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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.18 - Firefighters' Relief and Pensions—1955 Act. › 41.18.080 - Payment upon disablement not in line of duty.

RCW 41.18.080
Payment upon disablement not in line of duty.
Any firefighter who has completed his or her probationary period and has been permanently appointed, and sustains a disability not in the performance of his or her duty which renders him or her unable to continue his or her service, may request to be retired by filing a written request with his or her retirement board within sixty days from the date of his or her disability. The board may, upon such request being filed, consult such medical advice as it deems fit and proper. If the board finds the firefighter capable of performing his or her duties, it may refuse to recommend retirement and order the firefighter back to duty. If no request for retirement has been received after the expiration of sixty days from the date of his or her disability, the board may recommend retirement of the firefighter. The board shall give the firefighter a thirty-day written notice of its recommendation, and he or she shall be retired upon expiration of said notice. Upon retirement he or she shall receive a pension equal to fifty percent of his or her basic salary. For a period of ninety days following such disability the firefighter shall receive an allowance from the fund equal to his or her basic salary. He or she shall during said ninety days be provided with such medical, hospital, and nursing care as the board deems proper. No funds shall be expended for such disability if the board determines that the firefighter was gainfully employed or engaged for compensation in other than fire department duty when the disability occurred, or if such disability was the result of dissipation or abuse. Whenever any firefighter shall die as a result of a disability sustained not in the line of duty, his widow or her widower shall receive a monthly pension equal to one-third of his or her basic salary; if such widow or widower has dependent upon her or him for support a child or children of such deceased firefighter, he or she shall receive an additional pension as follows: One child, one-eighth of the deceased's basic salary; two children, one-seventh; three or more children, one-sixth. If there be no widow or widower, monthly payments equal to one-third of the deceased firefighter's basic salary shall be made to his or her child or children. The widow or widower may elect at any time in writing to receive a cash settlement, and if the board after hearing finds it financially beneficial to the pension fund, he or she may receive the sum of five thousand dollars cash in lieu of all future monthly pension payments, and other benefits, including benefits to any child and/or children.
[ 2009 c 156 § 2; 2007 c 218 § 49; 1973 1st ex.s. c 154 § 72; 1965 c 109 § 1; 1961 c 255 § 5; 1955 c 382 § 9.]
NOTES:
Intent—Finding—2007 c 218: See note following RCW 41.08.020.
Severability—1973 1st ex.s. c 154: See note following RCW 2.12.030.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.18 - Firefighters' Relief and Pensions—1955 Act. › 41.18.090 - Examination of disability pensioners—Restoration to active duty.

RCW 41.18.090
Examination of disability pensioners—Restoration to active duty.
The board shall require all firefighters receiving disability pensions to be examined every six months: PROVIDED, That no such examinations shall be required if upon certification by physicians the board shall formally enter upon its records a finding of fact that the disability is and will continue to be of such a nature that return to active duty can never reasonably be expected. All examinations shall be made by physicians duly appointed by the board. If a firefighter shall willfully fail to present himself or herself for examination, within thirty days after being ordered so to do, he or she shall forfeit all rights under this chapter. If such firefighter, upon examination as aforesaid, shall be found fit for service, he or she shall be restored to duty in the same rank held at the time of his or her retirement, or if unable to perform the duties of said rank then, at his or her request, in such other like or lesser rank as may be or become open and available, the duties of which he or she is then able to perform. The board shall thereupon so notify the firefighter and shall require him or her to resume his or her duties as a member of the fire department. If, upon being so notified, such member shall willfully fail to report for employment within ten days, he or she shall forfeit all rights to any benefit under this chapter.
[ 2007 c 218 § 50; 1955 c 382 § 15.]
NOTES:
Intent—Finding—2007 c 218: See note following RCW 41.08.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.18 - Firefighters' Relief and Pensions—1955 Act. › 41.18.100 - Payment on death in line of duty or while retired on account of service-connected disability.

