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WA Rev Code § 41.20.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities.|41.20.130 - Fund created.

RCW 41.20.130 Fund created.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 in the fund, but the maximum deduction shall not exceed six percent of the monthly salary of captain.At the time the annual tax levy of the city is made, the city council, or other legislative body, shall order the transfer of an amount of money into the fund, sufficient with the salary deductions, to meet the financial requirements thereof:(1) From moneys collected or received from all licenses issued;(2) From fines and forfeitures collected or received in money for violation of city ordinances.[ 1959 c 78 § 8; 1955 c 69 § 8; 1933 c 30 § 1; 1929 c 101 § 3; 1923 c 54 § 1; 1915 c 40 § 1; 1909 c 39 § 3; RRS § 9581.]
WA Rev Code § 41.20.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities.|41.20.140 - Pension payments monthly—Surplus to general fund.

RCW 41.20.140 Pension payments monthly—Surplus to general fund.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 fund of the city: PROVIDED, That at all times enough money shall be kept in said fund to meet all payments provided for in this chapter.[ 1911 c 18 § 7; 1909 c 39 § 14; RRS § 9592.]
WA Rev Code § 41.20.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities.|41.20.150 - Return of member's contributions—Option to be classified as vested member.

RCW 41.20.150 Return of member's contributions—Option to be classified as vested member.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 receive any contributions made prior thereto: PROVIDED, That in the case of any member who has completed twenty years of service, such member, upon termination for any cause except for a conviction of a felony, shall have the option of electing, in lieu of recovery of his or her contributions as herein provided, to be classified as a vested member in accordance with the following provisions:(1) Written notice of such election shall be filed with the board within thirty days after the effective date of such member's termination;(2) During the period between the date of his or her termination and the date upon which he or she becomes a retired member as hereinafter provided, such vested member and his or her spouse or dependent children shall be entitled to all benefits available under chapter 41.20 RCW to a retired member and his or her spouse or dependent children with the exception of the service retirement allowance as herein provided for: PROVIDED, That any claim for medical coverage under RCW 41.20.120 shall be attributable to service connected illness or injury;(3) Any member electing to become a vested member shall be entitled at such time as he or she otherwise would have completed twenty-five years of service had he or she not terminated, to receive a service retirement allowance computed on the following basis: Two percent of the amount of salary at any time hereafter attached to the position held by the vested member for the year preceding the date of his or her termination, for each year of service rendered prior to the date of his or her termination. At such time the vested member shall be regarded as a retired member and, in addition to the retirement allowance herein provided for, shall continue to be entitled to all such other benefits as are by chapter 41.20 RCW made available to retired members.[ 2012 c 117 § 32; 1969 c 123 § 3; 1955 c 69 § 4.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: The words "the effective date of this act" first appear in 1955 c 69 § 4, which became effective midnight June 8, 1955.
WA Rev Code § 41.20.155 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities.|41.20.155 - Return of member's contributions—Applicability.

RCW 41.20.155 Return of member's contributions—Applicability.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 c 117 § 33; 1969 c 123 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 41.20.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities.|41.20.160 - Credit for membership in private organization acquired by city of first class.

RCW 41.20.160 Credit for membership in private organization acquired by city of first class.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 or necessity, where it is in the public interest to retain the trained personnel of such police organization, shall have added to his or her period of employment as computed under this chapter his or her period of service with said private enterprise, except that this shall apply only to those persons who are in the service of such police organization at the time of its acquisition by the city of the first class and who remain in the service of that city until this chapter shall become applicable to such persons.No such person shall have added to his or her period of employment as computed under this chapter his or her period of service with said private enterprise unless he or she or a third party shall pay to the city his or her contribution for the period of such service with the private enterprise, or, if he or she shall be entitled to any private pension or retirement benefits as a result of such service with the private enterprise, unless he or she agrees at the time of his or her employment by the city to accept a reduction in the payment of any benefits payable under this chapter that are based in whole or in part on such added service by the amount of those private pension or retirement benefits received. The rate of such contribution shall be two percent of the wage or salary of such person during that added period of service with the private enterprise before midnight, June 8, 1955, and four and one-half percent of such wage or salary after midnight, June 8, 1955. Such contributions shall be paid into the police relief and pension fund and shall be held subject to the provisions of RCW 41.20.150, except that all such contributions shall be deemed to have been made after June 8, 1955. Such contributions may be invested in investments permitted under chapter 35.39 RCW and may be kept invested until required to meet payments of benefits to such persons.The city may receive payments for these purposes from a third party and shall make from such payments contributions with respect to such prior service as may be necessary to enable the police relief and pension fund to assume its obligations.[ 2012 c 117 § 34; 1983 c 3 § 92; 1959 c 71 § 1.]NOTES:Severability—1959 c 71: "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." [ 1959 c 71 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 41.20.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities.|41.20.170 - Transfer of membership.

