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16.65.160 | Delivery of proceeds and invoice to consignor or shipper. | The licensee shall deliver the net proceeds together with an invoice to the consignor or shipper within twenty-four hours after the sale or by the end of the next business day if the licensee is not on notice that any other person or persons have a valid interest in the livestock.
[ 1959 c 107 s 16 .] |
16.65.170 | Records of licensee—Contents. | The licensee shall keep accurate records which shall be available for inspection to all parties directly interested therein, and the records shall contain the following information: (1) The date on which each consignment of livestock was received and sold. (2) The name and address of the buyer and seller of the livesto... |
16.65.180 | Unjust, unreasonable, discriminatory rates or charges prohibited. | All rates or charges made for any stockyard services furnished at a public livestock market or special open consignment horse sale shall be just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory, and any unjust, unreasonable, or discriminatory rate or charge is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
[ 1983 c 298 s 11 ; 1959 c 107 s ... |
16.65.190 | Schedule of rates and charges. | No person shall operate a public livestock market or special open consignment horse sale unless that person has filed a schedule with the application for license to operate a public livestock market or special open consignment horse sale. The schedule shall show all rates and charges for stockyard services to be furnis... |
16.65.200 | Licensee's bond to operate market or special open consignment horse sale. | Before the license is issued to operate a public livestock market or special open consignment horse sale, the applicant shall execute and deliver to the director a surety bond in a sum as herein provided for, executed by the applicant as principal and by a surety company qualified and authorized to do business in this ... |
16.65.210 | Licensee's bond to operate market—Amount determined by prior business operations—Minimum amount. | The sum of the bond to be executed by an applicant for a public livestock market license shall be determined in the following manner: (1) Determine the dollar volume of business carried on, at, or through, such applicant's public livestock market in the twelve-month period prior to such applicant's application for a li... |
16.65.220 | Licensee's bond to operate market—Amount when no prior business operations—Minimum and maximum amount. | If the application for a license to operate a public livestock market is from a new public livestock market which has not operated in the past twelve-month period, the director shall determine a bond, in a reasonable sum, that the applicant shall execute in favor of the state, which shall not be less than ten thousand ... |
16.65.230 | Licensee's bond to operate market—One bond for each market. | Any licensee operating more than one public livestock market shall execute a bond, as herein provided, for each such licensed public livestock market.
[ 1959 c 107 s 23 .] |
16.65.232 | Licensee's bond to operate special open consignment horse sale—Amount determined by estimate of business—Minimum amount. | The sum of the bond to be executed by an applicant for a special open consignment horse sale license shall be determined by estimating the dollar volume of business to be carried on, at, or through the applicant's proposed special open consignment horse sale. The bond amount shall be that amount estimated as the applic... |
16.65.235 | Cash or other security in lieu of surety bond—Rules. | In lieu of the surety bond required under the provisions of this chapter, an applicant or licensee may file with the director a deposit consisting of cash or other security acceptable to the director. The director may adopt rules necessary for the administration of such security.
[ 2003 c 326 s 77 ; 1973 c 142 s 3 .]
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16.65.240 | Action on bond—Fraud of licensee. | Any vendor or consignor creditor claiming to be injured by the fraud of any licensee may bring action upon said bond against both principal and surety in any court of competent jurisdiction to recover the damages caused by such fraud.
[ 1959 c 107 s 24 .] |
16.65.250 | Action on bond—Failure to comply with chapter. | The director or any vendor or consignor creditor may also bring action upon said bond against both principal and surety in any court of competent jurisdiction to recover the damages caused by any failure to comply with the provisions of this chapter and the rules and/or regulations adopted hereunder.
