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                         SENATE BILL 6291

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State of Washington   57th Legislature        2002 Regular Session

By Senators Kline and Johnson

Read first time 01/14/2002.  Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Revising residency requirements of part-time judges.

    AN ACT Relating to residency requirements of part-time judges; and amending RCW 3.50.075.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 3.50.075 and 1994 c 10 s 1 are each amended 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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