RCW 41.18.100
Payment on death in line of duty or while retired on account of service-connected disability.
In the event a firefighter is killed in the performance of duty, or in the event a firefighter retired on account of service-connected disability shall die from any cause, his widow or her widower shall receive a monthly pension under one of the following applicable provisions: (1) If a firefighter is killed in the line of duty his widow or her widower shall receive a monthly pension equal to fifty percent of his or her basic salary at the time of his or her death; (2) if a firefighter who has retired on account of a service-connected disability dies, his widow or her widower shall receive a monthly pension equal to the amount of the monthly pension such retired firefighter was receiving at the time of his or her death. If she or he at any time so elects in writing and the board after hearing finds it to be financially beneficial to the pension fund, he or she may receive in lieu of all future monthly pension and other benefits, including benefits to child or children, the sum of five thousand dollars in cash. If there be no widow or widower at the time of such firefighter's death or upon the widow's or widower's death the monthly pension benefits provided for under this section shall be paid to and divided among his or her child or children share and share alike, until they reach the age of eighteen or are married, whichever occurs first. A pension payable under the provisions of this section shall not be less than that specified under RCW 41.18.200.
[ 2009 c 156 § 3; 2007 c 218 § 51; 1975 1st ex.s. c 178 § 4; 1973 1st ex.s. c 154 § 73; 1969 ex.s. c 209 § 28; 1965 ex.s. c 45 § 4; 1955 c 382 § 8.]
NOTES:
Intent—Finding—2007 c 218: See note following RCW 41.08.020.
Construction—1975 1st ex.s. c 178: See RCW 41.16.921.
Severability—1973 1st ex.s. c 154: See note following RCW 2.12.030.
Effective date—Severability—Construction—1969 ex.s. c 209: See RCW 41.26.3901, 41.26.3902, and 41.26.3903.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.18 - Firefighters' Relief and Pensions—1955 Act. › 41.18.102 - Applicability of RCW 41.18.040 and 41.18.100.

RCW 41.18.102
Applicability of RCW 41.18.040 and 41.18.100.
The provisions of RCW 41.18.040 and 41.18.100 shall be applicable to all firefighters employed prior to March 1, 1970, but shall not apply to any former firefighter who has terminated his or her employment prior to July 1, 1969.
[ 2007 c 218 § 52; 1969 ex.s. c 209 § 32.]
NOTES:
Intent—Finding—2007 c 218: See note following RCW 41.08.020.
Effective date—Severability—Construction—1969 ex.s. c 209: See RCW 41.26.3901, 41.26.3902, and 41.26.3903.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.18 - Firefighters' Relief and Pensions—1955 Act. › 41.18.130 - Payment on separation—With less than twenty-five years service or less than fifty years of age—Option to be classified as vested firefighter.

RCW 41.18.130
Payment on separation—With less than twenty-five years service or less than fifty years of age—Option to be classified as vested firefighter.
Any firefighter who shall have served for a period of less than twenty-five years, or who shall be less than fifty years of age, and shall resign, or be dismissed from the fire department for a reason other than conviction for a felony, shall be paid the amount of his or her contributions to the fund plus earned interest: PROVIDED, That in the case of any firefighter who has completed twenty years of service, such firefighter, 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 firefighter 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 firefighter'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 firefighter as hereinafter provided, such vested firefighter and his or her spouse or dependent children shall be entitled to all benefits available under chapter 41.18 RCW to a retired firefighter 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 41.18.060 shall be attributable to service connected illness or injury;
(3) Any firefighter electing to become a vested firefighter 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 attached to the position held by the vested firefighter 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.
[ 2007 c 218 § 53; 1969 ex.s. c 209 § 31; 1961 c 255 § 6; 1955 c 382 § 11.]
NOTES:
Intent—Finding—2007 c 218: See note following RCW 41.08.020.
Effective date—Severability—Construction—1969 ex.s. c 209: See RCW 41.26.3901, 41.26.3902, and 41.26.3903.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.18 - Firefighters' Relief and Pensions—1955 Act. › 41.18.140 - Funeral expenses.

RCW 41.18.140
Funeral expenses.
The board shall pay from the firefighters' pension fund upon the death of any active or retired firefighter the sum of five hundred dollars, to assist in defraying the funeral expenses of such firefighter.
[ 2007 c 218 § 54; 1961 c 255 § 7; 1955 c 382 § 13.]
NOTES:
Intent—Finding—2007 c 218: See note following RCW 41.08.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.18 - Firefighters' Relief and Pensions—1955 Act. › 41.18.150 - Credit for military service.

