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WA Rev Code § 70.42.180 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.42 - Medical Test Sites.|70.42.180 - Operating without a license—Injunctions or other remedies—Penalty.

RCW 70.42.180 Operating without a license—Injunctions or other remedies—Penalty.Notwithstanding the existence or use of any other remedy, the department may, in the manner provided by law and upon the advice of the attorney general, who shall represent the department in the proceedings, maintain an action in the name of the state for an injunction or other process against any person to restrain or prevent the advertising, operating, maintaining, managing, or opening of a test site without a license under this chapter. It is a misdemeanor to own, operate, or maintain a test site without a license.[ 1989 c 386 § 19.]
WA Rev Code § 70.42.190 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.42 - Medical Test Sites.|70.42.190 - Petition of superior court for review of disciplinary action.

RCW 70.42.190 Petition of superior court for review of disciplinary action.Any test site which has had a denial, condition, suspension, or revocation of its license, or a civil monetary penalty upheld after administrative review under chapter 34.05 RCW, may, within sixty days of the administrative determination, petition the superior court for review of the decision.[ 1989 c 386 § 20.]
WA Rev Code § 70.42.200 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.42 - Medical Test Sites.|70.42.200 - Persons who may not own or operate test site.

RCW 70.42.200 Persons who may not own or operate test site.No person who has owned or operated a test site that has had its license revoked may own or operate a test site within two years of the final adjudication of a license revocation.[ 1989 c 386 § 21.]
WA Rev Code § 70.42.210 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.42 - Medical Test Sites.|70.42.210 - Confidentiality of certain information.

RCW 70.42.210 Confidentiality of certain information.All information received by the department through filed reports, audits, or on-site reviews, as authorized under this chapter shall not be disclosed publicly in any manner that would identify persons who have specimens of material from their bodies at a test site, absent a written release from the person, or a court order.[ 1989 c 386 § 22.]
WA Rev Code § 70.42.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.42 - Medical Test Sites.|70.42.220 - Rules.

RCW 70.42.220 Rules.The department shall adopt rules under chapter 34.05 RCW necessary to implement the purposes of this chapter.[ 1989 c 386 § 23.]
WA Rev Code § 70.42.900 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.42 - Medical Test Sites.|70.42.900 - Effective dates—1989 c 386.

RCW 70.42.900 Effective dates—1989 c 386.(1) RCW 70.42.005 through 70.42.210 shall take effect July 1, 1990.(2) RCW 70.42.220 is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1989.[ 1989 c 386 § 25.]
WA Rev Code § 70.43.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.43 - Hospital Staff Membership or Privileges.|70.43.010 - Applications for membership or privileges—Standards and procedures.

RCW 70.43.010 Applications for membership or privileges—Standards and procedures.Within one hundred eighty days of June 11, 1986, the governing body of every hospital licensed under chapter 70.41 RCW shall set standards and procedures to be applied by the hospital and its medical staff in considering and acting upon applications for staff membership or professional privileges.[ 1986 c 205 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 70.43.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.43 - Hospital Staff Membership or Privileges.|70.43.020 - Applications for membership or privileges—Discrimination based on type of license prohibited—Exception.

RCW 70.43.020 Applications for membership or privileges—Discrimination based on type of license prohibited—Exception.The governing body of any hospital, except any hospital which employs its medical staff, in considering and acting upon applications for staff membership or professional privileges within the scope of the applicants' respective licenses, shall not discriminate against a qualified person solely on the basis of whether such person is licensed under chapters 18.71, 18.57, or 18.22 RCW.[ 1986 c 205 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 70.43.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.43 - Hospital Staff Membership or Privileges.|70.43.030 - Violations of RCW 70.43.010 or 70.43.020—Injunctive relief.

RCW 70.43.030 Violations of RCW 70.43.010 or 70.43.020—Injunctive relief.Any person may apply to superior court for a preliminary or permanent injunction restraining a violation of RCW 70.43.010 or 70.43.020. This action is an additional remedy not dependent on the adequacy of the remedy at law. Nothing in this chapter shall require a hospital to grant staff membership or professional privileges until a final determination is made upon the merits by the hospital governing body.[ 1986 c 205 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 70.44.003 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.44 - Public Hospital Districts.|70.44.003 - Purpose.

