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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.14 - Planting Stock. › 15.14.065 - Acceptance as certified, registered, foundation, or breeder planting stock.

RCW 15.14.065
Acceptance as certified, registered, foundation, or breeder planting stock.
The director may accept as certified, registered, foundation, or breeder planting stock any planting stock grown or produced by Washington State University, the United States department of agriculture or other propagators whose plant materials are produced in conformance with the requirements of this chapter and rules adopted under this chapter.
[ 1999 c 144 § 7; 1961 c 83 § 11. Formerly RCW 15.14.110.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.14 - Planting Stock. › 15.14.075 - Agreements with Washington State University, governmental entities, and other organizations.

RCW 15.14.075
Agreements with Washington State University, governmental entities, and other organizations.
The director may cooperate with and enter into agreements with Washington State University, the United States department of agriculture, other state and federal agencies, and any other organization in order to carry out the purposes and provisions of this chapter.
[ 1999 c 144 § 8; 1961 c 83 § 12. Formerly RCW 15.14.120.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.14 - Planting Stock. › 15.14.085 - Acquisition of property—Use of property.

RCW 15.14.085
Acquisition of property—Use of property.
The director may acquire by gift, grant, or endowment from public or private sources, as may be made in trust or otherwise, for the use and benefit of the purposes of this chapter, real property and any other type property, and expend the same or any income therefrom according to the terms of the gift, grant, or endowment.
[ 1999 c 144 § 9; 1961 c 83 § 4. Formerly RCW 15.14.040.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.14 - Planting Stock. › 15.14.095 - Failure to meet certification requirements—Director's options—Notice—Hearing.

RCW 15.14.095
Failure to meet certification requirements—Director's options—Notice—Hearing.
The director may suspend, cancel, or refuse certification or other approval of any planting stock that fails to meet the certification requirements authorized in this chapter. Upon notice by the director to suspend, cancel, or refuse certification or other approval of any planting stock, a person may request a hearing under chapter 34.05 RCW.
[ 1999 c 144 § 10.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.14 - Planting Stock. › 15.14.105 - Unlawful acts.

RCW 15.14.105
Unlawful acts.
It is unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, hold for sale, label, identify, represent, or to advertise any planting stock as being certified, registered, foundation, or breeder planting stock unless it complies with the requirements of this chapter and rules adopted under this chapter.
[ 1999 c 144 § 11; 1961 c 83 § 14. Formerly RCW 15.14.140.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.14 - Planting Stock. › 15.14.115 - Injunctions.

RCW 15.14.115
Injunctions.
The director may bring an action to enjoin the violation or threatened violation of any provision of this chapter or any rule adopted pursuant to this chapter in the superior court of Thurston county, notwithstanding the existence of other remedies at law.
[ 1961 c 83 § 15. Formerly RCW 15.14.150.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.14 - Planting Stock. › 15.14.125 - Late charge on fee or assessment.

RCW 15.14.125
Late charge on fee or assessment.
A late charge of one and one-half percent per month shall be assessed on the unpaid balance against persons more than thirty days in arrears for any fee or assessment authorized by this chapter.
[ 1999 c 144 § 12.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.14 - Planting Stock. › 15.14.135 - Noncompliance by growers—Director may withhold services.

RCW 15.14.135
Noncompliance by growers—Director may withhold services.
The director may withhold services to growers of planting stock for refusal to comply with the provisions of this chapter or its rules, for nonpayment of fees and assessment moneys owed to the department by law, or for nonpayment of any assessment moneys due to an agricultural commodity commission.
[ 1999 c 144 § 13.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.14 - Planting Stock. › 15.14.145 - Deposit of funds in planting stock certification account—Use.

RCW 15.14.145
Deposit of funds in planting stock certification account—Use.
All the moneys collected under the provisions of this chapter shall be paid to the director and deposited in the planting stock certification account within the agricultural local fund and shall be used only to carry out the purposes and provisions of this chapter.
[ 1999 c 144 § 14; 1961 c 83 § 13. Formerly RCW 15.14.130.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.14 - Planting Stock. › 15.14.900 - Chapter cumulative and nonexclusive.

RCW 15.14.900
Chapter cumulative and nonexclusive.
The provisions of this chapter shall be cumulative and nonexclusive and shall not affect any other remedy.
[ 1961 c 83 § 16.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.15 - Certified Seed Potatoes. › 15.15.005 - Legislative findings.

