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ORDINAL NO. 2633 An Ordinance relating to and providing for the issuance by the police judge of process and search warrants for the search and entry upon property, buildings, private dwelling houses or places of residences located in the City of Everett, upon complaint showing probable cause and in the enforcement of the ordinances of said city, repealing all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict here- with and declaring an emergency. THE CITY OF 37EM T DOES ORDAIN: Section 1. It shall be lawful for the police judge of the City of sverett, in addition to his powers as a justice of the peace , to aid in the more effectual enforcement of the ordinances of the said city, to issue process and search war- rants which shall be directed to the :`Washington State 3atrol Officers, or the She- riff of Snohomish County and his Deputies, Chief of Police of the City of :lverett or any police officer thereof, or either or any of them. . Section 2. A search warrant shall not be issued but upon probable cause, supported by affidavit , naming or describing the person or persons charged with crime and particularly describing the property and the place to be searched . Section 3 . The police judge issuing the warrant must , before issuing the same, examine on oath the complainant and any witness he may produce, and require their affidavits or take their depositions in writing and cause them to be sub- scribed by the parties making them. Such affidavits or depositions must set forth facts tending to establish the grounds of the application or probable cause for believing that they exist,. Section 4. If the police judge is thereupon satisfied of the existence of the grounds of the application, or that there is probable cause to believe their existence , he shall issue a search warrant signed by him with his name of office , directed to a civil officer of the State of ':Washington duly authorized to enforce or assist in enforcing any laws thereof, which warrant must state the particular grounds or the probable cause for its issue and the names of the persons whose affidavitx have been taken in support thereof, and commanding said officer forth- with to search the person or place named , for the property specified, and to bring the same before the police judge . Section 5. The officer may break open any olyter or inner door or window of a house or any part of a house , or building, or anything therein, to execute the warrant, if, after notice of his authority and purpose , he is refused admittance, -1-