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Chapter 43.43 RCW

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HTMLPDF 43.43.005Comprehensive outreach and marketing strategic plan.
HTMLPDF 43.43.010Patrol created.
HTMLPDF 43.43.012Chief for a day program.
HTMLPDF 43.43.013Donations, gifts, conveyances, devises, and grants.
HTMLPDF 43.43.015Affirmative action.
HTMLPDF 43.43.020Appointment of personnel.
HTMLPDF 43.43.030Powers and duties—Peace officers.
HTMLPDF 43.43.035Governor, lieutenant governor, and governor-elect—Security and protection—Duty to provide.
HTMLPDF 43.43.037Legislature—Security and protection—Duty to provide.
HTMLPDF 43.43.040Disability of patrol officers.
HTMLPDF 43.43.050Tenure of patrol officers.
HTMLPDF 43.43.060Suspension or demotion of probationary officers.
HTMLPDF 43.43.070Discharge of probationary officers—Discharge, demotion, or suspension of nonprobationary officers—Complaint—Hearing.
HTMLPDF 43.43.080Criminal complaint—Authority to suspend officer—Hearing.
HTMLPDF 43.43.090Procedure at hearing.
HTMLPDF 43.43.100Review of order.
HTMLPDF 43.43.110Reinstatement on acquittal.
HTMLPDF 43.43.111Patrol officer vehicle accidents.
HTMLPDF 43.43.112Private law enforcement off-duty employment—Guidelines.
HTMLPDF 43.43.115Real property—Sale or disposal of surplus—Distribution of proceeds.
HTMLPDF 43.43.120Patrol retirement system—Definitions.
HTMLPDF 43.43.130Retirement fund created—Membership.
HTMLPDF 43.43.135Membership in more than one retirement system.
HTMLPDF 43.43.137Reestablishment of service credit by former members who are members of the public employees' retirement system—Conditions.
HTMLPDF 43.43.138Establishing, restoring service credit.
HTMLPDF 43.43.139Membership while serving as state legislator—Conditions.
HTMLPDF 43.43.142Retirement board abolished—Transfer of powers, duties, and functions.
HTMLPDF 43.43.165Board may receive contributions from any source.
HTMLPDF 43.43.220Retirement fund—Expenses.
HTMLPDF 43.43.230Total service credit.
HTMLPDF 43.43.233Purchase of additional service credit—Costs—Rules.
HTMLPDF 43.43.235Service credit for paid leave of absence.
HTMLPDF 43.43.240Legal adviser.
HTMLPDF 43.43.250Retirement of members.
HTMLPDF 43.43.260Benefits—Military service credit.
HTMLPDF 43.43.263Effect of certain accumulated vacation leave on retirement benefits.
HTMLPDF 43.43.264Benefit calculation—Limitation.
HTMLPDF 43.43.270Retirement allowances—Survivors of disabled members—Members commissioned before January 1, 2003.
HTMLPDF 43.43.271Retirement allowances—Members commissioned on or after January 1, 2003—Court-approved property settlement.
HTMLPDF 43.43.274Minimum retirement allowance—Annual adjustment.
HTMLPDF 43.43.278Retirement option.
HTMLPDF 43.43.280Repayment of contributions on death or termination of employment—Election to receive reduced retirement allowance at age fifty-five.
HTMLPDF 43.43.285Special death benefit—Course of employment—Occupational disease or infection—Annual adjustment.
HTMLPDF 43.43.286Rights reserved to the legislature—No future contractual rights.
HTMLPDF 43.43.290Status in case of disablement.
HTMLPDF 43.43.295Accumulated contributions—Payment upon death of member.
HTMLPDF 43.43.310Benefits exempt from taxation and legal process—Assignability—Exceptions—Deductions for group insurance premiums or for state patrol memorial foundation contributions.
HTMLPDF 43.43.315Optional actuarially equivalent life annuity benefit.
HTMLPDF 43.43.320Penalty for falsification.
HTMLPDF 43.43.330Examinations for promotion.
HTMLPDF 43.43.340Eligible list, and promotions therefrom—Affirmative action.
HTMLPDF 43.43.350Determination of eligibility for examination for promotion.
HTMLPDF 43.43.360Probationary period.
HTMLPDF 43.43.370Staff or technical officers.
HTMLPDF 43.43.380Minimum salaries—Report.
HTMLPDF 43.43.385Expedited recruitment incentive program.
HTMLPDF 43.43.386Annual longevity bonus.
HTMLPDF 43.43.390Bicycle awareness program—Generally.
