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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6454

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By Senators von Reichbauer, Conner, Johnson, Smitherman, Bauer, Kreidler and Talmadge

Read first time 1/21/88 and referred to Committee on Transportation.

AN ACT Relating to the Washington state patrol; and amending RCW 43.43.250.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 43.43.250, chapter 8, Laws of 1965 as last amended by section 26, chapter 52, Laws of 1982 1st ex. sess. and RCW 43.43.250 are each amended to read as follows:

          (((1) Any member who has attained the age of sixty years shall be retired on the first day of the calendar month next succeeding that in which said member shall have attained the age of sixty:  PROVIDED, That the requirement to retire at age sixty shall not apply to a member serving as chief of the Washington state patrol.

          (2))) Any member who has completed ((twenty-five)) twenty years or more of credited service or has attained the age of fifty-five may apply to retire as provided in RCW 43.43.260, by completing and submitting an application form to the department, setting forth at what time the member desires to be retired.