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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.107 - Commercial egg layer operations—Requirements.

RCW 69.25.107
Commercial egg layer operations—Requirements.
(1) All commercial egg layer operations required under RCW 69.25.065 to meet the American humane association facility system plan, or an equivalent to the plan, must also ensure that all hens in the operation are provided with:
(a) No less than one hundred sixteen and three-tenths square inches of space per hen; and
(b) Access to areas for nesting, scratching, and perching.
(2) All commercial egg layer operations required under RCW 69.25.065 to house egg-laying hens with at a minimum the amount of usable floor space per hen required by the 2017 edition of the united egg producers' Animal Husbandry Guidelines for United States Egg-Laying Flocks: Guidelines for Cage-Free Housing, or a subsequent version of the plan recognized by the department in rule as providing equal or more useable floor space per egg-laying hen, must ensure that the hens are housed in a cage-free housing system.
(3) Subsection (2) of this section does not apply:
(a) During medical research;
(b) During examination, testing, individual treatment, or operation for veterinary purposes;
(c) During transportation, or depopulation operations for periods of no more than seven days in any eighteen-month period;
(d) During rodeo exhibitions, state or county fair exhibitions, 4-H programs, and similar exhibitions;
(e) During the slaughter of an egg-laying hen in accordance with applicable laws and regulations; or
(f) During temporary periods for animal husbandry purposes of no more than six hours in any twenty-four hour period, and no more than twenty-four hours in any thirty-day period.
(4) The requirements of this section apply for any commercial egg layer operation on the same dates that RCW 69.25.065 requires compliance with the American humane association facility system plan or an equivalent to the plan, or requires housing egg-laying hens with at a minimum the amount of usable floor space per hen required by the united egg producers' Animal Husbandry Guidelines for United States Egg-Laying Flocks: Guidelines for Cage-Free Housing or an equivalent to the guidelines.
[ 2019 c 276 § 7; 2011 c 306 § 5.]
NOTES:
Finding—Purpose—2019 c 276: See note following RCW 69.25.010.
Construction—2019 c 276: See note following RCW 69.25.065.
Effective date—2011 c 306: See note following RCW 69.25.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.120 - Director to cooperate with other agencies—May conduct examinations.

RCW 69.25.120
Director to cooperate with other agencies—May conduct examinations.
The director shall, whenever he or she determines that it would effectuate the purposes of this chapter, cooperate with any state, federal, or other governmental agencies in carrying out any provisions of this chapter. In carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the director may conduct such examinations, investigations, and inspections as he or she determines practicable through any officer or employee of any such agency commissioned by him or her for such purpose.
[ 2012 c 117 § 349; 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 13.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.130 - Eggs or egg products not intended for use as human food—Identification or denaturing required.

RCW 69.25.130
Eggs or egg products not intended for use as human food—Identification or denaturing required.
Inspection shall not be provided under this chapter at any plant for the processing of any egg products which are not intended for use as human food, but such articles, prior to their offer for sale or transportation in intrastate commerce, shall be denatured or identified as prescribed by regulations of the director to deter their use for human food. No person shall buy, sell, or transport or offer to buy or sell, or offer or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any restricted eggs or egg products which are not intended for use as human food unless they are denatured or identified as required by the regulations of the director.
[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 14.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.140 - Records required, access to and copying of.

RCW 69.25.140
Records required, access to and copying of.
For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter and the regulations promulgated thereunder, all persons engaged in the business of transporting, shipping, or receiving any eggs or egg products in intrastate commerce or in interstate commerce, or holding such articles so received, and all egg handlers, shall maintain such records showing, for such time and in such form and manner, as the director may prescribe, to the extent that they are concerned therewith, the receipt, delivery, sale, movement, and disposition of all eggs and egg products handled by them, and shall, upon the request of the director, permit him or her at reasonable times to have access to and to copy all such records.
[ 2012 c 117 § 350; 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 15.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.150 - Penalties—Liability of employer—Defense.

