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                                         SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 5087

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Environment & Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Senators Bender, Warnke, Rasmussen, Vognild, Owen and Conner)

Read first time 2/3/89.

AN ACT Relating to game and game fish; and amending RCW 77.32.230.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 77.32.230, chapter 36, Laws of 1955 as last amended by section 914, chapter 176, Laws of 1988 and RCW 77.32.230 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1) A person sixty-five years of age or older on the effective date of this 1989 section who is: (a) An honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces having a service-connected disability ((and)); (b) whose service-connected disability has been established as permanent by the veterans administration; and (c) who has been a resident for five years on the effective date of this 1989 section may receive upon application a state permanent hunting and fishing license free of charge.  Disabled veterans applying for a free hunting and fishing license under this subsection shall provide the department with a copy of documents verifying the disability from the veteran's administration.

          (2) A person who is: (a) An honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces having a service-connected disability; (b) whose service connected disabilities have been established as permanent in nature by the veterans administration; and (c) are rated from thirty to one hundred percent disabled as determined by the veterans administration and who has been a resident for five years shall receive upon application a permanent fishing and hunting license without charge.

Disabled veterans applying for a free fishing and hunting license under this subsection shall provide the department with a copy of documents verifying the disability from the veterans administration.

(3) A person seventy years of age or older who has been a resident for ten years may receive, upon application, a fishing license free of charge.

          (((3))) (4) A blind person, or a person with a developmental disability as defined in RCW 71A.10.020 with documentation of the disability from the department of social and health services, or a physically handicapped person confined to a wheelchair may receive upon application a fishing license free of charge.

          (((4))) (5) A blind person or a physically handicapped person confined to a wheelchair who has been issued a card for a permanent disability under RCW 46.16.381 may use that card in place of a fishing license unless tags, permits, stamps, or punchcards are required by this chapter.

          (((5))) (6) A fishing license is not required for persons under the age of fifteen.

          (((6))) (7) Tags, permits, stamps, and punchcards required by this chapter shall be purchased separately by persons receiving a free or reduced-fee license.