WSR 18-13-062
EMERGENCY RULES
DEPARTMENT OF
FISH AND WILDLIFE
[Order 18-88—Filed June 14, 2018, 8:59 a.m., effective June 14, 2018, 8:59 a.m.]
Effective Date of Rule: Immediately upon filing.
Purpose: The emergency rule is necessary to implement the disabled veteran donation program as passed by the legislature. The implementation date is June 13, 2018, and the emergency rule is necessary to ensure that the agency has a rule in place by this date. This emergency rule describes the license products available.
Citation of Rules Affected by this Order: New WAC 220-220-250.
Under RCW
34.05.350 the agency for good cause finds that immediate adoption, amendment, or repeal of a rule is necessary for the preservation of the public health, safety, or general welfare, and that observing the time requirements of notice and opportunity to comment upon adoption of a permanent rule would be contrary to the public interest.
Reasons for this Finding: In order to comply with the legislative mandate, an emergency rule is needed to ensure that we have a rule in place prior to the implementation date of June 13, 2018, for the disabled veteran donation program. There is insufficient time to adopt permanent rules.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at the Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: June 14, 2018.
Joe Stohr
Director
NEW SECTION
WAC 220-220-25000ADonation program for resident disabled veterans.
(1) The department is authorized to create a special program for resident disabled veterans qualifying under RCW
77.32.480 to participate in a donation program. Qualifying resident disabled veteran will have the opportunity to use available funds in the donation pool to purchase current recreational hunting and fishing license.
(2) Donated funds will be deposited into the disabled veterans donation fund account.
(3) Qualifying resident disabled veterans will be eligible to purchase, as funds allow, the following licenses:
(a) Hunting Licenses:
(i) Deer;
(ii) Deer and elk;
(iii) Deer, elk, bear, cougar;
(iv) Elk;
(v) Small game;
(vi) Deer and elk with small game;
(vii) Deer with small game;
(viii) Deer, elk, bear, cougar with small game;
(ix) Elk with small game;
(x) Bear with small game;
(xi) Cougar with small game;
(xii) Bear;
(xiii) Cougar.
(b) Fishing Licenses:
(i) Annual combination fishing;
(ii) Three-day razor clam.
(4) Per RCW
77.32.480(1), qualifying resident disabled veterans will be issued hunting licenses at the reduced rate of a youth hunting license.
(5) An annual combination fishing license will be issued at the reduced rate of five dollars and includes rockfish and biotoxin fees as outlined in RCW
77.32.470 and
77.32.555. The three-day razor clam license will be issued at the rate of seven dollars and includes biotoxin fees as outlined in RCW
77.32.555.
(6) The transaction and dealer fees associated with the eligible license items may be paid through the donation program, as funds allow.
Reviser's note: The typographical errors in the above section occurred in the copy filed by the agency and appear in the Register pursuant to the requirements of RCW 34.08.040.