RCW 70.44.003 Purpose.The purpose of chapter 70.44 RCW is to authorize the establishment of public hospital districts to own and operate hospitals and other health care facilities and to provide hospital services and other health care services for the residents of such districts and other persons.[ 1982 c 84 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 70.44.007 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.44 - Public Hospital Districts.|70.44.007 - Definitions.

RCW 70.44.007 Definitions.As used in this chapter, the following words have the meanings indicated:(1) "Other health care facilities" means nursing home, extended care, long-term care, outpatient, and rehabilitative facilities; ambulances; facilities that promote health, wellness, and prevention of illness and injury; and such other facilities as are appropriate to the health and wellness needs of the population served.(2) "Other health care services" means nursing home, extended care, long-term care, outpatient, rehabilitative, and ambulance services; services that promote health, wellness, and prevention of illness and injury; and such other services as are appropriate to the health needs of the population served.(3) "Public hospital district" or "district" means public health care service district.[ 2018 c 134 § 1; 1997 c 332 § 15; 1982 c 84 § 12; 1974 ex.s. c 165 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 70.44.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.44 - Public Hospital Districts.|70.44.010 - Districts authorized.

RCW 70.44.010 Districts authorized.Municipal corporations, to be known as public hospital districts, are hereby authorized and may be established within the several counties of the state as hereinafter provided.[ 1947 c 225 § 1; 1945 c 264 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 6090-31. FORMER PART OF SECTION: 1945 c 264 § 1 now codified as RCW 70.44.005.]
WA Rev Code § 70.44.015 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.44 - Public Hospital Districts.|70.44.015 - Validation of existing districts.

RCW 70.44.015 Validation of existing districts.Each and all of the respective areas of land heretofore attempted to be organized into public hospital districts under the provisions of this chapter are validated and declared to be duly existing hospital districts having the respective boundaries set forth in their organization proceedings as shown by the files in the office of the board of county commissioners of the county in question, and by the files of such districts.[ 1955 c 135 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 70.44.016 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.44 - Public Hospital Districts.|70.44.016 - Validation of districts.

RCW 70.44.016 Validation of districts.Each and all of the respective areas of land attempted to be organized into public hospital districts prior to June 10, 1982, under the provisions of chapter 70.44 RCW where the canvass of the election on the proposition of creating a public hospital district shows the passage of the proposition are validated and declared to be duly existing public hospital districts having the respective boundaries set forth in their organization proceedings as shown by the files in the office of the legislative authority of the county in question, and by the files of such districts.[ 1982 c 84 § 10.]
WA Rev Code § 70.44.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.44 - Public Hospital Districts.|70.44.020 - Resolution—Petition for countywide district—Conduct of elections.

RCW 70.44.020 Resolution—Petition for countywide district—Conduct of elections.At any general election or at any special election which may be called for that purpose, the county legislative authority of a county may, or on petition of ten percent of the registered voters of the county based on the total vote cast in the last general county election, shall, by resolution, submit to the voters of the county the proposition of creating a public hospital district coextensive with the limits of the county. The petition shall be filed with the county auditor, who shall within fifteen days examine the signatures thereon and certify to the sufficiency thereof, and for that purpose the auditor shall have access to all registration books in the possession of election officers in the county. If the petition is found to be insufficient, it shall be returned to the persons filing it, who may amend or add names thereto for ten days, when it shall be returned to the auditor, who shall have an additional fifteen days to examine it and attach the certificate thereto. No person signing the petition may withdraw his or her name therefrom after filing. When the petition is certified as sufficient, the auditor shall forthwith transmit it, together with the certificate of sufficiency attached thereto, to the county legislative authority, who shall immediately transmit the proposition to the supervisor of elections or other election officer of the county, and he or she shall submit the proposition to the voters at the next general election or if such petition so requests, shall call a special election on such proposition in accordance with RCW 29A.04.321 and 29A.04.330. The notice of the election shall state the boundaries of the proposed district and the object of the election, and shall in other respects conform to the requirements of law governing the time and manner of holding elections. In submitting the question to the voters, the proposition shall be expressed on the ballot substantially in the following terms:For public hospital district No. . . . .Against public hospital district No. . . . .[ 2012 c 117 § 378; 1990 c 259 § 38; 1955 c 135 § 1; 1945 c 264 § 3; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 6090-32.]
WA Rev Code § 70.44.028 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.44 - Public Hospital Districts.|70.44.028 - Limitation on legal challenges.

