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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2506

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

By House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Cooper, Riley, H. Myers, Winsley, Morris and Ludwig)

Read first time 02/07/92.  Making it a misdemeanor to impersonate a law enforcement officer.

     AN ACT Relating to impersonation of a law enforcement officer; amending RCW 9A.60.040; and prescribing penalties.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 9A.60.040 and 1975 1st ex.s. c 260 s 9A.60.040 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) A person is guilty of criminal impersonation in the first degree if ((he)) the person:

     (a) Assumes a false identity and does an act in his or her assumed character with intent to defraud another or for any other unlawful purpose; or

     (b) Pretends to be a representative of some person or organization or a public servant and does an act in his or her pretended capacity with intent to defraud another or for any other unlawful purpose.

     (2) Criminal impersonation in the first degree is a gross misdemeanor.

(3) A person is guilty of criminal impersonation in the second degree if the person:

(a) Claims to be a law enforcement officer or creates an impression that he or she is a law enforcement officer; and

(b) Under circumstances not amounting to criminal impersonation in the first degree, does an act with intent to convey the impression that he or she is acting in an official capacity.

(4) Criminal impersonation in the second degree is a misdemeanor.