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15.58.920 | Existing liabilities not affected. | The enactment of this chapter shall not have the effect of terminating, or in any way modifying, any liability, civil or criminal, which shall already be in existence on the date this chapter becomes effective.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 190 s 44 .] |
15.60.005 | Definitions. | Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter: (1) "Department" means the department of agriculture of the state of Washington. (2) "Director" means the director of the state department of agriculture or the director's authorized representative. (3) "Apiary... |
15.60.010 | Apiary advisory committee. | The director may establish an apiary advisory committee including members representing the major segments of the apiary industry including commercial and noncommercial beekeepers, representatives from the Washington State University apiary program or cooperative extension, and receivers of pollination services as deeme... |
15.60.021 | Registration of hives. | (1) Each person owning one or more hives with bees, brokers renting hives, and apiarists resident in other states who operate hives in Washington shall register with the director by April 1st each year. (2) The registration application shall include: (a) The name, address, and phone number of the apiarist or broker; (b... |
15.60.031 | Late registration fee. | A late fee of one and one-half percent per month shall be assessed on registration fees received after April 1st.
[ 2000 c 100 s 4 ; 1994 c 178 s 5 ; 1993 c 89 s 10 ; 1988 c 4 s 8 ; 1981 c 296 s 9 ; 1977 ex.s. c 362 s 9 . Formerly RCW 15.60.043 .]
Severability — 1981 c 296: See note following RCW 15.08.010 . |
15.60.040 | Money collected under chapter—Placement—Disbursement. | All money collected under this chapter shall be placed in an account in the agricultural local fund. Money in the account shall be used to carry out the purposes of this chapter and may be used for apiary-related activities of the department or funding research projects of benefit to the apiary industry that the direct... |
15.60.055 | Violations—Penalty. | (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, a person who violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter or any rule adopted under this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2) A second or subsequent violation is a gross misdemeanor. (3) Whenever the director finds that a person has ... |
15.60.065 | Apiary coordinated areas—Hearing to establish. | When the county legislative authority determines that it would be desirable to establish an apiary coordinated area or areas in their county, they shall make an order fixing a time and place when a hearing will be held, notice of which shall be published at least once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper h... |
15.60.075 | Apiary coordinated areas—Order describing. | Within thirty days after the conclusion of any such hearing the county legislative authority shall make an order describing the apiary coordinated areas within the county as to the maximum allowable number of hives per site, the minimum allowable distance between sites, and the minimum required setback from property li... |
15.60.085 | Apiary coordinated areas—Boundary change procedure. | When the county legislative authority of any county deems it advisable to change the boundary or boundaries of any apiary coordinated area, a hearing shall be held in the same manner as provided in RCW 15.60.065 . If the county legislative authority decides to change the boundary or boundaries of any apiary coordinated... |
15.60.095 | Apiary coordinated areas within certain counties. | The county legislative authority of any county with a population of from forty thousand to less than seventy thousand located east of the Cascade crest and bordering in the southern side of the Snake river shall have the power to designate by an order made and published, as provided in RCW 15.60.075 , certain territori... |
15.60.250 | Liability for acts or omissions. | A person who owns or operates an apiary, is a registered apiarist under RCW 15.60.021 , and conforms to all applicable city, town, or county ordinances regarding beekeeping, is not liable for any civil damages for acts or omissions in connection with the keeping and maintaining of bees, bee equipment, queen breeding eq... |
15.60.901 | Effective date—2000 c 100. | This act takes effect June 30, 2001.
[ 2000 c 100 s 9 .] |
15.61.010 | Administrative declaration—Regulation of commercial movement. | The director of agriculture in order to protect the production of native and/or domestic plants or their products in this state, may declare ladybugs or any other insects to be beneficial insects and necessary to maintain a beneficial biological balance over insects which are detrimental to such native and/or domestic ... |
15.61.020 | Intergovernmental cooperation. | The director of agriculture may cooperate and enter into agreements with governmental agencies, other states, and agencies of the federal government to carry out the purposes and provisions of this chapter or rules adopted hereunder.
[ 1963 c 232 s 11 .] |
15.61.030 | Injunctions. | The director of agriculture may bring an action to enjoin the violation of any provision of this chapter or rule adopted pursuant to said sections in the county where such violation has occurred, notwithstanding the existence of any other remedies at law.
