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Chapter 41.40 RCW

WASHINGTON PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM

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"PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO PLAN 1, PLAN 2, AND PLAN 3"
HTMLPDF 41.40.005Provisions applicable to "plan 1," "plan 2," and "plan 3."
HTMLPDF 41.40.010Definitions.
HTMLPDF 41.40.015Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
HTMLPDF 41.40.020System created—Administration.
HTMLPDF 41.40.023Membership.
HTMLPDF 41.40.025Membership in system—Charter school employers and employees.
HTMLPDF 41.40.028Nonelective position employees employed for at least nine months—Deemed in eligible position, when.
HTMLPDF 41.40.034Purchase of additional service credit—Costs—Rules.
HTMLPDF 41.40.035Service credit prohibited for certain members of committees, boards, and commissions and for certain appointive and elective officials.
HTMLPDF 41.40.037Service by retirees—Break in employment requirement—Reduction of retirement allowance upon reemployment—Reestablishment of membership.
HTMLPDF 41.40.038Duty disability retirement recipients—Continued service credit.
HTMLPDF 41.40.042Members agree to deductions.
HTMLPDF 41.40.048Employer's contribution—Computation—Billing.
HTMLPDF 41.40.052Exemption from taxation and judicial process—Exceptions—Assignability—Deductions authorized.
HTMLPDF 41.40.054Disability retirement—Criminal conduct.
HTMLPDF 41.40.055Penalty for false statements.
HTMLPDF 41.40.056Establishment of service credit—Former employees—Employers admitted before July 23, 1995.
HTMLPDF 41.40.057Establishment of service credit—Current and former employees—Employers admitted after July 23, 1995.
HTMLPDF 41.40.058Transfer of service credit from statewide city employees' retirement system.
HTMLPDF 41.40.059Credit for service in Seattle's police relief and pension fund system.
HTMLPDF 41.40.061Credit for service in Seattle's police relief and pension fund system—Terms and conditions.
HTMLPDF 41.40.062Optional entry of system by political subdivisions or associations of political subdivisions—Procedure—School districts declared employers and eligible employees members of system—Exception.
HTMLPDF 41.40.068Hearing prior to appeal—Required—Notice.
HTMLPDF 41.40.073Hearing prior to appeal—Conduct of hearing.
HTMLPDF 41.40.078Judicial review in accordance with administrative procedure act.
HTMLPDF 41.40.082Appeal—No bond required.
HTMLPDF 41.40.088Education employment—Service credit—Computation.
HTMLPDF 41.40.092Transfer of cadet service credit to Washington state patrol retirement system.
HTMLPDF 41.40.0931Death benefit—Course of employment as a police officer—Occupational disease or infection.
HTMLPDF 41.40.0932Death benefit—Course of employment—Occupational disease or infection.
HTMLPDF 41.40.095Transfer of membership from judicial retirement system.
HTMLPDF 41.40.096Law enforcement officers—Dual membership—Plan 1 exception.
HTMLPDF 41.40.098Transfer of former service from judicial retirement system.
HTMLPDF 41.40.102Effect of certain accumulated vacation leave on retirement benefits.
HTMLPDF 41.40.103Benefit calculation—Limitation.
HTMLPDF 41.40.104Establishing, restoring service credit.
HTMLPDF 41.40.1041Prior service for plan 2 or 3 members—One-half service credit.
HTMLPDF 41.40.105Chapter not applicable to officers and employees of state convention and trade center.
HTMLPDF 41.40.108Higher education classified employees—Membership in the public employees' retirement system.
HTMLPDF 41.40.109Retirement system employer—Termination of status.
HTMLPDF 41.40.111Retirement system employer—Unit of government.
HTMLPDF 41.40.113Public safety employees' retirement system—Election—Membership.
HTMLPDF 41.40.124Discontinuing judicial retirement account plan contributions—Additional benefit—One-time irrevocable election—Justices and judges.
HTMLPDF 41.40.127Additional benefit for district or municipal court judges—One-time irrevocable election.
