Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 41 Public Employment, Civil Service, And Pensions - Chapter 41.44 Statewide City Employees' Retirement

41.44.010 Title of chapter
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Statewide City Employees' Retirement System Law".[1947 c 71 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1947 § ...

41.44.020 Purpose of chapter
The purpose of this chapter is to provide for an actuarially sound system for the payment of annuities and other benefits to officers and employees ...

41.44.030 Terms defined
As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context: (1) "Retirement system" means the statewide city employees retirement system ...

41.44.040 System created -- Operative date
A retirement system is hereby authorized for employees of cities, same to become operative after the requisite city or cities or combination thereof, have signified ...

41.44.050 Election to participate
Any city or town may elect to participate in the retirement system established by this chapter: PROVIDED, That a first-class city may establish or maintain ...

41.44.060 Persons excluded
Police officers in first-class cities and all city firefighters shall be excluded from the provisions of this chapter, except those employees of the fire department ...

41.44.070 Board of trustees
(1) The board of trustees shall consist of seven members, one of whom shall be the state insurance commissioner, ex officio; three elective city officials ...

41.44.080 Powers and duties of board -- Compensation -- Liability
The administration of the system is hereby vested in the board of trustees created in RCW 41.44.070 of this chapter and the board shall: (1) ...

41.44.090 Contributions by cities -- Withdrawal from system
(1) There shall be paid into the retirement fund by contributions of each city the amounts necessary to pay the following: (a) Contributions equal to ...

41.44.100 Retirement fund -- Deposit -- Investment -- Cost
(1) A fund is hereby created and established to be known as the "statewide city employees retirement fund," and shall consist of all moneys paid ...

41.44.105 Supplemental benefits fund
(1) The board of trustees shall establish, in addition to the several benefits provided for, an additional and separate fund to be known as the ...

41.44.110 Membership
(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, membership of this retirement system shall be composed of the following groups of employees in any participating ...

41.44.120 Prior service credit
(1) Subject to subsections (4) and (5) of this section the following members shall be entitled to prior service credit: (a) Each member in service ...

41.44.130 Contributions by employees
(1) The normal rates of contribution of members shall be based on sex and age at time of entry into the system, which age shall ...

41.44.140 Retirement for service
Retirement of a member for service shall be made by the board as follows: (1) Each member included in the miscellaneous personnel in service on ...

41.44.150 Allowance on retirement for service
(1) A member upon retirement for service, shall receive a retirement allowance subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, which shall consist ...

41.44.160 Retirement for disability
Any member who has at least ten years of creditable service within the fifteen years immediately preceding retirement and has not attained the age of ...

41.44.170 Allowance on retirement for disability
On retirement for permanent and total disability not incurred in line of duty a member shall receive a retirement allowance which shall consist of: (1) ...

41.44.180 Examination of disability beneficiary -- Reentry
(1) The board may, at its pleasure, require any disability beneficiary under age sixty-two in the miscellaneous personnel and under age fifty-five in the uniformed ...

41.44.190 Withdrawal from system -- Reentry -- Payment on death of member
(1) Should service of a member of the miscellaneous personnel be discontinued except by death or retirement, he shall be paid six months after the ...

41.44.200 Withdrawal -- Procedure as to city's contribution
Whenever a member withdraws his accumulated normal contributions the matching contributions of the city so released shall be transferred to a reserve account created for ...

41.44.210 Benefit on death in line of duty
Upon the death of any member who dies from injuries or disease arising out of or incurred in the performance of his duty or duties, ...

41.44.220 Optional allowance on retirement
A member may elect to receive in lieu of the retirement allowance provided for in RCW 41.44.150, its actuarial equivalent in the form of a ...

41.44.230 Monthly payments
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 ...

41.44.240 Rights immune from legal process -- Exceptions
The right of a person to a pension, annuity or a retirement allowance, to the return of contribution, the pension, annuity or retirement allowance itself, ...

41.44.250 Suspension of retirement allowance
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 ...

41.44.260 Merger of existing or new systems into statewide system -- Contract
The council or other legislative body of any city or town in which there has been established or may hereafter be established by ordinance or ...

41.44.270 Agreements between board and cities which accept social security act benefits
Should any member city of the statewide city employees retirement system established pursuant to this chapter, hereafter take advantage of any benefits lawfully available to ...

41.44.300 System abolished -- Date -- Transfer of assets, liabilities and responsibilities
Notwithstanding any provisions of chapter 41.44 RCW to the contrary, the statewide employees' retirement system shall no longer exist after January 1, 1972, at which ...