Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 72 State Institutions - Chapter 72.01 Administration

72.01.010 Powers and duties apply to department of social and health services and department of corrections -- Joint exercise authorized
As used in this chapter: "Department" means the departments of social and health services and corrections; and "Secretary" means the secretaries of social and health ...

72.01.042 Hours of labor for full time employees -- Compensatory time -- Premium pay
The hours of labor for each full time employee shall be a maximum of eight hours in any work day and forty hours in any ...

72.01.043 Hours of labor for full time employees -- Certain personnel excepted
RCW 72.01.042 shall not be applicable to the following designated personnel: Administrative officers of the department; institutional superintendents, medical staff other than nurses, and business ...

72.01.045 Assaults to employees -- Reimbursement for costs
(1) For purposes of this section only, "assault" means an unauthorized touching of an employee by a resident, patient, or juvenile offender resulting in physical ...

72.01.050 Secretary's powers and duties -- Management of public institutions and correctional facilities
(1) The secretary of social and health services shall have full power to manage and govern the following public institutions: The western state hospital, the ...

72.01.060 Chief executive officers -- Appointment -- Salaries -- Assistants
The secretary shall appoint the chief executive officers necessary to manage one or more of the public facilities operated by the department. This section, however, ...

72.01.090 Rules and regulations
The department is authorized to make its own rules for the proper execution of its powers. It shall also have the power to adopt rules ...

72.01.110 Construction or repair of buildings -- Contracts or inmate labor
The department may employ the services of competent architects for the preparation of plans and specifications for new buildings, or for repairs, changes, or additions ...

72.01.120 Construction or repair of buildings -- Award of contracts
When improvements are to be made under contract, notice of the call for the same shall be published in at least two newspapers of general ...

72.01.130 Destruction of buildings -- Reconstruction
If any of the shops or buildings in which convicts are employed are destroyed in any way, or injured by fire or otherwise, they may ...

72.01.140 Agricultural and farm activities
The secretary shall: (1) Make a survey, investigation, and classification of the lands connected with the state institutions under his control, and determine which thereof ...

72.01.150 Industrial activities
The secretary shall: (1) Establish, install and operate, at the several state institutions under his control, such industries and industrial plants as may be most ...

72.01.180 Dietitian -- Duties -- Travel expenses
The secretary shall have the power to select a member of the faculty of the University of Washington, or the Washington State University, skilled in ...

72.01.190 Fire protection
The secretary may enter into an agreement with a city or town adjacent to any state institution for fire protection for such institution.[1979 c 141 ...

72.01.200 Employment of teachers -- Exceptions
State correctional facilities may employ certificated teachers to carry on their educational work, except for the educational programs provided pursuant to RCW 28A.190.030 through 28A.190.050 ...

72.01.210 Institutional chaplains -- Appointment -- Qualifications
(1) The secretary of corrections shall appoint institutional chaplains for the state correctional institutions for convicted felons. Institutional chaplains shall be appointed as employees of ...

72.01.212 Institutional chaplains -- Liability insurance -- Representation by attorney general in civil lawsuits
Regardless of whether the services are voluntary or provided by employment or contract with the department of corrections, a chaplain who provides the services authorized ...

72.01.220 Institutional chaplains -- Duties
It shall be the duty of the chaplains at the respective institutions mentioned in RCW 72.01.210, under the direction of the department, to conduct religious ...

72.01.230 Institutional chaplains -- Offices, chapels, supplies
The chaplains at the respective institutions mentioned in RCW 72.01.210 shall be provided with the offices and chapels at their institutions, and such supplies as ...

72.01.240 Supervisor of chaplains
Each secretary is hereby empowered to appoint one of the chaplains, authorized by RCW 72.01.210, to act as supervisor of chaplains for his department, in ...

72.01.260 Outside ministers not excluded
Nothing contained in RCW 72.01.210 through 72.01.240 shall be so construed as to exclude ministers of any denomination from giving gratuitous religious or moral instruction ...