[ 1963 c 232 s 12 .] |
15.61.040 | Nonapplicability to honey bees and insects used for research. | The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to honey bees or to those beneficial insects used for research purposes.
[ 1963 c 232 s 13 .] |
15.61.050 | Violations—Penalty. | (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, any person violating the provisions of this chapter or rules adopted hereunder is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2) A second or subsequent violation is a gross misdemeanor. Any offense committed more than five years after a previous conviction shall be considered a f... |
15.62.010 | Purpose and findings. | The purpose of this chapter is to advance the public welfare and education and to promote the interest, products, services, and stabilization of Washington's honey bee industry. The legislature finds that: (1) Increasing the consumption of products of the honey bee industry and promoting the use of its services and sta... |
15.62.020 | Definitions. | Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter: (1) "Affected person" means an apiarist, manufacturer, processor, first handler, broker, or volunteer who shall pay to the commission the minimum assessments required in RCW 15.62.140 . (2) "Apiarist" means any... |
15.62.030 | Commission established by referendum. | The Washington state honey bee commission shall be established following approval of a referendum by a majority of the affected apiarists and brokers, as set forth in RCW 15.62.140 (4) for assessment increases.
[ 1989 c 5 s 3 .] |
15.62.040 | Powers and duties of commission. | The commission shall have the following powers and duties: (1) To elect a chairperson and other officers as it deems advisable; (2) To promulgate rules and regulations under the administrative procedure act, chapter 34.05 RCW, and RCW 15.04.200 as necessary to effectuate the purpose and policies of this chapter; (3) To... |
15.62.050 | Commission compositions—Eleven positions. | The commission shall consist of the following members: (1) Apiarist position one shall represent area one, which includes the counties of Whatcom, San Juan[,] Island, Skagit, Snohomish, and King; and (2) Apiarist position two shall represent area two, which includes the counties of Pierce, Kitsap, Clallam, Jefferson, G... |
15.62.060 | Position qualifications. | (1) Commission positions one through seven shall be filled by persons who meet the following requirements: (a) Resident of this state; (b) Resident of the area they represent; and (c) Actually engaged in owning, operating, or as a broker of bee colonies for the five years immediately preceding their election. (2) Commi... |
15.62.070 | Terms of office—Vacancies. | (1) The regular terms of office of each elected member of the commission shall be three years, except that the term of office for the initial members shall be as follows: (a) Positions for areas one, four, and seven - one year. (b) Positions for areas two, five, and eight - two years. (c) Positions for areas three, six... |
15.62.080 | Apiarist members—Election. | (1) Apiarist members of the commission shall be nominated and elected by the apiarists within the district they are to represent in the year in which a member's term expires. The candidate receiving the largest number of votes cast shall be elected. The election shall be by secret mail ballot and shall be conducted by ... |
15.62.090 | Notice, elections, referenda—Lists of apiarists, manufacturers, processors, and first handlers. | (1)(a) The director shall cause a list to be prepared of all apiarists, as defined in RCW 15.62.020 , from the list of apiarists registered with the department under *RCW 15.60.030 . A qualified person may, at any time, have his or her name placed on the list by registering with the department. (b) The director shall c... |
15.62.100 | Costs of elections and referendums—Reimbursement. | The commission shall reimburse the director for the actual costs incurred in conducting the elections and referendums, and acquiring lists of affected persons.
[ 1989 c 5 s 9 .] |
15.62.110 | Quorum—Travel expenses. | (1) A majority of the commission members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business of the commission. (2) Members of the commission shall be reimbursed for travel expenses, as prescribed by the commission, for each day spent in attendance at, or traveling to and from, commission meetings or when con... |
15.62.120 | Certified copies of commission's proceedings, records, and acts—Admissible in court. | Copies of the proceedings, records, and acts of the commission, when certified by the secretary, shall be admissible in any court and be evidence of the truth of the statements therein contained.
