By Representative Wineberry

On page 4, after line 10 of the amendment insert the following:

"Sec. 5. RCW 35.20.270 and 1977 ex.s. c 108 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) The position of warrant server ((~~is hereby~~)) may be created and maintained by the city either within the courts created by chapter 35.20 RCW or within the city police department. The number and qualifications of said warrant servers shall be fixed by ordinance, and their compensation shall be paid by the city.

(2) Said warrant servers shall be vested only with the special authority to make arrests authorized by the warrants which they have been directed to serve by courts created by chapter 35.20 RCW.

(3) All criminal and civil process issuing out of courts created under this title shall be directed to the chief of police of the city served by the court and/or to the sheriff of the county in which the court is held and/or the warrant servers of the court and be by them executed according to law in any county of this state.

(4) No process of courts created under this title shall be executed outside the corporate limits of the city served by the court unless the person authorized by said process shall first contact the applicable law enforcement agency in whose jurisdiction the process is to be served.

(5) Upon a defendant being arrested in another city or county the cost of arresting or serving process thereon shall be borne by the court issuing said process including the cost of returning the defendant from any county of the state to the city.

(6) Said warrant servers shall not be entitled to death, disability or retirement benefits pursuant to chapter 41.26 RCW on the basis of service as a warrant server as described in this section."

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By Representative Wineberry

On page 4, line 14 of the title amendment before "creating" insert "amending RCW 35.20.270;"