RCW 72.01.150
Industrial activities.
The secretary shall:
(1) Establish, install and operate, at the several state institutions under his or her control, such industries and industrial plants as may be most suitable and beneficial to the inmates thereof, and as can be operated at the least relative cost and the greatest relative benefit to the state, taking into consideration the needs of the state institutions for industrial products, and the amount and character of labor of inmates available at the several institutions;
(2) Supply the several institutions with the necessary industrial products produced thereat;
(3) Exchange with, or furnish to, other state institutions industrial products at prices to be fixed by the department, not to exceed in any case the price of such products in the open market;
(4) Sell and dispose of surplus industrial products produced, to such persons and under such rules, regulations, terms, and prices as may be in his or her judgment for the best interest of the state;
(5) Sell products of the plate mill to any department, to any state, county, or other public institution and to any governmental agency, of this or any other state under such rules, regulations, terms, and prices as may be in his or her judgment for the best interests of the state.
[ 2012 c 117 § 446; 1979 c 141 § 150; 1959 c 28 § 72.01.150. Prior: 1955 c 195 § 4(12), (13), (14), (15), and (16); 1923 c 101 § 1; 1921 c 7 § 40; RRS § 10798. Formerly RCW 43.28.020, part.]
NOTES:
Correctional industries: Chapter 72.60 RCW.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 72.01 - Administration.
72.01.042 - Hours of labor for full time employees—Compensatory time—Premium pay.
72.01.043 - Hours of labor for full time employees—Certain personnel excepted.
72.01.045 - Assaults to employees—Reimbursement for costs.
72.01.060 - Chief executive officers—Appointment—Salaries—Assistants.
72.01.090 - Rules and regulations.
72.01.110 - Construction or repair of buildings—Contracts or inmate labor.
72.01.120 - Construction or repair of buildings—Award of contracts.
72.01.130 - Destruction of buildings—Reconstruction.
72.01.140 - Agricultural and farm activities.
72.01.150 - Industrial activities.
72.01.180 - Dietitian—Duties—Travel expenses.
72.01.200 - Employment of teachers—Exceptions.
72.01.210 - Institutional religious coordinators—Appointment—Qualifications.
72.01.220 - Institutional religious coordinators—Duties.
72.01.230 - Institutional religious coordinators—Offices, chapels, supplies.
72.01.240 - Supervisor of religious coordinators.
72.01.260 - Outside ministers not excluded.
72.01.270 - Gifts, acceptance of.
72.01.280 - Quarters for personnel—Charges.
72.01.282 - Quarters for personnel—Deposit of receipts.
72.01.290 - Record of patients and inmates.
72.01.300 - Accounting systems.
72.01.310 - Political influence forbidden.
72.01.320 - Examination of conditions and needs—Report.
72.01.365 - Escorted leaves of absence for inmates—Definitions.
72.01.370 - Escorted leaves of absence for inmates—Grounds.
72.01.375 - Escorted leaves of absence for inmates—Notification of local law enforcement agencies.
72.01.380 - Leaves of absence for inmates—Rules—Restrictions—Costs.
72.01.415 - Offender under eighteen confined to a jail—Segregation from adult offenders.
72.01.430 - Transfer of equipment, supplies, livestock between institutions—Notice—Conditions.
72.01.900 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.