HTMLPDF 43.43.395Ignition interlock devices—Standards—Compliance.
HTMLPDF 43.43.3952Ignition interlock devices—Officer required to report violations—Liability.
HTMLPDF 43.43.396Ignition interlock devices—Fee schedule and fee collection—Report—Fee deposit.
HTMLPDF 43.43.400Aquatic invasive species inspection and training.
HTMLPDF 43.43.480Routine traffic enforcement information.
HTMLPDF 43.43.490Routine traffic enforcement information—Data collection—Training materials on racial profiling.
HTMLPDF 43.43.500Crime information center—Established—Purpose—Functions.
HTMLPDF 43.43.510Crime information center—Files of general assistance to law enforcement agencies established—Runaway children—Information publicly available.
HTMLPDF 43.43.530Crime information center—Cost of terminal facilities.
HTMLPDF 43.43.540Sex offenders and kidnapping offenders—Central registry—Reimbursement to counties.
HTMLPDF 43.43.545Statewide sexual assault kit tracking system.
HTMLPDF 43.43.546Statewide sexual assault kit tracking system—Participation by bureau of forensic laboratory services.
HTMLPDF 43.43.550Traffic safety education officers—Powers—Pay and reimbursement.
HTMLPDF 43.43.560Automatic fingerprint information system—Report.
HTMLPDF 43.43.570Automatic fingerprint identification system—Conditions for local establishment or operation—Rules.
HTMLPDF 43.43.575Firearms safety training program.
HTMLPDF 43.43.580Firearms background check program—Automated firearms background check system—Fee.
HTMLPDF 43.43.585Washington background check advisory board.
HTMLPDF 43.43.590State firearms background check system account.
HTMLPDF 43.43.600Drug control assistance unit—Created.
HTMLPDF 43.43.610Drug control assistance unit—Duties.
HTMLPDF 43.43.620Drug control assistance unit—Additional duties—Information system on violations—Inter-unit communications network.
HTMLPDF 43.43.630Drug control assistance unit—Use of existing facilities and systems.
HTMLPDF 43.43.640Drug control assistance unit—Certain investigators exempt from state civil service act.
HTMLPDF 43.43.650Drug control assistance unit—Employment of necessary personnel.
HTMLPDF 43.43.655Drug control assistance unit—Special narcotics enforcement unit.
HTMLPDF 43.43.670Bureau of forensic laboratory services—Powers—Priorities.
HTMLPDF 43.43.672Bureau of forensic laboratory services—Drug evidence analysis.
HTMLPDF 43.43.680Controlled substance, simulator solution analysis—Prima facie evidence.
HTMLPDF 43.43.690Crime laboratory analysis fee—Court imposition—Collection.
HTMLPDF 43.43.700Identification and criminal history section.
HTMLPDF 43.43.705Identification data—Processing procedure—Definitions.
HTMLPDF 43.43.710Availability of information.
HTMLPDF 43.43.715Identification—Cooperation with other criminal justice agencies.
HTMLPDF 43.43.720Local identification and records systems—Assistance.
HTMLPDF 43.43.725Records as evidence.
HTMLPDF 43.43.730Records—Inspection—Copying—Requests for purge or modification—Appeals.
HTMLPDF 43.43.735Photographing and fingerprinting—Powers and duties of law enforcement agencies—Other data.
HTMLPDF 43.43.740Photographing and fingerprinting—Transmittal of data.
HTMLPDF 43.43.742Submission of fingerprints taken from persons for noncriminal purposes—Fees.
HTMLPDF 43.43.745Convicted persons, fingerprinting required, records—Furloughs, information to section, notice to local agencies—Arrests, disposition information—Convicts, information to section, notice to local agencies—Registration of sex offenders.
HTMLPDF 43.43.750Use of force to obtain identification information—Liability.
HTMLPDF 43.43.751Biological samples for missing persons investigations.
HTMLPDF 43.43.752DNA identification system—Plan—Report.
HTMLPDF 43.43.753Findings—DNA identification system—DNA database—DNA data bank.
HTMLPDF 43.43.7532DNA identification system—DNA database account.
HTMLPDF 43.43.754DNA identification system—Biological samples—Collection, use, testing—Scope and application of section.
HTMLPDF 43.43.7541DNA identification system—Collection of biological samples—Fees prior to July 1, 2023—Distribution—Waiver.
HTMLPDF 43.43.756DNA identification system—Analysis, assistance, and testimony services.
HTMLPDF 43.43.758DNA identification system—Local law enforcement systems—Limitations.
