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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 410

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Representatives Locke, Appelwick, Niemi, Jacobsen, Wang, Patrick, Addison and P. King

Read first time 2/1/85 and referred to Committee on Judiciary.

AN ACT Relating to prisoner fines and costs; and amending RCW 10.82.030.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 147, page 124, Laws of 1854 as last amended by section 2, chapter 276, Laws of 1983 and RCW 10.82.030 are each amended to read as follows:

          If any person ordered into custody until the fine and costs adjudged against him be paid shall not, within five days, pay, or cause the payment of the same to be made, the clerk of the court shall issue a warrant to the sheriff commanding him to imprison such defendant in the county jail until the amount of such fine and costs owing are paid.  Execution may at any time issue against the property of the defendant for that portion of such fine and costs not reduced by the application of this section.  The amount of such fine and costs owing shall be the whole of such fine and costs reduced by the amount of any portion thereof paid, and ((thirty-five)) fifty dollars for every day the defendant performs labor as provided in RCW 10.82.040, and ((twenty-five)) thirty dollars for every day the defendant does not perform such labor while imprisoned.

Imprisoned physically disabled persons handicapped by being in a wheelchair or who have limited mobility, or who are legally blind, or who may have difficulty walking with or without assistive devices are exempt from labor but will enjoy the same fine reductions as people performing labor.