§ 40.14.010 Definition and classification of public records
§ 40.14.020 Division of archives and records management — State archivist — Powers and duties — Duties of public officials
§ 40.14.022 Division of archives and records management — Imaging account
§ 40.14.024 Division of archives and records management — Local government archives account
§ 40.14.025 Division of archives and records management — Allocation of costs of services — Public records efficiency, preservation, and access account
§ 40.14.026 Division of archives and records management — Competitive grant program to improve technology information systems for public records and related training — Review of program and training services — Public records
§ 40.14.027 Local government archives and records management services — Judgment debtor surcharge
§ 40.14.030 Transfer to state archives — Certified copies, cost — Public disclosure
§ 40.14.040 Records officers — Designation — Powers and duties
§ 40.14.050 Records committee — Composition, travel expenses, meetings, powers and duties — Retention schedules
§ 40.14.060 Destruction, disposition of official public records or office files and memoranda — Record retention schedules
§ 40.14.070 Destruction, disposition, donation of local government records — Preservation for historical interest — Local records committee, duties — Record retention schedules — Sealed records — Peace and correc
§ 40.14.080 Chapter not to affect other laws
§ 40.14.100 Legislative records — Defined
§ 40.14.110 Legislative records — Contribution of papers by legislators and employees
§ 40.14.120 Legislative records — “Clerk,” “secretary” defined
§ 40.14.130 Legislative records — Duties of legislative officials, employees and state archivist — Delivery of records — Custody — Availability
§ 40.14.140 Legislative records — Party caucuses to be advised — Information and instructions
§ 40.14.150 Legislative records — Use for research
§ 40.14.160 Legislative records — Rules for access to records
§ 40.14.170 Legislative records — Sound recordings
§ 40.14.180 Legislative records — Construction — Confidentiality of bill drafting records
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Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 40.14 - Preservation and destruction of public records

  • Adjournment sine die: The end of a legislative session "without day." These adjournments are used to indicate the final adjournment of an annual or the two-year session of legislature.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • public records: shall include any paper, correspondence, completed form, bound record book, photograph, film, sound recording, map drawing, machine-readable material, compact disc meeting current industry ISO specifications, or other document, regardless of physical form or characteristics, and including such copies thereof, that have been made by or received by any agency of the state of Washington in connection with the transaction of public business, and legislative records as described in RCW 40. See Washington Code 40.14.010
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.