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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5040
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Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995
Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/20/95.
Prescribing the selection process
for district court districting committees.
AN ACT Relating to
district court districting committee; and reenacting and amending RCW 3.38.010.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 3.38.010 and 1994 c
81 s 1 and 1994 c 32 s 2 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
There is established in
each county a district court districting committee composed of the following:
(1) The judge of the
superior court, or, if there be more than one such judge, then one of the
judges selected by that court;
(2) The prosecuting
attorney, or a deputy selected by the prosecuting attorney;
(3) A practicing lawyer
of the county selected by the president of the largest local bar association,
if there be one, and if not, then by the county legislative authority;
(4) A judge of a court
of limited jurisdiction in the county selected by the president of the
Washington state district and municipal court judges' association; and
(5) The mayor, or
representative appointed by the mayor, of each city or town with a population
of three thousand or more in the county;
(6) One person to
represent the cities and towns with populations of three thousand or less in
the county, if any, to be ((designated by the president of the association
of Washington cities: PROVIDED, That)) selected by a majority vote of
the mayors of those cities and towns with a population of less than three
thousand. However, if there should not be a city in the county with a
population of ten thousand or more, the mayor, or the mayor's representative,
of each city or town with a population of less than three thousand shall be a
member;
(7) The chair of the
county legislative authority; and
(8) The
county auditor.
