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WA Rev Code § 40.14.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.14 - Preservation and Destruction of Public Records.|40.14.050 - Records committee—Composition, travel expenses, meetings, powers and duties—Retention schedules.

RCW 40.14.050 Records committee—Composition, travel expenses, meetings, powers and duties—Retention schedules.There is created a committee, to be known as the records committee, composed of the archivist, an appointee of the state auditor, an appointee of the attorney general, and an appointee of the director of financial management. Committee members shall serve without additional salary, but shall be entitled to travel expenses incurred in accordance with RCW 43.03.050 and 43.03.060 as now existing or hereafter amended. Such expenses shall be paid from the appropriations made for operation of their respective departments or offices.The records committee shall meet at least once every quarter or oftener as business dictates. Action by the committee shall be by majority vote and records shall be kept of all committee business.It shall be the duty of the records committee to approve, modify or disapprove the recommendations on retention schedules of all files of public records and to act upon requests to destroy any public records: PROVIDED, That any modification of a request or recommendation must be approved by the head of the agency originating the request or recommendation.The division of archives and records management shall provide forms, approved by the records committee, upon which it shall prepare recommendations to the committee in cooperation with the records officer of the department or other agency whose records are involved.[ 1985 c 192 § 1; 1975-'76 2nd ex.s. c 34 § 83; 1957 c 246 § 5.]NOTES:Effective date—Severability—1975-'76 2nd ex.s. c 34: See notes following RCW 2.08.115.
WA Rev Code § 40.14.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.14 - Preservation and Destruction of Public Records.|40.14.060 - Destruction, disposition of official public records or office files and memoranda—Record retention schedules.

RCW 40.14.060 Destruction, disposition of official public records or office files and memoranda—Record retention schedules.(1) Any destruction of official public records shall be pursuant to a schedule approved under RCW 40.14.050. Official public records shall not be destroyed unless:(a) Except as provided under RCW 40.14.070(2)(b), the records are six or more years old;(b) The department of origin of the records has made a satisfactory showing to the state records committee that the retention of the records for a minimum of six years is both unnecessary and uneconomical, particularly if lesser federal retention periods for records generated by the state under federal programs have been established; or(c) The originals of official public records less than six years old have been copied or reproduced by any photographic or other process approved by the state archivist which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the original.(2) Any lesser term of retention than six years must have the additional approval of the director of financial management, the state auditor and the attorney general, except when records have federal retention guidelines the state records committee may adjust the retention period accordingly. An automatic reduction of retention periods from seven to six years for official public records on record retention schedules existing on June 10, 1982, shall not be made, but the same shall be reviewed individually by the state records committee for approval or disapproval of the change to a retention period of six years.Recommendations for the destruction or disposition of office files and memoranda shall be submitted to the records committee upon approved forms prepared by the records officer of the agency concerned and the archivist. The committee shall determine the period of time that any office file or memorandum shall be preserved and may authorize the division of archives and records management to arrange for its destruction or disposition.[ 1999 c 326 § 1; 1982 c 36 § 5; 1979 c 151 § 52; 1973 c 54 § 4; 1957 c 246 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 40.14.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.14 - Preservation and Destruction of Public Records.|40.14.080 - Chapter not to affect other laws.

RCW 40.14.080 Chapter not to affect other laws.The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed as repealing or modifying any other acts or parts of acts authorizing the destruction of public records save for those specifically named in *section 9 of this act; nor shall this chapter affect the provisions of chapter 40.07 RCW requiring the deposit of all state publications in the state library.[ 1983 c 3 § 84; 1957 c 246 § 8.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: "section 9 of this act" refers to 1957 c 246 § 9, which repealed RCW 40.08.010 through 40.08.050 and 40.12.010 through 40.12.110.
WA Rev Code § 40.14.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.14 - Preservation and Destruction of Public Records.|40.14.100 - Legislative records—Defined.

RCW 40.14.100 Legislative records—Defined.As used in RCW 40.14.010 and 40.14.100 through 40.14.180, unless the context requires otherwise, "legislative records" shall be defined as correspondence, amendments, reports, and minutes of meetings made by or submitted to legislative committees or subcommittees and transcripts or other records of hearings or supplementary written testimony or data thereof filed with committees or subcommittees in connection with the exercise of legislative or investigatory functions, but does not include the records of an official act of the legislature kept by the secretary of state, bills and their copies, published materials, digests, or multi-copied matter which are routinely retained and otherwise available at the state library or in a public repository, or reports or correspondence made or received by or in any way under the personal control of the individual members of the legislature.[ 1971 ex.s. c 102 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 40.14.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.14 - Preservation and Destruction of Public Records.|40.14.110 - Legislative records—Contribution of papers by legislators and employees.

