Revised Code of Washington
2024 Archive

Chapter 43.43 RCW
WASHINGTON STATE PATROL
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43.43.005Comprehensive outreach and marketing strategic plan.
43.43.010Patrol created.
43.43.012Chief for a day program.
43.43.013Donations, gifts, conveyances, devises, and grants.
43.43.015Affirmative action.
43.43.020Appointment of personnel.
43.43.030Powers and duties—Peace officers.
43.43.035Governor, lieutenant governor, and governor-elect—Security and protection—Duty to provide.
43.43.037Legislature—Security and protection—Duty to provide.
43.43.040Disability of patrol officers.
43.43.050Tenure of patrol officers.
43.43.060Suspension or demotion of probationary officers.
43.43.070Discharge of probationary officers—Discharge, demotion, or suspension of nonprobationary officers—Complaint—Hearing.
43.43.080Criminal complaint—Authority to suspend officer—Hearing.
43.43.090Procedure at hearing.
43.43.100Review of order.
43.43.110Reinstatement on acquittal.
43.43.111Patrol officer vehicle accidents.
43.43.112Private law enforcement off-duty employment—Guidelines.
43.43.115Real property—Sale or disposal of surplus—Distribution of proceeds.
43.43.120Patrol retirement system—Definitions.
43.43.130Retirement fund created—Membership.
43.43.135Membership in more than one retirement system.
43.43.137Reestablishment of service credit by former members who are members of the public employees' retirement system—Conditions.
43.43.138Establishing, restoring service credit.
43.43.139Membership while serving as state legislator—Conditions.
43.43.142Retirement board abolished—Transfer of powers, duties, and functions.
43.43.165Board may receive contributions from any source.
43.43.220Retirement fund—Expenses.
43.43.230Total service credit.
43.43.233Purchase of additional service credit—Costs—Rules.
43.43.235Service credit for paid leave of absence.
43.43.240Legal adviser.
43.43.250Retirement of members.
43.43.260Benefits—Military service credit.
43.43.263Effect of certain accumulated vacation leave on retirement benefits.
43.43.264Benefit calculation—Limitation.
43.43.270Retirement allowances—Survivors of disabled members—Members commissioned before January 1, 2003.
43.43.271Retirement allowances—Members commissioned on or after January 1, 2003—Court-approved property settlement.
43.43.274Minimum retirement allowance—Annual adjustment.
43.43.278Retirement option.
43.43.280Repayment of contributions on death or termination of employment—Election to receive reduced retirement allowance at age fifty-five.
43.43.285Special death benefit—Course of employment—Occupational disease or infection—Annual adjustment.
43.43.286Rights reserved to the legislature—No future contractual rights.
43.43.290Status in case of disablement.
43.43.295Accumulated contributions—Payment upon death of member.
43.43.310Benefits exempt from taxation and legal process—Assignability—Exceptions—Deductions for group insurance premiums or for state patrol memorial foundation contributions.
43.43.315Optional actuarially equivalent life annuity benefit.
43.43.320Penalty for falsification.
43.43.330Examinations for promotion.
43.43.340Eligible list, and promotions therefrom—Affirmative action.
43.43.350Determination of eligibility for examination for promotion.
43.43.360Probationary period.
43.43.370Staff or technical officers.
43.43.380Minimum salaries—Report.
43.43.385Expedited recruitment incentive program.
43.43.386Annual longevity bonus.
43.43.390Bicycle awareness program—Generally.
43.43.395Ignition interlock devices—Standards—Compliance.
43.43.3952Ignition interlock devices—Officer required to report violations—Liability.
43.43.396Ignition interlock devices—Fee schedule and fee collection—Report—Fee deposit.
43.43.400Aquatic invasive species inspection and training.
43.43.480Routine traffic enforcement information.
43.43.490Routine traffic enforcement information—Data collection—Training materials on racial profiling.
43.43.500Crime information center—Established—Purpose—Functions.
43.43.510Crime information center—Files of general assistance to law enforcement agencies established—Runaway children—Information publicly available.
43.43.530Crime information center—Cost of terminal facilities.
43.43.540Sex offenders and kidnapping offenders—Central registry—Reimbursement to counties.
43.43.545Statewide sexual assault kit tracking system.
43.43.546Statewide sexual assault kit tracking system—Participation by bureau of forensic laboratory services.
43.43.550Traffic safety education officers—Powers—Pay and reimbursement.
43.43.560Automatic fingerprint information system—Report.
43.43.570Automatic fingerprint identification system—Conditions for local establishment or operation—Rules.
43.43.580Firearms background check program—Automated firearms background check system—Fee.
43.43.585Washington background check advisory board.
43.43.590State firearms background check system account.
43.43.600Drug control assistance unit—Created.
43.43.610Drug control assistance unit—Duties.
43.43.620Drug control assistance unit—Additional duties—Information system on violations—Inter-unit communications network.
