RCW 16.50.120
Humane methods for bleeding or slaughtering livestock required.
No slaughterer or packer shall bleed or slaughter any livestock except by a humane method: PROVIDED, That the director may, by administrative order, exempt a person from compliance with this chapter for a period of not to exceed six months if he or she finds that an earlier compliance would cause such person undue hardship.
[ 2011 c 336 § 422; 1967 c 31 § 3.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 16 - Animals and Livestock
Chapter 16.50 - Humane Slaughter of Livestock.
16.50.100 - Declaration of policy.
16.50.120 - Humane methods for bleeding or slaughtering livestock required.
16.50.130 - Administration of chapter—Rules.
16.50.140 - Manually operated hammer, sledge or poleaxe—Declared inhumane.
16.50.150 - Religious freedom—Ritual slaughter defined as humane.