# RCW 17.24.081: RCW 17.24.081: Prohibited acts

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URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T17_C24_S081

## Section

- **Citation:** RCW 17.24.081
- **Heading:** RCW 17.24.081: Prohibited acts
- **Jurisdiction:** Washington
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** Washington Code / Title 17 / Chapter 24 / Section 081

## Text

It shall be unlawful for a person to: (1) Sell, offer for sale, or distribute a noxious weed or a plant or plant product or regulated article infested or infected with a plant pest declared by rule to be a threat to the state's forest, agricultural, horticultural, floricultural, or beekeeping industries or environment; (2) Knowingly receive a noxious weed, or a plant, plant product, bees, bee hive or appliances, or regulated article sold, given away, carried, shipped, or delivered for carriage or shipment within this state, in violation of the provisions of this chapter or the rules adopted under this chapter; (3) Fail to immediately notify the department and isolate and hold the noxious weed, bees, bee hives or appliances, plants or plant products, or other thing unopened or unused subject to inspection or other disposition as may be provided by the department, where the item has been received without knowledge of the violation and the receiver has become subsequently aware of the potential problem; (4) Knowingly conceal or willfully withhold available information regarding an infected or infested plant, plant product, regulated article, or noxious weed; (5) Introduce or move into this state, or to move or dispose of in this state, a plant, plant product, or other item included in a quarantine, except under rules as may be prescribed by the department, after a quarantine order has been adopted under this chapter against a place, nursery, orchard, vineyard, apiary, other agricultural establishment, county of this state, another state, territory, or a foreign country as to a plant pest, bee pest, or noxious weed or genetically engineered plant or plant pest organism, until such quarantine is removed; (6) Introduce or move nonnative managed bumble bees into this state to be used in open-field agricultural use.

## Nearby sections

- [RCW 17.24.003 RCW 17.24.003: Purpose.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T17_C24_S003.md)
- [RCW 17.24.007 RCW 17.24.007: Definitions.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T17_C24_S007.md)
- [RCW 17.24.011 RCW 17.24.011: Regulation of plant, plant product, bee movement, and genetically engineered organisms.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T17_C24_S011.md)
- [RCW 17.24.021 RCW 17.24.021: Inspection and investigation.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T17_C24_S021.md)
- [RCW 17.24.031 RCW 17.24.031: Determination of origin.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T17_C24_S031.md)
- [RCW 17.24.041 RCW 17.24.041: Power to adopt quarantine measures—Rules.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T17_C24_S041.md)
- [RCW 17.24.051 RCW 17.24.051: Introduction of plant pests, noxious weeds, or organisms affecting plant life—Special transit permit for brush, yard waste, or debris generated inside a quarantine area for apple maggot.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T17_C24_S051.md)
- [RCW 17.24.061 RCW 17.24.061: Protection of privileged or confidential information—Procedure—Notice—Declaratory judgment.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T17_C24_S061.md)
- [RCW 17.24.071 RCW 17.24.071: Compliance agreements.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T17_C24_S071.md)
- [RCW 17.24.081 RCW 17.24.081: Prohibited acts.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T17_C24_S081.md)
- [RCW 17.24.091 RCW 17.24.091: Impound and disposition.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T17_C24_S091.md)
- [RCW 17.24.100 RCW 17.24.100: Penalties—Second and subsequent offenses.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T17_C24_S100.md)
- [RCW 17.24.101 RCW 17.24.101: Statewide survey and control activity.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T17_C24_S101.md)
- [RCW 17.24.111 RCW 17.24.111: Director's cooperation with other agencies.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T17_C24_S111.md)

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