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ENGROSSED
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1922
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AS
AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed
Legislature - 1995 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th
Legislature 1995 Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/22/95.
Regulating excursion
vessels.
AN ACT
Relating to vessels providing excursion services; adding new sections to
chapter 81.84 RCW; and repealing sections 1, 2, and 3 of this act.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 1. A new
section is added to chapter 81.84 RCW to read as follows:
As
used in this chapter:
(1)
"Excursion service" means the carriage or conveyance of persons for
compensation over the waters of this state from a point of origin and returning
to the point of origin with an intermediate stop or stops at which passengers
leave the vessel and reboard before the vessel returns to its point of origin.
(2)
"Charter service" means the hiring of a vessel, with captain and
crew, by a person or group for carriage or conveyance of persons or property.
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 2. A new
section is added to chapter 81.84 RCW to read as follows:
(1)
Unless expressly exempted in section 3 of this act, no vessel may provide
excursion service over the waters of this state without first having obtained a
certificate of public convenience and necessity as provided in RCW 81.84.010.
(2)
Vessels providing excursion service must comply with all provisions of this
chapter and rules of the commission adopted under this chapter.
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 3. A new
section is added to chapter 81.84 RCW to read as follows:
This
chapter does not apply to the following vessels or operations:
(1)
Charter services;
(2)
Vessels that depart and return to the point of origin without stopping at
another location within the state where passengers leave the vessel;
(3)
Vessels operated by not-for-profit or governmental entities that are replicas
of historic vessels or that are recognized by the United States department of
the interior as national historical landmarks;
(4)
Excursion services that:
(a)
Originate and primarily operate at least six months per year in San Juan county
waters and use vessels less than sixty-five feet in length with a United States
Coast Guard certificate that limits them to forty-nine passengers or less;
(b) Do
not depart from the point of origin on a regular published schedule;
(c) Do
not operate between the same point of origin and the same intermediate stop
more than four times in any month or more than fifteen times during any
twelve-month period;
(d)
Use vessels that do not return to the point of origin on the day of departure;
or
(e)
Operate vessels upon the waters of the Pend Oreille River, Pend Oreille County,
Washington.
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 4. Effective
January 1, 2001, the following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:
(1) Section 1
of this act;
(2) Section 2
of this act; and
(3) Section 3
of this act.
