2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 19.32.010: Declaration of police power.

This chapter is in exercise of the police powers of the state for the protection of the safety, health and welfare of the people of the state. It hereby is found and declared that the public welfare requires control and regulation of the operation of refrigerated lockers and of the sale, handling and processing of articles of human food in connection therewith, and the control, inspection and regulation of persons engaged therein, in order to prevent or eliminate unsanitary, unhealthful, fraudulent, and unfair or uneconomic practices and conditions in connection with the refrigerated locker business, which practices and conditions endanger public health, defraud customers, jeopardize the public source of supply and storage facilities of essential food products, and adversely affect an important and growing industry. It is further found and declared that the regulation of the refrigerated locker business, as above outlined, is in the interest of the economic and social well-being and the health and safety of the state and all of its people.

[1943 c 117 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 6294-125.]