Title 18 — Title 18 BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS
113 chapters · 2,288 sections in this title.
RCW 18.96.070 Qualifications of applicants.
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This section establishes the minimum evidence satisfactory to the board that the applicant is qualified for licensure as a professional landscape architect.(1) A certificate of licensure shall be granted by the director to all qualified applicants who are certified by the board a…
RCW 18.96.080 Applications for licensure and examinations—Fees.
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(1) Application for licensure shall be filed with the board as provided by rule.(2) The application for examination shall be filed with the board as prescribed by rule.(3) The application and examination fees shall be determined by the director under RCW 43.24.086.[ 2009 c 370 s …
RCW 18.96.090 Examinations.
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(1) Examinations of landscape architects for certificates of licensure shall be held at least annually at such time and place as the board determines. (2) The board shall determine the content, scope, and grading process of the examination. The board may adopt an appropriate nati…
RCW 18.96.100 Reciprocity.
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(1) The director may, upon receipt of the current licensure fee, grant a certificate of licensure to an applicant who is a licensed landscape architect in another state or territory of the United States, the District of Columbia, or another country, if that individual's qualifica…
RCW 18.96.110 Renewals.
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(1) The renewal dates and fees for certificates of licensure shall be set by the director in accordance with RCW 43.24.086. Licensees who fail to pay the renewal fee within thirty days of the due date shall pay all delinquent fees plus a penalty fee equal to one-third of the rene…
RCW 18.96.120 Unprofessional conduct—Grounds for disciplinary action.
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The board may impose any action in RCW 18.235.110 upon the following grounds:(1) Offering to pay, paying, or accepting, either directly or indirectly, any substantial gift, bribe, or other consideration to influence the award of professional work;(2) Being willfully untruthful or…
RCW 18.96.140 Reissuance of lost or destroyed certificates.
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A new certificate of licensure to replace any certificate lost or destroyed, or mutilated may be issued by the director, and a charge determined by the director as provided in RCW 43.24.086 shall be made for such issuance.[ 2009 c 370 s 13; 2002 c 86 s 236; 1985 c 7 s 77; 1975 1s…
RCW 18.96.150 Certificates of licensure—Issuance—Contents—Seal.
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(1) The director shall issue a certificate of licensure to any applicant who has, to the satisfaction of the board, met all the requirements for licensure upon payment of the licensure fee as provided in this chapter. All certificates of licensure shall show the full name of the …
RCW 18.96.180 Certificate of licensure suspension—Noncompliance with support order—Reissuance.
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The board, through the director, shall immediately suspend the certificate of licensure to practice landscape architecture of a person who has been certified under RCW 74.20A.320 by the department of social and health services as a person who is not in compliance with a support o…
RCW 18.96.200 Uniform regulation of business and professions act.
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The uniform regulation of business and professions act, chapter 18.235 RCW, governs unlicensed practice, the issuance and denial of licenses, and the discipline of licensees under this chapter.[ 2002 c 86 s 237.]Notes:Effective dates—2002 c 86: See note following RCW 18.08.340.Pa…
RCW 18.96.210 Landscape architects' license account.
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The landscape architects' license account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts from fees under this chapter must be deposited into the account. Expenditures from the account may be used only for administrative and operating purposes under this chapter. O…
RCW 18.96.220 Application—Professions and activities not affected.
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This chapter does not affect or prevent:(1) The practice of architecture, land surveying, engineering, geology, or any recognized profession by persons not licensed as landscape architects;(2) Drafters, clerks, project managers, superintendents, and other employees of landscape a…
RCW 18.96.230 Military training or experience.
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An applicant with military training or experience satisfies the training or experience requirements of this chapter unless the board determines that the military training or experience is not substantially equivalent to the standards of this state.[ 2011 c 351 s 7.]
RCW 18.96.901 Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
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For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to …
RCW 18.100.010 Legislative intent.
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It is the legislative intent to provide for the incorporation of an individual or group of individuals to render the same professional service to the public for which such individuals are required by law to be licensed or to obtain other legal authorization.[ 1969 c 122 s 1.]
RCW 18.100.020 Short title.
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This chapter may be cited as "the professional service corporation act".[ 1969 c 122 s 2.]
RCW 18.100.030 Definitions.
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As used in this chapter the following words shall have the meaning indicated:(1) The term "professional service" means any type of personal service to the public which requires as a condition precedent to the rendering of such service the obtaining of a license or other legal aut…
RCW 18.100.040 Application of chapter to previously organized corporations.
