This chapter is declared to be remedial; its purpose is to settle and to afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status and other legal relations; and is to be liberally construed and administered.
RCW 7.24.120
Construction of chapter.
Known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act
The act spans §§ 7–7 (17 sections).
Applied in 30 court decisions — leading case 122 Wash. 2d 371 - Yakima County (West Valley) Fire Protection District No. 12 v. City of Yakima (1993)
Most recently applied in Arthur West V. Walla Walla City Council (April 2025)
1935 c 113 s 12; RRS s 784-12.
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.