§ 43.10.005 Workplace pregnancy accommodations — Unfair practices — Definitions
§ 43.10.010 Qualifications — Oath — Bond
§ 43.10.020 Additional bond — Penalty for failure to furnish
§ 43.10.030 General powers and duties
§ 43.10.035 Prosecutions for official delinquencies in the assessment, collection and payment of revenue; failure to pay over or deliver public money or property; and against all debtors of the state
§ 43.10.040 Representation of boards, commissions and agencies
§ 43.10.045 Retention of counsel by legislature — Notice — Representation in absence of notice
§ 43.10.050 Authority to execute appeal and other bonds
§ 43.10.060 Appointment and authority of assistants
§ 43.10.065 Employment of attorneys and employees to transact state’s legal business
§ 43.10.067 Employment of attorneys by others restricted
§ 43.10.070 Compensation of assistants, attorneys, and employees
§ 43.10.080 Employment of experts, technicians
§ 43.10.090 Criminal investigations — Supervision
§ 43.10.095 Homicide investigative tracking system — Supervision management and recidivist tracking (SMART) system
§ 43.10.097 Homicide investigative tracking system — Purpose limited
§ 43.10.101 Report to transportation entities — Tort claims
§ 43.10.110 Other powers and duties
§ 43.10.115 Private practice of law — Attorney general — Prohibited
§ 43.10.120 Private practice of law — Deputies and assistants — Prohibited
§ 43.10.125 Private practice of law — Special assistant attorney generals
§ 43.10.130 Private practice of law — Exceptions
§ 43.10.150 Legal services revolving fund — Created — Purpose
§ 43.10.160 Legal services revolving fund — Transfers and payments into fund — Allotments to attorney general
§ 43.10.170 Legal services revolving fund — Disbursements
§ 43.10.180 Legal services revolving fund — Allocation of costs to funds and agencies — Accounting — Billing
§ 43.10.190 Legal services revolving fund — Direct payments from agencies
§ 43.10.200 Legal services revolving fund — Recovered court costs, fees and expenses — Deposit in fund — Expenditure
§ 43.10.210 Antitrust revolving fund — Legislative finding and purpose
§ 43.10.215 Antitrust revolving fund — Created — Contents
§ 43.10.220 Antitrust revolving fund — Expenditures
§ 43.10.230 Purpose
§ 43.10.232 Concurrent authority to investigate crimes and initiate and conduct prosecutions — Payment of costs
§ 43.10.234 Determination of prosecuting authority if defendant charged by attorney general and prosecuting attorney
§ 43.10.240 Investigative and criminal prosecution activity — Annual report — Security protection
§ 43.10.250 Appellate review of criminal case
§ 43.10.260 Criminal profiteering — Assistance to local officials
§ 43.10.270 Criminal profiteering — Asset recovery
§ 43.10.290 Office of military and veteran legal assistance — Created — Definitions — Limitations
§ 43.10.292 Office of military and veteran legal assistance — Duties
§ 43.10.294 Office of military and veteran legal assistance — Grants, gifts, donations
§ 43.10.300 Hate crime advisory working group
§ 43.10.310 Immigration enforcement model policies — Adoption by schools, health facilities, courthouses
§ 43.10.315 Immigration enforcement model policies — Adoption by law enforcement agencies
§ 43.10.320 Missing and murdered indigenous women and people cold case investigations assistance unit
§ 43.10.325 Missing persons toolkit
§ 43.10.801 Sexual assault forensic examination best practices advisory group
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Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 43.10 - Attorney general

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • 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
  • Asset forfeiture: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • 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.
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • 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.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • person: may be construed to include the United States, this state, or any state or territory, or any public or private corporation or limited liability company, as well as an individual. See Washington Code 1.16.080
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • 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.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.