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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6301

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State of Washington   57th Legislature        2002 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Natural Resources, Parks & Shorelines (originally sponsored by Senators Oke, Jacobsen, Spanel, Snyder, Hargrove and Rasmussen; by request of Department of Fish and Wildlife)

READ FIRST TIME 01/29/2002.

Allowing the issuance of a group fishing permit to a facility.

    AN ACT Relating to group fishing permits; adding a new section to chapter 77.32 RCW; and repealing RCW 77.32.235.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 77.32 RCW to read as follows:

    A group fishing permit allows a group of individuals to fish and harvest shellfish without individual licenses or the payment of individual license fees.  The director must issue a group fishing permit to a state-operated or nonprofit facility for physically or mentally disabled persons, mentally ill persons, hospital patients, handicapped persons, seriously or terminally ill persons, or senior citizens who are in the care of the facility.  The permit is valid only for occasional use during open season.

    The commission must adopt rules that provide the conditions under which a group fishing permit must be issued.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  RCW 77.32.235 (Group permits--Exemption from individual license and fee requirement--Conditions) and 1998 c 191 s 20, 1990 c 35 s 4, & 1984 c 33 s 1 are each repealed.

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