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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.41 - Firearms and Dangerous Weapons. › 9.41.330 - Felony firearm offenders—Determination of registration.

RCW 9.41.330
Felony firearm offenders—Determination of registration.
(1) On or after June 9, 2016, except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, whenever a defendant in this state is convicted of a felony firearm offense or found not guilty by reason of insanity of any felony firearm offense, the court must consider whether to impose a requirement that the person comply with the registration requirements of RCW 9.41.333 and may, in its discretion, impose such a requirement.
(2) In determining whether to require the person to register, the court shall consider all relevant factors including, but not limited to:
(a) The person's criminal history;
(b) Whether the person has previously been found not guilty by reason of insanity of any offense in this state or elsewhere; and
(c) Evidence of the person's propensity for violence that would likely endanger persons.
(3) When a person is convicted of a felony firearm offense or found not guilty by reason of insanity of any felony firearm offense that was committed in conjunction with any of the following offenses, the court must impose a requirement that the person comply with the registration requirements of RCW 9.41.333:
(a) An offense involving sexual motivation;
(b) An offense committed against a child under the age of eighteen; or
(c) A serious violent offense.
(4) For purposes of this section, "sexual motivation" and "serious violent offense" are defined as in RCW 9.94A.030.
[ 2016 c 94 § 1; 2013 c 183 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.41 - Firearms and Dangerous Weapons. › 9.41.333 - Duty to register—Requirements.

RCW 9.41.333
Duty to register—Requirements.
(1) Any adult or juvenile residing, whether or not the person has a fixed residence, in this state who has been required by a court to comply with the registration requirements of this section shall personally register with the county sheriff for the county of the person's residence.
(2) A person required to register under this section must provide the following information when registering:
(a) Name and any aliases used;
(b) Complete and accurate residence address or, if the person lacks a fixed residence, where he or she plans to stay;
(c) Identifying information of the gun offender, including a physical description;
(d) The offense for which the person was convicted;
(e) Date and place of conviction; and
(f) The names of any other county where the offender has registered pursuant to this section.
(3) The county sheriff may require the offender to provide documentation that verifies the contents of his or her registration.
(4) The county sheriff may take the offender's photograph or fingerprints for the inclusion of such record in the registration.
(5) Felony firearm offenders shall register with the county sheriff not later than forty-eight hours after:
(a) The date of release from custody, as a result of the felony firearm offense, of the state department of corrections, the state department of social and health services, a local division of youth services, or a local jail or juvenile detention facility; or
(b) The date the court imposes the felony firearm offender's sentence, if the offender receives a sentence that does not include confinement.
(6)(a) Except as described in (b) of this subsection, the felony firearm offender shall register with the county sheriff not later than twenty days after each twelve-month anniversary of the date the offender is first required to register, as described in subsection (5) of this section.
(b) If the felony firearm offender is confined to any correctional institution, state institution or facility, or health care facility throughout the twenty-day period described in (a) of this subsection, the offender shall personally appear before the county sheriff not later than forty-eight hours after release to verify and update, as appropriate, his or her registration.
(7) If the felony firearm offender changes his or her residence address and his or her new residence address is within this state, the offender shall personally register with the county sheriff for the county of the person's residence not later than forty-eight hours after the change of address. If the offender's residence address is within the same county as the offender's immediately preceding address, the offender shall update the contents of his or her current registration.
(8) The duty to register shall continue for a period of four years from the date the offender is first required to register, as described in subsection (5) of this section.
[ 2013 c 183 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.41 - Firearms and Dangerous Weapons. › 9.41.335 - Failure to register as felony firearm offender.

RCW 9.41.335
Failure to register as felony firearm offender.
(1) A person commits the crime of failure to register as a felony firearm offender if the person has a duty to register under RCW 9.41.333 and knowingly fails to comply with any of the requirements of RCW 9.41.333.
(2) Failure to register as a felony firearm offender is a gross misdemeanor.
[ 2013 c 183 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.41 - Firearms and Dangerous Weapons. › 9.41.340 - Return of privately owned firearm by law enforcement agency—Notification—Exception—Exemption from public disclosure—Civil liability—Liability for request based on false information.