[ 1989 c 5 s 11 .] |
15.62.130 | Commission officers—Members' fidelity bonds. | The commission may elect an executive secretary who is not a member and fix his or her compensation and may appoint a treasurer who shall sign all vouchers and receipts for moneys received by the commission. The commission shall purchase for each of its members a fidelity bond executed by a surety company authorized to... |
15.62.140 | Assessments—Minimum—Increase. | (1) The commission shall collect annual assessments as follows: (a) Twenty-five cents for each colony operated by an apiarist or broker in Washington at any time in a calendar year. Each colony shall be assessed only once per calendar year. There shall be a minimum assessment of ten dollars. (b) The sale of a business ... |
15.62.150 | Assessments—Collection—Deposit in local fund—Gifts, grants, and endowments—Failure to remit assessment. | (1) All assessments shall be collected by the commission on a quarterly basis or as otherwise determined by the commission. (2) The commission shall create a local fund in a local financial institution approved by the director and shall deposit therein, each day, all moneys received by the commission except an amount f... |
15.62.160 | Assessment error—Refund. | A person shall be entitled to a refund of assessed money held by the commission fund when it has been determined by the commission that the affected person was assessed and made payment in error.
[ 1989 c 5 s 16 .] |
15.62.170 | Recordkeeping. | (1) Each apiarist and broker shall keep accurate records of the number of colonies owned or operated during each calendar year. (2) Each manufacturer shall keep accurate records of gross sales of industry products or manufactured goods sold in the state of Washington. (3) Each processor shall keep accurate records of t... |
15.62.180 | Reporting. | Each affected person shall, as required, file with the commission a return under oath on forms to be furnished by the commission, stating the information requested by the commission regarding the ownership, handling, processing, manufacturing, delivering, shipping, sale, and brokering of various honey bee industry prod... |
15.62.200 | Audit of records of affected persons. | The commission through its agents may audit the records of any affected person for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter. The commission must first notify the affected person of their intention to audit and may request supporting documents of the affected person regarding reports submitted on commissi... |
15.62.210 | Nonliability of state—Salaries, expenses, and liabilities. | The state shall not be liable for the acts or on the contracts of the commission, nor shall any member or employee of the commission be liable on its contracts. All salaries, expenses, and liabilities incurred by persons employed or contracting under this chapter for the commission shall be limited to, and payable only... |
15.62.220 | Violations—Misdemeanor. | Any person who violates or aids in the violation of any provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation of the commission shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[ 1989 c 5 s 22 .] |
15.62.230 | Prosecutions—Superior court jurisdiction—Equitable remedies. | (1) Any prosecution brought under this chapter may be instituted in any county in which the defendant or any defendant resides, or in which the violation was committed, or in which the defendant or any defendant has his or her principal place of business. (2) The commission is hereby vested with the authority to utiliz... |
15.62.300 | Termination, suspension, or continuance of commission. | In the seventh year following the inception of the commission, a referendum shall be conducted by the department of agriculture to determine if the commission is still desired by the beekeeping industry in Washington. The commission shall continue if the director finds that affected apiarists and brokers voting in a re... |
15.62.310 | Termination or suspension of commission. | The commission shall be terminated or suspended if the director finds that apiarists and brokers voting in a referendum conducted as for an assessment increase in RCW 15.62.140 (4) voted in favor of such termination or suspension. A referendum may be called by a majority of the commission or by twenty percent of the re... |
15.62.900 | Liberal construction. | This chapter shall be liberally construed to effectuate the policies and purpose set forth herein.
[ 1989 c 5 s 24 .] |
15.64.010 | Director's duties and powers. | The director shall investigate and promote the economical and efficient distribution of farm products, and in so doing may cooperate with federal agencies and agencies of this and other states engaged in similar activities. For such purposes he or she may: (1) Maintain a market news service by bulletins and through new... |
15.64.030 | Studies of farm marketing problems—Rules. | The director shall enact rules and regulations governing the pursuit of technical studies of farm marketing problems. Said studies shall be under the supervision of the director of the experimental station of Washington State University. The extension service of Washington State University shall provide for disseminati... |
15.64.040 | Use of funds for studies—Joint studies with other agencies. | Moneys appropriated to the department for agricultural marketing research shall be expended by the department to further studies by the department, the experiment station of Washington State University and the extension service of Washington State University. The studies shall be made jointly or in conjunction with tho... |
15.64.050 | Small farm direct marketing assistance program—Created—Duties. | (1) The small farm direct marketing assistance program is created. (2) The director shall employ a small farm direct marketing assistant. (3) The small farm direct marketing assistance program shall assist small farms in their direct marketing efforts. In carrying out this duty the program shall: (a) Assist small farms... |
15.64.060 | Farm-to-school program. | (1) A farm-to-school program is created within the department to facilitate increased procurement of Washington grown food by schools. (2) The department, in consultation with the department of health, the office of the superintendent of public instruction, the department of enterprise services, and Washington State Un... |
15.65.010 | Short title. | This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Washington state agricultural enabling act.
