Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 34.05 - Administrative Procedure Act.
34.05.479 - Emergency adjudicative proceedings.

RCW 34.05.479
Emergency adjudicative proceedings.

(1) Unless otherwise provided by law, an agency may use emergency adjudicative proceedings in a situation involving an immediate danger to the public health, safety, or welfare requiring immediate agency action.
(2) The agency may take only such action as is necessary to prevent or avoid the immediate danger to the public health, safety, or welfare that justifies use of emergency adjudication.
(3) The agency shall enter an order, including a brief statement of findings of fact, conclusions of law, and policy reasons for the decision if it is an exercise of the agency's discretion, to justify the determination of an immediate danger and the agency's decision to take the specific action.
(4) The agency shall give such notice as is practicable to persons who are required to comply with the order. The order is effective when entered.
(5) After entering an order under this section, the agency shall proceed as quickly as feasible to complete any proceedings that would be required if the matter did not involve an immediate danger.
(6) The agency record consists of any documents regarding the matter that were considered or prepared by the agency. The agency shall maintain these documents as its official record.
(7) Unless otherwise required by a provision of law, the agency record need not constitute the exclusive basis for agency action in emergency adjudicative proceedings or for judicial review thereof.
(8) This section shall not apply to agency action taken pursuant to a provision of law that expressly authorizes the agency to issue a cease and desist order. The agency may proceed, alternatively, under that independent authority.

[ 1988 c 288 § 424.]
NOTES:

Designation of persons for emergency adjudications by utilities and transportation commission: RCW 80.01.060.

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 34 - Administrative Law

Chapter 34.05 - Administrative Procedure Act.

34.05.001 - Legislative intent.

34.05.010 - Definitions.

34.05.020 - Savings—Authority of agencies to comply with chapter—Effect of subsequent legislation.

34.05.030 - Exclusions from chapter or parts of chapter.

34.05.040 - Operation of chapter if in conflict with federal law.

34.05.050 - Waiver.

34.05.060 - Informal settlements.

34.05.070 - Conversion of proceedings.

34.05.080 - Variation from time limits.

34.05.090 - Forest practices board—Emergency rules.

34.05.100 - Respectful language.

34.05.110 - Violations of state law or agency rule by small businesses—Notice requirements—Waiver of penalty for first-time paperwork violations.

34.05.120 - Extension of rights and responsibilities—State registered domestic partnerships.

34.05.210 - Code and register—Publication and distribution—Omissions, removals, revisions—Judicial notice.

34.05.220 - Rules for agency procedure—Indexes of opinions and statements.

34.05.230 - Interpretive and policy statements.

34.05.240 - Declaratory order by agency—Petition.

34.05.250 - Model rules of procedure.

34.05.260 - Electronic distribution.

34.05.270 - Agency websites for rule-making information.

34.05.271 - Department of fish and wildlife—Significant agency action—Identification and categorization of sources of information used.

34.05.272 - Department of ecology—Significant agency action—Identification and categorization of sources of information used.

34.05.310 - Prenotice inquiry—Negotiated and pilot rules.

34.05.312 - Rules coordinator.

34.05.313 - Feasibility studies—Pilot projects.

34.05.314 - Rules development agenda.

34.05.315 - Rule-making docket.

34.05.320 - Notice of proposed rule—Contents—Distribution by agency—Institutions of higher education.

34.05.322 - Scope of rule-making authority.

34.05.325 - Public participation—Concise explanatory statement.

34.05.328 - Significant legislative rules, other selected rules.

34.05.330 - Petition for adoption, amendment, repeal—Agency action—Appeal.

34.05.335 - Withdrawal of proposal—Time and manner of adoption.

34.05.340 - Variance between proposed and final rule.

34.05.345 - Failure to give twenty days notice of intended action—Effect.

34.05.350 - Emergency rules and amendments.

34.05.353 - Expedited rule making.

