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WA Rev Code § 2.08.240 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.08 - Superior Courts.|2.08.240 - Limit of time for decision.

RCW 2.08.240 Limit of time for decision.Every case submitted to a judge of a superior court for his or her decision shall be decided by him or her within ninety days from the submission thereof: PROVIDED, That if within said period of ninety days a rehearing shall have been ordered, then the period within which he or she is to decide shall commence at the time the cause is submitted upon such rehearing, and upon willful failure of any such judge so to do, he or she shall be deemed to have forfeited his or her office.[ 2011 c 336 § 21; 1890 p 344 § 12; RRS § 39.]NOTES:Decisions, when to be made: State Constitution Art. 4 § 20.Payment of county's portion: RCW 2.08.100.
WA Rev Code § 2.08.250 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.08 - Superior Courts.|2.08.250 - Report to judges of supreme court.

RCW 2.08.250 Report to judges of supreme court.Superior judges shall, on or before the first day of November in each year, report in writing to the judges of the supreme court, such defects and omissions in the laws as their experience may suggest.[ 1890 p 344 § 14; RRS § 11050.]NOTES:Annual report to supreme court: State Constitution Art. 4 § 25.
WA Rev Code § 2.10.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.10 - Judicial Retirement System.|2.10.010 - Short title.

RCW 2.10.010 Short title.This chapter shall be known and cited as the Washington Judicial Retirement System Act.[ 1971 ex.s. c 267 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 2.10.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.10 - Judicial Retirement System.|2.10.020 - Purpose.

RCW 2.10.020 Purpose.The purpose of this chapter is to effect a system of retirement from active service.[ 1971 ex.s. c 267 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 2.10.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.10 - Judicial Retirement System.|2.10.040 - System created—Coverage—Exclusions.

RCW 2.10.040 System created—Coverage—Exclusions.The Washington judicial retirement system is hereby created for judges appointed or elected under the provisions of chapters 2.04, 2.06, and 2.08 RCW. All judges first appointed or elected to the courts covered by these chapters on or after August 9, 1971, and prior to July 1, 1988, shall be members of this system: PROVIDED, That following February 23, 1984, and until July 1, 1988, any newly elected or appointed judge holding credit toward retirement benefits under chapter 41.40 RCW shall be allowed thirty days from the effective date of election or appointment to such judgeship to make an irrevocable choice filed in writing with the department of retirement systems to continue coverage under that chapter and to be permanently excluded from coverage under this chapter for the current or any future term as a judge. All judges first appointed or elected to the courts covered by these chapters on or after July 1, 1988, shall not be members of this system, but may become members of the public employees' retirement system under chapter 41.40 RCW on the same basis as other elected officials as provided in RCW 41.40.023(3).Any member of the retirement system who is serving as a judge as of July 1, 1988, has the option on or before December 31, 1989, of becoming a member of the retirement system created in chapter 41.40 RCW, subject to the conditions imposed by RCW 41.40.095. The option may be exercised by making an irrevocable choice filed in writing with the department of retirement systems to be permanently excluded from this system for all service as a judge. In the case of a former member of the retirement system who is not serving as a judge on July 1, 1988, the written election must be filed within one year after reentering service as a judge.[ 1988 c 109 § 2; 1984 c 37 § 1; 1971 ex.s. c 267 § 4.]NOTES:Effective date—1988 c 109: See note following RCW 2.10.030.Transfers to system, prior service credit: RCW 2.10.220.
WA Rev Code § 2.10.052 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.10 - Judicial Retirement System.|2.10.052 - Retirement board abolished—Transfer of powers, duties, and functions.

RCW 2.10.052 Retirement board abolished—Transfer of powers, duties, and functions.The Washington judicial retirement board established by this chapter is abolished. All powers, duties, and functions of the board are transferred to the director of retirement systems.[ 1982 c 163 § 1.]NOTES:Severability—1982 c 163: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 1982 c 163 § 24.]Effective date—1982 c 163: "This act shall take effect June 30, 1982." [ 1982 c 163 § 25.]
WA Rev Code § 2.10.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.10 - Judicial Retirement System.|2.10.070 - Retirement board—Duties.