RCW 69.25.150
Penalties—Liability of employer—Defense.
(1)(a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, any person violating any provision of this chapter or any rule adopted under this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) 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.
(2) Whenever the director finds that a person has committed a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, and that violation has not been punished pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, the director may impose upon and collect from the violator a civil penalty not exceeding one thousand dollars per violation per day. Each violation shall be a separate and distinct offense.
(3) When construing or enforcing the provisions of RCW 69.25.110, the act, omission, or failure of any person acting for or employed by any individual, partnership, corporation, or association within the scope of the person's employment or office shall in every case be deemed the act, omission, or failure of such individual, partnership, corporation, or association, as well as of such person.
(4) No carrier or warehouse operator shall be subject to the penalties of this chapter, other than the penalties for violation of RCW 69.25.140, or 69.25.155, by reason of his or her receipt, carriage, holding, or delivery, in the usual course of business, as a carrier or warehouse operator of eggs or egg products owned by another person unless the carrier or warehouse operator has knowledge, or is in possession of facts which would cause a reasonable person to believe that such eggs or egg products were not eligible for transportation under, or were otherwise in violation of, this chapter, or unless the carrier or warehouse operator refuses to furnish on request of a representative of the director the name and address of the person from whom he or she received such eggs or egg products and copies of all documents, if there be any, pertaining to the delivery of the eggs or egg products to, or by, such carrier or warehouse operator.
[ 2011 c 336 § 836; 2003 c 53 § 317; 1995 c 374 § 27; 1992 c 7 § 47; 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 16.]
NOTES:
Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
Effective date—1995 c 374 §§ 1-47, 50-53, and 59-68: See note following RCW 15.36.012.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.155 - Interference with person performing official duties.

RCW 69.25.155
Interference with person performing official duties.
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who forcibly assaults, resists, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person while engaged in or on account of the performance of his or her official duties under this chapter is guilty of a class C felony and shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars or imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than three years, or both.
(2) Whoever, in the commission of any act described in subsection (1) of this section, uses a deadly or dangerous weapon is guilty of a class B felony and shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars or by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than ten years, or both.
[ 2003 c 53 § 318.]
NOTES:
Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.160 - Notice of violation—May take place of prosecution.

RCW 69.25.160
Notice of violation—May take place of prosecution.
Before any violation of this chapter, other than RCW 69.25.155, is reported by the director to any prosecuting attorney for institution of a criminal proceeding, the person against whom such proceeding is contemplated shall be given reasonable notice of the alleged violation and opportunity to present his or her views orally or in writing with regard to such contemplated proceeding. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as requiring the director to report for criminal prosecution violation of this chapter whenever he or she believes that the public interest will be adequately served and compliance with this chapter obtained by a suitable written notice of warning.
[ 2003 c 53 § 319; 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 17.]
NOTES:
Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.170 - Exemptions permitted by rule of director.

RCW 69.25.170
Exemptions permitted by rule of director.
(1) The director may, by regulation and under such conditions and procedures as he or she may prescribe, exempt from specific provisions of this chapter:
(a) The sale, transportation, possession, or use of eggs which contain no more restricted eggs than are allowed by the tolerance in the official state standards for consumer grades for shell eggs;
(b) The processing of egg products at any plant where the facilities and operating procedures meet such sanitary standards as may be prescribed by the director, and where the eggs received or used in the manufacture of egg products contain no more restricted eggs than are allowed by the official standards of the state consumer grades for shell eggs, and the egg products processed at such plant;
(c) The sale of eggs by any poultry producer from his or her own flocks directly to a household consumer exclusively for use by such consumer and members of his or her household and his or her nonpaying guests and employees, and the transportation, possession, and use of such eggs in accordance with this subsection;
(d) The sale of eggs by shell egg packers on his or her own premises directly to household consumers for use by such consumer and members of his or her household and his or her nonpaying guests and employees, and the transportation, possession, and use of such eggs in accordance with this subsection;
(e) The sale of eggs by any egg producer with an annual egg production from a flock of three thousand hens or less.
(2) The director may modify or revoke any regulation granting exemption under this chapter whenever he or she deems such action appropriate to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
[ 2012 c 117 § 351; 1995 c 374 § 28; 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 18.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1995 c 374 §§ 1-47, 50-53, and 59-68: See note following RCW 15.36.012.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.180 - Limiting entry of eggs and egg products into official plants.