[ 1959 c 107 s 25 ... |
16.65.260 | Licensee's failure to pay vendor, consignor—Complaint—Director's powers and duties. | In case of failure by a licensee to pay amounts due a vendor or consignor creditor whose livestock was handled or sold through or at the licensee's public livestock market or special open consignment horse sale, as evidenced by a verified complaint filed with the director, the director may proceed immediately to ascert... |
16.65.270 | Licensee's failure to pay vendor, consignor—Failure of vendor, consignor to file claim. | If a vendor or consignor creditor so addressed fails, refuses or neglects to file in the office of the director his or her verified claim as requested by the director within sixty days from the date of such request, the director shall be relieved of further duty or action on behalf of the producer or consignor creditor... |
16.65.280 | Licensee's failure to pay vendor, consignor—Duties of director when names of creditors not available. | Where by reason of the absence of records, or other circumstances making it impossible or unreasonable for the director to ascertain the names and addresses of all vendor and consignor creditors, the director, after exerting due diligence and making reasonable inquiry to secure the information from all reasonable and a... |
16.65.290 | Licensee's failure to pay vendor, consignor—Settlement, compromise of claims—Demand on bond—Discharge. | Upon ascertaining all claims and statements in the manner herein set forth, the director may then make demand upon the bond on behalf of those claimants whose statements have been filed, and shall have the power to settle or compromise said claims with the surety company on the bond, and is empowered in such cases to e... |
16.65.300 | Licensee's failure to pay vendor, consignor—Refusal by surety company to pay demand—Action on bond—New bond, suspension or revocation of license on failure to file. | Upon the refusal of the surety company to pay the demand, the director may bring an action on the bond in behalf of vendor and consignor creditors. Upon any action being commenced on the bond, the director may require the filing of a new bond. Immediately upon the recovery in any action on the bond the licensee shall f... |
16.65.310 | Licensee's failure to pay vendor, consignor—Settlement, compromise—Creditors share—Priority of state's claim. | In any settlement or compromise by the director with a surety company as provided in RCW 16.65.290 , where there are two or more consignor and/or vendor creditors that have filed claims, either fixed or contingent, against a licensee's bond, such creditors shall share pro rata in the proceeds of the bond to the extent ... |
16.65.320 | Investigations by director—Complaints. | For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter, the director on the director's own motion or upon the verified complaint of any vendor or consignor against any licensee, or agent, or any person assuming or attempting to act as such, shall have full authority to make any and all necessary investigations. Th... |
16.65.330 | Investigations—Powers of director. | For the purpose of making investigations as provided for in RCW 16.65.320 , the director may enter a public livestock market and examine any records required under the provisions of this chapter. The director shall have full authority to issue subpoenas requiring the attendance of witnesses before him or her, together ... |
16.65.340 | Testing, examination, etc., of livestock for disease—Veterinarian employed by the market. | The director shall, when livestock is sold, traded, exchanged, or handled at or through a public livestock market, require such testing, treating, identifying, examining and recordkeeping of such livestock by a Washington state licensed and accredited veterinarian employed by the market as in the director's judgment ma... |
16.65.350 | Examinations—Sanitary and health practices and standards—Rules. | The director shall adopt rules regarding sanitary practices, health practices and standards, and the examination of animals at public livestock markets.
[ 2003 c 326 s 83 ; 1959 c 107 s 35 .]
Effective dates — 2003 c 326: See RCW 16.57.902 . |
16.65.360 | Facilities—Sanitation—Requirements. | Licensees shall provide facilities and sanitation for the prevention of livestock diseases at their public livestock markets, as follows: (1) The floors of all pens and alleys that are part of a public livestock market shall be constructed of concrete or similar impervious material and kept in good repair, with a slope... |
16.65.370 | Watering, feeding facilities—Unlawful acts. | Pens used to hold livestock for a period of twenty-four hours or more in a public livestock market shall have watering and feeding facilities for livestock held in such pens. It shall be unlawful for a public livestock market to hold livestock for a period longer than twenty-four hours without feeding and watering such... |
16.65.380 | Adequate facilities and space required for veterinarians to function. | Public livestock market facilities shall include adequate space and facilities necessary for market, federal, or state veterinarians to properly carry out their functions as prescribed by law and rules adopted under law or as prescribed by applicable federal law or regulation.
[ 2003 c 326 s 84 ; 1959 c 107 s 38 .]
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16.65.390 | Adequate space and facilities required for livestock inspectors and veterinarians to function. | Public livestock market facilities shall include space and facilities necessary for livestock inspectors and veterinarians to properly carry out their duties, as provided by law and rules adopted under law, in a safe and expeditious manner.
[ 2003 c 326 s 85 ; 1959 c 107 s 39 .]