RCW 2.10.070 Retirement board—Duties.The retirement board shall perform the following duties:(1) Keep in convenient form such data as shall be deemed necessary for actuarial evaluation purposes;(2) As of July 1st of every even-numbered year have an actuarial evaluation made as to the mortality and service experience of the beneficiaries under this chapter and the various accounts created for the purpose of showing the financial status of the retirement fund;(3) Adopt for the retirement system the mortality tables and such other tables as shall be deemed necessary;(4) Keep a record of its proceedings, which shall be open to inspection by the public;(5) Serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for expense incident to service as individual members thereof;(6) From time to time adopt such rules and regulations not inconsistent with this chapter for the administration of this chapter and for the transaction of the business of the board.No member of the board shall be liable for the negligence, default, or failure of any employee or of any member of the board to perform the duties of his or her office and no member of the board shall be considered or held to be an insurer of the funds or assets of the retirement system, but shall be liable only for his or her own personal default or individual failure to perform his or her duties as such member and to exercise reasonable diligence in providing for safeguarding of the funds and assets of the system.[ 2011 c 336 § 22; 1971 ex.s. c 267 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 2.10.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.10 - Judicial Retirement System.|2.10.080 - Funds and securities.

RCW 2.10.080 Funds and securities.(1) The state treasurer shall be the custodian of all funds and securities of the retirement system. Disbursements from this fund shall be made by the state treasurer upon receipt of duly authorized vouchers.(2) The state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to deposit any portion of the funds of the retirement system not needed for immediate use in the same manner and subject to all the provisions of law with respect to the deposit of state funds by such treasurer. All investment income earned by such portion of the retirement system's funds as may be deposited by the state treasurer in pursuance of authority herewith given shall be collected by him or her and placed to the credit of the retirement fund, less the allocation to the state treasurer's service fund pursuant to RCW 43.08.190.(3) For the purpose of providing amounts to be used to defray the cost of administration, the judicial retirement board shall ascertain at the beginning of each biennium and request from the legislature an appropriation sufficient to cover estimated expenses for the said biennium.[ 2012 c 187 § 16; 1991 sp.s. c 13 § 114; 1981 c 3 § 22; 1973 1st ex.s. c 103 § 1; 1971 ex.s. c 267 § 8.]NOTES:Effective dates—Severability—1991 sp.s. c 13: See notes following RCW 18.08.240.Intent of amendment—1981 c 3: "The amendment of RCW 2.10.080, 2.12.070, 41.26.060, 41.26.070, and 41.40.080 by this 1980 act is intended solely to provide for the investment of state funds and is not intended to alter the administration of the affected retirement systems by the department of retirement systems under chapter 41.50 RCW." [ 1981 c 3 § 44.]Effective dates—Severability—1981 c 3: See notes following RCW 43.33A.010.Severability—1973 1st ex.s. c 103: "If any provision of this 1973 amendatory act, or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act, or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 1973 1st ex.s. c 103 § 20.]
WA Rev Code § 2.10.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.10 - Judicial Retirement System.|2.10.090 - Funding.

RCW 2.10.090 Funding.The total liability, as determined by the actuary, of this system shall be funded as follows:(1) Every judge shall have deducted from his or her monthly salary an amount equal to seven and one-half percent of said salary.(2) The state as employer shall contribute an equal amount on a quarterly basis.(3) The state shall in addition guarantee the solvency of said fund and the legislature shall make biennial appropriations from the general fund of amounts sufficient to guarantee the making of retirement payments as herein provided for if the money in the judicial retirement fund shall become insufficient for that purpose, but such biennial appropriation may be conditioned that sums appropriated may not be expended unless the money in the judicial retirement fund shall become insufficient to meet the retirement payments.[ 2011 c 336 § 23; 1971 ex.s. c 267 § 9.]NOTES:Members' retirement contributions—Pick up by employer: RCW 41.04.445.
WA Rev Code § 2.10.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.10 - Judicial Retirement System.|2.10.100 - Retirement for service or age.

RCW 2.10.100 Retirement for service or age.Retirement of a member for service shall be made by the retirement board as follows:(1) Any judge who, on August 9, 1971 or within one year thereafter, shall have completed as a judge the years of actual service required under chapter 2.12 RCW and who shall elect to become a member of this system, shall in all respects be deemed qualified to retire under this retirement system upon the member's written request.(2) Any member who has completed fifteen or more years of service may be retired upon the member's written request but shall not be eligible to receive a retirement allowance until the member attains the age of sixty years.(3) Any member who attains the age of seventy-five years shall be retired at the end of the calendar year in which the member attains such age.(4) Any judge who involuntarily leaves service or who is appointed to a position as a federal judge or federal magistrate at any time after having served an aggregate of twelve years shall be eligible to a partial retirement allowance computed according to RCW 2.10.110 and shall receive this allowance upon the attainment of the age of sixty years and fifteen years after the beginning of the member's judicial service.[ 1995 c 305 § 1; 1988 c 109 § 3; 1971 ex.s. c 267 § 10.]NOTES:Retroactive application—1995 c 305: "Section 1 of this act shall apply retroactively to October 1, 1994." [ 1995 c 305 § 2.]Effective date—1988 c 109: See note following RCW 2.10.030.
WA Rev Code § 2.10.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.10 - Judicial Retirement System.|2.10.110 - Service retirement allowance.