RCW 69.25.180
Limiting entry of eggs and egg products into official plants.
The director may limit the entry of eggs and egg products and other materials into official plants under such conditions as he or she may prescribe to assure that allowing the entry of such articles into such plants will be consistent with the purposes of this chapter.
[ 2012 c 117 § 352; 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 19.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.190 - Embargo of eggs or egg products in violation of this chapter—Time limit—Removal of official marks.

RCW 69.25.190
Embargo of eggs or egg products in violation of this chapter—Time limit—Removal of official marks.
Whenever any eggs or egg products subject to this chapter are found by any authorized representative of the director upon any premises and there is reason to believe that they are or have been processed, bought, sold, possessed, used, transported, or offered or received for sale or transportation in violation of this chapter, or that they are in any other way in violation of this chapter, or whenever any restricted eggs capable of use as human food are found by such a representative in the possession of any person not authorized to acquire such eggs under the regulations of the director, such articles may be embargoed by such representative for a reasonable period but not to exceed twenty days, pending action under RCW 69.25.200 or notification of any federal or other governmental authorities having jurisdiction over such articles, and shall not be moved by any person from the place at which they are located when so detained until released by such representative. All official marks may be required by such representative to be removed from such articles before they are released unless it appears to the satisfaction of the director that the articles are eligible to retain such marks.
[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 20.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.200 - Embargo—Petition for court order affirming—Removal of embargo or destruction or correction and release—Court costs, fees, administrative expenses—Bond may be required.

RCW 69.25.200
Embargo—Petition for court order affirming—Removal of embargo or destruction or correction and release—Court costs, fees, administrative expenses—Bond may be required.
When the director has embargoed any eggs or egg products, he or she shall petition the superior court of the county in which the eggs or egg products are located for an order affirming such embargo. Such court shall have jurisdiction for cause shown and after a prompt hearing to any claimant of eggs or egg products, shall issue an order which directs the removal of such embargo or the destruction or correction and release of such eggs and egg products. An order for destruction or the correction and release of such eggs and egg products shall contain such provision for the payment of pertinent court costs and fees and administrative expenses as is equitable and which the court deems appropriate in the circumstances. An order for correction and release may contain such provisions for a bond as the court finds indicated in the circumstance.
[ 2012 c 117 § 353; 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 21.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.210 - Embargo—Order affirming not required, when.

RCW 69.25.210
Embargo—Order affirming not required, when.
The director need not petition the superior court as provided for in RCW 69.25.200 if the owner or claimant of such eggs or egg products agrees in writing to the disposition of such eggs or egg products as the director may order.
[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 22.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.220 - Embargo—Consolidation of petitions.

RCW 69.25.220
Embargo—Consolidation of petitions.
Two or more petitions under RCW 69.25.200 which pend at the same time and which present the same issue and claimant hereunder may be consolidated for simultaneous determination by one court of competent jurisdiction, upon application to any court of jurisdiction by the director or claimant.
[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 23.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.230 - Embargo—Sampling of article.

RCW 69.25.230
Embargo—Sampling of article.
The claimant in any proceeding by petition under RCW 69.25.200 shall be entitled to receive a representative sample of the article subject to such proceedings upon application to the court of competent jurisdiction made at any time after such petition and prior to the hearing thereon.
[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 24.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.240 - Condemnation—Recovery of damages restricted.

RCW 69.25.240
Condemnation—Recovery of damages restricted.
No state court shall allow the recovery of damages for administrative action for condemnation under the provisions of this chapter, if the court finds that there was probable cause for such action.
[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 25.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.250 - Assessment—Rate, applicability, time of payment—Reports—Contents, frequency—Exemption.

RCW 69.25.250
Assessment—Rate, applicability, time of payment—Reports—Contents, frequency—Exemption.
(1)(a) There is hereby levied an assessment not to exceed three mills per dozen eggs entering intrastate commerce, as prescribed by rules issued by the director. The assessment is applicable to all eggs entering intrastate commerce, except as provided in RCW 69.25.170 and 69.25.290, and must be paid to the director on a monthly basis on or before the tenth day following the month the eggs enter intrastate commerce.
(b) The director may require reports by egg handlers or dealers along with the payment of the assessment fee. The reports may include any and all pertinent information necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
(c) The director may, by rule, require egg container manufacturers to report on a monthly basis all egg containers sold to any egg handler or dealer and bearing such egg handler or dealer's permanent number.
(2) Egg products in intrastate commerce are exempt from the assessment in subsection (1) of this section.
[ 2011 c 306 § 6; 1995 c 374 § 29; 1993 sp.s. c 19 § 12; 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 26.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2011 c 306: See note following RCW 69.25.020.
Effective date—1995 c 374 §§ 1-47, 50-53, and 59-68: See note following RCW 15.36.012.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.260 - Assessment—Prepayment by purchase of egg seals—Permit for printing seal on containers or labels.

