RCW 41.14.110
Tenure—Grounds for deprivation.
The tenure of every person holding an office, place, position, or employment under the provisions of this chapter shall be only during good behavior, and any such person may be removed or discharged, suspended without pay, demoted, or reduced in rank, or deprived of vacation privileges or other special privileges for any of the following reasons:
(1) Incompetency, inefficiency, or inattention to, or dereliction of duty;
(2) Dishonesty, intemperance, immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment of the public, or a fellow employee, or any other act of omission or commission tending to injure the public service; or any other willful failure on the part of the employee to properly conduct himself or herself; or any willful violation of the provisions of this chapter or the rules and regulations to be adopted hereunder;
(3) Mental or physical unfitness for the position which the employee holds;
(4) Dishonest, disgraceful, or prejudicial conduct;
(5) Drunkenness or use of intoxicating liquors, narcotics, or any other habit forming drug, liquid, or preparation to such extent that the use thereof interferes with the efficiency or mental or physical fitness of the employee, or which precludes the employee from properly performing the function and duties of any position under civil service;
(6) Conviction of a felony, or a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude;
(7) Any other act or failure to act which in the judgment of the civil service commission is sufficient to show the offender to be an unsuitable and unfit person to be employed in the public service.
[ 2012 c 117 § 14; 1959 c 1 § 11 (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.