Washington Administrative Code › Title 415 - Retirement Systems, Department of › Chapter 415-104 - Law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system › Section 415-104-011 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
All definitions in
				RCW
				41.26.030 and WAC
				415-02-030 apply to terms used in
				this chapter. Other terms relevant to the administration of chapter 41.26 RCW
				are defined in this chapter.
(1)
Commissioned
means that an
			 employee is employed as an officer of a general authority Washington law
			 enforcement agency and is empowered by that employer to enforce the criminal
			 laws of the state of Washington.
(2)
Director of public safety
means a person who is employed on or after January 1, 1993, by a city or town
			 on a full-time, fully compensated basis to administer the programs and
			 personnel of a public safety department.
This definition applies only to cities or towns in which the
				population did not exceed ten thousand at the time the person became employed
				as a director of public safety.
(3)
Elective employer
means the
			 employer of the LEOFF Plan 1 elected official during the member's leave of
			 absence from the LEOFF employer for the purpose of serving in elective
			 office.
(4)
Full-time
			 employee
means an employee who is normally expected to earn basic salary
			 from an employer for a minimum of one hundred sixty hours in a calendar
			 month.
(5)
Fully compensated
			 employee
means an employee who is normally expected to earn a basic
			 monthly salary no less than one hundred sixty times the state minimum hourly
			 wage. Nominal sums including, but not limited to, stipends or ancillary
			 benefits such as insurance or leave accrual, provided to volunteer firefighters
			 are not compensation for the purpose of determining whether a firefighter is
			 fully compensated.
(6)
Left
			 the employ of an employer
as used in
			 RCW
			 41.26.470,
			 41.26.510, and
			 41.26.520 means any break in
			 employment, whether formally separated or not formally separated, due to
			 service in the uniformed services, national guard, military reserves, federal
			 emergency management agency, or national disaster medical system of the United
			 States Department of Health and Human Services.
(7)
LEOFF
means the law
			 enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system established by
			 chapter 41.26 RCW.
(8)
LEOFF
			 employer
means the employer, as defined in
			 RCW
			 41.26.030, who employs the member as a law
			 enforcement officer or firefighter.
(9)
LEOFF Plan 1 elected
			 official
means a LEOFF Plan 1 member who is a civil service employee on
			 leave of absence because he or she has been elected or appointed to an elective
			 public office and who chooses to preserve retirement rights as an active LEOFF
			 member under the procedure described in this chapter.
(10)
Performing service
as used
			 in RCW 41.26.-470, 41.26.510, and 41.26.520 means engaging in activities in
			 response to a disaster, major emergency, special event, federal exercise, or
			 official training after having left the employ of an employer as described in
			 subsection (6) of this section.
(11)
Plan 1 and Plan 2.
(a) "Plan 1" means the law enforcement
			 officers' and firefighters' retirement system providing the benefits and
			 funding provisions covering persons who first became members of the system
			 prior to October 1, 1977.
(b) "Plan
			 2" means the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system
			 providing the benefits and funding provisions covering persons who first became
			 members of the system on and after October 1, 1977.