2017 Revised Code of Washington
Title 43 - STATE GOVERNMENT—EXECUTIVE
43.06 Governor.
- 43.06.010 General powers and duties.
- 43.06.013 Requests for nonconviction criminal history fingerprint record checks for agency heads—"Agency head" defined.
- 43.06.015 Interstate oil compact commission—Governor may join.
- 43.06.020 Records to be kept.
- 43.06.030 Appointments to senate for confirmation—Notice.
- 43.06.040 Lieutenant governor acts in governor's absence.
- 43.06.050 Powers and duties of acting governor.
- 43.06.055 Governor-elect—Appropriation to provide office and staff.
- 43.06.060 Expense of publishing proclamations.
- 43.06.070 Removal of appointive officers.
- 43.06.080 Removal of appointive officers—Statement of reasons to be filed.
- 43.06.090 Removal of appointive officers—Filling of vacancy.
- 43.06.092 Gubernatorial appointees—Continuation of service—Appointments to fill vacancies.
- 43.06.094 Gubernatorial appointees—Removal prior to confirmation.
- 43.06.110 Economic opportunity act programs—State participation—Authority of governor.
- 43.06.115 Militarily impacted area—Declaration by governor.
- 43.06.120 Federal funds and programs—Acceptance of funds by governor authorized—Administration and disbursement.
- 43.06.130 Federal funds and programs—Payment of travel expenses of committees, councils, or other bodies.
- 43.06.150 Federal funds and programs—Participating agencies to notify director of financial management, joint legislative audit and review committee and legislative council—Progress reports.
- 43.06.155 Health care reform deliberations—Principles—Policies.
- 43.06.200 Definitions.
- 43.06.210 Proclamations—Generally—State of emergency.
- 43.06.220 State of emergency—Powers of governor pursuant to proclamation.
- 43.06.230 State of emergency—Destroying or damaging property or causing personal injury—Penalty.
- 43.06.240 State of emergency—Disorderly conduct after emergency proclaimed—Penalty.
- 43.06.250 State of emergency—Refusing to leave public way or property when ordered—Penalty.
- 43.06.260 State of emergency—Prosecution of persons sixteen years or over as adults.
- 43.06.270 State of emergency—State militia or state patrol—Use in restoring order.
- 43.06.335 Washington quality award council—Organization—Duties.
- 43.06.338 Washington marine resources advisory council.
- 43.06.350 Foreign nationals or citizens, convicted offenders—Transfers and sentences.
- 43.06.400 Listing of reduction in revenues from tax exemptions to be submitted to legislature by department of revenue—Periodic review and submission of recommendations to legislature by governor.
- 43.06.410 State internship program—Governor's duties.
- 43.06.415 State internship program coordinator—Rules.
- 43.06.420 Undergraduate internship program—Executive fellows program.
- 43.06.425 Interns—Effect of employment experience—Rights of reversion—Fringe benefits—Sick and vacation leave.
- 43.06.435 Interns—Effect on full time equivalent staff position limitations.
- 43.06.450 Cigarette tax contracts—Intent—Finding—Limitations.
- 43.06.455 Cigarette tax contracts—Requirements—Use of revenue—Enforcement—Definitions.
- 43.06.460 Cigarette tax contracts—Eligible tribes—Tax rate.
- 43.06.465 Cigarette tax agreement with Puyallup Tribe of Indians.
- 43.06.466 Cigarette tax agreement—Yakama Nation.
- 43.06.475 Timber harvest excise tax agreements.
- 43.06.480 Timber harvest excise tax agreements—Quinault Nation.
- 43.06.485 Senior policy advisor to the governor—State lead for economic development relating to the outdoor recreation sector of the state's economy.
- 43.06.490 Marijuana agreements—Federally recognized Indian tribes—Tribal marijuana tax—Tax exemption.
