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RCW 9.96.020 — Form of certificate

Current through 2026 Regular Session

Part of Chapter 9.96: Restoration Of Civil Rights, Revised Code of Washington.

Full text of RCW 9.96.020

Statutory text current through the 2026 Regular Session. This publication reproduces the official text of the Revised Code of Washington from the Code Reviser's published files; it is not the official statutes of the State of Washington.

RCW 9.96.020Primary source, current through the 2026 Regular Session

Whenever the governor shall determine to restore his or her civil rights to any person convicted of an infamous crime in any superior court of this state, he or she shall execute and file in the office of the secretary of state an instrument in writing in substantially the following form: "To the People of the State of Washington Greeting: I, the undersigned Governor of the State of Washington, by virtue of the power vested in my office by the constitution and laws of the State of Washington, do by these presents restore to . . . . . . . . . his or her civil rights forfeited by him (or her) by reason of his (or her) conviction of the crime of . . . . . . . . . (naming it) in the Superior Court for the County of . . . . . . . . ., on to-wit: The . . . . day of . . . . . ., (year) . . . . Dated the . . . . day of . . . . . ., (year) . . . . (Signed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Governor of Washington."

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