CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 2368
Chapter
225, Laws of 1992
52nd
Legislature
1992
Regular Session
PRACTICE OF LAW BY DEPUTY SHERIFFS
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 6/11/92
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Passed by the House March 7,
1992
Yeas 96 Nays 0
 JOE KING
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate March 2,
1992
Yeas 44 Nays 1
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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 2368 as passed by the House of
Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
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 JOEL PRITCHARD
President of the Senate
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 ALAN THOMPSON
Chief
Clerk
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Approved April 2, 1992 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
April 2, 1992 -
12:21 p.m.
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BOOTH GARDNER
Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary
of State
State of
Washington
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HOUSE
BILL 2368
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AS
AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed
Legislature - 1992 Regular Session
State of Washington 52nd
Legislature 1992 Regular Session
Read first time 01/15/92.
Referred to Committee on Judiciary.Allowing deputy
sheriffs to practice law.
AN ACT
Relating to the practice of law by deputy sheriffs; and amending RCW 2.48.200
and 36.28.110.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
2.48.200 and 1975 1st ex.s. c 19 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
No
person shall practice law who holds a commission as judge in any court of
record, or as sheriff((,)) or coroner((, or deputy sheriff));
nor shall the clerk of the supreme court, the court of appeals, or of the
superior court or any deputy thereof practice in the court of which he or
she is clerk or deputy clerk: PROVIDED, It shall be unlawful for a deputy
prosecuting attorney, or for the employee, partner, or agent of a prosecuting
attorney, or for an attorney occupying offices with a prosecuting attorney, to
appear for an adverse interest in any proceeding in which a prosecuting
attorney is appearing, or to appear in any suit, action or proceeding in which
a prosecuting attorney is prohibited by law from appearing, but nothing herein
shall prohibit a prosecuting attorney or a deputy prosecuting attorney from
appearing in any action or proceeding for an interest divergent from that represented
in the same action or proceeding by another attorney or special attorney in or
for the same office, so long as such appearances are pursuant to the duties of
prosecuting attorneys as set out in RCW 36.27.020 and such appearances are
consistent with the code of professional responsibility or other code of ethics
adopted by the Washington state supreme court, but nothing herein shall
preclude a judge or justice of a court of this state from finishing any
business ((by him)) undertaken in a court of the United States prior to
((his)) him or her becoming a judge or justice.
Sec.
2. RCW
36.28.110 and 1963 c 4 s 36.28.110 are each amended to read as follows:
No
sheriff ((or deputy sheriff)) shall appear or practice as attorney in
any court, except in their own defense.
Passed
the House March 7, 1992.
Passed
the Senate March 2, 1992.
Approved by the Governor April 2,
1992.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State April 2, 1992.