RCW 15.15.005
Legislative findings.
The legislature finds that the production of high quality certified seed potatoes within the state requires conditions that are as free as possible from insect pests and plant diseases and that ensuring these conditions exist is in the public interest. The legislature further finds that the production of other potatoes intermixed with or in close proximity to a concentrated seed potato production area poses an increased risk of introduction of plant diseases and insect pests.
[ 1997 c 176 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.15 - Certified Seed Potatoes. › 15.15.010 - Restricted seed potato production area—Growers' petition—Department of agriculture—Director—Rules.

RCW 15.15.010
Restricted seed potato production area—Growers' petition—Department of agriculture—Director—Rules.
Growers of seed potatoes, certified in accordance with rules adopted under chapter 15.14 RCW, may submit a petition to the director of the department of agriculture requesting that the director establish a restricted seed potato production area. The petition shall include the proposed geographic boundaries of the restricted seed potato production area, and the types of restrictions that are proposed to apply to the growing of nonseed potatoes. The petition shall contain the signatures of at least fifty percent of the growers of certified seed potatoes who have produced at least fifty percent of the certified seed potatoes within the proposed restricted seed potato production area in each of the two preceding years.
Upon receipt of a petition submitted in accordance with this section, the director of the department of agriculture shall, within sixty days of receipt of the petition, investigate the need of establishing a restricted seed potato production area. The director may propose rules and hold public hearings in the area affected by the proposed rules. The director has the authority to adopt rules in accordance with chapter 34.05 RCW to establish restricted seed potato production areas to prevent the increased exposure to plant diseases and insect pests that adversely affect the ability to meet standards for certification of seed potatoes established under chapter 15.14 RCW.
[ 1997 c 176 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.15 - Certified Seed Potatoes. › 15.15.020 - Violation or threatened violation of chapter—Action to enjoin.

RCW 15.15.020
Violation or threatened violation of chapter—Action to enjoin.
The director of the department of agriculture may bring an action to enjoin the violation or threatened violation of any provision of this chapter or any rule made pursuant to this chapter in a court of competent jurisdiction of the county in which such violation occurs or is about to occur.
[ 1997 c 176 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.010 - Purpose.

RCW 15.17.010
Purpose.
The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the fair and orderly marketing of fruits and vegetables in the state of Washington by establishing uniform grades and standards and by providing for the inspection of these products. This chapter is vital to protecting the national and international reputation of fruit and vegetable products grown and shipped from this state and protecting consumers from the sale of inferior and misrepresented fruits and vegetables. This chapter is enacted in the exercise of the police power of this state for the purpose of protecting the immediate and future health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens of this state.
[ 1998 c 154 § 1; 1963 c 122 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.030 - Enforcement—Director's duties—Rules.

RCW 15.17.030
Enforcement—Director's duties—Rules.
(1) The director shall enforce and carry out the provisions of this chapter and may adopt the necessary rules to carry out its purpose.
(2) The director shall, whenever he or she considers the adoption of rules or amendments to existing rules, consult with growers, associations of growers or other industry associations, or other persons affected by such rules or amendments.
[ 1998 c 154 § 3; 1963 c 122 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.050 - Rules—Authority of director.

RCW 15.17.050
Rules—Authority of director.
(1) The director shall adopt rules providing standards for apples, apricots, Italian prunes, peaches, sweet cherries, pears, potatoes, and asparagus and may adopt rules providing standards for any other fruit or vegetable. When establishing these standards, the director shall consider the factors of maturity, soundness, color, shape, size, and freedom from mechanical and plant pest injury and other factors important to marketing.
(2) The director shall adopt rules providing for mandatory inspection of apples, apricots, Italian prunes, peaches, sweet cherries, pears, and asparagus and may adopt rules providing for mandatory inspection of any other fruit or vegetable.
(3) The director may adopt rules:
(a) Fixing the sizes and dimensions of containers to be used for the packing or handling of any fruits or vegetables; and
(b) Establishing combination grades for fruits and vegetables. The standards for combination grades shall, by percentage quantities, include two or more of the grades provided for under this chapter.
[ 1998 c 154 § 4; (2004 c 211 § 1 expired December 31, 2009); 1963 c 122 § 5.]
NOTES:
Expiration date—2004 c 211 § 1: "Section 1 of this act expires December 31, 2009." [ 2007 c 237 § 1; 2005 c 234 § 1; 2004 c 211 § 2.]
Effective date—2004 c 211: "This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately [March 29, 2004]." [ 2004 c 211 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.060 - Adoption of standards.

RCW 15.17.060
Adoption of standards.
The director may adopt any United States or other state's standard for any fruits and vegetables, if that standard is determined by the director to be substantially equivalent to or better than the standard adopted under this chapter.
[ 1998 c 154 § 5; 1963 c 122 § 6.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.080 - Fresh fruits—Culls—Basket markings—Designation on bills of lading, invoices, etc.