RCW 70.44.028 Limitation on legal challenges.Unless commenced within thirty days after the date of the filing of the certificate of the canvass of an election on the proposition of creating a new public hospital district pursuant to chapter 70.44 RCW, no lawsuit whatever may be maintained challenging in any way the legal existence of such district or the validity of the proceedings had for the organization and creation thereof. If the creation of a district is not challenged within the period specified in this section, the district conclusively shall be deemed duly and regularly organized under the laws of this state.[ 1982 c 84 § 9.]
WA Rev Code § 70.44.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.44 - Public Hospital Districts.|70.44.030 - Petition for lesser district—Procedure.

RCW 70.44.030 Petition for lesser district—Procedure.Any petition for the formation of a public hospital district may describe a less area than the entire county in which the petition is filed, the boundaries of which shall follow the then existing precinct boundaries and not divide any voting precinct; and in the event that such a petition is filed containing not less than ten percent of the voters of the proposed district who voted at the last general election, certified by the auditor in like manner as for a countywide district, the board of county commissioners shall fix a date for a hearing on such petition, and shall publish the petition, without the signatures thereto appended, for two weeks prior to the date of the hearing, together with a notice stating the time of the meeting when such petition will be heard. Such publications required by this chapter shall be in a newspaper published in the proposed or established public hospital district, or, if there be no such newspaper, then in a newspaper published in the county in which such district is situated, and of general circulation in such county. The hearing on such petition may be adjourned from time to time, not exceeding four weeks in all. If upon the final hearing the board of county commissioners shall find that any lands have been unjustly or improperly included within the proposed public hospital district the said board shall change and fix the boundary lines in such manner as it shall deem reasonable and just and conducive to the welfare and convenience, and make and enter an order establishing and defining the boundary lines of the proposed public hospital district: PROVIDED, That no lands shall be included within the boundaries so fixed lying outside the boundaries described in the petition, except upon the written request of the owners of such lands. Thereafter the same procedure shall be followed as prescribed in this chapter for the formation of a public hospital district including an entire county, except that the petition and election shall be confined solely to the lesser public hospital district.[ 1945 c 264 § 4; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 6090-33.]
WA Rev Code § 70.44.035 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.44 - Public Hospital Districts.|70.44.035 - Petition for district lying in more than one county—Procedure.

RCW 70.44.035 Petition for district lying in more than one county—Procedure.Any petition for the formation of a public hospital district may describe an area lying in more than one county, the boundaries of which shall follow the then existing precinct boundaries and not divide a voting precinct; and if a petition is filed with the county auditor of the respective counties in which a portion of the proposed district is located, containing not less than ten percent of the voters of that area of each county of the proposed district who voted at the last general election, certified by the said respective auditors in like manner as for a countywide district, the board of county commissioners of each of the counties in which a portion of the proposed district is located shall fix a date for a hearing on the petition, and shall publish the petition, without the signatures thereto appended, for two weeks prior to the hearing, together with a notice stating the time of the meeting when the petition will be heard. The publication required by this chapter shall be in a newspaper published in the portion of each county lying within the proposed district, or if there be no such newspaper published in any such portion of a county, then in one published in the county wherein such portion of said district is situated, and of general circulation in the county. The hearing before the respective county commissioners may be adjourned from time to time not exceeding four weeks in all. If upon the final hearing the respective boards of county commissioners find that any land has been unjustly or improperly included within the proposed district they may change and fix the boundary lines of the portion of said district located within their respective counties in such manner as they deem reasonable and just and conducive to the welfare and convenience, and enter an order establishing and defining the boundary lines of the proposed district located within their respective counties: PROVIDED, That no lands shall be included within the boundaries so fixed lying outside the boundaries described in the petition, except upon the written request of the owners of the land to be so included. Thereafter the same procedure shall be followed as prescribed for the formation of a district including an entire county, except that the petition and election shall be confined solely to the portions of each county lying within the proposed district.[ 1953 c 267 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 70.44.041 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.44 - Public Hospital Districts.|70.44.041 - Validity of appointment or election of commissioners—Compliance with 1994 c 223.

RCW 70.44.041 Validity of appointment or election of commissioners—Compliance with 1994 c 223.No appointment to fill a vacant position on or election to the board of commissioners of any public hospital district made after June 9, 1994, and before April 21, 1997, is deemed to be invalid solely due to the public hospital district's failure to redraw its commissioner district boundaries if necessary to comply with chapter 223, Laws of 1994.[ 1997 c 99 § 7.]NOTES:Effective date—1997 c 99: See note following RCW 70.44.040.
WA Rev Code § 70.44.042 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.44 - Public Hospital Districts.|70.44.042 - Commissioner districts—Resolution to abolish—Proposition to reestablish.

