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- § — Kidnapping in the first degree.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Unlawful imprisonment.
- § — Custodial interference—Assessment of costs—Defense—Consent defense, restricted.
- § — Trafficking—Court appearance—No-contact orders—Entry of order into computer-based criminal intellige
- § — Kidnapping in the second degree.
- § — Custodial interference in the second degree.
- § — Luring.
- § — Trafficking.
- § — Custodial interference in the first degree.
- § — Trafficking—Condition of sentence restricting contact—No-contact orders—Entry of order into computer
- § — Trafficking—Court may prohibit defendant's contact with victim—No-contact orders—Issuance, terminati
- § — Coercion of involuntary servitude.
- § — Enforcement of orders restricting contact.
- § — Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
- § — Prosecutions based on felonies defined outside Title 9A RCW.
- § — Criminal attempt.
- § — Criminal conspiracy.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Criminal solicitation.
- § — Use of force—When lawful.
- § — Use of force—When unjustified—Victim identity.
- § — Homicide—When excusable.
- § — Justifiable homicide or use of deadly force by public officer, peace officer, person aiding—Good fai
- § — Justifiable homicide or use of deadly force by peace officer—Reimbursement of defendant for costs—Sp
- § — Homicide—By other person—When justifiable.
- § — Duress.
- § — Entrapment.
- § — Action for being detained on mercantile establishment premises for investigation—"Reasonable grounds
- § — Intoxication.
- § — Use of force on children—Policy—Actions presumed unreasonable.
- § — Defending against violent crime—Reimbursement.
- § — Outdoor music festival, campground—Detention.
- § — Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
- § — Liability for conduct of another—Complicity.
- § — General requirements of culpability.
- § — Diminished capacity—Victim identity.
- § — Entity and personal liability.
- § — Referral assessments—Probation department oversight committee.
- § — Classification and designation of crimes.
- § — Authorized sentences for crimes committed before July 1, 1984.
- § — Maximum sentences for crimes committed July 1, 1984, and after.
- § — Alternative to a fine—Restitution.
- § — Prosecutions related to felonies defined outside Title 9A RCW.
- § — Controlled substances homicide—Penalty.
- § — Homicide defined.
- § — Murder in the first degree—Sentence.
- § — Murder in the second degree.
- § — Murder in the first degree.
- § — Premeditation—Limitations.
- § — Homicide by abuse.
- § — Manslaughter in the first degree.
- § — Manslaughter in the second degree.
- § — Assault in the first degree.
- § — Assault in the third degree.
- § — Assault in the second degree.
- § — Assault in the fourth degree.
- § — Drive-by shooting.
- § — Reckless endangerment.
- § — Promoting a suicide attempt.
- § — Hate crime offenses—Finding.
- § — Coercion.
- § — Hate crime offense—Definition and criminal penalty.
- § — Hate crime offense—Civil action.
- § — Threats against governor or family.
- § — Custodial assault.
- § — Assault of a child in the first degree.
- § — Assault of a child in the second degree.
- § — Assault of a child in the third degree.
- § — Interfering with the reporting of domestic violence.
- § — Failing to summon assistance.
- § — Failing to summon assistance—Penalty.
- § — Female genital mutilation—Minors.
- § — Female genital mutilation—Minors—Civil action.
- § — Insanity.
- § — Title, effective date, application, severability, captions.
- § — Purposes—Principles of construction.
- § — State criminal jurisdiction.
- § — Classes of crimes.
- § — People capable of committing crimes—Capability of children.
- § — Common law to supplement statute.
- § — Who amenable to criminal statutes.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Limitation of actions.
- § — Application of general provisions of the code.
- § — Proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Funds collected by department.
- § — Restrictions on manufacture, sale, or storage—Users—Reports on storage—Waiver.
- § — License required to manufacture, purchase, sell, use, possess, transport, or store explosives—Penalt
- § — Magazines—Classification, location and construction—Standards—Use.
- § — Quantity and distance tables for storage—Adoption by rule.
- § — Limit on storage quantity.
- § — Quantity and distance tables for separation between magazines—Adoption by rule.
- § — Storage of caps with explosives prohibited.
- § — Manufacturer's report—Inspection—License.
- § — Quantity and distance table for explosives manufacturing buildings.
- § — Storage report—Inspection—License—Cancellation.
- § — Dealer in explosives—Application—License.
- § — Purchaser of explosives—Application—License.
- § — Purchaser's license fee.
