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Wash. Rev. Code § 51.52.020 (2026)

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The board may make rules and regulations concerning its functions and procedure, which shall have the force and effect of law until altered, repealed, or set aside by the board: PROVIDED, That the board may not delegate to any other person its duties of interpreting the testimony and making the final decision and order on appeal cases. All rules and regulations adopted by the board shall be printed and copies thereof shall be readily available to the public.
[ 1961 c 23 s 51.52.020. Prior: 1951 c 225 s 2; prior: 1949 c 219 s 3, part; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 10837-2, part.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 12 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1960–2021 · leading case: Vasquez v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 722 P.2d 854 (Wash. Ct. App. 1986).
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Vasquez v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 722 P.2d 854 (Wash. Ct. App. 1986). · cites it 2× “NOTES [1] WAC 263-12-175, authorized by RCW 51.52.020, provides that time shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last, unless the last day is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal state holiday, and then it is excluded and the next succeeding business day…”
Rosales v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 700 P.2d 748 (Wash. Ct. App. 1985). · cites it 2× “RCW 51.52.020 states, in part: The board may make rules and regulations concerning its functions and procedure, which shall have the force and effect of law until altered, repealed, or set aside by the board .”
Kaiser Aluminum & Chem. Corp. v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 854 P.2d 611 (Wash. 1993). “The basic administration of the Act is performed by the Department, whereas the function of the Board is to hear appeals, as an independent tribunal, from decisions made by the Department.”
Dep't of Labor & Indus. v. Moser, 665 P.2d 926 (Wash. Ct. App. 1983). “2d 843 (1982) (citing RCW 51.52.020); accord, Martinez v. Department of Labor & Indus.”
Dep't of Labor & Indus. v. Rowley, 340 P.3d 929 (Wash. Ct. App. 2014). “RCW 51.52.020. No. 7099, 1958 WL 56109 , 1958 WA Wrk.”
Dep't of Labor & Indus. v. Tacoma Yellow Cab Co., 639 P.2d 843 (Wash. Ct. App. 1982). · cites it 3× “[1] Thus, in the case at bench, when the department's admittedly statutorily late petition to review the examiner's order came before the board, the board had two alternative courses of action: (1) it could have resolved the matter by asserting (as provided by RCW 51.”
Watt v. Weyerhaeuser Co., 573 P.2d 1320 (Wash. Ct. App. 1977). “Additionally, no other section of the workmen's compensation act specifically confers this right upon the Board. Mr. Watt's absence on January 24, 1975, could therefore not have been fatal to his appeal.”
Liljeblom v. Dep't of Labor & Indus., 356 P.2d 307 (Wash. 1960). · cites it 2× “" *143 RCW 51.52.020 grants to the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals the power to make its own procedural rules.”
Lowry v. Bd. of Indus. Ins. Appeals, 684 P.2d 678 (Wash. 1984). “RCW 51.52.020. Pursuant to this authority, in 1972, the Board enacted WAC 263-12-020(1)(c) which permitted lay representation of parties at all conferences and hearings before the Board, so long as such representatives were employed by a union or employer specifically to handle…”
Joshua Peterson v. Wa State Dept. Labor & Indus. (Wash. Ct. App. 2021). “We disagree and hold that 13 No. 53885-7-II the Board was authorized to consider conclusion of law 6 because the conclusion was an issue Peterson raised in his petition.”
Derek J. Young v. Dept. Of L & I (Wash. Ct. App. 2014). “219, § 3; RCW 51.52.020. In an exercise of that power, the BIIA adopted WAC 263-12-125, which states, "Insofar as applicable, and not in conflict with these rules, the statutes and rules regarding procedures in civil cases in the superior courts of this state shall be followed.”
Dep't Of Labor & Indus. v. App./cross-resp. v. Bart A. Rowley, Resp/cross-app. (Wash. Ct. App. 2014). “We agree with the Department's assertion that the legislature intended the felony payment bar of RCW 51.32.020 to exclude workers engaged in felonious conduct from any industrial insurance "coverage.”
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