RCW 15.17.080
Fresh fruits—Culls—Basket markings—Designation on bills of lading, invoices, etc.
It is unlawful for any person to sell for fresh consumption any fresh fruits classified as culls under the provisions of this chapter or rules adopted hereunder unless such fruit is packed in one-half bushel or one bushel wooden baskets ring faced, with the fruit in the ring face representative of the size and quality of the fruit in such baskets. The baskets shall be lidded and the words "cull" including the kind of fruit and variety must appear on the top and side of each basket and on any label in clear and legible letters at least two and one-half inches high. Every bill of lading, invoice, memorandum, and document referring to the fruit shall designate them as culls.
[ 1998 c 154 § 6; 1963 c 122 § 8.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.090 - Private grades or brands—Approval and registration.

RCW 15.17.090
Private grades or brands—Approval and registration.
The director may approve and register a private grade or brand for any fruit or vegetable. The private grade or brand shall not be lower than the second grade and/or classification established under the provisions of this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter for the fruit or vegetable.
[ 1998 c 154 § 7; 1963 c 122 § 9.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.140 - Inspections and certifications—Request for—Fees.

RCW 15.17.140
Inspections and certifications—Request for—Fees.
(1) Any person financially interested in any fruits or vegetables in this state may request inspection and/or certification services provided for those fruits or vegetables under this chapter.
(2) To facilitate the movement or sale of fruits and vegetables or other agricultural commodities, the director may provide, if requested by growers or other interested persons, special inspections or certifications not otherwise authorized under this chapter and shall prescribe a fee for that service.
(3) Persons requesting services shall be responsible for payment of fees for those services prescribed by the director under RCW 15.17.150.
[ 1998 c 154 § 9; 1963 c 122 § 14.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.143 - Certificates of compliance—Petition by shipper—Rules.

RCW 15.17.143
Certificates of compliance—Petition by shipper—Rules.
Any shipper or packer of apples, apricots, cherries, pears, peaches, Italian prunes, potatoes, or asparagus may petition the director for authority to issue certificates of compliance for each season. The director may issue certificate of compliance agreements, granting this authority, on terms and conditions defined by rule. Certificates of compliance shall only be issued for fruits or vegetables that are in full compliance with this chapter and the rules adopted under this chapter.
[ 1998 c 154 § 20.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.150 - Inspections and certifications—Fees adopted by rule—Failure to pay.

RCW 15.17.150
Inspections and certifications—Fees adopted by rule—Failure to pay.
The director shall adopt rules establishing the necessary fees to recover the costs of providing inspection and/or certification or other requested services.
(1) The fees are due and payable upon billing.
(2) A late fee of one and one-half percent per month on the unpaid balance shall be assessed against persons more than thirty days in arrears.
(3) In addition to other penalties, the director may refuse to perform any inspection or certification service provided under this chapter for any person in arrears unless the person makes payment in full prior to such inspection or certification service.
(4) The director may refuse to perform inspection or certification service for any person who has failed to pay assessments required by law to any agricultural commodity commission.
[ 1998 c 154 § 10; 1963 c 122 § 15.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.170 - Inspection certificate or other official document as evidence.

RCW 15.17.170
Inspection certificate or other official document as evidence.
Every inspection certificate or other official document issued by the director under the provisions of this chapter shall be received in all the courts of the state as prima facie evidence of the statements therein.
[ 1998 c 154 § 11; 1963 c 122 § 17.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.190 - Inspections—Right of access—Samples—Denial of access—Search warrants.

RCW 15.17.190
Inspections—Right of access—Samples—Denial of access—Search warrants.
The director may enter during business hours and inspect any facility where any fruits or vegetables are processed, stored, packed, delivered for shipment, loaded, shipped, being transported, or sold, and may inspect all fruits or vegetables and the containers and the equipment in that facility. The director may take for inspection representative samples of fruits or vegetables and containers as may be necessary to determine whether or not this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter have been violated. If the director is denied access to any facility, the director may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for a search warrant authorizing access to the facility. The court may upon such application issue a search warrant for the purpose requested.
[ 1998 c 154 § 12; 1963 c 122 § 19.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.200 - Noncomplying fruits or vegetables—Enforcement procedure—Notice—Hearing.

