PERMANENT RULES
Date of Adoption: February 10, 1999.
Purpose: Adding language to existing rule to allow identification of horse in other than the paddock, with commission prior approval.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 260-24-560 Horse identifier.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 67.16.040.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 98-16-103 on August 5, 1998.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0. Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
February 12, 1999
Bruce Batson
Executive Secretary
The Horse identifier shall:
(1) When required, ensure the safekeeping of registration certificates and racing permits for horses stabled and/or racing on association grounds;
(2) Inspect documents of ownership, eligibility, registration or breeding necessary to ensure the proper identification of each horse scheduled to compete at a race meeting;
(3) Examine every starter in the paddock, or other designated location approved by the commission, for sex, color, markings and lip tattoo or other identification method approved by the appropriate breed registry and the commission for comparison with its registration certificate to verify the horse's identity; and
(4) Supervise the tattooing, branding or other method of identification approved by the appropriate breed registry and the commission for identification of any horse located on association grounds.
(5) The horse identifier shall report to the stewards any horse not properly identified or whose registration certificate is not in conformity with these rules.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 67.16.040. 98-01-145, § 260-24-560, filed 12/19/97, effective 1/19/98.]
Reviser's note: The bracketed material preceding the section above was supplied by the code reviser's office.