STATE STATUTES & CODES

WASHINGTON STATUTES AND CODES

20.01 - Agricultural products -- Commission merchants, dealers, brokers, buyers, agents.

• 20.01.010 - Definitions.
• 20.01.020 - Rules and regulations -- Enforcement of chapter -- Interference prohibited.
• 20.01.030 - Exemptions.
• 20.01.038 - License required of persons dealing in livestock, hay, grain, or straw.
• 20.01.040 - License -- Generally.
• 20.01.050 - License renewals.
• 20.01.060 - Licensee in one class may obtain license in another -- Additional fee.
• 20.01.070 - Application for license -- Contents.
• 20.01.080 - Commission merchant's schedule of commissions and charges -- Changes, posting.
• 20.01.086 - Waiver of reporting, accounting, and record-keeping requirements prohibited.
• 20.01.090 - Agent to disclose principal licensee and his endorsement.
• 20.01.100 - Issuance of license -- Expiration date -- Fraudulent application grounds for refusal, revocation.
• 20.01.110 - Publication of list of licensees and rules -- Posting license.
• 20.01.120 - Vehicle license plates.
• 20.01.125 - Hay or straw -- Certified vehicle tare and load weights -- Violations.
• 20.01.130 - Disposition of moneys.
• 20.01.140 - Change in organization of firm to be reported.
• 20.01.150 - Denial, suspension, revocation of licenses, probationary orders -- Authority.
• 20.01.160 - Denial, suspension, revocation of licenses, probationary orders -- Procedure.
• 20.01.170 - Denial, suspension, revocation of licenses, probationary orders -- Subpoenas, witnesses, testimony, fees.
• 20.01.180 - Denial, suspension, revocation of licenses, probationary orders -- Findings and conclusions -- Record.
• 20.01.190 - Denial, suspension, revocation of licenses, probationary orders -- Final action in writing -- Appeal to superior court.
• 20.01.200 - Denial, suspension, revocation of licenses, probationary orders -- Appellate review.
• 20.01.205 - License suspension--Noncompliance with support order -- Reissuance.
• 20.01.210 - Commission merchants, dealers -- Bonds.
• 20.01.211 - Alternative bonding provision for certain dealers.
• 20.01.212 - Livestock dealers bonded under federal law.
• 20.01.214 - Appeal from rejected bond claim.
• 20.01.220 - Action on bond for fraud.
• 20.01.230 - Action on bond for failure to comply with chapter.
• 20.01.240 - Claims against commission merchant, dealer.
• 20.01.250 - Failure of consignor to file claim, time limitation.
• 20.01.260 - Director not liable if circumstances prevent ascertainment of creditors -- Demand on bond.
• 20.01.270 - Demand on bond after claims ascertained -- Power of director to settle, compromise.
• 20.01.280 - Action on bond after refusal to pay -- New bond, failure to file.
• 20.01.300 - Verified complaints of consignor -- Investigations.
• 20.01.310 - Oaths, testimony, witnesses, subpoenas -- Contempt proceedings -- Records as evidence.
• 20.01.320 - Investigations, examinations, inspections -- Search warrants -- Subpoenas.
• 20.01.330 - Denial, revocation, suspension, or condition of licenses, probationary orders -- Grounds.
• 20.01.340 - Denial, revocation, suspension of licenses, probationary orders -- Previous violations as grounds.
• 20.01.350 - Denial, revocation, suspension of licenses, probationary orders -- Hearing, investigation -- Findings required -- Notices.
• 20.01.360 - Order of revocation, suspension.
• 20.01.370 - Commission merchants -- Recordkeeping.
• 20.01.380 - Dealers, cash buyers, livestock dealers -- Recordkeeping -- Carrying identification and health documents.
• 20.01.385 - Failure to comply -- Construction of transaction.
• 20.01.390 - When dealer must pay for products delivered to him.
• 20.01.400 - Broker's memorandum of sale.
• 20.01.410 - Manifest of cargo -- Bill of lading.
• 20.01.420 - Commission merchant's report of sale to consignor.
• 20.01.430 - Commission merchant's remittance to consignor.
• 20.01.440 - Commission merchant's copy of records to be retained -- Inspection -- Department's certificate of condition, quality, etc.
• 20.01.450 - Claims against seller by dealer, cash buyer -- Credit to dealer, cash buyer against consignor -- Certificate of proof.
• 20.01.460 - Prohibited acts -- Penalties.
• 20.01.465 - Time of sale requirement -- Unlawful practice.
• 20.01.470 - Action to enjoin violation of chapter.
• 20.01.475 - Licensee under chapter -- Prima facie evidence acting as licensee handling agricultural products.
• 20.01.480 - Violations resulting in improper or nonpayment -- Charges.
• 20.01.482 - Civil infractions -- Notice -- Misdemeanors.
• 20.01.484 - Civil infractions -- Response to notice.
• 20.01.486 - Civil infractions -- Hearing to contest charge -- Order -- Appeal.
• 20.01.488 - Civil infractions -- Informal hearing on mitigating circumstances -- Order -- No appeal.
• 20.01.490 - Civil infractions -- Monetary penalty -- Failure to pay, misdemeanor.
• 20.01.500 - "Grower," "processor" defined -- Application of exemption contained in RCW 20.01.030(1).
• 20.01.510 - Processor's form showing maximum processing capacity.
• 20.01.520 - Processor to have grower contracts and commitments on file.
• 20.01.530 - Grower may file form showing crops processor is committed to purchase.
• 20.01.540 - Committing to purchase more crops than plants can process -- Violation.
• 20.01.550 - Discrimination by processor.
• 20.01.560 - Effective date of RCW 20.01.500 through 20.01.550.
• 20.01.570 - Cash or other security in lieu of surety bond.
• 20.01.610 - Authority to stop vehicle violating chapter -- Failure to stop, civil infraction.
• 20.01.900 - Chapter cumulative and nonexclusive.
• 20.01.910 - Severability -- 1959 c 139.
• 20.01.911 - Severability -- 1963 c 232.
• 20.01.912 - Severability -- 1967 c 240.
• 20.01.913 - Severability -- 1979 ex.s. c 115.
• 20.01.920 - Effective date -- 1959 c 139.
• 20.01.930 - Repealer.
• 20.01.940 - Repealer -- Savings -- 1979 ex.s. c 115.

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