- § — Storage license fee.
- § — Manufacturer's license fee—Manufacturers to comply with dealer requirements when selling.
- § — User's license or renewal—Fee.
- § — Seller's license fee—Sellers to comply with dealer requirements.
- § — Annual inspection.
- § — Unlawful access to explosives.
- § — Discharge of firearms or igniting flame near explosives.
- § — Exemptions.
- § — Municipal or county ordinances unaffected—State preemption.
- § — Sale to unlicensed person prohibited.
- § — Shipments out of state—Dealer's records.
- § — Blasting near fur farms and hatcheries.
- § — Coal mining code unaffected.
- § — Malicious placement of an explosive—Penalties.
- § — Malicious placement of an imitation device—Penalties.
- § — Malicious explosion of a substance—Penalties.
- § — Explosive devices prohibited—Penalty.
- § — "Terrorist act" defined.
- § — Abandonment of explosives.
- § — Separate storage of components capable of detonation when mixed.
- § — Gas bombs, explosives, stink bombs, etc.
- § — Explosive containers to be marked—Penalty.
- § — Small arms ammunition, primers and propellants—Separation from flammable materials.
- § — Small arms ammunition, primers and propellants—Transportation regulations.
- § — Small arms ammunition, primers and propellants—Primers, transportation and storage requirements.
- § — Small arms ammunition, primers and propellants—Transportation, storage and display requirements.
- § — Licenses—Fingerprint and criminal record checks—Fee—Licenses prohibited for certain persons—License
- § — Intimidation or harassment with an explosive—Class C felony.
- § — Licenses—Expiration—Extension of storage licenses.
- § — License revocation, nonrenewal, or suspension.
- § — Seizure and forfeiture.
- § — Reporting theft or loss of explosives.
- § — Hate crime offense—Definition and criminal penalty.
- § — Implementation of chapter and rules pursuant to chapter 49.17 RCW.
- § — Definition—Penalties.
- § — Place where committed.
- § — Court-ordered requirements upon person charged with crime—Violation.
- § — Arraignment—No-contact order.
- § — Court-initiated stalking no-contact orders.
- § — Crimes included in harassment.
- § — Legislative finding.
- § — Enforcement of orders restricting contact.
- § — Stalking no-contact orders—Appearance before magistrate required.
- § — "Convicted," time when.
- § — Nonliability of peace officer.
- § — Order restricting contact—Violation.
- § — Stalking.
- § — Criminal gang intimidation.
- § — Short title.
- § — Effective date—1985 c 288.
- § — Findings.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Unlawful discharge of a laser in the first degree.
- § — Unlawful discharge of a laser in the second degree.
- § — Civil infraction, when.
- § — Exclusions.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Arson in the first degree.
- § — Arson in the second degree.
- § — Reckless burning in the first degree.
- § — Reckless burning—Defense.
- § — Reckless burning in the second degree.
- § — Malicious mischief in the first degree.
- § — Malicious mischief in the third degree.
- § — Malicious mischief in the second degree.
- § — Malicious mischief—"Physical damage" defined.
- § — Criminal street gang tagging and graffiti.
- § — Defacing a state monument.
- § — Registration of sex offenders and kidnapping offenders—Notice to defendants.
- § — Civil disorder training.
- § — Sex, kidnapping offenders—Notices to offenders, law enforcement officials.
- § — Sex offenders and kidnapping offenders—Central registry—Reimbursement to counties.
- § — Sex offenders and kidnapping offenders—Registration—Notice to persons convicted of sex offenses and
- § — Definitions.
- § — Testimony—Evidence—Written motion—Admissibility.
- § — Depictions of victim created during forensic examination—Confidentiality.
- § — Depiction of victim created during forensic examination—Sealing and destruction of exhibit.
- § — Defenses to prosecution under this chapter.
- § — Rape in the first degree.
- § — First degree rape—Penalties.
- § — Rape in the second degree.
- § — Rape of a child in the first degree.
- § — Rape in the third degree.
- § — Rape of a child in the second degree.
- § — Rape of a child in the third degree.
- § — Child molestation in the first degree.
- § — Child molestation in the second degree.
- § — Child molestation in the third degree.
- § — Sexual misconduct with a minor in the first degree.
- § — Sexual misconduct with a minor in the second degree.
- § — Indecent liberties.
- § — Sexually violating human remains.
- § — Voyeurism.
