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77.15.020 - Authority to define violation of rule as infraction.

Authority to define violation of rule as infraction.

If the commission or director has authority to adopt a rule that is punishable as a crime under this chapter, then the commission or director may provide that violation of the rule shall be punished with notice of infraction under RCW 7.84.030. Neither the commission nor the director have the authority to adopt a rule providing that a violation punishable as an infraction shall be a crime.

[2005 c 321 § 2; 1998 c 190 § 3.]