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WA Rev Code § 16.76.005 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 16 - Animals and Livestock|Chapter 16.76 - Wolf-Livestock Management.|16.76.005 - Finding.

RCW 16.76.005 Finding.The legislature finds that there is a need to provide resources to help livestock producers adapt their operations in light of the recovery of wolves on the landscape and a desire by many to increase use of nonlethal deterrence measures to reduce the probability of livestock depredations by wolves. The application of resources in support of these goals must respect livestock producers' values of independence, privacy, and local decision making. The legislature further recognizes that the recent recolonization of wolves places a relatively large time and monetary burden on livestock producers, and that livestock producers have unique and valuable knowledge, occupy an important place in their local communities and the state's social fabric, and are critical partners in creating sound natural resource policies.[ 2017 c 257 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 16.76.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 16 - Animals and Livestock|Chapter 16.76 - Wolf-Livestock Management.|16.76.010 - Definitions.

RCW 16.76.010 Definitions.The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Department" means the department of agriculture.(2) "Director" means the director of the department of agriculture.(3) "Northeast Washington" means Okanogan, Ferry, Stevens, and Pend Oreille counties.[ 2017 c 257 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 16.76.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 16 - Animals and Livestock|Chapter 16.76 - Wolf-Livestock Management.|16.76.020 - Northeast Washington wolf-livestock management grant—Advisory board—Distribution of funds—List of grants awarded.

RCW 16.76.020 Northeast Washington wolf-livestock management grant—Advisory board—Distribution of funds—List of grants awarded.(1) The northeast Washington wolf-livestock management grant is created within the department. Funds from the grant program must be used only for the deployment of nonlethal deterrence resources in any Washington county east of the crest of the Cascade mountain range that shares a border with Canada, including human presence, and locally owned and deliberately located equipment and tools.(2)(a) A four-member advisory board is established to advise the department on the expenditure of the northeast Washington wolf-livestock management grant funds. Advisory board members must be knowledgeable about wolf depredation issues, and have a special interest in the use of nonlethal wolf management techniques. Board members are unpaid, are not state employees, and are not eligible for reimbursement for subsistence, lodging, or travel expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as board members. The director must appoint each member to the board for a term of two years. Board members may be reappointed for subsequent two-year terms. The following board members must be appointed by the director in consultation with each applicable conservation district and the legislators in the legislative district encompassing each county:(i) One Ferry county conservation district board member or staff member;(ii) One Stevens county conservation district board member or staff member;(iii) One Pend Oreille conservation district board member or staff member; and(iv) One Okanogan conservation district board member or staff member.(b) If no board member or staff member qualifies under this section, the director must appoint a resident of the applicable county to serve on the board.(c) Board members may not:(i) Directly benefit, in whole or in part, from any contract entered into or grant awarded under this section; or(ii) Directly accept any compensation, gratuity, or reward in connection with such a contract from any other person with a beneficial interest in the contract.(3) The board must help direct funding for the deployment of nonlethal deterrence resources, including human presence, and locally owned and deliberately located equipment and tools. Funds may only be distributed to nonprofit community-based collaborative organizations that have advisory boards that include personnel from relevant agencies including, but not limited to, the United States forest service and the Washington department of fish and wildlife.(4) To ensure accountability and efficient use of funds between agencies involved in wolf-livestock management, the department must maintain a list of grants awarded under this section and at least annually share the list with the department of fish and wildlife.[ 2019 c 450 § 4; 2017 c 257 § 3.]NOTES:Intent—Finding—2019 c 450: See note following RCW 77.12.395.
WA Rev Code § 16.76.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 16 - Animals and Livestock|Chapter 16.76 - Wolf-Livestock Management.|16.76.030 - Northeast Washington wolf-livestock management account.

RCW 16.76.030 Northeast Washington wolf-livestock management account.(1) The northeast Washington wolf-livestock management account is created as a nonappropriated account in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts, any legislative appropriations, private donations, or any other private or public source directed to the northeast Washington wolf-livestock management grant must be deposited into the account. Expenditures from the account may be used only for the deployment of nonlethal wolf deterrence resources as described in RCW 16.76.020. Only the director may authorize expenditures from the account in consultation with the advisory board created in RCW 16.76.020. The account is subject to allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW, but an appropriation is not required for expenditures. Interest earned by deposits in the account must be retained in the account.(2) The advisory board created in RCW 16.76.020 may solicit and receive gifts and grants from public and private sources for the purposes of RCW 16.76.020.(3) During the 2021-2023 fiscal biennium, expenditures from the account may be used for wolf-livestock management as well as for grants to the sheriffs' offices of Stevens and Ferry counties for providing a local wildlife specialist to aid the department of fish and wildlife in the management of wolves.[ 2021 c 334 § 960; 2017 c 257 § 4.]NOTES:Conflict with federal requirements—Effective date—2021 c 334: See notes following RCW 43.79.555.
WA Rev Code § 17.04.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 17 - Weeds, Rodents, and Pests|Chapter 17.04 - Weed Districts.|17.04.010 - Districts authorized—Area and boundaries.

