Attorney General Opinions - Home Rule Charter Form of Government

• AGO 1994 No. 20

  Opinion by the Washington State Attorney General discussing the options available to a board of freeholders elected to draft and present a proposed combined city-county charter pursuant to Art. XI, § 16 of the Washington Constitution. Provides that the freeholders may not instead draft a charter relating to the county only and discusses the difference between a county home rule charter under Wash. Const. Art. XI, § 4 and a charter creating a combined city-county government under Wash. Const. Art. XI, § 16.

• AGO 1999 No. 8

  County officials are not authorized to submit alternative provisions for a county charter to the voters. Alternative provisions must be drafted by the freeholders who have prepared the charter.