10.70.140 - Aliens committed -- Notice to immigration authority. - Washington Statutes

Aliens committed — Notice to immigration authority.

Whenever any person shall be committed to a state correctional facility, the county jail, or any other state or county institution which is supported wholly or in part by public funds, it shall be the duty of the warden, superintendent, sheriff or other officer in charge of such state or county institution to at once inquire into the nationality of such person, and if it shall appear that such person is an alien, to immediately notify the United States immigration officer in charge of the district in which such penitentiary, reformatory, jail or other institution is located, of the date of and the reasons for such alien commitment, the length of time for which committed, the country of which the person is a citizen, and the date on which and the port at which the person last entered the United States.

[1992 c 7 § 29; 1925 ex.s. c 169 § 1; RRS § 2206-1.]