BILL REQ. #:  S-0082.1 

Read first time 01/17/2005.   Referred to Committee on Transportation.

     AN ACT Relating to a small trailer license fee; 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 one or two wheeled trailers of two thousand pounds scale 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 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 must be collected annually for each registration year or fraction of a registration year. This reduced license fee applies only to 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. The fee from this section must be deposited in the state patrol highway account.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   This act is effective with registration fees that are due or will become due October 1, 2005, and thereafter.