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Chapter 17.10 RCW

NOXIOUS WEEDS—CONTROL BOARDS

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HTMLPDF 17.10.007Purpose—Construction—1975 1st ex.s. c 13.
HTMLPDF 17.10.010Definitions.
HTMLPDF 17.10.020County noxious weed control boards—Created—Jurisdiction—Inactive status.
HTMLPDF 17.10.030State noxious weed control board—Members—Terms—Elections—Meetings—Reimbursement for travel expenses.
HTMLPDF 17.10.040Activation of inactive county noxious weed control board.
HTMLPDF 17.10.050Activated county noxious weed control board—Members—Election—Terms—Meetings—Quorum—Expenses—Officers—Vacancy.
HTMLPDF 17.10.060Activated county noxious weed control board—Weed coordinator—Authority—Rules and regulations.
HTMLPDF 17.10.070State noxious weed control board—Powers—Report.
HTMLPDF 17.10.074Director—Powers.
HTMLPDF 17.10.080State noxious weed list—Hearing—Adoption—Guidelines for placing plants on the list—Dissemination.
HTMLPDF 17.10.090State noxious weed list—Selection of weeds for control by county board.
HTMLPDF 17.10.100Order to county board to include weed from state board's list in county's noxious weed list.
HTMLPDF 17.10.110Regional noxious weed control board—Creation.
HTMLPDF 17.10.120Regional noxious weed control board—Members—Meetings—Quorum—Officers—Effect on county boards.
HTMLPDF 17.10.130Regional noxious weed control board—Powers and duties.
HTMLPDF 17.10.134Liability of county and regional noxious weed control boards.
HTMLPDF 17.10.140Owner's duty to control spread of noxious weeds.
HTMLPDF 17.10.145State agencies' duty to control spread of noxious weeds—Replacement of noxious weeds with native forage plants that are beneficial to pollinators.
HTMLPDF 17.10.154Owners' agreements with county noxious weed control boards—Terms—Enforcement.
HTMLPDF 17.10.160Right of entry—Warrant for noxious weed search—Civil liability—Penalty for preventing entry.
HTMLPDF 17.10.170Finding presence of noxious weeds—Notice for failure of owner to control—Control by county board—Liability of owner—Lien—Alternative.
HTMLPDF 17.10.180Hearing on liability for expense of control—Notice—Review.
HTMLPDF 17.10.190Notice and information as to noxious weed control.
HTMLPDF 17.10.201Noxious weed control on federal and tribal lands—State and county cooperation.
HTMLPDF 17.10.205Control of noxious weeds in open areas.
HTMLPDF 17.10.210Quarantine of land—Order—Expense.
HTMLPDF 17.10.230Violations—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 17.10.235Selling product, article, or feed containing noxious weed seeds or toxic weeds—Penalty—Rules—Inspections—Fees.
HTMLPDF 17.10.240Budget for county noxious weed control board—Report to the legislature—Special assessments, appropriations for noxious weed control—Assessment rates.
HTMLPDF 17.10.250Applications for noxious weed control funds.
HTMLPDF 17.10.260Administrative powers to be exercised in conformity with administrative procedure act—Use of weed control substances subject to other acts.
HTMLPDF 17.10.270Noxious weed control boards—Authority to obtain insurance or surety bonds.
HTMLPDF 17.10.280Lien for labor, material, equipment used in controlling noxious weeds.
HTMLPDF 17.10.290Lien for labor, material, equipment used in controlling noxious weeds—Notice of lien.
HTMLPDF 17.10.300Lien for labor, material, equipment used in controlling noxious weeds—Claim—Filing—Contents.
HTMLPDF 17.10.310Notice of infraction—Issuance.
HTMLPDF 17.10.350Infraction—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 17.10.890Deactivation of county noxious weed control board—Hearing.
HTMLPDF 17.10.900Weed districts—Continuation—Dissolution—Transfer of assessment funds.