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Statutes > Washington > Title-49 > 49-28 > 49-28-150Hours of health care facility employees — Penalties.
The department of labor and industries shall investigate complaints of violations of RCW 49.28.140. A violation of RCW 49.28.140 is a class 1 civil infraction in accordance with chapter 7.80 RCW, except that the maximum penalty is one thousand dollars for each infraction up to three infractions. If there are four or more violations of RCW 49.28.140 for a health care facility, the employer is subject to a fine of two thousand five hundred dollars for the fourth violation, and five thousand dollars for each subsequent violation. The department of labor and industries is authorized to issue and enforce civil infractions according to chapter 7.80 RCW.
[2002 c 112 § 4.]
Notes: Finding -- 2002 c 112: See note following RCW 49.28.130.