34.05.360 - Order adopting rule, contents.

34.05.362 - Postadoption notice.

34.05.365 - Incorporation by reference.

34.05.370 - Rule-making file.

34.05.375 - Substantial compliance with procedures.

34.05.380 - Filing with code reviser—Written record—Effective dates.

34.05.385 - Rules for rule making.

34.05.390 - Style, format, and numbering—Agency compliance.

34.05.395 - Format and style of amendatory and new sections—Failure to comply.

34.05.410 - Application of Part IV.

34.05.413 - Commencement—When required.

34.05.416 - Decision not to conduct an adjudication.

34.05.419 - Agency action on applications for adjudication.

34.05.422 - Rate changes, licenses.

34.05.425 - Presiding officers—Disqualification, substitution.

34.05.428 - Representation.

34.05.431 - Conference—Procedure and participation.

34.05.434 - Notice of hearing.

34.05.437 - Pleadings, briefs, motions, service.

34.05.440 - Default.

34.05.443 - Intervention.

34.05.446 - Subpoenas, discovery, and protective orders.

34.05.449 - Procedure at hearing.

34.05.452 - Rules of evidence—Cross-examination.

34.05.455 - Ex parte communications.

34.05.458 - Separation of functions.

34.05.461 - Entry of orders.

34.05.464 - Review of initial orders.

34.05.467 - Stay.

34.05.470 - Reconsideration.

34.05.473 - Effectiveness of orders.

34.05.476 - Agency record.

34.05.479 - Emergency adjudicative proceedings.

34.05.4791 - Secure community transition facility—Proceeding concerning public safety measures.

34.05.482 - Brief adjudicative proceedings—Applicability.

34.05.485 - Brief adjudicative proceedings—Procedure.

34.05.488 - Brief proceedings—Administrative review—Applicability.

34.05.491 - Brief proceedings—Administrative review—Procedures.

34.05.494 - Agency record in brief proceedings.

34.05.510 - Relationship between this chapter and other judicial review authority.

34.05.514 - Petition for review—Where filed.

34.05.518 - Direct review by court of appeals.

34.05.522 - Refusal of review by court of appeals.

34.05.526 - Appellate review by supreme court or court of appeals.

34.05.530 - Standing.

34.05.534 - Exhaustion of administrative remedies.

34.05.542 - Time for filing petition for review.

34.05.546 - Petition for review—Contents.

34.05.550 - Stay and other temporary remedies.

34.05.554 - Limitation on new issues.

34.05.558 - Judicial review of facts confined to record.

34.05.562 - New evidence taken by court or agency.

34.05.566 - Agency record for review—Costs.

34.05.570 - Judicial review.

34.05.574 - Type of relief.

34.05.578 - Petition by agency for enforcement.

34.05.582 - Petition by others for enforcement.

34.05.586 - Defenses, limitations on.

34.05.588 - Enforcement of agency subpoena.

34.05.590 - Incorporation of other judicial review provisions.

34.05.594 - Review by higher court.

34.05.598 - Frivolous petitions.

34.05.610 - Joint administrative rules review committee—Members—Appointment—Terms—Vacancies.

34.05.620 - Review of proposed rules—Notice.

34.05.630 - Review of existing rules—Policy and interpretive statements, etc.—Notice—Hearing.

34.05.640 - Committee objections to agency intended action—Statement in register and WAC—Suspension of rule.

34.05.650 - Recommendations by committee to legislature.

34.05.655 - Petition for review.

34.05.660 - Review and objection procedures—No presumption established.

34.05.665 - Submission of rule for review—State employees protected.

34.05.671 - Reports—Advisory boards—Staff.

34.05.675 - Inspection of properties—Oaths, subpoenas, witnesses, depositions.

34.05.681 - Enforcement—Committee subpoena—Refusal to testify.

34.05.900 - Captions and headings.

34.05.902 - Effective date—Application—1988 c 288.