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9.01.120 | Civil remedies preserved. | The omission to specify or affirm in this act any liability to any damages, penalty, forfeiture or other remedy, imposed by law, and allowed to be recovered or enforced in any civil action or proceeding, for any act or omission declared punishable herein, shall not affect any right to recover or enforce the same.
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9.01.130 | Sending letter, when complete. | Whenever any statute makes the sending of a letter criminal, the offense shall be deemed complete from the time it is deposited in any post office or other place, or delivered to any person, with intent that it shall be forwarded; and the sender may be proceeded against in the county wherein it was so deposited or deli... |
9.01.160 | Application to existing civil rights. | Nothing in this act shall be deemed to affect any civil right or remedy existing at the time when it shall take effect, by virtue of the common law or of the provision of any statute.
[ 1909 c 249 s 43 ; RRS s 2295.]
Reviser's note: For "this act," see note following RCW 9.01.120 . |
9.01.210 | Financial, accounting services to cannabis industry. | (1) A person or entity that receives deposits, extends credit, conducts funds transfers, transports cash or financial instruments on behalf of a financial institution, or provides other financial services for a cannabis producer, cannabis processor, or cannabis retailer authorized under chapter 69.50 RCW or for a quali... |
9.02.005 | Transfer of duties to the department of health. | The powers and duties of the state board of health under this chapter shall be performed by the department of health.
[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 s 202 ; 1985 c 213 s 3 .]
Effective date — Severability — 1989 1st ex.s. c 9: See RCW 43.70.910 and 43.70.920 .
Savings — Effective date — 1985 c 213: See notes following RCW 43.20.... |
9.02.100 | Reproductive privacy—Public policy. | The sovereign people hereby declare that every individual possesses a fundamental right of privacy with respect to personal reproductive decisions. Accordingly, it is the public policy of the state of Washington that: (1) Every individual has the fundamental right to choose or refuse birth control; (2) Every pregnant i... |
9.02.110 | Right to have and provide.(Effective until June 30, 2027.) | The state may not deny or interfere with a pregnant individual's right to choose to have an abortion prior to viability of the fetus, or to protect the pregnant individual's life or health. A physician, physician assistant, *advanced registered nurse practitioner, or other health care provider acting within the provide... |
9.02.120 | Unauthorized abortions—Penalty. | Unless authorized by RCW 9.02.110 , any person who performs an abortion on another person shall be guilty of a class C felony punishable under chapter 9A.20 RCW. The state shall not penalize, prosecute, or otherwise take adverse action against an individual based on their actual, potential, perceived, or alleged pregna... |
9.02.130 | Defenses to prosecution.(Effective until June 30, 2027.) | The good faith judgment of a physician, physician assistant, *advanced registered nurse practitioner, or other health care provider acting within the provider's scope of practice as to viability of the fetus or as to the risk to life or health of a pregnant individual and the good faith judgment of a health care provid... |
9.02.140 | State regulation. | Any regulation promulgated by the state relating to abortion shall be valid only if: (1) The regulation is medically necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant individual who is terminating the pregnancy, (2) The regulation is consistent with established medical practice, and (3) Of the available alternati... |
9.02.150 | Refusing to perform. | No person or private medical facility may be required by law or contract in any circumstances to participate in the performance of an abortion if such person or private medical facility objects to so doing. No person may be discriminated against in employment or professional privileges because of the person's participa... |
9.02.160 | State-provided benefits. | If the state provides, directly or by contract, maternity care benefits, services, or information through any program administered or funded in whole or in part by the state, the state shall also provide pregnant individuals otherwise eligible for any such program with substantially equivalent benefits, services, or in... |
9.02.170 | Definitions.(Effective until June 30, 2027.) | For purposes of this chapter: (1) "Abortion" means any medical treatment intended to induce the termination of a pregnancy except for the purpose of producing a live birth. (2) "*Advanced registered nurse practitioner" means an *advanced registered nurse practitioner licensed under chapter 18.79 RCW. (3) "Health care p... |
9.02.900 | Construction—1992 c 1 (Initiative Measure No. 120). | RCW 9.02.100 through 9.02.170 and 9.02.900 through 9.02.902 shall not be construed to define the state's interest in the fetus for any purpose other than the specific provisions of RCW 9.02.100 through 9.02.170 and 9.02.900 through 9.02.902 .
