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WA Rev Code § 70.48.460 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.48 - City and County Jails Act.|70.48.460 - Contracts for incarceration services for prisoners not covered by RCW 70.48.400 through 70.48.450.

RCW 70.48.460 Contracts for incarceration services for prisoners not covered by RCW 70.48.400 through 70.48.450.Nothing in RCW 70.48.400 through 70.48.450 precludes the establishment of mutually agreeable contracts between the department of corrections and counties for incarceration services of prisoners not covered by RCW 70.48.400 through 70.48.450.[ 1984 c 235 § 7.]NOTES:Effective dates—1984 c 235: See note following RCW 70.48.400.
WA Rev Code § 70.48.470 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.48 - City and County Jails Act.|70.48.470 - Sex, kidnapping offenders—Notices to offenders, law enforcement officials.

RCW 70.48.470 Sex, kidnapping offenders—Notices to offenders, law enforcement officials.(1) A person having charge of a jail shall notify in writing any confined person who is in the custody of the jail for a conviction of a sex offense or a kidnapping offense as defined in RCW 9A.44.128 of the registration requirements of RCW 9A.44.130 at the time of the inmate's release from confinement, and shall obtain written acknowledgment of such notification. The person shall also obtain from the inmate the county of the inmate's residence upon release from jail and, where applicable, the city.(2) When a sex offender or kidnapping offender under local government jurisdiction will reside in a county other than the county of conviction upon discharge or release, the chief law enforcement officer of the jail or his or her designee shall give notice of the inmate's discharge or release to the sheriff of the county and, where applicable, to the police chief of the city where the offender will reside.[ 2010 c 267 § 14; 2000 c 91 § 4. Prior: 1997 c 364 § 3; 1997 c 113 § 7; 1996 c 215 § 2; 1990 c 3 § 406.]NOTES:Reviser's note: The definitions in RCW 9A.44.128 apply to this section.Application—2010 c 267: See note following RCW 9A.44.128.Severability—1997 c 364: See note following RCW 4.24.550.Findings—1997 c 113: See note following RCW 4.24.550.
WA Rev Code § 70.48.475 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.48 - City and County Jails Act.|70.48.475 - Release of offender or defendant subject to a discharge review—Required notifications.

RCW 70.48.475 Release of offender or defendant subject to a discharge review—Required notifications.(1) A person having charge of a jail, or that person's designee, shall notify the designated crisis responder seventy-two hours prior to the release to the community of an offender or defendant who was subject to a discharge review under RCW 71.05.232. If the person having charge of the jail does not receive seventy-two hours notice of the release, the notification to the designated crisis responder shall be made as soon as reasonably possible, but not later than the actual release to the community of the defendant or offender.(2) When a person having charge of a jail, or that person's designee, releases an offender or defendant who was the subject of a discharge review under RCW 71.05.232, the person having charge of a jail, or that person's designee, shall notify the state hospital from which the offender or defendant was released.[ 2016 sp.s. c 29 § 418; 2004 c 166 § 14.]NOTES:Effective dates—2016 sp.s. c 29: See note following RCW 71.05.760.Short title—Right of action—2016 sp.s. c 29: See notes following RCW 71.05.010.Severability—Effective dates—2004 c 166: See notes following RCW 71.05.040.
WA Rev Code § 70.48.480 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.48 - City and County Jails Act.|70.48.480 - Communicable disease prevention guidelines.

RCW 70.48.480 Communicable disease prevention guidelines.(1) Local jail administrators shall develop and implement policies and procedures for the uniform distribution of communicable disease prevention guidelines to all jail staff who, in the course of their regularly assigned job responsibilities, may come within close physical proximity to offenders or detainees with communicable diseases.(2) The guidelines shall identify special precautions necessary to reduce the risk of transmission of communicable diseases.(3) For the purposes of this section, "communicable disease" means a sexually transmitted disease, as defined in RCW 70.24.017, diseases caused by blood-borne pathogens, or any other illness caused by an infectious agent that can be transmitted from one person, animal, or object to another person by direct or indirect means including transmission via an intermediate host or vector, food, water, or air.[ 1997 c 345 § 5.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—1997 c 345: See note following RCW 70.24.340.
WA Rev Code § 70.48.500 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.48 - City and County Jails Act.|70.48.500 - Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Allowed in extraordinary circumstances.

