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                                 SENATE BILL 5426

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senators Rasmussen, Bauer, Snyder, Oke, Rinehart, Bailey, Amondson, Sellar, L. Smith and Conner.

Read first time January 31, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Environment & Natural Resources.Dealing with game and game fish.

     AN ACT Relating to game and game fish; and amending RCW 77.32.230.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 77.32.230 and 1988 c 176 s 914 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) A person sixty-five years of age or older on the effective date of this section who is:  (a) An honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces having a service-connected disability ((and)); (b) whose service-connected disability has been established as permanent by the veterans administration; and (c) who has been a resident for five years on the effective date of this section may receive upon application a state permanent hunting and fishing license free of charge.  Disabled veterans applying for a free hunting and fishing license under this subsection shall provide the department with a copy of documents verifying the disability from the veteran's administration.

     (2) A person who is: (a) An honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces having a service-connected disability; (b) whose service connected disabilities have been established as permanent in nature by the veterans administration; and (c) are rated from thirty to one hundred percent disabled as determined by the veterans administration and who has been a resident for five years shall receive upon application a permanent fishing and hunting license without charge.

Disabled veterans applying for a free fishing and hunting license under this subsection shall provide the department with a copy of documents verifying the disability from the veterans administration.

(3) A person seventy years of age or older who has been a resident for ten years may receive, upon application, a fishing license free of charge.

     (((3))) (4) A blind person, or a person with a developmental disability as defined in RCW 71A.10.020 with documentation of the disability from the department of social and health services, or a physically handicapped person confined to a wheelchair may receive upon application a fishing license free of charge.

     (((4))) (5) A blind person or a physically handicapped person confined to a wheelchair who has been issued a card for a permanent disability under RCW 46.16.381 may use that card in place of a fishing license unless tags, permits, stamps, or punchcards are required by this chapter.

     (((5))) (6) A fishing license is not required for persons under the age of fifteen.

     (((6))) (7) Tags, permits, stamps, and punchcards required by this chapter shall be purchased separately by persons receiving a free or reduced-fee license.