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                          HOUSE BILL 1314

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Representatives Bush, Cooper, Carrell, Wood, Smith, Lambert, McDonald, Benson, Mielke, Cole, Talcott, Romero, Mastin, Scott, Sheahan, Lantz, L. Thomas, D. Schmidt, Cooke, Sherstad, Wensman and Dunn

Read first time 01/22/97.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

Computing the time within which an act is to be done.

    AN ACT Relating to computing the time within which an act is to be done; and amending RCW 1.12.040.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 1.12.040 and 1887 c 20 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    The time within which an act is to be done, as herein provided, shall be computed by excluding the first day, and including the last, unless the last day is a holiday, Saturday, or Sunday, and then it is also excluded.

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