CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1732

                    Chapter 99, Laws of 1992

                        52nd Legislature

                      1992 Regular Session

            WARRANT OFFICERS‑-APPOINTMENT AND POWERS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/11/92

Passed by the House March 7, 1992   Yeas 96   Nays 0                   JOE KING Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 3, 1992   Yeas 44   Nays 1

CERTIFICATE I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1732 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate

ALAN THOMPSON                                Chief Clerk

Approved March 31, 1992 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                          March 31, 1992 - 11:40 a.m.

BOOTH GARDNER Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                                  HOUSE BILL 1732

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                             AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

                     Passed Legislature - 1992 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Representatives Appelwick, Winsley, Wineberry, Locke, Ferguson, Scott and Forner.

Read first time February 7, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Judiciary.Allowing cities over 400,000 population to assign warrant servers to the police department.

     AN ACT Relating to warrant servers; and amending RCW 35.20.270.

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 ((within the courts created by chapter 35.20 RCW)) and shall be maintained by the city 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 other arrests as are authorized by ordinance.

     (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 contacts 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.

     Passed the House March 7, 1992.

     Passed the Senate March 3, 1992.

Approved by the Governor March 31, 1992.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 31, 1992.