CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5253

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate April 26, 1997   YEAS 43   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House April 26, 1997   YEAS 93   NAYS 1

CERTIFICATE I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 5253 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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                         SENATE BILL 5253

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                      AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Senators Strannigan, Oke, Hargrove, Roach, Morton, Swecker, Horn and Winsley

Read first time 01/21/97.  Referred to Committee on Natural Resources & Parks.

Allowing nonresidents under the age of fifteen to obtain a free fishing license.  

    AN ACT Relating to nonresident juvenile fishing licenses; and amending RCW 77.32.101.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 77.32.101 and 1994 c 255 s 11 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) A combination hunting and fishing license allows a resident holder to hunt, and to fish for game fish throughout the state.  The fee for this license is twenty-nine dollars.

    (2) A hunting license allows the holder to hunt throughout the state.  The fee for this license is fifteen dollars for residents and one hundred fifty dollars for nonresidents.

    (3) A fishing license allows the holder to fish for game fish throughout the state.  The fee for this license is seventeen dollars for residents fifteen years of age or older and under seventy years of age, three dollars for residents seventy years of age or older, ((twenty dollars for nonresidents under fifteen years of age,)) and forty-eight dollars for nonresidents fifteen years of age or older.    The license fee for a nonresident juvenile under fifteen years of age is twenty dollars unless the juvenile is fishing with an adult who holds a current game fish license, in which case there is no license fee.

    (4) A steelhead fishing license allows the holder of a combination hunting and fishing license or a fishing license issued under this section to fish for steelhead throughout the state.  The fee for this license is eighteen dollars.

    (5) A juvenile steelhead license allows residents under fifteen years of age and nonresidents under fifteen years of age who hold a fishing license to fish for steelhead throughout the state.  The fee for this license is six dollars and entitles the holder to take up to five steelhead at which time another juvenile steelhead license may be purchased.  Any person who purchases a juvenile steelhead license is prohibited from purchasing a steelhead license for the same calendar year.

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