RCW 79.02.330
Lessee or contract holder guilty of misdemeanor.
Every person being in lawful possession of any public lands of the state, under and by virtue of any lease or contract of purchase from the state, cuts down, destroys, or injures, or causes to be cut down, destroyed, or injured, any timber 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, clay, sand, gravel, stone, mineral, or other valuable material, or causes the same to be done, or otherwise injures, defaces, or damages, or causes to be injured, defaced, or damaged, any such lands unless expressly authorized so to do by the lease or contract under which possession of such lands is held, or by the provisions of law under and by virtue of which such lease or contract was issued, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[ 2003 c 334 § 434; 1927 c 255 § 198; RRS § 7797-198. Prior: 1899 c 34 §§ 1 through 3. Formerly RCW 79.01.752, 79.40.020.]
NOTES:
Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010.
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.