H-3440.1
HOUSE BILL 2677
State of Washington
64th Legislature
2016 Regular Session
By Representatives Senn, Walsh, Vick, Jinkins, Pike, and Tharinger
Read first time 01/18/16. Referred to Committee on Early Learning & Human Services.
AN ACT Relating to counties providing and maintaining detention rooms or detention houses; and amending RCW 13.04.135.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1.  RCW 13.04.135 and 1983 c 98 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
Counties containing more than two hundred fifty thousand inhabitants shall, and counties containing a lesser number of inhabitants may, provide and maintain at public expense, a detention room or house of detention, separated or removed from any jail, or police station, to be in charge of a matron, or other person of good character, wherein all children within the provisions of this chapter shall, when necessary, be sheltered.
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