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Office of the Attorney General

Attorney General

Bob Ferguson

AGO 1951 NO. 56 >

(1) County clerks to collect $6.00 fee under exactly the same conditions and for exactly the same fees as they have been previously collecting the $5.00 fee.  (2) The intent of section 39, chapter 139, Laws of 1951, was not to require any filing fee whatever in cases arising under chapter 139, Laws of 1951, but was simply a directive as the proper method of handling an involuntary hospitalization case.