[ 1992 c 1 s 10 (Initiative Measure No. 120, approved November 5, 1991).] |
9.02.902 | Short title—1992 c 1 (Initiative Measure No. 120). | RCW 9.02.100 through 9.02.170 and 9.02.900 through 9.02.902 shall be known and may be cited as the Reproductive Privacy Act.
[ 1992 c 1 s 12 (Initiative Measure No. 120, approved November 5, 1991).] |
9.03.010 | Abandoning, discarding refrigeration equipment. | Any person who discards or abandons or leaves in any place accessible to children any refrigerator, icebox, or deep freeze locker having a capacity of one and one-half cubic feet or more, which is no longer in use, and which has not had the door removed or a portion of the latch mechanism removed to prevent latching or... |
9.03.020 | Permitting unused equipment to remain on premises. | Any owner, lessee, or manager who knowingly permits such an unused refrigerator, icebox, or deep freeze locker to remain on the premises under his or her control without having the door removed or a portion of the latch mechanism removed to prevent latching or locking of the door is guilty of a misdemeanor.
[ 2011 c 33... |
9.03.030 | Violation of RCW9.03.010or9.03.020. | Guilt of a violation of RCW 9.03.010 or 9.03.020 shall not, in itself, render one guilty of manslaughter, battery, or other crime against a person who may suffer death or injury from entrapment in such refrigerator, icebox, or deep freeze locker.
[ 1955 c 298 s 3 .] |
9.03.040 | Keeping or storing equipment for sale. | Any person who keeps or stores refrigerators, iceboxes, or deep freeze lockers for the purpose of selling or offering them for sale shall not be guilty of a violation of this chapter if he or she takes reasonable precautions to effectively secure the door of any refrigerator, icebox, or deep freeze locker held for purp... |
9.04.010 | False advertising. | Any person, firm, corporation or association who, with intent to sell or in any wise dispose of merchandise, securities, service, or anything offered by such person, firm, corporation or association, directly or indirectly, to the public for sale or distribution, or with intent to increase the consumption thereof, or t... |
9.04.050 | False, misleading, deceptive advertising. | It shall be unlawful for any person to publish, disseminate or display, or cause directly or indirectly, to be published, disseminated or displayed in any manner or by any means, including solicitation or dissemination by mail, telephone, electronic communication, or door-to-door contacts, any false, deceptive or misle... |
9.04.060 | False, misleading, deceptive advertising—Action to restrain and prevent. | The attorney general or the prosecuting attorneys of the several counties may bring an action in the superior court to restrain and prevent any person from violating any provision of RCW 9.04.050 through 9.04.080 .
[ 1961 c 189 s 2 .] |
9.04.070 | False, misleading, deceptive advertising—Penalty. | Any person who violates any order or injunction issued pursuant to RCW 9.04.050 through 9.04.080 shall be subject to a fine of not more than five thousand dollars or imprisonment for not more than ninety days or both.
[ 1999 c 143 s 1 ; 1961 c 189 s 3 .] |
9.04.080 | False, misleading, deceptive advertising—Assurance of discontinuance of unlawful practice. | In the enforcement of RCW 9.04.050 through 9.04.080 the official enforcing RCW 9.04.050 through 9.04.080 may accept an assurance of discontinuance of any act or practice deemed in violation of RCW 9.04.050 through 9.04.080 , from any person engaging in, or who has engaged in such act or practice. Any such assurance sha... |
9.04.090 | Advertising fuel prices by service stations. | It is unlawful for any dealer or service station, as both are defined in *RCW 82.36.010 , to advertise by publication, dissemination, display, or whatever means: (1) A price per unit of fuel that is expressed in a unit of measurement different from that employed by the pump or other device used to dispense the fuel, un... |
9.05.030 | Assemblages of saboteurs. | Whenever two or more persons assemble for the purpose of committing criminal sabotage, as defined in RCW 9.05.060 , such an assembly is unlawful, and every person voluntarily and knowingly participating therein by his or her presence, aid, or instigation, is guilty of a class B felony and shall be punished by imprisonm... |
9.05.060 | Criminal sabotage defined—Penalty. | (1) Whoever, with intent that his or her act shall, or with reason to believe that it may, injure, interfere with, interrupt, supplant, nullify, impair, or obstruct the owner's or operator's management, operation, or control of any agricultural, stockraising, lumbering, mining, quarrying, fishing, manufacturing, transp... |
9.05.090 | Provisions cumulative. | RCW 9.05.030 and 9.05.060 shall not be construed to repeal or amend any existing penal statute.
