2012 Revised Code of Washington
Title 43 - STATE GOVERNMENT — EXECUTIVE
43.01 State officers -- General provisions.
43.01.250 Electric vehicles -- State purchase of power at state office locations -- Report.

RCW 43.01.250 Electric vehicles — State purchase of power at state office locations — Report.

(1) It is in the state's interest and to the benefit of the people of the state to encourage the use of electrical vehicles in order to reduce emissions and provide the public with cleaner air. This section expressly authorizes the purchase of power at state expense to recharge privately and publicly owned plug-in electrical vehicles at state office locations where the vehicles are used for state business, are commute vehicles, or where the vehicles are at the state location for the purpose of conducting business with the state.

     (2) The director of the *department of general administration may report to the governor and the appropriate committees of the legislature, as deemed necessary by the director, on the estimated amount of state-purchased electricity consumed by plug-in electrical vehicles if the *director of general administration determines that the use has a significant cost to the state, and on the number of plug-in electric vehicles using state office locations. The report may be combined with the report under section 401, chapter 348, Laws of 2007.

[2007 c 348 § 206.]

Notes:

*Reviser's note: The "department of general administration" and the "director of general administration" were renamed the "department of enterprise services" and the "director of enterprise services" by 2011 1st sp.s. c 43.      Findings -- Part headings not law -- 2007 c 348: See RCW 43.325.005 and 43.325.903.