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                                                     SENATE BILL 5079

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Senators Owen, Snyder, Hargrove and Erwin

Read first time 01/12/93.  Referred to Committee on Natural Resources.

Modifying conditions for the digging of razor clams for persons who have physical disability permits.

          AN ACT Relating to the digging of razor clams for persons with physical disability permits; and amending RCW 75.25.080.

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

        Sec. 1.  RCW 75.25.080 and 1989 c 305 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1) It is lawful to dig the personal-use daily bag limit of razor clams for another person if that person has in possession a physical disability permit issued by the director.

          (2) An application for a physical disability permit must be submitted on a department of fisheries official form and must be accompanied by a licensed medical doctor's certification of disability.

(3) A person with a physical disability permit is not required to be present at the location where another person is digging razor clams for the disabled person.  The physical disability permittee is required to be either on the beach or in a vehicle within one mile of the person who is digging razor clams for the physically disabled person.

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