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Wash. Rev. Code § 41.12.080

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The tenure of everyone holding an office, place, position or employment under the provisions of this chapter shall be only during good behavior, and any such person may be removed or discharged, suspended without pay, demoted, or reduced in rank, or deprived of vacation privileges or other special privileges for any of the following reasons:
(1) Incompetency, inefficiency or inattention to or dereliction of duty;
(2) Dishonesty, intemperance, immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment of the public, or a fellow employee, or any other act of omission or commission tending to injure the public service; or any other willful failure on the part of the employee to properly conduct himself or herself; or any willful violation of the provisions of this chapter or the rules and regulation to be adopted hereunder;
(3) Mental or physical unfitness for the position which the employee holds;
(4) Dishonest, disgraceful, immoral or prejudicial conduct;
(5) Drunkenness or use of intoxicating liquors, narcotics, or any other habit forming drug, liquid or preparation to such extent that the use thereof interferes with the efficiency or mental or physical fitness of the employee, or which precludes the employee from properly performing the function and duties of any position under civil service;
(6) Conviction of a felony, or a misdemeanor, involving moral turpitude;
(7) Any other act or failure to act which in the judgment of the civil service commissioners is sufficient to show the offender to be an unsuitable and unfit person to be employed in the public service.
[ 2007 c 218 s 13; 1937 c 13 s 8; RRS s 9558a-8.]

Notes:

Intent—Finding—2007 c 218: See note following RCW 41.08.020.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 9 cases, 1966–2010 · leading case: Allstot v. Edwards
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Allstot v. Edwards (2002) washctapp · cites it 3× “” The Town’s obligation to pay arises in part from its violation of RCW 41.12.080, which provides that a city police officer may be discharged for several enumerated reasons, including any act that shows the offender is an unfit person to be employed in public service.”
Allstot v. Edwards (2002) washctapp · cites it 3× “" The Town's obligation to pay arises in part from its violation of RCW 41.12.080, which provides that a city police officer may be discharged for several enumerated reasons, including any act that shows the offender is an unfit person to be employed in public service.”
State Ex Rel. Perry v. City of Seattle (1966) wash · cites it 4× “The grounds for discharge of an employee under civil service are set forth in RCW 41.12.080. 41.12.080 Tenure of employment — Grounds for discharge, reduction, or deprivation of privileges.”
City of Pasco v. Public Employment Relations Commission (1992) wash “The City reasons that appeal of disciplinary actions is not a matter peculiar to an appropriate bargaining unit, pointing out that RCW 41.12.080 and .090 address police officer discipline and appeals therefrom on a statewide basis.”
Gibson v. City of Auburn (1988) washctapp “01 closely tracks that of RCW 41.12.080. 3 There is no majority opinion in Arnett .”
City of Seattle v. City of Seattle (2010) washctapp · cites it 3× “Any person so removed, suspended, demoted or discharged may within ten days from the time of his or her removal, suspension, demotion or discharge, file with the commission a written demand for an investigation, whereupon the commission shall conduct such investigation.”
City of Seattle Police Department v. City of Seattle Public Safety Civil Service Commission (2010) washctapp · cites it 3× “090 (“No person, in the classified civil service who shall have been permanently appointed or inducted into civil service under provisions of this chapter, shall be removed, suspended, demoted or discharged except for cause____ Any person so removed, suspended, demoted or…”
Benavides v. Civil Service Commission of Selah (1980) washctapp “Following the hearing, the civil service commission stated: All members of the commission having agreed that the following accusations are true and are in violation of the provisions of RCW 41.12.080 and the rules of the civil service commission: (1) Inefficiency, inattention to…”
Bullo v. City of Fife (1988) washctapp “Here, similarly, the Washington Legislature, by adopting RCW 41.12.080, 2 created a property interest in continued employment.”
— Wash. Rev. Code § 41.12.080(7) — 2 cases
Allstot v. Edwards (2002) washctapp “” The Town’s obligation to pay arises in part from its violation of RCW 41.12.080, which provides that a city police officer may be discharged for several enumerated reasons, including any act that shows the offender is an unfit person to be employed in public service.”
Allstot v. Edwards (2002) washctapp “" The Town's obligation to pay arises in part from its violation of RCW 41.12.080, which provides that a city police officer may be discharged for several enumerated reasons, including any act that shows the offender is an unfit person to be employed in public service.”
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