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HOUSE BILL 2082
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Representative Appelwick.
Read first time February 21, 1991. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
AN ACT Relating to district courts; and amending RCW 3.34.060 and 3.34.100.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 3.34.060 and 1989 c 227 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
To be eligible to file a declaration of candidacy for and to serve as a district court judge, a person must:
(1) Be a registered voter of the district court district and electoral district, if any; and
(2) Be either:
(a) A lawyer admitted to practice law in the state of Washington; or
(b) A person who has been elected and has served as a justice of the peace, district judge, municipal judge, or police judge in Washington; or
(c) In
those districts having a population of less than ((ten)) five
thousand persons, a person who has taken and passed the qualifying examination
for the office of district judge as shall be provided by rule of the supreme
court.
Sec. 2. RCW 3.34.100 and 1984 c 258 s 16 are each amended to read as follows:
If a
district judge dies, resigns, is convicted of a felony, ceases to reside in the
district, fails to serve for any reason except temporary disability, or if his
or her term of office is terminated in any other manner, the office shall be
deemed vacant. The county legislative authority shall fill all vacancies by
appointment and the judge thus appointed shall hold office until the next
general election and until a successor is elected and qualified. District judges
shall be granted ((sick)) leave from their positions due to illness
or injury in the same manner as sick leave is provided to other
county employees.