RCW 70.48.500 Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Allowed in extraordinary circumstances.(1) Except in extraordinary circumstances no restraints of any kind may be used on any pregnant woman or youth incarcerated in a correctional facility or any facility covered by this chapter during transportation to and from visits to medical providers and court proceedings during the third trimester of her pregnancy, or during postpartum recovery. For purposes of this section, "extraordinary circumstances" exist where a corrections officer or employee of the correctional facility or any facility covered by this chapter makes an individualized determination that restraints are necessary to prevent an incarcerated pregnant woman or youth from escaping, or from injuring herself, medical or correctional personnel, or others. In the event the corrections officer or employee of the correctional facility or any facility covered by this chapter determines that extraordinary circumstances exist and restraints are used, the corrections officer or employee must fully document in writing the reasons that he or she determined such extraordinary circumstances existed such that restraints were used. As part of this documentation, the corrections officer or employee must also include the kind of restraints used and the reasons those restraints were considered the least restrictive available and the most reasonable under the circumstances.(2) While the pregnant woman or youth is in labor or in childbirth no restraints of any kind may be used. Nothing in this section affects the use of hospital restraints requested for the medical safety of a patient by treating physicians licensed under Title 18 RCW.(3) Anytime restraints are permitted to be used on a pregnant woman or youth, the restraints must be the least restrictive available and the most reasonable under the circumstances, but in no case shall leg irons or waist chains be used on any woman or youth known to be pregnant.(4) No correctional personnel or employee of the correctional facility or any facility covered by this chapter shall be present in the room during the pregnant woman's or youth's labor or childbirth, unless specifically requested by medical personnel. If the employee's presence is requested by medical personnel, the employee should be female, if practicable.(5) If the doctor, nurse, or other health professional treating the pregnant woman or youth requests that restraints not be used, the corrections officer or employee accompanying the pregnant woman or youth shall immediately remove all restraints.[ 2010 c 181 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 70.48.501 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.48 - City and County Jails Act.|70.48.501 - Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Provision of information to staff, women, or youth of childbearing age in custody.

RCW 70.48.501 Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Provision of information to staff, women, or youth of childbearing age in custody.(1) The jail administrator or his or her designee or chief law enforcement executive or his or her designee shall provide notice of the requirements of chapter 181, Laws of 2010 to the appropriate staff at a correctional facility or a facility covered by this chapter. Appropriate staff shall include all medical staff and staff who are involved in the transportation of pregnant women and youth as well as such other staff deemed appropriate.(2) The jail administrator or his or her designee or chief law enforcement executive or his or her designee shall cause the requirements of chapter 181, Laws of 2010 to be provided to all women and youth of childbearing age at intake. In addition, the jail administrator or his or her designee or chief law enforcement executive or his or her designee shall cause a notice containing the requirements of chapter 181, Laws of 2010 to be posted in locations in which medical care is provided within the facilities.[ 2010 c 181 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 70.48.502 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.48 - City and County Jails Act.|70.48.502 - Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Limited immunity from liability.

RCW 70.48.502 Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Limited immunity from liability.No civil liability may be imposed by any court on the county or its jail officers or employees under RCW 70.48.500 and 70.48.501 except upon proof of gross negligence.[ 2010 c 181 § 14.]
WA Rev Code § 70.48.520 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.48 - City and County Jails Act.|70.48.520 - Collaboration with managed care organizations.

RCW 70.48.520 Collaboration with managed care organizations.A department of corrections or chief law enforcement officer responsible for the operation of a jail shall make reasonable efforts to collaborate with managed care organizations, as defined in RCW 71.24.025, for the purposes of care coordination activities and improving health care delivery and release planning for persons confined in the jail.[ 2021 c 166 § 3.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—Conflict with federal requirements—2021 c 166: See notes following RCW 74.09.670.
WA Rev Code § 70.48.800 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.48 - City and County Jails Act.|70.48.800 - Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Informational packet.

RCW 70.48.800 Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Informational packet.The Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs, the department of corrections, the department of social and health services, juvenile rehabilitation administration, and the criminal justice training commission shall jointly develop an informational packet on the requirements of chapter 181, Laws of 2010. The packet shall be ready for distribution no later than September 1, 2010.[ 2010 c 181 § 13.]
WA Rev Code § 70.50.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.50 - State Otologist.|70.50.010 - Appointment—Salary.

RCW 70.50.010 Appointment—Salary.The secretary of health shall appoint and employ an otologist skilled in diagnosis of diseases of the ear and defects in hearing, especially for school children with an impaired sense of hearing, and shall fix the salary of such otologist in a sum not exceeding the salary of the secretary.[ 1991 c 3 § 340; 1979 c 141 § 108; 1945 c 23 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 6010-10.]
WA Rev Code § 70.50.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.50 - State Otologist.|70.50.020 - Duties.

