CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5220

                    Chapter 46, Laws of 1991

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

               RAILROAD CROSSING INSPECTION FEES

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/28/91

Passed by the Senate March 6, 1991

  Yeas 49   Nays 0

           ALAN BLUECHEL           

President of the Senate

Passed by the House April 10, 1991

  Yeas 95   Nays 0

              JOE KING             

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Approved April 24, 1991

           BOOTH GARDNER           

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 5220 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

           GORDON A. GOLOB            Secretary

                                     FILED         

               April 24, 1991 - 11:07 a.m.

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington

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                                 SENATE BILL 5220

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senators Patterson and Vognild; by request of Utilities & Transportation Commission.Read first time January 24, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.Modifying railroad crossing inspection fees.

     AN ACT Relating to railroad crossing inspection fees; and amending RCW 81.54.030.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 81.54.030 and 1961 c 14 s 81.54.030 are each amended to read as follows:

     Every person operating any logging railroad or industrial railway shall, prior to July 1st of each year, file with the commission a statement showing the number of, and location, by name of highway, quarter section, section, township, and range of all crossings on his line and pay with the filing a fee ((not to exceed ten dollars)) for each crossing so reported.  The commission shall, by order, fix the exact fee based on the cost of rendering such inspection service.  All fees collected shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the public service revolving fund.  Intersections having one or more tracks shall be treated as a single crossing.  Tracks separated a distance in excess of one hundred feet from the nearest track or group of tracks shall constitute an additional crossing.  Where two or more independently operated railroads cross each other or the same highway intersection, each independent track shall constitute a separate crossing.

     Every person failing to make the report and pay the fees required, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and in addition be subject to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each day that the fee remains unpaid after it becomes due.

     Passed the Senate March 6, 1991.

     Passed the House April 10, 1991.

Approved by the Governor April 24, 1991.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 24, 1991.