Washington Administrative Code
Title 218 - Forensic Investigations Council
Chapter 218-10 - State death investigations account assistance applications
RULES RELATING TO THE AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDING ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL JURISDICTIONS FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF MULTIPLE DEATHS AND FOR FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND OTHER TESTING TO IDENTIFY HUMAN REMAINS
Section 218-10-015 - Definitions

(1) "Death investigation budget" shall mean the local jurisdiction's appropriation into the coroner or medical examiner budgets for the determination of cause and manner of death.

(2) "Forensic anthropology services" shall mean services to local jurisdictions in an applied area of physical anthropology utilizing the science, methodology, and technology of physical/biological anthropology and related fields to help address medicolegal issues, such as personal identification and circumstances surrounding death.

(3) "Local jurisdiction" shall mean a city, town, or county of the state of Washington.

(4) "Multiple deaths involving multiple local jurisdictions" shall mean that the deaths occurred in two or more geographically distinct local jurisdictions.

(5) "Other testing" includes, but is not limited to, forensic odontology, forensic genealogy, and other forms of testing that in the judgment of the council may aid in the identification of human remains.

(6) "Unanticipated" shall mean an event having a disproportionate fiscal impact, relative to the local jurisdiction's death investigation budget and which cannot be reasonably foreseen in the normal budget process.