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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6212
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State of Washington 55th Legislature 1998 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators McCaslin, Snyder, B. Sheldon, Roach, T. Sheldon, Goings, Bauer, Zarelli, West, Haugen and Oke)
Read first time 02/05/98.
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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