Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 48 Insurance - Chapter 48.62 Local Government Insurance Transactions

48.62.011 Legislative intent -- Construction
This chapter is intended to provide the exclusive source of local government entity authority to individually or jointly self-insure risks, jointly purchase insurance or reinsurance, ...

48.62.021 Definitions
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Local government entity" or "entity" means every unit of ...

48.62.031 Authority to self-insure -- Options -- Risk manager
(1) The governing body of a local government entity may individually self-insure, may join or form a self-insurance program together with other entities, and may ...

48.62.034 Joint self-insurance program -- Actions authorized
(1) For the purpose of carrying out a joint self-insurance program, a joint self-insurance program and a separate legal entity created under RCW 48.62.031 each ...

48.62.036 Authority to form or join a self-insurance risk pool -- When section not applicable
(1) A nonprofit corporation may form or join a self-insurance risk pool with one or more nonprofit corporations or with a local government entity or ...

48.62.041 Property and liability advisory board -- Creation -- Membership -- Duties
(1) The property and liability advisory board is created, consisting of the insurance commissioner and the state risk manager, or their designees, as ex officio ...

48.62.051 Health and welfare advisory board -- Creation -- Membership -- Duties
(1) The health and welfare advisory board is created consisting of the insurance commissioner and the state risk manager, or their designees, as ex officio ...

48.62.061 Rule making by state risk manager -- Standards
The state risk manager, in consultation with the property and liability advisory board, shall adopt rules governing the management and operation of both individual and ...

48.62.071 Program approval required -- State risk manager -- Plan of management and operation
Before the establishment of a joint self-insurance program covering property or liability risks by local government entities, or an individual or joint local government self-insured ...

48.62.081 Multistate program participants -- Requirements
A local government entity may participate in a joint self-insurance program covering property or liability risks with similar local government entities from other states if ...

48.62.091 Program approval or disapproval -- Procedures -- Annual report
(1) Within one hundred twenty days of receipt of a plan of management and operation, the state risk manager shall either approve or disapprove the ...

48.62.101 Access to information -- Executive sessions -- Public records act
(1) All self-insurance programs governed by this chapter may provide for executive sessions in accordance with chapter 42.30 RCW to consider litigation and settlement of ...

48.62.111 Investments -- Designated treasurer -- Deposit requirements -- Bond
(1) The assets of a joint self-insurance program governed by this chapter may be invested only in accordance with the general investment authority that participating ...

48.62.121 General operating regulations -- Employee remuneration -- Governing control -- School districts -- Use of agents and brokers -- Health care services -- Trusts
(1) No employee or official of a local government entity may directly or indirectly receive anything of value for services rendered in connection with the ...

48.62.123 Existing benefit program established as a trust -- Risk manager -- Limited extension of deadline for compliance
No local government self-insured employee health and welfare benefit program established as a trust by a local government entity or entities prior to July 25, ...

48.62.125 Educational service districts -- Rules -- Superintendent of public instruction
All rules adopted by the superintendent of public instruction by January 1, 1992, that apply to self-insurance programs of educational service districts remain in effect ...

48.62.131 Preexisting programs -- Notice to state auditor
Every local government entity that has established a self-insurance program not subject to the prior approval requirements of this chapter shall provide written notice to ...

48.62.141 Insufficient assets -- Program requirement
Every joint self-insurance program covering liability or property risks, excluding multistate programs governed by RCW 48.62.081, shall provide for the contingent liability of participants in ...

48.62.151 Insurance premium taxes -- Exemption
A joint self-insurance program approved in accordance with this chapter is exempt from insurance premium taxes, from fees assessed under chapter 48.02 RCW, from chapters ...

48.62.161 Establishment of fee to cover costs -- Boards -- State risk manager
(1) The state risk manager shall establish and charge an investigation fee in an amount necessary to cover the costs for the initial review and ...

48.62.171 Dissemination of information -- Civil immunity
(1) Any person who files reports or furnishes other information required under Title 48 RCW, required by the risk manager or the state auditor under ...

48.62.900 Effective date, implementation, application -- 1991 sp.s. c 30
(1) This act shall take effect January 1, 1992, but the state risk manager shall take all steps necessary to implement this act on its ...

48.62.901 Severability -- 1991 sp.s. c 30
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 ...