HTMLPDF 41.40.129Emergency medical services employee of a consortium of local governments—Credit for service prior to July 27, 2003.
HTMLPDF 41.40.131Purchase of life annuity benefit.
"PLAN 1"
HTMLPDF 41.40.145Provisions applicable to plan 1.
HTMLPDF 41.40.150Termination of membership—Restoration of service credit.
HTMLPDF 41.40.160Creditable service.
HTMLPDF 41.40.163Purchase of service credit—Service at Washington State University.
HTMLPDF 41.40.170Credit for service in military or uniformed services.
HTMLPDF 41.40.175Service credit for paid leave of absence—Application to elected officials of labor organizations.
HTMLPDF 41.40.180Retirement—Length of service.
HTMLPDF 41.40.183Annual increase amount—Legislature's rights reserved—No additional increases after June 30, 2011.
HTMLPDF 41.40.185Retirement allowances—Members retiring after February 25, 1972.
HTMLPDF 41.40.188Retirement allowance—Options—Retirement allowance adjustment—Court-approved property settlement.
HTMLPDF 41.40.189Retirement allowance—Adjustment eligibility.
HTMLPDF 41.40.190Retirement allowance—In lieu of allowance provided in RCW 41.40.185.
HTMLPDF 41.40.191Retirement allowance—Members with thirty years of service—Irrevocable election.
HTMLPDF 41.40.193Dates upon which retirement allowances accrue.
HTMLPDF 41.40.197Retirement allowance—Annual increases restricted after July 1, 2010—Eligibility.
HTMLPDF 41.40.1971Definition—"Beneficiary."
HTMLPDF 41.40.1984Minimum retirement allowance—Annual adjustment—Persons who become beneficiaries after June 30, 1995.
HTMLPDF 41.40.1985Permanent retirement allowance adjustment.
HTMLPDF 41.40.1986Permanent increase for specified beneficiaries age seventy or over.
HTMLPDF 41.40.1987Monthly benefit increase.
HTMLPDF 41.40.200Retirement for disability in line of duty—Applicability to certain judges.
HTMLPDF 41.40.210Duty disability retirement allowance for disability after age sixty.
HTMLPDF 41.40.220Allowance on retirement for duty disability—Before sixty.
HTMLPDF 41.40.230Nonduty disability—Applicability to certain judges.
HTMLPDF 41.40.235Nonduty disability retirement allowance—Amount—Maximum—Death benefit.
HTMLPDF 41.40.250Allowance on retirement for nonduty disability—Election.
HTMLPDF 41.40.260Withdrawal from system—Refund of contributions—Waiver of allowance, when.
HTMLPDF 41.40.262Elected officials—Restoration of withdrawn contributions.
HTMLPDF 41.40.270Death before retirement or within sixty days following application for disability retirement—Military service—Payment of contributions to nominee, surviving spouse, or legal representative—Waiver of payment, effect—Benefits.
HTMLPDF 41.40.280Department may withhold refunds of contributions.
HTMLPDF 41.40.300Benefits offset by workers' compensation or similar benefits.
HTMLPDF 41.40.310Periodical examination of disability beneficiaries—Benefits upon resumption of gainful employment.
HTMLPDF 41.40.320Disability beneficiary—Restoration to service.
HTMLPDF 41.40.330Contributions.
HTMLPDF 41.40.363Employer's contributions—Labor guild, association or organization.
HTMLPDF 41.40.404Justices or judges retirement allowance—In lieu of RCW 41.40.185.
HTMLPDF 41.40.408District or municipal court judges retirement allowances—In lieu of RCW 41.40.185.
"PLAN 2"
HTMLPDF 41.40.610Provisions applicable to plan 2.
HTMLPDF 41.40.620Computation of the retirement allowance.
HTMLPDF 41.40.625Lump sum retirement allowance—Reentry—Conditions for reinstatement of service.
HTMLPDF 41.40.630Retirement for service.
HTMLPDF 41.40.633Member with terminal illness—Removal from system.
HTMLPDF 41.40.640Postretirement cost of living.
