CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

HOUSE BILL 1615

Chapter 214, Laws of 1997

55th Legislature

1997 Regular Session

STATE PARKS--EXCEPTIONS FOR CUTTING, BREAKING, INJURY, DESTRUCTION, TAKING, AND REMOVAL OF VEGETATION AND NATURAL OBJECTS

EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/27/97

Passed by the House March 11, 1997

Yeas 97 Nays 0

CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 14, 1997

Yeas 47 Nays 0

CERTIFICATE

I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1615 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

BOB MORTON

President of the Senate

TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

Chief Clerk

Approved April 25, 1997

FILED

April 25, 1997 - 4:16 p.m.

GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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HOUSE BILL 1615

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Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

State of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session

By Representatives Alexander, Regala and Sump; by request of Parks and Recreation Commission

Read first time 02/03/97. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources.

AN ACT Relating to offenses committed in state parks or parkways; amending RCW 43.51.180; and prescribing penalties.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 43.51.180 and 1987 c 380 s 15 are each amended to read as follows:

Every person who:

(1) Cuts, breaks, injures, destroys, takes, or removes any tree, shrub, timber, plant, or natural object in any park or parkway except in accordance with such rules as the commission may prescribe; or

(2) Kills, or pursues with intent to kill, any bird or animal in any park or parkway; or

(3) Takes any fish from the waters of any park or parkway, except in conformity with such general rules as the commission may prescribe; or

(4) Willfully mutilates, injures, defaces, or destroys any guidepost, notice, tablet, fence, inclosure, or work for the protection or ornamentation of any park or parkway; or

(5) Lights any fire upon any park or parkway, except in such places as the commission has authorized, or willfully or carelessly permits any fire which he or she has lighted or which is under his or her charge, to spread or extend to or burn any of the shrubbery, trees, timber, ornaments, or improvements upon any park or parkway, or leaves any campfire which he or she has lighted or which has been left in his or her charge, unattended by a competent person, without extinguishing it; or

(6) Places within any park or parkway or affixes to any object therein contained, without a written license from the commission, any word, character, or device designed to advertise any business, profession, article, thing, exhibition, matter, or event; or

(7) Violates any rule adopted, promulgated, or issued by the commission pursuant to the provisions of this chapter; shall be guilty of a misdemeanor unless the commission has specified by rule, when not inconsistent with applicable statutes, that violation of the rule is an infraction under chapter 7.84 RCW.