Title 70 — Title 70 PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
98 chapters · 1,450 sections in this title.
RCW 70.104.010 Declaration.
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The department of health has responsibility to protect and enhance the public health and welfare. As a consequence, it must be concerned with both natural and artificial environmental factors which may adversely affect the public health and welfare. Dangers to the public health a…
RCW 70.104.020 "Pesticide" defined.
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For the purposes of this chapter pesticide means, but is not limited to:(1) Any substance or mixture of substances intended to prevent, destroy, control, repel, or mitigate any insect, rodent, nematode, snail, slug, fungus, weed and any other form of plant or animal life or virus…
RCW 70.104.030 Powers and duties of department of health.
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(1) The department of health may investigate all suspected human cases of pesticide poisoning and such cases of suspected pesticide poisoning of animals that may relate to human illness. The department shall establish time periods by rule to determine investigation response time.…
RCW 70.104.040 Pesticide emergencies—Authority of department of agriculture not infringed upon.
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(1) In any case where an emergency relating to pesticides occurs that represents a hazard to the public due to toxicity of the material, the quantities involved or the environment in which the incident takes place, such emergencies including but not limited to fires, spillage, an…
RCW 70.104.050 Investigation of human exposure to pesticides.
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The department of health shall investigate human exposure to pesticides according to the degree of risk that the exposure presents to the individual and the greater population as well as the level of funding appropriated in the operating budget, and in order to carry out such inv…
RCW 70.104.055 Pesticide poisonings—Reports.
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(1) Any attending physician or other health care provider recognized as primarily responsible for the diagnosis and treatment of a patient or, in the absence of a primary health care provider, the health care provider initiating diagnostic testing or therapy for a patient shall r…
RCW 70.104.057 Pesticide poisonings—Medical education program.
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The department of health, after seeking advice from the state board of health, local health officers, and state and local medical associations, shall develop a program of medical education to alert physicians and other health care providers to the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, …
RCW 70.104.060 Technical assistance, consultations and services to physicians and agencies authorized.
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In order effectively to prevent human illness due to pesticides and to carry out the requirements of this chapter, the department of health is authorized to provide technical assistance and consultation regarding health effects of pesticides to physicians and other agencies, and …
RCW 70.104.110 Pesticide application safety committee—Report to the legislature.
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(1) The pesticide application safety committee is established. Appointments to the committee must be made as soon as possible after the legislature convenes in regular session. The committee is composed of the following members:(a) One member from each of the two largest caucuses…