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15.130.900 | Short title. | This chapter may be known and cited as the food safety and security act.
[ 2018 c 236 s 901 .] |
15.130.901 | Construction. | This chapter and the rules adopted under it must be construed to promote uniformity with federal acts and regulations relating to adulteration, misbranding, and false advertising of food.
[ 2018 c 236 s 902 .] |
15.135.010 | Intent. | The purpose of this chapter is to assist Washington produce farmers in implementation of the produce safety rule adopted by the United States food and drug administration pursuant to the federal food, drug, and cosmetic act, 21 U.S.C. Sec. 301 et seq., as amended by the federal food safety modernization act (P.L. 111-3... |
15.135.020 | Federal law reference. | A reference to a federal statute in this chapter means the statute and its implementing regulations existing on June 7, 2018, or as updated by the department by rule.
[ 2018 c 106 s 2 .] |
15.135.030 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Farm" means the same as "farm" in 21 C.F.R. Sec. 112. (2) "Produce" means the same as "produce" in 21 C.F.R. Sec. 112. (3) "Produce safety rule" means the standards for the growing, harvesting, packing, and... |
15.135.040 | Federal cooperation program. | The department may take actions necessary to cooperate in implementation of the produce safety rule including, but not limited to, entering into cooperative agreements with the United States food and drug administration, conducting the compliance verification activities under RCW 15.135.060 , enforcing regulatory compl... |
15.135.050 | Voluntary compliance program. | (1) The department may establish a voluntary program for farms exempt or partially exempt from the produce safety rule to verify that such farms comply with the rule. This includes, but is not limited to, conducting the compliance verification activities under RCW 15.135.060 . (2) Farms participating in the voluntary c... |
15.135.060 | Compliance verification activities. | The department may take the following actions to verify produce farm compliance with the produce safety rule. (1) Maintain a database of produce farms that are covered by the produce safety rule, exempt from the rule, or eligible for a qualified exemption; (2) In compliance with law and at reasonable times, enter produ... |
15.135.070 | Department's existing authority. | This chapter does not alter or impair the department's authority for regulating food in intrastate commerce under chapter 15.130 RCW. The department may use its authority for regulating food in intrastate commerce under chapter 15.130 RCW to carry out and enforce the provisions of this chapter. For the purposes of this... |
15.135.080 | Rule making. | (1) The department must adopt rules as necessary to implement the purpose and provisions of this chapter. (2) By rule, the director may adopt a subsequent version of a federal statute or regulation referenced in this chapter.
[ 2018 c 106 s 8 .] |
15.135.090 | Disposition of funds. | A produce safety account is hereby established in the agricultural local fund established in RCW 43.23.230 . All moneys received under this chapter must be paid into the produce safety account and used solely to carry out the produce safety programs.
[ 2018 c 106 s 9 .] |
15.135.100 | Certain records not subject to public disclosure. | (1) Any information or record obtained directly from the federal government or from others under a contract with the federal government is exempt from public inspection and copying under chapter 42.56 RCW if the information or record is exempt from disclosure under federal law including, but not limited to, the federal... |
15.135.900 | Short title. | This chapter may be known and cited as the produce safety rule implementation act.