[ 1999 c 191 s 3 ; 1919 c 173 s 4 ; RRS s 2563-6.] |
9.08.030 | False certificate of registration of animals—False representation as to breed. | Every person who, by color or aid of any false pretense, representation, token or writing shall obtain from any club, association, society or company for the improvement of the breed of cattle, horses, sheep, swine, fowls or other domestic animals or birds, a certificate of registration of any animal or bird in a herdb... |
9.08.065 | Definitions. | As used in RCW 9.08.070 through 9.08.078 : (1) "Pet animal" means a tamed or domesticated animal legally retained by a person and kept as a companion. "Pet animal" does not include livestock raised for commercial purposes. (2) "Research institution" means a facility licensed by the United States department of agricultu... |
9.08.070 | Pet animals—Taking, concealing, injuring, killing, etc.—Penalty. | (1) Any person who, with intent to deprive or defraud the owner thereof, does any of the following shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor punishable according to chapter 9A.20 RCW and, for adult offenders, a mandatory fine of not less than five hundred dollars per pet animal shall be imposed, except as provided by subs... |
9.08.072 | Transferring stolen pet animal to a research institution—Penalty. | (1) It is unlawful for any person to receive with intent to sell to a research institution in the state of Washington, or sell or otherwise directly transfer to a research institution in the state of Washington, a pet animal that the person knows or has reason to know has been stolen or fraudulently obtained. This sect... |
9.08.074 | Transferring stolen pet animal to a person who has previously sold a stolen pet animal to a research institution—Penalty. | (1) It is unlawful for any person, who knows or has reason to know that a pet animal has been stolen or fraudulently obtained, to sell or otherwise transfer the pet animal to another who the person knows or has reason to know has previously sold a stolen or fraudulently obtained pet animal to a research institution in ... |
9.08.076 | Transferring stolen pet animal to a research institution by a U.S.D.A. licensed dealer—Penalty. | (1) It is unlawful for a U.S.D.A. licensed dealer to receive with intent to sell, or sell or transfer directly or through a third party, to a research institution in the state of Washington, a pet animal that the dealer knows or has reason to know has been stolen or fraudulently obtained. (2) A conviction under this se... |
9.08.078 | Illegal sale, receipt, or transfer of pet animals—Separate offenses. | (1) The sale, receipt, or transfer of each individual pet animal in violation of RCW 9.08.070 through 9.08.078 constitutes a separate offense. (2) The provisions of RCW 9.08.070 through 9.08.078 shall not apply to the lawful acts of any employee, agent, or director of any humane society, animal control agency, or anima... |
9.08.080 | Acts against animal facilities—Intent. | There has been an increasing number of illegal acts committed against animal production and research facilities involving injury or loss of life to animals or humans, criminal trespass, and damage to property. These actions not only abridge the property rights of the owners, operators, and employees of the facility, th... |
9.08.090 | Acts against animal facilities. | A person is guilty of a class C felony: If he or she, without authorization, knowingly takes, releases, destroys, contaminates, or damages any animal or animals kept in a research or educational facility where the animal or animals are used or to be used for medical research purposes or other research purposes or for e... |
9.10.010 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Covered animal" means any of the following animals, and hybrids thereof: (a) Elephantidae ; (b) Felidae , including any hybrids thereof, but excluding domestic cats; (c) Nonhuman primate; and (d) Ursidae . ... |
9.10.020 | Participation of a covered animal. | Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall allow for the participation of a covered animal in a traveling animal act.
[ 2025 c 116 s 2 .] |
9.10.030 | Nonmobile, permanent institution or other fixed facility—Exceptions. | This chapter shall not apply to a performance that: (1) Takes place at a nonmobile, permanent institution or other fixed facility licensed by the United States department of agriculture; and (2) is conducted by the nonmobile, permanent institution or fixed facility.
[ 2025 c 116 s 3 .] |
9.10.040 | Traveling animal acts—Certain animals—Penalty. | A violation of this chapter is a gross misdemeanor.
[ 2025 c 116 s 4 .] |
9.10.050 | City or county—Governing traveling animal acts. | A city or county may adopt an ordinance governing traveling animal acts that is more restrictive than this chapter.
