Use of City Facilities to Broadcast Candidate Forum

The PDC's citations in the Revised Code of Washington have moved from Chapter 42.17A to Title 29B. Please see our interactive tool to find new citation numbers for the RCWs listed below.

A city is not prohibited by RCW 42.17A.555 (formerly RCW 42.17.130) from organizing and broadcasting a candidate forum where the purpose of the forum is to educate voters about the candidates for office, each candidate is provided an equal opportunity to participate, and the forum is presented in a fashion that is unbiased and nondiscriminatory with regard to all candidates.  [Declaratory Order No. 13, issued October 24, 1995]