Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 69 Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, And Poisons - Chapter 69.28 Honey

69.28.020 Enforcement power and duty of director and agents
The director is hereby empowered, through his duly authorized agents, to enforce all provisions of this chapter. The director shall have the power to define, ...

69.28.025 Rules and regulations have force of law
Any rules or regulations promulgated and published by the director under the provisions of this chapter shall have the force and effect of law.[1939 c ...

69.28.030 Rules prescribing standards
The director is hereby authorized, and it shall be his duty, upon the taking effect of this chapter and from time to time thereafter, to ...

69.28.040 Right to enter, inspect, and take samples
The director or any of his duly authorized agents shall have the power to enter and inspect at reasonable times every place, vehicle, plant or ...

69.28.050 Containers to be labeled
It shall be unlawful to deliver for shipment, ship, transport, sell, expose or offer for sale any containers or subcontainers of honey within this state ...

69.28.060 Requisites of markings
When any markings are used or required to be used under this chapter on any container of honey to identify the container or describe the ...

69.28.070 "Marked" defined -- When honey need not be marked
The term "marked" shall mean printed in the English language on the top, front or side of any container containing honey: PROVIDED, That it shall ...

69.28.080 Purchaser to be advised of standards -- Exceptions
It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver, sell, offer, or expose for sale any honey for human consumption within the state without notifying ...

69.28.090 Forgery, simulation, etc., of marks, labels, etc., unlawful
It shall be unlawful to forge, counterfeit, simulate, falsely represent or alter without proper authority any mark, stamp, tab, label, seal, sticker or other identification ...

69.28.095 Unlawful mutilation or removal of seals, marks, etc., used by director
It shall be unlawful to mutilate, destroy, obliterate, or remove without proper authority, any mark, stamp, tag, label, seal, sticker or other identification device used ...

69.28.100 Marks for "slack-filled" container
Any slack-filled container shall be conspicuously marked "slack-filled".[1939 c 199 § 36; RRS § 6163-36. FORMER PART OF SECTION: 1939 c 199 § 10 now ...

69.28.110 Use of used containers
It shall be unlawful to sell, offer, or expose for sale to the consumer any honey in any secondhand or used containers which formerly contained ...

69.28.120 Floral source labels
Any honey which is a blend of two or more floral types of honey shall not be labeled as a honey product from any one ...

69.28.130 Adulterated honey -- Sale or offer unlawful
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer or intend for sale any adulterated honey as honey.[1939 c 199 § 26; RRS § ...

69.28.133 Nonconforming honey -- Sale or offer unlawful
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer or intend for sale any honey which does not conform to the provisions of this ...

69.28.135 Warning-tagged honey -- Movement prohibited
It shall be unlawful to move any honey or containers of honey to which any warning tag or notice has been affixed except under authority ...

69.28.140 Possession of unlawful honey as evidence
Possession by any person, of any honey which is sold, exposed or offered for sale in violation of this chapter shall be prima facie evidence ...

69.28.170 Inspectors -- Prosecutions
It shall be the duty of the director to enforce this chapter and to appoint and employment [employ] such inspectors as may be necessary therefor. ...

69.28.180 Violation of rules and regulations unlawful
It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any rule or regulation promulgated by the director under the provisions of this chapter.[1939 c 199 ...

69.28.185 Penalty
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon violation thereof shall be punishable by ...

69.28.190 "Director" defined
The term "director" means the director of agriculture of the state of Washington or his duly authorized representative.[1939 c 199 § 2; RRS § 6163-2. ...

69.28.200 "Container" defined
The term "container" shall mean any box, crate, chest, carton, barrel, keg, bottle, jar, can or any other receptacle containing honey.[1939 c 199 § 3; ...

69.28.210 "Subcontainer" defined
The term "subcontainer" shall mean any section box or other receptacle used within a container.[1939 c 199 § 4; RRS § 6163-4.] ...

69.28.220 "Section box" defined
The term "section box" shall mean the wood or other frame in which bees have built a small comb of honey.[1939 c 199 § 5; ...

69.28.230 "Clean and sound containers" defined
The term "clean and sound containers" shall mean containers which are virtually free from rust, stains or leaks.[1939 c 199 § 6; RRS § 6163-6.] ...

