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                         SENATE BILL 5254

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Senator Hargrove

Read first time 01/17/95.  Referred to Committee on Natural Resources.

Decreasing the annual recreational surcharge from ten dollars to two dollars for persons seventy years of age or older.

    AN ACT Relating to annual recreational surcharge; and amending RCW 75.54.140.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 75.54.140 and 1993 sp.s. c 2 s 97 are each amended to read as follows:

    Beginning January 1, 1994, persons who recreationally fish for salmon or marine bottomfish in marine area codes 5 through 13 and Lake Washington shall be assessed an annual recreational surcharge of ten dollars for persons under seventy years of age and two dollars for persons seventy years of age or older, in addition to other licensing requirements.  Funds from the surcharge shall be deposited in the recreational fisheries enhancement account created in RCW 75.54.150, except that the first five hundred thousand dollars shall be deposited in the general fund before June 30, 1995, to repay the appropriation made by section 104, chapter 2, Laws of 1993 sp. sess.

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