RCW 70.44.042 Commissioner districts—Resolution to abolish—Proposition to reestablish.Notwithstanding any provision in RCW 70.44.040 to the contrary, any board of public hospital district commissioners may, by resolution, abolish commissioner districts and permit candidates for any position on the board to reside anywhere in the public hospital district.At any general or special election which may be called for that purpose, the board of public hospital district commissioners may, or on petition of ten percent of the voters based on the total vote cast in the last district general election in the public hospital district shall, by resolution, submit to the voters of the district the proposition to reestablish commissioner districts.[ 1997 c 99 § 2; 1967 c 227 § 2.]NOTES:Effective date—1997 c 99: See note following RCW 70.44.040.
WA Rev Code § 70.44.045 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.44 - Public Hospital Districts.|70.44.045 - Commissioners—Vacancies.

RCW 70.44.045 Commissioners—Vacancies.A vacancy in the office of commissioner shall occur as provided in chapter 42.12 RCW or by nonattendance at meetings of the commission for sixty days, unless excused by the commission. A vacancy shall be filled as provided in chapter 42.12 RCW.[ 1994 c 223 § 79; 1982 c 84 § 13; 1955 c 82 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 70.44.047 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.44 - Public Hospital Districts.|70.44.047 - Redrawn boundaries—Assignment of commissioners to districts.

RCW 70.44.047 Redrawn boundaries—Assignment of commissioners to districts.If, as the result of redrawing the boundaries of commissioner districts as permitted or required under the provisions of this chapter, chapter 29A.76 RCW, or any other statute, more than the correct number of commissioners who are associated with commissioner districts reside in the same commissioner district, a commissioner or commissioners residing in that redrawn commissioner district equal in number to the number of commissioners in excess of the correct number shall be assigned to the drawn commissioner district or districts in which less than the correct number of commissioners associated with commissioner districts reside. The commissioner or commissioners who are so assigned shall be those with the shortest unexpired term or terms of office, but if the number of such commissioners with the same terms of office exceeds the number that are to be assigned, the board of commissioners shall select by lot from those commissioners which one or ones are assigned. A commissioner who is so assigned shall be deemed to be a resident of the commissioner district to which he or she is assigned for purposes of determining whether a position is vacant.[ 2015 c 53 § 93; 1997 c 99 § 6.]NOTES:Effective date—1997 c 99: See note following RCW 70.44.040.
WA Rev Code § 70.44.053 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.44 - Public Hospital Districts.|70.44.053 - Increase in number of commissioners—Proposition to voters.

RCW 70.44.053 Increase in number of commissioners—Proposition to voters.At any general or special election which may be called for that purpose the board of public hospital district commissioners may, or on petition of ten percent of the voters based on the total vote cast in the last district general election in the public hospital district shall, by resolution, submit to the voters of the district the proposition increasing the number of commissioners to either five or seven members. The petition or resolution shall specify whether it is proposed to increase the number of commissioners to either five or seven members.[ 1997 c 99 § 3; 1994 c 223 § 80; 1967 c 77 § 2.]NOTES:Effective date—1997 c 99: See note following RCW 70.44.040.
WA Rev Code § 70.44.054 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.44 - Public Hospital Districts.|70.44.054 - Increase in number of commissioners—Commissioner districts.

RCW 70.44.054 Increase in number of commissioners—Commissioner districts.If the voters of the district approve the ballot proposition authorizing the increase in the number of commissioners to either five or seven members, the additional commissioners shall be elected at large from the entire district; provided that, the board of commissioners of the district may by resolution redistrict the public hospital district into five commissioner districts if the district has five commissioners or seven commissioner districts if the district has seven commissioners. The board of commissioners shall draw the boundaries of each commissioner district to include as nearly as possible equal portions of the total population of the public hospital district.If the board of commissioners increases the number of commissioner districts as provided in this section, one commissioner shall be elected from each commissioner district, and no commissioner may be elected from a commissioner district in which another commissioner resides.[ 1997 c 99 § 4.]NOTES:Effective date—1997 c 99: See note following RCW 70.44.040.