Effective dates — 2003 c 326: See RCW 16... |
16.65.400 | Weighing of livestock at public livestock market. | (1) Each public livestock market licensee shall maintain and operate approved weighing facilities for the weighing of livestock at such licensee's public livestock market. (2) All dial scales used by the licensee shall be of adequate size to be readily visible to all interested parties and shall be equipped with a mech... |
16.65.410 | Packer's interest in market limited. | It shall be unlawful for a packer to own or control more than a twenty percent interest in any public livestock market, directly or indirectly through stock ownership or control, or otherwise by himself or herself or through his or her agents or employees.
[ 2011 c 336 s 435 ; 1959 c 107 s 41 .] |
16.65.420 | Application for change of or additional sales days, special sales—Considerations for allocation. | (1) Any application for a change of sales day or days or additional sales day or days for an existing salesyard shall be subject to approval by the director, subsequent to a hearing and the director is hereby authorized to approve these days and class of livestock which may be sold on these days. In considering the app... |
16.65.424 | Additional sales days limited to sales of horses and/or mules. | The director has the authority to grant a licensee an additional sales day, or days, limited to the sale of horses and/or mules and may if requested grant the licensee, by permit, the authority to have the sale at premises other than at his or her public livestock market if the facilities are approved by the director a... |
16.65.430 | Information and records available to director and news services. | Information and records of the licensee that are necessary for the compilation of adequate reports on the marketing of livestock shall be made available to the director or any news service, publishing or broadcasting such market reports.
[ 1959 c 107 s 43 .] |
16.65.440 | Penalty. | (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, any person who violates any provisions or requirements of this chapter or rules adopted by the director pursuant to this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2) A second or subsequent violation is a gross misdemeanor.
[ 2012 c 25 s 3 . Prior: 2003 c 326 s 89 ; 2... |
16.65.445 | Public hearings. | The director shall hold public hearings upon any proposal to adopt any new or amended rules and all hearings for the denial, revocation, or suspension of a license issued under this chapter or in any other adjudicative proceeding, and shall comply in all respects with chapter 34.05 RCW, the Administrative Procedure Act... |
16.65.450 | Orders—Appeal. | Any licensee or applicant who feels aggrieved by an order of the director may appeal to the superior court of the county in the state of Washington of the residence of the licensee or applicant where the trial on such appeal shall be held de novo.
[ 1991 c 17 s 4 ; 1959 c 107 s 46 .] |
16.67.010 | Short title. | This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Washington state beef commission act.
[ 1969 c 133 s 1 .] |
16.67.030 | Definitions. | For the purpose of this chapter: (1) "Commission" means the Washington state beef commission. (2) "Director" means the director of agriculture of the state of Washington or an appointed representative. (3) "Ex officio members" means those advisory members of the commission who do not have a vote. (4) "Department" means... |
16.67.035 | Legislative declaration—Focus of the beef commission—Regulating beef and beef products—Existing comprehensive scheme—Laws applicable. | The legislature declares: (1) That the history, economy, culture, and the future of Washington state's agriculture involves the beef industry. It is vital to the economy and to citizens' health that the beef industry continue to progress and thrive. The Washington state beef commission is part of an existing comprehens... |
16.67.040 | Beef commission created—Generally. | There is hereby created a Washington state beef commission to be thus known and designated. The commission shall be composed of two beef producers, two dairy (beef) producers, two feeders, one livestock salesyard operator, one meat packer, and the director, who shall be a voting member. If an otherwise voting member is... |
16.67.051 | Designation of positions—Terms. | Commencing on July 1, 1993, the appointive positions on the commission shall be designated as follows: The beef producers shall be designated position one and position six; the dairy (beef) producers shall be designated position two and position seven; the feeders shall be designated position three and position eight; ... |
16.67.060 | Director to appoint members—Recommendations by industry. | The director shall appoint the members of the commission. In making such appointments, the director shall take into consideration recommendations made to him or her by organizations who represent or who are engaged in the same type of production or business as the person recommended for appointment as a member of the c... |
16.67.070 | Vacancies—Compensation and travel expenses. | (1) In the event a position on the commission becomes vacant due to resignation, disqualification, death, or for any other reason, the unexpired term of such position shall be filled by the director forthwith. (2) Each member of the commission shall be compensated in accordance with RCW 43.03.230 . (3) Each member or e... |
16.67.080 | Commission records as evidence. | Copies of the proceedings, records, and acts of the commission, when certified by the secretary of the commission and authenticated by the commission seal, shall be admissible in any court as prima facie evidence of the truth of the statements contained therein.
