BILL REQ. #:  S-1230.2 

Read first time 02/05/09.   Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

     AN ACT Relating to the duty of a sheriff with regard to a dog running at large; and amending RCW 16.08.030.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 16.08.030 and 1929 c 198 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:
     It ((shall be the duty of any person owning or keeping any dog or dogs which shall be found killing any domestic animal to kill such dog or dogs within forty-eight hours after being notified of that fact, and any person failing or neglecting to comply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and it)) shall be the duty of the sheriff or any deputy sheriff to kill any dog found running at large (after the first day of August of any year and before the first day of March in the following year) without a metal identification tag.