Appointing power
accountancy board: RCW 18.04.035.
administrator for the courts: RCW 2.56.010.
board for architects: RCW 18.08.330.
board of registration of professional engineers and land surveyors: RCW 18.43.030.
board of tax appeals: RCW 82.03.020.
center for volunteerism and citizen service: RCW 43.150.040.
clemency and pardons board: RCW 9.94A.880.
college district boards of trustees: RCW 28B.50.100.
court of appeals vacancy: State Constitution Art. 4 § 30; RCW 2.06.080.
criminal justice training commission: RCW 43.101.030.
degree-granting institutions, attorney general participation: Chapter 28B.85 RCW.
department of ecology, director of: RCW 43.21A.050.
department of social and health services, secretary of: RCW 43.20A.040.
directors of state departments and agencies: RCW 43.17.020.
electrical advisory board members: RCW 19.28.311.
energy facility site evaluation council: RCW 80.50.030.
financial management, director: RCW 43.41.060.
fish and wildlife commission: RCW 77.04.030.
higher education facilities authority: RCW 28B.07.030.
industrial insurance appeals board: RCW 51.52.010.
investment board members: RCW 43.33A.020.
judges of court of appeals, vacancy: State Constitution Art. 4 § 30; RCW 2.06.080.
judges of superior court, vacancy: State Constitution Art. 4 § 5; RCW 2.08.120.
vacancy resulting from creation of additional judgeship: RCW 2.08.069.
justices of supreme court, vacancy: State Constitution Art. 4 § 3; RCW 2.04.100.
license examining committee: RCW 43.24.060.
militia officers: State Constitution Art. 10 § 2.
optometry board members: RCW 18.54.030.
Pacific marine fisheries commission, appointment of representatives to: RCW 77.75.040.
pharmacy quality assurance commission: RCW 18.64.001.
physical therapy board committee: RCW 18.74.020.
podiatric medical board: RCW 18.22.013.
pollution control hearings board of the state: RCW 43.21B.020, 43.21B.030.
private vocational schools, attorney general participation: Chapter 28C.10 RCW.
railroad police officers: RCW 81.60.010.
real estate commission: RCW 18.85.021.
recreation and conservation funding board: RCW 79A.25.110.
regents of educational institutions: State Constitution Art. 13 § 1.
state arts commission: RCW 43.46.015.
state board for community and technical colleges: RCW 28B.50.050, 28B.50.070.
state board of health: RCW 43.20.030.
state college boards of trustees: RCW 28B.40.100.
state patrol chief: RCW 43.43.020.
statute law committee members: RCW 1.08.001.
superior court vacancy: State Constitution Art. 4 § 5; RCW 2.08.069, 2.08.120.
supreme court vacancy: State Constitution Art. 4 § 3; RCW 2.04.100.
traffic safety commission: RCW 43.59.030.
transportation commission members: RCW 47.01.051.
uniform law commission: RCW 43.56.010.
United States senator, filling vacancy in office of: RCW 29A.28.030.
University of Washington board of regents: RCW 28B.20.100.
utilities and transportation commission: RCW 80.01.010.
vacancies in
appointive office filled by: State Constitution Art. 3 § 13.
court of appeals, filled by: State Constitution Art. 4 § 30; RCW 2.06.080.
legislature, duties: State Constitution Art. 2 § 15.
superior court, filled by: State Constitution Art. 4 § 5; RCW 2.08.069, 2.08.120.
supreme court, filled by: State Constitution Art. 4 § 3; RCW 2.04.100.
veterinary board of governors: RCW 18.92.021.
visiting judges of superior court: RCW 2.08.140.
Washington personnel resources board: RCW 41.06.110.
Washington State University board of regents: RCW 28B.30.100.
Approval of laws: State Constitution Art. 3 § 12.
Associations of municipal corporations or officers to furnish information to governor: RCW 44.04.170.
Attorney general, advice to governor: RCW 43.10.030.
Board of natural resources member: RCW 43.30.205.
Bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness, governor's duties: Chapter 39.42 RCW.
Child welfare services, duty to determine whether to expand delivery by contractors: RCW 74.13.372.
Clemency and pardons board, established as board in office of governor: RCW 9.94A.880.
