When declaratory relief is sought, all persons shall be made parties who have or claim any interest which would be affected by the declaration, and no declaration shall prejudice the rights of persons not parties to the proceeding. In any proceeding which involves the validity of a municipal ordinance or franchise, such municipality shall be made a party, and shall be entitled to be heard, and if the statute, ordinance or franchise is alleged to be unconstitutional, the attorney general shall also be served with a copy of the proceeding and be entitled to be heard.
RCW 7.24.110
Parties—City as party—Attorney general to be served, when.
Known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act
The act spans §§ 7–7 (17 sections).
Applied in 57 court decisions — leading case 102 Wash. 2d 874 - Chemical Bank v. Washington Public Power Supply System (1984)
Most recently applied in Michael Ames v. Pierce County, Res/cross-appellant (May 2016)
1935 c 113 s 11; RRS s 784-11.
How often courts cite this section
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.