RCW 40.14.110 Legislative records—Contribution of papers by legislators and employees.Nothing in RCW 40.14.010 and 40.14.100 through 40.14.180 shall prohibit a legislator or legislative employee from contributing his or her personal papers to any private library, public library, or the state archives. The state archivist is authorized to receive papers of legislators and legislative employees and is directed to encourage the donation of such personal records to the state. The state archivist is authorized to establish such guidelines and procedures for the collection of personal papers and correspondence relating to the legislature as he or she sees fit. Legislators and legislative employees are encouraged to contribute their personal papers to the state for preservation.[ 2011 c 336 § 819; 1971 ex.s. c 102 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 40.14.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.14 - Preservation and Destruction of Public Records.|40.14.120 - Legislative records—"Clerk," "secretary" defined.

RCW 40.14.120 Legislative records—"Clerk," "secretary" defined.As used in RCW 40.14.010 and 40.14.100 through 40.14.180 "clerk" means clerk of the Washington state house of representatives and "secretary" means the secretary of the Washington state senate.[ 1971 ex.s. c 102 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 40.14.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.14 - Preservation and Destruction of Public Records.|40.14.130 - Legislative records—Duties of legislative officials, employees and state archivist—Delivery of records—Custody—Availability.

RCW 40.14.130 Legislative records—Duties of legislative officials, employees and state archivist—Delivery of records—Custody—Availability.The legislative committee chair, subcommittee chair, committee member, or employed personnel of the state legislature having possession of legislative records that are not required for the regular performance of official duties shall, within ten days after the adjournment sine die of a regular or special session, deliver all such legislative records to the clerk of the house or the secretary of the senate.The clerk of the house and the secretary of the senate are charged to include requirements and responsibilities for keeping committee minutes and records as part of their instructions to committee chairs and employees.The clerk or the secretary, with the assistance of the state archivist, shall classify and arrange the legislative records delivered to the clerk or secretary in a manner that he or she considers best suited to carry out the efficient and economical utilization, maintenance, preservation, and disposition of the records. The clerk or the secretary may deliver to the state archivist all legislative records in his or her possession when such records have been classified and arranged and are no longer needed by either house. The state archivist shall thereafter be custodian of the records so delivered, but shall deliver such records back to either the clerk or secretary upon his or her request.The chair, member, or employee of a legislative interim committee responsible for maintaining the legislative records of that committee shall, on a scheduled basis agreed upon by the chair, member, or employee of the legislative interim committee, deliver to the clerk or secretary all legislative records in his or her possession, as long as such records are not required for the regular performance of official duties. He or she shall also deliver to the clerk or secretary all records of an interim committee within ten days after the committee ceases to function.[ 2011 c 336 § 820; 1971 ex.s. c 102 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 40.14.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.14 - Preservation and Destruction of Public Records.|40.14.140 - Legislative records—Party caucuses to be advised—Information and instructions.

RCW 40.14.140 Legislative records—Party caucuses to be advised—Information and instructions.It shall be the duty of the clerk and the secretary to advise the party caucuses in each house concerning the necessity to keep public records. The state archivist or his or her representative shall work with the clerk and secretary to provide information and instructions on the best method for keeping legislative records.[ 2011 c 336 § 821; 1971 ex.s. c 102 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 40.14.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.14 - Preservation and Destruction of Public Records.|40.14.150 - Legislative records—Use for research.

RCW 40.14.150 Legislative records—Use for research.Committee records may be used by legislative employees for research at the discretion of the clerk or the secretary.[ 1971 ex.s. c 102 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 40.14.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.14 - Preservation and Destruction of Public Records.|40.14.160 - Legislative records—Rules for access to records.

RCW 40.14.160 Legislative records—Rules for access to records.The clerk or the secretary shall, with advice of the state archivist, prescribe rules for access to records more than three years old when such records have been delivered to the state archives for preservation and maintenance.[ 1971 ex.s. c 102 § 8.]
WA Rev Code § 40.14.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.14 - Preservation and Destruction of Public Records.|40.14.170 - Legislative records—Sound recordings.