43.43.630Drug control assistance unit—Use of existing facilities and systems.
43.43.640Drug control assistance unit—Certain investigators exempt from state civil service act.
43.43.650Drug control assistance unit—Employment of necessary personnel.
43.43.655Drug control assistance unit—Special narcotics enforcement unit.
43.43.670Bureau of forensic laboratory services—Powers—Priorities.
43.43.672Bureau of forensic laboratory services—Drug evidence analysis.
43.43.680Controlled substance, simulator solution analysis—Prima facie evidence.
43.43.690Crime laboratory analysis fee—Court imposition—Collection.
43.43.700Identification and criminal history section.
43.43.705Identification data—Processing procedure—Definitions.
43.43.710Availability of information.
43.43.715Identification—Cooperation with other criminal justice agencies.
43.43.720Local identification and records systems—Assistance.
43.43.725Records as evidence.
43.43.730Records—Inspection—Copying—Requests for purge or modification—Appeals.
43.43.735Photographing and fingerprinting—Powers and duties of law enforcement agencies—Other data.
43.43.740Photographing and fingerprinting—Transmittal of data.
43.43.742Submission of fingerprints taken from persons for noncriminal purposes—Fees.
43.43.745Convicted persons, fingerprinting required, records—Furloughs, information to section, notice to local agencies—Arrests, disposition information—Convicts, information to section, notice to local agencies—Registration of sex offenders.
43.43.750Use of force to obtain identification information—Liability.
43.43.751Biological samples for missing persons investigations.
43.43.752DNA identification system—Plan—Report.
43.43.753Findings—DNA identification system—DNA database—DNA data bank.
43.43.7532DNA identification system—DNA database account.
43.43.754DNA identification system—Biological samples—Collection, use, testing—Scope and application of section.
43.43.7541DNA identification system—Collection of biological samples—Fees prior to July 1, 2023—Distribution—Waiver.
43.43.756DNA identification system—Analysis, assistance, and testimony services.
43.43.758DNA identification system—Local law enforcement systems—Limitations.
43.43.759DNA identification system—Rule-making requirements.
43.43.760Personal identification—Requests—Purpose—Applicants—Fee.
43.43.762Criminal street gang database—Information exempt from public disclosure.
43.43.765Reports of transfer, release or changes as to committed or imprisoned persons—Records.
43.43.770Unidentified deceased persons.
43.43.775Interagency contracts.
43.43.780Transfer of records, data, equipment to section.
43.43.785Criminal justice services—Consolidation—Establishment of program.
43.43.800Criminal justice services programs—Duties of executive committee.
43.43.810Obtaining information by false pretenses—Unauthorized use of information—Falsifying records—Penalty.
43.43.815Conviction record furnished to employer—Purposes—Notification to subject of record—Fees—Limitations—Injunctive relief, damages, attorneys' fees—Disclaimer of liability—Rules.
43.43.820Stale records.
43.43.822County sheriff to forward registration information—Felony firearm offense conviction database—Exempt from public disclosure.
43.43.823Incorporation of denied firearm transaction records—Removal of record, when required—Notice—Rules.
43.43.825Guilty plea or conviction for certain felony crimes—Notification of state patrol—Transmission of information to the department of health.
43.43.830Background checks—Access to children or vulnerable persons—Definitions.
43.43.832Background checks—Disclosure of information—Sharing of state criminal background information by health care facilities.
43.43.8321Background checks—Dissemination of conviction record information.
43.43.833Background checks—State immunity.
43.43.834Background checks by business, organization, or insurance company—Limitations—Civil liability.
43.43.836Disclosure to individual of own record—Fee.
43.43.837Fingerprint-based background checks—Requirements for applicants and service providers—Fees—Rules to establish financial responsibility.
43.43.838Record checks—Transcript of conviction record—Fees—Immunity—Rules.
43.43.839Fingerprint identification account.
43.43.840Notification to licensing agency of employment termination for certain crimes against persons.
43.43.842Vulnerable adults—Additional licensing requirements for agencies, facilities, and individuals providing services (as amended by 2023 c 425).
43.43.842Vulnerable adults—Additional licensing requirements for agencies, facilities, and individuals providing services (as amended by 2023 c 469).
43.43.845Notification of conviction or guilty plea of certain felony crimes—Transmittal of information to superintendent of public instruction.
43.43.850Organized crime intelligence unit—Created.
43.43.852"Organized crime" defined.
43.43.854Powers and duties of organized crime intelligence unit.
43.43.856Divulging investigative information prohibited—Confidentiality—Security of records and files.
43.43.870Missing children clearinghouse and hotline, duties of state patrol.
43.43.874Missing and murdered indigenous women, other indigenous persons—Liaison positions.
43.43.876Missing and murdered indigenous women, other indigenous persons—Protocol—Training.
43.43.880Agreements with contiguous states—Jointly occupied ports of entry—Collection of fees and taxes.