HTMLPDF 43.43.759DNA identification system—Rule-making requirements.
HTMLPDF 43.43.760Personal identification—Requests—Purpose—Applicants—Fee.
HTMLPDF 43.43.762Criminal street gang database—Information exempt from public disclosure.
HTMLPDF 43.43.765Reports of transfer, release or changes as to committed or imprisoned persons—Records.
HTMLPDF 43.43.770Unidentified deceased persons.
HTMLPDF 43.43.775Interagency contracts.
HTMLPDF 43.43.780Transfer of records, data, equipment to section.
HTMLPDF 43.43.785Criminal justice services—Consolidation—Establishment of program.
HTMLPDF 43.43.800Criminal justice services programs—Duties of executive committee.
HTMLPDF 43.43.810Obtaining information by false pretenses—Unauthorized use of information—Falsifying records—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 43.43.815Conviction record furnished to employer—Purposes—Notification to subject of record—Fees—Limitations—Injunctive relief, damages, attorneys' fees—Disclaimer of liability—Rules.
HTMLPDF 43.43.820Stale records.
HTMLPDF 43.43.822County sheriff to forward registration information—Felony firearm offense conviction database—Exempt from public disclosure.
HTMLPDF 43.43.823Denied firearm transaction records—Removal of record, when required—Notice—Rules.
HTMLPDF 43.43.825Guilty plea or conviction for certain felony crimes—Notification of state patrol—Transmission of information to the department of health.
HTMLPDF 43.43.830Background checks—Access to children or vulnerable persons—Definitions.
HTMLPDF 43.43.832Background checks—Disclosure of information—Sharing of state criminal background information by health care facilities.
HTMLPDF 43.43.8321Background checks—Dissemination of conviction record information.
HTMLPDF 43.43.8325Background checks—National crime prevention and privacy compact.
HTMLPDF 43.43.833Background checks—State immunity.
HTMLPDF 43.43.834Background checks by business, organization, or insurance company—Limitations—Civil liability.
HTMLPDF 43.43.836Disclosure to individual of own record—Fee.
HTMLPDF 43.43.837Fingerprint-based background checks—Requirements for applicants and service providers—Fees—Rules to establish financial responsibility.
HTMLPDF 43.43.838Record checks—Transcript of conviction record—Fees—Immunity—Rules.
HTMLPDF 43.43.839Fingerprint identification account.
HTMLPDF 43.43.840Notification to licensing agency of employment termination for certain crimes against persons.
HTMLPDF 43.43.842Vulnerable adults—Additional licensing requirements for agencies, facilities, and individuals providing services.
HTMLPDF 43.43.845Notification of conviction or guilty plea of certain felony crimes—Transmittal of information to superintendent of public instruction.
HTMLPDF 43.43.850Organized crime intelligence unit—Created.
HTMLPDF 43.43.852"Organized crime" defined.
HTMLPDF 43.43.854Powers and duties of organized crime intelligence unit.
HTMLPDF 43.43.856Divulging investigative information prohibited—Confidentiality—Security of records and files.
HTMLPDF 43.43.870Missing children clearinghouse and hotline, duties of state patrol.
HTMLPDF 43.43.874Missing and murdered indigenous women, other indigenous persons—Liaison positions.
HTMLPDF 43.43.876Missing and murdered indigenous women, other indigenous persons—Protocol—Training.
HTMLPDF 43.43.880Agreements with contiguous states—Jointly occupied ports of entry—Collection of fees and taxes.
HTMLPDF 43.43.885Scrap metal no-buy list database program.
HTMLPDF 43.43.887Scrap metal no-buy list database program—Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs not liable for civil damages.
HTMLPDF 43.43.888Catalytic converter inspections.
HTMLPDF 43.43.912Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
HTMLPDF 43.43.930State fire protection services—Intent.
HTMLPDF 43.43.934Director of fire protection—Duties.
HTMLPDF 43.43.938Director of fire protection—Appointment—Duties.
HTMLPDF 43.43.939Director of fire protection—Adoption of minimum standard requirements for before-school and after-school programs.
HTMLPDF 43.43.940Fire service training program—Grants and bequests.
HTMLPDF 43.43.941Fire services training—Student training programs.
HTMLPDF 43.43.942Fire service training—Fees and fee schedules.
HTMLPDF 43.43.944Fire service training account.
HTMLPDF 43.43.946Fire services trust fund.
HTMLPDF 43.43.948Fire services trust fund—Expenditures.
