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SENATE BILL 5025
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State of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session
By Senator Loveland
Read first time 01/13/97. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources & Parks.
AN ACT Relating to exempting applicants for 1997 Columbia river gillnet licenses from having to have held the license in 1994 through 1996; and amending RCW 75.30.120.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 75.30.120 and 1995 c 135 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, after May 6, 1974, the director shall issue no new commercial salmon fishery licenses or salmon delivery licenses. A person may renew an existing license only if the person held the license sought to be renewed during the previous year or acquired the license by transfer from someone who held it during the previous year, and if the person has not subsequently transferred the license to another person.
(2) Where the person failed to obtain the license during the previous year because of a license suspension, the person may qualify for a license by establishing that the person held such a license during the last year in which the license was not suspended.
(3) If a person held a salmon gillnet Grays Harbor--Columbia river license or a salmon gillnet Willapa Bay--Columbia river license in 1993 but failed to obtain the license in any or all of the years 1994, 1995, or 1996, the person may qualify for a license in 1997 by paying the requisite annual fees and surcharges under RCW 75.28.110 for the year or years in which the license was not obtained.
(4) Subject to the restrictions in RCW 75.28.011, commercial salmon fishery licenses and salmon delivery licenses are transferable from one license holder to another.
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