Washington · statute · Wash. Rev. Code ch. 41.26A · 60 active provisions
This chapter applies to members of the restated law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system. Membership in the system is limited to those persons who were members of plan 1 of the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system under chapter 41.26 RCW prior to June 30, 2029.
This chapter shall be known and cited as the "restated law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system act."
As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context:(1) "Accumulated contributions" means the employee's contributions made by a member, including any amount paid under RCW 41.50.165(2), plus accrued interest credited thereon.(2) "Actuarial reserve" means a method of financing a pensi…
The term "minimum medical and health standards" means minimum medical and health standards adopted by the department under this chapter.
The restated law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system is hereby created for firefighters and law enforcement officers.(1) Notwithstanding RCW 41.26A.030(21), all firefighters and law enforcement officers employed as such on or after March 1, 1970, on a full time fully compensated basis in this stat…
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law after February 19, 1974, no law enforcement officer or firefighter, may become eligible for coverage in the pension system established by this chapter, until the individual has met and has been certified as having met minimum medical and health standards: PROVIDED, That an…
By July 31, 1971, the director of retirement systems shall adopt minimum medical and health standards for membership coverage into the Washington law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system. In adopting such standards the director of retirement systems shall consider existing standards recommended by…
Nothing in RCW 41.26A.035, 41.26A.045, and 41.26A.046 shall apply to any firefighters or law enforcement officers who are employed as such on or before August 1, 1971, as long as they continue in such employment; nor to promotional appointments after becoming a member in the police or fire department of any employer no…
(1) A two hundred fourteen thousand dollar death benefit shall be paid to the member's estate, or such person or persons, trust or organization as the member shall have nominated by written designation duly executed and filed with the department. If there be no such designated person or persons still living at the time…
(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) of this section, the right of a person to a retirement allowance, disability allowance, or death benefit, to the return of accumulated contributions, the retirement, disability, or death allowance itself, any optional benefit, any other right accrued or accruing to any person unde…
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 decision of the director affecting such claimant's right to retirement or disability benefits.
(1) The annual compensation taken into account in calculating retiree benefits under this system shall not exceed the limits imposed by section 401(a)(17) of the federal internal revenue code for qualified trusts.(2) The department shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this section.
Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, persons who fail to:(1) Establish allowable membership service not previously credited;(2) Restore all or a part of that previously credited membership service represented by withdrawn contributions; or(3) Restore service credit represented by a lump sum payment in lieu of…
A member shall not receive a disability retirement benefit under RCW 41.26A.120, 41.26A.125, or 41.26A.130 if the disability is the result of criminal conduct by the member committed after April 21, 1997.
Any employer, member or beneficiary who shall knowingly make false statements or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of the retirement system in an attempt to defraud the retirement system, is guilty of a class B felony punishable according to chapter 9A.20 RCW.
(1) Except as set forth under subsection (2) of this section, the total liability of the plan 1 system shall be funded as follows:(a) Every plan 1 member shall have deducted from each payroll a sum equal to six percent of his or her basic salary for each pay period.(b) Every employer shall contribute monthly a sum equa…
Retirement of a member for service shall be made by the department as follows:(1) Any member having five or more service credit years of service and having attained the age of fifty years shall be eligible for a service retirement allowance and shall be retired upon the member's written request effective the first day…
(1) A member upon retirement for service shall receive a monthly retirement allowance computed according to his or her completed creditable service credit years of service as follows: Five years but under ten years, one-twelfth of one percent of his or her final average salary for each month of service; ten years but u…
(1) At the time of retirement, plan 1 members may purchase an optional actuarially equivalent life annuity benefit from the Washington law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system plan 1 retirement fund established in RCW 41.50.075. A minimum payment of twenty-five thousand dollars is required.(2) Subj…
(1) All claims for disability shall be acted upon and either approved or disapproved by either type of disability board authorized to be created in this section.(a) Each city having a population of twenty thousand or more shall establish a disability board having jurisdiction over all members employed by those cities a…
(1) The director of retirement systems shall adopt rules, in accordance with chapter 34.05 RCW, under which each disability board shall execute its disability retirement duties under this chapter. The rules shall include, but not be limited to, the following:(a) Standards governing the type and manner of presentation o…
Any member, regardless of age or years of service may[,] be retired by the disability board, subject to approval by the director, for any disability incurred in the line of duty which has been continuous since his or her discontinuance of service and which renders the member unable to continue service. No disability re…
Any member, regardless of age or years of service, may be retired by the disability board, subject to approval by the director as provided in this section, for any disability not incurred in the line of duty which has been continuous since discontinuance of service and which renders the member unable to continue servic…
(1) Upon retirement for disability a member shall be entitled to receive a monthly retirement allowance computed as follows: (a) A basic amount of fifty percent of final average salary at time of disability retirement, and (b) an additional five percent of final average salary for each child as defined in RCW 41.26A.03…
(1) A disabled member who believes that his or her disability has ceased in accordance with RCW 41.26A.130(3) may make application to the disability board which originally found the member to be disabled, for a determination that the disability has ceased.(2) Every order of a disability board determining that a member'…