Revised Code of Washington
Wash. Rev. Code § 36.01.020 (2026)
Corporate name
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The name of a county, designated by law, is its corporate name, and it must be known and designated thereby in all actions and proceedings touching its corporate rights, property, and duties.
[ 1963 c 4 s 36.01.020. Prior: Code 1881 s 2654; RRS s 3983.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases, 1986–1990 · leading case: Nolan v. Snohomish Cnty., 802 P.2d 792 (Wash. Ct. App. 1990).
Nolan v. Snohomish Cnty., 802 P.2d 792 (Wash. Ct. App. 1990). “010 provides: The several counties in this state shall have capacity as bodies corporate, to sue and be sued in the manner prescribed by law; to purchase and hold lands; to make such contracts, and to purchase and hold such personal property, as may be necessary to their…”
Foothills Dev. Co. v. Clark Cnty. Bd. of Cnty. Commissioners, 730 P.2d 1369 (Wash. Ct. App. 1986). “RCW 36.01.020 provides that the County itself, not its Board of County Commissioners, "must be" designated in any action "touching its corporate rights, property, and duties.”
Culpepper v. Snohomish Cnty. Dep't of Plan., 796 P.2d 1285 (Wash. Ct. App. 1990). “*169 RCW 36.01.020. There appears to be no dispute between the parties that CDD is not a natural or artificial person, capable of being sued.”
FOOTHILLS DEV. v. Commissioners, 730 P.2d 1369 (Wash. Ct. App. 1986). “RCW 36.01.020 provides that the County itself, not its Board of County Commissioners, "must be" designated in any action "touching its corporate rights, property, and duties.”
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