RCW 2.10.110 Service retirement allowance.A member upon retirement for service shall receive a monthly retirement allowance computed according to his or her completed years of service, as follows: Ten years, but less than fifteen years, three percent of his or her final average salary for each year of service; fifteen years and over, three and one-half percent of his or her final average salary for each year of service: PROVIDED, That in no case shall any retired member receive more than seventy-five percent of his or her final salary except as increased as a result of the cost of living increases as provided by this chapter.[ 2011 c 336 § 24; 1971 ex.s. c 267 § 11.]
WA Rev Code § 2.10.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.10 - Judicial Retirement System.|2.10.120 - Retirement for disability—Procedure.

RCW 2.10.120 Retirement for disability—Procedure.(1) Any judge who has served as a judge for a period of ten or more years, and who shall believe he or she has become physically or otherwise permanently incapacitated for the full and efficient performance of the duties of his or her office, may file with the retirement board an application in writing, asking for retirement. Upon receipt of such application the retirement board shall appoint one or more physicians of skill and repute, duly licensed to practice their professions in the state of Washington, who shall, within fifteen days thereafter, for such compensation as may be fixed by the board, to be paid out of the fund herein created, examine said judge and report in writing to the board their findings in the matter. If the physicians appointed by the board find the judge to be so disabled and the retirement board concurs in this finding the judge shall be retired.(2) The retirement for disability of a judge, who has served as a judge for a period of ten or more years, by the supreme court under Article IV, section 31 of the Constitution of the state of Washington (House Joint Resolution No. 37, approved by the voters November 4, 1980), with the concurrence of the retirement board, shall be considered a retirement under subsection (1) of this section.[ 2011 c 336 § 25; 1982 c 18 § 1; 1971 ex.s. c 267 § 12.]NOTES:Reviser's note: House Joint Resolution No. 37, approved by the voters November 4, 1980, became Amendment 71 to the state Constitution.
WA Rev Code § 2.10.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.10 - Judicial Retirement System.|2.10.130 - Retirement for disability allowance.

RCW 2.10.130 Retirement for disability allowance.Upon a judge being retired for disability as provided in RCW 2.10.120, he or she shall receive from the fund an amount equal to one-half of his or her final average salary.[ 2011 c 336 § 26; 1971 ex.s. c 267 § 13.]
WA Rev Code § 2.10.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.10 - Judicial Retirement System.|2.10.140 - Survivor's benefits.

RCW 2.10.140 Survivor's benefits.(1) A surviving spouse of any judge holding such office, or if he or she dies after having retired and who, at the time of his or her death, has served ten or more years in the aggregate, shall receive a monthly allowance equal to fifty percent of the retirement allowance the retired judge was receiving, or fifty percent of the retirement allowance the active judge would have received had he or she been retired on the date of his or her death, but in no event less than twenty-five percent of the final average salary that the deceased judge was receiving: PROVIDED, That said surviving spouse had been married to the judge for a minimum of two years at time of death.(2) A judge holding office on July 1, 1988, may make an irrevocable choice to relinquish the survivor benefits provided by this section in exchange for the survivor benefits provided by RCW 2.10.144 and 2.10.146 by indicating the choice in a written declaration submitted to the department of retirement systems by December 31, 1988.(3) The surviving spouse of any judge who died in office after January 1, 1986, but before July 1, 1988, may elect to receive the survivor benefit provided in RCW 2.10.144(1).[ 2011 c 336 § 27; 1988 c 109 § 7; 1984 c 37 § 2; 1971 ex.s. c 267 § 14.]NOTES:Application—1988 c 109 § 7(1): "The amendment to RCW 2.10.140(1) in section 7(1), chapter 109, Laws of 1988 shall apply on a retroactive basis to the surviving spouse of any judge who retired before July 1, 1988, if the surviving spouse had not remarried before July 1, 1988." [ 1989 c 139 § 1.]Effective date—1988 c 109: See note following RCW 2.10.030.Application—1984 c 37 § 2: "Section 2 of this 1984 act applies in respect to each surviving spouse who first applies for benefits under RCW 2.10.140 after January 1, 1984." [ 1984 c 37 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 2.10.144 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.10 - Judicial Retirement System.|2.10.144 - Payment of accumulated contributions or retirement allowance upon death—Election.

