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RCW 41.14.070

Classified and unclassified service designated—Procedures.

Applied in 3 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 45 Wash. App. 812 - Chelan County Deputy Sheriffs' Ass'n v. County of Chelan (September 1986)

2001 c 151 s 1; 1997 c 62 s 1; 1991 c 363 s 116; 1979 ex.s. c 153 s 3; 1975 1st ex.s. c 186 s 1; 1959 c 1 s 7 (Initiative Measure No. 23, approved November 4, 1958).

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(1) The classified civil service and provisions of this chapter shall include all deputy sheriffs and other employees of the office of sheriff in each county except the county sheriff in every county and an additional number of positions, designated the unclassified service, determined as follows:

(3) In counties with a sheriff's department that operates the 911 emergency communications system, in addition to the unclassified positions authorized in subsections (1), (2), and (4) of this section, the sheriff may designate one unclassified position for the 911 emergency communications system.

(4) In addition to the unclassified positions authorized in this section, the county legislative authority of any county with a population of five hundred thousand or more operating under a home rule charter may designate unclassified positions of administrative responsibility not to exceed twenty positions.

Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.