RCW 41.18.150
Credit for military service.
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 forces under conditions other than dishonorable, shall have added and accredited to his or her period of employment as a firefighter his or her period of war or peacetime service in the armed forces: PROVIDED, That such added and accredited service shall not as to any individual exceed five years.
[ 2007 c 218 § 55; 1955 c 382 § 14.]
NOTES:
Intent—Finding—2007 c 218: See note following RCW 41.08.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.18 - Firefighters' Relief and Pensions—1955 Act. › 41.18.160 - Certain firefighters may elect to be covered under other law.

RCW 41.18.160
Certain firefighters may elect to be covered under other law.
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 chapter 41.16 RCW, can do so by handing to and leaving with the firefighters' pension board of his or her municipality a written notice of such intention within sixty days of the effective date of this chapter, or if he or she was on disability retirement under chapter 41.16 RCW, at the effective date of this chapter and has been recalled to active duty by the retirement board, shall give such notice within sixty days of his or her return to active duty, and not otherwise.
[ 2007 c 218 § 56; 1955 c 382 § 17.]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: Effective date of chapter 41.18 RCW is midnight June 8, 1955; see preface 1955 session laws.
Intent—Finding—2007 c 218: See note following RCW 41.08.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.18 - Firefighters' Relief and Pensions—1955 Act. › 41.18.165 - Credit for membership in private organization acquired by municipality.

RCW 41.18.165
Credit for membership in private organization acquired by municipality.
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 is in the public interest to retain the trained personnel of such firefighting organization, shall have added and accredited to his or her period of employment as a firefighter 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 firefighting organization at the time of its acquisition by the municipality and who remain in the service of that municipality until this chapter shall become applicable to such persons.
No such person shall have added and accredited to his or her period of employment as a firefighter his or her period of service with said private enterprise unless he, she, or a third party shall pay to the municipality his or her contribution for the period of such service with the private enterprise at the rate provided in RCW 41.18.030, 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 municipality 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 and accredited service by the amount of those private pension or retirement benefits received. For the purposes of RCW 41.18.030, the date of entry of service shall be deemed the date of entry into service with the private enterprise, which service is accredited by this section, and the amount of contributions for the period of accredited service shall be based on the wages or salary of such person during that added and accredited period of service with the private enterprise.
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 fund to assume its obligations.
[ 2007 c 218 § 57; 1959 c 69 § 1.]
NOTES:
Intent—Finding—2007 c 218: See note following RCW 41.08.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.18 - Firefighters' Relief and Pensions—1955 Act. › 41.18.170 - Application of chapter.

RCW 41.18.170
Application of chapter.
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 department who have not otherwise elected as provided for in RCW 41.18.160, and (3) to firefighters on disability retirement under chapter 41.16 RCW, at the effective date of this chapter, who thereafter shall have been returned to active duty by the retirement board, and who have not otherwise elected as provided for in RCW 41.18.160 within sixty days after return to active duty.
[ 2007 c 218 § 58; 1955 c 382 § 16.]
NOTES:
Intent—Finding—2007 c 218: See note following RCW 41.08.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.18 - Firefighters' Relief and Pensions—1955 Act. › 41.18.180 - Firefighter contributor under prior law may obtain benefits of chapter—Refunds.

RCW 41.18.180
Firefighter contributor under prior law may obtain benefits of chapter—Refunds.
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 has received refunds by reason of selecting the benefits of prior acts shall return the amount of such refunds as a condition to coverage under chapter 255, Laws of 1961.
[ 2007 c 218 § 59; 1961 c 255 § 12.]
NOTES:
Intent—Finding—2007 c 218: See note following RCW 41.08.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.18 - Firefighters' Relief and Pensions—1955 Act. › 41.18.190 - Transfer of membership authorized.

RCW 41.18.190
Transfer of membership authorized.
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 transfer his or her membership from any other pension fund, except the Washington law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system, to the pension fund provided in chapter 41.18 RCW: PROVIDED, That such firefighter transmits written notice of his or her intent to transfer to the pension board of his or her municipality prior to September 1, 1969.
[ 2007 c 218 § 60; 1969 ex.s. c 209 § 41.]
NOTES:
Intent—Finding—2007 c 218: See note following RCW 41.08.020.
Effective date—Severability—Construction—1969 ex.s. c 209: See RCW 41.26.3901, 41.26.3902, and 41.26.3903.
Law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system: Chapter 41.26 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.18 - Firefighters' Relief and Pensions—1955 Act. › 41.18.200 - Minimum pension.