72.01.270 Gifts, acceptance of
The secretary shall have the power to receive, hold and manage all real and personal property made over to the department by gift, devise or ...

72.01.280 Quarters for personnel -- Charges
The superintendent of each public institution and the assistant physicians, steward, accountant and chief engineer of each hospital for the mentally ill may be furnished ...

72.01.282 Quarters for personnel -- Deposit of receipts
All moneys received by the secretary from charges made pursuant to RCW 72.01.280 shall be deposited by him in the state general fund.[1981 c 136 ...

72.01.290 Record of patients and inmates
The department shall keep at its office, accessible only to the secretary and to proper officers and employees, and to other persons authorized by the ...

72.01.300 Accounting systems
The secretary shall have the power, and it shall be his duty, to install and maintain in the department a proper cost accounting system of ...

72.01.310 Political influence forbidden
Any officer, including the secretary, or employee of the department or of the institutions under the control of the department, who, by solicitation or otherwise, ...

72.01.320 Examination of conditions and needs -- Report
The secretary shall examine into the conditions and needs of the several state institutions under the secretary's control and report in writing to the governor ...

72.01.365 Escorted leaves of absence for inmates -- Definitions
As used in RCW 72.01.370 and 72.01.375: "Escorted leave" means a leave of absence from a correctional facility under the continuous supervision of an escort. ...

72.01.370 Escorted leaves of absence for inmates -- Grounds
The superintendent of any state correctional facility may, subject to the approval of the secretary and under RCW 72.01.375, grant escorted leaves of absence to ...

72.01.375 Escorted leaves of absence for inmates -- Notification of local law enforcement agencies
An inmate shall not be allowed to start a leave of absence under RCW 72.01.370 until the secretary, or the secretary's designee, has notified any ...

72.01.380 Leaves of absence for inmates -- Rules -- Restrictions -- Costs
The secretary is authorized to make rules and regulations providing for the conditions under which inmates will be granted leaves of absence, and providing for ...

72.01.410 Child under eighteen convicted of crime amounting to felony -- Placement -- Segregation from adult offenders
(1) Whenever any child under the age of eighteen is convicted in the courts of this state of a crime amounting to a felony, and ...

72.01.415 Offender under eighteen confined to a jail -- Segregation from adult offenders
An offender under the age of eighteen who is convicted in adult criminal court of a crime and who is committed for a term of ...

72.01.430 Transfer of equipment, supplies, livestock between institutions -- Notice -- Conditions
The secretary, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, is hereby authorized to transfer equipment, livestock and supplies between the several institutions within the ...

72.01.450 Use of facilities, equipment and personnel by school districts and institutions of higher learning authorized
The secretary is authorized to enter into agreements with any school district or any institution of higher learning for the use of the facilities, equipment ...

72.01.452 Use of facilities, equipment and personnel by state agencies, counties, cities or political subdivisions
The secretary is authorized to enter into an agreement with any agency of the state, a county, city or political subdivision of the state for ...

72.01.454 Use of facilities by counties, community service organizations, nonprofit associations, etc
(1) The secretary may permit the use of the facilities of any state institution by any community service organization, nonprofit corporation, group or association for ...

72.01.458 Use of files and records for courses of education, instruction and training at institutions
In any course of education, instruction or training conducted in any state institution of the department use may be made of selected files and records ...

72.01.460 Lease of lands with outdoor recreation potential -- Restrictions -- Unlawful to use posted lands
(1) Any lease of public lands with outdoor recreation potential authorized by the department shall be open and available to the public for compatible recreational ...

72.01.480 Agreements with nonprofit organizations to provide services for persons admitted or committed to institutions
The secretary is authorized to enter into agreements with any nonprofit corporation or association for the purpose of providing and coordinating voluntary and community based ...

72.01.490 Authority of superintendents, business managers and officers of correctional institutions to take acknowledgments and administer oaths -- Procedure
See RCW 64.08.090. ...