Title 41 — Title 41 PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT, CIVIL SERVICE, AND PENSIONS
37 chapters · 1,408 sections in this title.
RCW 41.18.150 Credit for military service.
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*** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 5420.SL) ***Every person who was a member of the fire department at the time he or she entered and served in the armed forces of the United States in time of war, whether as a draftee, or inductee, and who shall have been discharged from such armed for…
RCW 41.18.160 Certain firefighters may elect to be covered under other law.
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Every firefighter as defined in this chapter heretofore employed as a member of a fire department, whether or not as a prior firefighter as defined in chapter 41.16 RCW, who desires to make the contributions and avail himself or herself of the pension and other benefits of said c…
RCW 41.18.165 Credit for membership in private organization acquired by municipality.
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Every person who was a member of a firefighting organization operated by a private enterprise, which firefighting organization shall be hereafter acquired before September 1, 1959, by a municipality as its fire department as a matter of public convenience or necessity, where it i…
RCW 41.18.170 Application of chapter.
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The provisions of this chapter governing contributions, pensions, and benefits shall have exclusive application (1) to firefighters as defined in this chapter hereafter becoming members of a fire department, (2) to firefighters as defined in this chapter heretofore employed in a …
RCW 41.18.180 Firefighter contributor under prior law may obtain benefits of chapter—Refunds.
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Any firefighter who has made contributions under any prior act may elect to avail himself or herself of the benefits provided by this chapter or under such prior act by filing written notice with the board within sixty days from June 7, 1961: PROVIDED, That any firefighter who ha…
RCW 41.18.190 Transfer of membership authorized.
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Any firefighter as defined in RCW 41.18.010 who has prior to July 1, 1969 been employed as a member of a fire department and who desires to make contributions and avail himself or herself of the pension and other benefits of chapter 41.18 RCW as now law or hereafter amended, may …
RCW 41.18.200 Minimum pension.
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All retirees and survivors receiving a pension under the provisions of this chapter shall from and after April 25, 1973 receive a minimum pension of three hundred dollars per month.[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 181 s 2.]
RCW 41.18.210 Transfer of credit from city employees' retirement system to firefighters' pension system.
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*** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 2034-S2.SL) ***Any former employee of a department of a city of the first class, who (1) was a member of the employees' retirement system of such city, and (2) is now employed within the fire department of such city, may transfer his or her former memb…
RCW 41.18.900 Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
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For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to …
RCW 41.20.005 Definitions.
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As used in chapter 41.20 RCW:(1) "Rank" means civil service rank.(2) "Position" means the particular employment held at any particular time, which may or may not be the same as civil service rank.(3) Words importing masculine gender shall extend to females also.(4) "Salary" means…
RCW 41.20.010 Board of trustees—Composition.
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*** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 2034-S2.SL) ***(1) The mayor or his or her designated representative who shall be an elected official of the city, and the clerk, treasurer, president of the city council or mayor pro tem of each city of the first class, or in case any such city has no…
RCW 41.20.020 Officers of board—Annual report.
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The mayor, or his or her designated representative, shall be ex officio chair, the clerk shall be ex officio secretary, and the treasurer shall be ex officio treasurer of said board. The secretary of said board, at the time of making his or her annual reports as said city clerk, …
RCW 41.20.030 Meetings—Disbursements of fund—Quorum.
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The board herein provided for shall hold monthly meetings on the first Mondays of each month and upon the call of its president. It shall issue warrants, signed by its president and secretary, to the persons entitled thereto under provisions of this chapter other than RCW 41.20.0…
RCW 41.20.040 Additional powers of board.
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The board shall, in addition to other powers herein granted, have power:(1) To compel witnesses to attend and testify before it upon all matters connected with the administration of this chapter, in the same manner as provided by law for the taking of testimony in courts of recor…
RCW 41.20.050 Pension on retirement for years of service.
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*** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 5420.SL) ***Whenever a person has been duly appointed, and has served honorably for a period of twenty-five years, as a member, in any capacity, of the regularly constituted police department of a city subject to the provisions of this chapter, the boa…
RCW 41.20.060 Pension on retirement for duty connected disability.
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Whenever any person, while serving as a police officer in any such city becomes physically disabled by reason of any bodily injury received in the immediate or direct performance or discharge of his or her duties as a police officer, or becomes incapacitated for service on accoun…
RCW 41.20.061 Increase in presently payable benefits for service or disability authorized.
