Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 1 General Provisions - Chapter 1.08 Statute Law Committee (Code Reviser)

1.08.001 Statute law committee created -- Membership
There is created a permanent statute law committee consisting of eleven members as follows: (1) The secretary of the senate, ex officio; (2) Two members ...

1.08.003 Terms of members -- Filling vacancies
The term of the member of the committee appointed by the State Bar Association, shall be for two years. The term of any ex officio ...

1.08.005 Compensation and expenses of members
For attendance at meetings of the committee or in attending to such other business of the committee as may be authorized thereby, each legislative member ...

1.08.007 Committee meetings
The committee shall from time to time elect a chairman from among its members and adopt rules to govern its procedures. Four members of the ...

1.08.011 Employment of code reviser and staff
The committee shall employ on behalf of the state and from time to time fix the compensation of a competent code reviser, with power to ...

1.08.013 Code reviser defined
Code reviser shall mean any lawyer or law publisher employing competent lawyers, each deemed by the committee to be qualified to compile the statutory law ...

1.08.015 Codification and revision of laws -- Scope of revision
Subject to such general policies as may be promulgated by the committee and to the general supervision of the committee, the reviser shall: (1) Codify ...

1.08.016 Code correction -- Committee orders
The committee may at any time by order correct any section or portion of the code in any of the respects enumerated in RCW 1.08.015. ...

1.08.017 May omit certain sections of acts
The reviser may omit from the code all titles to acts, enacting and repealing clauses, preambles, declarations of emergency, and validity and construction sections unless, ...

1.08.020 Code index
The reviser, as soon as practicable, shall compile and thereafter maintain a comprehensive index and from time to time prepare for publication supplements thereto.[1953 c ...

1.08.021 Historical records
The reviser shall prepare and maintain full historical records showing the enactment, amendment, revision, supersession, and repeal of the various sections of the revised code.[1951 ...

1.08.023 Annotations
The reviser may prepare and maintain complete annotations of court decisions construing the statutes of this state.[1951 c 157 § 10.] ...

1.08.024 Inclusion in code of rules of court
The committee may provide for inclusion in the published sets of the code the rules of court promulgated by the supreme court.[1953 c 257 § ...

1.08.025 Improvement of statutes
The committee, or the reviser with the approval of the committee, shall from time to time make written recommendations to the legislature concerning deficiencies, conflicts, ...

1.08.026 Examination of code -- Hearings -- Recommendations to legislature
The committee also shall examine the revised code and from time to time submit to the legislature proposals for enactment of the several titles, chapters ...

1.08.027 Bill drafting service
The reviser shall be in charge of and shall at all times maintain an expert bill drafting service for the use and benefit of the ...

1.08.028 Opinions as to validity or constitutionality
Neither the reviser nor any member of his staff shall be required to furnish any written opinion as to the validity or constitutionality of any ...

1.08.031 Information service to legislators
The reviser shall, to the extent reasonably feasible through available facilities and public sources of information, provide objective and factual information in writing to and ...

1.08.033 Reviser's office location
The department of public institutions shall provide suitable office and storage space and facilities for the reviser and his staff at Olympia, at a location ...

1.08.037 Publication of code -- Specifications -- Certificate of compliance
The committee shall from time to time formulate specifications relative to the format, size and style of type, paper stock, number of volumes, method and ...

1.08.038 Publication, sale, and distribution of code and supplements -- Reprints
The statute law committee shall publish, sell and distribute, and arrange for the publication, sale and distribution of the Revised Code of Washington and of ...

1.08.039 Publication, sale, and distribution of code and supplements -- Contracts or other arrangements
The committee may enter into contracts or otherwise arrange for the publication and/or distribution, provided for in RCW 1.08.038, with or without calling for bids, ...

1.08.0392 Publication, sale, and distribution of code and supplements -- Statute law committee publications account created -- Purpose -- Disbursements
For the purposes of financing the production and sale of such of its publications as in the judgment of the statute law committee may be ...

1.08.040 Certification -- Official code -- Prima facie evidence
The Revised Code of Washington containing the certificate of the temporary code committee and any supplement or addition thereto or reprint edition thereof, which contains ...

1.08.050 Amendment, repeal to include code numbers -- Assignment of code numbers
The legislature in amending or repealing laws shall include in such act references to the code numbers of the law affected. The reviser shall assign ...

1.08.060 Loans and exchanges of codes and supplements
The committee may loan sets of the code and materials supplemental thereto (1) for the use of senate committees, a quantity as required by advice ...

1.08.070 Legislators to receive codes and supplements
Each member of the legislature, who has not received a set of the Revised Code of Washington under the provisions of section 9, chapter 155, ...

1.08.110 Publication of Washington State Register -- Rule-making authority
The statute law committee, in addition to the other responsibilities enumerated in this chapter, shall publish the Washington State Register as created in RCW 34.08.020. ...

1.08.112 Report on rule-making activity
(1) The code reviser shall compile and publish on a quarterly basis a report on state agency rule-making activity. The report shall summarize the following ...

1.08.120 Substitution of words designating department or secretary of transportation
For purposes of harmonizing and clarifying the provisions of the statute sections published in the revised code of Washington, the code reviser may substitute words ...

1.08.130 Gender neutral language -- Code improvement
The office of the code reviser, in consultation with the statute law committee, shall develop and implement a plan to correct gender-specific references throughout the ...