PORT ANGELES — Clallam County Administrator Dan Engelbertson was looking through the county codes for something else when he came across a 1976 law that told him he could no longer work for the county.
“It would have affected my job. It would have affected a lot of folks. We just found this thing that was still on the books,” Engelbertson said of Employment Restrictions Ordinance 67, which he discovered last summer.
Recorded as Clallam County Code 3.10.010, the law repealed by the Clallam County commissioners Sept. 2 states: “No person working over 69 hours per month for Clallam County shall be employed by Clallam County while receiving retirement benefits from a state retirement system in which Clallam County participates.”
The law meant Engelbertson and 12 other county employees receiving state pensions could no longer work for the county.
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The rest of the story appears in the Friday/Saturday Peninsula Daily News Clallam edition.