Code Reviser

Two private publishers independently compiled and published statutes enacted by the Washington state legislature into bound volumes: Remington Revised Statutes and Pierce's Perpetual Code.

In 1951 the legislature enacted a common numbering system for the state's laws and published an official codex known as the Revised Code of Washington (RCW).

The publication of the RCW was accompanied by the creation of the office of Code Reviser.

The Code Reviser is authorized to make minor style revisions to the laws of Washington as they are enacted by the legislature (for example, changing the words "effective date of this act" to an actual calendar date), correct obvious errors in laws enacted by the legislature such as incorrect citations and references, number and publish the Revised Code of Washington, and provide bill drafting advice to members of the legislature.

[6] The Code Reviser employs a professional staff of approximately 40 persons who operate in the Joel M. Pritchard Building in Olympia, Washington.

The Code Reviser appoints the editor of the "Washington State Register," the government gazette.