RCW 41.14.090
Status of existing employees in classified service.
For the benefit of the public service and to prevent delay, injury, or interruption therein by reason of the enactment hereof, all persons holding a position which is deemed classified by RCW 41.14.070 for a continuous period of six months prior to December 4, 1958, are eligible for permanent appointment under civil service to the offices, places, positions, or employments which they then held without examination or other act on their part, and not on probation; and every such person is automatically adopted and inducted permanently into civil service, into the office, place, position, or employment which he or she then held as completely and effectually to all intents and purposes as if such person had been permanently appointed thereto under civil service after examination and investigation.
[ 2012 c 117 § 13; 1959 c 1 § 9 (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.