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Wash. Rev. Code § 36.27.010 (2026)

Eligibility to office

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No person shall be eligible to the office of prosecuting attorney in any county of this state, unless he or she is a qualified elector therein, and has been admitted as an attorney and counselor of the courts of this state.
[ 2009 c 549 s 4045; 1963 c 4 s 36.27.010. Prior: 1891 c 55 s 4; RRS s 4128. Cf. 1883 p 72 s 7.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7 cases, 1973–2020 · leading case: State v. Cook, 525 P.2d 761 (Wash. 1974).
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State v. Cook, 525 P.2d 761 (Wash. 1974). · cites it 12× “11, § 5 [1] vests the legislature with the exclusive power to provide for the office of county prosecuting attorney and to prescribe the duties thereof; (b) the legislature has, by RCW 36.27.010, .020(3) and (4), and .040, [2] prescribed the qualifications of county prosecuting…”
Whatcom Cnty. v. State, 993 P.2d 273 (Wash. Ct. App. 2000). “37 RCW 36.27.010. 38 RCW 36.27.020. 39 Id. 40 RCW 36.”
State v. Reed, 879 P.2d 1000 (Wash. Ct. App. 1994). “RCW 36.27.010. Deputy prosecutors and special deputies must be similarly qualified.”
State v. Watson, 86 P.3d 158 (Wash. Ct. App. 2004). “[7] See RCW 36.27.010; RCW 36.16.030. [8] But see In re Personal Restraint of Echevarria, 141 Wash.”
State v. Cook, 512 P.2d 744 (Wash. Ct. App. 1973). · cites it 4× “The legislature, which is charged with the responsibility of providing *229 for the office of prosecuting attorney, Constitution of the State of Washington, article 11, section 5, has set his qualifications to be that he must be a qualified elector of the county and "admitted as…”
State v. Jacobson, 558 P.2d 292 (Wash. Ct. App. 1976). · cites it 3× “Mon-fort, supra); (2) a qualified elector of the county in which he seeks the office (RCW 36.27.010) and (3) a qualified voter of the county in which he seeks the office (RCW 36.”
Pendell v. Spokane (E.D. Wash. 2020). “First, Plaintiff points to Wash. Rev. Code 36.27.010 as 28 evidence that placing an officer on a PIDL is not within a prosecutor’s duties as a 1 matter of state law.”
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