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Chapter 34.05 RCW

ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT

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Sections

HTMLPDF 34.05.001Legislative intent.
PART I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
HTMLPDF 34.05.010Definitions.
HTMLPDF 34.05.020Savings—Authority of agencies to comply with chapter—Effect of subsequent legislation.
HTMLPDF 34.05.030Exclusions from chapter or parts of chapter.
HTMLPDF 34.05.040Operation of chapter if in conflict with federal law.
HTMLPDF 34.05.050Waiver.
HTMLPDF 34.05.060Informal settlements.
HTMLPDF 34.05.070Conversion of proceedings.
HTMLPDF 34.05.080Variation from time limits.
HTMLPDF 34.05.090Forest practices board—Emergency rules.
HTMLPDF 34.05.100Respectful language.
HTMLPDF 34.05.110Violations of state law or agency rule by small businesses—Notice requirements—Waiver of penalty for first-time paperwork violations.
HTMLPDF 34.05.120Extension of rights and responsibilities—State registered domestic partnerships.
PART II
PUBLIC ACCESS TO AGENCY RULES
HTMLPDF 34.05.210Code and register—Publication and distribution—Omissions, removals, revisions—Judicial notice.
HTMLPDF 34.05.220Rules for agency procedure—Indexes of opinions and statements.
HTMLPDF 34.05.230Interpretive and policy statements.
HTMLPDF 34.05.240Declaratory order by agency—Petition.
HTMLPDF 34.05.250Model rules of procedure.
HTMLPDF 34.05.260Electronic distribution.
HTMLPDF 34.05.270Agency websites for rule-making information.
HTMLPDF 34.05.271Department of fish and wildlife—Significant agency action—Identification and categorization of sources of information used.
HTMLPDF 34.05.272Department of ecology—Significant agency action—Identification and categorization of sources of information used.
PART III
RULE-MAKING PROCEDURES
HTMLPDF 34.05.310Prenotice inquiry—Negotiated and pilot rules.
HTMLPDF 34.05.312Rules coordinator.
HTMLPDF 34.05.313Feasibility studies—Pilot projects.
HTMLPDF 34.05.314Rules development agenda.
HTMLPDF 34.05.315Rule-making docket.
HTMLPDF 34.05.320Notice of proposed rule—Contents—Distribution by agency—Institutions of higher education.
HTMLPDF 34.05.322Scope of rule-making authority.
HTMLPDF 34.05.325Public participation—Concise explanatory statement.
HTMLPDF 34.05.328Significant legislative rules, other selected rules.
HTMLPDF 34.05.330Petition for adoption, amendment, repeal—Agency action—Appeal.
HTMLPDF 34.05.335Withdrawal of proposal—Time and manner of adoption.
HTMLPDF 34.05.340Variance between proposed and final rule.
HTMLPDF 34.05.345Failure to give twenty days notice of intended action—Effect.
HTMLPDF 34.05.350Emergency rules and amendments.
HTMLPDF 34.05.353Expedited rule making.
HTMLPDF 34.05.360Order adopting rule, contents.
HTMLPDF 34.05.362Postadoption notice.
HTMLPDF 34.05.365Incorporation by reference.
HTMLPDF 34.05.370Rule-making file.
HTMLPDF 34.05.375Substantial compliance with procedures.
HTMLPDF 34.05.380Filing with code reviser—Written record—Effective dates.
HTMLPDF 34.05.385Rules for rule making.
HTMLPDF 34.05.390Style, format, and numbering—Agency compliance.
HTMLPDF 34.05.395Format and style of amendatory and new sections—Failure to comply.
PART IV
ADJUDICATIVE PROCEEDINGS
HTMLPDF 34.05.410Application of Part IV.
HTMLPDF 34.05.413Commencement—When required.
HTMLPDF 34.05.416Decision not to conduct an adjudication.
HTMLPDF 34.05.419Agency action on applications for adjudication.
HTMLPDF 34.05.422Rate changes, licenses.
HTMLPDF 34.05.425Presiding officers—Disqualification, substitution.