RCW 15.17.200
Noncomplying fruits or vegetables—Enforcement procedure—Notice—Hearing.
(1) For the purposes of this section, "lot" means any lot or any part of a lot.
(2) When the director determines that any lot of fruits or vegetables fails to comply with the requirements of this chapter, the director may issue a hold order prohibiting the sale or movement of that lot except under conditions that may be prescribed.
(3)(a) Written notice of the hold order must be provided to the person in possession of the lot of fruits or vegetables and a tag may be affixed to the lot or its containers. It is unlawful for any person except the director to alter, deface, or remove the tag or notice or to move or allow the lot of fruits or vegetables to be moved except under the conditions prescribed on the tag or notice.
(b) The notice shall include:
(i) A description of the lot that is in noncompliance;
(ii) The location of the lot;
(iii) The reason that the hold order is placed on the lot;
(iv) Any reconditioning, other corrective measures, or diversion to processing that may be required to release the lot for sale;
(v) Time frames to affect the reconditioning or other corrective measures; and
(vi) A reference to the violation of this chapter that provides the basis for the hold order.
(c) Any corrective measures required by the notice pursuant to (b)(iv) of this subsection and the costs associated therewith are the sole responsibility of the person holding the fruits or vegetables for sale.
(4) Upon issuance of a hold order by the director under this section, the seller or holder of the fruits or vegetables may request a hearing. The request for hearing must be in writing and filed with the director. Any hearing shall be held in conformance with RCW 34.05.422 and 34.05.479.
[ 1998 c 154 § 13; 1987 c 202 § 172; 1963 c 122 § 20.]
NOTES:
Intent—1987 c 202: See note following RCW 2.04.190.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.210 - Fruits or vegetables—Unlawful practices when selling, offering for sale, or shipping—Containers—Director's powers—Rules.

RCW 15.17.210
Fruits or vegetables—Unlawful practices when selling, offering for sale, or shipping—Containers—Director's powers—Rules.
It is unlawful:
(1) To sell any fruits or vegetables:
(a) As meeting the standards for any fruit or vegetable as prescribed by the director unless they in fact do so;
(b) For which no standards have been established under this chapter unless ninety percent or more by weight or count, as determined by the director, are free from plant pest injury that has penetrated or damaged the edible portions and from worms, mold, slime, or decay;
(c) In containers other than the size and dimensions prescribed by the director by rule;
(d) Unless the containers in which the fruits or vegetables are placed or packed are marked with the proper grade and additional information as may be prescribed by rule. The additional information may include:
(i) The name and address of the grower, or packer, or distributor;
(ii) The varieties of the fruits or vegetables;
(iii) The size, weight, and either volume or count, or both, of the fruits or vegetables;
(e) Which are in containers marked or advertised for sale or sold as being either graded or classified, or both, according to the standards prescribed by the director by rule unless the fruits or vegetables conform with the standards;
(f) Which are deceptively packed;
(g) Which are deceptively arranged or displayed;
(h) Which are mislabeled; or
(i) Which do not conform to this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter;
(2) For any person to ship or transport or any carrier to accept any lot of fruits or vegetables without an inspection certificate, permit, or certificate of compliance when the director has prescribed by rule that such products be accompanied by an inspection certificate, permit, or certificate of compliance. The inspection certificate, permit, or certificate of compliance shall be on a form prescribed by the director and may include methods of denoting that all assessments provided for by law have been paid before the fruits or vegetables may lawfully be delivered or accepted for shipment;
(3) For any person to refuse to submit any container, load, or display of fruits or vegetables for inspection by the director, or refuse to stop any vehicle or equipment containing such products for the purpose of inspection by the director;
(4) For any person to move any fruits or vegetables or their containers to which any tag has been affixed, except as provided in RCW 15.17.200; or
(5) After October 1st of any calendar year, for any person to sell containers of apples, containing apples harvested in a prior calendar year, to any retailer or wholesaler for the purpose of resale to the public for fresh consumption.
[ 2002 c 316 § 1; 1998 c 154 § 14; 1994 c 67 § 2; 1963 c 122 § 21.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.213 - Exemption of certain fruits or vegetables from chapter.

RCW 15.17.213
Exemption of certain fruits or vegetables from chapter.
(1) This chapter does not apply:
(a) To the movement in bulk of any fruits or vegetables from the premises where they are grown or produced to a packing shed, warehouse, or processing plant for the purpose of storing, grading, packing, labeling, or processing prior to entering commercial channels for wholesale or retail sale;
(b) To any processed, canned, frozen, or dehydrated fruits or vegetables;
(c) To any infected or infested fruits or vegetables to be manufactured into by-products or to be shipped to a by-products plant; or
(d) To the sale of up to five hundred pounds per day of any fruit or vegetable by any producer or handler directly to an individual ultimate consumer unless otherwise established by rule for an individual commodity. These fruits and vegetables shall meet the requirements of RCW 15.17.210(1)(b).
(2) The inspection requirements of this chapter do not apply to the sale or transportation within a zone of production, as defined by rule, of any fruit or vegetable named in RCW 15.17.050(1) or any combination of those fruits and vegetables to a fruit or produce stand or farmers market in a quantity specified by the director by rule.
[ 1998 c 154 § 8; 1963 c 122 § 13. Formerly RCW 15.17.130.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.240 - Fruit and vegetable inspection account—Fees—Rules.

