It is the purpose of this chapter to afford protection to the public including all persons, firms, and corporations furnishing labor, materials, or equipment to a contractor from unreliable, fraudulent, financially irresponsible, or incompetent contractors.
RCW 18.27.140
Purpose.
Applied in 37 court decisions — leading case COSMOPOLITAN ENG. GROUP v. Ondeo Degremont, Inc. (2006)
Most recently applied in 165 Wash. App. 727 - Brotherton v. Kralman Steel Structures, Inc. (December 2011)
1983 1st ex.s. c 2 s 21; 1973 1st ex.s. c 161 s 2.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.