RCW 41.18.200
Minimum pension.
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 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.18 - Firefighters' Relief and Pensions—1955 Act. › 41.18.210 - Transfer of credit from city employees' retirement system to firefighters' pension system.

RCW 41.18.210
Transfer of credit from city employees' retirement system to firefighters' pension system.
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 membership credit from the city employees' retirement system to the firefighter's pension system created by chapters 41.16 and 41.18 RCW by filing a written request with the board of administration and the municipal firefighters' pension board, respectively.
Upon the receipt of such request, the transfer of membership to the city's firefighter's pension system shall be made, together with a transfer of all accumulated contributions credited to such member. The board of administration shall transmit to the municipal firefighters' pension board 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 firefighter's pension system. For the purpose of the transfer contemplated by this section, those affected individuals who have formerly withdrawn funds from the city employees' retirement system shall be allowed to restore contributions withdrawn from that retirement system directly to the firefighter's pension system and receive credit in the firefighter's pension system for their former membership service in the prior system.
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 firefighter's pension 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 such service with the city.
The right of any employee to file a written request for transfer of membership as set forth in this section shall expire December 31, 1974.
[ 2007 c 218 § 61; 1974 ex.s. c 148 § 1.]
NOTES:
Intent—Finding—2007 c 218: See note following RCW 41.08.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.18 - Firefighters' Relief and Pensions—1955 Act. › 41.18.900 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.

RCW 41.18.900
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 § 89.]
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.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities. › 41.20.005 - Definitions.

RCW 41.20.005
Definitions.
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 the basic monthly rate of salary or wages, including longevity pay but not including overtime earnings or special salary or wages.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 209 § 39; 1959 c 78 § 1.]
NOTES:
Effective date—Severability—Construction—1969 ex.s. c 209: See RCW 41.26.3901, 41.26.3902, and 41.26.3903.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities. › 41.20.020 - Officers of board—Annual report.

RCW 41.20.020
Officers of board—Annual report.
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, shall annually report the condition of said fund, the receipts and disbursements on account of the same, together with a complete list of the beneficiaries of said fund, and the amounts paid to each of them.
[ 2012 c 117 § 21; 1973 1st ex.s. c 16 § 2; 1909 c 39 § 2; RRS § 9580.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities. › 41.20.030 - Meetings—Disbursements of fund—Quorum.

RCW 41.20.030
Meetings—Disbursements of fund—Quorum.
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 41.20.050, 41.20.060, 41.20.080 and 41.20.085 for the amounts of money ordered paid to such persons from such fund by said board, which warrants shall state for what purpose such payments are made; it shall keep a record of its proceedings, which record shall be a public record; it shall, at each monthly meeting, send to the treasurer of such city a written or printed list of all persons entitled to payment under provisions of this chapter other than RCW 41.20.050, 41.20.060, 41.20.080 and 41.20.085 from the fund herein provided for, stating the amount of such payments and for what granted, which list shall be certified to and signed by the president and secretary of such board, attested under oath. The treasurer of such city shall thereupon enter a copy of said list upon a book to be kept for that purpose and which shall be known as "the police relief and pension fund book", and the said board shall direct payment of the amounts named therein to the persons entitled thereto, out of such fund. The treasurer shall prepare and enter into such book an additional list showing those persons entitled to payment under RCW 41.20.050, 41.20.060, 41.20.080 and 41.20.085 and shall on the last day of each month issue warrants in the appropriate amounts to such persons. A majority of all the members of said board herein provided for shall constitute a quorum, and have power to transact business.
[ 1973 c 143 § 1; 1911 c 18 § 5; 1909 c 39 § 11; RRS § 9589.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities. › 41.20.040 - Additional powers of board.

RCW 41.20.040
Additional powers of board.
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 record in this state, and its president or any member of the board may administer oaths to such witnesses.
(2) To provide for the payment from the fund of all necessary expenses and printing.
No compensation or emolument shall be paid to any member of the board for any duty required or performed under this chapter.
Each board may make all needful rules and regulations for its guidance in the administration of and in conformity with the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1955 c 69 § 2; 1909 c 39 § 12; RRS § 9590.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities. › 41.20.061 - Increase in presently payable benefits for service or disability authorized.