RCW 9.41.340
Return of privately owned firearm by law enforcement agency—Notification—Exception—Exemption from public disclosure—Civil liability—Liability for request based on false information.
(1)(a) Each law enforcement agency shall develop a notification protocol that:
(i) Allows a family or household member or intimate partner to use an incident or case number to request to be notified when a law enforcement agency returns a privately owned firearm to the individual from whom it was obtained or to an authorized representative of that person; and
(ii) Requires notification to any person identified in a no-contact order, restraining order, or protection order and any identified victim of the crime that resulted in the firearm surrender.
(b)(i) Notification may be made via telephone, email, text message, or another method that allows notification to be provided without unnecessary delay.
(ii) If a law enforcement agency is in possession of more than one privately owned firearm from an individual, notification relating to the return of one firearm shall be considered notification for all privately owned firearms for that person.
(2) A law enforcement agency shall not provide notification to any party other than another criminal justice agency or as authorized or required under subsection (1) of this section.
(3) The information provided by a family or household member or intimate partner pursuant to chapter 130, Laws of 2015, including the existence of the request for notification, is not subject to public disclosure pursuant to chapter 42.56 RCW.
(4) An appointed or elected official, public employee, or public agency as defined in RCW 4.24.470, or combination of units of local government and its employees, as provided in RCW 36.28A.010, are immune from civil liability for damages for any release of information or the failure to release information related to this section, so long as the release or failure was without gross negligence.
(5) An individual who knowingly makes a request for notification under this section based on false information may be held liable under RCW 9A.76.175.
[ 2023 c 462 § 401; 2020 c 29 § 5; 2015 c 130 § 1.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2020 c 29: See note following RCW 7.77.060.
Short title—2015 c 130: "This act may be known and cited as the Sheena Henderson act." [ 2015 c 130 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.41 - Firearms and Dangerous Weapons. › 9.41.352 - Voluntary waiver of firearm rights—Form—Availability.

RCW 9.41.352
Voluntary waiver of firearm rights—Form—Availability.
(1) The administrator for the courts, under the direction of the chief justice, shall develop a voluntary waiver of firearm rights form and a revocation of voluntary waiver of firearm rights form by January 1, 2019.
(2) The forms must include all of the information necessary for identification and entry of the person into the national instant criminal background check system, and any other federal or state computer-based systems used by law enforcement agencies or others to identify prohibited purchasers of firearms. The voluntary waiver of firearm rights form must include the following language:
Because you have filed this voluntary waiver of firearm rights, effective immediately you may not purchase, receive, control, or possess any firearm. You may revoke this voluntary waiver of firearm rights any time after at least seven calendar days have elapsed since the time of filing.
(3) The forms must be made available on the administrator for the courts website, at all county clerk offices, and must also be made widely available at firearm and ammunition dealers and health care provider locations.
[ 2023 c 262 § 4; 2018 c 145 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.41 - Firearms and Dangerous Weapons. › 9.41.354 - Voluntary waiver of firearm rights—Health professionals.

RCW 9.41.354
Voluntary waiver of firearm rights—Health professionals.
Mental health professionals and substance use disorder professionals are encouraged to discuss the voluntary waiver of firearm rights with their patients if the mental health professional or substance use disorder professional reasonably believes that a discussion will avoid or minimize an imminent danger to the health or safety of the individual or any other individual; however, there is no obligation to do so.
[ 2023 c 262 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.41 - Firearms and Dangerous Weapons. › 9.41.365 - Firearm security and storage—Requirements for dealers.

RCW 9.41.365
Firearm security and storage—Requirements for dealers.
(1) When selling or transferring any firearm, every dealer shall offer to sell or give the purchaser or transferee a secure gun storage device, or a trigger lock or similar device that is designed to prevent the unauthorized use or discharge of the firearm.
(2) Every store, shop, or sales outlet where firearms are sold, that is registered as a dealer in firearms with the department of licensing, shall conspicuously post, in a prominent location so that all patrons may take notice, the following warning sign, to be provided by the department of licensing, in block letters at least one inch in height:
WARNING: YOU MAY FACE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION IF YOU STORE OR LEAVE AN UNSECURED FIREARM WHERE A PERSON WHO IS PROHIBITED FROM POSSESSING FIREARMS CAN AND DOES OBTAIN POSSESSION.
(3) Every store, shop, or sales outlet where firearms are sold that is registered as a dealer in firearms with the department of licensing, upon the sale or transfer of a firearm, shall deliver a written warning to the purchaser or transferee that states, in block letters not less than one-fourth inch in height:
WARNING: YOU MAY FACE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION IF YOU STORE OR LEAVE AN UNSECURED FIREARM WHERE A PERSON WHO IS PROHIBITED FROM POSSESSING FIREARMS CAN AND DOES OBTAIN POSSESSION.
(4) Every person who violates this section is guilty of a class 1 civil infraction under chapter 7.80 RCW and may be fined up to two hundred fifty dollars. However, no such fines may be levied until thirty days have expired from the time warning signs required under subsection (2) of this section are distributed by the department of licensing.
[ 2019 c 3 § 6 (Initiative Measure No. 1639, approved November 6, 2018).]
NOTES:
Finding—Short title—Effective dates—Implementation—2019 c 3 (Initiative Measure No. 1639): See notes following RCW 9.41.360.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.41 - Firearms and Dangerous Weapons. › 9.41.370 - Large capacity magazines—Exceptions—Penalty.