RCW 69.25.260
Assessment—Prepayment by purchase of egg seals—Permit for printing seal on containers or labels.
Any egg handler or dealer may prepay the assessment provided for in RCW 69.25.250 by purchasing Washington state egg seals from the director to be placed on egg containers showing that the proper assessment has been paid. Any carton manufacturer or printer may apply to the director for a permit to place reasonable facsimiles of the Washington state egg seals to be imprinted on egg containers or on the identification labels which show egg grade and size and the name of the egg handler or dealer. The director shall, from time to time, prescribe rules and regulations governing the affixing of seals and he or she is authorized to cancel any such permit issued pursuant to this chapter, whenever he or she finds that a violation of the terms under which the permit has been granted has been violated.
[ 2012 c 117 § 354; 1979 ex.s. c 238 § 10; 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 27.]
NOTES:
Severability—1979 ex.s. c 238: See note following RCW 15.44.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.270 - Assessment—Monthly payment—Audit—Failure to pay, penalty.

RCW 69.25.270
Assessment—Monthly payment—Audit—Failure to pay, penalty.
Every egg handler or dealer who pays assessments required under the provisions of this chapter on a monthly basis in lieu of seals shall be subject to audit by the director at such frequency as is deemed necessary by the director. The cost to the director for performing such audit shall be chargeable to and payable by the egg handler or dealer subject to audit. Failure to pay assessments when due or refusal to pay for audit costs may be cause for a summary suspension of an egg handler's or dealer's license and a charge of one percent per month, or fraction thereof shall be added to the sum due the director, for each remittance not received by the director when due. The conditions and charges applicable to egg handlers and dealers set forth herein shall also be applicable to payments due the director for facsimiles of seals placed on egg containers.
[ 1987 c 393 § 16; 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 28.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.280 - Assessment—Use of proceeds.

RCW 69.25.280
Assessment—Use of proceeds.
The proceeds from assessment fees paid to the director shall be retained for the inspection of eggs and carrying out the provisions of this chapter relating to eggs.
[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 29.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.290 - Assessment—Exclusions.

RCW 69.25.290
Assessment—Exclusions.
The assessments provided in this chapter shall not apply to:
(1) Sale and shipment to points outside of this state;
(2) Sale to the United States government and its instrumentalities;
(3) Sale to breaking plants for processing into egg products;
(4) Sale between egg dealers.
[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 30.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.300 - Transfer of moneys in state egg account.

RCW 69.25.300
Transfer of moneys in state egg account.
All moneys in the state egg account, created by *RCW 69.24.450, at the time of July 1, 1975, shall be transferred to the director and shall be retained and expended for administering and carrying out the purposes of this chapter.
[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 31.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 69.24.450 was repealed by 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 40.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.310 - Containers—Marking required—Obliteration of previous markings required for reuse—Temporary use of another handler's or dealer's permanent number—Penalty.

RCW 69.25.310
Containers—Marking required—Obliteration of previous markings required for reuse—Temporary use of another handler's or dealer's permanent number—Penalty.
(1) All containers used by an egg handler or dealer to package eggs shall bear the name and address or the permanent number issued by the director to said egg handler or dealer. Such permanent number shall be displayed in a size and location prescribed by the director. It shall be a violation for any egg handler or dealer to use a container that bears the permanent number of another egg handler or dealer unless such number is totally obliterated prior to use. The director may in addition require the obliteration of any or all markings that may be on any container which will be used for eggs by an egg handler or dealer.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section and following written notice to the director, licensed egg handlers and dealers may use new containers bearing another handler's or dealer's permanent number on a temporary basis, in any event not longer than one year, with the consent of such other handler or dealer for the purpose of using up existing container stocks. Sale of container stock shall constitute agreement by the parties to use the permanent number.
[ 1995 c 374 § 30; 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 32.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1995 c 374 §§ 1-47, 50-53, and 59-68: See note following RCW 15.36.012.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.900 - Savings.