RCW 15.17.240
Fruit and vegetable inspection account—Fees—Rules.
(1) The fruit and vegetable inspection account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All fees collected under this chapter must be deposited into the account. The director may authorize expenditures from the account solely for the implementation and enforcement of this chapter and any other expenditures authorized by statute or session law and applying specifically to the account. The account is subject to allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW, but an appropriation is not required for expenditures.
(2) By August 1, 2004, and by August 1st of each even-numbered year thereafter, the director shall review the balance in the fruit and vegetable inspection account at the end of the previous fiscal year. If the balance in the account exceeds the sum of the following: An amount equal to the total expenditures of the program served by that account for the last six months of that previous fiscal year; any budgeted capital expenditures from the account for the current fiscal year; and six hundred thousand dollars, the director shall temporarily and equally, on a percentage basis, reduce each of the fees accruing to the account until such time that the account has a balance equal to the amount of the total expenditures from the account for the last seven months of the previous fiscal year, at which time the fees shall be returned to the amounts before the temporary reduction. In making the reductions, the director shall attempt to reduce fees for a twelve-month period so as to apply the reductions to as many of the persons who annually pay fees for services provided by the program. The temporary fee reductions shall be initially provided through the adoption of emergency rules. The emergency and subsequent rules temporarily reducing the fees are exempt from the requirements of RCW 34.05.310 and chapter 19.85 RCW. These fees shall be reinstated through the expiration of the rules temporarily reducing them and the authority to reinstate them is hereby granted.
[ 2016 c 229 § 1; 2002 c 322 § 2; 1998 c 154 § 16; 1975 c 40 § 3; 1963 c 122 § 24.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2002 c 322: "This act takes effect July 1, 2002. However, the director of the department of agriculture and the state treasurer may take actions before July 1, 2002, to permit the creation of the fruit and vegetable inspection account and the district accounts described in RCW 15.17.240 by July 1, 2002." [ 2002 c 322 § 8.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.260 - Injunctions.

RCW 15.17.260
Injunctions.
The director may bring an action to enjoin the violation of any provision of this chapter or rule adopted pursuant to this chapter in the superior court of Thurston county or of any county in which such violation occurs, notwithstanding the existence of other remedies at law.
[ 1998 c 154 § 17; 1963 c 122 § 26.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.270 - Cooperation with governmental agencies.

RCW 15.17.270
Cooperation with governmental agencies.
The director may cooperate with and enter into agreements with governmental agencies of this state, other states, and agencies of federal government in order to carry out the purpose and provisions of this chapter.
[ 1963 c 122 § 31.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.290 - Violation of chapter or rules—Suspension—Civil penalty.

RCW 15.17.290
Violation of chapter or rules—Suspension—Civil penalty.
Any person who violates this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter may be subject to:
(1) Suspension of any compliance agreement under this chapter to which the person is a party for a period not to exceed twelve consecutive months; and/or
(2) A civil penalty in an amount of not more than one thousand dollars for each violation.
[ 1998 c 154 § 18; 1963 c 122 § 30.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.17 - Standards of Grades and Packs. › 15.17.900 - Provisions cumulative and nonexclusive.

RCW 15.17.900
Provisions cumulative and nonexclusive.
The provisions of this chapter shall be cumulative and nonexclusive and shall not affect any other remedy.
[ 1963 c 122 § 27.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.19 - Ginseng. › 15.19.010 - Definitions.

RCW 15.19.010
Definitions.
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Department" means the department of agriculture of the state of Washington.
(2) "Director" means the director of the department or his or her duly authorized representative.
(3) "Facility" means, but is not limited to, the premises where ginseng is grown, stored, dried, handled, or delivered for sale or transportation, or where records required by rule under this chapter are stored or kept, and all vehicles and equipment, whether aerial or surface, used to transport ginseng.
(4) "Grower" means a person who grows cultivated, wild simulated, and/or woodsgrown American ginseng and sells it to a dealer.
(5) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, society, or association, and every officer, agent, or employee thereof.
[ 1998 c 154 § 21.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.19 - Ginseng. › 15.19.030 - Adoption of rules.

