CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5125

                        53rd Legislature

                      1993 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate February 11, 1993   YEAS 46   NAYS 1 President of the Senate Passed by the House April 5, 1993   YEAS 94   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5125 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the        House of Representatives

Secretary

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                                                     SENATE BILL 5125

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                                                       Passed Legislature - 1993 Regular Session

State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Senators Owen, Snyder, Haugen, Spanel, Sellar, Oke, Amondson and Erwin; by request of Department of Fisheries

Read first time 01/14/93.  Referred to Committee on Natural Resources.

Regulating issuance of commercial salmon fishing licenses.

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

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

        Sec. 1.  RCW 75.30.120 and 1983 1st ex.s. c 46 s 146 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))) Commercial salmon fishing licenses and salmon delivery permits are transferable.

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