[ 1969 c 133 s 7 .] |
16.67.090 | Powers and duties—Rule making. | The powers and duties of the commission shall include the following: (1) To administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter, and do all things reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter; (2) To elect a chair and such other officers as it deems advisable; (3) To employ and discharge at its dis... |
16.67.091 | Commission's plans, programs, and projects—Director's approval required. | (1) The 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 its affected commodities; (b) The establishment,... |
16.67.093 | Subpoenas. | The commission has the power to subpoena witnesses and to issue subpoenas for the production of any books, records, or documents of any kind for the purpose of enforcing this chapter.
[ 2002 c 313 s 85 .]
Effective dates — 2002 c 313: See note following RCW 15.65.020 . |
16.67.095 | Commission speaks for state—Director's oversight. | The commission exists primarily for the benefit of the people of the state of Washington and its economy. The legislature hereby charges the commission, with oversight by the director, to speak on behalf of Washington state government with regard to its particular commodities.
[ 2003 c 396 s 35 .]
Effective date — 2003... |
16.67.097 | Reimbursement for costs. | (1) The commission shall reimburse the director for necessary costs for services conducted on behalf of the commission under this chapter. (2) The commission may enter into an agreement with the director to administer this chapter or chapter 34.05 RCW.
[ 2002 c 313 s 86 .]
Effective dates — 2002 c 313: See note followi... |
16.67.100 | Meetings—Notice. | The commission shall hold regular meetings, at least quarterly, with the time and date thereof to be fixed by resolution of the commission. The commission shall hold an annual meeting. The proposed budget shall be presented for discussion at the meeting. Notice of the annual meeting shall be given by the commission at ... |
16.67.110 | Promotional programs, research, rate studies, labeling. | The commission shall provide for programs designed to support sustainable stewardship of cattle and the environment; increase the consumption of beef; develop more efficient methods for the production, processing, handling and marketing of beef; eliminate transportation rate inequalities on feed grains and supplements ... |
16.67.120 | Levy of assessment—Collections—Federal orders—Commission meetings. | (1) There is hereby levied an assessment of up to $2.50 per head to be implemented as prescribed in subsection (2) of this section on all Washington cattle sold in this state or elsewhere to be paid by the seller at the time of sale: PROVIDED, That if such sale is accompanied by a brand inspection by the department suc... |
16.67.122 | Additional assessment—National beef promotion and research program—Contingency. | In addition to the assessment authorized pursuant to RCW 16.67.120 , the commission has the authority to collect an additional assessment of fifty cents per head for cattle subject to assessment by federal order for the purpose of providing funds for a national beef promotion and research program. The manner in which t... |
16.67.123 | Transfer of cattle by meat packer as sale. | The transfer of cattle owned by a meat packer from a feed lot to a slaughterhouse for slaughter shall be deemed a sale of such cattle for the purpose of chapter 16.67 RCW. Such packer shall pay directly to the beef commission the same assessment as required of all other cattle owners selling cattle.
[ 1971 c 64 s 1 .] |
16.67.130 | Assessments personal debt—Delinquent charge—Civil action to collect. | Any due and payable assessment levied under the provisions of this chapter shall constitute a personal debt of every person so assessed or who otherwise owes the same and shall be due and payable on the fifteenth day of the month following the month the transaction occurred. In the event any such person fails to pay th... |
16.67.140 | Livestock purchasers to provide list of sellers to commission. | The commission may adopt regulations requiring the purchasers of livestock subject to the assessments under this chapter, to furnish the commission with the names of persons from whom such livestock was purchased. Refusal or failure to furnish the commission with such a list shall constitute a misdemeanor.
