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                            SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5017

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State of Washington              54th Legislature             1995 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Senator Snyder)

Read first time 01/30/95.

Establishing commercial fishery license fee and renewal provisions for years with no fishing season.

     AN ACT Relating to commercial fishery licenses; adding a new section to chapter 75.28 RCW; and adding a new section to chapter 75.30 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 75.28 RCW to read as follows:

     (1) If, for any reason, the department does not allow any fishing opportunity during a calendar year, the department may either waive the license fee for a commercial fishery license for that year or may refund applicable license fees upon return of the license.

     (2) The department shall waive license requirements, including landing or poundage requirements, if, during the calendar year that a license issued pursuant to this chapter is valid, no harvest opportunity occurs in the fishery corresponding to the license.

     (3) Where the person failed to hold the license because of a license waiver by the department during the previous year, the person shall qualify for a license by establishing that the person held such a license during the last year in which the license was not waived.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 75.30 RCW to read as follows:

     (1) If, for any reason, the department does not allow any fishing opportunity during a calendar year, the department may either waive the license fee for a commercial fishery license for that year or may refund applicable license fees upon return of the license.

     (2) The department shall waive license requirements, including landing or poundage requirements, if, during the calendar year that a license issued pursuant to this chapter is valid, no harvest opportunity occurs in the fishery corresponding to the license.

     (3) For each license limitation program, where the person failed to hold the license and failed to make landing or poundage requirements because of a license waiver by the department during the previous year, the person shall qualify for a license by establishing that the person held such a license during the last year in which the license was not waived.

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