[ 1961 c 256 s 1 .] |
15.65.020 | Definitions. | The following terms are hereby defined: (1) "Affected commodity" means that part or portion of any agricultural commodity which is covered by or forms the subject matter of any marketing agreement or order or proposal, and includes all affected units thereof as herein defined and no others. (2) "Affected parties" means... |
15.65.028 | Regulating agricultural commodities—Existing comprehensive scheme. | The history, economy, culture, and the future of Washington state to a large degree all involve agriculture. In order to develop and promote Washington's agricultural products as part of the existing comprehensive scheme to regulate agricultural commodities, the legislature declares: (1) That the marketing of agricultu... |
15.65.033 | Regulating agricultural commodities—Laws applicable. | This chapter and the rules adopted under it are only one aspect of the comprehensively regulated agricultural industry. (1) Other laws applicable to agricultural commodities include the following chapters and the rules adopted thereunder: Chapter 15.08 RCW Horticultural pests and diseases; Chapter 15.13 RCW Horticultur... |
15.65.040 | Establishing a commodity board—Marketing order—Purposes. | The director may adopt a marketing order that establishes a commodity board under this chapter for any of the following purposes: (1) To aid agricultural producers in preventing economic waste in the marketing of their agricultural commodities and in developing more efficient methods of marketing agricultural products.... |
15.65.043 | Board may establish foundation. | A commodity board may establish a foundation using commission funds as grant money when the foundation benefits the commodity for which the board was established. Commission funds may be used for the purposes authorized in the marketing order.
[ 2001 c 315 s 7 .] |
15.65.047 | Director's duties and responsibilities—Amendments to marketing orders or agreements without a referendum—Rules. | (1) The director may adopt rules necessary to carry out the director's duties and responsibilities under this chapter including: (a) The issuance, amendment, or termination of marketing orders or agreements; (b) Procedural, technical, or administrative rules which may address and include, but are not limited to: (i) Th... |
15.65.050 | Director to enforce and administer chapter—Marketing agreements, orders issued, amended, notice, grounds for amendments. | The director shall administer and enforce this chapter and it shall be his or her duty to carry out its provisions and put them into force in accordance with its terms, but issuance, amendment, modification, and/or suspension of marketing agreements and orders and of any terms or provisions thereof shall be accomplishe... |
15.65.060 | Form, filing of marketing agreement, order, amendment, and other proceedings. | The director shall cause any marketing agreement, order proposed for issuance, or amendment to be set out in detailed form and reduced to writing, which writing is herein designated "proposal." The director shall make and maintain on file in the office of the department a copy of each proposal and a full and complete r... |
15.65.070 | Notice of hearing on proposal—Publication—Contents. | The director shall publish notice of any hearing called for the purpose of considering and acting upon any proposal for a period of not less than two days in one or more newspapers of general circulation as the director may prescribe. No such public hearing shall be held prior to five days after the last day of such pe... |
15.65.090 | Subpoenas—Compelling attendance of witnesses, fees—Immunity of witnesses. | The director shall have the power to issue subpoenas for the production of any books, records, or documents of any kind and to subpoena witnesses to be produced or to appear (as the case may be) in the county wherein the principal party involved in such hearing resides. No person shall be excused from attending and tes... |
15.65.100 | Director's findings and recommended decision, delivery of copies—Taking official notice of facts from other agencies. | The director shall make and publish findings based upon the facts, testimony, and evidence received at the public hearings together with any other relevant facts available to him or her from official publications of the United States or any state thereof or any institution of recognized standing and he or she is hereby... |
15.65.110 | Filing objections to recommended decision—Final decision—Waiver. | After the issuance of a recommended decision all interested parties shall have a period of not less than ten days to file objections or exceptions with the director. Thereafter the director shall take such objections and exceptions as are filed into consideration and shall issue and publish his or her final decision wh... |
15.65.120 | Contents and scope of recommended and final decision—Delivery of copies. | The recommended decision shall contain the text in full of any recommended agreement, order, or amendment, and may deny or approve the proposal in its entirety, or it may recommend a marketing agreement, order, or amendment containing other or different terms or conditions from those contained in the proposal: PROVIDED... |
