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SENATE BILL 5391
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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.
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.