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- ↑ Official website
- ↑ RCW 1.08.015; Chapter 44.20 RCW.
- ↑ "Office of the Code Reviser". Washington State Legislative Service Center . Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- Kunsch, Kelly (1989). "Statutory Compilations of Washington". Seattle University Law Review . 12 (2): 285–308.
