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SENATE BILL 5580

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By Senators Prentice, Winsley, Stevens, Regala and Constantine

Read first time 01/26/2001.  Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce & Financial Institutions.

_1      AN ACT Relating to fees imposed by mortgage brokers licensed

_2  under the mortgage brokers practices act; amending RCW 82.04.280;

_3  providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

_4  BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

_5      Sec. 1.  RCW 82.04.280 and 1998 c 343 s 3 are each amended to read

_6  as follows:

_7      Upon every person engaging within this state in the business

_8  of:  (1) Printing, and of publishing newspapers, periodicals, or

_9  magazines; (2) building, repairing or improving any street, place,

10  road, highway, easement, right of way, mass public transportation

11  terminal or parking facility, bridge, tunnel, or trestle which is

12  owned by a municipal corporation or political subdivision of the

13  state or by the United States and which is used or to be used,

14  primarily for foot or vehicular traffic including mass

15  transportation vehicles of any kind and including any

16  readjustment, reconstruction or relocation of the facilities of

17  any public, private or cooperatively owned utility or railroad in

18  the course of such building, repairing or improving, the cost of

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_1  which readjustment, reconstruction, or relocation, is the

_2  responsibility of the public authority whose street, place, road,

_3  highway, easement, right of way, mass public transportation

_4  terminal or parking facility, bridge, tunnel, or trestle is being

_5  built, repaired or improved; (3) extracting for hire or processing

_6  for hire; (4) operating a cold storage warehouse or storage

_7  warehouse, but not including the rental of cold storage lockers;

_8  (5) representing and performing services for fire or casualty

_9  insurance companies as an independent resident managing general

10  agent licensed under the provisions of RCW 48.05.310; (6) radio

11  and television broadcasting, excluding network, national and

12  regional advertising computed as a standard deduction based on the

13  national average thereof as annually reported by the Federal

14  Communications Commission, or in lieu thereof by itemization by

15  the individual broadcasting station, and excluding that portion of

16  revenue represented by the out-of-state audience computed as a

17  ratio to the station's total audience as measured by the 100 micro-

18  volt signal strength and delivery by wire, if any; (7) engaging

19  in activities which bring a person within the definition of

20  consumer contained in RCW 82.04.190(6); (8) brokering residential

21  real estate loans and required to be licensed under RCW

22  19.146.200; as to such persons, the amount of tax on such business

23  shall be equal to the gross income of the business multiplied by

24  the rate of 0.484 percent.

25      As used in this section, "cold storage warehouse" means a

26  storage warehouse used to store fresh and/or frozen perishable

27  fruits or vegetables, meat, seafood, dairy products, or fowl, or

28  any combination thereof, at a desired temperature to maintain the

29  quality of the product for orderly marketing.

30      As used in this section, "storage warehouse" means a building

31  or structure, or any part thereof, in which goods, wares, or

32  merchandise are received for storage for compensation, except

33  field warehouses, fruit warehouses, fruit packing plants,

34  warehouses licensed under chapter 22.09 RCW, public garages

35  storing automobiles, railroad freight sheds, docks and wharves,

36  and "self-storage" or "mini storage" facilities whereby customers

37  have direct access to individual storage areas by separate

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_1  entrance.  "Storage warehouse" does not include a building or

_2  structure, or that part of such building or structure, in which an

_3  activity taxable under RCW 82.04.272 is conducted.

_4      As used in this section, "periodical or magazine" means a

_5  printed publication, other than a newspaper, issued regularly at

_6  stated intervals at least once every three months, including any

_7  supplement or special edition of the publication.

_8      NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act is necessary for the immediate

_9  preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of

10  the state government and its existing public institutions, and

11  takes effect July 1, 2001.

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