CERTIFICATION
OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE
BILL 1802
Chapter 215, Laws of 1997
55th Legislature
1997 Regular Session
ANNUAL REPORTS BY AUTO
TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES
EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/27/97
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Passed by the House March 6,
1997
Yeas 94 Nays 0
 CLYDE
BALLARD
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 15, 1997
Yeas 44 Nays 0
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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
1802 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the
dates hereon set forth.
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BRAD OWEN
President of the Senate
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 TIMOTHY A. MARTIN
Chief Clerk
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Approved April 25, 1997 Place Style On
Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
April 25, 1997 - 4:17 p.m.
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GARY LOCKE
Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington
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HOUSE
BILL 1802
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Passed
Legislature - 1997 Regular Session
State
of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 02/10/97. Referred to Committee on Transportation Policy &
Budget.
Requiring auto transport companies to report revenues to
the UTC on a yearly basis.
AN
ACT Relating to requiring auto transportation companies to file reports once
per year; and amending RCW 81.24.020 and 46.16.125.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
81.24.020 and 1961 c 14 s 81.24.020 are each amended to read as follows:
By
May 1st of each year, every auto transportation company ((shall, between
the first and fifteenth days of January, April, July and October of each year,))
must file with the commission a statement showing its gross operating
revenue from intrastate operations for the preceding ((three months, or
portion thereof,)) year and pay to the commission a fee of
two-fifths of one percent of the amount of gross operating revenue((:
PROVIDED, That)). However, the fee paid shall in no case be less
than two dollars and fifty cents.
The
percentage rate of gross operating revenue to be paid in any period may be
decreased by the commission by general order entered before the fifteenth day
of the month preceding the month in which ((such fees are)) the fee
is due.
Sec.
2. RCW
46.16.125 and 1967 ex.s. c 83 s 60 are each amended to read as follows:
In
addition to the fees required by RCW 46.16.070, operators of auto stages with
seating capacity over six shall pay ((quarterly)), at the time they file
gross earning returns with the utilities and transportation commission, the sum
of fifteen cents for each one hundred vehicle miles operated by each auto stage
over the public highways of this state((: PROVIDED, That)).
However, in the case of each auto stage propelled by steam, electricity,
natural gas, diesel oil, butane, or propane, the payment required ((hereunder
shall be)) in this section is twenty cents per one hundred miles of
such operation. The commission shall transmit all ((such)) sums so
collected to the state treasurer, who shall deposit the same in the motor
vehicle fund. Any person failing to make any payment required by this section
((shall be)) is subject to a penalty of one hundred percent of
the payment due ((hereunder)) in this section, in addition to any
penalty provided for failure to submit a ((quarterly)) report. Any
penalties so collected shall be credited to the public service revolving fund.
Passed the House March 6, 1997.
Passed the Senate April 15, 1997.
Approved by the Governor
April 25, 1997.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State April 25, 1997.