All definitions in
RCW
41.26.030 and WAC
415-02-030 apply to terms used in
this chapter. Other terms relevant to the administration of chapter 41.26 RCW
are defined in this chapter.
(1)Commissioned means that an
employee is employed as an officer of a general authority Washington law
enforcement agency and is empowered by that employer to enforce the criminal
laws of the state of Washington.
(2)
Director of public safety
means a person who is employed on or after January 1, 1993, by a city or town
on a full-time, fully compensated basis to administer the programs and
personnel of a public safety department.
This definition applies only to cities or towns in which the
population did not exceed ten thousand at the time the person became employed
as a director of public safety.
(3)
Elective employer means the
employer of the LEOFF Plan 1 elected official during the member's leave of
absence from the LEOFF employer for the purpose of serving in elective
office.
(4)Full-time
employee means an employee who is normally expected to earn basic salary
from an employer for a minimum of one hundred sixty hours in a calendar
month.
(5)
Fully compensated
employee means an employee who is normally expected to earn a basic
monthly salary no less than one hundred sixty times the state minimum hourly
wage. Nominal sums including, but not limited to, stipends or ancillary
benefits such as insurance or leave accrual, provided to volunteer firefighters
are not compensation for the purpose of determining whether a firefighter is
fully compensated.
(6)
Left
the employ of an employer as used in
RCW
41.26.470,
41.26.510, and
41.26.520 means any break in
employment, whether formally separated or not formally separated, due to
service in the uniformed services, national guard, military reserves, federal
emergency management agency, or national disaster medical system of the United
States Department of Health and Human Services.
(7)
LEOFF means the law
enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system established by
chapter 41.26 RCW.
(8)
LEOFF
employer means the employer, as defined in
RCW
41.26.030, who employs the member as a law
enforcement officer or firefighter.
(9)
LEOFF Plan 1 elected
official means a LEOFF Plan 1 member who is a civil service employee on
leave of absence because he or she has been elected or appointed to an elective
public office and who chooses to preserve retirement rights as an active LEOFF
member under the procedure described in this chapter.
(10)
Performing service as used
in RCW 41.26.-470, 41.26.510, and 41.26.520 means engaging in activities in
response to a disaster, major emergency, special event, federal exercise, or
official training after having left the employ of an employer as described in
subsection (6) of this section.
(11)
Plan 1 and Plan 2.
(a) "Plan 1" means the law enforcement
officers' and firefighters' retirement system providing the benefits and
funding provisions covering persons who first became members of the system
prior to October 1, 1977.
(b) "Plan
2" means the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' retirement system
providing the benefits and funding provisions covering persons who first became
members of the system on and after October 1, 1977.
(12)
Public safety officer means
a person who is employed on or after January 1, 1993, on a full-time, fully
compensated basis by a city or town to perform both law enforcement and
firefighter duties.
This definition applies only to cities or towns in which the
population did not exceed ten thousand at the time the person became employed
as a public safety officer.
(13)
Uniformed firefighter
position means a position which may only be filled by uniformed
personnel as that term is defined in
RCW
41.56.030(7)(e) as in effect
on July 1, 1995. A position only qualifies as a uniformed firefighter position
if the employer has identified it as such for all purposes. An employer may
designate a position as uniformed regardless of whether the employer is covered
by public employees' collective bargaining under chapter 41.56 RCW.
