Passed by the Senate February 11, 2006 YEAS 36   ________________________________________ President of the Senate Passed by the House March 1, 2006 YEAS 98   ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives | I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6417 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. ________________________________________ Secretary | |
Approved ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | Secretary of State State of Washington |
State of Washington | 59th Legislature | 2006 Regular Session |
READ FIRST TIME 02/03/06.
AN ACT Relating to animal cruelty; amending RCW 16.52.205; reenacting and amending RCW 9.94A.515; and prescribing penalties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1 RCW 16.52.205 and 2005 c 481 s 1 are each amended to read
as follows:
(1) A person is guilty of animal cruelty in the first degree when,
except as authorized in law, he or she intentionally (a) inflicts
substantial pain on, (b) causes physical injury to, or (c) kills an
animal by a means causing undue suffering, or forces a minor to inflict
unnecessary pain, injury, or death on an animal.
(2) A person is guilty of animal cruelty in the first degree when,
except as authorized by law, he or she, with criminal negligence,
starves, dehydrates, or suffocates an animal and as a result causes:
(a) Substantial and unjustifiable physical pain that extends for a
period sufficient to cause considerable suffering; or (b) death.
(3) A person is guilty of animal cruelty in the first degree when
he or she:
(a) Knowingly engages in any sexual conduct or sexual contact with
an animal;
(b) Knowingly causes, aids, or abets another person to engage in
any sexual conduct or sexual contact with an animal;
(c) Knowingly permits any sexual conduct or sexual contact with an
animal to be conducted on any premises under his or her charge or
control;
(d) Knowingly engages in, organizes, promotes, conducts,
advertises, aids, abets, participates in as an observer, or performs
any service in the furtherance of an act involving any sexual conduct
or sexual contact with an animal for a commercial or recreational
purpose; or
(e) Knowingly photographs or films, for purposes of sexual
gratification, a person engaged in a sexual act or sexual contact with
an animal.
(4) Animal cruelty in the first degree is a class C felony.
(5) In addition to the penalty imposed in subsection (4) of this
section, the court may order that the convicted person do any of the
following:
(a) Not harbor or own animals or reside in any household where
animals are present;
(b) Participate in appropriate counseling at the defendant's
expense;
(c) Reimburse the animal shelter or humane society for any
reasonable costs incurred for the care and maintenance of any animals
taken to the animal shelter or humane society as a result of conduct
proscribed in subsection (3) of this section.
(6) Nothing in this section may be considered to prohibit accepted
animal husbandry practices or accepted veterinary medical practices by
a licensed veterinarian or certified veterinary technician.
(7) If the court has reasonable grounds to believe that a violation
of this section has occurred, the court may order the seizure of all
animals involved in the alleged violation as a condition of bond of a
person charged with a violation.
(8) For purposes of this section:
(a) "Animal" means every creature, either alive or dead, other than
a human being.
(b) "Sexual conduct" means any touching or fondling by a person,
either directly or through clothing, of the sex organs or anus of an
animal or any transfer or transmission of semen by the person upon any
part of the animal, for the purpose of sexual gratification or arousal
of the person.
(c) "Sexual contact" means any contact, however slight, between the
mouth, sex organ, or anus of a person and the sex organ or anus of an
animal, or any intrusion, however slight, of any part of the body of
the person into the sex organ or anus of an animal, or any intrusion of
the sex organ or anus of the person into the mouth of the animal, for
the purpose of sexual gratification or arousal of the person.
(d) "Photographs" or "films" means the making of a photograph,
motion picture film, videotape, digital image, or any other recording,
sale, or transmission of the image.
Sec. 2 RCW 9.94A.515 and 2005 c 458 s 2 and 2005 c 183 s 9 are
each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
TABLE 2 | ||
CRIMES INCLUDED WITHIN EACH SERIOUSNESS LEVEL | ||
XVI | ||
XV | ||
XIV | ||
XIII | ||
XII | ||
XI | ||
X | ||
IX | ||
VIII | ||
VII | ||
VI | ||
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IV | ||
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Animal Cruelty 1 (Sexual Conduct or Contact) (RCW 16.52.205(3)) | ||
Escape 2 (RCW 9A.76.120) | ||
II | ||
I | ||