CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5578

                   Chapter 215, Laws of 1993

                        53rd Legislature

                      1993 Regular Session

       FISHING LICENSES‑-AREAS WHERE PERSONAL USE LICENSE

                     NOT REQUIRED CLARIFIED

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/93

Passed by the Senate March 15, 1993   YEAS 49   NAYS 0 JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate Passed by the House April 12, 1993   YEAS 92   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5578 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

BRIAN EBERSOLE Speaker of the        House of Representatives

MARTY BROWN                                  Secretary

Approved May 6, 1993 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                              May 6, 1993 - 1:33 p.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                                                     SENATE BILL 5578

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                                                       Passed Legislature - 1993 Regular Session

State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Senators Fraser, Owen, Oke, Hargrove, Haugen and Winsley

Read first time 02/04/93.  Referred to Committee on Natural Resources.

Clarifying the areas where a personal use fishing license is not required.

          AN ACT Relating to clarifying the areas where a personal use fishing license is not required; and amending RCW 75.25.090.

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

        Sec. 1.  RCW 75.25.090 and 1989 c 305 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1) A personal use license is required for all persons other than persons under fifteen years of age to fish for, take, or possess food fish for personal use from state waters or offshore waters.  A personal use license is not required under this section to fish for, take, or possess carp ((and)), sturgeon in the Columbia river above Chief Joseph Dam, smelt, or albacore.

          (2) The fees for annual personal use licenses are:

          (a) For a resident fifteen years of age or older and under seventy years of age, three dollars; and

          (b) For a nonresident fifteen years of age or older, ten dollars.

          (3) The fees for two-consecutive-day personal use licenses are:

          (a) For food fish other than sturgeon, three dollars; and

          (b) For sturgeon only, three dollars.

          Passed the Senate March 15, 1993.

          Passed the House April 12, 1993.

Approved by the Governor May 6, 1993.

          Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 6, 1993.