RCW 41.20.170 Transfer of membership.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 from the city employees' retirement system to the city's police relief and pension fund system by filing a written request with the board of administration and the board of trustees, respectively, of the two systems.Upon the receipt of such request, the transfer of membership to the city's police relief and pension fund system shall be made, together with a transfer of all accumulated contributions credited to such member. The board of administration of the city's employees' retirement system shall transmit to the board of trustees of the city's police relief and pension fund system a record of service credited to such member which shall be computed and credited to such member as a part of his or her period of employment in the city's police relief and pension fund system. For the purpose of the transfer contemplated by this section, the affected individuals shall be allowed to restore withdrawn contributions to the city employees' retirement system and reinstate their membership service records.Any employee so transferring shall have all the rights, benefits and privileges that he or she would have been entitled to had he or she been a member of the city's police relief and pension fund system from the beginning of his or her employment with the city.No person so transferring shall thereafter be entitled to any other public pension, except that provided by chapter 41.26 RCW or social security, which is based upon service with the city.The right of any employee to file a written request for transfer of membership as set forth herein shall expire December 31, 1973.[ 2012 c 117 § 35; 1973 c 143 § 2; 1969 ex.s. c 209 § 27; 1963 c 82 § 1.]NOTES:Effective date—Severability—Construction—1969 ex.s. c 209: See RCW 41.26.3901, 41.26.3902, and 41.26.3903.
WA Rev Code § 41.20.175 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities.|41.20.175 - Transfer of service credit from firefighters' pension system to city's police pension system.

RCW 41.20.175 Transfer of service credit from firefighters' pension system to city's police pension system.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 be regarded as having received membership service credit for such service to the fire department in the city's police and relief pension system at the time he or she recovers such service credit by paying withdrawn contributions to the Washington law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system pursuant to *RCW 41.26.030(28).[ 2012 c 117 § 36; 1974 ex.s. c 148 § 2.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: RCW 41.26.030 was amended by 2018 c 230 § 1, changing subsection (28) to subsection (29).
WA Rev Code § 41.20.180 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities.|41.20.180 - Exemption from taxation and judicial process—Exception—Assignability.

RCW 41.20.180 Exemption from taxation and judicial process—Exception—Assignability.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 investments and income thereof, are exempt from any state, county, municipal, or other local tax, and shall not be subject to execution, garnishment, attachment, the operation of bankruptcy or insolvency laws, or other process of law whatsoever, whether the same be in actual possession of the person or be deposited or loaned and shall be unassignable: PROVIDED, That benefits under this chapter shall be payable to a spouse or ex-spouse to the extent expressly provided for in any court decree of dissolution or legal separation or in any court order or court-approved property settlement agreement incident to any court decree of dissolution or legal separation.[ 2012 c 159 § 19; 1979 ex.s. c 205 § 2; 1965 c 33 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 41.20.900 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities.|41.20.900 - Construction—1959 c 6—Benefits retroactively authorized.

RCW 41.20.900 Construction—1959 c 6—Benefits retroactively authorized.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 § 4.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: "this act" appears in chapter 6, Laws of 1959, which reenacted RCW 41.20.050, 41.20.060, and 41.20.080. These sections were subsequently amended by chapter 78, Laws of 1959.
WA Rev Code § 41.20.920 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities.|41.20.920 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.

RCW 41.20.920 Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.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 marital relationships and married persons, and references to dissolution of marriage shall apply equally to state registered domestic partnerships that have been terminated, dissolved, or invalidated, to the extent that such interpretation does not conflict with federal law. Where necessary to implement chapter 521, Laws of 2009, gender-specific terms such as husband and wife used in any statute, rule, or other law shall be construed to be gender neutral, and applicable to individuals in state registered domestic partnerships.[ 2009 c 521 § 91.]NOTES:Effective dates—2009 c 521 §§ 5-8, 79, 87-103, 107, 151, 165, 166, 173-175, and 190-192: See note following RCW 2.10.900.
WA Rev Code § 41.22.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.22 - Law Enforcement Chaplains.|41.22.010 - Legislative findings.

RCW 41.22.010 Legislative findings.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 personnel. Police officers may become the hidden victims of society because of their daily work with crisis.The legislature finds that law enforcement chaplains can provide emotional support for law enforcement personnel, including counseling, stress management, and family life counseling. The legislature also finds that law enforcement chaplains can serve as a crisis intervention resource for personnel of police, fire, and corrections departments, and medical examiners or coroners.[ 1985 c 223 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 41.22.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.22 - Law Enforcement Chaplains.|41.22.020 - Washington state patrol and the department of fish and wildlife—Volunteer chaplain authorized.

RCW 41.22.020 Washington state patrol and the department of fish and wildlife—Volunteer chaplain authorized.The Washington state patrol and the department of fish and wildlife may utilize the services of a volunteer chaplain.[ 2009 c 204 § 2; 1985 c 223 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 41.22.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.22 - Law Enforcement Chaplains.|41.22.030 - Local law enforcement agencies—Volunteer chaplains authorized.