15.65.130 | Agreements binding only on those who assent in writing—Agreement not effective until sufficient signatories to effectuate chapter—When effective. | With respect to marketing agreements, the director shall after publication of his or her final decision, invite all producers and handlers affected thereby to assent or agree to the agreement or amendment set out in such decision. Said marketing agreements or amendments thereto shall be binding upon and only upon perso... |
15.65.140 | Minimum assent requirements prerequisite to order or amendment affecting producers or producer marketing. | No marketing order or amendment thereto directly affecting producers or producer marketing shall be issued unless the director determines (in accordance with any of the procedures described at RCW 15.65.160 ) that the issuance of such order or amendment is assented to or favored by producers within the affected area wh... |
15.65.150 | Minimum requirements prerequisite to order or amendment assessing handlers—Assent by producers. | Any marketing order or amendment thereto directly assessing handlers shall be issued either (1) when the director determines that the issuance of such order or amendment is assented to or favored by handlers who during a representative period determined by the director constituted at least fifty-one percent by numbers ... |
15.65.160 | Ascertainment of required assent percentages. | After publication of his or her final decision, the director shall ascertain (either by written agreement in accordance with subsection (1) of this section or by referendum in accordance with subsection (2) of this section) whether the above specified percentages of producers and/or handlers assent to or approve any pr... |
15.65.170 | Issuance or amendment of marketing order—Assent—Rules. | If the director determines that the requisite assent has been given to issue or amend a marketing order, the issuance or amendment shall be adopted by rule by the director within thirty days of the validation of the vote. If the director determines that the requisite assent has not been given no further action shall be... |
15.65.175 | Issuing, amending, or terminating a marketing order—Limitation on public hearings or referendums. | The director shall not be required to hold a public hearing or a referendum more than once in any twelve-month period on petitions to issue, amend, or terminate a commodity marketing order if any of the following circumstances are present: (1) The petition proposes to establish a marketing order or agreement for the sa... |
15.65.180 | Suspension of marketing agreement or order upon advice of commodity board—Certain prerequisites waived. | The director may, upon the advice of the commodity board serving under any marketing agreement or order and without compliance with the provisions of RCW 15.65.050 through 15.65.170 , suspend any such agreement or order or term or provision thereof for a period of not to exceed one year, if the director finds that such... |
15.65.183 | Termination of marketing order or agreement—Petition—Procedure. | The director may terminate a marketing order or agreement in accordance with this chapter. (1) To terminate a marketing order or agreement: (a) The director must receive a petition by affected producers under this chapter signed by at least ten percent of the affected producers; or (b) A majority of a commodity board m... |
15.65.185 | Referendum prior to termination of a marketing order or agreement—Procedure—Exceptions. | Except as provided in RCW 15.65.190 or subsection (4) of this section, the director, prior to termination of the marketing order or agreement, shall conduct a referendum as provided in this chapter, the rules adopted by the director, and the applicable marketing order or agreement. (1) If a referendum on the terminatio... |
15.65.190 | Termination of agreement or order on assent of producers—Procedure. | Any marketing agreement or order shall be terminated if the director finds that fifty-one percent by numbers and fifty-one percent by volume of production of the affected producers within the affected area favor or assent to such termination. The director may ascertain without compliance with the provisions of RCW 15.6... |
15.65.193 | When marketing order or agreement is terminated—Duties of affected commodity board. | If after complying with the procedures outlined in this chapter and a referendum proposal to terminate a marketing order or agreement is assented to, the affected commodity board shall: (1) Document the details of all measures undertaken to terminate the marketing order and identify and document all closing costs; (2) ... |
15.65.200 | Lists of affected parties—Information used to establish lists—Purpose and use. | (1) Whenever application is made for the issuance of a marketing agreement or order or the director otherwise determines to hold a hearing for the purpose of such issuance, the director or a designee shall establish a list of affected parties along with volume of production data covering a minimum three-year period, or... |
15.65.203 | Certain records exempt from public disclosure—Exceptions—Actions not prohibited by chapter. | (1) Pursuant to RCW 42.56.380 , certain agricultural business records, commodity board records, and department of agriculture records relating to commodity boards and producers of agricultural commodities are exempt from public disclosure. (2) Financial and commercial information and records submitted to either the dep... |
