CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 6141

Chapter 156, Laws of 2004

58th Legislature
2004 Regular Session



EXEMPT LICENSE VEHICLES--PROPERTY TAX EXEMPT



EFFECTIVE DATE: 6/10/04

Passed by the Senate February 12, 2004
  YEAS 49   NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 5, 2004
  YEAS 94   NAYS 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


 
CERTIFICATE

I, Milton H. Doumit, Jr., Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6141 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

MILTON H. DOUMIT JR.
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Secretary
Approved March 26, 2004.








GARY F. LOCKE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
March 26, 2004 - 3:27 p.m.







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 6141
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Passed Legislature - 2004 Regular Session
State of Washington58th Legislature2004 Regular Session

By Senators Winsley, Kastama, Oke, Franklin, Swecker and Schmidt; by request of Department of Revenue and Department of Veterans Affairs

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



     AN ACT Relating to the property taxation of vehicles carrying exempt licenses; and amending RCW 84.36.595.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 84.36.595 and 2000 c 136 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
     (a) "Motor vehicle" means all motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers used, or of the type designed primarily to be used, upon the public streets and highways, for the convenience or pleasure of the owner, or for the conveyance, for hire or otherwise, of persons or property, including fixed loads and facilities for human habitation; but shall not include (i) vehicles carrying exempt licenses; (ii) dock and warehouse tractors and their cars or trailers, lumber carriers of the type known as spiders, and all other automotive equipment not designed primarily for use upon public streets or highways; (iii) motor vehicles or their trailers used entirely upon private property; (iv) mobile homes as defined in RCW 46.04.302; or (v) motor vehicles owned by nonresident military personnel of the armed forces of the United States stationed in the state of Washington, provided personnel were also nonresident at the time of their entry into military service.
     (b) "Travel trailer" has the meaning given in RCW 46.04.623. However, if a park trailer, as defined in RCW 46.04.622, has substantially lost its identity as a mobile unit by virtue of its being permanently sited in location and placed on a foundation of either posts or blocks with connections with sewer, water, or other utilities for the operation of installed fixtures and appliances, it will be considered real property and will be subject to ad valorem property taxation imposed in accordance with this title, including the provisions with respect to omitted property, except that a park trailer located on land not owned by the owner of the park trailer will be subject to the personal property provisions of chapter 84.56 RCW and RCW 84.60.040.
     (c) "Camper" has the meaning given in RCW 46.04.085.
     (2) Motor vehicles, vehicles carrying exempt licenses, travel trailers, and campers are exempt from property taxation.


         Passed by the Senate February 12, 2004.
         Passed by the House March 5, 2004.
         Approved by the Governor March 26, 2004.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 26, 2004.