RCW 41.14.020
Terms defined.
Definition of terms:
(1) "Appointing power" means the county sheriff who is invested by law with power and authority to select, appoint, or employ any deputy, deputies, or other necessary employees subject to civil service;
(2) "Appointment" includes all means of selecting, appointing, or employing any person to any office, place, position, or employment subject to civil service;
(3) "Commission" means the civil service commission, or combined county civil service commission, herein created, and "commissioner" means any one of the members of any such commission;
(4) "County" means any county of the state, or any counties combined pursuant to RCW 41.14.040 for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter;
(5) "Deputy sheriff or other members of the office of county sheriff" means all persons regularly employed in the office of county sheriff either on a part time or full time basis.
[ 2009 c 112 § 1; 1959 c 1 § 2 (Initiative Measure No. 23, approved November 4, 1958).]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: The definitions in this section have been alphabetized pursuant to RCW 1.08.015(2)(k).
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions
Chapter 41.14 - Civil Service for Sheriff's Office.
41.14.010 - Declaration of purpose.
41.14.030 - Civil service commission—Appointment, terms, qualifications, compensation, etc.
41.14.040 - Combined system authorized in counties with populations of less than forty thousand.
41.14.050 - Commission—Organization, meetings—Chief examiner, qualifications, duties.
41.14.060 - Powers and duties of commission.
41.14.070 - Classified and unclassified service designated—Procedures.
41.14.080 - Classified service—Appointment, promotion, transfer, suspension, discharge.
41.14.090 - Status of existing employees in classified service.
41.14.100 - Qualifications of applicants for position—Law enforcement agencies.
41.14.110 - Tenure—Grounds for deprivation.
41.14.120 - Removal, suspension, demotion, or discharge—Procedure—Appeal.
41.14.130 - Filling vacancies in classified service—Eligibility list—Probation.
41.14.140 - Power to fill positions—Consent of county commissioners—Salaries and compensation.
41.14.150 - Procedure for payment of compensation—Refusal to pay.
41.14.160 - Leaves of absence.
41.14.170 - Actions to enforce chapter—Duties of prosecuting attorneys.
41.14.190 - Political activities regulated.
41.14.200 - Cooperation and aid by other county officers and employees.
41.14.220 - Penalty—Jurisdiction.
41.14.290 - Appointment of classified employee to exempt position—Return to regular position.