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                                  HOUSE BILL 1494

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Representatives Grant, Miller and Locke; by request of Utilities & Transportation Commission.

Read first time January 31, 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.