Wash. Rev. Code § 65.16.040
Sixty days from and after the date *this act becomes effective, a legal newspaper for the publication of any advertisement, notice, summons, report, proceeding, or other official document now or hereafter required by law to be published, shall be a newspaper which has been approved as a legal newspaper by order of the superior court of the county in which such newspaper is published. Such order may be entered without notice upon presentation of a petition by or on behalf of the publisher, setting forth the qualifications of the newspaper as required by *this act, and upon evidence satisfactory to the court that such newspaper is so qualified.
RCW 65.16.040
*Reviser's note: (1) The language "this act" appears in 1941 c 213 codified as RCW 65.16.020 through 65.16.080.
(2) The effective date of this act is midnight June 11, 1941; see preface 1941 session laws.