CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1339

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                        53rd Legislature

                      1994 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 10, 1994

  Yeas 97   Nays 0

 

 

 

Speaker of the

     House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate February 28, 1994

  Yeas 44   Nays 0

         CERTIFICATE

 

I, Marilyn Showalter, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1339 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

President of the Senate

                  Chief Clerk

 

 

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                        FILED

          

 

 

Governor of the State of Washington

           Secretary of State

          State of Washington

          _______________________________________________

 

                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1339

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             Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session

 

 

State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Pruitt, R. Meyers, Brumsickle, Zellinsky and Schmidt)

 

Read first time 02/04/94.

 

Appointing court commissioners in municipal court.


    AN ACT Relating to court commissioners in municipal court; and adding a new section to chapter 3.50 RCW.

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 3.50 RCW to read as follows:

    One or more court commissioners may be appointed by a judge of the municipal court.  Each commissioner holds office at the pleasure of the appointing judge.  A commissioner authorized to hear or dispose of cases must be a lawyer who is admitted to practice law in the state of Washington or a nonlawyer who has passed the qualifying examination for lay judges for courts of limited jurisdiction under RCW 3.34.060.

    A commissioner need not be a resident of the city or of the county in which the municipal court is created.  When a court commissioner has not been appointed and the municipal court is presided over by a part-time appointed judge, the judge need not be a resident of the city or of the county in which the municipal court is created.

 

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