RCW 17.04.010 Districts authorized—Area and boundaries.The boards of county commissioners of the respective counties may create a weed district or districts within their counties and enlarge any district, or reduce any district or create or combine or consolidate the districts, or divide or create new districts, from time to time, in the manner hereinafter provided, for the purpose of destroying, preventing and exterminating, or to prevent the introduction, propagation, cultivation or increase of, any particular weed, weeds or plants, or all weeds or plants, including Scotch broom, which are now or may hereafter be classed by the agricultural experiment station of Washington State University as noxious weeds, or plants detrimental to or destructive of crops, fruit, trees, shrubs, valuable plants, forage, or other agricultural plants or produce. Any such district shall include not less than one section of land, and the boundaries thereof shall be along an established road, railroad, scab, uncleared or grazing land, or property line, or established lines, or some natural boundary, and shall include only cultivated or farming lands and shall not include any scab, uncleared or grazing land, except such as shall lie wholly within cultivated or farming lands within the districts, or which lie adjacent to such cultivated or farming lands and which are infested, or which may reasonably be expected to become infested, with the particular weed or weeds to be destroyed, prevented and exterminated by such district: PROVIDED, That any quarter section of land, or lesser legal subdivision in single ownership, fifty percent of which is cultivated or farming land, shall be considered cultivated and farming land within the meaning of this chapter.[ 1961 c 250 § 1; 1937 c 193 § 1; 1929 c 125 § 1; RRS § 2771. Prior: 1921 c 150 § 1. Formerly RCW 17.04.010 and 17.04.020.]
WA Rev Code § 17.04.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 17 - Weeds, Rodents, and Pests|Chapter 17.04 - Weed Districts.|17.04.030 - Petition—Time, place and notice of hearing.

RCW 17.04.030 Petition—Time, place and notice of hearing.Any one or more freeholders owning more than fifty percent of the acreage desired to be included within the proposed weed district may file a petition with the board of county commissioners praying that their land be included, either separately or with other lands included in the petition, in a weed district to be formed for the purpose of destroying, preventing or exterminating any one or all such weeds, or that such lands be included within a district already formed, or a new district or districts to be formed out of any district or districts then existing. Such petition shall state the boundaries of the proposed district, the approximate number of acres in the proposed district, the particular weed or weeds to be destroyed, prevented or exterminated, the general method or means to be used in such work, and shall contain a list of all known land owners within the proposed district, together with the addresses of such land owners. Upon the filing of such petition the board of county commissioners shall fix a time for a hearing thereon, and shall give at least thirty days' notice of the time and place of such hearing by posting copies of such notice in three conspicuous places within the proposed district, one copy of which shall be at the main entrance to the courthouse, and by mailing a copy of such notice to each of the land owners named in the petition at the address therein named, and if any of the land described in the petition be owned by the state, a copy thereof shall be mailed to the department of natural resources at Olympia.[ 1988 c 128 § 4; 1929 c 125 § 2; RRS § 2772. Prior: 1921 c 150 § 2. Formerly RCW 17.04.030 and 17.04.040.]
WA Rev Code § 17.04.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 17 - Weeds, Rodents, and Pests|Chapter 17.04 - Weed Districts.|17.04.050 - Board to determine petition—Resolution to create district.

RCW 17.04.050 Board to determine petition—Resolution to create district.At the time and place fixed for such hearing the board of county commissioners shall determine whether such weed district shall be created and if such board determines that such district shall be created, it shall fix the boundaries thereof, but shall not modify the purposes of the petition with respect to the weed or weeds to be destroyed, prevented and exterminated as set forth in this petition, and shall not enlarge the boundaries of the proposed district, or enlarge or change the boundary or boundaries of any district or districts already formed without first giving notice to all land owners interested as provided in RCW 17.04.030. If the board shall determine that the weed district petitioned for shall be created it shall pass a resolution to that effect and shall assign a number to such weed district which shall be the lowest number not already taken or adopted by a weed district in such county, and thereafter such district shall be known as "Weed District No. . . . . of . . . . . . County," inserting in the first blank the number of the district and in the second the name of the county in which the district is organized.[ 1929 c 125 § 3; RRS §§ 2773, 2774. Prior: 1921 c 150 §§ 3, 4. Formerly RCW 17.04.050 and 17.04.060.]
WA Rev Code § 17.04.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 17 - Weeds, Rodents, and Pests|Chapter 17.04 - Weed Districts.|17.04.150 - Powers—Weed inspector.

