BILL REQ. #:  Z-0929.1 



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SENATE BILL 6365
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State of Washington59th Legislature2006 Regular Session

By Senators Rasmussen, Schoesler, Jacobsen, Fraser and Shin; by request of Department of Agriculture

Read first time 01/11/2006.   Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Rural Economic Development.



     AN ACT Relating to registration fees for weighing and measuring devices; amending RCW 19.94.175; and providing an effective date.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 19.94.175 and 1995 c 355 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Pursuant to RCW 19.94.015, the following annual registration fees shall be charged for each weighing or measuring instrument or device used for commercial purposes in this state:

(a)Weighing devices:
(i)Small scales "zero to four hundred pounds capacity" . . . . . . . . . . . . $((5.00))
12.50
(ii)Intermediate scales "four hundred one pounds to five thousand pounds capacity" . . . . . . . . . . . . $((20.00))
50.00
(iii)Large scales "over five thousand pounds capacity" . . . . . . . . . . . . $((52.00))
130.00
(iv)((Large scales with supplemental
devices . . . . . . . . . . . . 		$52.00
(v)))Railroad track scales . . . . . . . . . . . . $((800.00))
2,000.00
(b)Liquid fuel metering devices:
(i)Motor fuel meters with flows of ((less than)) twenty gallons or less per minute . . . . . . . . . . . . $((5.00))
12.50
(ii)Motor fuel meters with flows of more than twenty but not more than one hundred fifty gallons per minute . . . . . . . . . . . . $((16.00))
40.00
(iii)Motor fuel meters with flows over one hundred fifty gallons per minute . . . . . . . . . . . . $((25.00))
62.50
(c)Liquid petroleum gas meters:
(i)With one inch diameter or smaller dispensers . . . . . . . . . . . . $((10.00))
25.00
(ii)With greater than one inch diameter dispensers . . . . . . . . . . . . $((30.00))
75.00
(d)Fabric meters . . . . . . . . . . . . $((5.00))
12.50
(e)Cordage meters . . . . . . . . . . . . $((5.00))
12.50
(f)Mass flow meters . . . . . . . . . . . . $((14.00))
35.00
(g)Taxi meters . . . . . . . . . . . . $((5.00))
12.50

     (2) With the exception of subsection (3) of this section, no person shall be required to pay more than the ((established)) annual registration fee ((adopted under this section)) for any weighing or measuring instrument or device in any one year.
     (3) The department or a city sealer may establish reasonable inspection and testing fees for each type or class of weighing or measuring instrument or device specially requested to be inspected or tested by the device owner. These inspection and testing fees shall be limited to those amounts necessary for the department or city sealer to cover the direct costs associated with such inspection and testing. The fees ((established under this subsection)) shall not be set so as to compete with service agents normally engaged in such services.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   This act takes effect July 1, 2006.

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