15.65.205 | After any vote, referendum, nomination, or election—Affected parties provided results—Disputes. | (1) Upon completion of any vote, referendum, or nomination and elections, the department shall tally the results of the vote and provide the results to affected parties. (2) If an affected party disputes the results of a vote, that affected party, within sixty days from the announced results, shall provide in writing a... |
15.65.210 | Powers and duties of director with respect to the administration and enforcement of agreements and orders—Administrator—Personnel. | The director shall administer, enforce, direct, and control every marketing agreement and order in accordance with its provisions. For such purposes he or she shall include in each order and he or she may include in each agreement provisions for the employment of such administrator and such additional personnel (includ... |
15.65.220 | Commodity boards—Membership—Marketing agreement or order to establish and control—Director votes. | (1) Every marketing agreement and order shall provide for the establishment of a commodity board of not less than five nor more than thirteen members and shall specify the exact number thereof and all details as to (a) qualification, (b) nomination, (c) election or appointment by the director, (d) term of office, and (... |
15.65.230 | Qualifications of members of commodity boards. | A producer member of each commodity board must be a practical producer of the affected commodity and must be a citizen, resident of this state, and over the age of eighteen years. Each producer board member must be and have been actually engaged in producing such a commodity within the state of Washington for a period ... |
15.65.235 | Producer-handlers as producers for membership purposes—Exception. | Whenever any commodity board is formed under the provisions of this chapter and it only affects producers and producer-handlers, then such producer-handlers shall be considered to be acting only as producers for purpose of membership on a commodity board: PROVIDED, That this section shall not apply to a commodity board... |
15.65.240 | Terms of members of commodity boards—Elections or appointment. | The term of office of board members shall be three years, and one-third as nearly as may be shall be elected or appointed every year: PROVIDED, That at the inception of any agreement or order the entire board shall be elected or appointed one-third for a term of one year, one-third for a term of two years and one-third... |
15.65.243 | When director appoints majority of the board—Nominations—Advisory vote—Notice—Director selects either of two candidates receiving the most votes. | (1) This section applies when the director appoints a majority of the board positions as set forth under RCW 15.65.220 (3). (2) Candidates for director-appointed board positions on a commodity board shall be nominated under RCW 15.65.250 . (3) The director shall cause an advisory vote to be held for the director-appoin... |
15.65.250 | Nominations for election to commodity board—When only one nominee. | For the purpose of nominating candidates for board memberships, the director shall call separate meetings of the affected producers and handlers within the affected area and in case elections shall be by districts the director shall call separate meetings for each district. However, at the inception any marketing agree... |
15.65.260 | Election of members of commodity board—Procedure. | (1) The elected members of every commodity board shall be elected by secret mail ballot under the supervision of the director. Elected producer members of the board shall be elected by a majority of the votes cast by the affected producers within the affected area, but if the marketing order or agreement provides for d... |
15.65.270 | Vacancies, quorum, compensation, travel expenses of commodity board members and employees. | (1) In the event of a vacancy in an elected position on the board, the remaining board members shall select a qualified person to fill the vacant position for the remainder of the current term or as provided in the marketing order or agreement. (2) In the event of a vacancy on the board in a position appointed by the d... |
15.65.280 | Powers and duties of commodity board—Reservation of power to director.(Effective until January 1, 2026.) | The powers and duties of the board shall be: (1) To elect a chair and such other officers as it deems advisable; (2) To advise and counsel the director with respect to the administration and conduct of such marketing agreement or order; (3) To recommend to the director administrative rules and orders and amendments the... |
15.65.283 | Members may belong to association with same objectives—Contracts with other associations authorized. | Any member of an agricultural commodity board may also be a member or officer of an association which has the same objectives for which the agricultural commodity board was formed. An agricultural commodity board may also contract with such association for services necessary to carry out any purposes authorized under t... |
15.65.285 | Restrictive provisions of chapter43.19RCW not applicable to promotional printing and literature of commodity boards. | The restrictive provisions of chapter 43.19 RCW shall not apply to promotional printing and literature for any commodity board.
