§ 43.17.010 Departments created
§ 43.17.020 Chief executive officers — Appointment
§ 43.17.030 Powers and duties — Oath
§ 43.17.040 Chief assistant director — Powers
§ 43.17.050 Office at capital — Branch offices
§ 43.17.060 Departmental rules and regulations
§ 43.17.070 Administrative committees
§ 43.17.095 Option to submit document, form, or payment electronically — Requirements
§ 43.17.100 Surety bonds for appointive state officers and employees
§ 43.17.110 Data, information, interdepartmental assistance
§ 43.17.120 Designation of agency to carry out federal social security disability program
§ 43.17.130 Designation of agency to carry out federal social security disability program — Appointment of personnel
§ 43.17.150 Receipt of property or money from United States attorney general — Use, expenditure — Deposit
§ 43.17.200 Allocation of moneys for acquisition of works of art — Expenditure by arts commission — Conditions
§ 43.17.205 Purchase of works of art — Interagency reimbursement for expenditure by visual arts program
§ 43.17.210 Purchase of works of art — Procedure
§ 43.17.230 Emergency information telephone services — Accessibility from all phones required — Charges
§ 43.17.240 Debts owed to the state — Interest rate
§ 43.17.250 Countywide planning policy
§ 43.17.310 Businesses — Rules coordinator to provide list of rules
§ 43.17.320 Interagency disputes — Alternative dispute resolution — Definitions
§ 43.17.330 Interagency disputes — Alternative dispute resolution — Methods
§ 43.17.340 Interagency disputes — Alternative dispute resolution — Exception
§ 43.17.350 Health-related state agencies — Professional health services — Fee schedules
§ 43.17.360 Lease of real property — Term of a lease — Use of proceeds — Retroactive application
§ 43.17.370 Prerelease copy of report or study to local government
§ 43.17.380 Quality management, accountability, and performance system — Definitions
§ 43.17.385 Quality management, accountability, and performance system
§ 43.17.390 Quality management, accountability, and performance system — Independent assessment
§ 43.17.400 Disposition of state-owned land — Notice to governmental entities — Right of first refusal
§ 43.17.410 Sensitive personal information of vulnerable individuals or in-home caregivers for vulnerable populations — Release of information prohibited
§ 43.17.420 Immigration and citizenship status — Definitions
§ 43.17.425 Immigration and citizenship status — State agency restrictions
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Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 43.17 - Administrative departments and agencies -- General provisions

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • 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.
  • Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • 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.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • 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
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • 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.
  • Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.