Washington legal term
Manufacture in Washington Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Washington legislative session
In Washington criminal law, “Manufacture” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Washington criminal code.
What does “Manufacture” mean in Washington criminal law?
"Manufacture" means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion, or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly or by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container. (RCW 69.50.101)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Assault weapons
- Counterfeiting
- Endangerment with a controlled substance
- Financial fraud
- Improper use of flag prohibited
- Intercepting, transmitting, or recording conversations concerning controlled substances or commercial sexual abuse of a minor
- Involving a person under eighteen in unlawful controlled substance transaction
- Large capacity magazines
- Metal property deception
- Prohibited acts: E
- Tableting and encapsulating machines prohibited
- Undetectable or untraceable firearms
Related terms in the same statutes
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