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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1354

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By House Committee on Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Fuhrman, Basich, Cairnes and McMorris)

Read first time 02/21/95.  Referred to Committee on .

Allowing only Washington residents to purchase hound permits.

    AN ACT Relating to hound permits; and amending RCW 77.12.040 and 77.32.320.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 77.12.040 and 1987 c 506 s 15 are each amended to read as follows:

    The commission shall adopt, amend, or repeal, and enforce reasonable rules prohibiting or governing the time, place, and manner of taking or possessing game animals, game birds, or game fish.  The commission may specify the quantities, species, sex, and size of game animals, game birds, or game fish that may be taken or possessed.  The commission shall regulate the taking, sale, possession, and distribution of wildlife and deleterious exotic wildlife.  The commission may set pursuit only seasons in which only residents may participate.  The director may adopt emergency rules under RCW 77.12.150.

    The commission may establish by rule game reserves and closed areas where hunting for wild animals or wild birds may be prohibited and closed waters where fishing for game fish may be prohibited.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 77.32.320 and 1990 c 84 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) In addition to a basic hunting license, a separate transport tag is required to hunt deer, elk, bear, cougar, sheep, mountain goat, moose, or wild turkey.

    (2) A transport tag may only be obtained subsequent to the purchase of a valid hunting license and must have permanently affixed to it the hunting license number.

    (3) Persons who kill deer, elk, bear, cougar, mountain goat, sheep, moose, or wild turkey shall immediately validate and attach their own transport tag to the carcass as provided by rule of the director.

    (4) Transport tags required by this section expire on March 31st following the date of issuance.

(5) The commission shall issue nonresident bear tags in a number not to exceed ten percent of the number of resident bear tags issued two years prior.

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