Drafter
Clerk 09/23/2026
Title
A RULE AND REGULATION relating to fees for pet businesses; amending R&R 09-07, Section 44, as amended, and BOH 2.13.020, R&R 09-07, Section 45, as amended, and BOH 2.13.030, R&R 09-07, Section 47, as amended, and BOH 2.13.050, R&R 09-07, Section 48, as amended, and BOH 2.13.060, and R&R 09-07, Section 49, as amended, and BOH 2.13.070, and establishing an effective date; enacted pursuant to RCW 70.05.060, including the latest amendments or revisions thereto.
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BE IT ADOPTED BY THE KING COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH:
SECTION 1. R&R 09-07, Section 44, as amended, and BOH 2.13.020 are hereby amended to read as follows:
Permit fees.
Permit Fees.
A. The owner or operator of a pet ((shop, commercial kennel, pet daycare facility, animal shelter, pet grooming service or pet food retail)) business shall pay to the director the following annual operating permit fees, as applicable:
1. Pet shop
a. Aquarium only
$((270.00)) 468.00
b. Standard
$((486.00)) 644.00
2. ((Commercial kennel)) Pet boarding facility, pet daycare facility, or combined pet boarding and daycare facility
(($486.00))
a. Category 1: capacity for 10 or fewer animals
$585.00
b. Category 2: capacity for 11 to 44 animals
$702.00
c. Category 3: capacity for 45 to 80 animals
$819.00
d. Category 4: capacity for 81 or more animals
$936.00
3. ((Pet daycare facility
$486.00
4.)) Animal shelter
a. Category 1: not more than 1,500 pet adoptions per calendar year except a Category 4 shelter
$((486.00)) 819.00
b. Category 2: more than 1,500 pet adoptions per calendar year
$((1,026.00)) 1,170.00
c. Category 3: Satellite pet adoption facility
$((162.00)) 468.00 per location
d. Category 4: fewer than 500 pet adoptions per calendar year if housing and offering or distributing for adoption as pets only small, noncanine and nonfeline mammals, including, but not limited to, ...
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