Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 41 Public Employment, Civil Service, And Pensions - Chapter 41.20 Police Relief And Pensions In First-Class Cities

  • 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 ...
  • 41.20.010 Board of trustees -- Composition
    (1) The mayor or his designated representative who shall be an elected official of the city, and the clerk, treasurer, president of the city council ...
  • 41.20.020 Officers of board -- Annual report
    The mayor, or his designated representative, shall be ex officio chairman, the clerk shall be ex officio secretary, and the treasurer shall be ex officio ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 41.20.060 Pension on retirement for duty connected disability
    Whenever any person, while serving as a policeman in any such city becomes physically disabled by reason of any bodily injury received in the immediate ...
  • 41.20.061 Increase in presently payable benefits for service or disability authorized
    See RCW 41.26.250. ...
  • 41.20.065 Pension on retirement for nonduty disability
    Whenever any person, while serving as a policeman in any such city becomes physically disabled by reason of any bodily injury not incurred in the ...
  • 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 ...
  • 41.20.080 Pension on death before or after retirement
    Whenever any member of the police department of any such city loses his life while actually engaged in the performance of duty, or as the ...
  • 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 ...
  • 41.20.086 Increase in certain presently payable death benefits authorized
    See RCW 41.26.260. ...
  • 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 surviving spouse or, if ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 41.20.150 Return of member's contributions -- Option to be classified as vested member
    Whenever any member affected by this chapter terminates his employment prior to the completion of twenty-five years of service he shall receive seventy-five percent of ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 41.20.175 Transfer of service credit from firemen's 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 fireman's pension system created ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 41.20.910 Severability -- 1959 c 6
    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 ...

Last modified: April 7, 2009