Title 17 - Weeds, rodents, and pests
- 17.04 - Weed districts.
- 17.04.010 - Districts authorized -- Area and boundaries.
- 17.04.030 - Petition -- Time, place and notice of hearing.
- 17.04.050 - Board to determine petition -- Resolution to create district.
- 17.04.070 - Meetings -- Qualifications of electors and directors -- Elections -- Officers -- Bonds -- Terms of office -- Vacancies -- Rules and regulations.
- 17.04.150 - Powers -- Weed inspector.
- 17.04.160 - Contiguous lands.
- 17.04.170 - Indian reservation lands -- United States lands.
- 17.04.180 - County and state lands.
- 17.04.190 - Duties of weed inspector.
- 17.04.200 - Violation of rules and regulations -- Notice to destroy weeds -- Destruction.
- 17.04.210 - Statement of expense -- Hearing.
- 17.04.220 - Examination at hearing of expenses -- Amount is tax on land -- Effect of failure to serve notices.
- 17.04.230 - Appellate review -- Notice -- Cost bond.
- 17.04.240 - Assessments -- Classification of property -- Tax levy.
- 17.04.245 - Assessment -- Tax roll -- Collection.
- 17.04.250 - District treasurer -- Duties -- Fund.
- 17.04.260 - Limit of indebtedness.
- 17.04.270 - Districts organized under prior law -- Reorganization.
- 17.04.280 - Officials of district may enter lands -- Penalty for prevention.
- 17.04.900 - Disincorporation of district located in county with a population of two hundred ten thousand or more and inactive for five years.
- 17.04.910 - Continuation or dissolution of district -- Noxious weed control boards.
- 17.06 - Intercounty weed districts.
- 17.06.010 - Definitions.
- 17.06.020 - Intercounty weed districts authorized.
- 17.06.030 - Petition for formation -- Notice of hearing.
- 17.06.040 - Hearing -- Boundaries -- Order of establishment.
- 17.06.050 - Meetings -- Qualifications of electors and directors -- Elections -- Officers -- Bonds -- Terms -- Rules.
- 17.06.060 - Directors powers and duties -- Taxation -- Treasurer -- Costs.
- 17.06.070 - Actions of county officers -- Costs.
- 17.06.900 - Continuation or dissolution of district -- Noxious weed control boards.
- 17.10 - Noxious weeds -- Control boards.
- 17.10.007 - Purpose -- Construction -- 1975 1st ex.s. c 13.
- 17.10.010 - Definitions.
- 17.10.020 - County noxious weed control boards -- Created -- Jurisdiction -- Inactive status.
- 17.10.030 - State noxious weed control board -- Members -- Terms -- Elections -- Meetings -- Reimbursement for travel expenses.
- 17.10.040 - Activation of inactive county noxious weed control board.
- 17.10.050 - Activated county noxious weed control board -- Members -- Election -- Terms -- Meetings -- Quorum -- Expenses -- Officers -- Vacancy.
- 17.10.060 - Activated county noxious weed control board -- Weed coordinator -- Authority -- Rules and regulations.
- 17.10.070 - State noxious weed control board -- Powers -- Report.
- 17.10.074 - Director -- Powers.
- 17.10.080 - State noxious weed list -- Hearing -- Adoption -- Dissemination.
- 17.10.090 - State noxious weed list -- Selection of weeds for control by county board.
- 17.10.100 - Order to county board to include weed from state board's list in county's noxious weed list.
- 17.10.110 - Regional noxious weed control board -- Creation.
- 17.10.120 - Regional noxious weed control board -- Members -- Meetings -- Quorum -- Officers -- Effect on county boards.
- 17.10.130 - Regional noxious weed control board -- Powers and duties.
- 17.10.134 - Liability of county and regional noxious weed control boards.
- 17.10.140 - Owner's duty to control spread of noxious weeds.
- 17.10.145 - State agencies' duty to control spread of noxious weeds.
- 17.10.154 - Owners' agreements with county noxious weed control boards -- Terms -- Enforcement.
- 17.10.160 - Right of entry -- Warrant for noxious weed search -- Civil liability -- Penalty for preventing entry.
