RCW 41.14.080
Classified service—Appointment, promotion, transfer, suspension, discharge.
All appointments to and promotions to positions in the classified civil service of the office of county sheriff shall be made solely on merit, efficiency, and fitness, which shall be ascertained by open competitive examination and impartial investigation: PROVIDED, That before June 30, 1981, employees in an existing county personnel system may be transferred to newly created and classified positions within such county's sheriff's office, in order to permanently transfer the functions of these positions, without meeting the open competitive examination requirements of this section if the transfer is approved by the civil service commission created in RCW 41.14.030. No person in the classified civil service shall be reinstated in or transferred, suspended, or discharged from any such place, position, or employment contrary to the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1980 c 108 § 1; 1959 c 1 § 8 (Initiative Measure No. 23, approved November 4, 1958).]
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.