HTMLPDF 34.05.428Representation.
HTMLPDF 34.05.431Conference—Procedure and participation.
HTMLPDF 34.05.434Notice of hearing.
HTMLPDF 34.05.437Pleadings, briefs, motions, service.
HTMLPDF 34.05.440Default.
HTMLPDF 34.05.443Intervention.
HTMLPDF 34.05.446Subpoenas, discovery, and protective orders.
HTMLPDF 34.05.449Procedure at hearing.
HTMLPDF 34.05.452Rules of evidence—Cross-examination.
HTMLPDF 34.05.455Ex parte communications.
HTMLPDF 34.05.458Separation of functions.
HTMLPDF 34.05.461Entry of orders.
HTMLPDF 34.05.464Review of initial orders.
HTMLPDF 34.05.467Stay.
HTMLPDF 34.05.470Reconsideration.
HTMLPDF 34.05.473Effectiveness of orders.
HTMLPDF 34.05.476Agency record.
HTMLPDF 34.05.479Emergency adjudicative proceedings.
HTMLPDF 34.05.4791Secure community transition facility—Proceeding concerning public safety measures.
HTMLPDF 34.05.482Brief adjudicative proceedings—Applicability.
HTMLPDF 34.05.485Brief adjudicative proceedings—Procedure.
HTMLPDF 34.05.488Brief proceedings—Administrative review—Applicability.
HTMLPDF 34.05.491Brief proceedings—Administrative review—Procedures.
HTMLPDF 34.05.494Agency record in brief proceedings.
PART V
JUDICIAL REVIEW AND CIVIL ENFORCEMENT
HTMLPDF 34.05.510Relationship between this chapter and other judicial review authority.
HTMLPDF 34.05.514Petition for review—Where filed.
HTMLPDF 34.05.518Direct review by court of appeals.
HTMLPDF 34.05.522Refusal of review by court of appeals.
HTMLPDF 34.05.526Appellate review by supreme court or court of appeals.
HTMLPDF 34.05.530Standing.
HTMLPDF 34.05.534Exhaustion of administrative remedies.
HTMLPDF 34.05.542Time for filing petition for review.
HTMLPDF 34.05.546Petition for review—Contents.
HTMLPDF 34.05.550Stay and other temporary remedies.
HTMLPDF 34.05.554Limitation on new issues.
HTMLPDF 34.05.558Judicial review of facts confined to record.
HTMLPDF 34.05.562New evidence taken by court or agency.
HTMLPDF 34.05.566Agency record for review—Costs.
HTMLPDF 34.05.570Judicial review.
HTMLPDF 34.05.574Type of relief.
HTMLPDF 34.05.578Petition by agency for enforcement.
HTMLPDF 34.05.582Petition by others for enforcement.
HTMLPDF 34.05.586Defenses, limitations on.
HTMLPDF 34.05.588Enforcement of agency subpoena.
HTMLPDF 34.05.590Incorporation of other judicial review provisions.
HTMLPDF 34.05.594Review by higher court.
HTMLPDF 34.05.598Frivolous petitions.
PART VI
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW
HTMLPDF 34.05.610Joint administrative rules review committee—Members—Appointment—Terms—Vacancies.
HTMLPDF 34.05.620Review of proposed rules—Notice.
HTMLPDF 34.05.630Review of existing rules—Policy and interpretive statements, etc.—Notice—Hearing.
HTMLPDF 34.05.640Committee objections to agency intended action—Statement in register and WAC—Suspension of rule.
HTMLPDF 34.05.650Recommendations by committee to legislature.
HTMLPDF 34.05.655Petition for review.
HTMLPDF 34.05.660Review and objection procedures—No presumption established.
HTMLPDF 34.05.665Submission of rule for review—State employees protected.
HTMLPDF 34.05.671Reports—Advisory boards—Staff.
HTMLPDF 34.05.675Inspection of properties—Oaths, subpoenas, witnesses, depositions.
HTMLPDF 34.05.681Enforcement—Committee subpoena—Refusal to testify.
PART IX
TECHNICAL PROVISIONS
HTMLPDF 34.05.900Captions and headings.
HTMLPDF 34.05.902Effective date—Application—1988 c 288.

Notes:

Nonbinding effect of unpublished rules and procedures: RCW 42.56.040.
Not applicable to the following proceedings and agreements: RCW 2.64.092, 41.56.525, 41.76.070, 47.64.310, 70.24.370, and 74.36.120.