Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 20.01 - Agricultural Products—Commission Merchants, Dealers, Brokers, Buyers, Agents.
20.01.212 - Livestock dealers bonded under federal law.

RCW 20.01.212
Livestock dealers bonded under federal law.

If an applicant for a commission merchant's and/or dealer's license is bonded as a livestock dealer or packer under the provisions of the packers and stockyards act of 1921 (7 U.S.C. 181), as amended, on June 13, 1963, and acts as a commission merchant, packer, and/or a dealer only in livestock as defined in said packers and stockyards act of 1921 (7 U.S.C. 181), the director may accept such bond in lieu of the bond required in RCW 20.01.210 as good and sufficient and issue the applicant a license limited solely to dealing in livestock. A dealer buying and selling livestock who has furnished a bond as required by the packers and stockyards administration to cover acting as order buyer as well as dealer may also act as an order buyer for others under the provisions of this chapter, and all persons who act as order buyers of livestock shall license under this chapter as a livestock dealer: PROVIDED, That the applicant shall furnish the director with a bond approved by the United States secretary of agriculture. Such bond shall be in a minimum amount of ten thousand dollars. It shall be a violation for the licensee to act as a commission merchant and/or dealer in any other agricultural commodity without first having notified the director and furnishing him or her with a bond as required under the provisions of RCW 20.01.210, and failure to furnish the director with such bond shall be cause for the immediate suspension of the licensee's license, and revocation subject to a hearing.

[ 2011 c 336 § 578; 1991 c 109 § 19; 1977 ex.s. c 304 § 7; 1971 ex.s. c 182 § 9; 1963 c 232 § 6.]

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 20 - Commission Merchants—Agricultural Products

Chapter 20.01 - Agricultural Products—Commission Merchants, Dealers, Brokers, Buyers, Agents.

20.01.010 - Definitions.

20.01.020 - Rules and regulations—Enforcement of chapter—Interference prohibited.

20.01.030 - Exemptions.

20.01.038 - License required of persons dealing in livestock, hay, grain, or straw.

20.01.040 - License—Generally.

20.01.050 - License renewals.

20.01.060 - Licensee in one class may obtain license in another—Additional fee.

20.01.070 - Application for license—Contents.

20.01.080 - Commission merchant's schedule of commissions and charges—Changes, posting.

20.01.086 - Waiver of reporting, accounting, and recordkeeping requirements prohibited.

20.01.090 - Agent to disclose principal licensee and his endorsement.

20.01.100 - Issuance of license—Expiration date—Fraudulent application grounds for refusal, revocation.

20.01.110 - Publication of list of licensees and rules—Posting license.

20.01.120 - Vehicle license plates.

20.01.125 - Hay or straw—Certified vehicle tare and load weights—Violations.

20.01.130 - Disposition of moneys.

20.01.140 - Change in organization of firm to be reported.

20.01.150 - Denial, suspension, revocation of licenses, probationary orders—Authority.

20.01.160 - Denial, suspension, revocation of licenses, probationary orders—Procedure.

20.01.170 - Denial, suspension, revocation of licenses, probationary orders—Subpoenas, witnesses, testimony, fees.

20.01.180 - Denial, suspension, revocation of licenses, probationary orders—Findings and conclusions—Record.

20.01.190 - Denial, suspension, revocation of licenses, probationary orders—Final action in writing—Appeal to superior court.

20.01.200 - Denial, suspension, revocation of licenses, probationary orders—Appellate review.

20.01.205 - License suspension—Noncompliance with support order—Reissuance.

20.01.210 - Commission merchants, dealers—Bonds.

20.01.211 - Alternative bonding provision for certain dealers.

20.01.212 - Livestock dealers bonded under federal law.

20.01.214 - Appeal from rejected bond claim.

20.01.220 - Action on bond for fraud.

20.01.230 - Action on bond for failure to comply with chapter.

20.01.240 - Claims against commission merchant, dealer.

20.01.250 - Failure of consignor to file claim, time limitation.

20.01.260 - Director not liable if circumstances prevent ascertainment of creditors—Demand on bond.

20.01.270 - Demand on bond after claims ascertained—Power of director to settle, compromise.

20.01.280 - Action on bond after refusal to pay—New bond, failure to file.

20.01.300 - Verified complaints of consignor—Investigations.

20.01.310 - Oaths, testimony, witnesses, subpoenas—Contempt proceedings—Records as evidence.

20.01.320 - Investigations, examinations, inspections—Search warrants—Subpoenas.

20.01.330 - Denial, revocation, suspension, or condition of licenses, probationary orders—Grounds.

20.01.340 - Denial, revocation, suspension of licenses, probationary orders—Previous violations as grounds.

20.01.350 - Denial, revocation, suspension of licenses, probationary orders—Hearing, investigation—Findings required—Notices.

20.01.360 - Order of revocation, suspension.

20.01.370 - Commission merchants—Recordkeeping.

20.01.380 - Dealers, cash buyers, livestock dealers—Recordkeeping—Carrying identification and health documents.

20.01.385 - Failure to comply—Construction of transaction.

20.01.390 - When dealer must pay for products delivered to him or her.

20.01.400 - Broker's memorandum of sale.

20.01.410 - Manifest of cargo—Bill of lading.

20.01.420 - Commission merchant's report of sale to consignor.

20.01.430 - Commission merchant's remittance to consignor.

20.01.440 - Commission merchant's copy of records to be retained—Inspection—Department's certificate of condition, quality, etc.

20.01.450 - Claims against seller by dealer, cash buyer—Credit to dealer, cash buyer against consignor—Certificate of proof.

20.01.460 - Prohibited acts—Penalties.

20.01.465 - Time of sale requirement—Unlawful practice.

20.01.470 - Action to enjoin violation of chapter.

20.01.475 - Licensee under chapter—Prima facie evidence acting as licensee handling agricultural products.

20.01.480 - Violations resulting in improper or nonpayment—Charges.

20.01.482 - Civil infractions—Notice—Misdemeanors.

20.01.484 - Civil infractions—Response to notice.

20.01.486 - Civil infractions—Hearing to contest charge—Order—Appeal.

20.01.488 - Civil infractions—Informal hearing on mitigating circumstances—Order—No appeal.

20.01.490 - Civil infractions—Monetary penalty—Failure to pay, misdemeanor.

20.01.500 - "Grower," "processor" defined—Application of exemption contained in RCW 20.01.030(1).

20.01.510 - Processor's form showing maximum processing capacity.

20.01.520 - Processor to have grower contracts and commitments on file.

20.01.530 - Grower may file form showing crops processor is committed to purchase.

20.01.540 - Committing to purchase more crops than plants can process—Violation.

20.01.550 - Discrimination by processor.

20.01.560 - Effective date of RCW 20.01.500 through 20.01.550.

20.01.570 - Cash or other security in lieu of surety bond.

20.01.610 - Authority to stop vehicle violating chapter—Failure to stop, civil infraction.

20.01.900 - Chapter cumulative and nonexclusive.

20.01.920 - Effective date—1959 c 139.

20.01.930 - Repealer.

20.01.940 - Repealer—Savings—1979 ex.s. c 115.