Duty to make complaint.
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 6 Ariz. App. 473 - Dogarin v. Connor (1967)
Most recently applied in 3 Wash. 3d 614 - In re Recall of Weyrich (August 2024)
1963 c 4 s 36.28.011
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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In addition to the duties contained in RCW 36.28.010, it shall be the duty of all sheriffs to make complaint of all violations of the criminal law, which shall come to their knowledge, within their respective jurisdictions.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.