BLMLcR 3.5
                               ARRAIGNMENT DATE


The arresting officer shall set the defendant's arraignment date and time
when issuing a citation in all cases charging a criminal traffic and
criminal non-traffic offense. The arraignment date set shall be set no later
than 14 days following the next regularly scheduled court date. For
citations charging Driving Under the Influence, Driver Under Twenty-one
Consuming Alcohol, or Physical Control of Vehicle Under the Influence, as
defined in RCW 46.61.502, 503, or 504, all such defendants shall be required
to appear at the earliest practicable day following arrest, such date being
defined as the first date following arrest when court is in session . Any
Domestic Violence offense as defined in RCW 10.99.020 as enacted or
hereinafter amended the arraignment date shall be no later than 14 days
after the next day on which the court is in session.


[Adopted September 1, 1999; amended June 28, 2005; renumbered effective September 1, 2008]