IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ALASKA

                         ORDER NO. 1258

                                   Amending Administrative Rule
                                   19.2 concerning deputy
                                   magistrates.

IT IS ORDERED:

     1.   Paragraph (d) of Administrative Rule 19.2 is amended to
read as follows:

               (d)  Duties. A deputy magistrate may be
          appointed to perform only the following
          magistrate duties:

               * * * *

               (12) issuance of ex parte and emergency
          domestic violence protective orders pursuant
          to AS 18.66.110;

               (13) issuance of search warrants; and

               (14) fugitive from justice arraignments
          and acceptance of fugitive complaints.

     2.   Paragraph (e) of Administrative Rule 19.2 is amended be
adding a new subparagraph (5) to read as follows:

               (e)  Limitations on Deputy Magistrate
          Duty.

               * * * *

               (5)  The limitations on performance of
          deputy magistrate duties in (e)(1)-(4) do not
          apply to a deputy magistrate who is performing
          deputy magistrate duties while being observed
          by a training judge.



DATED:  September 12, 1996

EFFECTIVE DATE:   Nunc pro tunc to July 1, 1996  



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                                   Chief Justice Compton


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                                   Justice Rabinowitz


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                                   Justice Matthews


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                                   Justice Eastaugh
     

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                                   Justice Fabe