RCW 41.22.030 Local law enforcement agencies—Volunteer chaplains authorized.The legislature authorizes local law enforcement agencies to use the services of volunteer chaplains associated with an agency.[ 1985 c 223 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 41.22.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.22 - Law Enforcement Chaplains.|41.22.040 - Volunteer chaplains—Duties.

RCW 41.22.040 Volunteer chaplains—Duties.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 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 41.24.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.24 - Volunteer Firefighters' and Reserve Officers' Relief and Pensions.|41.24.020 - Enrollment of firefighters—Death, disability, retirement benefits.

RCW 41.24.020 Enrollment of firefighters—Death, disability, retirement benefits.(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 firefighters and their families from death, sickness, injury, or disability arising in the performance of their duties as firefighters. Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit any municipality from providing such additional protection for relief as it may deem proper.(2) Any municipal corporation maintaining and operating a regularly organized fire department may make provision by appropriate legislation allowing any member of its fire department to enroll under the retirement pension provisions of this chapter.(3) Every municipal corporation shall make provisions for the collection and payment of the fees provided under this chapter, and shall continue to make such provisions for all firefighters who come under this chapter as long as they shall continue to be members of its fire department.[ 1999 c 148 § 2; 1989 c 91 § 9; 1945 c 261 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 9578-16.]NOTES:Effective date—1989 c 91: See note following RCW 41.24.010.
WA Rev Code § 41.24.023 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.24 - Volunteer Firefighters' and Reserve Officers' Relief and Pensions.|41.24.023 - Retired participant may resume volunteer service—Board approval required.

RCW 41.24.023 Retired participant may resume volunteer service—Board approval required.(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 disability payments pursuant to RCW 41.24.150 in the event that the retired participant becomes disabled as the result of the performance of his or her duties.(b) Prior to permitting a retired participant to resume volunteer service, a local board shall require that a retired participant submit to annual examinations by a physician or other medical staff. A retired participant may resume volunteer service only if the examining physician or other medical staff certifies each year that the retired participant meets appropriate medical and health standards. Physicians and medical staff that examine retired participants shall be reimbursed by the local municipality, and report to the local and state boards, consistent with RCW 41.24.110.(c) A local municipality that elects to permit retired participants to resume volunteer service shall be required to pay an additional annual charge based on the increased cost of medical and relief benefits for retired participants. The amount of the additional annual charge shall be set by the state board, in consultation with the state actuary.(2) No period of volunteer service performed by a retired participant may be used in calculating a retirement pension under RCW 41.24.170.(3) The legislature reserves the right to amend or repeal this section in the future and no participant, retired participant, or beneficiary has a contractual right to resume volunteer service while in receipt of a retirement pension.[ 2010 c 60 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 41.24.035 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.24 - Volunteer Firefighters' and Reserve Officers' Relief and Pensions.|41.24.035 - Legal, medical expenses—May be paid from earnings of the principal fund and administrative fund.

RCW 41.24.035 Legal, medical expenses—May be paid from earnings of the principal fund and administrative fund.The state board is authorized to pay from the earnings of the principal fund 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 fund or are incurred in compliance with statutes governing such funds.The term "legal expense" includes, but is not limited to, legal services provided through the legal services revolving fund, fees for expert witnesses, travel expenses, fees for court reporters, cost of transcript preparation, and reproduction of documents.The term "medical costs" includes, but is not limited to, expenses for the medical examination or reexamination of members or retirees, the costs of preparation of medical reports, and fees charged by medical professionals for attendance at discovery proceedings or hearings.[ 1999 c 148 § 4; 1989 c 194 § 2.]NOTES:Effective date—1989 c 194 §§ 1, 2, and 3: See note following RCW 41.24.030.
WA Rev Code § 41.24.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions|Chapter 41.24 - Volunteer Firefighters' and Reserve Officers' Relief and Pensions.|41.24.040 - Fees, when payable—Interest—Effect of nonpayment.

RCW 41.24.040 Fees, when payable—Interest—Effect of nonpayment.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 provisions of this chapter by reason of the municipal corporation failing to pay the amount due from it. A participant shall not forfeit his or her right to participate in the retirement pension provisions of this chapter until after March 1st of the year in which the municipality fails to make the required payments. Where a municipality has failed to pay or remit the annual fees required within the time provided, such delinquent payment shall bear interest at the rate of one percent per month from March 1st until paid or remitted. Where a participant has forfeited his or her right to participate in the retirement provisions of this chapter that participant may be reinstated so as to participate to the same extent as if all fees had been paid by the payment of all back fees with interest at the rate of one percent per month provided he or she has at all times been otherwise eligible.[ 1999 c 148 § 5; 1995 c 11 § 5; 1989 c 91 § 10; 1945 c 261 § 4; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 9578-18. Prior: 1935 c 121 § 10; RRS § 9578-10.]NOTES:Effective date—1989 c 91: See note following RCW 41.24.010.