RCW 9.41.370
Large capacity magazines—Exceptions—Penalty.
(1) No person in this state may manufacture, import, distribute, sell, or offer for sale any large capacity magazine, except as authorized in this section.
(2) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to any of the following:
(a) The manufacture, importation, distribution, offer for sale, or sale of a large capacity magazine by a licensed firearms manufacturer for the purposes of sale to any branch of the armed forces of the United States or the state of Washington, or to a law enforcement agency in this state for use by that agency or its employees for law enforcement purposes;
(b) The importation, distribution, offer for sale, or sale of a large capacity magazine by a dealer that is properly licensed under federal and state law for the purpose of sale to any branch of the armed forces of the United States or the state of Washington, or to a law enforcement agency in this state for use by that agency or its employees for law enforcement purposes;
(c) The distribution, offer for sale, or sale of a large capacity magazine to or by a dealer that is properly licensed under federal and state law where the dealer acquires the large capacity magazine from a person legally authorized to possess or transfer the large capacity magazine for the purpose of selling or transferring the large capacity magazine to a person who does not reside in this state.
(3) A person who violates this section is guilty of a gross misdemeanor punishable under chapter 9A.20 RCW.
[ 2022 c 104 § 3.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—Effective date—2022 c 104: See notes following RCW 9.41.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.41 - Firearms and Dangerous Weapons. › 9.41.375 - Large capacity magazines—Unfair method of competition.

RCW 9.41.375
Large capacity magazines—Unfair method of competition.
Distributing, selling, offering for sale, or facilitating the sale, distribution, or transfer of a large capacity magazine online is an unfair or deceptive act or practice or unfair method of competition in the conduct of trade or commerce for purposes of the consumer protection act, chapter 19.86 RCW.
[ 2022 c 104 § 4.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—Effective date—2022 c 104: See notes following RCW 9.41.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.41 - Firearms and Dangerous Weapons. › 9.41.380 - Safe storage of firearms expansion encouraged—No special relationship created by dealer storage.

RCW 9.41.380
Safe storage of firearms expansion encouraged—No special relationship created by dealer storage.
(1) In order to better prevent suicide by veterans, military members, and their families, an expansion of safe storage of firearms and reduced access to lethal means in the community is encouraged.
(2) A dealer who provides a service of allowing a person to temporarily store a firearm on the dealer's premises in a storage locker, box, or container that is locked and not accessible to the dealer does not thereby create a special relationship, for civil liability purposes, between the dealer and the person who temporarily stores the firearm on the dealer's premises.
[ 2022 c 191 § 10.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—2022 c 191: See note following RCW 43.60A.260.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.41 - Firearms and Dangerous Weapons. › 9.41.395 - Assault weapons—Consumer protection act.

RCW 9.41.395
Assault weapons—Consumer protection act.
(1) The legislature finds that manufacturing, importing, distributing, selling, or offering for sale any assault weapon in violation of RCW 9.41.390 are matters vitally affecting the public interest for the purpose of applying the consumer protection act, chapter 19.86 RCW; are not reasonable in relation to the development and preservation of business; and constitutes an unfair or deceptive act in trade or commerce and an unfair method of competition for the purpose of applying the consumer protection act, chapter 19.86 RCW.
(2) A violation of RCW 9.41.390 is an unfair or deceptive act or practice or unfair method of competition in the conduct of trade or commerce for purposes of the consumer protection act, chapter 19.86 RCW.
(3) Any person or entity that receives a civil investigative demand issued pursuant to RCW 19.86.110 and that has an objection to answering in whole or in part may avail themselves of the procedural protections afforded in RCW 19.86.110(8). Further, the attorney general shall not share with a law enforcement agency conducting a criminal investigation any materials or information obtained via a response to a civil investigative demand issued pursuant to RCW 19.86.110 unless such information or materials are required to be disclosed pursuant to issuance of a search warrant.
[ 2023 c 162 § 4.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—Effective date—2023 c 162: See notes following RCW 9.41.390.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.41 - Firearms and Dangerous Weapons. › 9.41.802 - Proof of surrender and receipt pattern form—Declaration of nonsurrender pattern form—Administrative office of the courts to develop.

RCW 9.41.802
Proof of surrender and receipt pattern form—Declaration of nonsurrender pattern form—Administrative office of the courts to develop.
By December 1, 2014, the administrative office of the courts shall develop a proof of surrender and receipt pattern form to be used to document that a respondent has complied with a requirement to surrender firearms, dangerous weapons, and his or her concealed pistol license, as ordered by a court under RCW 9.41.800. The administrative office of the courts must also develop a declaration of nonsurrender pattern form to document compliance when the respondent has no firearms, dangerous weapons, or concealed pistol license.
[ 2014 c 111 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.41 - Firearms and Dangerous Weapons. › 9.41.804 - Proof of surrender and receipt form, declaration, or other evidence—Requirement to file with clerk of the court.