RCW 40.14.170 Legislative records—Sound recordings.Any sound recording of debate in the house or senate made by legislative employees shall be preserved by the chief clerk of the house and by the secretary of the senate, respectively, for two years from the end of the session at which made, and thereafter shall be transmitted to the state archivist. The chief clerk and the secretary shall catalogue or index the recordings in their custody according to a uniform system, in order to allow easy access to the debate on specific questions before either house, and shall make available to any court of record, at the cost of reproduction, such portions of the recordings as the court may request.[ 1971 ex.s. c 102 § 9.]
WA Rev Code § 40.14.180 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.14 - Preservation and Destruction of Public Records.|40.14.180 - Legislative records—Construction—Confidentiality of bill drafting records.

RCW 40.14.180 Legislative records—Construction—Confidentiality of bill drafting records.The provisions of RCW 40.14.010 and 40.14.100 through 40.14.180 shall not be construed as repealing or modifying any other acts or parts of acts authorizing the retention or destruction of public records nor shall RCW 40.14.010 and 40.14.100 through 40.14.180 affect the provisions of chapter 40.07 RCW requiring the deposit of all state publications in the state library nor shall it affect the confidentiality of the bill drafting records of the code reviser's office.[ 1983 c 3 § 85; 1971 ex.s. c 102 § 10.]
WA Rev Code § 40.16.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.16 - Penal Provisions.|40.16.010 - Injury to public record.

RCW 40.16.010 Injury to public record.Every person who shall willfully and unlawfully remove, alter, mutilate, destroy, conceal, or obliterate a record, map, book, paper, document, or other thing filed or deposited in a public office, or with any public officer, by authority of law, is guilty of a class C felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than five years, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by both.[ 2003 c 53 § 214; 1992 c 7 § 34; 1909 c 249 § 95; RRS § 2347.]NOTES:Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
WA Rev Code § 40.16.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.16 - Penal Provisions.|40.16.020 - Injury to and misappropriation of record.

RCW 40.16.020 Injury to and misappropriation of record.Every officer who shall mutilate, destroy, conceal, erase, obliterate, or falsify any record or paper appertaining to the officer's office, or who shall fraudulently appropriate to the officer's own use or to the use of another person, or secrete with intent to appropriate to such use, any money, evidence of debt or other property intrusted to the officer by virtue of the officer's office, is guilty of a class B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than ten years, or by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or by both.[ 2003 c 53 § 215; 1992 c 7 § 35; 1909 c 249 § 96; RRS § 2348.]NOTES:Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
WA Rev Code § 40.16.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.16 - Penal Provisions.|40.16.030 - Offering false instrument for filing or record.

RCW 40.16.030 Offering false instrument for filing or record.Every person who shall knowingly procure or offer any false or forged instrument to be filed, registered, or recorded in any public office, which instrument, if genuine, might be filed, registered or recorded in such office under any law of this state or of the United States, is guilty of a class C felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than five years, or by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or by both.[ 2003 c 53 § 216; 1992 c 7 § 36; 1909 c 249 § 97; RRS § 2349.]NOTES:Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
WA Rev Code § 40.20.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.20 - Reproduced Records for Governments and Business.|40.20.010 - "Business" defined.

RCW 40.20.010 "Business" defined.For the purpose of this chapter, the term "business" shall mean and include business, industry, profession, occupation and calling of every kind.[ 1949 c 223 § 3; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 1257-6.]
WA Rev Code § 40.20.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.20 - Reproduced Records for Governments and Business.|40.20.020 - Reproduction by film or photograph.

RCW 40.20.020 Reproduction by film or photograph.The head of any business or the head of any state, county or municipal department, commission, bureau or board may cause any or all records required or authorized by law to be made or kept by such official, department, commission, bureau, board, or business to be photographed, microphotographed, reproduced on film, or photocopied for all purposes of recording documents, plats, files or papers, or copying or reproducing such records. Such film or reproducing material shall be of permanent material and the device used to reproduce such records on such film or material shall be such as to accurately reproduce and perpetuate the original records in all details, and shall be approved for the intended purpose: PROVIDED, That the state archivist shall approve such material for state records use: PROVIDED, FURTHER, That the state auditor shall approve such material for use by local governmental subdivisions.[ 1981 c 32 § 5; 1973 c 95 § 1; 1949 c 223 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 1257-4.]
WA Rev Code § 40.20.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.20 - Reproduced Records for Governments and Business.|40.20.030 - Use as original.

