S-4485               _______________________________________________

                                         SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 4741

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1986 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Senators Goltz, Metcalf and Rasmussen)

Read first time 2/7/86.

AN ACT Relating to commercial fishing licenses; and amending RCW 75.30.120.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 2, chapter 184, Laws of 1974 ex. sess. as last amended by section 146, chapter 46, Laws of 1983 1st ex. sess. and RCW 75.30.120 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1) A commercial salmon fishing license issued under RCW 75.28.110 or salmon delivery permit issued under RCW 75.28.113 may be issued only to a vessel:

          (a) Which held a state commercial salmon fishing license or salmon delivery permit during the previous year or had transferred to the vessel such a license, and has not subsequently transferred the license or permit to another vessel; and

           (b) From which food fish were caught and landed in this state or in another state during the previous year as documented by a valid fish receiving document.

          Where the failure to obtain the license or permit during the previous year was the result of a license or permit suspension, the vessel may qualify for a license or permit by establishing that the vessel held such a license or permit during the last year in which the license or permit was not suspended.

          (2) The director may waive the landing requirement of subsection (1)(b) of this section if:

          (a) The vessel to which an otherwise valid license is transferred has not had the opportunity to have caught and landed salmon; and

          (b) The intent of the commercial salmon vessel limitation program established under this section is not violated.

           (3) The director shall waive the landing and other permit requirements under this section if such requirements were not fulfilled by the license holder due to procedures initiated by a foreign government.

(4) Commercial salmon fishing licenses and salmon delivery permits are transferable.