RCW 77.15.800
Engaging in wildlife rehabilitation without a permit—Penalty.
(1)(a) A person is guilty of engaging in wildlife rehabilitation without a permit if the person captures, transports, treats, feeds, houses, conditions, or trains injured, diseased, oiled, or abandoned wildlife without department authority for temporary actions or a wildlife rehabilitation permit issued by the department.
(b) The department must adopt rules for permissible temporary actions that include, at a minimum, the conditions under which a person may capture or transport wildlife to a primary permittee, subpermittee, or a rehabilitation facility.
(2) A person who is a primary permittee or subpermittee on a wildlife rehabilitation permit issued by the department is guilty of unlawful use of a wildlife rehabilitation permit if the person violates any permit provisions or department rules pertaining to wildlife rehabilitation other than those addressing recordkeeping and reporting requirements.
(3) A violation of this section is a misdemeanor.
[ 2014 c 48 § 25.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 77.15 - Fish and Wildlife Enforcement Code.
77.15.010 - Exemption for department actions.
77.15.030 - Individual animal unlawfully taken—Separate offense.
77.15.050 - "Conviction" defined.
77.15.060 - Reference to chapters 7.84 and 9A.20 RCW.
77.15.065 - Authority of attorney general if prosecuting attorney defaults.
77.15.070 - Civil forfeiture of property used for violation of chapter.
77.15.075 - Enforcement authority of fish and wildlife officers—Volunteer chaplain.
77.15.085 - Seizure without warrant.
77.15.090 - Search, arrest warrant—Issuance—Execution.
77.15.092 - Arrest without warrant.
77.15.094 - Search without warrant—Seizure of evidence, property—Limitation.
77.15.096 - Inspection without warrant—Commercial fish and wildlife entities—Limitations.
77.15.098 - Willful misconduct/gross negligence—Civil liability.
77.15.110 - Acting for commercial purposes—When—Proof.
77.15.120 - Endangered fish or wildlife—Unlawful taking—Penalty.
77.15.150 - Poison or explosives—Unlawful use—Penalty.
77.15.160 - Infractions—Penalties.
77.15.170 - Waste of fish and wildlife—Penalty.
77.15.180 - Unlawful interference with fishing or hunting gear—Penalty.
77.15.190 - Unlawful trapping—Penalty.
77.15.191 - Revocation of trapper's license—Placement of unauthorized traps.
77.15.194 - Unlawful traps—Penalty.
77.15.196 - Unlawful poison—Penalty.
77.15.198 - Violation of RCW 77.15.194 or 77.15.196—Penalty.
77.15.210 - Obstructing the taking of fish, shellfish, or wildlife—Penalty.
77.15.212 - Damages due to violation of RCW 77.15.210—Civil action.
77.15.230 - Department lands or facilities—Unlawful use—Penalty.
77.15.260 - Unlawful trafficking in fish, shellfish, or wildlife—Penalty.
77.15.270 - Providing false information—Penalty.
77.15.280 - Reporting of fish or wildlife harvest—Rules violation—Penalty.
77.15.290 - Unlawful transportation of fish or wildlife—Penalty.
77.15.300 - Unlawful hydraulic project activities—Penalty.
77.15.340 - Unlawful operation of a game farm—Penalty.
77.15.350 - Inspection and disease control of aquatic farms—Rules violation—Penalty.
77.15.360 - Unlawful interfering in department operations—Penalty.
77.15.380 - Unlawful recreational fishing in the second degree—Penalty.
77.15.382 - Unlawful use of shellfish gear for personal use purposes—Penalty.
77.15.390 - Seaweed—Unlawful taking—Penalty.
77.15.395 - Hunter safety—Visible clothing requirement—Penalty.
77.15.400 - Unlawful hunting of wild birds—Violation of a rule requiring nontoxic shot—Penalty.
77.15.410 - Unlawful hunting of big game—Penalty.
77.15.420 - Illegally taken or possessed wildlife—Criminal wildlife penalty assessed.
77.15.425 - Fish and wildlife enforcement reward account.
77.15.430 - Unlawful hunting of wild animals—Penalty.
77.15.440 - Weapons, traps, or dogs on game reserves—Unlawful use—Penalty.
77.15.450 - Spotlighting big game—Penalty.
77.15.470 - Wildlife check stations or field inspections—Unlawful avoidance—Penalty.
77.15.480 - Certain devices declared public nuisances.
77.15.500 - Commercial fishing without a license—Penalty.
77.15.510 - Acting as a game fish guide, food fish guide, or chartering without a license—Penalty.
77.15.520 - Commercial fishing—Unlawful gear or methods—Penalty.
77.15.522 - Unlawful use of shellfish gear for commercial purposes—Penalty.
77.15.530 - Unlawful use of a nondesignated vessel—Penalty.
77.15.540 - Unlawful use of a commercial fishery license—Penalty.
77.15.550 - Violation of commercial fishing area or time—Penalty.
77.15.552 - Qualifying commercial fishing violations.
77.15.554 - License suspension review committee.
77.15.565 - Wholesale fish buyer a limited fish seller—Accounting of commercial harvest—Penalties.
77.15.568 - Secondary commercial fish receiver's failure to account for commercial harvest—Penalty.
77.15.580 - Unlawful use of net to take fish—Penalty.
77.15.590 - Commercial fishing vessel—Unlawful use for recreational or charter fishing—Penalty.
77.15.600 - Engaging in commercial wildlife activity without a license—Penalty.
77.15.610 - Unlawful use of a commercial wildlife license—Penalty.
77.15.620 - Engaging in fish dealing activity without a license—Penalty.
77.15.630 - Unlawful fish and shellfish catch accounting—Penalty.
77.15.640 - Unlawful wholesale fish buying and dealing—Penalty.
77.15.650 - Unlawful purchase or use of a license—Penalty.
77.15.660 - Unlawful use of scientific permit—Penalty.
77.15.675 - Hunting while intoxicated—Penalty.
77.15.680 - Department authority to suspend privileges—Form and procedure.
77.15.690 - Department authority to revoke licenses.
77.15.700 - Grounds for department revocation and suspension of recreational license—Appeal.
77.15.710 - Conviction for assault—Revocation of licenses and suspension of privileges.
77.15.730 - Wildlife violator compact citations and convictions.
77.15.732 - Citations from wildlife violator compact party state—Failure to comply.
77.15.740 - Protection of southern resident orca whales—Unlawful activities—Penalty.
77.15.750 - Unlawful use of a department permit—Penalty.
77.15.760 - Suspension of a master hunter permit—Appeal hearing.
77.15.770 - Unlawful trade in shark fins—Penalty.
77.15.780 - Disposition of judicially forfeited seized property.
77.15.800 - Engaging in wildlife rehabilitation without a permit—Penalty.
77.15.803 - Inspection of aquatic conveyance.
77.15.805 - Violation of an invasive species law—Warrant.
77.15.807 - Invasive species in or on water body or property—Warrant.
77.15.809 - Unlawful use of invasive species in the second degree—Penalty.
77.15.811 - Unlawful use of invasive species in the first degree—Penalty.
77.15.813 - Unlawfully engaging in fishing guide activity—Penalty.
77.15.815 - Unlawfully engaging in commercial whale watching—Penalty.