BILL REQ. #:  S-1426.1 

Read first time 02/15/13.   Referred to Committee on Natural Resources & Parks.

     AN ACT Relating to requiring certain information in commercial fishing guide license applications; and amending RCW 77.65.050.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 77.65.050 and 1998 c 267 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Except as otherwise provided in this title, the director shall issue commercial licenses and permits to a qualified person upon receiving a completed application accompanied by the required fee.
     (2) An application submitted to the department under this chapter shall contain the name and address of the applicant and any other information required by the department or this title. An application for a food fish guide license under RCW 77.65.370 or game fish guide license under RCW 77.65.480 must include:
     (a) The applicant's driver's license number or Washington identification card number issued under chapter 46.20 RCW;
     (b) The applicant's unified business identifier number under a master license issued under RCW 19.02.070;
     (c) Proof of current certification in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation; and
     (d) A certificate of insurance demonstrating that the applicant has general liability coverage of at least three hundred thousand dollars.
     (3) An applicant for a commercial fishery license or delivery license may designate a vessel to be used with the license. An applicant for a commercial fishery license or delivery license may also designate up to two alternate operators.
     (((3))) (4) An application submitted to the department under this chapter shall contain the applicant's declaration under penalty of perjury that the information on the application is true and correct.
     (((4))) (5) Upon issuing a commercial license under this chapter, the director shall assign the license a unique number that the license shall retain upon renewal. The department shall use the number to record any commercial catch under the license. This does not preclude the department from using other, additional, catch record methods.
     (((5))) (6) The fee to replace a license that has been lost or destroyed is twenty dollars.