RCW 16.36.150
Animal disease traceability activities for cattle—Fee—Penalty.
(1) The director shall adopt by rule a fee per head on cattle sold or slaughtered in the state or transported out of the state to administer animal disease traceability activities for cattle. The fee must be paid by:
(a) Sellers of cattle sold in the state, without exception;
(b) Owners of cattle that are transported out of Washington, unless an exception is provided by rule; and
(c) Owners of cattle slaughtered in the state.
(2) The fee adopted by the department may not exceed forty cents per head of cattle.
(3)(a) Except where the seller presents proof that the fee has been paid by a meat processor under (c) of this subsection, the fee required in this section must be paid by the owner of cattle receiving a livestock inspection issued by the department under chapter 16.57 RCW in the same manner as livestock inspection fees are collected under RCW 16.57.220.
(b) The fee required in this section must be paid from the owner of cattle not receiving a livestock inspection issued by the department under chapter 16.57 RCW by the fifteenth day of the month following the month the sale or transportation out-of-state occurred, or at a different time as designated by rule.
(c) When cattle are slaughtered, the fee required by this section must be collected from the seller of the cattle by the meat processor. The meat processor must transmit the fee to the department by the fifteenth day of the month following the month the transaction occurred, or at a different time as designated by rule. When cattle owned by a meat processor are slaughtered, the fee must be paid by the meat processor.
(4) All fees received by the department under this section must be deposited in the animal disease traceability account in the agricultural local fund created in RCW 43.23.230 to carry out animal disease traceability activities for cattle and to compensate the livestock identification program for data and fee collection.
(5) Any person failing to pay the fee established in this section has committed a class 1 civil infraction punishable as provided in RCW 7.80.120. Each violation is a separate and distinct offense.
[ 2011 c 204 § 2.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 16 - Animals and Livestock
Chapter 16.36 - Animal Health.
16.36.010 - Quarantine—Hold order.
16.36.020 - Powers of director.
16.36.025 - Recovery of costs.
16.36.040 - Rules—Prevention—Inspections and tests—Reportable disease—Federal regulations.
16.36.050 - Unlawful actions—Importation—Required certificates—Intentional or willful misconduct.
16.36.070 - Danger of infection—Emergencies.
16.36.080 - Veterinarians and others to report diseases—Director's duties—Unlawful importation.
16.36.082 - Infected or exposed animals—Unlawful to transfer or expose other animals.
16.36.084 - Duty to report infection or exposure to disease—Unlawful conduct.
16.36.086 - Negligence of owner of infected livestock—Liability.
16.36.090 - Destruction of diseased or quarantined animals.
16.36.096 - Destruction of animals—Payment of indemnity.
16.36.098 - Quarantine, hold order, or destruct order—Written request for hearing.
16.36.100 - Cooperation with other governmental agencies.
16.36.102 - Duty to bury carcass of diseased livestock—Dead livestock presumed diseased.
16.36.105 - Swine, garbage feeding, license—Application—Fee—Inspection.
16.36.110 - Violations, gross misdemeanor—Injunction—Denial, revocation, or suspension of license.
16.36.113 - Violations of chapter or rules—Civil penalty—Moneys collected—Time and mileage fee.
16.36.128 - Application of Title 77 RCW.
16.36.150 - Animal disease traceability activities for cattle—Fee—Penalty.
16.36.160 - Activity report and financial statement—Animal disease traceability activities.