[ 2025 c 116 s 5 .] |
9.12.010 | Barratry. | Every person who brings on his or her own behalf, or instigates, incites, or encourages another to bring, any false suit at law or in equity in any court of this state, with intent thereby to distress or harass a defendant in the suit, or who serves or sends any paper or document purporting to be or resembling a judici... |
9.12.020 | Buying, demanding, or promising reward by district judge or deputy. | Every district judge or deputy who shall, directly or indirectly, buy or be interested in buying anything in action for the purpose of commencing a suit thereon before a district judge, or who shall give or promise any valuable consideration to any person as an inducement to bring, or as a consideration for having brou... |
9.16.005 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Counterfeit mark" means: (a) Any unauthorized reproduction or copy of intellectual property; or (b) Intellectual property affixed to any item knowingly sold, offered for sale, manufactured, or distributed, ... |
9.16.010 | Removing lawful brands. | Every person who shall willfully deface, obliterate, remove, or alter any mark or brand placed by or with the authority of the owner thereof on any shingle bolt, log or stick of timber, or on any horse, mare, gelding, mule, cow, steer, bull, sheep, goat or hog, shall be punished by imprisonment in a state correctional ... |
9.16.020 | Imitating lawful brand. | Every person who, in any county, places upon any property, any brand or mark in the likeness or similitude of another brand or mark filed with the county auditor of such county by the owner thereof as a brand or mark for the designation or identification of a like kind of property, is: (1) If done with intent to confus... |
9.16.030 | Counterfeit mark—Intellectual property. | Any person who willfully and knowingly, and for financial gain, manufactures, uses, displays, advertises, distributes, offers for sale, sells or possesses with intent to sell or distribute any item, or offers any services, bearing or identified by a counterfeit mark, is guilty of the crime of counterfeiting. Any state ... |
9.16.035 | Counterfeiting—Penalties. | (1) Counterfeiting is a misdemeanor, except as provided in subsections (2), (3) and (4) of this section. (2) Counterfeiting is a gross misdemeanor if: (a) The defendant has previously been convicted under RCW 9.16.030 ; or (b) The violation involves more than one hundred but fewer than one thousand items bearing a coun... |
9.16.041 | Counterfeit items—Seizure and forfeiture. | (1) Any items bearing a counterfeit mark, and all personal property employed or used in connection with counterfeiting, including but not limited to, any items, objects, tools, machines, equipment, instruments, or vehicles of any kind, shall be seized by any law enforcement officer. All seized personal property referen... |
9.16.050 | When deemed affixed. | A label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement shall be deemed to be affixed to any goods, wares, merchandise, mixture, preparation or compound whenever it is in any manner placed in or upon either the article itself, or the box, bale, barrel, bottle, case, cask or other vessel or package, or the cov... |
9.16.060 | Fraudulent registration of trademark. | Every person who shall for himself or herself, or on behalf of any other person, corporation, association, or union, procure the filing of any label, trademark, term, design, device, or form of advertisement, with the secretary of state by any fraudulent means, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[ 2011 c 336 s 289 ; 190... |
9.16.070 | Form and similitude defined. | A plate, label, trademark, term, design, device or form of advertisement is in the form and similitude of the genuine instrument imitated if the finished parts of the engraving thereupon shall resemble or conform to the similar parts of the genuine instrument.
