Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 41 Public Employment, Civil Service, And Pensions - Chapter 41.28 Retirement Of Personnel In Certain First-Class Cities

41.28.005 Establishment of retirement and pension systems authorized
Any city attaining the status of a first-class city after July 1, 1939, is empowered by this chapter to establish retirement and pension systems for ...

41.28.010 Definitions
Unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, the following words and phrases as hereinafter used in this chapter shall have the following ...

41.28.020 Retirement system created -- Adoption by cities
A retirement system is hereby created and established in each city of the first class in each county with a population of one hundred twenty-five ...

41.28.030 Employees within or excluded from system
(1) With the exception of those employees who are excluded from membership as herein provided, all employees shall become members of the retirement system as ...

41.28.040 Rates of contribution -- Deduction and payment into fund
(1) The normal rate of contribution of members shall be those adopted by the board of administration, subject to the approval of the city council ...

41.28.050 Allowance of service credit
(1) Subject to the following and all other provisions of this chapter, including such rules and regulations as the board shall adopt in pursuance thereof, ...

41.28.060 Board of administration to administer system -- Powers and duties -- Actuarial investigations and valuations -- Reports, records, and accounts
The administration of the retirement system is hereby vested in the board of administration created in RCW 41.28.080. The board shall exercise the powers and ...

41.28.070 Employees' retirement fund created -- Composition
A fund is hereby created and established in all cities of the first class as under this chapter provided to be known as the "employees' ...

41.28.080 Board of administration -- Members -- Duties -- Fiscal affairs
(1) There is hereby created and established a board of administration in each city coming under this chapter, which shall, under the provisions of this ...

41.28.085 Legislative intent -- Investments
In order that the intent of the legislature may be made clear with respect to investments, but without restricting the necessary flexibility that must exist ...

41.28.090 Contributions by city
(1) There shall be paid into the retirement fund by contributions of the city, the amounts necessary to pay all pensions and all other benefits ...

41.28.100 City obligated to contribute
The payments of the city due the retirement fund as provided for in this chapter are hereby made obligations of the city as defined in ...

41.28.110 Payments on discontinuance of service -- Reemployment -- Redeposit
(1) Should the service of a member be discontinued, except by death or retirement, he shall be paid not later than six months after the ...

41.28.120 Retirement for service
Retirement of member for service shall be made by the board of administration as follows: (1) Each member in the city service on June 8, ...

41.28.130 Service retirement allowances
(1) A member, upon retirement from service, shall receive a retirement allowance subject to the provisions of paragraph (2) of this section, which shall consist ...

41.28.140 Retirement for disability
Any member while in city service may be retired by the board of administration for permanent and total disability, either ordinary or accidental, upon examination, ...

41.28.150 Disability retirement allowances -- Grounds for denial
(1) Upon retirement for disability, as hereinabove provided: PROVIDED, The disability is not due to intemperance, wilful misconduct or violation of law, of which the ...

41.28.160 Physical examination of disabled members -- Reentry
(1) The board of administration may at its pleasure require any disability beneficiary under age sixty-two years to undergo medical examination to be made by ...

41.28.170 Optional allowances
A member may elect to receive, in lieu of the retirement allowance provided for in RCW 41.28.130, its actuarial equivalent in the form of a ...

41.28.180 Payments on death of unretired members
Upon the death of any person who has not been retired, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, there shall be paid to his estate, ...

41.28.190 Payments to be made monthly
A pension annuity or a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this chapter, unless otherwise specified herein, shall be payable in monthly installments, and ...

41.28.200 Exemption from process -- Rights not assignable
The right of a person to a pension, an annuity or a retirement allowance, to the return of contributions, the pension, annuity or retirement allowance ...

41.28.205 Benefits payable in accordance with court decree or order of dissolution or legal separation
Benefits under this chapter shall be payable to a spouse or ex-spouse to the extent expressly provided for in any court decree of dissolution or ...

41.28.207 Payments to spouse or ex spouse pursuant to court order
(1) If the board of administration makes payments to a spouse or ex spouse to the extent expressly provided for in any court decree of ...

41.28.210 Estimates of service, compensation, or age
If it shall be impracticable for the board of administration to determine from the records the length of service, the compensation, or the age of ...

41.28.220 Suspension of allowances during other public aid
The payment of any retirement allowance to a member who has been retired from service shall be suspended during the time that the beneficiary is ...

41.28.230 Administrative expense
The city council or city commission shall appropriate annually from the retirement fund the amount it deems necessary for the purpose of paying the expenses ...

41.28.240 Existing systems preserved
Nothing in this chapter shall repeal, supersede, alter, amend or be regarded as a substitute for any existing retirement or pension system, duly established by ...

41.28.900 Severability -- 1939 c 207
If any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses or phrases of this chapter are for any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid, ...

41.28.910 Repeal
All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.[1939 c 207 § 26.] ...

41.28.920 Effective date -- 1939 c 207
The retirement system shall become effective on July 1, 1939, as provided in RCW 41.28.020.[1939 c 207 § 27.] ...