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                         SENATE BILL 6591

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State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By Senators M. Rasmussen, L. Smith, Snyder and Roach

Read first time 02/02/94.  Referred to Committee on Agriculture.

Modifying the department of licensing's definition of "farming."

    AN ACT Relating to the department of licensing; and amending RCW 46.04.183.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 46.04.183 and 1969 ex.s. c 281 s 59 are each amended to read as follows:

    "Farming" means the cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodities (((except forestry or forestry operations))), the raising of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals, or poultry, and any practices performed on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with ((such)) farming operations.

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