RCW 17.04.150 Powers—Weed inspector.The board of directors of such weed district shall have power:(1) To adopt rules and regulations, plans, methods, and means for the purpose of destroying, preventing, and exterminating the weed or weeds specified in the petition, and to supervise, carry out, and enforce such rules, regulations, plans, methods, and means.(2) To appoint a weed inspector and to require from him or her a bond in such sum as the directors may determine for the faithful discharge of his or her duties, and to pay the cost of such bond from the funds of such district; and to direct such weed inspector in the discharge of his or her duties; and to pay such weed inspector from the funds of such district such per diem or salary for the time employed in the discharge of his or her duties as the directors shall determine.[ 2011 c 336 § 447; 1961 c 250 § 3; 1929 c 125 § 9; RRS § 2778-1. Prior: 1921 c 150 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 17.04.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 17 - Weeds, Rodents, and Pests|Chapter 17.04 - Weed Districts.|17.04.160 - Contiguous lands.

RCW 17.04.160 Contiguous lands.Any city or town contiguous to or surrounded by a weed district formed under this chapter shall provide for the destruction, prevention and extermination of all weeds specified in the petition which are within the boundaries of such city or town, in the same manner and to the same extent as is provided for in such surrounding or contiguous weed district; and it shall be the duty of those in charge of school grounds, playgrounds, cemeteries, parks, or any lands of a public or quasi public nature when such lands shall be contiguous to, or within any weed district, to see that all weeds specified in the petition for the creation of such district are destroyed, prevented and exterminated in accordance with the rules and requirements of such district.[ 1929 c 125 § 6; RRS § 2775-1.]NOTES:Destruction of weeds, etc., city ordinance: RCW 35.21.310.
WA Rev Code § 17.04.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 17 - Weeds, Rodents, and Pests|Chapter 17.04 - Weed Districts.|17.04.170 - Indian reservation lands—United States lands.

RCW 17.04.170 Indian reservation lands—United States lands.Any lands owned by any individual wholly or partly within the United States government Indian reservation may be included within a weed district formed under this chapter, and shall be subject to the same rules, regulations and taxes as other lands within the district; and the board of directors of any weed district are authorized to arrange with the officer or agent in charge of any United States lands, within or contiguous to any such district, for the destruction, prevention and extermination of weeds on such government lands.[ 1929 c 125 § 7; RRS § 2775-2.]
WA Rev Code § 17.04.180 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 17 - Weeds, Rodents, and Pests|Chapter 17.04 - Weed Districts.|17.04.180 - County and state lands.

RCW 17.04.180 County and state lands.Whenever any lands belonging to the county are included within a weed district, the county legislative authority shall determine the amount of the assessment for which the lands would be liable if they were in private ownership, and the county legislative authority shall appropriate from the current expense fund of the county sufficient money to pay such amounts. Whenever any state lands are within any weed district, the county treasurer shall certify annually and forward to the appropriate state agency for payment a statement showing the amount of the assessment to which the lands would be liable if they were in private ownership, separately describing each lot or parcel and, if delinquent, with interest and penalties consistent with RCW 84.56.020.[ 2021 c 217 § 16; 1991 c 245 § 1; 1984 c 7 § 18; 1971 ex.s. c 119 § 1; 1961 c 250 § 4; 1929 c 125 § 8; RRS § 2777. Prior: 1921 c 150 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 17.04.190 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 17 - Weeds, Rodents, and Pests|Chapter 17.04 - Weed Districts.|17.04.190 - Duties of weed inspector.

RCW 17.04.190 Duties of weed inspector.It shall be the duty of the weed inspector to carry out the directions of the board of directors and to see that the rules and regulations adopted by the board are carried out. He or she shall personally deliver or mail to each resident landowner within such district and to any lessee or person in charge of any land within such district and residing in such district, a copy of the rules and regulations of such district; and he or she shall personally deliver a copy thereof to nonresident landowners or shall deposit a copy of the same in the United States post office in an envelope with postage prepaid thereon addressed to the last known address of such person as shown by the records of the county auditor; and in event no such address is available for mailing he or she shall post a copy of such rules and regulations in a conspicuous place upon such land. A record shall be kept by the weed inspector of such dates of mailing, posting, or delivering such rules and regulations. In case of any railroad such rules and regulations shall be delivered to the section foreman, or to any official of the railroad having offices within the state. Such rules and regulations must be delivered, posted, or mailed by the weed inspector as herein provided at least ten days before the time to start any annual operations necessary to comply with such rules and regulations: PROVIDED, That after such district shall have been in operation two years such rules and regulations shall be delivered to resident landowners only once every three years, unless such rules and regulations are changed.[ 2011 c 336 § 448; 1961 c 250 § 5; 1929 c 125 § 10; RRS § 2778-2.]
WA Rev Code § 17.04.200 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 17 - Weeds, Rodents, and Pests|Chapter 17.04 - Weed Districts.|17.04.200 - Violation of rules and regulations—Notice to destroy weeds—Destruction.

