The provisions of this chapter shall have no application to cities and towns which at the present time have provided for civil service in the police department or which shall subsequently provide for civil service in the police department by local charter or other regulations which said local charter or regulations substantially accomplish the purpose of this chapter, nor to cities having a police force of not more than two persons including the chief of police.
RCW 41.12.010
Application of chapter.
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case 92 Wash. 2d 415 - Automobile Drivers & Demonstrators Union Local No. 882 v. Department of Retirement Systems (1979)
Most recently applied in City of Seattle v. City of Seattle (May 2010)
1937 c 13 s 1; RRS s 9558a-1.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.