RCW 69.25.900
Savings.
The enactment of this chapter shall not have the effect of terminating or in any way modifying any liability, civil or criminal, which shall already be in existence on July 1, 1975.
[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 35.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.910 - Chapter is cumulative and nonexclusive.

RCW 69.25.910
Chapter is cumulative and nonexclusive.
The provisions of this chapter shall be cumulative and nonexclusive and shall not affect any other remedy at law.
[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 37.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.25 - Washington Wholesome Eggs and Egg Products Act. › 69.25.930 - Short title.

RCW 69.25.930
Short title.
This act may be known and cited as the "Washington wholesome eggs and egg products act".
[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 201 § 39.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.020 - Enforcement power and duty of director and agents.

RCW 69.28.020
Enforcement power and duty of director and agents.
The director is hereby empowered, through his or her duly authorized agents, to enforce all provisions of this chapter. The director shall have the power to define, promulgate, and enforce such reasonable regulations as he or she may deem necessary in carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
[ 2012 c 117 § 356; 1939 c 199 § 29; RRS § 6163-29. FORMER PART OF SECTION: 1939 c 199 § 44 now codified as RCW 69.28.025.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.025 - Rules and regulations have force of law.

RCW 69.28.025
Rules and regulations have force of law.
Any rules or regulations promulgated and published by the director under the provisions of this chapter shall have the force and effect of law.
[ 1939 c 199 § 44; RRS § 6163-44. Formerly RCW 69.28.020, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.030 - Rules prescribing standards.

RCW 69.28.030
Rules prescribing standards.
The director is hereby authorized, and it shall be his or her duty, upon the taking effect of this chapter and from time to time thereafter, to adopt, establish, and promulgate reasonable rules and regulations specifying grades or standards of quality governing the sale of honey: PROVIDED, That, in the interest of uniformity, such grades and standards of quality shall conform as nearly to those established by the United States department of agriculture as local conditions will permit.
[ 2012 c 117 § 357; 1939 c 199 § 24; RRS § 6163-24.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.040 - Right to enter, inspect, and take samples.

RCW 69.28.040
Right to enter, inspect, and take samples.
The director or any of his or her duly authorized agents shall have the power to enter and inspect at reasonable times every place, vehicle, plant, or other place where honey is being produced, stored, packed, transported, exposed, or offered for sale, and to inspect all such honey and the containers thereof and to take for inspection such samples of said honey as may be necessary.
[ 2012 c 117 § 358; 1939 c 199 § 28; RRS § 6163-28.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.050 - Containers to be labeled.

RCW 69.28.050
Containers to be labeled.
It shall be unlawful to deliver for shipment, ship, transport, sell, expose or offer for sale any containers or subcontainers of honey within this state unless they shall be conspicuously marked with the name and address of the producer or distributor, the net weight of the honey, the grade of the honey, and, if imported from any foreign country, the name of the country or territory from which the said honey was imported, or if a blend of honey, any part of which is foreign honey, the container must be labeled with the name of the country or territory where such honey was produced and the proportion of each foreign honey used in the blend.
[ 1939 c 199 § 32; RRS § 6163-32.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.060 - Requisites of markings.

RCW 69.28.060
Requisites of markings.
When any markings are used or required to be used under this chapter on any container of honey to identify the container or describe the contents thereof, such markings must be plainly and conspicuously marked, stamped, stenciled, printed, labeled or branded in the English language, in letters large enough to be discernible by any person, on the front, side or top of any container.
[ 1939 c 199 § 35; RRS § 6163-35.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.070 - "Marked" defined—When honey need not be marked.

RCW 69.28.070
"Marked" defined—When honey need not be marked.
The term "marked" shall mean printed in the English language on the top, front or side of any container containing honey: PROVIDED, That it shall not be necessary to mark honey sold by the producer thereof to any distributor, packer or manufacturer with the net weight, color or grade if the honey is to be used in the manufacture of honey products or is to be graded and packaged by the distributor or packer for resale.
[ 1939 c 199 § 21; RRS § 6163-21.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.080 - Purchaser to be advised of standards—Exceptions.