RCW 9.41.804
Proof of surrender and receipt form, declaration, or other evidence—Requirement to file with clerk of the court.
(1) To prove full compliance with the court's order to surrender firearms, dangerous weapons, and any concealed pistol license under RCW 9.41.800 the person subject to the order must file with the clerk of the court: (a) A completed proof of surrender and receipt form; (b) a declaration that the person has no firearms, dangerous weapons, or concealed pistol license; or (c) other evidence sufficient to establish full and timely compliance with the order.
(2) The verification of compliance required in subsection (1) of this section must be provided to the court within 24 hours of service of the order, unless the order is pursuant to a criminal proceeding. In a criminal proceeding, if the person subject to the order is in custody, proof of compliance must be provided to the court before the person subject to the order is released from custody; otherwise, proof of compliance must be provided before the conclusion of the sentencing hearing. If the court finds that surrender of all firearms, dangerous weapons, and any concealed pistol license is not possible prior to release or prior to the conclusion of the hearing, then arrangements for surrender shall be made and approved by the court before the person's release from custody or before the conclusion of the sentencing hearing, and the court shall order a law enforcement officer to accompany the person to the location where the firearms, dangerous weapons, and concealed pistol license are located so that they are surrendered directly to the law enforcement officer. Surrender to local law enforcement shall occur in a safe manner and proof of compliance provided by law enforcement to the court within 24 hours of either the person's release from custody or the conclusion of the sentencing hearing.
(3) By December 30, 2023, the administrative office of the courts shall develop and distribute any new or updated forms necessary to implement subsections (1) and (2) of this section, and other sections of chapter 462, Laws of 2023 where a form needs to be created or updated.
[ 2023 c 462 § 404; 2014 c 111 § 5.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2014 c 111 § 5: "Section 5 of this act takes effect December 1, 2014." [ 2014 c 111 § 7.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.41 - Firearms and Dangerous Weapons. › 9.41.810 - Penalty.

RCW 9.41.810
Penalty.
Any violation of any provision of this chapter, except as otherwise provided, shall be a misdemeanor and punishable accordingly.
[ 1984 c 258 § 312; 1983 c 232 § 11; 1983 c 3 § 7; 1961 c 124 § 12; 1935 c 172 § 16; RRS § 2516-16. Formerly RCW 9.41.160.]
NOTES:
Court Improvement Act of 1984—Effective dates—Severability—Short title—1984 c 258: See notes following RCW 3.30.010.
Intent—1984 c 258: See note following RCW 3.34.130.
Severability—1983 c 232: See note following RCW 9.41.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.41 - Firearms and Dangerous Weapons. › 9.41.815 - Surrender of weapons or licenses—Ensuring compliance—Information sharing.

RCW 9.41.815
Surrender of weapons or licenses—Ensuring compliance—Information sharing.
For the purpose of assisting courts in ensuring compliance with an order to surrender and prohibit weapons or an extreme risk protection order, the department of licensing, or the agency with responsibility for maintaining that information should it be an agency other than the department of licensing, shall make the following information available to prosecuting attorneys' offices, city attorneys' offices, public defender agency staff, probation services personnel, and judicial officers and staff of municipal, district, and superior courts for the following law enforcement purposes:
(1) Determining whether a person is ineligible to possess firearms;
(2) Determining a person's firearms purchase history; and
(3) Determining whether a person has or previously had a concealed pistol license, or has applied for a concealed pistol license.
[ 2021 c 215 § 76.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2022 c 268; 2021 c 215: See note following RCW 7.105.900.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.44 - Petition Misconduct. › 9.44.080 - Misconduct in signing a petition.

RCW 9.44.080
Misconduct in signing a petition.
In a situation not covered by RCW 29A.84.220, 29A.84.230, 29A.84.240, or 29A.84.250, every person who shall willfully sign the name of another person or of a fictitious person, or for any consideration, gratuity or reward shall sign his or her own name to or withdraw his or her name from any referendum or other petition circulated in pursuance of any law of this state or any municipal ordinance; or in signing his or her name to such petition shall willfully subscribe to any false statement concerning his or her age, citizenship, residence or other qualifications to sign the same; or knowing that any such petition contains any such false or wrongful signature or statement, shall file the same, or put the same off with intent that it should be filed, as a true and genuine petition, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[ 2011 c 336 § 297; 1999 c 143 § 4; 1909 c 249 § 337; RRS § 2589.]
NOTES:
Forgery: RCW 9A.60.020.
Initiative and referendum petition forgery: RCW 29A.84.230, 29A.84.250.
Recall petition forgery: RCW 29A.84.240, 29A.84.220.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.45 - Frauds and Swindles. › 9.45.020 - Substitution of child.