HTMLPDF 43.43.950Fire service training center bond retirement account of 1977.
HTMLPDF 43.43.952Arson investigation information system—Findings—Intent.
STATE FIRE SERVICE MOBILIZATION
HTMLPDF 43.43.960State fire service mobilization—Definitions.
HTMLPDF 43.43.961State fire service mobilization—Legislative declaration and intent.
HTMLPDF 43.43.962State fire service mobilization—State fire services mobilization plan—State fire resources coordinator.
HTMLPDF 43.43.963State fire service mobilization—Regional fire defense boards—Regional fire service plans—Regions established.
HTMLPDF 43.43.964State fire service mobilization—Development of reimbursement procedures.
HTMLPDF 43.43.965State fire service mobilization—Plan use for purposes other than fire suppression—Annual report.
HTMLPDF 43.43.970Law enforcement mobilization—Definitions.
HTMLPDF 43.43.971Law enforcement mobilization—State law enforcement mobilization policy board—State law enforcement mobilization plan.
HTMLPDF 43.43.972Law enforcement mobilization—Local law enforcement request for mobilization—State law enforcement resource coordinator—Mobilization response—Declaration of end of mobilization.
HTMLPDF 43.43.973State law enforcement mobilization—State law enforcement coordinator—Duties.
HTMLPDF 43.43.974State law enforcement mobilization—Regions established—Regional law enforcement mobilization committees—Regional law enforcement mobilization plans.
HTMLPDF 43.43.975State law enforcement mobilization—Development of reimbursement procedures—Eligibility of nonhost law enforcement authority for reimbursement.

Notes:

Abatement of certain structures, signs or devices on city streets, county roads or state highways as public nuisances, chief's duties relating to: RCW 47.36.180.
Abating as public nuisance signs erected or maintained contrary to highway advertising control act, chief's duties relating to: RCW 47.42.080.
Aircraft cost sharing: See 1990 c 298 s 4.
Amateur radio operators with special license plates, list of furnished to: RCW 46.18.205.
Authority: Chapter 10.93 RCW.
Chaplain authorized: RCW 41.22.020.
Civil disorder, use of patrol: RCW 43.06.270.
Control of traffic on capitol grounds, chief enforcing officer: RCW 46.08.160.
Coroner's report of deaths by vehicle accidents, to be made to: RCW 46.52.050.
Disturbances at state penal facilities
development of contingency plans—Scope—Local participation: RCW 72.02.150.
use of outside law enforcement personnel—Scope: RCW 72.02.160.
Driver license fees for use of state patrol: RCW 46.68.041.
Enforcement of laws on limited access facilities, state patrol to have independent and concurrent jurisdiction: RCW 47.52.200.
Facilities siting, coordination with department of licensing: RCW 46.01.330.
Funding, state patrol highway account: RCW 46.68.030.
Hazardous materials incident command agency, state patrol as: RCW 70.136.030.
Inspection of railroad crew transportation vehicles by state patrol: RCW 81.61.040.
Insurance, group life, generally: RCW 48.24.090.
Intoxicating liquor, report of seizure: RCW 66.32.090.
Jurisdiction: Chapter 10.93 RCW.
Missing persons systems, involvement with: RCW 36.28A.120.
Motor carrier safety inspections: RCW 81.80.330.
Motor vehicle
accidents and reports, powers and duties relating to: Chapter 46.52 RCW.
equipment standards—Powers and duties: RCW 46.37.005.
inspection duties: Chapter 46.32 RCW.
size, weight and load limits, duties: Chapter 46.44 RCW.
Off-road and nonhighway vehicles: Chapter 46.09 RCW.
Police dogs—Immunity: RCW 4.24.410.
Portability of public retirement benefits: Chapter 41.54 RCW.
Private carrier drivers, rules: RCW 46.73.010.
Prohibited practices relating to motor vehicle inspection by members of: RCW 46.32.050.
Requests for nonconviction criminal history fingerprint record checks for agency heads—"Agency head" defined: RCW 43.06.013.
School buses, regulations for design, marking and mode of operation, chief to advise on: RCW 46.61.380.
Snowmobile act enforcement: RCW 46.10.360.
State patrol highway account: RCW 46.68.030.
Teletypewriter communications network, powers and duties of chief: Chapter 43.89 RCW.
Towing operators, appointment by the state patrol: RCW 46.55.115.
Traffic safety commission, chief of state patrol member of: RCW 43.59.030.
Transportation of hazardous materials, chief's powers and duties relating to: RCW 46.48.170, 46.48.175.