Collective bargaining negotiations for marine employees: RCW 47.64.170 and 47.64.175.
Commander-in-chief of state militia: State Constitution Art. 3 § 8.
Commissions issued by state, signed by: State Constitution Art. 3 § 15.
Commutation of death sentence, power to commute: RCW 10.01.120.
Continuity of government in event of enemy attack, succession to office of governor: RCW 42.14.020.
Driver license compact, executive head: RCW 46.21.040.
Election certificates issued for state and congressional offices by: RCW 29A.52.370.
Election of: State Constitution Art. 3 § 1.
Execution of laws: State Constitution Art. 3 § 5.
Extradition proceedings
power and duties as to: RCW 10.34.030.
warrant issued by: RCW 10.88.260.
Federal REAL ID Act of 2005, approval of attorney general legal challenge: RCW 46.20.1911.
Fines, power to remit: State Constitution Art. 3 § 11.
Forfeitures, power to remit: State Constitution Art. 3 § 11.
Highway
construction bonds and coupons, governor to sign: Chapter 47.10 RCW.
toll facility property sale, deed executed by: RCW 47.56.255.
Impeachment: State Constitution Art. 5 §§ 1, 2.
Indians, assumption of state jurisdiction, proclamation by governor: RCW 37.12.021.
Information in writing may be required from state officers: State Constitution Art. 3 § 5.
Interstate compact on juveniles, duties: Chapter 13.24 RCW.
Judges' retirement applications, doctors' examination report, approval and filing of: RCW 2.12.020.
Judicial officers
extension of leave of absence of: State Constitution Art. 4 § 8.
superior court, assignment to another county by: State Constitution Art. 4 §§ 5, 7.
Legal holidays
designation of: RCW 1.16.050.
proclamation process, applicability to courts: RCW 2.28.100.
Legislature
extra session, may convene: State Constitution Art. 3 § 7.
messages to: State Constitution Art. 3 § 6.
vacancies, filled by: State Constitution Art. 2 § 15.
Local governmental organizations, actions affecting boundaries, etc., review by boundary review board: Chapter 36.93 RCW.
Marketing agreements or orders, annual audit of financial affairs under, governor to receive reports of: RCW 15.65.490.
Messages to legislature: State Constitution Art. 3 § 6.
Militia and military affairs
commander-in-chief of militia: State Constitution Art. 3 § 8; RCW 38.08.020.
compacts with other states for guarding boundaries: RCW 38.08.100.
eminent domain for military purposes: RCW 8.04.170, 8.04.180.
martial law, proclamation by, when: RCW 38.08.030.
officers, commissioned by: State Constitution Art. 10 § 2.
personal staff: RCW 38.08.070.
rules promulgated by: RCW 38.08.090.
strength, composition, training, etc., prescribed by: RCW 38.04.040.
Motor vehicle administration, annual report of director of licensing to go to: RCW 46.01.290.
OASI, agreement of state for participation of state and political subdivision employees, duties concerning: Chapter 41.48 RCW.
Oath of office: RCW 43.01.020.
Official bonds, approval of: RCW 42.08.100.
Pardons
power to grant: RCW 10.01.120.
report to legislature of: State Constitution Art. 3 §§ 9, 11.
restrictions prescribed by law: State Constitution Art. 3 § 9.
Paroles, governor may revoke: RCW 9.95.160.
Protection for governor, lieutenant governor, and governor elect, duty of chief of state patrol to provide: RCW 43.43.035.
Puget Sound ferry and toll bridge system, governor's powers and duties relating to: Chapter 47.60 RCW.
Registry of governor's acts kept by secretary of state: RCW 43.07.030.
Remission of fines and forfeitures report to legislature with reasons: State Constitution Art. 3 § 11.