- 17.10.170 - Finding presence of noxious weeds -- Notice for failure of owner to control -- Control by county board -- Liability of owner -- Lien -- Alternative.
- 17.10.180 - Hearing on liability for expense of control -- Notice -- Review.
- 17.10.190 - Notice and information as to noxious weed control.
- 17.10.201 - Noxious weed control on federal and tribal lands--State and county cooperation.
- 17.10.205 - Control of noxious weeds in open areas.
- 17.10.210 - Quarantine of land -- Order -- Expense.
- 17.10.230 - Violations -- Penalty.
- 17.10.235 - Selling product, article, or feed containing noxious weed seeds or toxic weeds -- Penalty -- Rules -- Inspections -- Fees.
- 17.10.240 - Special assessments, appropriations for noxious weed control -- Assessment rates.
- 17.10.250 - Applications for noxious weed control funds.
- 17.10.260 - Administrative powers to be exercised in conformity with administrative procedure act -- Use of weed control substances subject to other acts.
- 17.10.270 - Noxious weed control boards -- Authority to obtain insurance or surety bonds.
- 17.10.280 - Lien for labor, material, equipment used in controlling noxious weeds.
- 17.10.290 - Lien for labor, material, equipment used in controlling noxious weeds -- Notice of lien.
- 17.10.300 - Lien for labor, material, equipment used in controlling noxious weeds -- Claim -- Filing -- Contents.
- 17.10.310 - Notice of infraction -- Issuance.
- 17.10.350 - Infraction -- Penalty.
- 17.10.890 - Deactivation of county noxious weed control board -- Hearing.
- 17.10.900 - Weed districts -- Continuation -- Dissolution--Transfer of assessment funds.
- 17.10.910 - Severability -- 1969 ex.s. c 113.
- 17.12 - Agricultural pest districts.
- 17.12.010 - Pest districts authorized.
- 17.12.020 - Petition -- Notice -- Hearing.
- 17.12.030 - Determination -- Boundaries of district.
- 17.12.040 - Designation of district.
- 17.12.050 - Treasurer -- Tax levies.
- 17.12.060 - Supervision of the district.
- 17.12.080 - Levies on state and county lands -- Levies on state lands to be added to rental or purchase price.
- 17.12.100 - Limit of indebtedness.
- 17.15 - Integrated pest management.
- 17.21 - Washington pesticide application act.
- 17.21.010 - Declaration of police power and purpose.
- 17.21.020 - Definitions.
- 17.21.030 - Director's authority -- Rules.
- 17.21.040 - Rules subject to administrative procedure act.
- 17.21.050 - Hearings -- Administrative procedure act.
- 17.21.060 - Subpoenas -- Witness fees.
- 17.21.065 - Classification of licenses.
- 17.21.070 - Commercial pesticide applicator license -- Requirements.
- 17.21.080 - Commercial pesticide applicator license -- Application -- Form.
- 17.21.091 - Commercial pesticide applicator license -- Persons who may apply under license authority.
- 17.21.100 - Recordkeeping by licensees and agricultural users.
- 17.21.110 - Commercial pesticide operator license -- Requirements.
- 17.21.122 - Private-commercial pesticide applicator license -- Requirements.
- 17.21.126 - Private applicator, limited private applicator, or rancher private applicator -- Requirements--Application for license--Fees.
- 17.21.128 - Renewal of certificate or license -- Recertification standards.
- 17.21.129 - Demonstration and research license -- Requirements.
- 17.21.130 - Revocation, suspension, or denial.
- 17.21.132 - License, certification -- Applications -- Expiration dates.
- 17.21.134 - Licenses -- Examination requirements.
- 17.21.140 - Renewal -- Delinquency.
- 17.21.150 - Violation of chapter -- Unlawful acts.
- 17.21.160 - Commercial pesticide applicator license -- Financial responsibility.
- 17.21.170 - Commercial pesticide applicator license -- Amount of bond or insurance required -- Notice of reduction or cancellation by surety or insurer.
- 17.21.180 - Commercial pesticide applicator license -- Suspension of license for failure to meet financial responsibility criteria.
- 17.21.190 - Damages due to use or application of pesticide -- Report of loss required.
