Court Opinion

ID: 9575882
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:18:13.117164+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:48:21.421306
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Morgan, J.
(dissenting) — I respectfully dissent. "The power and authority of an administrative agency is limited to that which is expressly granted by statute or necessarily implied therein." (Italics mine.) McGuire v. State, 58 Wn. App. 195, 198, 791 P.2d 829, review denied, 115 Wn.2d 1021 (1990), cert. denied, 499 U.S. 906, 113 L. Ed. 2d 216, 111 S. *878Ct. 1107 (1991); see also Burlington Northern, Inc. v. Johnston, 89 Wn.2d 321, 326, 572 P.2d 1085 (1977); Lejeune v. Clallam Cy., 64 Wn. App. 257, 270-72, 823 P.2d 1144, review denied, 119 Wn.2d 1005 (1992). In my view, the statutes that authorize the Department of Licensing to license the citizenry for real estate and other activities impliedly grant to the Department the power to require disclosure of a prospective licensee's name, home address and telephone number, as well as the power to withhold renewal of a license pending receipt of that information.
After modification, further reconsideration denied February 11, 1993.
Review granted at 121 Wn.2d 1028 (1993).