The purpose of this chapter is to provide for an actuarial reserve system for the payment of death, disability, and retirement benefits to law enforcement officers and firefighters, and to beneficiaries of such employees, thereby enabling such employees to provide for themselves and their dependents in case of disability or death, and effecting a system of retirement from active duty.
RCW 41.26.020
Purpose of chapter.
Known as the Washington Law
The act spans §§ 41–41 (98 sections).
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case 103 Wash. 2d 484 - Malland v. Department of Retirement Systems (1985)
Most recently applied in Vorhies v. Department of Retirement Systems (July 2017)
1969 ex.s. c 209 s 2.
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.