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HOUSE BILL 1769
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Representatives Ballard and McLean.
Read first time February 8, 1991. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources & Parks.
AN ACT Relating to forests; amending RCW 76.04.455; and prescribing penalties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 76.04.455 and 1986 c 100 s 29 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) It is unlawful during the closed season for any person to throw away any lighted tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, matches, fireworks, charcoal, or other lighted material or to discharge any tracer or incendiary ammunition in any forest, brush, range, or grain areas.
(2) It is unlawful during the closed season for any individual to smoke any flammable material when in forest or brush areas except on roads, cleared landings, gravel pits, or any similar area free of flammable material.
(3) Every conveyance operated through or above forest, range, brush, or grain areas shall be equipped in each compartment with a suitable receptacle for the disposition of lighted tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, matches, or other flammable material.
(4) Every person operating a public conveyance through or above forest, range, brush, or grain areas shall post a copy of this section in a conspicuous place within the smoking compartment of the conveyance; and every person operating a saw mill or a logging camp in any such areas shall post a copy of this section in a conspicuous place upon the ground or buildings of the milling or logging operation.
Any person violating subsections (1) through (4) of this section is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.