2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 41.16.010: Terms defined.

For the purpose of this chapter, unless clearly indicated by the context, words and phrases shall have the following meaning:

     (1) "Beneficiary" shall mean any person or persons designated by a fireman in a writing filed with the board, and who shall be entitled to receive any benefits of a deceased fireman under this chapter.

     (2) "Board" shall mean the municipal firemen's pension board.

     (3) "Child or children" shall mean a child or children unmarried and under eighteen years of age.

     (4) "Contributions" shall mean and include all sums deducted from the salary of firemen and paid into the fund as hereinafter provided.

     (5) "Disability" shall mean and include injuries or sickness sustained as a result of the performance of duty.

     (6) "Fireman" or "fire fighter" shall mean any person regularly or temporarily, or as a substitute, employed and paid as a member of a fire department, who has passed a civil service examination for fireman and who is actively employed as a fireman; and shall include any "prior fireman."

     (7) "Fire department" shall mean the regularly organized, full time, paid, and employed force of firemen of the municipality.

     (8) "Fund" shall mean the firemen's pension fund created herein.

     (9) "Municipality" shall mean every city and town having a regularly organized full time, paid, fire department employing firemen.

     (10) "Performance of duty" shall mean the performance of work and labor regularly required of firemen and shall include services of an emergency nature rendered while off regular duty, but shall not include time spent in traveling to work before answering roll call or traveling from work after dismissal at roll call.

     (11) "Prior fireman" shall mean a fireman who was actively employed as a fireman of a fire department prior to the first day of January, 1947, and who continues such employment thereafter.

     (12) "Retired fireman" shall mean and include a person employed as a fireman and retired under the provisions of chapter 50, Laws of 1909, as amended.

     (13) "Widow or widower" means the surviving wife or husband of a retired fireman who was retired on account of length of service and who was lawfully married to such fireman; and whenever that term is used with reference to the wife or former wife or husband or former husband of a retired fireman who was retired because of disability, it shall mean his or her lawfully married wife or husband on the date he or she sustained the injury or contracted the illness that resulted in his or her disability. Said term shall not mean or include a surviving wife or husband who by process of law within one year prior to the retired fireman's death, collected or attempted to collect from him or her funds for the support of herself or himself or for his or her children.

[2003 c 30 § 1; 1973 1st ex.s. c 154 § 61; 1947 c 91 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 9578-40.]

Severability -- 1973 1st ex.s. c 154: See note following RCW 2.12.030.