CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        HOUSE BILL 1802

 

 

 

 

 

 

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 6, 1997

  Yeas 94   Nays 0

 

 

 

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate April 15, 1997

  Yeas 44   Nays 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1802  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

President of the Senate

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

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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                          HOUSE BILL 1802

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Hankins, Fisher and Mitchell; by request of Utilities & Transportation Commission

 

Read first time 02/10/97.  Referred to Committee on Transportation Policy & Budget.

Requiring auto transport companies to report revenues to the UTC on a yearly basis.


    AN ACT Relating to requiring auto transportation companies to file reports once per year; and amending RCW 81.24.020 and 46.16.125.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 81.24.020 and 1961 c 14 s 81.24.020 are each amended to read as follows:

    By May 1st of each year, every auto transportation company ((shall, between the first and fifteenth days of January, April, July and October of each year,)) must file with the commission a statement showing its gross operating revenue from intrastate operations for the preceding ((three months, or portion thereof,)) year and pay to the commission a fee of two-fifths of one percent of the amount of gross operating revenue((:  PROVIDED, That)).  However, the fee paid shall in no case be less than two dollars and fifty cents.

    The percentage rate of gross operating revenue to be paid in any period may be decreased by the commission by general order entered before the fifteenth day of the month preceding the month in which ((such fees are)) the fee is due.

 

    Sec. 2.  RCW 46.16.125 and 1967 ex.s. c 83 s 60 are each amended to read as follows:

    In addition to the fees required by RCW 46.16.070, operators of auto stages with seating capacity over six shall pay ((quarterly)), at the time they file gross earning returns with the utilities and transportation commission, the sum of fifteen cents for each one hundred vehicle miles operated by each auto stage over the public highways of this state((:  PROVIDED, That)).  However, in the case of each auto stage propelled by steam, electricity, natural gas, diesel oil, butane, or propane, the payment required ((hereunder shall be)) in this section is twenty cents per one hundred miles of such operation.  The commission shall transmit all ((such)) sums so collected to the state treasurer, who shall deposit the same in the motor vehicle fund.  Any person failing to make any payment required by this section ((shall be)) is subject to a penalty of one hundred percent of the payment due ((hereunder)) in this section, in addition to any penalty provided for failure to submit a ((quarterly)) report.  Any penalties so collected shall be credited to the public service revolving fund.

 


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