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See RCW 41.26.250.
RCW 41.20.065 Pension on retirement for nonduty disability.
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Whenever any person, while serving as a police officer in any such city becomes physically disabled by reason of any bodily injury not incurred in the line of duty, or becomes incapacitated for service, such incapacity not having been caused or brought on by dissipation or abuse,…
RCW 41.20.070 Certificate of disability.
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No person shall be retired, as provided in RCW 41.20.060, or receive any benefit from said fund, unless there shall be filed with said board certificate of his or her disability, which certificate shall be subscribed and sworn to by said person, and by the city physician (if ther…
RCW 41.20.080 Pension on death before or after retirement.
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Whenever any member of the police department of any such city loses his or her life while actually engaged in the performance of duty, or as the proximate result thereof, leaving a surviving spouse or child or children under the age of eighteen years, upon satisfactory proof of s…
RCW 41.20.085 Pension on death before or after retirement—Surviving spouse not formerly covered—"Surviving spouse" defined.
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Whenever any member of the police department of any such city shall die, or shall have heretofore died, or whenever any such member who has been heretofore retired or who is hereafter retired for length of service or a disability, shall have died, or shall die, leaving a survivin…
RCW 41.20.086 Increase in certain presently payable death benefits authorized.
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See RCW 41.26.260.
RCW 41.20.090 Lump sum payment on death before or after retirement.
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Whenever any member of the police department of such city shall, after five years of service in said department, die, his or her surviving spouse or, if there is no surviving spouse, the child or children under the age of eighteen years, or if there is no surviving spouse or chil…
RCW 41.20.100 Examination of disability pensioners—Emergency duty.
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Any person retired for disability under this chapter may be summoned before the board herein provided for, at any time thereafter, and shall submit himself or herself thereto for examination as to his or her fitness for duty, and shall abide the decision and order of said board w…
RCW 41.20.120 Sick benefits.
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Whenever any active member of the police department, or any member *hereafter retired, on account of service, sickness or disability, not caused or brought on by dissipation or abuse, of which the board shall be judge, is confined in any hospital or in his or her home and, whethe…
RCW 41.20.130 Fund created.
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There is created in each city subject to the provisions of this chapter a police relief and pension fund. The fund shall be constituted as follows:A sum equal to six percent thereof shall be deducted monthly from the salary of each police officer by the city treasurer and placed …
RCW 41.20.140 Pension payments monthly—Surplus to general fund.
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Payments provided for in this chapter shall be made monthly upon proper vouchers. If at any time there is more money in the fund provided for in this chapter than is necessary for the purposes of this chapter, then such surplus shall be transferred from such fund to the general f…
RCW 41.20.150 Return of member's contributions—Option to be classified as vested member.
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Whenever any member affected by this chapter terminates his or her employment prior to the completion of twenty-five years of service he or she shall receive seventy-five percent of his or her contributions made after *the effective date of this act and he or she shall not receiv…
RCW 41.20.155 Return of member's contributions—Applicability.
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The provisions of RCW 41.20.050, 41.20.060 and 41.20.150 shall be applicable to all members employed on June 12, 1969, and to those who shall thereafter become members, but shall not apply to any former member who has terminated his or her employment prior to June 12, 1969.[ 2012…
RCW 41.20.160 Credit for membership in private organization acquired by city of first class.
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Any person affected by this chapter who was a member of a police organization operated by a private enterprise which police organization shall be hereafter acquired before September 1, 1959, by a city of the first class as its police department as a matter of public convenience o…
RCW 41.20.170 Transfer of membership.
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*** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 2034-S2.SL) ***Any former employee of a department of a city of the first class who (1) was a member of the employees' retirement system of such city, and (2) is now employed within the police department of such city, may transfer his or her membership…
RCW 41.20.175 Transfer of service credit from firefighters' pension system to city's police pension system.
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*** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 2034-S2.SL) ***A former employee of a fire department of a city of the first class who (1) was a member of the firefighters' pension system created by chapters 41.16 or 41.18 RCW, and (2) is now employed within the police department of such city, will …
RCW 41.20.180 Exemption from taxation and judicial process—Exception—Assignability.
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The right of a person to a pension, an annuity, or retirement allowance, or disability allowance, or death benefits, or any optional benefit, or any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this chapter, and any fund created hereby, and all moneys and…
RCW 41.20.900 Construction—1959 c 6—Benefits retroactively authorized.