RCW 9.45.020
Substitution of child.
Every person to whom a child has been confided for nursing, education or any other purpose, who, with intent to deceive a person, guardian or relative of such child, shall substitute or produce to such parent, guardian or relative, another child or person in the place of the child so confided, is guilty of a class B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than ten years.
[ 2003 c 53 § 29; 1992 c 7 § 9; 1909 c 249 § 123; RRS § 2375.]
NOTES:
Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.45 - Frauds and Swindles. › 9.45.060 - Encumbered, leased, or rented personal property—Construction.

RCW 9.45.060
Encumbered, leased, or rented personal property—Construction.
Every person being in possession thereof, who shall sell, remove, conceal, convert to his or her own use, or destroy or connive at or consent to the sale, removal, conversion, concealment, or destruction of any personal property or any part thereof, upon which a security agreement, mortgage, lien, conditional sales contract, rental agreement, or lease exists, with intent to hinder, delay, or defraud the secured party of such security agreement, or the holder of such mortgage, lien, or conditional sales contract or the lessor under such lease or rentor under such rental agreement, or any assignee of such security agreement, mortgage, lien, conditional sales contract, rental agreement or lease shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
In any prosecution under this section any allegation containing a description of the security agreement, mortgage, lien, conditional sales contract, rental agreement, or lease by reference to the date thereof and names of the parties thereto, shall be sufficiently definite and certain.
The provisions of this section shall be cumulative and nonexclusive and shall not affect any other criminal provision.
[ 2011 c 336 § 298; 1971 c 61 § 1; 1965 ex.s. c 109 § 1; 1909 c 249 § 377; RRS § 2629.]
NOTES:
Destruction or removal of fixtures, etc., from mortgaged real property: RCW 61.12.030.
Larceny, sale of mortgaged property: Chapter 9A.56 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.45 - Frauds and Swindles. › 9.45.070 - Mock auctions.

RCW 9.45.070
Mock auctions.
Every person who shall obtain any money or property from another or shall obtain the signature of another to any writing the false making of which would be forgery, by color or aid of any false or fraudulent sale of property or pretended sale of property by auction, or by any of the practices known as mock auction, shall be punished by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than five years or in the county jail for up to three hundred sixty-four days, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by both fine and imprisonment.
Every person who shall buy or sell or pretend to buy or sell any goods, wares or merchandise, exposed to sale by auction, if an actual sale, purchase and change of ownership therein does not thereupon take place, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[ 2011 c 96 § 6; 1992 c 7 § 10; 1909 c 249 § 378; RRS § 2630.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—2011 c 96: See note following RCW 9A.20.021.
Auctioneering without license: RCW 36.71.070.
Auctioneers: Chapter 18.11 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.45 - Frauds and Swindles. › 9.45.080 - Fraudulent removal of property.

RCW 9.45.080
Fraudulent removal of property.
Every person who, with intent to defraud a prior or subsequent purchaser thereof, or prevent any of his or her property being made liable for the payment of any of his or her debts, or levied upon by an execution or warrant of attachment, shall remove any of his or her property, or secrete, assign, convey, or otherwise dispose of the same, or with intent to defraud a creditor shall remove, secrete, assign, convey, or otherwise dispose of any of his or her books or accounts, vouchers or writings in any way relating to his or her business affairs, or destroy, obliterate, alter, or erase any of such books of account, accounts, vouchers, or writing or any entry, memorandum, or minute therein contained, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
[ 2011 c 336 § 299; 1909 c 249 § 379; RRS § 2631.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.45 - Frauds and Swindles. › 9.45.090 - Knowingly receiving fraudulent conveyance.

RCW 9.45.090
Knowingly receiving fraudulent conveyance.
Every person who shall receive any property or conveyance thereof from another, knowing that the same is transferred or delivered to him or her in violation of, or with the intent to violate RCW 9.45.080, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[ 2011 c 336 § 300; 1909 c 249 § 380; RRS § 2632.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.45 - Frauds and Swindles. › 9.45.100 - Fraud in assignment for benefit of creditors.

RCW 9.45.100
Fraud in assignment for benefit of creditors.
Every person who, having made, or being about to make, a general assignment of his or her property to pay his or her debts, shall by color or aid of any false or fraudulent representation, pretense, token, or writing induce any creditor to participate in the benefits of such assignments, or to give any release or discharge of his or her claim or any part thereof, or shall connive at the payment in whole or in part of any false, fraudulent or fictitious claim, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
[ 2011 c 336 § 301; 1909 c 249 § 381; RRS § 2633.]
NOTES:
Assignment for benefit of creditors: Chapter 7.08 RCW.
Banks and trust companies, preferential transfers: RCW 30A.44.110.
Mutual savings banks, transfer of assets due to insolvency: RCW 32.24.080.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.45 - Frauds and Swindles. › 9.45.122 - Measurement of commodities—Public policy.

