{"topic_id":"US_WA_rcw_15_53_9014_petfood_registration","category":"us_state","context":"---\ntopic_id: US_WA_rcw_15_53_9014_petfood_registration\ncategory: us_state\ntitle: \"Washington State (RCW 15.53.9014) — Registration of pet food and specialty pet food\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Washington State RCW 15.53.9014, Washington State Legislature app.leg.wa.gov, retrieved 2026-07-30 (server-rendered HTML, fetched via Tokyo relay, tag-stripped + whitespace-normalised)\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/us-state/wa_rcw_15.53_9014_registration.txt\nsource_type: wa_statute_text\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-30\ntokens_estimated: 320\nverification: C1_substring_match\nclaims: 6\nsource_document: \"Washington Revised Code (RCW) Title 15, Chapter 15.53 — Commercial Feed (pet food statutory layer)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"RCW 15.53.9014\"\n  title: \"Washington State — Registration of pet food and specialty pet food\"\n  url: \"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=15.53.9014\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-30\"\n  ref: \"Washington State Legislature RCW (HTTP 200, server-rendered)\"\n  doc_type: \"official statute (first-hand English text)\"\n  needs_review: false\n---\n\n# Washington State (RCW 15.53.9014) — Registration of pet food and specialty pet food\n\nSource: RCW 15.53.9014, Washington State Legislature (app.leg.wa.gov), retrieved 2026-07-30. This is the **statutory** layer of Washington's pet food law; the implementing administrative rules (WAC 16-252, already in this repo under `us_state/US_WA_petfood_ingredient_definitions_WAC16-252*`) are adopted under this chapter.\n\nThis P2 topic covers the **registration** prerequisite for selling pet food / specialty pet food in Washington.\n\n## Registration framework\n\n### Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)\n- `(1) A person may not distribute in this state a pet food or specialty pet food that has not been registered by the department.`   (EN: No distribution of pet food or specialty pet food in WA without department registration — RCW 15.53.9014(1).)\n- `All applications for registration must be submitted on forms provided by the department and must include: (a) The name and mailing address of the applicant; (b) The physical address of the applicant; (c) The name, contact information, and signature of the applicant`   (EN: Mandatory application contents — applicant name/mailing address, physical address, name/contact/signature — RCW 15.53.9014(2).)\n- `An application for registration must be accompanied by a label and other applicable printed matter describing the product and the following fees: (a) Twenty-two dollars per product for those products distributed only in packages of ten pounds or more; (b) Ninety dollars per product for those products distributed in packages of less than ten pounds`   (EN: Registration fees — $22/product for packages ≥10 lb, $90/product for packages <10 lb — RCW 15.53.9014(3).)\n- `Registrations are issued by the department for a two-year period beginning on July 1st of a given year and ending twenty-four months later on July 1st`   (EN: Registration term — two years, July 1 to July 1 — RCW 15.53.9014(4).)\n- `A distributor is not required to register a pet food or specialty pet food that is already registered under this chapter, as long as it is distributed with the original label.`   (EN: Distributor exemption if product already registered and sold under original label — RCW 15.53.9014(5).)\n- `a late fee of twenty dollars per product is added to the original fee`   (EN: Late renewal penalty — $20/product added if renewal not received by July 1 due date — RCW 15.53.9014(8).)\n","sources":["Florida Statutes Chapter 580 — Washington State — Registration of pet food and specialty pet food (retrieved 2026-07-30)"],"source":{"authority":"Florida Statutes Chapter 580","title":"Washington State — Registration of pet food and specialty pet food","url":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=15.53.9014","retrieved":"2026-07-30","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"Washington Revised Code (RCW) Title 15, Chapter 15.53 — Commercial Feed (pet food statutory layer)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/us-state/wa_rcw_15.53_9014_registration.txt"},"source_document":"Washington Revised Code (RCW) Title 15, Chapter 15.53 — Commercial Feed (pet food statutory layer)","source_file":"pdf-raw/us-state/wa_rcw_15.53_9014_registration.txt","tokens_estimated":320,"generated_at":"2026-07-30","tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}