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Wash. Rev. Code § 16.38.010 (2025)

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The production of livestock is one of the largest industries in this state; and whereas livestock disease constitutes a constant threat to the public health and the production of livestock in this state; and whereas the prevention and control of such livestock diseases by the state may be best carried on by the establishment of a diagnostic service program for livestock diseases; therefore it is in the public interest and for the purpose of protecting health and general welfare that a livestock diagnostic service program be established.
[ 1969 c 100 s 1.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1986–1988 · leading case: Honcoop v. State, 759 P.2d 1188 (Wash. 1988).
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Honcoop v. State, 759 P.2d 1188 (Wash. 1988). “792; see RCW 16.38.010. Similarly, the emergency order amending import regulations was issued "for the immediate protection of the public health and the general health of the cattle population of the State.”
Honcoop v. State, 716 P.2d 963 (Wash. Ct. App. 1986). · cites it 2× “) Finally, they also cite RCW 16.38.010: The production of livestock is one of the largest industries in this state; and whereas livestock disease constitutes a constant threat to the public health and the production of livestock in this state; and whereas the prevention and…”
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