RCW 9.45.122
Measurement of commodities—Public policy.
Because of the widespread importance to the marketing of goods, raw materials, and agricultural products such as, but not limited to, grains, timber, logs, wood chips, scrap metal, oil, gas, petroleum products, coal, fish and other commodities, that qualitative and quantitative measurements of such goods, materials and products be accurately and honestly made, it is declared to be the public policy of this state that certain conduct with respect to said measurement be declared unlawful.
[ 1967 c 200 § 1.]
NOTES:
Severability—1967 c 200: "If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this act are declared to be severable." [ 1967 c 200 § 13.]
Weights and measures: Chapter 19.94 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.45 - Frauds and Swindles. › 9.45.124 - Measurement of commodities—Measuring inaccurately—Altering measuring devices—Penalty.

RCW 9.45.124
Measurement of commodities—Measuring inaccurately—Altering measuring devices—Penalty.
Every person, corporation, or association whether profit or nonprofit, who shall ask or receive, or conspire to ask or receive, directly or indirectly, any compensation, gratuity, or reward or any promise thereof, on any agreement or understanding that he or she shall (1) intentionally make an inaccurate visual or mechanical measurement or an intentionally inaccurate recording of any visual or mechanical measurement of goods, raw materials, and agricultural products (whether severed or unsevered from the land) which he or she has or will have the duty to measure, or shall (2) intentionally change, alter or affect, for the purpose of making an inaccurate measurement, any equipment or other device which is designed to measure, either qualitatively or quantitatively, such goods, raw materials, and agricultural products, or shall intentionally alter the recordation of such measurements, is guilty of a class B felony, punishable by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than ten years, or by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or both.
[ 2003 c 53 § 30; 1992 c 7 § 11; 1967 c 200 § 2.]
NOTES:
Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.45 - Frauds and Swindles. › 9.45.126 - Measurement of commodities—Inducing violations—Penalty.

RCW 9.45.126
Measurement of commodities—Inducing violations—Penalty.
Every person who shall give, offer or promise, or conspire to give, offer or promise, directly or indirectly, any compensation, gratuity or reward to any person, corporation, independent contractor, or agent, employee or servant thereof with intent to violate RCW 9.45.124, is guilty of a class B felony, punishable by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than ten years, or by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or both.
[ 2003 c 53 § 31; 1992 c 7 § 12; 1967 c 200 § 3.]
NOTES:
Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.45 - Frauds and Swindles. › 9.45.160 - Fraud in liquor warehouse receipts.

RCW 9.45.160
Fraud in liquor warehouse receipts.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to make, utter, circulate, sell or offer for sale any certificate of any warehouse, distillery or depository for intoxicating liquors unless the identical liquor mentioned in such certificate is in the possession of the warehouse, distillery or depository mentioned in such certificate fully paid for, so that the owners and holder of such certificate will be entitled to obtain such intoxicating liquors without the payment of any additional sum except the tax of the government and the tax of the state, county and city in which such warehouse, distillery or depository may be located, and any storage charges.
[ 1909 c 202 § 1. No RRS.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.45 - Frauds and Swindles. › 9.45.170 - Penalty.

RCW 9.45.170
Penalty.
Any person violating any of the provisions of RCW 9.45.160, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than five years nor less than one year, or imprisonment in the county jail for any length of time not exceeding one year.
[ 1909 c 202 § 2. No RRS.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.45 - Frauds and Swindles. › 9.45.210 - Altering sample or certificate of assay.

RCW 9.45.210
Altering sample or certificate of assay.
Any person who shall interfere with or in any manner change samples of ores or bullion produced for sampling, or change or alter samples or packages of ores or bullion which have been purchased for assaying, or who shall change or alter any certificate of sampling or assaying, with intent to cheat, wrong or defraud, is guilty of a class C felony, punishable by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not less than one year nor more than five years, or by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
[ 2003 c 53 § 32; 1890 p 99 § 2; RRS § 2712.]
NOTES:
Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.45 - Frauds and Swindles. › 9.45.220 - Making false sample or assay of ore.

RCW 9.45.220
Making false sample or assay of ore.
Any person who shall, with intent to cheat, wrong or defraud, make or publish a false sample of ore or bullion, or who shall make or publish or cause to be published a false assay of ore or bullion, is guilty of a class C felony, punishable by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not less than one year nor more than five years, or by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
[ 2003 c 53 § 33; 1890 p 99 § 3; RRS § 2713.]
NOTES:
Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.45 - Frauds and Swindles. › 9.45.260 - Fire protection sprinkler system contractors—Wrongful acts.

