RCW 41.28.050
Allowance of service credit.
(1) Subject to the following and all other provisions of this chapter, including such rules and regulations as the board shall adopt in pursuance thereof, the board, subject to the approval of the city council or city commission, shall determine and may modify allowance for service.
Time during which a member is absent on leave without pay shall not be allowed in computing service: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That any member shall be given credit for any period served by him or her in the national guard, or in the United States army, navy, or marine corps, upon the call of the president, if at the time of such service such member was a regular employee under leave of absence. Certificate of honorable discharge from and/or documentary evidence of such service shall be submitted to the board in order to obtain credit for such service.
Each member shall file with the board such information affecting his or her status as a member of the retirement system as the board may require.
(2) The board shall grant credit for prior service to each member entering the retirement system on July 1, 1939, and to each member entering after that date, if such entry is within one year after rendering service prior to July 1, 1939: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That the board may grant credit for prior service to those entering the retirement system after July 1, 1939, where the employee, because of sickness or other disability, has been on leave of absence, regularly granted, since discontinuance of city service, regardless of the length of such leave. No prior service credit shall be used as a basis for retirement or other benefit unless the membership continues until retirement on a retirement allowance or until the granting of other benefits.
[ 2012 c 117 § 46; 1939 c 207 § 6; RRS § 9592-106.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions
Chapter 41.28 - Retirement of Personnel in Certain First-Class Cities.
41.28.005 - Establishment of retirement and pension systems authorized.
41.28.020 - Retirement system created—Adoption by cities.
41.28.030 - Employees within or excluded from system.
41.28.040 - Rates of contribution—Deduction and payment into fund.
41.28.050 - Allowance of service credit.
41.28.070 - Employees' retirement fund created—Composition.
41.28.080 - Board of administration—Members—Duties—Fiscal affairs.
41.28.085 - Legislative intent—Investments.
41.28.090 - Contributions by city.
41.28.100 - City obligated to contribute.
41.28.110 - Payments on discontinuance of service—Reemployment—Redeposit.
41.28.120 - Retirement for service.
41.28.130 - Service retirement allowances.
41.28.140 - Retirement for disability.
41.28.150 - Disability retirement allowances—Grounds for denial.
41.28.160 - Medical examination of disability beneficiaries—Reentry.
41.28.170 - Optional allowances.
41.28.180 - Payments on death of unretired members.
41.28.190 - Payments to be made monthly.
41.28.200 - Exemption from process—Rights not assignable.
41.28.207 - Payments to spouse or ex spouse pursuant to court order.
41.28.210 - Estimates of service, compensation, or age.
41.28.220 - Suspension of allowances during other public aid.
41.28.230 - Administrative expense.
41.28.240 - Existing systems preserved.
41.28.920 - Effective date—1939 c 207.
41.28.930 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.