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SENATE BILL 5909
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Senator Snyder.
Read first time March 4, 1991. Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.
AN ACT Relating to the judiciary; and amending RCW 3.34.040, 3.58.020, and 3.74.010.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 3.34.040 and 1984 c 258 s 10 are each amended to read as follows:
A
district judge serving a district having a population of forty thousand or more
persons, and a district judge receiving a salary ((greater than)) equal
to the maximum salary ((provided in RCW 3.58.020(6))) set by the
salary commission under RCW 3.58.020 for district judges shall be deemed
full time judges and shall devote all of their time to the office and shall not
engage in the practice of law. Other judges shall devote sufficient time to
the office to properly fulfill the duties thereof and may engage in other
occupations but shall maintain a separate office for private business and shall
not use for private business the services of any clerk or secretary paid for by
the county or office space or supplies furnished by the judicial district.
Sec. 2. RCW 3.58.020 and 1984 c 258 s 35 are each amended to read as follows:
The
annual salaries of part time district judges shall be set by the ((county
legislative authority in each county in accordance with the minimum and maximum
salaries provided in this subsection:
(1)
In districts having a population under two thousand five hundred persons, the
salary shall be not less than one thousand five hundred dollars nor more than
twelve thousand dollars;
(2)
In districts having a population of two thousand five hundred persons or more,
but less than five thousand, the salary shall be set at not less than one
thousand eight hundred dollars nor more than fifteen thousand five hundred
dollars;
(3)
In districts having a population of five thousand persons or more, but less
than seven thousand five hundred, the salary shall be set at no less than one
thousand eight hundred or more than twenty-five thousand dollars;
(4)
In districts having a population of seven thousand five hundred persons or
more, but less than ten thousand, the salary shall be set at not less than two
thousand two hundred fifty dollars or more than thirty thousand dollars;
(5)
In districts having a population of ten thousand persons or more, but less than
twenty thousand, the salary shall be set at no less than three thousand dollars
or more than thirty-two thousand dollars;
(6)
In districts having a population of twenty thousand persons or more, but less
than thirty thousand, the salary shall be set at not less than five thousand
two hundred fifty dollars or more than forty thousand dollars)) citizens'
commission on salaries.
Sec. 3. RCW 3.74.010 and 1984 c 258 s 54 are each amended to read as follows:
All district judges under chapters 3.30 through 3.74 RCW shall remain members of the state retirement system, and shall receive service credit for each month they hold office.