CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1864
Chapter
180, Laws of 1993
53rd
Legislature
1993
Regular Session
ACCELERANT
DETECTION DOGS‑-HARMING OF
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 7/25/93
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Passed by the House March 12, 1993
Yeas 98
Nays 0
BRIAN
EBERSOLE
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 13, 1993
Yeas 47
Nays 0
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CERTIFICATE
I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of
Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the
attached is HOUSE BILL 1864 as passed by the House of Representatives
and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
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JOEL
PRITCHARD
President of the Senate
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ALAN
THOMPSON
Chief Clerk
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Approved April 30, 1993 Place
Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
April 30, 1993 - 2:43 p.m.
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MIKE
LOWRY
Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington
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H-1268.1 _______________________________________________
HOUSE
BILL 1864
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State
of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993
Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/12/93. Referred to Committee on
Judiciary.
Affording accelerant detection dogs the same
protection as police dogs.
AN ACT Relating to accelerant detection dogs;
amending RCW 4.24.410 and 9A.76.200; and prescribing penalties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1.
RCW 4.24.410 and 1989 c 26 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Police dog" means a dog used by
a law enforcement agency specially trained for law enforcement work and under
the control of a dog handler.
(b) "Accelerant detection dog"
means a dog used exclusively for accelerant detection by the state fire marshal
or a fire department and under the control of the state fire marshal or his or
her designee or a fire department handler.
(c) "Dog handler" means a law
enforcement officer who has successfully completed training as prescribed by
the Washington state criminal justice training commission in police dog
handling, or in the case of an accelerant detection dog, the state fire
marshal's designee or an employee of the fire department authorized by the fire
chief to be the dog's handler.
(2) Any dog handler who uses a police dog in
the line of duty in good faith is immune from civil action for damages arising
out of such use of the police dog or accelerant detection dog.
Sec. 2.
RCW 9A.76.200 and 1989 c 26 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) A person is guilty of harming a police dog or
accelerant detection dog if he or she maliciously injures, disables,
shoots, or kills by any means any dog that the person knows or has reason to
know to be a police dog or accelerant detection dog, as defined in RCW
4.24.410, whether or not the dog is actually engaged in police or accelerant
detection work at the time of the injury.
(2) Harming a police dog or accelerant
detection dog is a class C felony.
Passed the House March 12, 1993.
Passed the Senate April 13, 1993.
Approved
by the Governor April 30, 1993.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 30,
1993.