RCW 9.45.260
Fire protection sprinkler system contractors—Wrongful acts.
Any fire protection sprinkler system contractor, defined under RCW 18.160.010, who willfully and maliciously constructs, installs, or maintains a fire protection sprinkler system in any structure so as to threaten the safety of any occupant or user of the structure in the event of a fire, is guilty of a class C felony. This section may not be construed to create any criminal liability for a prime contractor or an owner of a structure unless it is proved that the prime contractor or owner had actual knowledge of an illegal construction, installation, or maintenance of a fire protection sprinkler system by a fire protection sprinkler system contractor.
[ 1992 c 116 § 1.]
NOTES:
Fire protection sprinkler system contractors, licensing and regulation: Chapter 18.160 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.45 - Frauds and Swindles. › 9.45.270 - Fraudulent filing of vehicle report of sale.

RCW 9.45.270
Fraudulent filing of vehicle report of sale.
Every person who files a vehicle report of sale without the knowledge of the transferee shall be guilty of fraudulent filing of vehicle report of sale and shall be punished as follows:
(1) Where the victim incurred damages in an amount less than two hundred fifty dollars, the defendant is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
(2) Where the victim incurred damages in an amount exceeding two hundred fifty dollars, the defendant is guilty of a class C felony.
(3) Where the victim incurred damages in an amount exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars, the defendant is guilty of a class B felony.
[ 2006 c 291 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.46 - Gambling—1973 Act. › 9.46.0201 - "Amusement game."

RCW 9.46.0201
"Amusement game."
"Amusement game," as used in this chapter, means a game played for entertainment in which:
(1) The contestant actively participates;
(2) The outcome depends in a material degree upon the skill of the contestant;
(3) Only merchandise prizes are awarded;
(4) The outcome is not in the control of the operator;
(5) The wagers are placed, the winners are determined, and a distribution of prizes or property is made in the presence of all persons placing wagers at such game; and
(6) Said game is conducted or operated by any agricultural fair, person, association, or organization in such manner and at such locations as may be authorized by rules and regulations adopted by the commission pursuant to this chapter as now or hereafter amended.
Cake walks as commonly known and fish ponds as commonly known shall be treated as amusement games for all purposes under this chapter.
[ 1987 c 4 § 2. Formerly RCW 9.46.020(1), part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.46 - Gambling—1973 Act. › 9.46.0205 - "Bingo."

RCW 9.46.0205
"Bingo."
"Bingo," as used in this chapter, means a game in which prizes are awarded on the basis of designated numbers or symbols on a card conforming to numbers or symbols selected at random and in which no cards are sold except at the time and place of the game, when the game is conducted by a bona fide charitable or nonprofit organization, or if an agricultural fair authorized under chapters 15.76 and 36.37 RCW, which does not conduct bingo on more than twelve consecutive days in any calendar year, and except in the case of any agricultural fair as authorized under chapters 15.76 and 36.37 RCW, no person other than a bona fide member or an employee of said organization takes any part in the management or operation of said game, and no person who takes any part in the management or operation of said game takes any part in the management or operation of any game conducted by any other organization or any other branch of the same organization, unless approved by the commission, and no part of the proceeds thereof inure to the benefit of any person other than the organization conducting said game. The bona fide charitable or nonprofit organization must be principally located in the state of Washington and may not be approved for more than three licenses to conduct bingo activities.
[ 2023 c 155 § 1; 2002 c 369 § 1; 1987 c 4 § 3. Formerly RCW 9.46.020(2).]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.46 - Gambling—1973 Act. › 9.46.0213 - "Bookmaking."

RCW 9.46.0213
"Bookmaking."
"Bookmaking," as used in this chapter, means accepting bets, upon the outcome of future contingent events, as a business or in which the bettor is charged a fee or "vigorish" for the opportunity to place a bet.
[ 1991 c 261 § 1; 1987 c 4 § 5. Formerly RCW 9.46.020(4).]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.46 - Gambling—1973 Act. › 9.46.0217 - "Commercial stimulant."

RCW 9.46.0217
"Commercial stimulant."
"Commercial stimulant," as used in this chapter, means an activity is operated as a commercial stimulant, for the purposes of this chapter, only when it is an activity operated in connection with an established business, with the purpose of increasing the volume of sales of food or drink for consumption on that business premises. The commission may by rule establish guidelines and criteria for applying this definition to its applicants and licensees for gambling activities authorized by this chapter as commercial stimulants.
[ 1994 c 120 § 1; 1987 c 4 § 6. Formerly RCW 9.46.020(5).]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.46 - Gambling—1973 Act. › 9.46.0221 - "Commission."

RCW 9.46.0221
"Commission."
"Commission," as used in this chapter, means the Washington state gambling commission created in RCW 9.46.040.
[ 1987 c 4 § 7. Formerly RCW 9.46.020(6).]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.46 - Gambling—1973 Act. › 9.46.0225 - "Contest of chance."