- § — Definitions applicable to RCW 9A.44.130 through 9A.44.145, 10.01.200, 43.43.540, 70.48.470, and
- § — Admissibility of child's statement—Conditions.
- § — Address verification.
- § — Failure to register as sex offender or kidnapping offender.
- § — Registration of sex offenders and kidnapping offenders—Procedures—Definition—Penalties.
- § — Attendance, employment of registered sex offenders and kidnapping offenders at schools and instituti
- § — Registration of sex offenders and kidnapping offenders—Duty to register.
- § — Investigation—End of duty to register—Removal from registry—Civil liability.
- § — Relief from duty to register—Petition—Exceptions.
- § — Relief from duty to register for sex offense or kidnapping offense committed when offender was a juv
- § — Relief from duty to register—Juvenile offenders.
- § — Notification to offenders of changed requirements and ability to petition for relief from registrati
- § — Application of RCW 9A.44.128 through 9A.44.145—Duty to register under law as it existed prior to J
- § — Testimony of child by closed-circuit television.
- § — Custodial sexual misconduct in the second degree.
- § — Custodial sexual misconduct in the first degree.
- § — Custodial sexual misconduct—Defense.
- § — Criminal trespass against children—Definitions.
- § — Criminal trespass against children—Covered entities.
- § — Criminal trespass against children.
- § — Construction—Sections decodified and added to this chapter.
- § — Court initiated issuance of sexual assault no-contact orders—Terms, conditions, requirements, etc.
- § — Decodifications and additions to this chapter.
- § — Effective date—1979 ex.s. c 244.
- § — Section captions—1988 c 145.
- § — Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
- § — Findings and intent—Christian Science treatment—Rules of evidence.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Criminal mistreatment in the first degree.
- § — Criminal mistreatment in the second degree.
- § — Criminal mistreatment in the third degree.
- § — Criminal mistreatment in the fourth degree.
- § — Arresting officer, notification by.
- § — Withdrawal of life support systems.
- § — Palliative care.
- § — Abandonment of a dependent person in the first degree—Exception.
- § — Defense of financial inability.
- § — Abandonment of a dependent person in the third degree—Exception.
- § — Abandonment of a dependent person in the second degree—Exception.
- § — Abandonment of a dependent person—Defense.
- § — Endangerment with a controlled substance.
- § — Leaving a child in the care of a sex offender.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Interference with health care facility.
- § — Finding.
- § — Penalty.
- § — Civil remedies.
- § — Civil damages.
- § — Informational picketing.
- § — Protection of health care patients and providers.
- § — Construction.
- § — Effective date—1993 c 128.
- § — Forgery—Description of instrument.
- § — Violations generally—Penalty.
- § — Unlawful acts.
- § — Unlawful practices.
- § — Other grounds for issuance of search warrant.
- § — Unlawful appropriation, printing, or distribution.
- § — Penalty for falsification.
- § — Penalty for false entries.
- § — Offering false instrument for filing or record.
- § — False statement, failure to file, or failure to post document required to be posted—Penalty—Unpaid w
- § — Obtaining employment by false letter or certificate.
- § — Violation of rules and regulations unlawful.
- § — Penalty for false branding, etc.
- § — Forgery of mark, etc.—Penalty.
- § — Forgery or counterfeiting of stamps—Penalty.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Obtaining a signature by deception or duress.
- § — Forgery.
- § — False certification.
- § — Criminal impersonation in the first degree.
- § — Criminal impersonation in the second degree.
- § — Fraudulent creation or revocation of a mental health advance directive.
- § — False academic credentials—Unlawful issuance or use—Definitions—Penalties.
- § — Impersonating a census taker.
- § — Larceny or embezzlement—Specification.
- § — Restoration of stolen property to owner—Duties of officers.
- § — Wilfully retaining books—Infraction.
- § — Prohibited acts—Penalty.
- § — Misappropriation, etc., by treasurer.
- § — Misappropriation and falsification of accounts by public officer.
- § — Penalty for destroying native flora on state lands, highways, parks.
- § — Trespasser guilty of theft, when.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Reporting and accounting for premiums.
- § — Sabotaging rolling stock—Receiving stolen railroad property.
- § — Theft—Definition, defense.
- § — Theft in the first degree.
- § — Theft in the second degree.
- § — Theft in the third degree.
- § — Unlawful issuance of checks or drafts.
- § — Theft of motor vehicle.
- § — Taking motor vehicle without permission in the first degree.
- § — Taking motor vehicle without permission in the second degree.