RCW 70.50.020 Duties.The otologist shall cooperate with the state department of public instruction, and with the state, county, and city health officers, seeking for the children in the schools who are hard of hearing, or have an impaired sense of hearing, and making otological inspections and examinations of children referred to him or her by such departments and officers. Where necessary or proper, he or she shall make recommendations to parents or guardians of such children, and urge them to submit such recommendations to physicians to be selected by such parents or guardians.[ 2012 c 117 § 381; 1945 c 23 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 6010-11.]
WA Rev Code § 70.54.005 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.54 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions.|70.54.005 - Transfer of duties to the department of health.

RCW 70.54.005 Transfer of duties to the department of health.The powers and duties of the secretary of social and health services under this chapter shall be performed by the secretary of health.[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 § 250.]NOTES:Effective date—Severability—1989 1st ex.s. c 9: See RCW 43.70.910 and 43.70.920.
WA Rev Code § 70.54.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.54 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions.|70.54.010 - Polluting water supply—Penalty.

RCW 70.54.010 Polluting water supply—Penalty.Every person who shall deposit or suffer to be deposited in any spring, well, stream, river or lake, the water of which is or may be used for drinking purposes, or on any property owned, leased or otherwise controlled by any municipal corporation, corporation or person as a watershed or drainage basin for a public or private water system, any matter or thing whatever, dangerous or deleterious to health, or any matter or thing which may or could pollute the waters of such spring, well, stream, river, lake or water system, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.[ 1909 c 249 § 290; RRS § 2542.]
WA Rev Code § 70.54.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.54 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions.|70.54.020 - Furnishing impure water—Penalty.

RCW 70.54.020 Furnishing impure water—Penalty.Every owner, agent, manager, operator or other person having charge of any waterworks furnishing water for public or private use, who shall knowingly permit any act or omit any duty or precaution by reason whereof the purity or healthfulness of the water supplied shall become impaired, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.[ 1909 c 249 § 291; RRS § 2543.]
WA Rev Code § 70.54.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.54 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions.|70.54.030 - Pollution of watershed of city in adjoining state—Penalty.

RCW 70.54.030 Pollution of watershed of city in adjoining state—Penalty.Any person who shall place or cause to be placed within any watershed from which any city or municipal corporation of any adjoining state obtains its water supply, any substance which either by itself or in connection with other matter will corrupt, pollute or impair the quality of said water supply, or the owner of any dead animal who shall knowingly leave or cause to be left the carcass or any portion thereof within any such watershed in such condition as to in any way corrupt or pollute such water supply shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by fine in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.[ 1909 c 16 § 2; RRS § 9281.]
WA Rev Code § 70.54.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.54 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions.|70.54.040 - Secretary to advise local authorities on sanitation.

RCW 70.54.040 Secretary to advise local authorities on sanitation.The commissioners of any county or the mayor of any city may call upon the secretary of health for advice relative to improving sanitary conditions or disposing of garbage and sewage or obtaining a pure water supply, and when so called upon the secretary shall either personally or by an assistant make a careful examination into the conditions existing and shall make a full report containing his or her advice to the county or city making such request.[ 1991 c 3 § 341; 1979 c 141 § 109; 1909 c 208 § 3; RRS § 6006.]
WA Rev Code § 70.54.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.54 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions.|70.54.050 - Exposing contagious disease—Penalty.

RCW 70.54.050 Exposing contagious disease—Penalty.Every person who shall willfully expose himself or herself to another, or any animal affected with any contagious or infectious disease, in any public place or thoroughfare, except upon his or her or its necessary removal in a manner not dangerous to the public health; and every person so affected who shall expose any other person thereto without his or her knowledge, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.[ 2012 c 117 § 382; 1909 c 249 § 287; RRS § 2539.]
WA Rev Code § 70.54.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.54 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions.|70.54.060 - Ambulances and drivers.

RCW 70.54.060 Ambulances and drivers.(1) The drivers of all ambulances shall be required to take the advanced first aid course as prescribed by the American Red Cross.(2) All ambulances must be at all times equipped with first aid equipment consisting of leg and arm splints and standard twenty-four unit first aid kit as prescribed by the American Red Cross.[ 1945 c 65 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 6131-1. FORMER PART OF SECTION: 1945 c 65 § 2 now codified as RCW 70.54.060, part.]
WA Rev Code § 70.54.065 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.54 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions.|70.54.065 - Ambulances and drivers—Penalty.

RCW 70.54.065 Ambulances and drivers—Penalty.Any person violating any of the provisions herein shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.[ 1945 c 65 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 6131-2. Formerly RCW 70.54.060, part.]
WA Rev Code § 70.54.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.54 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions.|70.54.070 - Door of public buildings to swing outward—Penalty.

