CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 2500

                        55th Legislature

                      1998 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 9, 1998 Yeas 96   Nays 0 Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 5, 1998   Yeas 48   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2500  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 2500

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                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

             Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Representatives Sheahan, Appelwick, McMorris, Radcliff, Alexander, Grant, O'Brien, Doumit, Ogden and Thompson

Read first time 01/14/98.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

Amending uniform act on fresh pursuit.  

    AN ACT Relating to the uniform act on fresh pursuit; and amending RCW 10.89.010 and 10.89.050.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 10.89.010 and 1943 c 261 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    Any member of a duly organized state, county or municipal peace unit of another state of the United States who enters this state in fresh pursuit, and continues within this state in such fresh pursuit, of a person in order to arrest ((him)) the person on the ground that he or she is believed to have committed a felony in such other state((,)) or a violation of the laws of such other state relating to driving while intoxicated, driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, driving while impaired, or reckless driving shall have the same authority to arrest and hold such person in custody as has any member of any duly organized state, county or municipal peace unit of this state, to arrest and hold in custody a person on the ground that he or she is believed to have committed a felony or a violation of the laws of such other state relating to driving while intoxicated, driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, driving while impaired, or reckless driving in this state.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 10.89.050 and 1943 c 261 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:

    The term "fresh pursuit" as used in this chapter, shall include fresh pursuit as defined by the common law, and also the pursuit of a person who has committed a felony or who reasonably is suspected of having committed a felony or a violation of such other state relating to driving while intoxicated, driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, driving while impaired, or reckless driving.  It shall also include the pursuit of a person suspected of having committed a supposed felony, or a supposed violation of the laws relating to driving while intoxicated, driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, driving while impaired, or reckless driving, though no felony or violation of the laws relating to driving while intoxicated, driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, driving while impaired, or reckless driving actually has been committed, if there is reasonable ground for believing that a felony or a violation of the laws relating to driving while intoxicated, driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, driving while impaired, or reckless driving has been committed.  Fresh pursuit as used herein shall not necessarily imply instant pursuit, but pursuit without unreasonable delay.

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