HTMLPDF 41.40.660Options for payment of retirement allowances—Retirement allowance adjustment—Court-approved property settlement.
HTMLPDF 41.40.670Earned disability allowance—Applicability to certain judges—Disposition upon death of recipient.
HTMLPDF 41.40.680Application for and effective date of retirement allowances.
HTMLPDF 41.40.690Suspension of retirement allowance upon reemployment—Exceptions—Reinstatement.
HTMLPDF 41.40.700Death benefits.
HTMLPDF 41.40.710Service credit for paid leave of absence, officers of labor organizations, unpaid leave of absence, military service.
HTMLPDF 41.40.720Vested membership.
HTMLPDF 41.40.730Refund of contributions.
HTMLPDF 41.40.740Reentry.
HTMLPDF 41.40.748Commercial vehicle enforcement officers—Limited optional transfer to Washington state patrol retirement system.
HTMLPDF 41.40.749Certain commissioned officers—Limited optional transfer to Washington state patrol retirement system.
HTMLPDF 41.40.750Transfer of membership and service credit—Restoration of contributions and service credit.
HTMLPDF 41.40.760End of participation in judicial retirement account plan—Newly elected or appointed judges or justices.
HTMLPDF 41.40.763End of participation in chapter 41.28 RCW—Newly elected or appointed judges.
HTMLPDF 41.40.767Justices or judges retirement allowance—In lieu of RCW 41.40.620.
HTMLPDF 41.40.770District or municipal court judges retirement allowance—In lieu of RCW 41.40.620.
"PLAN 3"
HTMLPDF 41.40.780Provisions applicable to plan 3—Plan 3 elements.
HTMLPDF 41.40.785Membership in plan 2 or plan 3—Irrevocable choice—Default.
HTMLPDF 41.40.787Right to waive benefit—Irrevocable choice.
HTMLPDF 41.40.790Computation of retirement allowance.
HTMLPDF 41.40.795Transfer period and basis—Additional transfer payment.
HTMLPDF 41.40.798Higher education employees—Option to transfer to plan 3—Limitation on supplemental benefits under RCW 28B.10.400.
HTMLPDF 41.40.801Application for and effective date of retirement allowances.
HTMLPDF 41.40.805Leaves of absence—Military service.
HTMLPDF 41.40.811Purchased service credit—Allocation.
HTMLPDF 41.40.815Lump sum payments—Reentry.
HTMLPDF 41.40.820Retirement eligibility.
HTMLPDF 41.40.823Member with terminal illness—Removal from system.
HTMLPDF 41.40.825Disability allowance—Death of recipient.
HTMLPDF 41.40.830Restored, purchased service credit under plan 2—Transfer to plan 3.
HTMLPDF 41.40.835Death benefits.
HTMLPDF 41.40.840Postretirement cost of living.
HTMLPDF 41.40.845Options for payment of retirement allowances—Court-approved property settlement.
HTMLPDF 41.40.850Suspension of retirement allowance upon reemployment—Exception—Reinstatement.
HTMLPDF 41.40.870Discontinuing judicial retirement account plan contributions—Additional benefit—One-time irrevocable election—Justices and judges.
HTMLPDF 41.40.873Additional benefit for district or municipal court judges—One-time irrevocable election.
HTMLPDF 41.40.877Justices or judges retirement allowance—In lieu of RCW 41.40.790.
HTMLPDF 41.40.880District or municipal court judges retirement allowance—In lieu of RCW 41.40.790.
HTMLPDF 41.40.920Effective date—1977 ex.s. c 295.
HTMLPDF 41.40.930Benefits not contractual right until March 1, 2002.
HTMLPDF 41.40.931Effective dates—2000 c 247.
HTMLPDF 41.40.932Subchapter headings not law—2000 c 247.

Notes:

Numerical designations—1998 c 341: See note following chapter 41.26 RCW digest.
Portability of public retirement benefits: Chapter 41.54 RCW.
Transfer of membership to judges' retirement system: RCW 2.12.100.