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                                 SENATE BILL 5935

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senators Madsen and Sutherland.

Read first time March 6, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.Dealing with the destruction of rural mailboxes.

     AN ACT Relating to rural mailboxes; amending RCW 9A.48.080; and prescribing penalties.

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 is the property of another; or

(d) Causes physical damage or destroys a mailbox in a rural setting.

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