43.43.885Scrap metal no-buy list database program.
43.43.887Scrap metal no-buy list database program—Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs not liable for civil damages.
43.43.888Catalytic converter inspections.
43.43.912Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
43.43.930State fire protection services—Intent.
43.43.934Director of fire protection—Duties.
43.43.938Director of fire protection—Appointment—Duties.
43.43.939Director of fire protection—Adoption of minimum standard requirements for before-school and after-school programs.
43.43.940Fire service training program—Grants and bequests.
43.43.942Fire service training—Fees and fee schedules.
43.43.944Fire service training account.
43.43.946Fire services trust fund.
43.43.948Fire services trust fund—Expenditures.
43.43.950Fire service training center bond retirement account of 1977.
43.43.952Arson investigation information system—Findings—Intent.
STATE FIRE SERVICE MOBILIZATION
43.43.960State fire service mobilization—Definitions.
43.43.961State fire service mobilization—Legislative declaration and intent.
43.43.962State fire service mobilization—State fire services mobilization plan—State fire resources coordinator.
43.43.963State fire service mobilization—Regional fire defense boards—Regional fire service plans—Regions established.
43.43.964State fire service mobilization—Development of reimbursement procedures.
43.43.965State fire service mobilization—Plan use for purposes other than fire suppression—Annual report.
43.43.970Law enforcement mobilization—Definitions.
43.43.971Law enforcement mobilization—State law enforcement mobilization policy board—State law enforcement mobilization plan.
43.43.972Law enforcement mobilization—Local law enforcement request for mobilization—State law enforcement resource coordinator—Mobilization response—Declaration of end of mobilization.
43.43.973State law enforcement mobilization—State law enforcement coordinator—Duties.
43.43.974State law enforcement mobilization—Regions established—Regional law enforcement mobilization committees—Regional law enforcement mobilization plans.
43.43.975State law enforcement mobilization—Development of reimbursement procedures—Eligibility of nonhost law enforcement authority for reimbursement.
NOTES:
Abatement of certain structures, signs or devices on city streets, county roads or state highways as public nuisances, chief's duties relating to: RCW 47.36.180.
Abating as public nuisance signs erected or maintained contrary to highway advertising control act, chief's duties relating to: RCW 47.42.080.
Aircraft cost sharing: See 1990 c 298 s 4.
Amateur radio operators with special license plates, list of furnished to: RCW 46.18.205.
Authority: Chapter 10.93 RCW.
Chaplain authorized: RCW 41.22.020.
Civil disorder, use of patrol: RCW 43.06.270.
Control of traffic on capitol grounds, chief enforcing officer: RCW 46.08.160.
Coroner's report of deaths by vehicle accidents, to be made to: RCW 46.52.050.
Disturbances at state penal facilities
development of contingency plans—Scope—Local participation: RCW 72.02.150.
use of outside law enforcement personnel—Scope: RCW 72.02.160.
Driver license fees for use of state patrol: RCW 46.68.041.
Enforcement of laws on limited access facilities, state patrol to have independent and concurrent jurisdiction: RCW 47.52.200.
Facilities siting, coordination with department of licensing: RCW 46.01.330.
Funding, state patrol highway account: RCW 46.68.030.
Hazardous materials incident command agency, state patrol as: RCW 70.136.030.
Inspection of railroad crew transportation vehicles by state patrol: RCW 81.61.040.
Insurance, group life, generally: RCW 48.24.090.
Intoxicating liquor, report of seizure: RCW 66.32.090.
Jurisdiction: Chapter 10.93 RCW.
Missing persons systems, involvement with: RCW 36.28A.120.
Motor carrier safety inspections: RCW 81.80.330.
Motor vehicle
accidents and reports, powers and duties relating to: Chapter 46.52 RCW.
equipment standards—Powers and duties: RCW 46.37.005.
inspection duties: Chapter 46.32 RCW.
size, weight and load limits, duties: Chapter 46.44 RCW.
Off-road and nonhighway vehicles: Chapter 46.09 RCW.
Police dogs—Immunity: RCW 4.24.410.
Portability of public retirement benefits: Chapter 41.54 RCW.
Private carrier drivers, rules: RCW 46.73.010.
Prohibited practices relating to motor vehicle inspection by members of: RCW 46.32.050.
Requests for nonconviction criminal history fingerprint record checks for agency heads—"Agency head" defined: RCW 43.06.013.
School buses, regulations for design, marking and mode of operation, chief to advise on: RCW 46.61.380.
Snowmobile act enforcement: RCW 46.10.360.
State patrol highway account: RCW 46.68.030.
Teletypewriter communications network, powers and duties of chief: Chapter 43.89 RCW.
Towing operators, appointment by the state patrol: RCW 46.55.115.
Traffic safety commission, chief of state patrol member of: RCW 43.59.030.
Transportation of hazardous materials, chief's powers and duties relating to: RCW 46.48.170, 46.48.175.