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The '''Code Reviser''' is
==History==
===Establishment===
In the first half-century of statehood, there was no official compilation of the laws of the state. Two private publishers independently compiled and published statutes enacted by the Washington state legislature into bound volumes: Remington Revised Statutes and Pierce's Perpetual Code. In 1951 the legislature enacted a common numbering system for the state's laws and published an official codex known as the [[Revised Code of Washington]] (RCW). The publication of the RCW was accompanied by the creation of the office of Code Reviser.<ref name="oral">{{cite book |last=Anne |first=Kilgannon
===List of Code Revisers===
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|Richard White<ref name="oral"
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|[[Hastings College of Law]]
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|Dennis Cooper<ref name="st" />
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|K. Kyle Thiessen<ref name="
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|Kathleen Buchli<ref>{{Cite web|title=Washington State Legislature Contact Us|url=http://leg.wa.gov/legislature/Pages/ContactUs.aspx|website=leg.wa.gov|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref>
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==Duties and office==
[[File:Washington_State_Register.png|thumb|left|The Code Reviser appoints the editor of the "Washington State Register," the government gazette.]]
The office of the Code Reviser is established in the [[Revised Code of Washington]].
The Code Reviser is authorized to make minor style revisions to the laws of Washington as they are enacted by the legislature (for example, changing the words "effective date of this act" to an actual calendar date), correct obvious errors in laws enacted by the legislature such as incorrect citations and references, number and publish the Revised Code of Washington, and provide bill drafting advise to members of the legislature. The Code Reviser also appoints the editor of the ''Washington State Register'', the state's [[government gazette]]. ▼
▲The Code Reviser is authorized to make minor style revisions to the laws of Washington as they are enacted by the legislature (for example, changing the words "effective date of this act" to an actual calendar date), correct obvious errors in laws enacted by the legislature such as incorrect citations and references, number and publish the Revised Code of Washington, and provide bill drafting
The Code Reviser employs a professional staff of approximately 40 persons that operate out of the Joel M. Pritchard Building in [[Olympia, Washington]].<Ref>{{cite news |last=Myers |first=Laura |date=22 April 2013 |title="Penmanship" is now 'handwriting' as Washington state removes gender bias in statutes |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-04-22/news/sns-rt-us-usa-gender-neutralbre93m00v-20130422_1_gender-bias-governor-jay-inslee-washington-state |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |___location=Chicago, Illinois |accessdate= }}</ref><Ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leg.wa.gov/CodeReviser/Pages/contact_code_reviser.aspx |title=Contact the Code Reviser's Office |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |website=leg.wa.gov |publisher=Office of the Code Reviser |accessdate=17 September 2014}} </ref> As of 2003 he was paid an annual salary of $104,400. <Ref name="st">{{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Ralph |date=26 January 2013 |title=State's retire-rehire rules being stretched |url=http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20030126&slug=rehire26m0 |newspaper=[[Seattle Times]] |___location= |accessdate=19 September 2014}}</ref>▼
▲The Code Reviser employs a professional staff of approximately 40 persons
==See also==
* [[Law of Washington (state)]]
==References==
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