Court Opinion

ID: 9589977
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:50:42.309221+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:04:56.211207
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*904Stafford, J.
(concurring) — Fair notice of proscribed criminal conduct is not involved in the instant case. Rather, the question is whether the legislature, having defined the crime and set the penalty for noncompliance with a permit, may delegate to an administrative agency the power to designate the conditions of that permit. In the instant case we have held the legislature did not exceed its power.
It is conceivable some of the language in In re Powell, 92 Wn.2d 882, 602 P.2d 711 (1979), which in turn cites State v. Jordan, 91 Wn.2d 386, 588 P.2d 1115 (1979) and State v. Dougall, 89 Wn.2d 118, 570 P.2d 135 (1977), might cause one to misread the instant majority opinion. Primarily Dougall is concerned with the requisites of providing proper "notice" of proscribed criminal conduct. Jordan deals with the requisite of providing "fair notice" of proscribed criminal conduct and the need to clearly designate those agencies to which authority has been delegated. Essentially Powell, Jordan and Dougall are "notice" cases. They are not concerned with the legislature's power to delegate authority to administrative agencies or the extent of that power.
Brachtenbach, J., concurs with Stafford, J.