RCW 15.19.030
Adoption of rules.
In addition to the powers conferred on the director under this chapter, the director has the power to adopt rules:
(1) Establishing certification requirements for American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.).
Certification factors include:
(a) Place of origin;
(b) Whether the ginseng is wild or cultivated;
(c) Weight; and
(d) Date of harvest;
and may include whether the ginseng meets requirements for freedom from infestation by plant pests as required by the importing country;
(2) Requiring the registration of ginseng growers and of dealers who purchase and/or sell American ginseng for the purpose of foreign export; and
(3) Requiring that records be maintained by ginseng growers and by dealers who purchase or sell American ginseng for the purpose of foreign export.
The director may adopt any other rules necessary to comply with the requirements of the convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora (27 U.S.T. 108); the endangered species act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. Sec. 1531 et seq.); and 50 C.F.R. Part 23 (1995), as they existed on June 6, 1996, or a subsequent date as may be provided by rule, consistent with the purposes of this section.
[ 1998 c 154 § 23.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.19 - Ginseng. › 15.19.040 - Fees established by rule—Deposit—Use—Failure to pay.

RCW 15.19.040
Fees established by rule—Deposit—Use—Failure to pay.
(1) The director shall adopt rules establishing fees to recover the costs of providing ginseng certification activities authorized under this chapter. All moneys collected under this chapter shall be paid to the director, deposited in an account within the agricultural local fund, and used solely for carrying out the purposes of this chapter and rules adopted under this chapter.
(2) In addition to other penalties, the director may refuse to perform any inspection or certification service authorized under this chapter for any person in arrears unless the person makes payment in full prior to performing the service.
[ 1998 c 154 § 24.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.19 - Ginseng. › 15.19.050 - Inspection of facility—Entry—Samples—Search warrant.

RCW 15.19.050
Inspection of facility—Entry—Samples—Search warrant.
The director may enter at reasonable times as determined by the director and inspect any facility and any records required under this chapter. The director may take for inspection those representative samples of ginseng necessary to determine whether or not this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter have been violated. If the director is denied access to any facility or records, the director may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for a search warrant authorizing access to the facility or records. The court may upon such application issue a search warrant for the purpose requested.
[ 1998 c 154 § 25.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.19 - Ginseng. › 15.19.060 - Injunctions.

RCW 15.19.060
Injunctions.
The director may bring an action to enjoin any violation of this chapter or rule adopted under this chapter in the superior court of Thurston county or of any county in which a violation occurs, notwithstanding the existence of other remedies at law.
[ 1998 c 154 § 26.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.19 - Ginseng. › 15.19.070 - Cooperative agency agreements.

RCW 15.19.070
Cooperative agency agreements.
The director may cooperate with and enter into agreements with governmental agencies of this state, other states, and agencies of the federal government in order to carry out the purpose and provisions of this chapter.
[ 1998 c 154 § 27.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.19 - Ginseng. › 15.19.080 - Public disclosure of information—Exemption.

RCW 15.19.080
Public disclosure of information—Exemption.
The department shall not disclose information obtained under this chapter regarding the purchases, sales, or production of an individual American ginseng grower or dealer, except for providing reports to the United States fish and wildlife service. This information is exempt from public disclosure required by chapter 42.56 RCW.
[ 2005 c 274 § 211; 1998 c 154 § 28.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.19 - Ginseng. › 15.19.090 - Violations of chapter or rules—Unlawful.

RCW 15.19.090
Violations of chapter or rules—Unlawful.
It is unlawful for a person to sell, offer for sale, hold for sale, or ship or transport American ginseng for foreign export in violation of this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter.
[ 1998 c 154 § 29.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.19 - Ginseng. › 15.19.100 - Violations of chapter or rules—Penalties.

RCW 15.19.100
Violations of chapter or rules—Penalties.
Any person who violates the provisions of this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter may be subject to:
(1) A civil penalty in an amount of not more than one thousand dollars for each violation; and/or
(2) Denial, revocation, or suspension of any registration or application for registration issued under this chapter. Upon notice by the director to deny, revoke, or suspend a registration or application for registration, a person may request a hearing under chapter 34.05 RCW.
[ 1998 c 154 § 30.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.21 - Washington Fresh Fruit Sales Limitation Act. › 15.21.010 - Declaration of purpose.

RCW 15.21.010
Declaration of purpose.
Limitations or restrictions placed on the buyer by the seller offering fresh fruit for sale as to the amount that such prospective buyer may purchase of the total amount of such fresh fruit owned, possessed or controlled by the seller, may lead to or cause confusion, deceptive trade practices, and interfere with the orderly marketing of fresh fruit necessary for the public health and welfare, and is hereby declared to be a business affected with the public interest. The provisions of this chapter are enacted in the exercise of the police powers of the state for the purpose of protecting the general health and welfare of the people of this state.
[ 1965 c 61 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.21 - Washington Fresh Fruit Sales Limitation Act. › 15.21.020 - Unlawful practices.

