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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6263
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State of Washington 54th Legislature 1996 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Agriculture & Agricultural Trade & Development (originally sponsored by Senators Morton, Rasmussen, A. Anderson, Hargrove, Swecker, Hochstatter, Prince, Sellar, Schow and Roach)
Read first time 1/19/96.
AN ACT Relating to the normal and usual use of equine and oxen; and amending RCW 16.52.185.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 16.52.185 and 1994 c 261 s 22 are each amended to read as follows:
Nothing in this chapter applies to accepted husbandry practices used in the commercial raising or slaughtering of livestock or poultry, or products thereof or to the use of animals in the normal and usual course of rodeo events, normal and usual use of equine and oxen for logging, riding, showing, vaulting, driving, or drafting purposes, or to the customary use or exhibiting of animals in normal and usual events at fairs as defined in RCW 15.76.120.
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