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Wash. Rev. Code § 16.36.020 (2025)

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(1) The director shall enforce and administer the provisions of this chapter pertaining to garbage feeding.
(2) The director has the authority to regulate the sale, distribution, and use of veterinary biologics in the state and may adopt rules to restrict the sale, distribution, or use of any veterinary biologic in any manner necessary to protect the health and safety of the public and the state's animal population.
(3) The director has the authority to license and regulate the activities of veterinary laboratories that do not have a veterinarian licensed under chapter 18.92 RCW present within the management or staff of the veterinary laboratory. The director may adopt rules to regulate these laboratories in any manner necessary to protect the health and safety of the public and the public's animals.
[ 1998 c 8 s 3; 1987 c 163 s 2; 1979 c 154 s 8; 1953 c 17 s 2; 1947 c 172 s 1; 1933 c 177 s 1; 1927 c 165 s 1; formerly Rem. Supp. 1947 s 3110. Prior: 1915 c 100 s 5; 1901 c 112 s 2; 1895 c 167 s 2.]

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Severability—1979 c 154: See note following RCW 15.49.330.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1986–1992 · leading case: Honcoop v. State, 759 P.2d 1188 (Wash. 1988).
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Honcoop v. State, 759 P.2d 1188 (Wash. 1988). · cites it 2× “18 (former RCW 16.36.020); see Laws of 1959, ch. 161, § 1, p.”
Henderson Homes, Inc. v. City of Bothell, 834 P.2d 1071 (Wash. Ct. App. 1992). · cites it 4× “[3] Section 16.36.020 of the Bothell Municipal Code parallels the language of RCW 58.”
Honcoop v. State, 716 P.2d 963 (Wash. Ct. App. 1986). “) They also cite former RCW 16.36.020: The director of agriculture shall have general supervision of the prevention of the spread and the suppression of infectious, contagious, communicable and dangerous diseases affecting the domestic animals .”
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