41.04.120 - Civil service and retirement rights preserved when elective office assumed.

Civil service and retirement rights preserved when elective office assumed.

Any civil service employee of the state of Washington or of any political subdivision thereof who is on leave of absence by reason of having been elected or appointed to an elective office shall be preserved in his civil service status, his seniority, rank and retirement rights so long as he regularly continues to make the usual contribution incident to the retention of such beneficial rights as if he were not on leave of absence: PROVIDED, That such contributions being made shall be based on the rank at the time of taking such leave of absence.

[1957 c 164 § 1.]