- 17.21.200 - Commercial pesticide applicator license -- Exemptions.
- 17.21.203 - Government research personnel -- Requirements.
- 17.21.220 - Application of chapter to governmental entities -- Public operator license required -- Exemption -- Liability.
- 17.21.280 - Disposition of revenue, enforcement of chapter -- District court fees, fines, penalties and forfeitures.
- 17.21.290 - Pesticide application apparatuses -- License plate as identification.
- 17.21.300 - Agreements with other governmental entities.
- 17.21.305 - Licensing by cities of first class and counties.
- 17.21.310 - General penalty.
- 17.21.315 - Civil penalty for failure to comply with chapter.
- 17.21.320 - Access to public or private premises -- Search warrants -- Prosecuting attorney's duties -- Injunctions.
- 17.21.340 - Violation of chapter -- Remedies.
- 17.21.350 - Report to legislature.
- 17.21.400 - Landscape or right-of-way applications -- Notice.
- 17.21.410 - Landscape applications -- Marking of property, posting requirements.
- 17.21.415 - Schools -- Policies and methods -- Notification -- Records -- Liability.
- 17.21.420 - Pesticide-sensitive individuals -- List procedure.
- 17.21.430 - Pesticide-sensitive individuals -- Notification.
- 17.21.440 - Agricultural workers and handlers of agricultural pesticides -- Coordination of regulation and enforcement with department of labor and industries.
- 17.21.900 - Preexisting liabilities not affected.
- 17.21.920 - Short title.
- 17.21.930 - Severability -- 1961 c 249.
- 17.21.931 - Severability -- 1967 c 177.
- 17.21.932 - Severability -- 1979 c 92.
- 17.21.933 - Severability -- 1989 c 380.
- 17.24 - Insect pests and plant diseases.
- 17.24.003 - Purpose.
- 17.24.007 - Definitions.
- 17.24.011 - Regulation of plant, plant product, bee movement, and genetically engineered organisms.
- 17.24.021 - Inspection and investigation.
- 17.24.031 - Determination of origin.
- 17.24.041 - Power to adopt quarantine measures -- Rules.
- 17.24.051 - Introduction of plant pests, noxious weeds, or organisms affecting plant life.
- 17.24.061 - Protection of privileged or confidential information -- Procedure -- Notice -- Declaratory judgment.
- 17.24.071 - Compliance agreements.
- 17.24.081 - Prohibited acts.
- 17.24.091 - Impound and disposition.
- 17.24.100 - Penalties -- Second and subsequent offenses.
- 17.24.101 - Statewide survey and control activity.
- 17.24.111 - Director's cooperation with other agencies.
- 17.24.121 - Acquisition of lands, water supply, or other properties for quarantine locations.
- 17.24.131 - Requested inspections -- Fee for service--Disbursements in lieu of fee.
- 17.24.141 - Penalties -- Criminal and civil penalty.
- 17.24.151 - Violations -- Costs of control.
- 17.24.161 - Funds for technical and scientific services.
- 17.24.171 - Determination of imminent danger of infestation of plant pests or plant diseases -- Emergency measures -- Conditions -- Procedures.
- 17.24.210 - Indemnity contracts for damages resulting from prevention, control, or eradication measures -- Authorized -- Conditions.
- 17.24.220 - Sudden oak death syndrome -- Coordinated response effort.
- 17.24.900 - Captions not law -- 1991 c 257.
- 17.26 - Control of spartina and purple loosestrife.
- 17.26.005 - Findings.
- 17.26.006 - Findings -- Purpose.
- 17.26.007 - Findings -- Application to appropriations.
- 17.26.010 - Restriction on state agencies and local governments.
- 17.26.011 - Spartina removal includes restoration -- Study.
- 17.26.015 - Lead agency -- Responsibilities.
- 17.26.020 - High priority for all state agencies -- Definitions.
- 17.26.900 - Severability -- 1995 c 255.
- 17.26.901 - Effective date -- 1995 c 255.
- 17.28 - Mosquito control districts.
- 17.28.010 - Definitions.
- 17.28.020 - Districts may be organized in counties -- Petition, presentment, signatures.
- 17.28.030 - Petition method -- Description of boundaries -- Verification of signatures -- Resolution to include city.
