RCW 16.50.120
Humane methods for bleeding or slaughtering livestock required.
No slaughterer or packer shall bleed or slaughter any livestock except by a humane method: PROVIDED, That the director may, by administrative order, exempt a person from compliance with this chapter for a period of not to exceed six months if he or she finds that an earlier compliance would cause such person undue hardship.
[ 2011 c 336 § 422; 1967 c 31 § 3.]