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                          HOUSE BILL 2711

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By Representatives Lambert, Hurst and Koster

Read first time 01/19/2000.  Referred to Committee on Criminal Justice & Corrections.

Broadening the kinds of animals to which certain theft of livestock statutes apply.

    AN ACT Relating to the kinds of animals to which certain theft of livestock statutes apply; amending RCW 9A.56.080; and prescribing penalties.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 9A.56.080 and 1986 c 257 s 32 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) Every person who, with intent to sell or exchange and to deprive or defraud the lawful owner thereof, willfully takes, leads, or transports away, conceals, withholds, slaughters, or otherwise appropriates any horse, mule, cow, heifer, bull, steer, swine, ((or)) goat, sheep, donkey, bison, llama, alpaca, or ratite bird is guilty of theft of livestock in the first degree.

    (2) A person who commits what would otherwise be theft of livestock in the first degree but without intent to sell or exchange, and for the person's own use only, is guilty of theft of livestock in the second degree.

    (3) Theft of livestock in the first degree is a class B felony.

    (4) Theft of livestock in the second degree is a class C felony.

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