The salaries of all state officers and employees shall be paid on a schedule consistent with the provisions of WAC 82-50-021 with the following exceptions:

(1) Schedules for the payment of compensation on dates other than those established in WAC 82-50-021 are authorized for those state officers and employees with written contracts currently in force which explicitly specify payroll dates other than those established in WAC 82-50-021 until the contracts in effect on September 23, 1983, expire or are renegotiated. After that date, no state agency, office, or institution may contract or agree to any payroll dates other than as specified in WAC 82-50-021 and no state agency, office, or institution may agree to any extension of a contract specifying payroll dates other than those set in WAC 82-50-021 without amending the contract to delete any reference to payroll dates other than those established by WAC 82-50-021.

(2) Schedules for the payment of compensation on pay dates other than those established in WAC 82-50-021 may be authorized in writing by the director of the office of financial management, or the director's designee, in the following instances:

(a) For short-term, intermittent, noncareer state employees;

(b) For student employees of institutions of higher education; and

(c) For liquor control agency managers who are paid a percentage of monthly liquor sales.

(3) Schedules for the payment of compensation on pay dates other than those established in WAC 82-50-021 may be authorized by the director of the office of financial management, or the director's designee, only upon the written request of the agency head, or the agency head's designee, and only for the purpose of maintaining a lagged, semimonthly pay date schedule of shorter duration than the official lagged, semimonthly pay date schedule established in WAC 82-50-021. However, the official pay periods established by RCW 42.16.010(1) are in effect.