[ 1909 c 249 s 348 ; RRS s 2600.] |
9.16.080 | Petroleum products improperly labeled or graded—Penalty. | (1) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation: (a) To use, adopt, place upon, or permit to be used, adopted or placed upon, any barrel, tank, drum or other container of gasoline or lubricating oil for internal combustion engines, sold or offered for sale, or upon any pump or other device used in deliver... |
9.16.100 | Use of the words "sterling silver," etc. | Every person who shall make, sell or offer to sell or dispose of, or have in his or her possession with intent to sell or dispose of any metal article marked, stamped or branded with the words "sterling," "sterling silver," or "solid silver," unless nine hundred twenty-five one-thousandths of the component parts of the... |
9.16.110 | Use of words "coin silver," etc. | Every person who shall make, sell or offer to sell or dispose of, or have in his or her possession with intent to dispose of any metal article marked, stamped or branded with the words "coin," or "coin silver," unless nine hundred one-thousandths of the component parts of the metal of which such article and all parts t... |
9.16.120 | Use of the word "sterling" on mounting. | Every person who shall make, sell, offer to sell or dispose of, or have in his or her possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article comprised of leather, shell, ivory, celluloid, pearl, glass, porcelain, pottery, steel or wood, to which is applied or attached a metal mounting marked, stamped or branded with... |
9.16.130 | Use of the words "coin silver" on mounting. | Every person who shall make, sell, offer to sell or dispose of, or have in his or her possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article comprised of leather, shell, ivory, celluloid, pearl, glass, porcelain, pottery, steel or wood, to which is applied or attached a metal mounting marked, stamped or branded with... |
9.16.140 | Unlawfully marking article made of gold. | Every person who shall make, sell, offer to sell or dispose of, or have in his or her possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article constructed wholly or in part of gold, or of an alloy of gold, and marked, stamped or branded in such manner as to indicate that the gold or alloy of gold in such article is of... |
9.16.150 | "Marked, stamped or branded" defined. | An article shall be deemed to be "marked, stamped or branded" whenever such article, or any box, package, cover or wrapper in which the same is enclosed, encased or prepared for sale or delivery, or any card, label or placard with which the same may be exhibited or displayed, is so marked, stamped or branded.
[ 1909 c ... |
9.18.080 | Offender a competent witness. | Every person offending against any of the provisions of law relating to bribery or corruption shall be a competent witness against another so offending and shall not be excused from giving testimony tending to criminate himself or herself.
[ 2011 c 336 s 295 ; 1909 c 249 s 78 ; RRS s 2330. Cf. 1907 c 60 ss 1, 2; RRS ss... |
9.18.120 | Suppression of competitive bidding. | (1) When any competitive bid or bids are to be or have been solicited, requested, or advertised for by the state of Washington, or any county, city, town or other municipal corporation therein, or any department of either thereof, for any work or improvement to be done or constructed for or by such state, county, city,... |
9.18.130 | Collusion to prevent competitive bidding—Penalty. | (1) It shall be unlawful for any person for himself or herself or as an agent or officer of any other person, persons, or corporation to in any manner enter into collusion or an understanding with any other person, persons, or corporation to prevent or eliminate full and unrestricted competition upon any public work or... |
9.18.150 | Agreements outside state. | It shall be no defense to a prosecution under RCW 9.18.120 through 9.18.150 that a payment or promise of payment of any money, check, draft, or anything of value, or any other understanding or arrangement to eliminate unrestricted competitive bids was had or made outside of the state of Washington, if such work or impr... |
9.24.010 | Fraud in stock subscription. | Every person who shall sign the name of a fictitious person to any subscription for or any agreement to take stock in any corporation existing or proposed, and every person who shall sign to any such subscription or agreement the name of any person, knowing that such person does not intend in good faith to comply with ... |
9.24.020 | Fraudulent issue of stock, scrip, etc. | Every officer, agent or other person in the service of a joint stock company or corporation, domestic or foreign, who, willfully and knowingly with intent to defraud: (1) Sells, pledges, or issues, or causes to be sold, pledged, or issued, or signs or executes, or causes to be signed or executed, with intent to sell, p... |
9.24.030 | Insolvent bank receiving deposit. | Every owner, officer, stockholder, agent or employee of any person, firm, corporation or association engaged, wholly or in part, in the business of banking or receiving money or negotiable paper or securities on deposit or in trust, who shall accept or receive, with or without interest, any deposit, or who shall consen... |
9.24.040 | Corporation doing business without license. | Every corporation, whether domestic or foreign, and every person representing or pretending to represent such corporation as an officer, agent or employee thereof, who shall transact, solicit or advertise for any business in this state, before such corporation shall have obtained from the officer lawfully authorized to... |
9.24.050 | False report of corporation. | Every director, officer or agent of any corporation or joint stock association, and every person engaged in organizing or promoting any enterprise, who shall knowingly make or publish or concur in making or publishing any written prospectus, report, exhibit or statement of its affairs or pecuniary condition, containing... |
9.26A.090 | Telephone company credit cards—Prohibited acts. | Every person who sells, rents, lends, gives, advertises for sale or rental, or publishes the credit card number of an existing, canceled, revoked, expired, or nonexistent telephone company credit card, or the numbering or coding that is employed in the issuance of telephone company credit cards or access devices, with ... |
