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Wash. Rev. Code § 9.05.060 (2025)

Criminal sabotage defined—Penalty

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(1) Whoever, with intent that his or her act shall, or with reason to believe that it may, injure, interfere with, interrupt, supplant, nullify, impair, or obstruct the owner's or operator's management, operation, or control of any agricultural, stockraising, lumbering, mining, quarrying, fishing, manufacturing, transportation, mercantile, or building enterprise, or any other public or private business or commercial enterprise, wherein any person is employed for wage, shall willfully damage or destroy, or attempt or threaten to damage or destroy, any property whatsoever, or shall unlawfully take or retain, or attempt or threaten unlawfully to take or retain, possession or control of any property, instrumentality, machine, mechanism, or appliance used in such business or enterprise, shall be guilty of criminal sabotage.
(2) Criminal sabotage is a class B felony punishable according to chapter 9A.20 RCW.
[ 2003 c 53 s 7; 1999 c 191 s 2; 1919 c 173 s 1; RRS s 2563-3.]

Notes:

Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
Endangering life by breach of labor contract: RCW 49.44.080.
Excessive steam in boilers: RCW 70.54.080.
Malicious injury to railroad property: RCW 81.60.070.
Malicious mischief—Injury to property: Chapter 9A.48 RCW.
Sabotaging rolling stock: RCW 81.60.080.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1967–2020 · leading case: State of Washington v. Evan Wayne Sullivan, 382 P.3d 736 (Wash. Ct. App. 2016).
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State of Washington v. Evan Wayne Sullivan, 382 P.3d 736 (Wash. Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 4× “That statute required the State to prove that the defendants intended to “impair the owner’s management or control of any enterprise described in [former] RCW 9.05.060 [(1998)].” Former RCW 9.05.070.”
State v. Johnstone, 982 P.2d 119 (Wash. Ct. App. 1999). · cites it 11× “Specifically, the defendants argued that the information was defective for not alleging, (1) which of the enterprises specified in RCW 9.05.060 they interfered with, and (2) that the particular enterprise employed persons “for wage,” again as required by the statute.”
State v. Gjertson, 430 P.2d 972 (Wash. 1967). “080 (attempt to commit a felony while armed with a deadly weapon); RCW 9.05.060 (attempted sabotage); RCW 9.”
State Of Washington v. Donald Jose David Zepeda, No. 80593-2 (Wash. Ct. App. Nov. 16, 2020). “RCW 9.05.060. The crime of attempted criminal sabotage requires a substantial step towards that end.”
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