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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1900

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1986 Regular Session

By Representatives Baugher, Rayburn, Bristow, Vekich, Peery and Braddock

Read first time 1/24/86 and referred to Committee on Agriculture.

AN ACT Relating to cattle running; and amending RCW 16.20.020 and 16.20.030.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 111, Laws of 1917 as amended by section 18, chapter 415, Laws of 1985 and RCW 16.20.020 are each amended to read as follows:

          It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to turn upon or allow to run at large on any range area in this state any bull other than a registered bull of a recognized beef breed.  All persons running cattle in common on any range area may, however, agree to run any purebred or crossbred bull of any breed, registered or unregistered, as they may deem appropriate for their area.

        Sec. 2.  Section 2, chapter 111, Laws of 1917 and RCW 16.20.030 are each amended to read as follows:

          ((That)) Before any person, firm, association or corporation ((shall)) turns upon the open range in this state any female breeding cattle of breeding age of more than fifteen in number, ((two years old or over,)) they shall procure and turn with said female breeding cattle one registered ((purebred)) bull of recognized beef breed for every forty females or fraction thereof of twenty-five or over((:  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That RCW 16.20.020 through 16.20.040 shall not apply to counties lying west of the summit of the Cascade mountains)).  All persons running cattle in common on any range area may, however, agree to any other proportion of bulls to female cattle of breeding age as they may deem appropriate for their area.