9.26A.100 | Definitions. | Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Access device" shall have the same meaning as that contained in RCW 9A.56.010 . (2) "Computer" means an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other high-speed data processing device performing... |
9.26A.110 | Fraud in obtaining telecommunications service—Penalty. | (1) Every person who, with intent to evade the provisions of any order or rule of the Washington utilities and transportation commission or of any tariff, price list, contract, or any other filing lawfully submitted to the commission by any telephone, telegraph, or telecommunications company, or with intent to defraud,... |
9.26A.115 | Fraud in obtaining telecommunications service—Use of telecommunications device—Penalty. | Every person is guilty of a class B felony punishable according to chapter 9A.20 RCW who: (1) Makes, possesses, sells, gives, or otherwise transfers to another a telecommunications device with intent to use it or with knowledge or reason to believe it is intended to be used to avoid any lawful telephone or telegraph to... |
9.26A.120 | Fraud in operating coin-box telephone or other receptacle. | Any person who shall knowingly and wilfully operate, or cause to be operated, or who shall attempt to operate, or attempt to cause to be operated, [any] coin-box telephone or other receptacle designed to receive lawful coin of the United States of America in connection with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or ser... |
9.26A.130 | Penalty for manufacture or sale of slugs to be used for coin. | Any person who, with intent to cheat or defraud the owner, lessee, licensee or other person entitled to the contents of any coin-box telephone or other receptacle, depository or contrivance, designed to receive lawful coin of the United States of America in connection with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or serv... |
9.26A.140 | Unauthorized sale or procurement of telephone records—Penalties—Definitions. | (1) A person is guilty of the unauthorized sale or procurement of telephone records if the person: (a) Intentionally sells the telephone record of any resident of this state without the authorization of the customer to whom the record pertains; (b) By fraudulent, deceptive, or false means obtains the telephone record o... |
9.27.015 | Interference, obstruction of any court, building, or residence—Violations. | Whoever, interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the state of Washington or any political subdivision thereof, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or uses any... |
9.31.090 | Escaped prisoner recaptured. | Every person in custody, under sentence of imprisonment for any crime, who shall escape from custody, may be recaptured and imprisoned for a term equal to the unexpired portion of the original term.
[ 1909 c 249 s 89 ; RRS s 2341.]
Indeterminate sentences: Chapter 9.95 RCW. |
9.35.001 | Findings—Intent. | (1) The legislature finds that means of identification and financial information are personal and sensitive information such that if unlawfully obtained, possessed, used, or transferred by others may result in significant harm to a person's privacy, financial security, and other interests. The legislature finds that un... |
9.35.005 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Financial information" means any of the following information identifiable to the individual that concerns the amount and conditions of an individual's assets, liabilities, or credit: (a) Account numbers an... |
9.35.010 | Improperly obtaining financial information. | (1) No person may obtain or attempt to obtain, or cause to be disclosed or attempt to cause to be disclosed to any person, financial information from a financial information repository, financial services provider, merchant, corporation, trust, partnership, or unincorporated association: (a) By knowingly making a false... |
9.35.020 | Identity theft. | (1) No person may knowingly obtain, possess, use, or transfer a means of identification or financial information of another person, living or dead, with the intent to commit, or to aid or abet, any crime. (2) Violation of this section when the accused or an accomplice violates subsection (1) of this section and obtains... |
9.35.030 | Soliciting undesired mail. | (1) It is unlawful for any person to knowingly use a means of identification or financial information of another person to solicit undesired mail with the intent to annoy, harass, intimidate, torment, or embarrass that person. (2) Violation of this section is a misdemeanor. (3) Additionally, a person who violates this ... |
9.35.040 | Information available to victim. | (1) A person, financial information repository, financial service provider, merchant, corporation, trust, partnership, or unincorporated association possessing information relating to an actual or potential violation of this chapter, and who may have entered into a transaction, provided credit, products, goods, or serv... |
9.35.050 | Incident reports. | (1) A person who has learned or reasonably suspects that his or her financial information or means of identification has been unlawfully obtained, used by, or disclosed to another, as described in this chapter, may file an incident report with a law enforcement agency, by contacting the local law enforcement agency tha... |
9.35.060 | Consumer fraud targeting seniors, vulnerable individuals. | (1) It is the intent of this section to increase civil penalties for consumer fraud targeting a senior or a vulnerable individual. (2) Any consumer fraud that targets a senior or a vulnerable individual, as defined in RCW 9.35.005 , is subject to civil penalties of three times the amount of actual damages. (3) This sec... |
9.35.800 | Application of Consumer Protection Act. | The legislature finds that the practices covered by RCW 9.35.010 and 9.35.020 are matters vitally affecting the public interest for the purpose of applying the Consumer Protection Act, chapter 19.86 RCW. Violations of RCW 9.35.010 or 9.35.020 are not reasonable in relation to the development and preservation of busines... |
9.35.900 | Effective date—1999 c 368. | This act takes effect January 1, 2000.
