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2015 Revised Code of Washington
Title 44 - STATE GOVERNMENT—LEGISLATIVE
44.04 General provisions.
44.04.210 Gender-neutral terms.

WA Rev Code § 44.04.210 (2015) What's This?

RCW 44.04.210 Gender-neutral terms.

(1) All statutes, memorials, and resolutions enacted, adopted, or amended by the legislature after July 1, 1983, shall be written in gender-neutral terms unless a specification of gender is intended.

(2) No statute, memorial, or resolution is invalid because it does not comply with this section.

[1983 c 20 § 3.]

NOTES:

Intent—1983 c 20: See note following RCW 43.01.160.

Number and gender in statutes: RCW 1.12.050.

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