BILL REQ. #:  S-2717.2 

Read first time 04/04/2003.   Referred to Committee on Highways & Transportation.

     AN ACT Relating to personal use trailer license fees; amending RCW 46.16.0621; and adding a new section to chapter 46.16 RCW.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 46.16.0621 and 2002 c 352 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) License tab fees shall be thirty dollars per year for all vehicles.
     (2) For the purposes of this section, "license tab fees" are defined as the general fees paid annually for licensing motor vehicles and trailers as defined in RCW 46.04.620 and 46.04.623. ((Trailers licensed under RCW 46.16.068 or 46.16.085 and)) Campers licensed under RCW 46.16.505 are not required to pay license tab fees under this section.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   A new section is added to chapter 46.16 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) Private passenger car one or two-wheel trailers of two thousand pounds gross weight or less, may be licensed upon the payment of a license fee in the sum of four dollars and fifty cents or, if the vehicle was previously licensed in this state and has not been registered in another jurisdiction in the intervening period, a renewal license fee in the sum of three dollars and twenty-five cents, but only if such trailers are to be operated upon the public highway by the owners thereof.
     (2) Private use trailers over two thousand pounds gross weight operated upon a public highway by the owner of the trailer may be licensed upon the payment of a license fee of twenty-seven dollars, or if the trailer was previously licensed in this state and has not been registered in another jurisdiction in the intervening period, a renewal fee of twenty-three dollars and seventy-five cents.
     (3) It is the intention of the legislature that the reduced license fee under this section applies only to trailers operated for personal use of the owners and not trailers held for rental to the public.