[ 1999 c 368 s 4 .] |
9.38.010 | False representation concerning credit. | Every person who, with intent thereby to obtain credit or financial rating, shall willfully make any false statement in writing of his or her assets or liabilities to any person with whom he or she may be either actually or prospectively engaged in any business transaction or to any commercial agency or other person en... |
9.38.015 | False statement by deposit account applicant. | (1) It is a gross misdemeanor for a deposit account applicant to knowingly make any false statement to a financial institution regarding: (a) The applicant's identity; (b) Past convictions for crimes involving fraud or deception; or (c) Outstanding judgments on checks or drafts issued by the applicant. (2) Each violati... |
9.38.020 | False representation concerning title. | Every person who shall maliciously or fraudulently execute or file for record any instrument, or put forward any claim, by which the right or title of another to any real or personal property is, or purports to be transferred, encumbered or clouded, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
[2000 c 250 s 9A-821; 1909 c 2... |
9.38.060 | Digital signature violations. | (1) A person shall not knowingly misrepresent the person's identity or authorization to obtain a public key certificate used to reference a private key for creating a digital signature. (2) A person shall not knowingly forge an electronic or digital signature. (3) A person shall not knowingly present a public key certi... |
9.40.040 | Operating engine or boiler without spark arrester. | Every person who shall operate or permit to be operated in dangerous proximity to any brush, grass or other inflammable material, any spark-emitting engine or boiler which is not equipped with a modern spark-arrester, in good condition, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[ 1929 c 172 s 1 ; 1909 c 249 s 272 ; RRS s 2524.... |
9.40.100 | Tampering with fire alarm or firefighting equipment—False alarm—Penalties. | Any person who willfully and without cause tampers with, molests, injures or breaks any public or private fire alarm apparatus, emergency phone, radio, or other wire or signal, or any firefighting equipment, or who willfully and without having reasonable grounds for believing a fire exists, sends, gives, transmits, or ... |
9.40.105 | Tampering with fire alarm or firefighting equipment—Intent to commit arson—Penalty. | Any person who willfully and without cause tampers with, molests, injures, or breaks any public or private fire alarm apparatus, emergency phone, radio, or other wire or signal, or any firefighting equipment with the intent to commit arson, is guilty of a class B felony punishable according to chapter 9A.20 RCW.
[ 2003... |
9.40.110 | Incendiary devices—Definitions. | For the purposes of RCW 9.40.110 through 9.40.130 , as now or hereafter amended, unless the context indicates otherwise: (1) "Disposes of" means to give, give away, loan, offer, offer for sale, sell, or transfer. (2) "Incendiary device" means any material, substance, device, or combination thereof which is capable of s... |
9.40.120 | Incendiary devices—Penalty. | Every person who possesses, manufactures, or disposes of an incendiary device knowing it to be such is guilty of a class B felony punishable according to chapter 9A.20 RCW, and upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in a state prison for a term of not more than ten years.
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9.40.130 | Incendiary devices—Exceptions. | RCW 9.40.120 , as now or hereafter amended, shall not prohibit the authorized use or possession of any material, substance, or device described therein by a member of the armed forces of the United States or by firefighters, or peace officers, nor shall these sections prohibit the use or possession of any material, sub... |
9.41.010 | Definitions.(Effective until June 30, 2027.) | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 2632.SL ) ***
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Antique firearm" means a firearm or replica of a firearm not designed or redesigned for using rim fire or conventional center fire ignition with fixed ammunition a... |
9.41.040 | Unlawful possession of firearms—Penalties. | (1)(a) A person, whether an adult or juvenile, is guilty of the crime of unlawful possession of a firearm in the first degree: (i) If the person owns, accesses, has in the person's custody, control, or possession, or receives any firearm after having previously been convicted or found not guilty by reason of insanity i... |
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