BILL REQ. #:  S-3907.1 

Read first time 01/19/2004.   Referred to Committee on Commerce & Trade.

     AN ACT Relating to renewal of transient accommodation licenses; and amending RCW 70.62.260.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 70.62.260 and 1994 c 250 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:
     No person shall operate a transient accommodation as defined in this chapter without having a valid license issued by the department. Applications for a transient accommodation license shall be filed with the department sixty days or more before initiating business as a transient accommodation. All licenses issued under the provisions of this chapter shall expire one year from the effective date. All applications for renewal of licenses shall be ((made thirty days or more prior to the date of expiration of the license)) postmarked no later than midnight on the date the license expires. All applications for renewal of licenses that are personally presented to the department or sent by electronic means must be received by the department by 5:00 p.m. on the date the license expires. Each license shall be issued only for the premises and persons named in the application.