[ 1969 c 133... |
16.67.160 | Liability of commission's assets—Immunity of state, commission employees, etc. | Obligations incurred by the commission and liabilities or claims against the commission shall be enforced only against the assets of the commission in the same manner as if it were a corporation and no liability for the debts or actions of the commission shall exist against either the state of Washington or any subdivi... |
16.67.180 | Certain records exempt from public disclosure—Exceptions—Actions not prohibited by chapter. | (1) Under RCW 42.56.380 , certain agricultural business records, commission records, and department of agriculture records relating to the commission and producers of agricultural commodities are exempt from public disclosure. (2) Financial and commercial information and records submitted to either the department or th... |
16.67.190 | Funding staff support—Rules. | The director may provide by rule for a method to fund staff support for all commodity boards or commissions in accordance with RCW 43.23.033 if a position is not directly funded by the legislature and costs related to the specific activity undertaken on behalf of an individual commodity board or commission. The commiss... |
16.67.195 | Costs of implementing RCW16.67.091. | The costs incurred by the department associated with the implementation of RCW 16.67.091 shall be paid for by the commission.
[ 2003 c 396 s 36 .]
Effective date — 2003 c 396: See note following RCW 15.66.030 . |
16.67.200 | Budget—Report to the legislature. | (1) The budget required in RCW 16.67.090 (8) must set forth the complete and detailed financial program of the commission, showing the revenues and expenditures of the commission. The budget must be explanatory, describing how the funding is used to administer and implement the commission's programs and priorities, and... |
16.67.210 | Scientific research. | The commission may fund, conduct, or otherwise participate in scientific research related to beef including, without limitation, to improve production, quality, transportation, processing, distribution, and environmental stewardship.
[ 2024 c 155 s 2 .] |
16.67.220 | Assessments—Right to request a refund. | (1) Of the assessments levied in RCW 16.67.120 , a producer or owner of cattle from whom an assessment is collected, except for assessments collected at the first point of sale of green tag calves not subject to the assessment increases provided in RCW 16.67.120 (2), has the right to request a refund of not more than $... |
16.67.900 | Liberal construction—1969 c 133. | This chapter shall be liberally construed.
[ 1969 c 133 s 20 .] |
16.67.920 | Effective date—1969 c 133. | This chapter is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect June 1, 1969.
[ 1969 c 133 s 21 .] |
16.68.010 | Definitions. | For the purposes of this chapter, unless clearly indicated otherwise by the context: (1) "Carcass" means all parts, including viscera, of a dead meat food animal; (2) "Dead animal" means the body of a meat food animal, or any part or portion thereof: PROVIDED, That the following dead animals are exempt from the provisi... |
16.68.030 | Sale, gift, or conveyance prohibited—Exceptions. | It is unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, or give away a dead animal or convey the same along any public road or land not his or her own: PROVIDED, That dead animals may be sold or given away to and legally transported on highways by a person having an unrevoked, annual license to operate a rendering plant... |
16.68.040 | License required of rendering plants and independent collectors. | It is unlawful for any person to operate a rendering plant or act as an independent collector without first obtaining a license from the director.
[ 1949 c 100 s 4 ; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 3142-4.] |
16.68.050 | Rendering plant license fee. | Any person engaged in operating a rendering plant shall secure from the director an annual rendering plant license and pay an annual fee of one hundred dollars: PROVIDED, That no license shall be required to operate a rendering plant on the premises of a licensed slaughtering establishment maintaining state or federal ... |
16.68.060 | Independent collector license fee. | Any person engaged in the business of independent collector shall secure from the director an annual independent collector license and pay an annual fee of fifty dollars.
[ 1949 c 100 s 6 ; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 3142-6.] |
16.68.070 | Substation or places of transfer license fee. | Any rendering plant operator or independent collector that operates substations or places of transfer shall secure from the director an annual substation license or place of transfer license and pay an annual fee of twenty-five dollars for each substation or place of transfer.