[ 2018 c 106 s 12 .] |
15.140.010 | Intent. | The legislature intends to: (1) Authorize and establish a new licensing and regulatory program for hemp production in this state in accordance with the agriculture improvement act of 2018; (2) Replace the industrial hemp research program in *chapter 15.120 RCW, with the new licensing and regulatory program established ... |
15.140.020 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Agriculture improvement act of 2018" means sections 7605, 10113, 10114, and 12619 of the agriculture improvement act of 2018, P.L. 115-334. (2) "Cannabis" has the meaning provided in RCW 69.50.101 . (3) "Cr... |
15.140.030 | Agricultural commodity program—Rule-making authority. | (1) The department must develop an agricultural commodity program to replace the industrial hemp research pilot program in *chapter 15.120 RCW, in accordance with the agriculture improvement act of 2018. (2) The department has sole regulatory authority over the production of hemp and may adopt rules to implement this c... |
15.140.040 | State's hemp plan. | (1) The department must develop the state's hemp plan to conform to the agriculture improvement act of 2018, to include consultation with the governor and the attorney general and the plan elements required in the agriculture improvement act of 2018. (2) Consistent with subsection (1) of this section, the state's hemp ... |
15.140.050 | Postharvest test protocol. | The department must develop a postharvest test protocol for testing hemp under this chapter that includes testing of whole plant samples or other testing protocol identified in regulations established by the United States department of agriculture, including the testing procedures for delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol conce... |
15.140.060 | Hemp producer license—Hemp processor registration—Rules—Fees. | (1) The department must issue hemp producer licenses to applicants qualified under this chapter and the agriculture improvement act of 2018. The department may adopt rules pursuant to this chapter and chapter 34.05 RCW as necessary to license persons to grow hemp under a commercial hemp program. The department may adop... |
15.140.070 | Source of hemp seeds or clones. | A person producing hemp pursuant to this chapter must notify the department of the source of the hemp seed or clones solely for the purpose of maintaining a record of the sources of seeds and clones being used or having been used for hemp production in this state. Hemp seed is an agricultural seed.
[ 2019 c 158 s 7 .] |
15.140.080 | Hemp regulatory account. | The hemp regulatory account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts from fees established under this chapter must be deposited into the account. Expenditures from the account may be used only for implementing this chapter. Only the director of the state department of agriculture or the director's... |
15.140.090 | Internet-based application. | Washington State University may, within existing resources, develop and make accessible an internet-based application designed to assist hemp producers by providing regional communications concerning recommended planting times for hemp crops in this state.
[ 2019 c 158 s 9 .] |
15.140.100 | Cross-pollination—Hemp plants and cannabis plants. | (1) There is no distance requirement, limitation, or buffer zone between any licensed hemp producer or hemp processing facility licensed or authorized under this chapter and any cannabis producer or cannabis processor licensed under chapter 69.50 RCW. No rule may establish such a distance requirement, limitation, or bu... |
15.140.110 | Expedited rule making to adopt the state hemp plan. | (1) The department must use expedited rule making to adopt the state hemp plan submitted to the United States department of agriculture. As allowed under this section, rule making by the department to adopt the approved hemp plan qualifies as expedited rule making under RCW 34.05.353 . Upon the submittal of the plan to... |
15.140.120 | Limitation of enforcement of certain laws and rules. | Beginning on April 26, 2019: (1)(a) No law or rule related to certified or interstate hemp seeds applies to or may be enforced against a person with a license to produce or process hemp issued under this chapter; and (b) No department or other state agency rule may establish or enforce a buffer zone or distance require... |
15.140.900 | Effective date—2019 c 158. | This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately [April 26, 2019].
[ 2019 c 158 s 19 .] |
15.145.005 | Finding—Intent. | The legislature finds that healthy soil is a cornerstone of a high quality of life on earth and that soil health is integral to supporting agricultural viability, promoting positive environmental outcomes, and ensuring the long-term availability of nutritious food. It is the intent of the legislature that the mission o... |
15.145.010 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Collaborating agencies" means the university, the department, and the commission. (2) "Commission" means the Washington state conservation commission. (3) "Department" means the Washington department of agr... |
15.145.020 | Washington soil health initiative—Creation—Report. | (1) The Washington soil health initiative is created as a partnership jointly administered by the collaborating agencies. (2) The goals and objectives of the soil health initiative are to improve: (a) Agricultural viability, by improving farm profitability; and by helping agricultural producers implement good soil heal... |
15.145.030 | University's primary responsibilities. | [(1)] The university has primary responsibility for the following components of the soil health initiative: (1) [(a)] Establishing a regionally dispersed network of long-term agroecological research and extension demonstration sites to showcase and refine soil health research and practices, build statewide awareness an... |
15.145.040 | Department's primary responsibilities—Rules. | (1) The department has primary responsibility for the following components of the soil health initiative: (a) Compiling existing information on agricultural viability and environmental function effects related to agricultural soil management practices and regimes across the state's diverse food production zones, soil t... |
15.145.050 | Commission's primary responsibilities—Rules. | (1) The commission has primary responsibility for the following components of the soil health initiative: (a) Developing, publishing, and distributing outreach and education materials to help conservation districts, cooperative extension, and local governments raise awareness of the importance of soil health to society... |
15.145.060 | Short title. | This chapter may be known and cited as the Washington soil health initiative act.
