Revised Code of Washington
2024 Archive

Chapter 34.05 RCW
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
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Sections
34.05.001Legislative intent.
PART I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
34.05.010Definitions.
34.05.020Savings—Authority of agencies to comply with chapter—Effect of subsequent legislation.
34.05.030Exclusions from chapter or parts of chapter.
34.05.040Operation of chapter if in conflict with federal law.
34.05.050Waiver.
34.05.060Informal settlements.
34.05.070Conversion of proceedings.
34.05.080Variation from time limits.
34.05.090Forest practices board—Emergency rules.
34.05.100Respectful language.
34.05.110Violations of state law or agency rule by small businesses—Notice requirements—Waiver of penalty for first-time paperwork violations.
34.05.120Extension of rights and responsibilities—State registered domestic partnerships.
PART II
PUBLIC ACCESS TO AGENCY RULES
34.05.210Code and register—Publication and distribution—Omissions, removals, revisions—Judicial notice.
34.05.220Rules for agency procedure—Indexes of opinions and statements.
34.05.230Interpretive and policy statements.
34.05.240Declaratory order by agency—Petition.
34.05.250Model rules of procedure.
34.05.260Electronic distribution.
34.05.270Agency websites for rule-making information.
34.05.271Department of fish and wildlife—Significant agency action—Identification and categorization of sources of information used.
34.05.272Department of ecology—Significant agency action—Identification and categorization of sources of information used.
PART III
RULE-MAKING PROCEDURES
34.05.310Prenotice inquiry—Negotiated and pilot rules.
34.05.312Rules coordinator.
34.05.313Feasibility studies—Pilot projects.
34.05.314Rules development agenda.
34.05.315Rule-making docket.
34.05.320Notice of proposed rule—Contents—Distribution by agency—Institutions of higher education.
34.05.322Scope of rule-making authority.
34.05.325Public participation—Concise explanatory statement.
34.05.328Significant legislative rules, other selected rules.
34.05.330Petition for adoption, amendment, repeal—Agency action—Appeal.
34.05.335Withdrawal of proposal—Time and manner of adoption.
34.05.340Variance between proposed and final rule.
34.05.345Failure to give twenty days notice of intended action—Effect.
34.05.350Emergency rules and amendments.
34.05.353Expedited rule making.
34.05.360Order adopting rule, contents.
34.05.362Postadoption notice.
34.05.365Incorporation by reference.
34.05.370Rule-making file.
34.05.375Substantial compliance with procedures.
34.05.380Filing with code reviser—Written record—Effective dates.
34.05.385Rules for rule making.
34.05.390Style, format, and numbering—Agency compliance.
34.05.395Format and style of amendatory and new sections—Failure to comply.
PART IV
ADJUDICATIVE PROCEEDINGS
34.05.410Application of Part IV.
34.05.413Commencement—When required.
34.05.416Decision not to conduct an adjudication.
34.05.419Agency action on applications for adjudication.
34.05.422Rate changes, licenses.
34.05.425Presiding officers—Disqualification, substitution.
34.05.428Representation.
34.05.431Conference—Procedure and participation.
34.05.434Notice of hearing.
34.05.437Pleadings, briefs, motions, service.
34.05.440Default.
34.05.443Intervention.
34.05.446Subpoenas, discovery, and protective orders.
34.05.449Procedure at hearing.
34.05.452Rules of evidence—Cross-examination.
34.05.455Ex parte communications.
34.05.458Separation of functions.
34.05.461Entry of orders.
34.05.464Review of initial orders.
34.05.467Stay.
34.05.470Reconsideration.
34.05.473Effectiveness of orders.
34.05.476Agency record.
34.05.479Emergency adjudicative proceedings.
34.05.4791Secure community transition facility—Proceeding concerning public safety measures.
34.05.482Brief adjudicative proceedings—Applicability.
34.05.485Brief adjudicative proceedings—Procedure.
34.05.488Brief proceedings—Administrative review—Applicability.
34.05.491Brief proceedings—Administrative review—Procedures.
34.05.494Agency record in brief proceedings.
PART V
JUDICIAL REVIEW AND CIVIL ENFORCEMENT
34.05.510Relationship between this chapter and other judicial review authority.
34.05.514Petition for review—Where filed.
34.05.518Direct review by court of appeals.
34.05.522Refusal of review by court of appeals.
34.05.526Appellate review by supreme court or court of appeals.
34.05.530Standing.
34.05.534Exhaustion of administrative remedies.
34.05.542Time for filing petition for review.
34.05.546Petition for review—Contents.
34.05.550Stay and other temporary remedies.
34.05.554Limitation on new issues.
34.05.558Judicial review of facts confined to record.
34.05.562New evidence taken by court or agency.
34.05.566Agency record for review—Costs.
34.05.570Judicial review.
34.05.574Type of relief.
34.05.578Petition by agency for enforcement.
34.05.582Petition by others for enforcement.
34.05.586Defenses, limitations on.
34.05.588Enforcement of agency subpoena.
34.05.590Incorporation of other judicial review provisions.
34.05.594Review by higher court.
34.05.598Frivolous petitions.
PART VI
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW
34.05.610Joint administrative rules review committee—Members—Appointment—Terms—Vacancies.
34.05.620Review of proposed rules—Notice.
34.05.630Review of existing rules—Policy and interpretive statements, etc.—Notice—Hearing.
34.05.640Committee objections to agency intended action—Statement in register and WAC—Suspension of rule.
34.05.650Recommendations by committee to legislature.
34.05.655Petition for review.
34.05.660Review and objection procedures—No presumption established.
34.05.665Submission of rule for review—State employees protected.
34.05.671Reports—Advisory boards—Staff.
34.05.675Inspection of properties—Oaths, subpoenas, witnesses, depositions.
34.05.681Enforcement—Committee subpoena—Refusal to testify.
PART IX
TECHNICAL PROVISIONS
34.05.900Captions and headings.
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, 41.56.452, 41.76.070, 47.64.310, 70.24.370, and 74.36.120.