- § — Making or possessing motor vehicle theft tools.
- § — Possession of stolen vehicle.
- § — Motor vehicle crimes—Civil action.
- § — Theft of livestock in the first degree.
- § — Theft of livestock in the second degree.
- § — Theft of rental, leased, lease-purchased, or loaned property.
- § — Minimum fine for theft of livestock.
- § — Theft and larceny equated.
- § — Extortion in the first degree.
- § — Extortion—Definition.
- § — Extortion in the second degree.
- § — Possessing stolen property—Definition—Presumption.
- § — Possessing stolen property in the first degree—Other than firearm or motor vehicle.
- § — Possessing stolen property in the second degree—Other than firearm or motor vehicle.
- § — Possessing stolen property in the third degree.
- § — Obscuring the identity of a machine.
- § — Robbery—Definition.
- § — Robbery in the first degree.
- § — Robbery in the second degree.
- § — Theft of subscription television services.
- § — Forfeiture and disposal of device used to commit violation.
- § — Civil cause of action.
- § — Unlawful sale of subscription television services.
- § — Connection of channel converter.
- § — Theft of telecommunication services.
- § — Unlawful manufacture of telecommunication device.
- § — Unlawful sale of telecommunication device.
- § — Civil cause of action.
- § — Shopping cart theft.
- § — Credit, debit cards, checks, etc.—Definitions.
- § — Credit, payment cards—Unlawful factoring of transactions.
- § — Theft of a firearm.
- § — Possessing a stolen firearm.
- § — Financial fraud—Unlawful possession, production of instruments of.
- § — Possession of another's identification.
- § — Organized retail theft.
- § — Theft with the intent to resell.
- § — Retail theft with special circumstances.
- § — Mail theft.
- § — Possession of stolen mail.
- § — Theft from a vulnerable adult in the first degree—Theft from a vulnerable adult in the second degree
- § — Metal property deception.
- § — Mail theft—Possession of stolen mail—Commission of other crime.
- § — Findings.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Possessing, or reading or capturing, information contained on another person's identification docume
- § — Violation—Consumer protection act.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Burglary in the first degree.
- § — Residential burglary.
- § — Other crime in committing burglary punishable.
- § — Inference of intent.
- § — Making or having burglar tools.
- § — Burglary in the second degree.
- § — Criminal trespass in the first degree.
- § — Criminal trespass in the second degree.
- § — Criminal trespass—Defenses.
- § — School bus trespass.
- § — Vehicle prowling in the first degree.
- § — Vehicle prowling in the second degree.
- § — Removal of unauthorized persons—Declaration—Liability—Rights.
- § — Removal of unauthorized persons—Declaration form—Penalty for false swearing.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Defrauding a public utility.
- § — Defrauding a public utility in the first degree.
- § — Defrauding a public utility in the second degree.
- § — Defrauding a public utility in the third degree.
- § — Restitution and costs.
- § — Certain corrupt practices of school officials—Penalty.
- § — Damages not precluded.
- § — Officers and employees—Passes, free services prohibited, exceptions—Penalty.
- § — Penalty for taking illegal fees.
- § — Penalty for failure to pay over fees.
- § — Commission, etc., for procuring loan—Penalty.
- § — Labor representative receiving bribe.
- § — Bribery of labor representative.
- § — Corrupt influencing of agent.
- § — Rebates of wages—False records—Penalty.
- § — Offender a competent witness.
- § — Rebates of wages on public works—Penalty.
- § — Requesting unlawful compensation.
- § — Bribery.
- § — Misconduct in signing a petition.
- § — Receiving or granting unlawful compensation.
- § — Trading in public office.
- § — Commercial bribery.
- § — Trading in special influence.
- § — Committal of witness—Detention of documents.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Perjury in the second degree.
- § — Perjury in the first degree.
- § — Perjury and false swearing—Retraction.
- § — Perjury and false swearing—Inconsistent statements—Degree of crime.
- § — False swearing.
- § — Perjury and false swearing—Irregularities no defense.
- § — Statement of what one does not know to be true.
- § — Bribing a witness.
- § — Bribe receiving by a witness.
- § — Intimidating a witness.
- § — Tampering with a witness.
- § — Intimidating a juror.
- § — Jury tampering.
- § — Tampering with physical evidence.
- § — Intimidating a judge.
- § — Incest.
- § — Bigamy.
- § — Child selling—Child buying.