[ 1949 c 100 s 7 ; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 3142-... |
16.68.080 | Expiration of license—Revocation. | Any license or permit issued under this chapter shall expire on the thirtieth day of June next subsequent to the date of issue, and may be sooner revoked by the director or his or her authorized representative for violations of this chapter. Any licensee or permittee under this chapter shall have the right to demand a ... |
16.68.090 | Applications for license. | Any person applying for a license to operate a rendering plant and/or substation and/or place of transfer, or to act as an independent collector shall make application on forms furnished by the director. Said application shall give all information required by the director and shall be accompanied by the required licens... |
16.68.100 | Procedure upon application—Inspection of premises. | If the director finds that the locations, buildings, substations equipment, vehicles, places of transfer, or proposed method of operation do not fully comply with the requirements of this chapter, he or she shall notify the applicant by registered letter wherein the same fails to comply. If the applicant whose plant or... |
16.68.110 | Duty of licensees as to premises. | Every licensee under this chapter must comply with the following: (1) All floors shall be constructed of concrete or other impervious material, shall be kept reasonably clean and in good repair. Floors shall slope at least one-fourth inch to the foot toward drains, and slope at least three-eighths inch to the foot as t... |
16.68.120 | Duty of licensees—Standards. | Every licensee under this chapter shall comply with the following: (1) Dead animals shall be placed in containers or vehicles which are constructed of or lined with impervious material, and which do not permit the escape of any liquid, and which are covered in such a way that the contents shall not be openly exposed to... |
16.68.130 | Right of access to premises and records. | The director or his or her authorized agent, shall have free and uninterrupted access to all parts of premises that come under the provisions of this chapter, for the purpose of making inspections and the examination of records.
[ 2011 c 336 s 443 ; 1949 c 100 s 14 ; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 3142-14.] |
16.68.140 | Unlawful possession of horse meat—Exceptions. | It shall be unlawful for any person to transport, to sell, offer to sell, or have on his or her premises horse meat for other than human consumption unless said horse meat is decharacterized in a manner prescribed by the director: PROVIDED, That this provision shall not apply to carcasses slaughtered by a farmer for co... |
16.68.150 | Feeding of carcasses to swine unlawful—Exception. | It shall be unlawful to feed carcasses of animals, or any part or portion thereof, to swine, unless said carcasses or portions thereof are cooked in a manner prescribed by the director.
[ 1949 c 100 s 16 ; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 3142-20.]
Swine, garbage feeding: RCW 16.36.105 and 16.36.110 . |
16.68.160 | Disposition of fees. | Funds collected for license fees and inspection fees shall be retained by the director to be used for the enforcement of this chapter.
[ 1949 c 100 s 11 ; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 3142-11.] |
16.68.170 | Rules and regulations. | The director is authorized and shall make and enforce such regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of this chapter. Such regulations shall be consistent with the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1949 c 100 s 17 ; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 3142-21.] |
16.68.180 | Penalty for violations. | The violation of any provision of this chapter shall be a misdemeanor.
[ 1949 c 100 s 18 ; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 3142-22.] |
16.68.190 | Bait for trapping purposes—Exception. | Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the department of fish and wildlife from using the carcasses of dead animals for trap bait in their regular trapping operations.
[ 1994 c 264 s 6 ; 1988 c 36 s 7 ; 1949 c 100 s 18A ; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 3142-23.] |
16.70.010 | Purpose. | The incidence of disease communicated to human beings by contact with pet animals has shown an increase in the past few years. The danger to human beings from such pets infected with disease communicable to humans has demonstrated the necessity for legislation to authorize the secretary of the department of health and ... |
16.70.020 | Definitions. | The following words or phrases as used in this chapter shall have the following meanings unless the context indicates otherwise: (1) "Pet animals" means dogs (Canidae), cats (Felidae), monkeys and other similar primates, turtles, psittacine birds, skunks, or any other species of wild or domestic animals sold or retaine... |
16.70.030 | Emergency action authorized—Scope—Animals as public nuisance. | In the event of an emergency arising out of an outbreak of communicable disease caused by exposure to or contact with pet animals, the secretary is hereby authorized to take any reasonable action deemed necessary by him or her to protect the public health, including but not limited to the use of quarantine or the insti... |
16.70.040 | Rules—Scope. | (1) The secretary, with the advice and concurrence of the director of the department of agriculture, shall be authorized to develop rules for proposed adoption by the board relating to the importation, movement, sale, transfer, or possession of pet animals as defined in RCW 16.70.020 which are reasonably necessary for ... |
16.70.050 | Violations—Penalty. | Any person violating or refusing or neglecting to obey the order or directive issued by the secretary pursuant to the authority granted under this action [act] or the rules and regulations promulgated by the board hereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[ 1971 c 72 s 5 .] |
16.70.060 | Concurrent powers—Cooperation between officials. | The powers conferred on the secretary by this chapter shall be concurrent with the powers conferred on the director of the department of agriculture by chapter 16.36 RCW, and chapter 43.23 RCW, and the secretary and director shall cooperate in exercising their responsibilities in these areas.
