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                         SENATE BILL 6605

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Senators Morton and Rasmussen

Read first time 01/22/98.  Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Environment.

Creating lien rights for owners of sires providing semen for artificial insemination.

    AN ACT Relating to artificial insemination procedures and reproductively viable semen; amending RCW 60.52.030; adding a new section to chapter 60.52 RCW; and providing an effective date.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 60.52.030 and 1913 c 53 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    The owner or owners of any such sire receiving such certificate, by complying with RCW 60.52.010 and 60.52.020, shall obtain and have a lien upon the female served for the period of ((one year)) eighteen months from the date of service, or upon the get of any such sire for the period of one year from the date of birth of such get:  PROVIDED, Said owner or owners shall file for record a statement of account, verified by affidavit, with the county auditor of the county wherein the service has been rendered, of the amount due such owner or owners for said service, together with a description of the female served, within ten months from the date of service or date of birth, as the case may be:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That the lien upon the get of any such sire shall be a preferred lien:  AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That no sale or transfer of any female animal served shall defeat the right of such lien holder.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 60.52 RCW to read as follows:

    When an owner of a sire provides, for the insemination of a female, reproductively viable semen from the sire, the owner of the sire, without satisfying the requirements of RCW 60.52.010 and 60.52.020, upon delivery of the semen by artificial insemination procedures, obtains and has a lien upon the female to which the semen is delivered by artificial insemination procedures, or a lien upon the offspring of that female as the result of delivery of the semen by artificial insemination procedures.  The lien upon the female survives for eighteen months from the date of the insemination procedure; the lien upon the offspring survives for one year from the date of birth of the resulting offspring.  However, the owner of the sire must, within ten months of the date of the insemination procedure or the date of birth, file for record, with the county auditor of the county where the insemination procedure was rendered, a statement of account, verified by affidavit, indicating the amount due to the owner for the reproductively viable semen, along with a description of the female or the name and address of the person for whom the procedure was provided.  The lien, whether upon the female or upon the offspring, is a preferred lien.  Sale or transfer of the inseminated female or of the offspring does not defeat the right of the lien holder.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  This act takes effect July 1, 1998.

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