WSR 97-04-025
PERMANENT RULES
DEPARTMENT OF
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
[Filed January 28, 1997, 4:30 p.m.]
Date of Adoption: January 24, 1997.
Purpose: The purpose of this rule is to ensure that state-wide law enforcement officers retiring from service due to disability are eligible to purchase their career service handguns from the state as used equipment. Current administrative rule provides this authorization only for those retiring for service. This rule would clarify the eligibility of those retiring due to disability, with some restrictions in the case of disability due to mental or stress-related illness.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 236-48-198.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 43.19.190, 43.19.1919.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 96-24-110 on December 4, 1996.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, amended 1, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, amended 1, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, amended 1, repealed 0.
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
January 24, 1997
Marsha Tadano Long
Director
AMENDATORY SECTION (Amending WSR 91-09-035, filed 4/12/91, effective
5/13/91)
WAC 236-48-198 Sale of surplus property to state elected officials
or employees. Surplus property available for disposal under the
provisions of RCW 43.19.1919 shall not be sold to state elected
officials, officers or employees, except at public sale: Provided,
however, An item valued at less than direct buy limit and declared
surplus of a personal nature such as a chair, desk or bookcase, which in
some way depicts or represents the office in which they have served, may
be sold to an elected official after leaving office at private sale as
used equipment: Provided further, That ((a retiring)) commissioned
officers of the Washington state patrol or other state-wide law
enforcement activity retired for service or for nonmental or nonstress
related disabilities may purchase his or her career service handgun at
private sale as used equipment.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter 43.19 RCW. 91-09-035, 236-48-198, filed 4/12/91, effective 5/13/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 43.19.190(11) and 43.17.060. 90-16-075, 236-48-198, filed 7/30/90, effective 8/30/90. Statutory Authority: Chapter 43.19 RCW. 83-18-004 (Order 83-03), 236-48-198, filed 8/26/83; Order 77-2, 236-48-198, filed 1/28/77.]