Board of Health adopts proposed rule changes for keeping animals

The Washington State Board of Health (Board) adopted proposed revisions to Washington state’s Keeping of Animals rule at its June 8 virtual public meeting. Changes to the rule include updating the language to help make the rule easier to understand, outlining standards to help prevent, control, and abate health hazards and nuisance related to domestic animal waste, and a proposed title change to Domestic Animal Waste to more accurately reflect the Board’s authority regulating animal excreta. As a next step, Board staff will file an order of rule adoption with the code reviser’s office to establish an effective rule date.

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