PERMANENT RULES
Date of Adoption: October 24, 2003.
Purpose: To set forth procedures governing applications for state death investigations account assistance.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 43.103.090 (1)(d).
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 03-19-099 on September 15, 2003.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 6, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 6, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0;
Pilot Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0;
or Other Alternative Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0.
Effective Date of Rule:
December 1, 2003.
October 24, 2003
Fred A. Johnson
Chair
RULES RELATING TO THE AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDING ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL JURISDICTIONS FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF MULTIPLE DEATHS
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[NEW SECTION]WAC 218-10-015
Definitions.
(1) "Death investigation
budget" shall mean the local jurisdiction's appropriation into
the coroner or medical examiner budgets for the determination
of cause and manner of death.
(2) "Local jurisdiction" shall mean a city, town, or county of the State of Washington.
(3) "Multiple deaths involving multiple local jurisdictions" shall mean that the deaths occurred in two or more geographically distinct local jurisdictions.
(4) "Unanticipated" shall mean an event having a disproportionate fiscal impact, relative to the local jurisdiction's death investigation budget and which cannot be reasonably foreseen in the normal budget process.
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[NEW SECTION]WAC 218-10-020
Eligibility standards.
(1) Only the
following investigations are eligible for funding assistance:
(a) Investigations of multiple deaths involving unanticipated, extraordinary, and catastrophic events; or
(b) Investigations of multiple deaths involving multiple local jurisdictions.
(2) Funding assistance shall be limited to supplementations of the death investigation budget of a local jurisdiction.
(3) Funding assistance shall not be used to supplant monies reasonably available from other state or federal sources.
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[NEW SECTION]WAC 218-10-025
Application process.
To qualify for
consideration and eligibility for assistance from the state
death investigations account, the legislative authority of the
local jurisdiction shall:
(1) Submit to the Forensic Investigations Council an application on a form approved by the Council; and
(2) Provide any additional information requested by the Forensic Investigations Council, in order to evaluate the request for assistance.
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[NEW SECTION]WAC 218-10-030
Effective date.
(1) This Rule shall take
effect on December 1, 2003.
(2) Funding assistance shall be available only for death investigations that commenced after August 1, 2003.
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