69.28.240 "Pack", "packing", or "packed" defined
The term "pack", "packing", or "packed" shall mean the arrangement of all or part of the subcontainers in any container.[1939 c 199 § 7; RRS ...

69.28.250 "Label" defined
The term "label" shall mean a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any article.[1939 c 199 § 8; RRS ...

69.28.260 "Person" defined
The term "person" includes individual, partnership, corporation and/or association.[1939 c 199 § 9; RRS § 6163-9.] ...

69.28.270 "Slack-filled" defined
The term "slack-filled" shall mean that the contents of any container occupy less than ninety-five percent of the volume of the closed container.[1939 c 199 ...

69.28.280 "Deceptive arrangement" defined
The term "deceptive arrangement" shall mean any lot or load, arrangement or display of honey which has in any exposed surface, honey which is so ...

69.28.290 "Mislabeled" defined
The term "mislabeled" shall mean the placing or presence of any false or misleading statement, design or device upon, or in connection with, any container ...

69.28.300 "Placard" defined
The term "placard" means any sign, label or designation, other than an oral designation, used with any honey as a description or identification thereof.[1939 c ...

69.28.310 "Honey" defined
The term "honey" as used herein is the nectar of floral exudations of plants, gathered and stored in the comb by honey bees (apis mellifica). ...

69.28.320 "Comb-honey" defined
The term "comb-honey" means honey which has not been extracted from the comb.[1939 c 199 § 15; RRS § 6163-15.] ...

69.28.330 "Extracted honey" defined
The term "extracted honey" means honey which has been removed from the comb.[1939 c 199 § 16; RRS § 6163-16.] ...

69.28.340 "Crystallized honey" defined
The term "crystallized honey" means honey which has assumed a solid form due to the crystallization of one or more of the natural sugars therein.[1939 ...

69.28.350 "Honeydew" defined
The term "honeydew" is the saccharine exudation of plants, other than nectarous exudations, gathered and stored in the comb by honey bees (apis mellifica) and ...

69.28.360 "Foreign material" defined
The term "foreign material" means pollen, wax particles, insects, or materials not deposited by bees.[1937 c 199 § 19; RRS § 6163-19.] ...

69.28.370 "Foreign honey" defined
The term "foreign honey" means any honey not produced within the continental United States.[1939 c 199 § 20; RRS § 6163-20.] ...

69.28.380 "Adulterated honey" defined
The term "adulterated honey" means any honey to which has been added honeydew, glucose, dextrose, molasses, sugar, sugar syrup, invert sugar, or any other similar ...

69.28.390 "Serious damage" defined
The term "serious damage" means any injury or defect that seriously affects the edibility or shipping quality of the honey.[1939 c 199 § 23; RRS ...

69.28.400 Labeling requirements for artificial honey or mixtures containing honey
(1) No person shall sell, keep for sale, expose or offer for sale, any article or product in imitation or semblance of honey branded exclusively ...

69.28.410 Embargo on honey or product -- Notice by director -- Removal
Whenever the director shall find, or shall have probable cause to believe, that any honey or product subject to the provisions of this chapter, as ...

69.28.420 Embargo on honey or product -- Court order affirming, required -- Order for destruction or correction and release -- Bond
When the director has embargoed any honey or product he shall, no later than twenty days after the affixing of notice of its embargo, petition ...

69.28.430 Consolidation of petitions presenting same issue and claimant
Two or more petitions under this chapter, as now or hereafter amended, which pend at the same time and which present the same issue and ...

69.28.440 Sample of honey or product may be obtained -- Procedure
The claimant in any proceeding by petition under this chapter, as now or hereafter amended, shall be entitled to receive a representative sample of the ...

69.28.450 Recovery of damages barred if probable cause for embargo
No state court shall allow the recovery of damages for embargo under this chapter, as now or hereafter amended, if the court finds that there ...

69.28.900 Severability -- 1939 c 199
If any provisions of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter, and the ...

69.28.910 Short title
This chapter may be known and cited as the Washington state honey act.[1939 c 199 § 1; RRS § 6163-1.] ...