- 17.28.040 - Petition method -- Publication of petition and notice of meeting.
- 17.28.050 - Resolution method.
- 17.28.060 - Hearing -- Defective petition -- Establishment of boundaries.
- 17.28.070 - Procedure to include other territory.
- 17.28.080 - Determination of public necessity and compliance with chapter.
- 17.28.090 - Declaration establishing and naming district -- Election to form district -- Establishment of district.
- 17.28.100 - Election on proposition to levy tax.
- 17.28.110 - Board of trustees -- Composition.
- 17.28.120 - Board of trustees -- Name of board -- Qualification of members.
- 17.28.130 - Board of trustees -- Terms -- Vacancies.
- 17.28.140 - Board of trustees -- Organization -- Officers -- Compensation -- Expenses.
- 17.28.150 - Board of trustees -- Meetings -- Rules -- Quorum.
- 17.28.160 - Powers of district.
- 17.28.170 - Mosquito breeding places declared public nuisance -- Abatement.
- 17.28.175 - Control of mosquitos -- Declaration that owner is responsible.
- 17.28.185 - Control of mosquitos -- Noncompliance by landowner with regulations.
- 17.28.250 - Interference with entry or work of district -- Penalty.
- 17.28.251 - Borrowing money or issuing warrants in anticipation of revenue.
- 17.28.252 - Excess levy authorized.
- 17.28.253 - District boundaries for tax purposes.
- 17.28.254 - Abatement, extermination declared necessity and benefit to land.
- 17.28.255 - Classification of property -- Assessments.
- 17.28.256 - Assessments -- Roll, hearings, notices, objections, appeal, etc.
- 17.28.257 - Assessments -- Payment, lien, delinquencies, foreclosure, etc.
- 17.28.258 - County treasurer -- Duties.
- 17.28.260 - General obligation bonds -- Excess property tax levies.
- 17.28.270 - Collection, disposition, of revenue -- Depository.
- 17.28.280 - Withdrawal of funds.
- 17.28.290 - Matching funds.
- 17.28.300 - Expenses of special elections.
- 17.28.310 - Annual certification of assessed valuation.
- 17.28.320 - Annexation of territory authorized -- Consent by city.
- 17.28.330 - Annexation of territory authorized -- Petition -- Hearing -- Boundaries.
- 17.28.340 - Annexation of territory authorized -- Order of annexation -- Election.
- 17.28.350 - Annexation of territory authorized -- Filing of order -- Composition of board.
- 17.28.360 - Consolidation of districts -- Initial proceedings.
- 17.28.370 - Consolidation of districts -- Concurrent resolution.
- 17.28.380 - Consolidation of districts -- Election.
- 17.28.390 - Consolidation of districts -- Order of consolidation.
- 17.28.400 - Consolidation of districts -- Composition of board.
- 17.28.410 - Consolidation of districts -- Powers of consolidated district -- Indebtedness of former districts.
- 17.28.420 - Dissolution -- Election.
- 17.28.430 - Dissolution -- Result of election to be certified -- Certificate of dissolution.
- 17.28.440 - Dissolution -- Disposition of property.
- 17.28.450 - Dissolution -- Collection of taxes to discharge indebtedness.
- 17.28.900 - Severability -- 1957 c 153.
- 17.34 - Pest control compact.
- 17.34.010 - Compact provisions.
- 17.34.020 - Cooperation with insurance fund authorized.
- 17.34.030 - Filing of bylaws and amendments.
- 17.34.040 - Compact administrator.
- 17.34.050 - Requests or applications for assistance from insurance fund.
- 17.34.060 - Agency incurring expenses to be credited with payments to this state.
- 17.34.070 - "Executive head" defined.
- RCW Dispositions
- 17.12 - Agricultural pest districts
- 17.20 - Commercial sprayers and dusters
- 17.24 - Insect pests and plant diseases
- 17.15 - Integrated pest management
- 17.28 - Mosquito control districts
- 17.10 - Noxious weeds — control boards
- 17.16 - Rodents
- 17.21 - Washington pesticide application act
- 17.04 - Weed districts
- 17.08 - Weed extermination areas
- Notes