CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6377

Chapter 162, Laws of 2004

58th Legislature
2004 Regular Session



HOTEL-MOTEL LICENSE RENEWAL



EFFECTIVE DATE: 6/10/04

Passed by the Senate February 17, 2004
  YEAS 48   NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 3, 2004
  YEAS 92   NAYS 4

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


 
CERTIFICATE

I, Milton H. Doumit, Jr., Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6377 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

MILTON H. DOUMIT JR.
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Secretary
Approved March 26, 2004.








GARY LOCKE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
March 26, 2004 - 3:33 p.m.







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6377
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Passed Legislature - 2004 Regular Session
State of Washington58th Legislature2004 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Commerce & Trade (originally sponsored by Senator Honeyford)

READ FIRST TIME 02/05/04.   



     AN ACT Relating to renewal of transient accommodation licenses; and amending RCW 70.62.260.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 70.62.260 and 1994 c 250 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) No person shall operate a transient accommodation as defined in this chapter without having a valid license issued by the department. Applications for a transient accommodation license shall be filed with the department sixty days or more before initiating business as a transient accommodation. All licenses issued under the provisions of this chapter shall expire one year from the effective date.
     (2) All applications for renewal of licenses shall be ((made thirty days or more prior to the date of expiration of the license)) either: (a) Postmarked no later than midnight on the date the license expires; or (b) if personally presented to the department or sent by electronic means, received by the department by 5:00 p.m. on the date the license expires.
     (3) A licensee that submits a license renewal application in accordance with this section and the rules and fee schedule adopted under this chapter shall be deemed to possess a valid license for the year following the expiration date of the expiring license, or until the department suspends or revokes the license pursuant to RCW 70.62.270.
     (4) The license of a licensee that fails to submit a license renewal application in accordance with this section, and the rules and fee schedule adopted under this chapter, shall become invalid on the thirty-fifth day after the expiration date, unless the licensee shall have corrected any and all deficiencies in the renewal application and paid a penalty fee as established by rule by the department before the thirty-fifth day following the expiration date. An invalid license may be reinstated upon reapplication as an applicant for a new license under subsection (1) of this section.
     (5)
Each license shall be issued only for the premises and persons named in the application.


         Passed by the Senate February 17, 2004.
         Passed by the House March 3, 2004.
         Approved by the Governor March 26, 2004.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 26, 2004.