SSB 5290 -
By Committee on Criminal Justice & Corrections
ADOPTED 04/14/2005
Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:
"Sec. 1 RCW 9A.56.080 and 2003 c 53 s 74 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, goat, or
sheep is guilty of theft of livestock in the first degree.
(2) Theft of livestock in the first degree is a class B felony.
Sec. 2 RCW 4.24.320 and 2003 c 53 s 4 are each amended to read as
follows:
Any person who suffers damage((s)) to livestock as a result of
actions described in RCW ((9A.48.080(c))) 16.52.205 or any owner of ((a
horse, mule, cow, heifer, bull, steer, swine, or sheep)) livestock who
suffers damage((s)) as a result of a willful, unauthorized act
described in RCW 9A.56.080 or 9A.56.083 may bring an action against the
person or persons committing the act in a court of competent
jurisdiction for exemplary damages up to three times the actual damages
sustained, plus attorney's fees. As used in this section, "livestock"
means the animals specified in RCW 9A.56.080."
EFFECT: Corrects a cross-reference in RCW 4.24.320 that authorized recovery of treble damages for damage to livestock caused by malicious mischief.