PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Library policy on food, beverage and tobacco.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 28B.30.095, 28B.30.125, and 28B.30.150. 95-13-004, § 504-40-010.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: To eliminate library food and beverage policies which are no longer applicable, and to allow the director of libraries to set policy regarding the use of food, beverage and tobacco in library facilities without having to codify them in the WAC.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: None.
Process for Developing New Rule: To eliminate obsolete library food and beverage policies. Reviewed internally at many levels before proposal.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication. There will be a public hearing to permit comment on the proposed rule. There will also be an opportunity to provide written comments on the proposed rule.
April 13, 2001
Loretta M. Lamb
Assistant Vice-President for
Personnel and Administration
Rules Coordinator