RCW 79.02.310
Trespasser guilty of theft, when.
Every person who willfully commits any trespass upon any public lands of the state and cuts down, destroys, or injures any timber, or any tree, including a Christmas tree as defined in *RCW 76.48.020, standing or growing thereon, or takes, or removes, or causes to be taken, or removed, therefrom any wood or timber lying thereon, or maliciously injures or severs anything attached thereto, or the produce thereof, or digs, quarries, mines, takes or removes therefrom any earth, soil, stone, mineral, clay, sand, gravel, or any valuable materials, is guilty of theft under chapter 9A.56 RCW.
[ 2009 c 349 § 2; 2003 c 53 § 379; 1927 c 255 § 197; RRS § 7797-197. Prior: 1889-90 pp 124-125 §§ 1, 4. Formerly RCW 79.01.748, 79.40.010.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 76.48.020 was recodified as RCW 76.48.021 pursuant to 2009 c 245 § 29.
Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 79.02 - Public Lands Management—General.
79.02.020 - Witnesses—Compelling attendance.
79.02.030 - Court review of actions.
79.02.040 - Reconsideration of official acts.
79.02.050 - Effect of mistake or fraud.
79.02.060 - Scope of provisions of chapter 199, Laws of 2004.
79.02.080 - Rewards for information regarding violations.
79.02.090 - Transfer of county auditor's duties.
79.02.100 - Appearance by commissioner before United States land offices.
79.02.110 - Applications for federal certification that lands are nonmineral.
79.02.120 - Lieu lands—Selection agreements authorized.
79.02.130 - Lieu lands—Examination and appraisal.
79.02.140 - Lieu lands—Transfer of title to lands relinquished.
79.02.150 - Selection to complete uncompleted grants.
79.02.160 - Relinquishment on failure or rejection of selection.
79.02.200 - Abstracts of public lands.
79.02.210 - Maps and plats—Record and index—Public inspection.
79.02.250 - Reasonable fees—Disposition.
79.02.280 - Assignment of contracts or leases.
79.02.290 - Subdivision of contracts or leases—Fee.
79.02.300 - Trespass, waste, damages—Prosecutions.
79.02.310 - Trespasser guilty of theft, when.
79.02.320 - Removal of timber—Treble damages.
79.02.330 - Lessee or contract holder guilty of misdemeanor.
79.02.370 - Protection against cedar theft.
79.02.400 - Charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory real property—Inventory—Transfer.