[ 2020 c 314 s 7 .] |
15.150.010 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Cannabis lab" means a laboratory that tests cannabis for compliance with product standards established by rule by the state liquor and cannabis board. (2) "Team" means the interagency coordination team for ... |
15.150.020 | Interagency coordination team for cannabis laboratory quality standards. | (1) The interagency coordination team for cannabis laboratory quality standards is created. The team consists of the department, the liquor and cannabis board, and the department of health. The department is designated lead agency for the team and must provide the team with all necessary administrative support. (2) The... |
15.150.030 | Cannabis testing laboratory quality standards—Rule making. | (1) The department must establish and maintain cannabis testing laboratory quality standards by rule in accordance with chapter 34.05 RCW. (2) Cannabis testing laboratory quality standards must include, but are not limited to, approved methods for testing cannabis for compliance with product standards established by ru... |
15.155.005 | Findings—Intent. | (1) The legislature finds that Washington is one of only five states in the nation without a state program to help food and agricultural producers promote their products based on where the product is grown, raised, or caught. The legislature further finds that a location-based promotion program will help consumers supp... |
15.155.010 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Agricultural product" has the same meaning as the term "agricultural commodities" in RCW 15.66.010 , and is broadly construed to include, but is not limited to, all agricultural products or commodities grow... |
15.155.020 | Advisory committee—Report to the legislature—Rule-making authority—Management and use of funds. | (1) The director must establish an advisory committee with representatives from interested agricultural and food production organizations for the purpose of identifying the appropriate scope and nature of a voluntary location-based program to brand and promote local food and agricultural products. During the fiscal yea... |
15.155.900 | Short title. | This chapter may be known and cited as the Washington food and agricultural product promotion act.
[ 2023 c 276 s 4 .] |
15.160.010 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Authenticate" means to sign or with present intent to adopt or accept a record, to attach to, or logically associate with the record, an electronic sound, symbol, or process. (2) "Producer" means any person... |
15.160.020 | Turf seed production contracts. | (1) If the turf seed production contract does not settle the price of the turfgrass seed, the contract is enforceable and the price shall be determined as described in RCW 62A.2-305 (1) through (3). (2) Except as provided in RCW 15.160.030 , payment to the producer is due by the earliest of the following: (a) The dates... |
15.160.030 | Turf seed production contracts—Authentication—Extension, renewal. | (1) A turf seed production contract that is authenticated by the producer and turf seed dealer before the producer planting the turfgrass seed may contain payment due date terms that differ from the payment due date terms described in RCW 15.160.020 (2) if the contract states the date by which final payment for the tur... |
15.160.040 | Seed bailment contracts, seed purchase contracts. | (1) A seed bailment contract or seed purchase contract does not create a possessory security interest in goods under the uniform commercial code, chapter 62A.9A RCW. For a seed bailment contract, filing, recording, or notice of the contract is not a requirement for establishing, during the term of the contract, the val... |
15.160.050 | Turf seed purchase contract terms. | (1) The terms of a turf seed purchase contract must include: (a) The estimated date for seed delivery; (b) The terms and estimated date for the turf seed dealer to pay the seed producer; (c) The amount of turfgrass seed to be purchased; and (d) The species, cultivars, and quality standards of the turfgrass seed to be p... |
15.160.060 | Turf seed dealers—Modification to payment terms—Contract modification—Action to recover damages. | (1) A turf seed dealer that requests modification to the payment terms of a seed production contract for turfgrass seed shall pay an amount equal to at least 25 percent of the value of the contract prior to modification of the contract. (2) A party to a turf seed production contract or turf seed purchase contract may n... |
15.160.070 | Testing of turfgrass seeds. | (1) If testing as provided under a turf seed production contract establishes that turfgrass seed does not meet the quality standards set forth in the contract, the producer may at any time send the test results to the turf seed dealer and inquire whether the turf seed dealer intends to purchase the seed. If, within 30 ... |
15.160.080 | Failure of payment to producer. | (1) If a seed dealer fails to pay a producer for turfgrass seed when payment is due under a turf seed production contract or fails to pay a seed grower for turfgrass seed when payment is due under a seed purchase contract, the producer or turfgrass seed grower may notify the department. Upon notification by a producer ... |
15.160.090 | Seed dealer licenses—Department may adopt rules. | (1) The department may adopt rules to require, as a condition of issuing a seed dealer license under chapter 20.01 RCW, that each seed dealer provide the department financial assurance for the performance by the seed dealer under any turf seed production contract or turf seed purchase contract entered into by the seed ... |
15.160.100 | Administration and enforcement—Mediation services. | (1) The department may adopt rules for the administration and enforcement of RCW 15.160.010 through 15.160.090 . (2) The director may make mediation services available through the department for the resolution of turf seed production contract disputes and seed purchase contract disputes.
