RCW 71.12.460
License to be obtained—Penalty.
No person, association, county, municipality, public hospital district, or corporation, shall establish or keep, for compensation or hire, an establishment as defined in this chapter without first having obtained a license therefor from the department of health, complied with rules adopted under this chapter, and paid the license fee provided in this chapter. Any person who carries on, conducts, or attempts to carry on or conduct an establishment as defined in this chapter without first having obtained a license from the department of health, as in this chapter provided, is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The managing and executive officers of any corporation violating the provisions of this chapter shall be liable under the provisions of this chapter in the same manner and to the same effect as a private individual violating the same.
[ 2001 c 254 § 2; 2000 c 93 § 22; 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 § 226; 1979 c 141 § 133; 1959 c 25 § 71.12.460. Prior: 1949 c 198 § 54; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 6953-53.]
NOTES:
Effective date—Severability—1989 1st ex.s. c 9: See RCW 43.70.910 and 43.70.920.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 71.12 - Private Establishments.
71.12.460 - License to be obtained—Penalty.
71.12.470 - License application—Fees.
71.12.485 - Fire protection—Duties of chief of the Washington state patrol.
71.12.490 - Expiration and renewal of license.
71.12.510 - Examination and visitation in general.
71.12.520 - Scope of examination.
71.12.530 - Conference with management—Improvement.
71.12.540 - Recommendations to be kept on file—Records of inmates.
71.12.550 - Local authorities may also prescribe standards.
71.12.560 - Voluntary patients—Receipt authorized—Application—Report.
71.12.570 - Communications by patients—Rights.
71.12.595 - Suspension of license—Noncompliance with support order—Reissuance.
71.12.640 - Prosecuting attorney shall prosecute violations.
71.12.670 - Licensing, operation, inspection—Adoption of rules.
71.12.680 - Pediatric transitional care services—Requirements.
71.12.682 - Pediatric transitional care services—Rules not considered new service category.
71.12.684 - Pediatric transitional care services—Rules, requirements.
71.12.688 - Pediatric transitional care services—Facilities not subject to construction review.
71.12.700 - Psychiatric hospitals—Technical assistance.
71.12.710 - Psychiatric hospitals—Noncompliance—Penalties.
71.12.720 - Psychiatric hospitals—Reporting.
71.12.730 - Psychiatric hospitals—Managed care organizations.
71.12.900 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.