CITE: Protocol 1 additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions
  Chapter VI - Civil Defense

  Article 65 - Cessation of protection

  1. The protection to which civilian CIVIL defence organizations, their
  personnel, buildings, shelters and material are entitled shall NOT cease
  UNLESS they commit or are used to commit, outside their proper
  tasks, ACTS HARMFUL to the enemy. Protection may, however, cease
  only after a warning has been given setting, whenever appropriate, a
  reasonable time-limit, and after such warning has remained unheeded.

  

CITE: Washington State Constitution
  Article I Section 18

  Military power, limitation of

  The MILITARY shall be in strict subordination to the CIVIL power.

  

CITE: 44CFR302.8  US Code of Federal Regulations
  Part 302--Civil Defense

  Sec. 302.8  Waiver of ``single'' State agency requirements

    Section 205 of the Act requires that plans for CIVIL defense of the
  United States be administered or supervised by a SINGLE STATE
  AGENCY (50 U.S.C. App. 2286). Notwithstanding such law, section
  204 of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4214)
  provides authority for the Director as head of the grantor agency, upon
  the State's request, to waive the single State agency requirement and
  to approve other State ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE or
  arrangements, upon adequate showing that the requirement prevents
  the establishment of the most effective and efficient organizational
  arrangements within the State government. First, however, the Director
  must have found that the objectives of the Act (50 U.S.C. app. 2251 et
  seq.) will not be endangered by the use of such other State structure
  or arrangements. Attachment D of OMB Circular A-102 requires that
  such requests be given expeditious handling by the grantor agency
  and that, whenever possible, an affirmative response be made.

  

CITE: RCW 74.04.050  Revised Code of Washington
  Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS)

  Department to administer public assistance programs

  The department shall serve as the SINGLE STATE AGENCY to
  ADMINISTER public assistance.  The department is hereby empowered
  and authorized to cooperate in the ADMINISTRATION of such federal
  laws, consistent with the public assistance laws of this state, as may
  be necessary to qualify for federal funds for:

      (1) Medical assistance;
      (2) Aid to dependent children;
      (3) Child welfare services; and
      (4) Any OTHER programs of public assistance for which provision
  for federal grants or funds may from time to time be made.