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                                          SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 1334

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Haugen, Patrick and Lewis)

Read first time 1/29/88 and passed to Committee on Rules.

AN ACT Relating to civil service for the sheriff's office; and amending RCW 41.14.080.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 8, chapter 1, Laws of 1959 as amended by section 1, chapter 108, Laws of 1980 and RCW 41.14.080 are each amended to read as follows:

          All appointments to and promotions to positions in the classified civil service of the office of county sheriff shall be made solely on merit, efficiency, and fitness, which shall be ascertained by open competitive examination and impartial investigation((:  PROVIDED, That before June 30, 1981)).  However, employees in an existing county personnel system may be transferred to ((newly created and)) classified positions within such county's sheriff's office((, in order to permanently transfer)) that were created as the result of transferring the functions of these classified positions from unclassified positions, without meeting the open competitive examination requirements of this section if the transfer is approved by the civil service commission created in RCW 41.14.030. No person in the classified civil service shall be reinstated in or transferred, suspended, or discharged from any such place, position, or employment contrary to the provisions of this chapter.