- § — Duty of witness of offense against child or any violent offense—Penalty.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Obstructing a law enforcement officer.
- § — Disarming a law enforcement or corrections officer.
- § — Disarming a law enforcement or corrections officer—Commission of another crime.
- § — Law enforcement or corrections officer engaged in criminal conduct.
- § — Refusing to summon aid for a peace officer.
- § — Rendering criminal assistance—Definition of term.
- § — Resisting arrest.
- § — Relative defined.
- § — Rendering criminal assistance in the first degree.
- § — Rendering criminal assistance in the second degree.
- § — Rendering criminal assistance in the third degree.
- § — Sexually violent predator escape.
- § — Escape in the third degree.
- § — Compounding.
- § — Escape in the first degree.
- § — Escape in the second degree.
- § — Introducing contraband in the first degree.
- § — Introducing contraband in the second degree.
- § — Bail jumping.
- § — Introducing contraband in the third degree.
- § — Making a false or misleading statement to a public servant.
- § — Intimidating a public servant.
- § — Amber alert—Making a false or misleading statement to a public servant.
- § — Failure to appear or surrender—Affirmative defense—Penalty.
- § — Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
- § — Harming a police dog, accelerant detection dog, or police horse—Penalty.
- § — Official misconduct.
- § — Criminal mischief.
- § — False reporting.
- § — Disorderly conduct.
- § — Failure to disperse.
- § — Drug control assistance unit—Special narcotics enforcement unit.
- § — Short title.
- § — Collection of unlawful debt.
- § — Use of extortionate means to collect extensions of credit.
- § — Advancing money or property to be used for extortionate credit.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Extortionate extension of credit.
- § — Trafficking in stolen property in the second degree.
- § — Trafficking in stolen property in the first degree.
- § — Use of proceeds of criminal profiteering—Controlling enterprise or realty—Conspiracy or attempt.
- § — Leading organized crime.
- § — Influencing outcome of sporting event.
- § — Bars on certain prosecutions.
- § — Orders restraining criminal profiteering—When issued.
- § — County antiprofiteering revolving funds.
- § — Criminal profiteering lien—Authority, procedures.
- § — Remedies and procedures.
- § — Criminal profiteering lien—Trustee of real property.
- § — Criminal profiteering lien—Procedures after notice.
- § — Criminal profiteering lien—Conveyance of property by trustee, liability.
- § — Criminal profiteering lien—Trustee's failure to comply, evasion of procedures or lien.
- § — Catalytic converters—Marking requirements—Defense.
- § — Financial institution records—Inspection and copying—Wrongful disclosure.
- § — Catalytic converters—Trafficking in the first degree.
- § — Effective date—1984 c 270 as amended by 1985 c 455.
- § — Effective date—1985 c 455.
- § — Catalytic converters—Trafficking in the second degree.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Money laundering.
- § — Release from liability.
- § — Seizure and forfeiture.
- § — Disclosing intimate images.
- § — Disclosing fabricated intimate images.
- § — Intimate images—Forfeiture by minors.
- § — Prosecution for prostitution under RCW 9A.88.030—Affirmative defense.
- § — Indecent exposure.
- § — Prostitution.
- § — Promoting prostitution—Definitions.
- § — Promoting prostitution in the first degree.
- § — Prostitution—Sex of parties immaterial—No defense.
- § — Promoting prostitution in the second degree.
- § — Additional fee assessments.
- § — Promoting travel for prostitution.
- § — Vehicle impoundment—Fees—Fines.
- § — Permitting prostitution.
- § — Patronizing a prostitute.
- § — Seizure and forfeiture.
- § — Additional requirements.
- § — Promoting prostitution in the first degree, second degree—Court may prohibit defendant's contact wit
- § — Promoting prostitution in the first degree, second degree—Court appearance—No-contact orders—Entry o
- § — Promoting prostitution in the first degree, second degree—Condition of sentence restricting contact—
- § — Enforcement of rules restricting contact.
- § — Findings—Intent—2016 c 164.
- § — Definitions.
- § — Computer trespass in the first degree.
- § — Emergency assistance—Criminal immunity.
- § — Short title—2016 c 164.
- § — Computer trespass in the second degree.
- § — Electronic data service interference.
- § — Spoofing.
- § — Electronic data tampering in the first degree.
- § — Electronic data tampering in the second degree.
- § — Electronic data theft.
- § — Commission of other crime.
- § — Savings clause.
- § — Cyber harassment.
- § — Acts or parts of acts repealed.