RCW 17.04.200 Violation of rules and regulations—Notice to destroy weeds—Destruction.(1) If the weed inspector, or the board of directors, shall find that the rules and regulations of the weed district are not being carried out on any one or more parcels of land within such district, the weed inspector shall give forthwith a notice in writing, on a form to be prescribed by the directors, to the owners, tenants, mortgagees, and occupants, or to the accredited resident agent of any nonresident owner of such lands within the district whereon noxious weeds are standing, being or growing and in danger of going to seed, requiring him or her to cause the same to be cut down, otherwise destroyed or eradicated on such lands in the manner and within the time specified in the notice, such time, however, not to exceed seven days. It shall be the duty of the county auditor and county treasurer to make available to the weed inspector lists of owners, tenants, and mortgagees of lands within such district;(2) If a resident agent of any nonresident owner of lands where noxious weeds are found standing, being, or growing cannot be found, the local weed inspector shall post said notice in the form provided by the directors in three conspicuous places on said land, and in addition to posting said notice the local weed inspector shall, at the same time mail a copy thereof by registered or certified mail with return receipt requested to the owner of such nonresident lands, if his or her post office address is known or can be ascertained by said inspector from the last tax list in the county treasurer's office, and it shall be the duty of the treasurer to furnish such lists upon request by the weed inspector. Proof of such serving, posting, and mailing of notice by the weed inspector shall be made by affidavit forthwith filed in the office of the county auditor and it shall be the duty of the county auditor to accept and file such affidavits;(3) If the weeds are not cut down, otherwise destroyed, or eradicated within the time specified in said notice, the local weed inspector shall personally, or with such help as he or she may require, cause the same to be cut down or otherwise destroyed in the manner specified in said notice.[ 2011 c 336 § 449; 1961 c 250 § 6; 1937 c 193 § 2; 1929 c 125 § 11; RRS § 2778-3. Prior: 1921 c 150 § 9, part.]
WA Rev Code § 17.04.210 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 17 - Weeds, Rodents, and Pests|Chapter 17.04 - Weed Districts.|17.04.210 - Statement of expense—Hearing.

RCW 17.04.210 Statement of expense—Hearing.The weed inspector shall keep an accurate account of expenses incurred by him or her in carrying out the provisions of this chapter with respect to each parcel of land entered upon, and the prosecuting attorney of the county or the attorney for the weed district shall cause to be served, mailed, or posted in the same manner as provided in this chapter for giving notice to destroy noxious weeds, a statement of such expenses, including description of the land, verified by oath of the weed inspector to the owner, lessee, mortgagee, occupant or agent, or person having charge of said land, and coupled with such statement shall be a notice subscribed by said prosecuting attorney or attorney for the weed district and naming a time and place when and where such matter will be brought before the board of directors of such district for hearing and determination, said statement or notice to be served, mailed, or posted, as the case may be, at least ten days before the time for such hearing.[ 2011 c 336 § 450; 1961 c 250 § 7; 1929 c 125 § 12; RRS § 2778-4.]
WA Rev Code § 17.04.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 17 - Weeds, Rodents, and Pests|Chapter 17.04 - Weed Districts.|17.04.220 - Examination at hearing of expenses—Amount is tax on land—Effect of failure to serve notices.

RCW 17.04.220 Examination at hearing of expenses—Amount is tax on land—Effect of failure to serve notices.At the time of such hearing as provided in RCW 17.04.210, or at such time to which the same may be continued or adjourned, the board of directors shall proceed to examine expenses incurred by the weed inspector in controlling weeds on the parcel of land in question, and shall hear such testimony of such other persons who may have legal interest in the proceedings, and shall enter an order upon its minutes as to what amount, if any, is properly chargeable against the lands for weed control. Cost of serving, mailing and posting shall be added to any amount so found to be due and shall be considered part of the cost of weed control on the land in question. The amount so charged by the directors shall be a tax on the land on which said work was done after the expiration of ten days from the date of entry of said order, unless an appeal be taken as in this chapter provided, in which event the same shall become a tax at the time the amount to be paid shall be determined by the court; and the county treasurer shall enter the same on the tax rolls against the land for the current year and collect it, together with penalty and interest, as other taxes are collected, and when so collected the same shall be paid into the fund for such weed district: PROVIDED, That a failure to serve, mail or post any of the notices or statements provided for in this chapter, shall not invalidate said tax, but in case of such failure the lien of such tax shall be subordinate and inferior to the interests of any mortgagee to whom notice has not been given in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.[ 1961 c 250 § 8; 1929 c 125 § 13; RRS § 2778-5. Prior: 1921 c 150 § 5. FORMER PART OF SECTION: 1925 c 125 § 14 now codified in RCW 17.04.230.]