2017 Revised Code of Washington
Title 15 - AGRICULTURE AND MARKETING
15.36 Milk and milk products.
15.36.473 Failure to comply with chapter or rules—Criminal penalties.
RCW 15.36.473 Failure to comply with chapter or rules—Criminal penalties.
(1) It is unlawful for any person to sell raw milk from a dairy farm that is not licensed as a milk producer or a milk processing plant under this chapter.
(2) The sale of raw milk from a dairy farm that is not licensed as a milk producer and a milk processing plant under this chapter constitutes:
(a) For the first offense, a misdemeanor; and
(b) For the second and subsequent offenses, a gross misdemeanor punishable according to chapter 9A.20 RCW.
(3) Neither the issuance of a cease and desist order nor payment of a civil penalty relieves the person so selling raw milk from criminal prosecution, but the remedy of a cease and desist order or civil penalty is in addition to any criminal liability.
[ 2006 c 157 § 7.]
NOTES:
Findings—2006 c 157: See note following RCW 15.36.012.
