CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1339

                    Chapter 10, Laws of 1994

                        53rd Legislature

                      1994 Regular Session

MUNICIPAL COURT COMMISSIONERS‑-APPOINTMENT AND QUALIFICATIONS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/9/94

Passed by the House February 10, 1994   Yeas 97   Nays 0 BRIAN EBERSOLE 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.

JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate

MARILYN SHOWALTER                           Chief Clerk

Approved March 21, 1994 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                     March 21, 1994 - 11:12 a.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    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.

    Passed the House February 10, 1994.

    Passed the Senate February 28, 1994.

Approved by the Governor March 21, 1994.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 21, 1994.