RCW 70.54.070 Door of public buildings to swing outward—Penalty.The doors of all theatres, opera houses, school buildings, churches, public halls, or places used for public entertainments, exhibitions or meetings, which are used exclusively or in part for admission to or egress from the same, or any part thereof, shall be so hung and arranged as to open outwardly, and during any exhibition, entertainment or meeting, shall be kept unlocked and unfastened, and in such condition that in case of danger or necessity, immediate escape from such building shall not be prevented or delayed; and every agent or lessee of any such building who shall rent the same or allow it to be used for any of the aforesaid public purposes without having the doors thereof hung and arranged as hereinbefore provided, shall, for each violation of any provision of this section, be guilty of a misdemeanor.[ 1909 c 249 § 273; RRS § 2525.]
WA Rev Code § 70.54.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.54 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions.|70.54.080 - Liability of person handling steamboat or steam boiler.

RCW 70.54.080 Liability of person handling steamboat or steam boiler.Every person who shall apply, or cause to be applied to a steam boiler a higher pressure of steam than is allowed by law, or by any inspector, officer or person authorized to limit the same; every captain or other person having charge of the machinery or boiler in a steamboat used for the conveyance of passengers on the waters of this state, who, from ignorance or gross neglect, or for the purpose of increasing the speed of such boat, shall create or cause to be created an undue or unsafe pressure of steam; and every engineer or other person having charge of a steam boiler, steam engine or other apparatus for generating or employing steam, who shall wilfully or from ignorance or gross neglect, create or allow to be created such an undue quantity of steam as to burst the boiler, engine or apparatus, or cause any other accident, whereby human life is endangered, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.[ 1909 c 249 § 280; RRS § 2532.]NOTES:Boilers and unfired pressure vessels: Chapter 70.79 RCW.Industrial safety and health: Chapter 43.22 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 70.54.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.54 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions.|70.54.090 - Attachment of objects to utility poles—Penalty.

RCW 70.54.090 Attachment of objects to utility poles—Penalty.(1) It shall be unlawful to attach to utility poles any of the following: Advertising signs, posters, vending machines, or any similar object which presents a hazard to, or endangers the lives of, electrical workers. Any attachment to utility poles shall only be made with the permission of the utility involved, and shall be placed not less than twelve feet above the surface of the ground.(2) A person violating this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.[ 2003 c 53 § 351; 1953 c 185 § 1.]NOTES:Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
WA Rev Code § 70.54.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.54 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions.|70.54.120 - Immunity from implied warranties and civil liability relating to blood, blood products, tissues, organs, or bones—Scope—Effective date.

RCW 70.54.120 Immunity from implied warranties and civil liability relating to blood, blood products, tissues, organs, or bones—Scope—Effective date.The procurement, processing, storage, distribution, administration, or use of whole blood, plasma, blood products and blood derivatives for the purpose of injecting or transfusing the same, or any of them, or of tissues, organs, or bones for the purpose of transplanting them, or any of them, into the human body is declared to be, for all purposes whatsoever, the rendition of a service by each and every person, firm, or corporation participating therein, and is declared not to be covered by any implied warranty under the Uniform Commercial Code, Title 62A RCW, or otherwise, and no civil liability shall be incurred as a result of any of such acts, except in the case of wilful or negligent conduct: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That this section shall apply only to liability alleged in the contraction of hepatitis, malaria, and acquired immune deficiency disease [immunodeficiency syndrome] and shall not apply to any transaction in which the donor receives compensation: PROVIDED FURTHER, That this section shall only apply where the person, firm or corporation rendering the above service shall have maintained records of donor suitability and donor identification: PROVIDED FURTHER, That nothing in this section shall be considered by the courts in determining or applying the law to any blood transfusion occurring before June 10, 1971 and the court shall decide such case as though this section had not been passed.[ 1987 c 84 § 1; 1985 c 321 § 1; 1971 c 56 § 1.]NOTES:Severability—1971 c 56: "If any provision of this act, or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act, or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 1971 c 56 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 70.54.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.54 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions.|70.54.130 - Laetrile—Legislative declaration.

RCW 70.54.130 Laetrile—Legislative declaration.It is the intent of the legislature that passage of RCW 70.54.130 through 70.54.150 shall not constitute any endorsement whatever of the efficacy of amygdalin (Laetrile) in the treatment of cancer, but represents only the legislature's endorsement of a patient's freedom of choice, so long as the patient has been given sufficient information in writing to make an informed decision regarding his/her treatment and the substance is not proven to be directly detrimental to health.[ 1977 ex.s. c 122 § 1.]