Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.010
Short title
This chapter shall be known and cited as the Washington Judicial Retirement System Act.
Revised Code of Washington Chapter 2.10 — Judicial Retirement System
Washington · statute · Wash. Rev. Code ch. 2.10 · 25 active provisions
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.020
Purpose
The purpose of this chapter is to effect a system of retirement from active service.
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.030
Definitions
(1) "Accumulated contributions" means the total amount deducted from the judge's monthly salary pursuant to RCW 2.10.090, together with the regular interest thereon from July 1, 1988, as determined by the director of the department of retirement systems.(2) "Beneficiary" means any person in receipt of a retirement allo…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.040
System created—Coverage—Exclusions
The Washington judicial retirement system is hereby created for judges appointed or elected under the provisions of chapters 2.04, 2.06, and 2.08 RCW. All judges first appointed or elected to the courts covered by these chapters on or after August 9, 1971, and prior to July 1, 1988, shall be members of this system: PRO…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.052
Retirement board abolished—Transfer of powers, duties, and functions
The Washington judicial retirement board established by this chapter is abolished. All powers, duties, and functions of the board are transferred to the director of retirement systems.
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.070
Retirement board—Duties
The retirement board shall perform the following duties:(1) Keep in convenient form such data as shall be deemed necessary for actuarial evaluation purposes;(2) As of July 1st of every even-numbered year have an actuarial evaluation made as to the mortality and service experience of the beneficiaries under this chapter…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.080
Funds and securities
(1) The state treasurer shall be the custodian of all funds and securities of the retirement system. Disbursements from this fund shall be made by the state treasurer upon receipt of duly authorized vouchers.(2) The state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to deposit any portion of the funds of the retirement…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.090
Funding
The total liability, as determined by the actuary, of this system shall be funded as follows:(1) Every judge shall have deducted from his or her monthly salary an amount equal to seven and one-half percent of said salary.(2) The state as employer shall contribute an equal amount on a quarterly basis.(3) The state shall…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.100
Retirement for service or age
Retirement of a member for service shall be made by the retirement board as follows:(1) Any judge who, on August 9, 1971 or within one year thereafter, shall have completed as a judge the years of actual service required under chapter 2.12 RCW and who shall elect to become a member of this system, shall in all respects…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.110
Service retirement allowance
A member upon retirement for service shall receive a monthly retirement allowance computed according to his or her completed years of service, as follows: Ten years, but less than fifteen years, three percent of his or her final average salary for each year of service; fifteen years and over, three and one-half percent…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.120
Retirement for disability—Procedure
(1) Any judge who has served as a judge for a period of ten or more years, and who shall believe he or she has become physically or otherwise permanently incapacitated for the full and efficient performance of the duties of his or her office, may file with the retirement board an application in writing, asking for reti…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.130
Retirement for disability allowance
Upon a judge being retired for disability as provided in RCW 2.10.120, he or she shall receive from the fund an amount equal to one-half of his or her final average salary.
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.140
Survivor's benefits
(1) A surviving spouse of any judge holding such office, or if he or she dies after having retired and who, at the time of his or her death, has served ten or more years in the aggregate, shall receive a monthly allowance equal to fifty percent of the retirement allowance the retired judge was receiving, or fifty perce…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.144
Payment of accumulated contributions or retirement allowance upon death—Election
(1) If a judge dies before the date of retirement, the amount of the accumulated contributions standing to the judge's credit at the time of death shall be paid to the member's estate, or such person or persons, trust, or organization as the judge has nominated by written designation duly executed and filed with the de…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.146
Election of option for payment of retirement or disability allowance—Retirement allowance adjustment
(1) Upon making application for a service retirement allowance under RCW 2.10.100 or a disability allowance under RCW 2.10.120, a judge who is eligible therefor shall make an election as to the manner in which such service retirement shall be paid from among the following designated options, calculated so as to be actu…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.155
Suspension of retirement allowance upon employment—Exceptions—Reinstatement—Pro tempore service. (Effective until June 30, 2029.)
(1) No judge shall be eligible to receive the judge's monthly service or disability retirement allowance if the retired judge is employed:(a) For more than eight hundred ten hours in a calendar year as a pro tempore judge; or(b) In an eligible position as defined in RCW 41.40.010 or 41.32.010, or as a law enforcement o…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.165
Refund of certain contributions
If a judge who was a member of this system left the system before July 1, 1988, and neither the judge nor the judge's surviving spouse: (1) Was eligible at that time to receive a benefit under this chapter; or (2) has received an amount under a sundry claims appropriation from the state legislature intended as a refund…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.170
Cost-of-living adjustment
Effective July 1, 1972, and of each succeeding year, every retirement allowance which has been in effect for one year or more shall be adjusted to that dollar amount which bears the ratio to its original dollar amount which the retirement board finds to exist between the index for the previous calendar year and the ind…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.180
Benefits exempt from taxation and judicial process—Exceptions—Deductions for group insurance premiums
(1) Except as provided in subsections (2), (3), (4), and (5) of this section, the right of a person to a retirement allowance, disability allowance, or death benefit, the retirement, disability or death allowance itself, any optional benefit, any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of thi…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.190
Hearing prior to judicial review—Required—Notice
Any person aggrieved by any final decision of the retirement board must, before petitioning for judicial review, file with the director of the retirement system by mail or personally within sixty days from the day such decision was communicated to such person, a notice for a hearing before the retirement board. The not…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.200
Hearing prior to judicial review—Conduct
A hearing shall be held by the department of retirement systems, or an authorized representative, in the county of the residence of the claimant at a time and place designated by the director. Such hearings shall be de novo and shall conform to the provisions of chapter 34.05 RCW. The retirement system may appear in al…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.210
Hearing prior to judicial review—No bond required
No bond of any kind shall be required of a claimant appealing to the superior court, the court of appeals, or the supreme court from a finding of the retirement board affecting such claimant's right to retirement or disability benefits.
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.220
Transfer to system—Prior service credit
(1) Any member of the Washington public employees' retirement system who is eligible to participate in the judicial retirement system may, by written request filed with the retirement boards of the two systems respectively, transfer such membership to the judicial retirement system. Upon the receipt of such request, th…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.230
Cessation of benefits upon appointment or election to court
Any person receiving retirement benefits from this system who is appointed or elected to a court under chapter 2.04, 2.06, or 2.08 RCW shall upon the first day of entering such office become a member of this system and his or her retirement benefits shall cease. Pro tempore service as a judge of a court of record shall…
Wash. Rev. Code § 2.10.900
Construction—Domestic relations terms—2009 c 521
For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married person…