RCW 69.28.080
Purchaser to be advised of standards—Exceptions.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver, sell, offer, or expose for sale any honey for human consumption within the state without notifying the person or persons purchasing or intending to purchase the same, of the exact grade or quality of such honey, according to the standards prescribed by the director, by stamping or printing on the container of any such honey such grade or quality: PROVIDED, This section shall not apply to honey while it is in transit in intrastate commerce from one establishment to the other, to be processed, labeled, or repacked.
[ 1961 c 60 § 1; 1957 c 103 § 1; 1949 c 105 § 6; 1939 c 199 § 39; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 6163-39.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.090 - Forgery, simulation, etc., of marks, labels, etc., unlawful.

RCW 69.28.090
Forgery, simulation, etc., of marks, labels, etc., unlawful.
It shall be unlawful to forge, counterfeit, simulate, falsely represent or alter without proper authority any mark, stamp, tab, label, seal, sticker or other identification device provided by this chapter.
[ 1961 c 60 § 2; 1939 c 199 § 40; RRS § 6163-40. FORMER PART OF SECTION: 1939 c 199 § 41 now codified as RCW 69.28.095.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.095 - Unlawful mutilation or removal of seals, marks, etc., used by director.

RCW 69.28.095
Unlawful mutilation or removal of seals, marks, etc., used by director.
It shall be unlawful to mutilate, destroy, obliterate, or remove without proper authority, any mark, stamp, tag, label, seal, sticker or other identification device used by the director under the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1939 c 199 § 41; RRS § 6163-41. Formerly RCW 69.28.090, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.100 - Marks for "slack-filled" container.

RCW 69.28.100
Marks for "slack-filled" container.
Any slack-filled container shall be conspicuously marked "slack-filled".
[ 1939 c 199 § 36; RRS § 6163-36. FORMER PART OF SECTION: 1939 c 199 § 10 now codified as RCW 69.28.270.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.110 - Use of used containers.

RCW 69.28.110
Use of used containers.
It shall be unlawful to sell, offer, or expose for sale to the consumer any honey in any secondhand or used containers which formerly contained honey, unless all markings as to grade, name and weight have been obliterated, removed or erased.
[ 1939 c 199 § 37; RRS § 6163-37.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.120 - Floral source labels.

RCW 69.28.120
Floral source labels.
Any honey which is a blend of two or more floral types of honey shall not be labeled as a honey product from any one particular floral source alone.
[ 1939 c 199 § 34; RRS § 6163-34.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.130 - Adulterated honey—Sale or offer unlawful.

RCW 69.28.130
Adulterated honey—Sale or offer unlawful.
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer or intend for sale any adulterated honey as honey.
[ 1939 c 199 § 26; RRS § 6163-26. FORMER PART OF SECTION: 1939 c 199 §§ 27 and 33 now codified as RCW 69.28.133 and 69.28.135.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.133 - Nonconforming honey—Sale or offer unlawful.

RCW 69.28.133
Nonconforming honey—Sale or offer unlawful.
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer or intend for sale any honey which does not conform to the provisions of this chapter or any regulation promulgated by the director under this chapter.
[ 1939 c 199 § 27; RRS § 6163-27. Formerly RCW 69.28.130, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.135 - Warning-tagged honey—Movement prohibited.

RCW 69.28.135
Warning-tagged honey—Movement prohibited.
It shall be unlawful to move any honey or containers of honey to which any warning tag or notice has been affixed except under authority from the director.
[ 1939 c 199 § 33; RRS § 6163-33. Formerly RCW 69.28.130, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.140 - Possession of unlawful honey as evidence.

RCW 69.28.140
Possession of unlawful honey as evidence.
Possession by any person, of any honey which is sold, exposed or offered for sale in violation of this chapter shall be prima facie evidence that the same is kept or shipped to the said person, in violation of the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1939 c 199 § 30; RRS § 6163-30.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.170 - Inspectors—Prosecutions.

RCW 69.28.170
Inspectors—Prosecutions.
It shall be the duty of the director to enforce this chapter and to appoint and employment [employ] such inspectors as may be necessary therefor. The director shall notify the prosecuting attorneys for the counties of the state of violations of this chapter occurring in their respective counties, and it shall be the duty of the respective prosecuting attorneys immediately to institute and prosecute proceeding in their respective counties and to enforce the penalties provided for by this chapter.
[ 1939 c 199 § 43; RRS § 6163-43.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.180 - Violation of rules and regulations unlawful.

