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CITY OF SEATTLE v. STATE

No. 39240-9-I.

943 P.2d 337 (1997)

87 Wash.App. 715

The CITY OF SEATTLE, a municipal corporation, By and Through its DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND HUMAN SERVICES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Washington and its Department of Labor and Industries, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

As Amended October 7, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Leroy Williams, Seattle, for Appellant.

Paul Russell Cressman, Short Cressman & Burgess, Seattle, for Amicus Curiae.

Lori A. Oliver-Hudak, Olympia, for Respondent.

ELLINGTON, Judge.

We are asked to decide whether the term "other entity" in an electrical contractor licensing statute encompasses municipalities. We hold that it does, noting that other statutes contained in the same chapter employ the term in a manner that contemplates inclusion of municipal corporations and that the Legislature has, when it desired to do so, drafted explicit exclusions from the licensing statute, but has drafted no exclusion for municipal corporations...

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