Stock at large in restricted areas—Running at large on state or federal land.
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 85 Wash. 2d 166 - Misterek v. Washington Mineral Products, Inc. (1975)
Most recently applied in 96 Wash. 2d 652 - State v. Dear (December 1981)
1989 c 286 s 9; 1985 c 415 s 20; 1937 c 40 s 6; RRS s 3070-3
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) No person owning or in control of any livestock shall willfully or negligently allow such livestock to run at large in any stock restricted area or to wander or stray upon the right-of-way of any public highway lying within a stock restricted area when not in the charge of some person.
(2) Livestock may run at large upon lands belonging to the state of Washington or the United States only when the owner of the livestock has been granted grazing privileges in writing.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.