Reports to governor
agricultural marketing agreements or orders, audits and financial reports: RCW 15.65.490.
agricultural marketing legislation recommendations: RCW 15.64.010.
agriculture director: RCW 43.23.130.
annual report by state officers, etc., period covered: RCW 43.01.035.
business license center: RCW 19.02.030.
department of personnel: RCW 43.03.028.
engineers and land surveyors board of registration: RCW 18.43.035.
enrollment forecasts: RCW 43.62.050.
financial management, director: RCW 43.88.160.
fish and wildlife director: RCW 77.04.120.
horse racing commission: RCW 67.16.015.
human rights commission: RCW 49.60.100.
indeterminate sentence review board: RCW 9.95.265.
industrial insurance, violations: RCW 51.04.020.
investment activities of state investment board: RCW 43.33A.150.
judges of the supreme court to report defects or omissions in laws to: RCW 2.04.230.
labor and industries director: RCW 49.12.180.
motor vehicle administration, director of licensing: RCW 46.01.290.
state arts commission: RCW 43.46.070.
state board for community and technical colleges: RCW 28B.50.070.
state board of health: RCW 43.20.100.
state officers: State Constitution Art. 3 § 5.
state parks and recreation commission: RCW 79A.05.030.
superintendent of public instruction, biennial report: RCW 28A.300.040.
University of Washington board of regents: RCW 28B.20.130.
veterans' rehabilitation council: RCW 43.61.040.
Reprieves
power to grant: RCW 10.01.120.
report to legislature: State Constitution Art. 3 § 11.
Residence at seat of government: State Constitution Art. 3 § 24.
Resignation by state officers and members of legislature made to: RCW 42.12.020.
Salaries of public officials, governor's duties: RCW 43.03.028 and 43.03.040.
Salary of governor, amount of: State Constitution Art. 28 § 1; RCW 43.03.010.
Sale of unneeded toll facility property, governor to execute deed: RCW 47.56.255.
School apportionment demands estimate certified to: RCW 28A.300.170.
Secretary of transportation, governor to fix salary of: RCW 47.01.031.
Security and protection for governor, lieutenant governor, and governor elect, duty of state patrol to provide: RCW 43.43.035.
State capitol committee member: RCW 43.34.010.
State finance committee member: RCW 43.33.010.
State parks, disposal of land not needed for park purposes, conveyance instruments executed by: RCW 79A.05.175.
State participation within student exchange compact programs—Office to advise governor: RCW 28B.76.650.
Succession to governorship: State Constitution Art. 3 § 10.
Superior court judge, assignment to another county: State Constitution Art. 4 §§ 5, 7.
Supreme executive power vested in: State Constitution Art. 3 § 2.
Term of office: State Constitution Art. 3 § 2; RCW 43.01.010.
Toll bridge bonds, governor to countersign: RCW 47.56.140.
Toll bridges, improvement of existing bridge and construction of new bridge as single project, governor's powers and duties relating to: Chapter 47.58 RCW.
Traffic safety commission and programs, powers, duties and responsibilities of governor: Chapter 43.59 RCW.
Unanticipated receipts, governor as state's agent to receive: RCW 43.79.260.
Unemployment compensation, delinquent payments in lieu of contributions of political subdivisions, governor may withhold funds for: RCW 50.24.125.
Uniform interstate family support act
extradition powers and duties: RCW 26.21A.650.
governor defined for purposes of: RCW 26.21A.650.
United States senate, filling vacancy in: RCW 29A.28.030.
Vacancies
in court of appeals: State Constitution Art. 4 § 30; RCW 2.06.080.
in legislature, duties: State Constitution Art. 2 § 15.
in office filled by: State Constitution Art. 3 § 13.
in superior court: State Constitution Art. 4 § 5.
in supreme court: State Constitution Art. 4 § 3.
Vacancy in office of governor
election to fill: State Constitution Art. 3 § 10.
succession to: State Constitution Art. 3 § 10.
Veto
initiatives and referendums, power does not extend to: State Constitution Art. 2 § 1.
power of: State Constitution Art. 3 § 12.
Voluntary action center, establishment by governor: RCW 43.150.040.
Washington scholars' program, participation in: RCW 28A.600.100 through 28A.600.150.
Water pollution control, powers and duties pertaining to: RCW 90.48.260, 90.48.262.
