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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.
Passed
the House April 19, 1995.
Passed
the Senate April 12, 1995.
Approved by the Governor May 16, 1995.
Filed in Office of
Secretary of State May 16, 1995.
