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SENATE BILL NO. 3393
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C 186 L 85
State of Washington 49th Legislature 1985 Regular Session
By Senators Talmadge, Newhouse and Rasmussen
Read first time 1/29/85 and referred to Committee on Judiciary.
AN ACT Relating to limitation of actions; and amending RCW 9A.04.080.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 9A.04.080, chapter 260, Laws of 1975 1st ex. sess. as last amended by section 18, chapter 270, Laws of 1984 and RCW 9A.04.080 are each amended to read as follows:
Prosecutions
for the offenses of murder, and arson where death ensues, may be commenced at
any period after the commission of the offense; for offenses the punishment of
which may be imprisonment in a state correctional institution, committed by any
public officer in connection with the duties of his office or constituting a
breach of his public duty or a violation of his oath of office, and arson where
death does not ensue, within ten years after their commission; for violations
of RCW 9A.44.070, 9A.44.080, and 9A.44.100(1)(b), within ((five)) seven
years after their commission; for violations of RCW 9A.82.060 or 9A.82.080,
within six years after their commission; for all other offenses the punishment
of which may be imprisonment in a state correctional institution, within three
years after their commission; two years for gross misdemeanors; and for all
other offenses, within one year after their commission: PROVIDED, That any
length of time during which the party charged was not usually and publicly
resident within this state shall not be reckoned within the one, two, three, ((five))
six, seven, and ten years respectively: AND FURTHER PROVIDED, That
where an indictment has been found, or complaint or an information filed,
within the time limited for the commencement of a criminal action, if the
indictment, complaint or information be set aside, the time of limitation shall
be extended by the length of time from the time of filing of such indictment,
complaint, or information, to the time such indictment, complaint, or
information was set aside.