RULE 78
                                  CLERKS

    (a) Powers and Duties of Clerks. (Reserved. See RCW 2.32.050.)

    (b) Office Hours. The clerk's office with the clerk or a deputy in
attendance shall be open during business hours on all days except
Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays.

    (c) Orders by Clerk. All motions and applications in the clerk's office
for issuing mesne process, for issuing final process to enforce and execute
judgments, and for other proceedings which do not require allowance or
order of the court are grantable of course by the clerk; but his action may
be suspended or altered or rescinded by the court upon cause shown.

    (d) Filing of Depositions. Upon the filing of a deposition transcript
in any case pursuant to rule 5(i), the clerk shall forthwith endorse the
date of the filing upon the envelope, and shall enter the same upon the
case history docket.

    (e) Entry of Judgments and Costs. The clerk shall enter judgment or
decree pursuant to the provisions of rule 58 and the same shall then be
entered for the sum found due or the relief awarded, with costs and
disbursements, if any, to be taxed. Entry of judgment shall not be delayed
for the taxing of costs. If no cost bill is filed by the party to whom
costs are awarded within 10 days after the entry of the judgment or decree,
the clerk shall proceed to tax the following costs and disbursements,
namely:

    (1) The statutory attorney fee;
    (2) The clerk's fee; and
    (3) The sheriff's fee.

  If a cost bill is filed, the clerk shall enter as the amount to be
recovered the amount claimed in such cost bill, and no motion to retax
costs shall be considered unless the same be filed within 6 days after the
filing of the cost bill.
  For purposes of this subsection (e), "cost bill" also includes affidavit
detailing disbursements.

    (f) Bonds. The clerk shall at once upon the filing of a bond (except
bond for costs) enter the same at large upon the journal. The clerk shall
endorse upon every affidavit or undertaking filed to procure a writ of
attachment, the day, hour, and minute of filing thereof.

[Amended effective September 1, 1988; September 1, 2007.]