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HOUSE BILL 2648
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1992 Regular Session
By Representatives Heavey, Padden, Riley, Ballard, Ludwig, Forner, Jacobsen, Fuhrman, Anderson, R. King, Locke, Valle, Nelson, Winsley, Miller, Vance, Haugen, Ferguson, D. Sommers, O'Brien, Belcher, R. Meyers, G. Cole and H. Myers
Read first time 01/23/92. Referred to Committee on Local Government.
AN ACT Relating to warrant officers; amending RCW 35.20.270; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 35.20.270 and 1977 ex.s. c 108 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
The position of warrant ((server)) officer is hereby created and
maintained by the city either within the courts created by chapter 35.20
RCW or within the city police department. The number and qualifications
of ((said)) warrant ((servers)) officers shall be fixed by
ordinance, and their compensation shall be paid by the city.
(2) ((Said))
Warrant ((servers)) officers shall be vested only with the
special authority to make arrests authorized by ((the)) warrants ((which
they have been directed to serve by courts created by chapter 35.20 RCW)) and
for crimes committed coincidental to warrant service.
(3)
All criminal and civil process issuing out of courts created under this title
shall be directed to the chief of police of the city served by the court and/or
to the sheriff of the county in which the court is held and/or the warrant ((servers
of the court)) officers and be by them executed according to law in
any county of this state.
(4) No
process of courts created under this title shall be executed outside the
corporate limits of the city served by the court unless the person authorized
by ((said)) the process shall first contact the applicable law
enforcement agency in whose jurisdiction the process is to be served.
(5)
Upon a defendant being arrested in another city or county the cost of arresting
or serving process thereon shall be borne by the court issuing ((said)) the
process including the cost of returning the defendant from any county of the
state to the city.
(6) ((Said))
Warrant ((servers)) officers shall not be entitled to
death, disability, or retirement benefits pursuant to chapter 41.26 RCW
on the basis of service as a warrant ((server)) officer as
described in this section.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect June 1, 1992.