RCW 2.10.144 Payment of accumulated contributions or retirement allowance upon death—Election.(1) If a judge dies before the date of retirement, the amount of the accumulated contributions standing to the judge's credit at the time of death shall be paid to the member's estate, or such person or persons, trust, or organization as the judge has nominated by written designation duly executed and filed with the department of retirement systems. If there is no such designated person or persons still living at the time of the judge's death, or if the judge fails to file a new beneficiary designation subsequent to marriage, remarriage, dissolution of marriage, divorce, or reestablishment of membership following termination by withdrawal or retirement, the judge's credited accumulated contributions shall be paid to the surviving spouse as if in fact the spouse had been nominated by written designation or, if there is no such surviving spouse, then to the judge's legal representatives.(2) Upon the death in service of any judge who is qualified but has not applied for a service retirement allowance or has completed ten years of service at the time of death, the designated beneficiary, or the surviving spouse as provided in subsection (1) of this section, may elect to waive the payment provided by subsection (1) of this section. Upon such an election, a joint and one hundred percent survivor option under RCW 2.10.146 shall automatically be given effect as if selected for the benefit of the surviving spouse or dependent who is the designated beneficiary, except that if the judge is not then qualified for a service retirement allowance, the option II benefit shall be based upon the actuarial equivalent of the sum necessary to pay the accrued regular retirement allowance commencing when the deceased judge would have first qualified for a service retirement allowance. However, subsection (1) of this section, unless elected, shall not apply to any judge who has applied for a service retirement and thereafter dies between the date of separation from service and the judge's effective retirement date, where the judge has selected a survivorship option under RCW 2.10.146(1)(b). In those cases, the beneficiary named in the judge's final application for service retirement may elect to receive either a cash refund or monthly payments according to the option selected by the judge.[ 1995 c 144 § 20; 1990 c 249 § 13; 1988 c 109 § 8.]NOTES:Findings—1990 c 249: See note following RCW 2.10.146.Effective date—1988 c 109: See note following RCW 2.10.030.
WA Rev Code § 2.10.155 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.10 - Judicial Retirement System.|2.10.155 - Suspension of retirement allowance upon employment—Exceptions—Reinstatement—Pro tempore service.

RCW 2.10.155 Suspension of retirement allowance upon employment—Exceptions—Reinstatement—Pro tempore service.(1) No judge shall be eligible to receive the judge's monthly service or disability retirement allowance if the retired judge is employed:(a) For more than eight hundred ten hours in a calendar year as a pro tempore judge; or(b) In an eligible position as defined in RCW 41.40.010 or 41.32.010, or as a law enforcement officer or firefighter as defined in RCW 41.26.030.(2) Subsection (1) of this section notwithstanding, a previously elected judge of the superior court who retired before June 7, 1990, leaving a pending case in which the judge had made discretionary rulings may hear the pending case as a judge pro tempore without having his or her retirement allowance suspended.(3) If a retired judge's benefits have been suspended under this section, his or her benefits shall be reinstated when the retiree terminates the employment that caused his or her benefits to be suspended. Upon reinstatement, the retired judge's benefits shall be actuarially recomputed pursuant to the rules adopted by the department.(4) The department shall adopt rules implementing this section.[ 1990 c 274 § 14; 1988 c 109 § 10.]NOTES:Findings—Construction—1990 c 274: See notes following RCW 41.32.010.Application—Reservation—1990 c 274 §§ 11, 12, 14, and 15: See note following RCW 41.40.690.Effective date—1988 c 109: See note following RCW 2.10.030.
WA Rev Code § 2.10.165 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.10 - Judicial Retirement System.|2.10.165 - Refund of certain contributions.

RCW 2.10.165 Refund of certain contributions.If a judge who was a member of this system left the system before July 1, 1988, and neither the judge nor the judge's surviving spouse: (1) Was eligible at that time to receive a benefit under this chapter; or (2) has received an amount under a sundry claims appropriation from the state legislature intended as a refund of the judge's contributions paid under RCW 2.10.090(1); then the judge or the judge's surviving spouse may apply to the department for and receive a refund of such contributions.[ 1991 c 159 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 2.10.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 2 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2.10 - Judicial Retirement System.|2.10.170 - Cost of living adjustment.

RCW 2.10.170 Cost of living adjustment.Effective July 1, 1972, and of each succeeding year, every retirement allowance which has been in effect for one year or more shall be adjusted to that dollar amount which bears the ratio to its original dollar amount which the retirement board finds to exist between the index for the previous calendar year and the index for the calendar year prior to the date the retirement allowance became payable: PROVIDED, That the amount of increase or decrease in any one year shall not exceed three percent of the then payable retirement allowance: AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That this cost of living adjustment shall not reduce any pension below that amount which was payable at time of retirement.[ 1971 ex.s. c 267 § 17.]