RCW 41.20.061
Increase in presently payable benefits for service or disability authorized.
See RCW 41.26.250.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities. › 41.20.065 - Pension on retirement for nonduty disability.

RCW 41.20.065
Pension on retirement for nonduty disability.
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, of which the board shall be judge, the board may, upon his or her written request filed with the secretary, or without such written request, if it deems it to be for the benefit of the public, retire such person from the department, and order and direct that he or she be paid from the fund during his or her lifetime, a pension equal to fifty percent of the amount of salary at any time hereafter attached to the position which he or she held in the department at the date of his or her retirement, but not to exceed an amount equivalent to fifty percent of the salary of captain, except as to a position higher than that of captain held for at least three calendar years prior to the date of retirement, in which case as to such position the provisions of RCW 41.20.050 shall apply, and all existing pensions shall be increased to not less than three hundred dollars per month as of April 25, 1973: PROVIDED, That where, at the time of retirement hereafter for disability under this section, such person has served honorably for a period of more than 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 foregoing percentage factors to be applied in computing the pension payable under this section shall be increased by two percent of his or her salary per year for each full year of such additional service, to a maximum of five additional years.
Whenever such disability ceases, the pension shall cease, and such person shall be restored to active service at the same rank he or she held at the time of his or her retirement, and at the current salary attached to said rank at the time of his or her return to active service.
Disability benefits provided for by this chapter shall not be paid when the police officer is disabled while he or she is engaged for compensation in outside work not of a police or special police nature.
[ 2012 c 117 § 24; 1998 c 157 § 4.]
NOTES:
Purpose—1998 c 157 §§ 2-5: See note following RCW 41.20.060.
Effective date—1998 c 157: See note following RCW 41.40.0931.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities. › 41.20.070 - Certificate of disability.

RCW 41.20.070
Certificate of disability.
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 there be one) and two regularly licensed and practicing physicians of such city, and such board may require other evidence of disability before ordering such retirement and payment as aforesaid.
[ 2012 c 117 § 25; 1909 c 39 § 6; RRS § 9584.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities. › 41.20.080 - Pension on death before or after retirement.

RCW 41.20.080
Pension on death before or after retirement.
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 such facts made to it, the board shall order and direct that a pension, equal to one-half of the amount of the salary *at any time hereafter attached to the position which such member held in the police department at the time of his or her death, shall be paid to the surviving spouse for life, or if there is no surviving spouse, or if the surviving spouse shall die, then to the child or children until they are eighteen years of age: PROVIDED, That if such spouse or child or children marry, the person so marrying shall thereafter receive no further pension from the fund: PROVIDED FURTHER, That all existing pensions shall be increased to not less than three hundred dollars per month as of April 25, 1973.
If any member so losing his or her life, leaves no spouse, or child or children under the age of eighteen years, the board shall pay the sum of two hundred dollars toward the funeral expenses of such member.
[ 2012 c 117 § 26; 1973 1st ex.s. c 181 § 5; 1961 c 191 § 3; 1959 c 78 § 5; 1959 c 6 § 3; 1957 c 84 § 3; 1955 c 69 § 6; 1937 c 24 § 3; 1915 c 40 § 3; 1909 c 39 § 7; RRS § 9585.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: The words "at any time hereafter" first appear in the 1961 amendment.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities. › 41.20.085 - Pension on death before or after retirement—Surviving spouse not formerly covered—"Surviving spouse" defined.