[ 2025 c 117 s 10 .] |
15.160.110 | Applicability. | RCW 15.160.010 through 15.160.100 apply to seed contracts entered into, extended, or renewed on or after July 27, 2025.
[ 2025 c 117 s 11 .] |
16.04.010 | Trespassing animals—Restraint—Damages and costs. | Any person suffering damage done by any horses, mules, donkeys, cattle, goats, sheep, swine, or any such animals, which shall either trespass upon any land enclosed by lawful fence as provided in chapter 16.60 RCW or trespass while running at large in violation of chapter 16.24 RCW may retain and keep in custody such o... |
16.04.015 | Damages, liability. | Except as provided under RCW 16.04.100 , whenever any animals trespass as provided in RCW 16.04.010 , the owner or person having possession of such animal shall be liable for all damages the owner or occupant may sustain by reason of such trespass.
[ 1994 c 263 s 1 ; 1989 c 286 s 2 .]
Severability — 1989 c 286: See not... |
16.04.020 | Notice of restraint—Owner known. | Whenever any animals are restrained as provided in RCW 16.04.010 , the person restraining such animals shall within twenty-four hours thereafter notify in writing the owner, or person in whose custody the same was at the time the trespass was committed, of the seizure of such animals, and the probable amount of the dam... |
16.04.025 | Owner of animals unknown—Procedure. | If the owner or the person having in charge or possession such animals is unknown to the person sustaining the damage, the person retaining such animals shall, within twenty-four hours, notify the county sheriff or the nearest state brand inspector as to the number, description, and location of the animals. The county ... |
16.04.030 | Actions for damages. | If the owner or person having such animals in charge fails or refuses to pay the damages done by such animals, and the costs, or give satisfactory security for the same within twenty-four hours from the time the notice was served, if served personally, or in case of horses, mares, mules and asses, within twenty-four ho... |
16.04.040 | Jurisdiction—Appeal. | District judges shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all actions and proceedings under RCW 16.04.010 through 16.04.070 when the damages claimed do not exceed one hundred dollars: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That any party considering himself or herself aggrieved shall have the right of appeal to the superior court as in other c... |
16.04.045 | Continuance. | If upon the trial it appears that the defendant is not the owner or person in charge of such offending animals, the case shall be continued, and proceedings had as in RCW 16.04.050 provided, if the proper defendant be unknown to plaintiff.