[ 1971 c 72 s 6 .] |
16.72.010 | Definitions. | As used in this chapter: "Director" means director of agriculture. "Department" means department of agriculture. "Person" includes any individual, firm corporation, trust, association, copartnership, society, or other organization of individuals and any other business unit, device or arrangement. "Fur farming" means br... |
16.72.020 | Quarantine controls. | Fur farming shall be deemed an agricultural pursuit and the director is hereby authorized to exercise quarantine controls over such farms in accordance with the provisions of this title. Facilities available to the department may be used by the director in carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1955 c 321 s 3 .... |
16.72.030 | Fox, mink, marten declared personalty. | All fox, mink and marten that have been lawfully imported or acquired, or bred or reared in captivity or enclosures, are declared to be personal property. Any person hereafter acquiring any such fur bearing animals in the wild state, shall within ten days furnish satisfactory proof to the director that such animals wer... |
16.72.040 | Branding—Recording. | The owners of any fox, mink, or marten may mark them by branding with tattoo or other marks for the purpose of identification, but no person shall be entitled to ownership in or rights under any particular branding marks unless and until the branding marks are recorded with the department in the same manner and with li... |
16.76.005 | Finding. | The legislature finds that there is a need to provide resources to help livestock producers adapt their operations in light of the recovery of wolves on the landscape and a desire by many to increase use of nonlethal deterrence measures to reduce the probability of livestock depredations by wolves. The application of r... |
16.76.010 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Department" means the department of agriculture. (2) "Director" means the director of the department of agriculture. (3) "Northeast Washington" means Okanogan, Ferry, Stevens, and Pend Oreille counties.
[ 2... |
16.76.020 | Northeast Washington wolf-livestock management grant—Advisory board—Distribution of funds—List of grants awarded. | (1) The northeast Washington wolf-livestock management grant is created within the department. Funds from the grant program must be used only for the deployment of nonlethal deterrence resources in any Washington county east of the crest of the Cascade mountain range that shares a border with Canada, including human pr... |
16.76.030 | Northeast Washington wolf-livestock management account.(Effective until July 1, 2031.) | (1) The northeast Washington wolf-livestock management account is created as a nonappropriated account in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts, any legislative appropriations, private donations, or any other private or public source directed to the northeast Washington wolf-livestock management grant must b... |
17.04.010 | Districts authorized—Area and boundaries. | The boards of county commissioners of the respective counties may create a weed district or districts within their counties and enlarge any district, or reduce any district or create or combine or consolidate the districts, or divide or create new districts, from time to time, in the manner hereinafter provided, for th... |
17.04.030 | Petition—Time, place and notice of hearing. | Any one or more freeholders owning more than fifty percent of the acreage desired to be included within the proposed weed district may file a petition with the board of county commissioners praying that their land be included, either separately or with other lands included in the petition, in a weed district to be form... |
17.04.050 | Board to determine petition—Resolution to create district. | At the time and place fixed for such hearing the board of county commissioners shall determine whether such weed district shall be created and if such board determines that such district shall be created, it shall fix the boundaries thereof, but shall not modify the purposes of the petition with respect to the weed or ... |
17.04.070 | Meetings—Qualifications of electors and directors—Elections—Officers—Bonds—Terms of office—Vacancies—Rules and regulations. | If the board of county commissioners establish such district it shall call a special meeting to be held within such district for the purpose of electing three directors for such district. No person shall be eligible to hold the office of director who is not a qualified elector of the state of Washington and a resident ... |
17.04.150 | Powers—Weed inspector. | The board of directors of such weed district shall have power: (1) To adopt rules and regulations, plans, methods, and means for the purpose of destroying, preventing, and exterminating the weed or weeds specified in the petition, and to supervise, carry out, and enforce such rules, regulations, plans, methods, and mea... |
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