CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 5391

 

 

                               

 

 

 

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

 

 

Passed by the Senate March 13, 1991

  Yeas 46   Nays 0

 

 

                                   

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House April 11, 1991

  Yeas 87   Nays 0

 

 

                                   

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

 

 

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                   

Governor of the State of Washington

       CERTIFICATE

 

I, Gordon Golob, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5391 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

                                      Secretary

 

 

 

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                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington  




 

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                                 SENATE BILL 5391

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

 

 

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

 

By Senators Thorsness, Sutherland and Stratton; by request of Utilities & Transportation Commission.

 

Read first time January 30, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Energy & Utilities.Authorizing the utilities and transportation commission to appoint persons to do emergency adjudications.

     AN ACT Relating to emergency adjudications of the utilities and transportation commission; and amending RCW 80.01.060.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

     Sec. 1.  RCW 80.01.060 and 1981 c 67 s 35 are each amended to read as follows:

     The commission shall have the power to request the appointment of administrative law judges under chapter 34.12 RCW when it deems such action necessary for its general administration.  Such administrative law judges shall have power to administer oaths, to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, waybills, books, accounts, documents, and testimony, to examine witnesses, and to receive testimony in any inquiry, investigation, hearing, or proceeding in any part of the state, under such rules ((and regulations)) as the commission may adopt.  The commission may designate persons by rule to preside and enter final orders in emergency adjudications under RCW 34.05.479.