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Wash. Rev. Code § 2.48.010 (2026)

Objects and powers

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There is hereby created as an agency of the state, for the purpose and with the powers hereinafter set forth, an association to be known as the Washington State Bar Association, hereinafter designated as the state bar, which association shall have a common seal and may sue and be sued, and which may, for the purpose of carrying into effect and promoting the objects of said association, enter into contracts and acquire, hold, encumber and dispose of such real and personal property as is necessary thereto.
[ 1933 c 94 s 2; RRS s 138-2.]

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Severability—1933 c 94: "If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this act or any rule adopted thereunder, is for any reason held unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this act nor of any other rule adopted hereunder. The legislature hereby declares that it would have passed this act, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional." [ 1933 c 94 s 17.]
Short title—1933 c 94: "This act may be known and cited as the State Bar Act." [ 1933 c 94 s 1.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1972–2021 · leading case: Graham v. Bar Ass'n, 548 P.2d 310 (Wash. 1976).
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Graham v. Bar Ass'n, 548 P.2d 310 (Wash. 1976). · cites it 4× “[1] The critical inquiry is whether the bar association is a "state department" or "agency" within the meaning of the statutes. Petitioner treats as determinative the characterization of the Washington State Bar Association as "an agency of the state" in the State Bar Act of…”
Beauregard v. Wash. State Bar Ass'n, 480 P.3d 410 (Wash. 2021). · cites it 4× “” The OPMA defines “public agency” as “[a]ny state board, commission, committee, department, educational institution, or other state agency which is 2 RCW 2.48.010. 7 Beauregard v. WSBA, No. 97249-4 created by or pursuant to statute, other than courts and the legislature.”
In Re Schatz, 497 P.2d 153 (Wash. 1972). · cites it 6× “RCW 2.48.010. The bar's authority, while adequate to accomplish the purpose, is by necessity limited and narrow, for it is to be exercised only "for the purpose and with the powers .”
Washington State Bar Ass'n v. Great W. Union Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass'n, 586 P.2d 870 (Wash. 1978). · cites it 2× “On the basis of these facts, we must determine whether the status of Great Western in performing these services warrants the determination that such practice of law was authorized.”
State Ex Rel. Schwab v. Washington State Bar Ass'n, 493 P.2d 1237 (Wash. 1972). · cites it 4× “RCW 2.48.010 reads: There is hereby created as an agency of the state, for the purpose and with the powers hereinafter set forth, an association to be known as the Washington State Bar Association, hereinafter designated as the state bar, *274 which association shall have a…”
Dodd v. Bannister, 543 P.2d 237 (Wash. 1975). “A Local Administrative Committee appointed by the Bar Association’s Board of Governors, as an arm of a public agency, must operate in accordance with the above rules of agency applicable to public, rather than private, bodies.”
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