RCW 69.28.180
Violation of rules and regulations unlawful.
It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any rule or regulation promulgated by the director under the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1939 c 199 § 25; RRS § 6163-25. FORMER PART OF SECTION: 1939 c 199 § 44 now codified in RCW 69.28.185.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.185 - Penalty.

RCW 69.28.185
Penalty.
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon violation thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than six months or by both such fine and imprisonment.
[ 1939 c 199 § 42; RRS § 6163-42. Formerly RCW 69.28.180, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.190 - "Director" defined.

RCW 69.28.190
"Director" defined.
The term "director" means the director of agriculture of the state of Washington or his or her duly authorized representative.
[ 2012 c 117 § 359; 1939 c 199 § 2; RRS § 6163-2. Formerly RCW 69.28.010, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.200 - "Container" defined.

RCW 69.28.200
"Container" defined.
The term "container" shall mean any box, crate, chest, carton, barrel, keg, bottle, jar, can or any other receptacle containing honey.
[ 1939 c 199 § 3; RRS § 6163-3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.210 - "Subcontainer" defined.

RCW 69.28.210
"Subcontainer" defined.
The term "subcontainer" shall mean any section box or other receptacle used within a container.
[ 1939 c 199 § 4; RRS § 6163-4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.220 - "Section box" defined.

RCW 69.28.220
"Section box" defined.
The term "section box" shall mean the wood or other frame in which bees have built a small comb of honey.
[ 1939 c 199 § 5; RRS § 6163-5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.230 - "Clean and sound containers" defined.

RCW 69.28.230
"Clean and sound containers" defined.
The term "clean and sound containers" shall mean containers which are virtually free from rust, stains or leaks.
[ 1939 c 199 § 6; RRS § 6163-6.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.240 - "Pack," "packing," or "packed" defined.

RCW 69.28.240
"Pack," "packing," or "packed" defined.
The term "pack", "packing", or "packed" shall mean the arrangement of all or part of the subcontainers in any container.
[ 1939 c 199 § 7; RRS § 6163-7.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.250 - "Label" defined.

RCW 69.28.250
"Label" defined.
The term "label" shall mean a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any article.
[ 1939 c 199 § 8; RRS § 6163-8.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.260 - "Person" defined.

RCW 69.28.260
"Person" defined.
The term "person" includes individual, partnership, corporation and/or association.
[ 1939 c 199 § 9; RRS § 6163-9.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.270 - "Slack-filled" defined.

RCW 69.28.270
"Slack-filled" defined.
The term "slack-filled" shall mean that the contents of any container occupy less than ninety-five percent of the volume of the closed container.
[ 1939 c 199 § 10; RRS § 6163-10. Formerly RCW 69.28.100, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.280 - "Deceptive arrangement" defined.

RCW 69.28.280
"Deceptive arrangement" defined.
The term "deceptive arrangement" shall mean any lot or load, arrangement or display of honey which has in any exposed surface, honey which is so superior in quality, appearance or condition, or in any other respects, to any of that which is concealed or unexposed as to materially misrepresent any part of the lot, load, arrangement or display.
[ 1939 c 199 § 11; RRS § 6163-11.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.290 - "Mislabeled" defined.

RCW 69.28.290
"Mislabeled" defined.
The term "mislabeled" shall mean the placing or presence of any false or misleading statement, design or device upon, or in connection with, any container or lot of honey, or upon the label, lining or wrapper of any such container, or any placard used in connection therewith, and having reference to such honey. A statement, design or device is false and misleading when the honey to which it refers does not conform in every respect to such statement.
[ 1939 c 199 § 12; RRS § 6163-12.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.300 - "Placard" defined.

RCW 69.28.300
"Placard" defined.
The term "placard" means any sign, label or designation, other than an oral designation, used with any honey as a description or identification thereof.
[ 1939 c 199 § 13; RRS § 6163-13.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.310 - "Honey" defined.