RCW 15.21.020
Unlawful practices.
It shall be unlawful to cause a limitation to be placed on the amount of fresh fruit that a purchaser may buy at retail or wholesale when such fresh fruit is offered for sale, through any media, below cost to the seller. The foregoing shall apply to all such fresh fruit offered for sale below cost and owned, possessed or controlled by such seller.
[ 1965 c 61 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.21 - Washington Fresh Fruit Sales Limitation Act. › 15.21.030 - Cost.

RCW 15.21.030
Cost.
Cost for the purpose of this chapter, shall be that price paid for fresh fruit by the seller or the actual replacement cost for such fresh fruit: PROVIDED, That the delivered invoice price to such seller shall be prima facie evidence of the price paid for such fresh fruit by the seller.
[ 1965 c 61 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.21 - Washington Fresh Fruit Sales Limitation Act. › 15.21.040 - Combination sales.

RCW 15.21.040
Combination sales.
When one or more items are offered for sale or sold with one or more items at a combined price, or offered individually or as a package or a unit to be given with the sale of one or more items, each and all such items shall for the purpose of this chapter be deemed to be offered for sale, and as to such transaction the cost basis shall be the combined cost basis of all such items as determined pursuant to RCW 15.21.030.
[ 1965 c 61 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.21 - Washington Fresh Fruit Sales Limitation Act. › 15.21.050 - Injunction.

RCW 15.21.050
Injunction.
Any person, prosecuting attorney, or the attorney general may bring an action to enjoin the violation or threatened violation of the provisions of this chapter in the superior court in the county where such violation occurs or is about to occur, notwithstanding the existence of any other remedies at law.
[ 1965 c 61 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.21 - Washington Fresh Fruit Sales Limitation Act. › 15.21.060 - Penalties.

RCW 15.21.060
Penalties.
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, any person violating the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(2) A second or subsequent violation is a gross misdemeanor. Any offense committed more than five years after a previous conviction shall be considered a first offense.
[ 2003 c 53 § 103; 1965 c 61 § 6.]
NOTES:
Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.21 - Washington Fresh Fruit Sales Limitation Act. › 15.21.070 - Exempt sales.

RCW 15.21.070
Exempt sales.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the following sales at retail or sales at wholesale:
(1) When fresh fruit is sold for charitable purposes or to relief agencies;
(2) When fresh fruit is sold on contract to departments of the government or governmental institutions;
(3) When fresh fruit is sold by any officer acting under the order or direction of any court.
[ 1965 c 61 § 7.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.24 - Washington Apple Commission. › 15.24.010 - Definitions.

RCW 15.24.010
Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Commission" means the Washington apple commission;
(2) "Crop year" means the year in which apples are harvested and is designated for those apples based on the date of harvest regardless of when they are subsequently packed or shipped;
(3) "Dealer" means any person who handles, ships, buys, or sells apples, or who acts as sales or purchasing agent, broker, or factor of apples;
(4) "Dealer district No. 1" includes the area of the state north of Interstate 90;
(5) "Dealer district No. 2" includes the area of the state south of Interstate 90;
(6) "Director" means the director of the department of agriculture or his or her duly authorized representative;
(7) "Executive officer" includes, but is not limited to, the principal management executive, sales manager, general manager, or other executive employee of similar responsibility and authority;
(8) "Fresh apples" means all apples other than processing apples;
(9) "Grower" means a person engaged in the business of producing apples for market in commercial quantities, whether as an individual, corporation, firm, limited liability company, trust, association, partnership, society, or any other organization of individuals;
(10) "Grower district No. 1" includes the counties of Chelan, Okanogan, and Douglas;
(11) "Grower district No. 2" includes the counties of Kittitas, Yakima, Benton, and Franklin;
(12) "Grower district No. 3" includes all counties in the state not included in the first and second districts;
(13) "Handler" means any person who ships or initiates a shipping operation, whether for himself, herself, or for another;
(14) "Processing apples" means all apples delivered to a processing plant for drying, dehydrating, canning, pressing, powdering, extracting, cooking, or for use in producing a product or manufacturing a manufactured article. However, "processing apples" does not include fresh apples sliced or cut for raw consumption;
(15) "Processor" and "processing plant" means every person to whom and every place to which apples are delivered for drying, dehydrating, canning, pressing, powdering, extracting, cooking, or for use in producing a product or manufacturing a manufactured article; and
(16) "Ship" means to load apples into a conveyance for transport, except apples being moved from the orchard where grown to a packing house or warehouse within the immediate area of production.
[ 2016 sp.s. c 15 § 1; 2002 c 313 § 115; 1989 c 354 § 53; 1967 c 240 § 22; 1963 c 145 § 1; 1961 c 11 § 15.24.010. Prior: 1937 c 195 § 2; RRS § 2874-2.]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: The definitions in this section have been alphabetized pursuant to RCW 1.08.015(2)(k).
Effective dates—2002 c 313: See note following RCW 15.65.020.
Severability—1989 c 354: See note following RCW 15.36.012.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.24 - Washington Apple Commission. › 15.24.015 - Commission—Purpose.

