BILL REQ. #:  S-3457.1 

Read first time 01/12/2004.   Referred to Committee on Highways & Transportation.

     AN ACT Relating to small trailer license fees; adding a new section to chapter 46.16 RCW; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 46.16 RCW to read as follows:
     In lieu of the license tab fees provided in RCW 46.16.0621, private use trailers of two thousand pounds scale weight or less shall be licensed upon the payment of a license fee in the sum of four dollars and fifty cents, or if the trailer 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 the trailer is operated upon public highways. The license fee shall be collected annually for each registration year or fraction of a registration year. It is the intent of the legislature that this reduced license fee shall be issued only for trailers operated for personal use of the owners, and not trailers held for rental to the public or used in any commercial or business endeavor.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   This act is effective with registration fees that are due or will become due July 1, 2004, and thereafter.