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                         SENATE BILL 5138

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Senators Oke, Snyder, Swecker and Winsley; by request of Parks and Recreation Commission

Read first time 01/16/97.  Referred to Committee on Natural Resources & Parks.

Changing provisions relating to offenses committed in state parks or parkways.

    AN ACT Relating to offenses committed in state parks or parkways; amending RCW 43.51.180; and prescribing penalties.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 43.51.180 and 1987 c 380 s 15 are each amended to read as follows:

    Every person who:

    (1) Cuts, breaks, injures, destroys, takes, or removes any tree, shrub, timber, plant, or natural object in any park or parkway except in accordance with such rules as the commission may prescribe; or

    (2) Kills, or pursues with intent to kill, any bird or animal in any park or parkway; or

    (3) Takes any fish from the waters of any park or parkway, except in conformity with such general rules as the commission may prescribe; or

    (4) Willfully mutilates, injures, defaces, or destroys any guidepost, notice, tablet, fence, inclosure, or work for the protection or ornamentation of any park or parkway; or

    (5) Lights any fire upon any park or parkway, except in such places as the commission has authorized, or willfully or carelessly permits any fire which he or she has lighted or which is under his or her charge, to spread or extend to or burn any of the shrubbery, trees, timber, ornaments, or improvements upon any park or parkway, or leaves any campfire which he or she has lighted or which has been left in his or her charge, unattended by a competent person, without extinguishing it; or

    (6) Places within any park or parkway or affixes to any object therein contained, without a written license from the commission, any word, character, or device designed to advertise any business, profession, article, thing, exhibition, matter, or event; or

    (7) Violates any rule adopted, promulgated, or issued by the commission pursuant to the provisions of this chapter; shall be guilty of a misdemeanor unless the commission has specified by rule, when not inconsistent with applicable statutes, that violation of the rule is an infraction under chapter 7.84 RCW.

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