCW 43.30.810 Olympic natural resources center—Purpose, programs.
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(1) The Olympic natural resources center is hereby created at the University of Washington in the school of environmental and forest sciences and the school of aquatic and fishery sciences.(2) The Olympic natural resources center shall maintain facilities and programs in the west…
RCW 43.30.820 Olympic natural resources center—Administration—Policy advisory board.
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(1) The Olympic natural resources center shall operate under the authority of the board of regents of the University of Washington. It shall be administered by a director appointed jointly by the directors of the school of environmental and forest sciences and the school of aquat…
RCW 43.30.830 Olympic natural resources center—Funding—Contracts.
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The center may solicit gifts, grants, conveyances, bequests, and devises, whether real or personal property, or both, in trust or otherwise, to be directed to the center for carrying out the purposes of the center. The center may solicit contracts for work, financial and in-kind …
RCW 43.30.835 Forest biomass demonstration projects.
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(1) The department may develop and implement forest biomass energy demonstration projects, one east of the crest of the Cascade mountains and one west of the crest of the Cascade mountains. The demonstration projects must be designed to:(a) Reveal the utility of Washington's publ…
RCW 43.30.840 Grants or financing.
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For the purposes of implementing chapter 163, Law of 2009, the department may seek grants or financing from the federal government, industry, or philanthropists.[ 2009 c 163 s 4.]Notes:Findings—Intent—2009 c 163: See note following RCW 43.30.835.
RCW 43.31.033 Grants for thermal energy network pilot projects.
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(1) The department of commerce shall award grants for thermal energy network pilot projects.(2) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the department of commerce must provide grant funding to any gas company developing a thermal energy netw…
RCW 43.31.038 Geothermal exploration cost-share grant program.
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(1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, a competitive geothermal exploration cost-share grant program is established in order to incentivize deep exploratory drilling to identify locations suitable for the development of geothermal energ…
RCW 43.31.0925 Business assistance center—Minority and women business development office.
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There is established within the department's *business assistance center the minority and women business development office. This office shall provide business-related assistance to minorities and women as well as serve as an outreach program to increase minority and women-owned …
RCW 43.31.125 Advisory groups.
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The director may establish such advisory groups as in the director's discretion are necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Members of and vacancies in such advisory groups shall be filled by appointment by the director. Members shall receive reimbursement for travel…
RCW 43.31.205 Hanford reservation—Promotion of sublease for nuclear-related industry.
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In an effort to enhance the economy of the Tri-Cities area, the department of commerce is directed to promote the existence of the lease between the state of Washington and the federal government executed September 10, 1964, covering one thousand acres of land lying within the Ha…
RCW 43.31.215 Hanford reservation—Tri-Cities area—Emphasize workforce and facilities.
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When the department implements programs intended to attract or maintain industrial or high-technology investments in the state, the department shall, to the extent possible, emphasize the following:(1) The highly skilled and trained workforce in the Tri-Cities area;(2) The world-…
RCW 43.31.422 Hanford area economic investment fund.
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The Hanford area economic investment fund is established in the custody of the state treasurer. Moneys in the fund shall only be used for reasonable assistant attorney general costs in support of the committee or pursuant to the decisions of the committee created in RCW 43.31.425…
RCW 43.31.425 Hanford area economic investment fund advisory committee.
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The Hanford area economic investment fund advisory committee is hereby established to advise the director of the department of commerce.(1) The committee shall have eleven members. The director of the department of commerce shall appoint the members, in consultation with Hanford …
RCW 43.31.428 Hanford area economic investment fund committee—Powers.
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The *Hanford area economic investment fund committee created under RCW 43.31.425 may:(1) Adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business;(2) Utilize the services of other governmental agencies;(3) Accept from any federal or state agency loans or gra…
RCW 43.31.450 SEED act—Findings—Purpose.
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The legislature finds that economic well-being encompasses not only income, spending, and consumption, but also savings, investment, and asset-building. The building of assets, in particular, can improve individuals' economic independence and stability. The legislature further fi…
RCW 43.31.455 SEED act—Definitions.
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The definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 43.31.450 through 43.31.475 unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Department" means the department of commerce.(2) "Director" means the director of the department of commerce.(3) "Foster youth" means a person who i…
RCW 43.31.460 SEED act—Individual development account program—Rules.
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An individual development account program is hereby established within the department for the purpose of facilitating the creation by sponsoring organizations of individual development accounts for low-income individuals.(1) The department shall select sponsoring organizations to…
RCW 43.31.465 SEED act—Foster youth individual development account program.
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(1) A foster youth individual development account program is hereby established within the individual development account program established pursuant to RCW 43.31.460 for the purpose of facilitating the creation by sponsoring organizations of individual development accounts for …
RCW 43.31.470 SEED act—Individual development account program account.
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(1) An account is created in the custody of the state treasurer to be known as the individual development account program account. The account shall consist of all moneys appropriated to the account by the legislature and any other federal, state, or private funds, appropriated o…
RCW 43.31.475 SEED act—Additional funds and purposes.
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Sponsoring organizations may seek additional funds to increase the match rate and the maximum annual match amount established pursuant to RCW 43.31.465. Such funds may also be used for purposes in addition to those provided in RCW 43.31.460(2).[ 2005 c 402 s 7.]
RCW 43.31.480 SEED act—Report to the legislature.
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The department shall annually report to the legislature and the governor on the individual development account program established pursuant to RCW 43.31.450 through 43.31.475.[ 2005 c 402 s 9.]
RCW 43.31.485 SEED act—Short title—2005 c 402.
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This act shall be known as the saving, earning, and enabling dreams (SEED) act.[ 2005 c 402 s 1.]
RCW 43.31.502 Child care facility revolving fund—Purpose—Source of funds.
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(1) A child care facility revolving fund is created. Money in the fund shall be used solely for the purpose of starting or improving a child care facility pursuant to RCW * 43.31.085 and 43.31.502 through 43.31.514. Only moneys from private or federal sources may be deposited int…
RCW 43.31.504 Child care facility fund committee—Generally.
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The child care facility fund committee is established within the *business assistance center of the department of commerce. The committee shall administer the child care facility fund, with review by the director of commerce.(1) The committee shall have five members. The director…
RCW 43.31.506 Child care facility fund committee—Authority to award moneys from fund.
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The child care facility fund committee is authorized to solicit applications for and award grants and loans from the child care facility fund to assist persons, businesses, or organizations to start a licensed child care facility, or to make capital improvements in an existing li…
RCW 43.31.508 Child care facility fund committee—Loans to child care facilities.
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The child care facility fund committee is authorized, upon application, to use the child care facility fund to guarantee loans made to persons, businesses, or organizations to start a licensed child care facility, or to make capital improvements in an existing licensed child care…
RCW 43.31.512 Child care facility fund committee—Loans or grants to individuals, businesses, or organizations.
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The child care facility fund committee shall award loan guarantees, loans or grants to those persons, businesses, or organizations meeting the minimum standards set forth in this chapter who will best serve the intent of the chapter to increase the availability of high quality, a…