RCW 15.24.015
Commission—Purpose.
The commission exists primarily for the benefit of the people of the state of Washington and its economy. The legislature hereby charges the commission, with oversight by the director, to speak on behalf of the Washington state government with regard to apples and apple-related issues.
[ 2004 c 178 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.24 - Washington Apple Commission. › 15.24.020 - Commission created—Generally.

RCW 15.24.020
Commission created—Generally.
There is hereby created a Washington apple commission to be thus known and designated. The commission shall be composed of nine apple growers and four apple dealers. In addition, the director shall be a full voting member of the commission and may in his or her place appoint any other employee of the department of agriculture as a designee to attend commission meetings and otherwise represent the director and exercise the director's vote.
The nine grower members shall be citizens and residents of this state, over the age of twenty-five years, each of whom, either individually or as an executive officer of a corporation, firm or partnership, is and has been actually engaged in growing and producing apples within the state of Washington for a period of five years, currently operates a commercial producing orchard in the district represented, and has during that period derived a substantial portion of his or her income therefrom. The four dealer members shall be persons who, either individually or as executive officers of a corporation, firm, partnership, association, or cooperative organization, are and have been actively engaged as dealers in apples within the state of Washington for a period of five years, and are citizens and residents of this state, and are engaged as apple dealers in the district represented. The qualifications of members of the commission as herein set forth must continue during their term of office. A person who meets the qualifications of both a grower and a dealer as set forth in this section may serve as either a grower member or a dealer member.
[ 2016 sp.s. c 15 § 2; 2004 c 178 § 2; 2002 c 313 § 116; 1989 c 354 § 54; 1967 c 240 § 23; 1963 c 145 § 2; 1961 c 11 § 15.24.020. Prior: 1949 c 191 § 1, part; 1937 c 195 § 3, part; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 2874-3, part.]
NOTES:
Effective dates—2002 c 313: See note following RCW 15.65.020.
Severability—1989 c 354: See note following RCW 15.36.012.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 15 - Agriculture and Marketing › Chapter 15.24 - Washington Apple Commission. › 15.24.030 - Members—Appointment—Terms—District representation—Meetings.

RCW 15.24.030
Members—Appointment—Terms—District representation—Meetings.
Thirteen persons, not including the director or the director's representative, with the qualifications stated in RCW 15.24.020 shall be members of the commission. Nine of the members shall be grower members, and four shall be dealer members. The number of grower members to be appointed from each grower district shall be determined in accordance with the relative acreages of planted commercial apple orchards within the various districts, according to the most recent census of acreages published by the United States department of agriculture, agricultural statistics service. The number of grower members to be appointed from each of the grower districts shall be subject to readjustment every ten years thereafter in accordance with the then most recent census of acreages of planted commercial apple orchards published by the United States department of agriculture, agricultural statistics service. In the event the information from the United States department of agriculture's agricultural statistics service is not published with respect to the specifically defined districts, the commission shall adopt rules to establish equitable apportionment based on the available information. However, at all times at least two grower members shall be from district 1, one of which shall be from Okanogan county; district 2 shall never have fewer than two grower members; and district 3 shall never have fewer than one grower member. The commission shall adopt rules to effect the efficient transition of reapportioned positions.
The regular term of office of the members of the commission shall be three years from March 1st following their appointment by the director and until their successors are appointed. The commission shall hold its annual meeting during the month of March each year and shall hold such other meetings during the year as it shall determine. The first commission meeting that takes place after June 10, 2004, shall be held in Wenatchee, and subsequent commission meetings shall alternate between Yakima and Wenatchee.
[ 2016 sp.s. c 15 § 3; 2004 c 178 § 3; 1989 c 354 § 55; 1967 c 240 § 24; 1963 c 145 § 3; 1961 c 11 § 15.24.030. Prior: 1949 c 191 § 1, part; 1937 c 195 § 3, part; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 2874-3, part.]
NOTES:
Severability—1989 c 354: See note following RCW 15.36.012.