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This chapter shall not apply to any individuals or groups of individuals within this state who prior to the passage of this chapter were permitted to organize a corporation and perform personal services to the public by means of a corporation, and this chapter shall not apply to …
RCW 18.100.050 Organization of professional service corporations authorized generally—Architects, engineers, and health care professionals—Nonprofit corporations.
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(1) An individual or group of individuals duly licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render the same professional services within this state may organize and become a shareholder or shareholders of a professional corporation for pecuniary profit under the provisions of Titl…
RCW 18.100.060 Rendering of services by authorized individuals.
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(1) No corporation organized under this chapter may render professional services except through individuals who are duly licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render such professional services within this state. However, nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted to:(a) P…
RCW 18.100.065 Authority of directors, officers to render same services as corporation.
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Except as otherwise provided in RCW 18.100.118, all directors of a corporation organized under this chapter and all officers other than the secretary and the treasurer shall be duly licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render the same specific professional services within …
RCW 18.100.070 Professional relationships and liabilities preserved.
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Nothing contained in this chapter shall be interpreted to abolish, repeal, modify, restrict, or limit the law now in effect in this state applicable to the professional relationship and liabilities between the person furnishing the professional services and the person receiving s…
RCW 18.100.080 Engaging in other business prohibited—Investments.
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No professional service corporation organized under this chapter shall engage in any business other than the rendering of the professional services for which it was incorporated or service as a trustee as authorized by RCW 11.36.021 or as a personal representative as authorized b…
RCW 18.100.090 Stock issuance.
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Except as otherwise provided in RCW 18.100.118, no professional corporation organized under the provisions of this chapter may issue any of its capital stock to anyone other than the trustee of a qualified trust or an individual who is duly licensed or otherwise legally authorize…
RCW 18.100.095 Validity of share voting agreements.
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Except for qualified trusts, a proxy, voting trust, or other voting agreement with respect to shares of a professional corporation shall not be valid unless all holders thereof, all trustees and beneficiaries thereof, or all parties thereto, as the case may be, are eligible to be…
RCW 18.100.100 Legal qualification of officer, shareholder or employee to render professional service, effect.
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Unless a director, officer, shareholder, agent or employee of a corporation organized under this chapter who has been rendering professional service to the public is legally qualified at all times to render such professional services within at least one state in which the corpora…
RCW 18.100.110 Sale or transfer of shares.
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No shareholder of a corporation organized as a professional corporation may sell or transfer his or her shares in such corporation except to the trustee of a qualified trust or another individual who is eligible to be a shareholder of such corporation. Any transfer of shares in v…
RCW 18.100.114 Merger or consolidation.
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A corporation organized under this chapter may merge or consolidate with another corporation, domestic or foreign, organized to render the same specific professional services, only if every shareholder of each corporation is eligible to be a shareholder of the surviving or new co…
RCW 18.100.116 Death of shareholder, transfer to ineligible person—Treatment of shares.
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(1) If:(a)(i) A shareholder of a professional corporation dies;(ii) A shareholder of a professional corporation becomes an ineligible person;(iii) Shares of a professional corporation are transferred by operation of law or court decree to an ineligible person; or(iv) A charitable…
RCW 18.100.118 Eligibility of certain representatives and transferees to serve as directors, officers, or shareholders.
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If all of the outstanding shares of a professional corporation are held by an administrator, executor, guardian, conservator, or receiver of the estate of a former shareholder, or by a transferee who received such shares by operation of law or court decree, such administrator, ex…
RCW 18.100.120 Name—Listing of shareholders.
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Corporations organized pursuant to this chapter shall render professional service and exercise its authorized powers under a name permitted by law and the professional ethics of the profession in which the corporation is so engaged. The corporate name of a professional service co…
RCW 18.100.130 Application of Business Corporation Act and Nonprofit Corporation Act.
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(1) For a professional service corporation organized for pecuniary profit under this chapter, the provisions of Title 23B RCW shall be applicable except to the extent that any of the provisions of this chapter are interpreted to be in conflict with the provisions thereof, and in …
RCW 18.100.132 Nonprofit professional service corporations formed under prior law.
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A nonprofit professional service corporation formed pursuant to *chapter 431, Laws of 1985, may amend its articles of incorporation at any time before July 31, 1987, to comply with the provisions of this chapter. Compliance under this chapter shall relate back and take effect as …
RCW 18.100.133 Business corporations, election of this chapter.