[ 1893 c 31 s 6 ; RRS s 3095. Formerly RCW 16.04.050 , part.] |
16.04.050 | Substituted service. | If the owner or keeper of such offending animals is unknown to plaintiff at the commencement of the action, or if on the trial it appears that the defendant is not the proper party, defendant, and the proper party is unknown, service of the summons or notice shall be made by publication, by publishing a copy of the sum... |
16.04.060 | Sale—When costs may be charged to plaintiff. | Upon the trial of an action as herein provided [RCW 16.04.010 through 16.04.070 ] the plaintiff shall prove the amount of damages sustained and the amount of expenses incurred for keeping the offending animals, and any judgment rendered for damages, costs, and expenses against the defendant shall be a lien upon such an... |
16.04.070 | Surplus—Disposition. | If when such animals are sold, there remains a surplus of money, over the amount of the judgment and costs, it shall be deposited with the county treasurer, by the officer making the sale, and if the owner of such animals does not appear and call for the same, within six months from the day of sale, it shall be paid in... |
16.04.080 | Stock on United States military reservation. | It shall be unlawful for the owner of any livestock to allow such livestock to run at large or be upon any United States military reservation upon which field artillery firing or other target practice with military weapons is conducted. Any owner who permits livestock to run at large or be upon any such reservation sha... |
16.04.100 | Trespass via fence damaged by wildlife. | If damages are caused by a trespassing animal, neither the state nor the owner of the animal shall be liable if the owner of the animal can prove that the trespass is due to damage caused by wildlife to a lawful fence and, in a stock restricted area, the owner of the animal did not have a reasonable opportunity to repa... |
16.08.010 | Liability for injury to stock by dogs. | The owner or keeper of any dog shall be liable to the owner of any animal killed or injured by such dog for the amount of damages sustained and costs of collection, to be recovered in a civil action.
[ 1985 c 415 s 14 ; 1929 c 198 s 5 ; RRS s 3106. Prior: 1919 c 6 s 5 ; RCS s 3106.] |
16.08.020 | Dogs injuring stock may be killed. | It shall be lawful for any person who shall see any dog or dogs chasing, biting, injuring or killing any sheep, swine or other domestic animal, including poultry, belonging to such person, on any real property owned or leased by, or under the control of, such person, or on any public highway, to kill such dog or dogs, ... |
16.08.040 | Dog bites—Liability. | (1) The owner of any dog which shall bite any person while such person is in or on a public place or lawfully in or on a private place including the property of the owner of such dog, shall be liable for such damages as may be suffered by the person bitten, regardless of the former viciousness of such dog or the owner'... |
16.08.050 | Entrance on private property, when lawful. | A person is lawfully upon the private property of such owner within the meaning of RCW 16.08.040 when such person is upon the property of the owner with the express or implied consent of the owner: PROVIDED, That said consent shall not be presumed when the property of the owner is fenced or reasonably posted.
[ 1979 c ... |
16.08.060 | Provocation as a defense. | Proof of provocation of the attack by the injured person shall be a complete defense to an action for damages.
[ 1941 c 77 s 3 ; Rem. Supp. 1941 s 3109-3.] |
16.08.070 | Dangerous dogs and related definitions. | Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 16.08.070 through 16.08.100 . (1) "Potentially dangerous dog" means any dog that when unprovoked: (a) Inflicts bites on a human or a domestic animal either on public or private property, or (b) chases or approaches a per... |
16.08.080 | Dangerous dogs—Notice to owners—Right of appeal—Certificate of registration required—Surety bond—Liability insurance—Restrictions. | (1) Any city or county that has a notification and appeal procedure with regard to determining a dog within its jurisdiction to be dangerous may continue to utilize or amend its procedure. A city or county animal control authority that does not have a notification and appeal procedure in place as of June 13, 2002, and ... |
16.08.090 | Dangerous dogs—Requirements for restraint—Potentially dangerous dogs—Dogs not declared dangerous. | (1) It is unlawful for an owner of a dangerous dog to permit the dog to be outside the proper enclosure unless the dog is muzzled and restrained by a substantial chain or leash and under physical restraint of a responsible person. The muzzle shall be made in a manner that will not cause injury to the dog or interfere w... |
16.08.100 | Dangerous dogs—Confiscation—Conditions—Duties of animal control authority—Penalties and affirmative defenses for owners of dogs that attack. | (1) Any dangerous dog shall be immediately confiscated by an animal control authority if the: (a) Dog is not validly registered under RCW 16.08.080 ; (b) owner does not secure the liability insurance coverage required under RCW 16.08.080 ; (c) dog is not maintained in the proper enclosure; or (d) dog is outside of the ... |
16.08.110 | Breed-based regulations. | (1) A city or county may not prohibit the possession of a dog based upon its breed, impose requirements specific to possession of a dog based upon its breed, or declare a dog dangerous or potentially dangerous based on its breed unless all of the following conditions are met: (a) The city or county has established and ... |
16.10.010 | Purpose. | The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the licensing of dogs within specific areas of particular counties.