RCW 69.28.310
"Honey" defined.
The term "honey" as used herein is the nectar of floral exudations of plants, gathered and stored in the comb by honey bees (apis mellifica). It is laevo-rotatory, contains not more than twenty-five percent of water, not more than twenty-five one-hundredths of one percent of ash, not more than eight percent of sucrose, its specific gravity is 1.412, its weight not less than eleven pounds twelve ounces per standard gallon of 231 cubic inches at sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit.
[ 1939 c 199 § 14; RRS § 6163-14. Formerly RCW 69.28.010, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.320 - "Comb-honey" defined.

RCW 69.28.320
"Comb-honey" defined.
The term "comb-honey" means honey which has not been extracted from the comb.
[ 1939 c 199 § 15; RRS § 6163-15.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.330 - "Extracted honey" defined.

RCW 69.28.330
"Extracted honey" defined.
The term "extracted honey" means honey which has been removed from the comb.
[ 1939 c 199 § 16; RRS § 6163-16.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.340 - "Crystallized honey" defined.

RCW 69.28.340
"Crystallized honey" defined.
The term "crystallized honey" means honey which has assumed a solid form due to the crystallization of one or more of the natural sugars therein.
[ 1939 c 199 § 17; RRS § 6163-17.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.350 - "Honeydew" defined.

RCW 69.28.350
"Honeydew" defined.
The term "honeydew" is the saccharine exudation of plants, other than nectarous exudations, gathered and stored in the comb by honey bees (apis mellifica) and is dextrorotatory.
[ 1939 c 199 § 18; RRS § 6163-18. Formerly RCW 69.28.010, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.360 - "Foreign material" defined.

RCW 69.28.360
"Foreign material" defined.
The term "foreign material" means pollen, wax particles, insects, or materials not deposited by bees.
[ 1937 c 199 § 19; RRS § 6163-19.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.370 - "Foreign honey" defined.

RCW 69.28.370
"Foreign honey" defined.
The term "foreign honey" means any honey not produced within the continental United States.
[ 1939 c 199 § 20; RRS § 6163-20.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.380 - "Adulterated honey" defined.

RCW 69.28.380
"Adulterated honey" defined.
The term "adulterated honey" means any honey to which has been added honeydew, glucose, dextrose, molasses, sugar, sugar syrup, invert sugar, or any other similar product or products, other than the nectar of floral exudations of plants gathered and stored in the comb by honey bees.
[ 1939 c 199 § 22; RRS § 6163-22. Formerly RCW 69.28.010, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.390 - "Serious damage" defined.

RCW 69.28.390
"Serious damage" defined.
The term "serious damage" means any injury or defect that seriously affects the edibility or shipping quality of the honey.
[ 1939 c 199 § 23; RRS § 6163-23.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 69 - Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Poisons › Chapter 69.28 - Honey. › 69.28.400 - Labeling requirements for artificial honey or mixtures containing honey.

RCW 69.28.400
Labeling requirements for artificial honey or mixtures containing honey.
(1) No person shall sell, keep for sale, expose or offer for sale, any article or product in imitation or semblance of honey branded exclusively as "honey", "liquid or extracted honey", "strained honey" or "pure honey".
(2) No person, firm, association, company or corporation shall manufacture, sell, expose or offer for sale, any compound or mixture branded or labeled exclusively as honey which shall be made up of honey mixed with any other substance or ingredient.
(3) Whenever honey is mixed with any other substance or ingredient and the commodity is to be marketed in imitation or semblance of honey, the product shall be labeled with the word "artificial" or "imitation" in the same type size and style as the word "honey";
(4) Whenever any substance or commodity is to be marketed in imitation or semblance of honey, but contains no honey, the product shall not be branded or labeled with the word "honey" and/or depict thereon a picture or drawing of a bee, bee hive, or honeycomb;
(5) Whenever honey is mixed with any other substance or ingredient and the commodity is to be marketed, there shall be printed on the package containing such compound or mixture a statement giving the ingredients of which it is made; if honey is one of such ingredients it shall be so stated in the same size type as are the other ingredients; nor shall such compound or mixture be branded or labeled exclusively with the word "honey" in any form other than as herein provided; nor shall any product in semblance of honey, whether a mixture or not, be sold, exposed or offered for sale as honey, or branded or labeled exclusively with the word "honey", unless such article is pure honey.
[ 1975 1st ex.s. c 283 § 1.]