Champion v. Shoreline School District No. 412

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• statutes relating to the same subject matter are in pari materia and should be construed together
• we assume that when the legislature uses the same word in different parts of a single statutory scheme, that word has the same meaning throughout
• “statutes which are in pari materia should be read together as constituting one law”
• statutes relating to the same subject matter should be construed together
• “ ‘Whenever a legislature had used a word in a statute in one sense and with one meaning, and subsequently uses the same word in legislating on the same subject-matter, it will be understood as using it in the same sense.’ ” (internal quotation marks omitted
• when the legislature uses a word in a statute with one meaning and subsequently uses the same word in legislating on the same subject, the word will be given the same meaning (quoting State ex rel. Am. Piano Co. v. Superior Court, 105 Wash. 676, 679, 178 P. 827 (1919))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).