[ 1969 c 72 s 1 .] |
16.10.020 | Dog control zones—Determination of need by county commissioners. | County commissioners may, if the situation so requires, establish dog control zones within high-density population districts, or other specified areas, of a county outside the corporate limits of any city, and outside the corporate limits of any organized township. For such zones, licensing regulations may be establish... |
16.10.030 | Dog control zones—Public hearing, publication of notice. | In determining whether a dog control zone should be established, the county commissioners shall call a public hearing, notice of which shall be published once a week for each of four consecutive weeks prior thereto in a newspaper of general circulation within the proposed zone. At such a hearing, proponents and opponen... |
16.10.040 | Dog control zones—Regulations—License fees, collection, disposition. | The county commissioners shall by ordinance promulgate the regulations to be enforced within a dog control zone. These shall include provisions for the control of unlicensed dogs and the establishment of license fees. The county sheriff and/or other agencies designated by the county commissioners shall be responsible f... |
16.24.010 | Restricted areas—Range areas. | The county legislative authority of any county of this state shall have the power to designate by an order made and published, as provided in RCW 16.24.030 , certain territory as stock restricted area within such county in which it shall be unlawful to permit livestock of any kind to run at large. No territory so desig... |
16.24.020 | Hearing—Notice. | *Within sixty days after the taking effect of RCW 16.24.010 through 16.24.065 , the county legislative authority of each of the several counties of the state may make an order fixing a time and place when a hearing will be had, notice of which shall be published at least once each week for two successive weeks in some ... |
16.24.030 | Order establishing area—Publication. | Within thirty days after the conclusion of any such hearing the county legislative authority shall make an order describing the stock restricted areas within the county where livestock may not run at large, which order shall be entered upon the records of the county and published in a newspaper having general circulati... |
16.24.040 | Penalty. | Any person, or any agent, employee or representative of a corporation, violating any of the provisions of such order after the same shall have been published or posted as provided in RCW 16.24.030 or, violating any provision of this chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[ 1975 c 38 s 1 ; 1911 c 25 s 4 ; RRS s 3071... |
16.24.050 | Change of boundaries. | When the county legislative authority of any county deem[s] it advisable to change the boundary or boundaries of any stock restricted area, a hearing shall be held in the same manner as provided in RCW 16.24.020 . If the county legislative authority decides to change the boundary or boundaries of any stock restricted a... |
16.24.060 | Road signs in range areas. | At the point where a public road enters a range area, and at such other points thereon within such area as the county legislative authority shall designate, there shall be erected a road sign bearing the words: "RANGE AREA. WATCH OUT FOR LIVESTOCK."
[ 1989 c 286 s 8 ; 1937 c 40 s 5 ; RRS s 3070-2.]
Severability — 1989 ... |
16.24.065 | Stock at large in restricted areas—Running at large on state or federal land. | (1) No person owning or in control of any livestock shall willfully or negligently allow such livestock to run at large in any stock restricted area or to wander or stray upon the right-of-way of any public highway lying within a stock restricted area when not in the charge of some person. (2) Livestock may run at larg... |
16.24.070 | Stock on highway right-of-way—Limitations. | It shall be unlawful for any person to herd or move any livestock over, along or across the right-of-way of any public highway, or portion thereof, within any stock restricted area, without having in attendance a sufficient number of persons to control the movement of such livestock and to warn or otherwise protect veh... |
16.24.090 | Animals at large—Limitations—Defense. | Except as provided in chapter 16.24 RCW, a person who owns or has possession, charge, or control of horses, mules, donkeys, cattle, goats, sheep or swine shall not negligently allow them to run at large at any time or within any territory. It shall not be necessary for any person to fence against such animals, and it s... |
16.24.100 | Prosecution—Proof of ownership. | In any prosecution under chapter 16.24 RCW proof that the animal running at large is branded with the registered or known brand of the defendant shall be prima facie evidence that the defendant is the owner of said animal.
