CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5170

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate April 27, 1991

  Yeas 41   Nays 0

President of the Senate

Passed by the House April 27, 1991

  Yeas 97   Nays 0

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Approved

Governor of the State of Washington

CERTIFICATE

I, Gordon Golob, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5170 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Secretary

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                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington

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                                 SENATE BILL 5170

                    AS RECOMMENDED BY THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senators Snyder, Nelson and Rasmussen.

Read first time January 22, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.Changing the number of district judges.

     AN ACT Relating to district judges; amending RCW 3.34.010, 3.34.040, and 3.58.020; and declaring an emergency.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 3.34.010 and 1989 c 227 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:

     The number of district judges to be elected in each county shall be:  Adams, three; Asotin, one; Benton, two; Chelan, one; Clallam, one; Clark, four; Columbia, one; Cowlitz, two; Douglas, one; Ferry, two; Franklin, one; Garfield, one; Grant, one; Grays Harbor, two; Island, three; Jefferson, one; King, twenty-four; Kitsap, two; Kittitas, two; Klickitat, two; Lewis, two; Lincoln, one; Mason, one; Okanogan, two; Pacific, ((three)) two; Pend Oreille, two; Pierce, eight; San Juan, one; Skagit, three; Skamania, one; Snohomish, eight; Spokane, eight; Stevens, two; Thurston, one; Wahkiakum, one; Walla Walla, three; Whatcom, two; Whitman, two; Yakima, six:  PROVIDED, That this number may be increased in accordance with a resolution of the county commissioners under RCW 3.34.020.

     Sec. 2.  RCW 3.34.040 and 1984 c 258 s 10 are each amended to read as follows:

     A district judge serving a district having a population of forty thousand or more persons, and a district judge receiving a salary ((greater than)) equal to the maximum salary ((provided in RCW 3.58.020(6))) set by the salary commission under RCW 3.58.020 for district judges shall be deemed full time judges and shall devote all of their time to the office and shall not engage in the practice of law.  Other judges shall devote sufficient time to the office to properly fulfill the duties thereof and may engage in other occupations but shall maintain a separate office for private business and shall not use for private business the services of any clerk or secretary paid for by the county or office space or supplies furnished by the judicial district.

     Sec. 3.  RCW 3.58.020 and 1984 c 258 s 35 are each amended to read as follows:

     The annual salaries of part time district judges shall be set by the ((county legislative authority in each county in accordance with the minimum and maximum salaries provided in this subsection:

     (1) In districts having a population under two thousand five hundred persons, the salary shall be not less than one thousand five hundred dollars nor more than twelve thousand dollars;

     (2) In districts having a population of two thousand five hundred persons or more, but less than five thousand, the salary shall be set at not less than one thousand eight hundred dollars nor more than fifteen thousand five hundred dollars;

     (3) In districts having a population of five thousand persons or more, but less than seven thousand five hundred, the salary shall be set at no less than one thousand eight hundred or more than twenty-five thousand dollars;

     (4) In districts having a population of seven thousand five hundred persons or more, but less than ten thousand, the salary shall be set at not less than two thousand two hundred fifty dollars or more than thirty thousand dollars;

     (5) In districts having a population of ten thousand persons or more, but less than twenty thousand, the salary shall be set at no less than three thousand dollars or more than thirty-two thousand dollars;

     (6) In districts having a population of twenty thousand persons or more, but less than thirty thousand, the salary shall be set at not less than five thousand two hundred fifty dollars or more than forty thousand dollars)) citizens' commission on salaries.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.      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 immediately.