RCW 40.20.030 Use as original.Such photostatic copy, photograph, microphotograph or photographic film record, or copy of the original records shall be deemed to be an original record for all purposes, and shall be admissible in evidence in all courts or administrative agencies. A facsimile, exemplification or certified copy thereof shall, for all purposes recited herein, be deemed to be a transcript, exemplification or certified copy of the original.[ 1949 c 223 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 1257-5.]
WA Rev Code § 40.24.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.24 - Address Confidentiality for Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking.|40.24.010 - Findings—Purpose—Intent.

RCW 40.24.010 Findings—Purpose—Intent.The legislature finds that persons attempting to escape from actual or threatened domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, or stalking frequently establish new addresses in order to prevent their assailants or probable assailants from finding them. The purpose of this chapter is to enable state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing the location of a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, or stalking, to enable interagency cooperation with the secretary of state in providing address confidentiality for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, or stalking, and to enable state and local agencies to accept a program participant's use of an address designated by the secretary of state as a substitute mailing address. The legislature further intends to provide assistance to program participants who own or desire to own property in the state to protect such ownership from public disclosure.[ 2019 c 122 § 1; 2008 c 312 § 1; 2001 c 28 § 1; 1998 c 138 § 1; 1991 c 23 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 40.24.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.24 - Address Confidentiality for Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking.|40.24.020 - Definitions.

RCW 40.24.020 Definitions.Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.(1) "Address" means a residential street address, school address, or work address of an individual, as specified on the individual's application to be a program participant under this chapter.(2) "Domestic violence" means an act as defined in RCW 10.99.020 and includes a threat of such acts committed against an individual in a domestic situation, regardless of whether these acts or threats have been reported to law enforcement officers.(3) "Program participant" means a person certified as a program participant under RCW 40.24.030.(4) "Stalking" means an act defined in RCW 9A.46.110 and includes a threat of such acts committed against an individual, regardless of whether these acts or threats have been reported to law enforcement officers.(5) "Trafficking" means an act as defined in RCW 9A.40.100 or an act recognized as a severe form of trafficking under 22 U.S.C. Sec. 7102(8) as it existed on June 12, 2008, or such subsequent date as may be provided by the secretary of state by rule, consistent with the purposes of this subsection, regardless of whether the act has been reported to law enforcement.[ 2008 c 312 § 2; 2008 c 18 § 1; 1991 c 23 § 2.]NOTES:Reviser's note: This section was amended by 2008 c 18 § 1 and by 2008 c 312 § 2, each without reference to the other. Both amendments are incorporated in the publication of this section under RCW 1.12.025(2). For rule of construction, see RCW 1.12.025(1).
WA Rev Code § 40.24.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.24 - Address Confidentiality for Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking.|40.24.040 - Certification cancellation.

RCW 40.24.040 Certification cancellation.(1) If the program participant obtains a legal change of identity, he or she loses certification as a program participant.(2) The secretary of state may cancel a program participant's certification if there is a change in the residential address, unless the program participant provides the secretary of state with at least two days' prior notice in writing of the change of address.(3) The secretary of state may cancel certification of a program participant if mail forwarded by the secretary to the program participant's address is returned as nondeliverable, refused, or unclaimed.(4) The secretary of state shall cancel certification of a program participant who applies using false information.[ 2008 c 18 § 3; 1991 c 23 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 40.24.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 40 - Public Documents, Records, and Publications|Chapter 40.24 - Address Confidentiality for Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking.|40.24.050 - Agency use of designated address.

RCW 40.24.050 Agency use of designated address.(1) A program participant may request that state and local agencies use the address designated by the secretary of state as his or her address. When creating a new public record, state and local agencies shall accept the address designated by the secretary of state as a program participant's substitute address, unless the secretary of state has determined that:(a) The agency has a bona fide statutory or administrative requirement for the use of the address which would otherwise be confidential under this chapter; and(b) This address will be used only for those statutory and administrative purposes.(2) A program participant may use the address designated by the secretary of state as his or her work address.(3) The office of the secretary of state shall forward all first-class mail to the appropriate program participants.[ 1991 c 23 § 5.]