[ 1989 c 286 s 3 ; 1895 c 124 s 2 ; RRS s 3086. Formerly RCW 16.16.020 .]
Severability — 1989 c 2... |
16.24.110 | Public nuisance—Impounding. | Any horses, mules, donkeys, or cattle of any age running at large or trespassing in violation of chapter 16.24 RCW as now or hereafter amended, which are not restrained as provided by RCW 16.04.010 , are declared to be a public nuisance. The sheriff of the county where found and the nearest brand inspector shall have a... |
16.24.120 | Impounding—Procedure. | Upon taking possession of any livestock at large contrary to the provisions of this chapter, or any unclaimed livestock submitted or impounded, by any person, at any public livestock market or any other facility approved by the director, the sheriff or brand inspector shall cause it to be transported to and impounded a... |
16.24.130 | Impounding—Notice—Copy to owner. | The brand inspector shall cause to be published once in a newspaper published in the county where the animal was found, a notice of the impounding. The notice shall state: (1) A description of the animal, including brand, tattoo or other identifying characteristics; (2) When and where found; (3) Where impounded; and (4... |
16.24.140 | Impounding—Owner to pay costs. | Upon claiming any animal impounded under this chapter, the owner shall pay all costs of transportation, advertising, legal proceedings, and keep of the animal, except as provided under RCW 16.04.100 .
[ 1994 c 263 s 2 ; 1989 c 286 s 13 ; 1951 c 31 s 5 . Formerly RCW 16.13.050 .]
Severability — 1989 c 286: See note foll... |
16.24.150 | Sale of impounded animal—Retroactive effect. | If no person shall claim the animal within ten days after the date of publication or posting of the notice, it shall be sold at the next succeeding public livestock market sale to be held at the sales yard where impounded, provided that in the director's discretion the department of agriculture may otherwise cause the ... |
16.24.160 | Conduct of sale—Disposition of proceeds. | The proceeds of the sale of animals impounded under this chapter, after deducting the costs of sale, shall be impounded in the estray fund of the department of agriculture, and if no valid claim is made within one year from the date of sale, the director of the department of agriculture shall transfer the proceeds of s... |
16.24.170 | Purchase of animal, restrictions. | No law enforcement officer shall, directly or indirectly, purchase any animal sold under the provisions of this chapter, or any interest therein.
[ 1951 c 31 s 8 . Formerly RCW 16.13.080 .] |
16.24.180 | Castration or gelding of stock at large. | It shall be lawful for any person having cows or heifers running at large in this state to take up or capture and castrate, at the risk of the owner, at any time between the first day of March and the fifteenth day of May, any bull above the age of ten months found running at large out of the enclosed grounds of the ow... |
16.24.190 | Bull breed restrictions. | It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to turn upon or allow to run at large on any range area in this state any bull other than a registered bull of a recognized beef breed. All persons running cattle in common on any range area may, however, agree to run any purebred or crossbred bull o... |
16.24.200 | Bull ratio restrictions. | Before any person, firm, association or corporation turns upon a range area in this state any female cattle of breeding age of more than fifteen in number, they shall procure and turn with said female breeding cattle one registered bull of recognized beef breed for every forty females or fraction thereof of twenty-five... |
16.24.210 | Bull breed and ratio restrictions not applicable to counties west of Cascades. | RCW 16.24.190 and 16.24.200 shall not apply to counties lying west of the summit of the Cascade mountains.
[ 1989 c 286 s 17 ; 1985 c 415 s 19 . Formerly RCW 16.20.035 .]
Severability — 1989 c 286: See note following RCW 16.04.010 . |
16.24.220 | Separating estrays from herd. | It shall be the duty of any and all persons searching or hunting for stray horses, mules or cattle, to drive the band or herd in which they may find their stray horses, mules or cattle, into the nearest corral before separating their said stray animals from the balance of the herd or band; that in order to separate the... |
16.24.230 | Moving another's livestock from range. | No person shall remove any livestock belonging to another from the range on which they are permitted to run at large, without the prior consent of the owner thereof. The owner of any livestock may move his or her own livestock, together with such other livestock as cannot be separated from his or her own, to the neares... |
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