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                          HOUSE BILL 2199

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State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By Representatives Ballasiotes, Wineberry, Wood, Kessler, Ballard, Cooke, Dyer, Jones, Silver, Roland, Holm, Zellinsky and Sheldon

Read first time 01/11/94.  Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Prohibiting malicious mischief directed toward animals.

    AN ACT Relating to malicious mischief directed toward animals; and amending RCW 9A.48.080.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 9A.48.080 and 1979 c 145 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) A person is guilty of malicious mischief in the second degree if he knowingly and maliciously:

    (a) Causes physical damage to the property of another in an amount exceeding two hundred fifty dollars; or

    (b) Creates a substantial risk of interruption or impairment of service rendered to the public, by physically damaging or tampering with an emergency vehicle or property of the state, a political subdivision thereof, or a public utility or mode of public transportation, power, or communication; or

    (c) Notwithstanding RCW 16.52.070, causes physical damage, destruction, or injury by amputation, mutilation, castration, or other malicious act to ((a horse, mule, cow, heifer, bull, steer, swine, goat, or sheep which)) an animal that is the property of another.

    (2) Malicious mischief in the second degree is a class C felony.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.

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