Washington Code 41.40.160 – Creditable service
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(1) Subject to the provisions of RCW 41.40.150, at retirement the total service credited to a member shall consist of all membership service and, if he or she is an original member, all of the certified prior service.
Terms Used In Washington Code 41.40.160
- Member: means any employee included in the membership of the retirement system, as provided for in RCW 41. See Washington Code 41.40.010
- Membership service: means :
Washington Code 41.40.010Prior service: means all service of an original member rendered to any employer prior to October 1, 1947. See Washington Code 41.40.010 Retirement: means withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance as provided by this chapter. See Washington Code 41.40.010 Retirement system: means the public employees' retirement system provided for in this chapter. See Washington Code 41.40.010
(2) Employees of a public utility or other private enterprise all or any portion of which has been heretofore or may be hereafter acquired by a public agency as a matter of public convenience and necessity, where it is in the public interest to retain the trained personnel of such enterprise, all service to that enterprise shall, upon the acquiring public agency becoming an employer as defined in *RCW 41.40.010(4) be credited on the same basis as if rendered to the said employer: PROVIDED, That this shall apply only to those employees who were in the service of the enterprise at or prior to the time of acquisition by the public agency and who remain in the service of the acquiring agency until they attain membership in the state employees’ retirement system; and to those employees who were in the service of the enterprise at the time of acquisition by the public agency and subsequently attain membership through employment with any participating agency: PROVIDED FURTHER, In the event that the acquiring agency is an employer at the time of the acquisition, employer’s contributions in connection with members achieving service credit hereunder shall be made on the same basis as set forth in RCW ** 41.40.045 and 41.40.048 for an employer admitted after April 1, 1949, and before July 23, 1995, and on the same basis as set forth in RCW 41.40.057 for an employer admitted after July 23, 1995.
[ 1995 c 286 § 5; 1991 c 35 § 77; 1989 c 273 § 27; 1965 c 155 § 4; 1963 c 174 § 9; 1953 c 200 § 8; 1951 c 50 § 4; 1949 c 240 § 11; 1947 c 274 § 17; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 11072-17.]
NOTES:
Reviser’s note: *(1) RCW 41.40.010 was alphabetized pursuant to RCW 1.08.015(2)(k), changing subsection (4) to subsection (13).
**(2) RCW 41.40.045 was repealed by 1995 c 286 § 6.
Intent—1991 c 35: See note following RCW 41.26.005.