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                         SENATE BILL 5702

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Senators Morton, Rasmussen and Anderson

Read first time 02/07/97.  Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Environment.

Exempting certain practices from the animal cruelty chapter.

    AN ACT Relating to animal cruelty; 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; the normal, humane, and usual use of equine for logging, riding, showing, 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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