2015 Revised Code of Washington
Title 70 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
70.54 Miscellaneous health and safety provisions.
70.54.050 Exposing contagious disease—Penalty.

WA Rev Code § 70.54.050 (2015) What's This?

RCW 70.54.050 Exposing contagious disease—Penalty.

Every person who shall willfully expose himself or herself to another, or any animal affected with any contagious or infectious disease, in any public place or thoroughfare, except upon his or her or its necessary removal in a manner not dangerous to the public health; and every person so affected who shall expose any other person thereto without his or her knowledge, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

[2012 c 117 § 382; 1909 c 249 § 287; RRS § 2539.]

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