[ 2015 c 225 s 10 ; 1972 ex.s. c 112 s 2 .] |
15.65.287 | Commission's plans, programs, and projects—Director's approval required. | (1) Each commodity commission shall develop and submit to the director for approval any plans, programs, and projects concerning the following: (a) The establishment, issuance, effectuation, and administration of appropriate programs or projects for the advertising and promotion of the affected commodity; and (b) The e... |
15.65.289 | Commission speaks for state—Director's oversight. | Each commission organized under a marketing order adopted under this chapter exists primarily for the benefit of the people of the state of Washington and its economy. The legislature hereby charges each commission, with oversight by the director, to speak on behalf of Washington state government with regard to its par... |
15.65.290 | Claims and liabilities, enforcement against organization—Personal liabilities of officials, employees, etc. | Obligations incurred by any administrator or board or employee or agent thereof pertaining to their performance or nonperformance or misperformance of any matters or things authorized, required or permitted them by this chapter or any marketing agreement or order issued pursuant to this chapter, and any other liabiliti... |
15.65.295 | Lists of all affected producers and handlers—Affected parties responsible for accuracy—Use of lists. | (1) Each commodity board shall prepare a list of all affected producers from any information available from the department, producers, producer associations or organizations, or handlers of the affected commodity. This list shall contain the names and addresses of all affected persons who produce the affected commodity... |
15.65.300 | Agreement or order to contain detailed statement of powers and purposes. | The purposes for which each marketing agreement and order is issued and the powers which shall be exercised thereunder shall be stated in detail in the provisions of such agreement or order. Any such agreement or order or amendment thereto may contain provisions for the exercise of any one or more or all of the powers ... |
15.65.305 | Promotional hosting expenditures—Rules. | Agricultural commodity boards shall adopt rules governing promotional hosting expenditures by commodity board employees, agents, or board members under RCW 15.04.200 .
[ 2002 c 313 s 31 .]
Effective dates — 2002 c 313: See note following RCW 15.65.020 . |
15.65.310 | Advertising, sale, trade barrier, claim, etc., provisions in agreement or order. | Any marketing agreement or order may provide for advertising, sales, promotion and/or other programs for maintaining present markets and/or creating new or larger markets for the affected commodity. It may also provide for the prevention, modification or removal of trade barriers which obstruct the free flow of the aff... |
15.65.320 | Agreement and order provisions for research. | Any marketing agreement or order may provide for research in the production, processing, and/or distribution of the affected commodity and for the expenditure of money for such purposes. Insofar as practicable, such research shall be carried out by experiment stations of Washington state university but if in the judgme... |
15.65.330 | Agreement and order provisions for uniform grades and standards—Enforcement—Rules. | Any marketing agreement or order may contain provisions which directly provide for, or which authorize the director or his or her designee to provide by rules and regulations for, any one or more, or all, of the following: (1) Establishing uniform grades and standards of quality, condition, maturity, size, weight, pack... |
15.65.340 | Agreement and order provisions prohibiting or regulating certain practices. | Any marketing agreement or order may contain provisions prohibiting and/or otherwise regulating any one or more or all of the practices listed to the extent that such practices affect, directly or indirectly, the commodity which forms the subject matter of such agreement or order or any product thereof, but only with r... |
15.65.350 | Agreement and order to define applicable area—"Production area"—"Marketing area." | Every marketing agreement and order shall define the area to which it applies which may be all or any contiguous portion of the state. Such area may be defined as a "production area" in which case such agreement or order shall regulate or apply with respect to all of the commodity specified in such agreement or order w... |
15.65.360 | Agreement and order provisions for marketing information, services, verification of grades, standards, sampling, etc. | Any marketing agreement or order may provide for marketing information and services to producers and for the verification of grades, standards, weights, tests and sampling of quality and quantity of the agricultural product purchased by handlers from producers.
[ 1961 c 256 s 36 .] |
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