The secretary is authorized to operate a correctional facility on McNeil Island for the confinement of sex offenders and other offenders sentenced by the courts, and to make necessary repairs, renovations, additions, and improvements to state property for that purpose, notwithstanding any local comprehensive plans, development regulations, permitting requirements, or any other local laws. Operation of the correctional facility and other state facilities authorized by this section and other law includes access to adequate docking facilities on state-owned tidelands at the town of Steilacoom.
RCW 72.09.333
Sex offenders—Facilities on McNeil Island.
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case In the Matter of the Petition of: Kittitas County for a Declaratory Order (2019)
Most recently applied in In the Matter of the Petition of: Kittitas County for a Declaratory Order (April 2019)
2001 2nd sp.s. c 12 s 202.
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