CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 5630

 

 

                               

 

 

 

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

 

 

Passed by the Senate March 13, 1991

  Yeas 46   Nays 0

 

 

                                   

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House April 10, 1991

  Yeas 93   Nays 0

 

 

                                   

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

 

 

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                   

Governor of the State of Washington

       CERTIFICATE

 

I, Gordon Golob, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5630 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

                                      Secretary

 

 

 

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                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington  




 

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                                 SENATE BILL 5630

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

 

 

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

 

By Senators McCaslin, Madsen and Nelson; by request of Department of Wildlife.Read first time February 12, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Environment & Natural Resources.Exempting certain permits and licenses from the definition of a fee.

     AN ACT Relating to permits or licenses issued by the department of wildlife, department of fisheries, or the state parks and recreation commission; and amending RCW 4.24.210.

 

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

 

     Sec. 1.  RCW 4.24.210 and 1980 c 111 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) Any public or private landowners or others in lawful possession and control of any lands whether rural or urban, or water areas or channels and lands adjacent to such areas or channels, who allow members of the public to use them for the purposes of outdoor recreation, which term includes, but is not limited to, the cutting, gathering, and removing of firewood by private persons for their personal use without purchasing the firewood from the landowner, hunting, fishing, camping, picnicking, swimming, hiking, bicycling, the riding of horses or other animals, clam digging, pleasure driving of off-road vehicles, snowmobiles, and other vehicles, boating, nature study, winter or water sports, viewing or enjoying historical, archaeological, scenic, or scientific sites, without charging a fee of any kind therefor, shall not be liable for unintentional injuries to such users:  PROVIDED, That any public or private landowner, or others in lawful possession and control of the land, may charge an administrative fee of up to ten dollars for the cutting, gathering, and removing of firewood from the land:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That nothing in this section shall prevent the liability of such a landowner or others in lawful possession and control for injuries sustained to users by reason of a known dangerous artificial latent condition for which warning signs have not been conspicuously posted:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That nothing in RCW 4.24.200 and 4.24.210 limits or expands in any way the doctrine of attractive nuisance:  AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That the usage by members of the public is permissive and does not support any claim of adverse possession.

     (2) For purposes of this section, a license or permit issued for state-wide use under authority of chapter 43.51 RCW, Title 75, or Title 77 RCW is not a fee.