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                          HOUSE BILL 1551

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Representatives G. Chandler and Linville

Read first time 01/28/1999.  Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Ecology.

Setting fees for licenses regarding agricultural commodities.

    AN ACT Relating to fees for licenses regarding agricultural commodities; and amending RCW 22.09.050 and 22.09.055.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 22.09.050 and 1997 c 303 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Any application for a license to operate a warehouse shall be accompanied by a license fee of one thousand three hundred fifty dollars for a terminal warehouse, one thousand fifty dollars for a subterminal warehouse, and five hundred dollars for a country warehouse.  Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, if a licensee operates more than one warehouse under one state license as provided for in RCW 22.09.030, the license fee shall be computed by multiplying the number of physically separated warehouses within the station by the applicable terminal, subterminal, or country warehouse license fee.

(2) The licensing fee for two or more warehouses constituting a station and licensed under one state license as provided for in RCW 22.09.030 shall be five hundred dollars if:  (a) Less than five hundred thousand bushels of agricultural commodities are stored or received annually at the warehouses governed by the license, and (b) all of the warehouses governed by the license are on one parcel of land or on contiguous parcels of land separated by not more than a highway and highway right of way or separated by any other transportation or public right of way.

(3) If an application for renewal of a warehouse license or licenses is not received by the department prior to the renewal date or dates established by the director by rule, a penalty of fifty dollars for the first week and one hundred dollars for each week thereafter shall be assessed and added to the original fee and shall be paid by the applicant before the renewal license may be issued.  This penalty does not apply if the applicant furnishes an affidavit certifying that he has not acted as a warehouseman subsequent to the expiration of his or her prior license.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 22.09.055 and 1997 c 303 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:

    An application for a license to operate as a grain dealer shall be accompanied by a license fee ((of seven hundred fifty dollars)).  The license fee shall be:  Three hundred dollars for exempt grain dealers ((shall be)); three hundred dollars for a grain dealer dealing in less than five hundred thousand bushels of agricultural commodities annually if the grain dealer also holds one or more valid warehouse licenses issued under this chapter and the activities for which the dealer is licensed as a grain dealer are with regard to the operation of that warehouse or those warehouses; and seven hundred fifty dollars for any other grain dealer.

    If an application for renewal of a grain dealer or exempt grain dealer license is not received by the department before the renewal date or dates established by the director by rule, a penalty of fifty dollars for the first week and one hundred dollars for each week thereafter shall be assessed and added to the original fee and shall be paid by the applicant before the renewal license may be issued.  This penalty does not apply if the applicant furnishes an affidavit certifying that he has not acted as a grain dealer or exempt grain dealer after the expiration of his or her prior license.

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