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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1003

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Representatives Haugen, McMullen and Spanel

Read first time 2/18/87 and referred to Committee on Local Government.

AN ACT Relating to county pay periods; and amending RCW 36.17.040.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 36.17.040, chapter 4, Laws of 1963 and RCW 36.17.040 are each amended to read as follows:

          The salaries of county officers and employees of counties other than counties of the eighth and ninth classes may be paid twice monthly out of the county treasury, and the county auditor, for services rendered from the first to the fifteenth day, inclusive, may, not later than the ((twentieth)) last day of the month, draw ((his)) a warrant upon the county treasurer in favor of each of such officers and employees for the amount of salary due him or her, and such auditor, for services rendered from the sixteenth to the last day, inclusive, may similarly draw ((his)) a warrant, not later than the ((fifth)) fifteenth day of the following month, and the county ((commissioners)) legislative authority, with the concurrence of the county auditor, may enter an order on the record journal empowering him or her so to do:  PROVIDED, That if the ((board of county commissioners do)) county legislative authority does not adopt the semimonthly pay plan, ((they)) it, by resolution, shall designate the first pay period as a draw day.  ((The draw day period shall be from the first day to the fifteenth day of the month, inclusive.))  Not more than forty percent of said earned monthly salary of each such county officer or employee shall be paid to him on the draw day and the payroll deductions of such officer or employee shall not be deducted from the salary to be paid on the draw day.  If officers and employees are paid once a month, the draw day shall not be later than the ((twentieth)) last day of each month.  The balance of the earned monthly salary of each such officer or employee shall be paid not later than the ((fifth)) fifteenth day of the following month.

          In counties of eighth and ninth classes salaries shall be paid monthly unless the ((commissioners)) county legislative authority by resolution adopts the foregoing draw day procedure.