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RESOLUTION NO. 77-82
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p~A RESOLUTION ESTABLISEING PROSECUTING ATTORNEY'S
VICTIM/WITNESS FUND
WHEREAS, the 1982 Washington Legislature has
passed and the Governor has signed Second Substitute
House Bill No. 828, and
WHEREAS, said Bill contained an emergency clause
and became effective on March 29, 1982, and
WHEREAS, said Bill provides that each Court of
competent juridiction shall impose a penalty assessment
upon each convicted person a sum of $50.00 for felony or
gross misdemeanor convictions and $25.00 for misdemeanor
convictions, and
WHEREAS, the Clerk of the City Court, District
Court and Superior Courts are directed by said Bill to
monthly transmit said funds to the County Treasurer, and
WHEREAS, said Bill provides that 20% of said
penalty assessments shall be provided to the Prosecuting
Attorney to be used exclusively for comprehensive programs
to encourage and facilitate testimony by the victims of,
and witnesses to crimes, and
WHEREAS, said Bill requires that 20% of said
penalty assessment funds shall supplement and shall not
supplant existing local funds,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED that the
County Treasurer is hereby directed to establish the Jeffer-
son County Prosecuting Attorney's Victim/Witness Fund to be
used exclusively for the administration of a Victim/Witness
Program by the Jeffersön County Prosecuting Attorney and
that said funds shall supplement and shall not supplant any
existing funds for the Prosecuting Attorney;
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED that the Prosecuting Attor-
ney shall submit to the Department of Labor and Industries
for approval, a comprehensive program for victims and wit-
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nessess of crimes; that he shall submit an appropriate
budget for said funds and that the expenditure of said
fund shall be subject to approval of the program by the
Department of Labor and Industries and subject to the
adoption of said budget.
DATED this /fFLt day of July, 1982.
JEFFERSON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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B. G. BROM~, Chairman
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A. M. O'HEARA, Member
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, ElfD INE C. Gþ(;1
Clerk of the Board
Resolution No. 77-82
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