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The provisions of *this act are intended to be remedial and procedural and any benefits heretofore paid to recipients hereunder pursuant to any previous act are retroactively included and authorized as a part of *this act.[ 1959 c 6 s 4.]Notes:*Reviser's note: "this act" appears …
RCW 41.20.920 Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
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For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to …
RCW 41.22.010 Legislative findings.
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The career of a police officer is highly stressful, resulting in unacceptable rates of divorce, alcoholism, low morale and suicide. The nature of law enforcement work requires that much information be kept confidential, unfairly burdening the emotional capacity of law enforcement…
RCW 41.22.020 Washington state patrol and the department of fish and wildlife—Volunteer chaplain authorized.
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The Washington state patrol and the department of fish and wildlife may utilize the services of a volunteer chaplain.[ 2009 c 204 s 2; 1985 c 223 s 2.]
RCW 41.22.030 Local law enforcement agencies—Volunteer chaplains authorized.
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The legislature authorizes local law enforcement agencies to use the services of volunteer chaplains associated with an agency.[ 1985 c 223 s 3.]
RCW 41.22.040 Volunteer chaplains—Duties.
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The duties of a volunteer law enforcement chaplain include counseling, training, and crises intervention for law enforcement personnel, their families and the general public.[ 1985 c 223 s 4.]
RCW 41.24.010 Definitions.
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The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Administrative fund" means the volunteer firefighters' and reserve officers' administrative fund created under RCW 41.24.030.(2) "Appropriate legislation" means an ord…
RCW 41.24.020 Enrollment of firefighters—Death, disability, retirement benefits.
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(1) Every municipal corporation maintaining and operating a regularly organized fire department shall make provision by appropriate legislation for the enrollment of every firefighter under the relief provisions of this chapter for the purpose of providing protection for all its …
RCW 41.24.023 Retired participant may resume volunteer service—Board approval required.
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(1) A local municipality may, at its discretion, permit a retired participant to make application to the local board to resume volunteer service as a firefighter, under the following conditions:(a) A retired participant who chooses to resume volunteer service is not eligible for …
RCW 41.24.030 Volunteer firefighters' relief and pension principal fund created—Reserve officers' relief and pension principal fund created—Composition—Investment—Use—Treasurer's report.
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*** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 5998-S.SL) ***(1) The volunteer firefighters' relief and pension principal fund is created in the state treasury as a trust fund for the benefit of the volunteer firefighter and emergency worker participants covered by this chapter consisting of:(a) Al…
RCW 41.24.035 Legal, medical expenses—May be paid from earnings of the principal funds and administrative fund.
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(1) The state board is authorized to pay from the earnings of the principal funds and administrative fund lawful obligations of the system for legal expenses and medical expenses which expenses are primarily incurred for the purpose of protecting the principal funds or are incurr…
RCW 41.24.040 Fees, when payable—Interest—Effect of nonpayment.
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On or before the first day of March of each year, every municipality shall pay such amount as shall be due from it to the principal fund, together with the amounts collected from the participants. A participant shall not forfeit his or her right to participate in the relief provi…
RCW 41.24.050 Emergency medical technicians or first aid vehicle operators—Restriction on retirement system membership.
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No person serving as an emergency medical technician or first aid vehicle operator under chapter 18.73 RCW shall be permitted to join the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system solely on the basis of such service. In no case shall the membership of any fire…
RCW 41.24.060 Board of trustees—How constituted.
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A firefighter board of trustees is created and established to administer this chapter in every municipal corporation maintaining a regularly organized fire department. A firefighter board of trustees shall consist of the mayor, city clerk or comptroller, and one councilmember of …
RCW 41.24.070 Officers of board—Record of proceedings—Forms.
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The mayor or chair of the board or commission of any municipality with a fire department, or his or her designee, shall be chair of the firefighter board of trustees, and the clerk or comptroller or secretary of any such municipality, board, or commission, or his or her designee,…
RCW 41.24.080 Duties of board and state board—Disbursements.
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The board of trustees of each municipal corporation shall provide for enrollment of all members of its fire department under the relief provisions of this chapter; provide for enrollment of all its reserve officers under the relief provisions of this chapter if it has extended th…
RCW 41.24.090 Meetings.
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A board of trustees shall meet on the call of its chair on a regular monthly meeting day when there is business to come before it. The chair shall be required to call a meeting on any regular meeting day at the request of any member of the fund or his or her beneficiary claiming …