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 […]
RCW 41.20.010 Board of trustees—Composition. (1) The mayor or his or her designated representative who shall be an elected official of the city, and the clerk, treasurer, president of the city council or mayor pro tem of each city of the first class, or in case any such city has no city council, the commissioner […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
RCW 41.20.050 Pension on retirement for years of service. Whenever a person has been duly appointed, and has served honorably for a period of twenty-five years, as a member, in any capacity, of the regularly constituted police department of a city subject to the provisions of this chapter, the board, after hearing, if one is […]
RCW 41.20.060 Pension on retirement for duty connected disability. Whenever any person, while serving as a police officer in any such city becomes physically disabled by reason of any bodily injury received in the immediate or direct performance or discharge of his or her duties as a police officer, or becomes incapacitated for service on […]
RCW 41.20.061 Increase in presently payable benefits for service or disability authorized. See RCW 41.26.250.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
RCW 41.20.086 Increase in certain presently payable death benefits authorized. See RCW 41.26.260.
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 […]
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 […]
RCW 41.20.110 Withdrawal of pension—Grounds. Whenever any person who shall have received any benefit from said fund shall be convicted of any felony, or shall become an habitual drunkard, or shall fail to report himself or herself for examination for duty as required herein, unless excused by the board, or shall disobey the requirements of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
