Washington § 47.01.031 - Department created — Transfer of powers, duties, and functions.

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§ 47.01.031. Department created — Transfer of powers, duties, and functions.

(1) There is created a department of state government to be known as the department of transportation.
(2) All powers, duties, and functions vested by law in the department of highways, the state highway commission, the director of highways, the Washington toll bridge authority, the aeronautics commission, the director of aeronautics, and the canal commission, and the transportation related powers, duties, and functions of the *planning and community affairs agency, are transferred to the jurisdiction of the department, except those powers, duties, and functions which are expressly directed elsewhere in **this or in any other act of the 1977 legislature.
(3) The board of pilotage commissioners is transferred to the jurisdiction of the department for its staff support and administration: PROVIDED, That nothing in this section shall be construed as transferring any policy making powers of the board of pilotage commissioners to the transportation commission or the department of transportation.
[ 1988 c 167 s 11; 1977 ex.s. c 151 s 3.]

Notes

Reviser's note: *(1) The "planning and community affairs agency" has been renamed the "department of community, trade, and economic development." The "department of community, trade, and economic development" was renamed the "department of commerce" by 2009 c 565.
**(2) For codification of "this . . . . act" [1977 ex.s. c 151], see Codification Tables.
Savings—Severability—1988 c 167: See notes following RCW 47.26.121.

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