RCW 41.20.085
Pension on death before or after retirement—Surviving spouse not formerly covered—"Surviving spouse" defined.
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 surviving spouse or child or children under the age of eighteen years, upon satisfactory proof of such facts made to it, the board shall order and direct that a pension equal to one-third of the amount of salary at any time hereafter attached to the position held by such member in the police department at the time of his or her death or retirement, not to exceed one-third of the salary of captain, shall be paid to the surviving spouse during the surviving spouse's life, and in addition, to the child or children, until they are eighteen years of age, as follows: For one child, one-eighth of the salary on which such pension is based; for two children, a total of one-seventh of said salary; and for three or more children, a total of one-sixth of said salary: PROVIDED, If such spouse or child or children marry, the person so marrying shall receive no further pension from the fund. In case there is no surviving spouse, or if the surviving spouse shall die, the child or children shall be entitled to the spouse's share in addition to the share specified herein until they reach eighteen years of age. No spouse shall be entitled to any payments on the death of a retired officer unless such surviving spouse has been married to such officer for a period of at least five years prior to the date of his or her retirement.
As of April 25, 1973, a surviving spouse not otherwise covered by the provisions of section 2, chapter 78, Laws of 1959, shall be entitled to a pension of three hundred dollars per month.
"Surviving spouse" as used in this section means surviving female or male spouse.
[ 2012 c 117 § 27; 1973 1st ex.s. c 181 § 6; 1969 ex.s. c 209 § 26; 1961 c 140 § 1; 1959 c 78 § 2.]
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Effective date—Severability—Construction—1969 ex.s. c 209: See RCW 41.26.3901, 41.26.3902, and 41.26.3903.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities. › 41.20.090 - Lump sum payment on death before or after retirement.

RCW 41.20.090
Lump sum payment on death before or after retirement.
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 child or children, then his or her parents or unmarried sister or sisters, minor brother or brothers, dependent upon him or her for support, shall be entitled to the sum of one thousand dollars from such fund. This section to apply to members who shall have been retired, for any reason, from active service under the provisions of this chapter.
[ 2012 c 117 § 28; 1959 c 78 § 6; 1937 c 24 § 4; 1915 c 40 § 4; 1911 c 18 § 4; 1909 c 39 § 8; RRS § 9586.]
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Construction—1937 c 24: "Nothing contained in this act shall affect or be construed as affecting the validity of any act done, obligation entered into, or rights accrued, or any proceedings had or pending under the act of which this act is amendatory." [ 1937 c 24 § 6; RRS § 9592-1.]
Severability—1937 c 24: "If any section or part of this act shall be held to be unconstitutional and void, such holding shall not effect [affect] the remaining portions of the act." [ 1937 c 24 § 7; RRS § 9592-2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities. › 41.20.100 - Examination of disability pensioners—Emergency duty.

RCW 41.20.100
Examination of disability pensioners—Emergency duty.
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 with reference thereto; and all members of such police force who may be retired under the provisions of this chapter, shall report to the chief of police of such city where so retired on the first Mondays of April, July, October, and January of each year; and in cases of emergency, may be assigned to and shall perform such duty as said chief of police may direct, and such persons shall have no claim against such city for payment for such duty so performed.
[ 2012 c 117 § 29; 1909 c 39 § 9; RRS § 9587.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions › Chapter 41.20 - Police Relief and Pensions in First-Class Cities. › 41.20.120 - Sick benefits.

RCW 41.20.120
Sick benefits.
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, whether or not so confined, requires nursing, care, or attention, the board shall pay for the active member the necessary hospital, care, and nursing expenses of the member out of the fund; and the board may pay for the retired member hospital, care, and nursing expenses as are reasonable, in the board's discretion. The board may, at its discretion, elect, in lieu of paying some or all such expenses for the retired member, to reimburse the retired member for premiums the member has paid for medical insurance that supplements medicare, including premiums the member has paid for medicare part B coverage. The salary of the active member shall continue while he or she is necessarily confined to the hospital or home or elsewhere during the period of recuperation, as determined by the board, for a period not exceeding six months; after which period the other provisions of this chapter shall apply: PROVIDED, That the board in all cases may have the active or retired member suffering from such sickness or disability examined at any time by a licensed physician or physicians, to be appointed by the board, for the purpose of ascertaining the nature and extent of the sickness or disability, the physician or physicians to report to the board the result of the examination within three days thereafter. Any active or retired member who refuses to submit to such examination or examinations shall forfeit all his or her rights to benefits under this section: PROVIDED FURTHER, That the board shall designate the hospital and medical services available to the police officer who is sick or disabled.
[ 2012 c 117 § 31; 1992 c 22 § 2; 1961 c 191 § 4; 1959 c 78 § 7; 1955 c 69 § 7; 1915 c 40 § 5; 1911 c 18 § 6; 1909 c 39 § 13; RRS § 9591.]
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*Reviser's note: The words "hereafter retired" first appear in the 1961 amendment.
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
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*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.
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
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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.]