CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6262

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate February 7, 1996   YEAS 48   NAYS 1 President of the Senate Passed by the House February 28, 1996   YEAS 87   NAYS 7

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6262 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Secretary

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6262

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             Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Senators Morton, Rasmussen, Roach, Swecker, Hochstatter, Prince and Schow)

Read first time 01/31/96.

Providing for the management of cougar population levels.

    AN ACT Relating to transport tags for game; and amending RCW 77.32.320.

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

    Sec. 1.  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.  The commission may authorize the purchase of cougar transport tags subsequent to a harvest without hounds and stipulate conditions for their validation and use.  The commission shall review the management of cougars on a regular basis.

    (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 or as required by the commission under subsection (1) of this section.

    (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.

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