RCW 9.46.0225
"Contest of chance."
"Contest of chance," as used in this chapter, means any contest, game, gaming scheme, or gaming device in which the outcome depends in a material degree upon an element of chance, notwithstanding that skill of the contestants may also be a factor therein.
[ 1987 c 4 § 8. Formerly RCW 9.46.020(7).]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.46 - Gambling—1973 Act. › 9.46.0229 - "Fishing derby."

RCW 9.46.0229
"Fishing derby."
"Fishing derby," as used in this chapter, means a fishing contest, with or without the payment or giving of an entry fee or other consideration by some or all of the contestants, wherein prizes are awarded for the species, size, weight, or quality of fish caught in a bona fide fishing or recreational event.
[ 1987 c 4 § 9. Formerly RCW 9.46.020(8).]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.46 - Gambling—1973 Act. › 9.46.0237 - "Gambling."

RCW 9.46.0237
"Gambling."
"Gambling," as used in this chapter, means staking or risking something of value upon the outcome of a contest of chance or a future contingent event not under the person's control or influence, upon an agreement or understanding that the person or someone else will receive something of value in the event of a certain outcome. Gambling does not include fishing derbies as defined by this chapter, parimutuel betting and handicapping contests as authorized by chapter 67.16 RCW, bona fide business transactions valid under the law of contracts, including, but not limited to, contracts for the purchase or sale at a future date of securities or commodities, and agreements to compensate for loss caused by the happening of chance, including, but not limited to, contracts of indemnity or guarantee and life, health, or accident insurance. In addition, a contest of chance which is specifically excluded from the definition of lottery under this chapter shall not constitute gambling.
[ 2005 c 351 § 1; 1987 c 4 § 10. Formerly RCW 9.46.020(9).]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.46 - Gambling—1973 Act. › 9.46.0241 - "Gambling device."

RCW 9.46.0241
"Gambling device."
"Gambling device," as used in this chapter, means: (1) Any device or mechanism the operation of which a right to money, credits, deposits or other things of value may be created, in return for a consideration, as the result of the operation of an element of chance, including, but not limited to slot machines, video pull-tabs, video poker, and other electronic games of chance; (2) any device or mechanism which, when operated for a consideration, does not return the same value or thing of value for the same consideration upon each operation thereof; (3) any device, mechanism, furniture, fixture, construction or installation designed primarily for use in connection with professional gambling; and (4) any subassembly or essential part designed or intended for use in connection with any such device, mechanism, furniture, fixture, construction or installation. In the application of this definition, a pinball machine or similar mechanical amusement device which confers only an immediate and unrecorded right of replay on players thereof, which does not contain any mechanism which varies the chance of winning free games or the number of free games which may be won or a mechanism or a chute for dispensing coins or a facsimile thereof, and which prohibits multiple winnings depending upon the number of coins inserted and requires the playing of five balls individually upon the insertion of a nickel or dime, as the case may be, to complete any one operation thereof, shall not be deemed a gambling device: PROVIDED, That owning, possessing, buying, selling, renting, leasing, financing, holding a security interest in, storing, repairing and transporting such pinball machines or similar mechanical amusement devices shall not be deemed engaging in professional gambling for the purposes of this chapter and shall not be a violation of this chapter: PROVIDED FURTHER, That any fee for the purchase or rental of any such pinball machines or similar amusement devices shall have no relation to the use to which such machines are put but be based only upon the market value of any such machine, regardless of the location of or type of premises where used, and any fee for the storing, repairing and transporting thereof shall have no relation to the use to which such machines are put, but be commensurate with the cost of labor and other expenses incurred in any such storing, repairing and transporting.
[ 1994 c 218 § 8; 1987 c 4 § 11. Formerly RCW 9.46.020(10).]
NOTES:
Effective date—1994 c 218: See note following RCW 9.46.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.46 - Gambling—1973 Act. › 9.46.0245 - "Gambling information."

RCW 9.46.0245
"Gambling information."
"Gambling information," as used in this chapter, means any wager made in the course of and any information intended to be used for professional gambling. In the application of this definition, information as to wagers, betting odds and changes in betting odds shall be presumed to be intended for use in professional gambling. This section shall not apply to newspapers of general circulation or commercial radio and television stations licensed by the federal communications commission.
[ 1987 c 4 § 12. Formerly RCW 9.46.020(11).]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 9.46 - Gambling—1973 Act. › 9.46.0249 - "Gambling premises."

RCW 9.46.0249
"Gambling premises."
"Gambling premises," as used in this chapter, means any building, room, enclosure, vehicle, vessel or other place used or intended to be used for professional gambling. In the application of this definition, any place where a gambling device is found shall be presumed to be intended to be used for professional gambling.
[ 1987 c 4 § 13. Formerly RCW 9.46.020(12).]