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A business corporation formed under the provisions of Title 23B RCW may amend its articles of incorporation to change its stated purpose to the rendering of professional services and to conform to the requirements of this chapter. Upon the effective date of such amendment, the co…
RCW 18.100.134 Professional services—Deletion from stated purposes of corporation.
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A professional corporation may amend its articles of incorporation to delete from its stated purposes the rendering of professional services and to conform to the requirements of Title 23B RCW, or to the requirements of chapter 24.03A RCW if organized pursuant to RCW 18.100.050 a…
RCW 18.100.140 Improper conduct not authorized.
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Nothing in this chapter shall authorize a director, officer, shareholder, agent, or employee of a corporation organized under this chapter, or a corporation itself organized under this chapter, to do or perform any act which would be illegal, unethical, or unauthorized conduct un…
RCW 18.100.145 Doctor of osteopathic medicine and surgery—Discrimination prohibited.
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A professional service corporation that provides health care services to the general public may not discriminate against a qualified doctor of osteopathic medicine and surgery licensed under chapter 18.57 RCW, who has applied to practice with the professional service corporation,…
RCW 18.100.160 Foreign professional corporation.
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A foreign professional corporation may render professional services in this state so long as it complies with chapter 23B.15 RCW and each individual rendering professional services in this state is duly licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render such professional services…
RCW 18.104.005 Transfer of duties to the department of health.
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The powers and duties of the department of social and health services under this chapter shall be performed by the department of health.[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 s 237.]Notes:Effective date—Severability—1989 1st ex.s. c 9: See RCW 43.70.910 and 43.70.920.
RCW 18.104.010 Purpose.
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The legislature declares that the drilling, making or constructing of wells within the state is a business and activity of vital interest to the public. In order to protect the public health, welfare, and safety of the people it is necessary that provision be made for the regulat…
RCW 18.104.020 Definitions.
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The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Abandoned well" means a well that is unmaintained or is in such disrepair that it is unusable or is a risk to public health and welfare.(2) "Constructing a well" or "c…
RCW 18.104.030 Compliance enjoined.
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It is unlawful:(1) For any person to supervise, construct, alter, or decommission a well without complying with the provisions of this chapter and the rules for well construction adopted pursuant to this chapter;(2) For any person to cause a well to be constructed in violation of…
RCW 18.104.040 Powers of department.
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The department shall have the power:(1) To issue, deny, suspend or revoke licenses pursuant to the provisions of this chapter;(2) At all reasonable times, to enter upon lands for the purpose of inspecting, taking measurements from, or tagging any well, constructed or being constr…
RCW 18.104.043 Well sealing and decommissioning—Delegation of authority.
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(1) If requested in writing by the governing body of a local health district or county, the department by memorandum of agreement may delegate to the governing body the authority to administer and enforce the well tagging, sealing, and decommissioning portions of the water well c…
RCW 18.104.048 Prior notice of well construction, reconstruction, or decommissioning.
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A property owner or the owner's agent shall notify the department of his or her intent to begin well construction, reconstruction, or decommissioning procedures at least seventy-two hours in advance of commencing work. The notice shall be submitted on forms provided by the depart…
RCW 18.104.049 Modification of construction standards.
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The department by rule shall adopt procedures to permit a well operator to modify construction standards to meet unforeseen circumstances encountered during the construction of a well. The procedures shall be developed in consultation with the technical advisory group established…
RCW 18.104.050 Reports of well construction or decommissioning.
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(1) Any person authorized by this chapter to construct or decommission a well shall furnish a well report to the director within thirty days after the completion of the construction or decommissioning of a well. The director, by rule, shall prescribe the form of the report and th…
RCW 18.104.055 Fees.
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(1) A fee is hereby imposed on each well constructed in this state on or after July 1, 2005.(2)(a) The fee for one water well, other than a dewatering well, with a minimum top casing diameter of less than twelve inches is two hundred dollars. This fee does not apply to a ground s…
RCW 18.104.060 Violations—Cease and desist orders.
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Notwithstanding and in addition to any other powers granted to the department, whenever it appears to the director, or to an assistant authorized by the director to issue regulatory orders under this section, that a person is violating or is about to violate any of the provisions…
RCW 18.104.065 Remedies for noncomplying wells.
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(1) The department may order a well contractor or well operator to repair, alter, or decommission a well if the department demonstrates that the construction of the well did not meet the standards for well construction in effect at the time construction of the well was completed.…