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SENATE BILL 6588
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1994 Regular Session
By Senators M. Rasmussen, Erwin, Hargrove, Loveland and Roach
Read first time 02/02/94. Referred to Committee on Agriculture.
AN ACT Relating to animals; and amending RCW 16.52.180.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 16.52.180 and 1901 c 146 s 18 are each amended to read as follows:
No part of RCW 16.52.010 through 16.52.050, 16.52.070 through 16.52.090 and 16.52.100 through 16.52.180 shall be deemed to interfere with any of the laws of this state known as the "game laws," nor shall RCW 16.52.010 through 16.52.050, 16.52.070 through 16.52.090 and 16.52.100 through 16.52.180 be deemed to interfere with the right to destroy any venomous reptile or any known as dangerous to life, limb or property, or to interfere with the right to kill animals to be used for food or with any properly conducted scientific experiments or investigations, which experiments or investigations shall be performed only under the authority of the faculty of some regularly incorporated college or university of the state of Washington or a research facility registered with the United States department of agriculture and regulated by 7 U.S.C. Sec. 2131 et seq.
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