BILL REQ. #:  H-0679.2 

Read first time 01/21/2005.   Referred to Committee on Transportation.

     AN ACT Relating to small trailer fees; reenacting and amending RCW 46.16.0621; adding a new section to chapter 46.16 RCW; and creating a new section.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 46.16.0621 and 2003 c 1 s 2 and 2002 c 352 s 7 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
     (1) License tab fees are required to be $30 per year for motor vehicles, regardless of year, value, make, or model.
     (2) For the purposes of this section, "license tab fees" are defined as the general fees paid annually for licensing motor vehicles and trailers as defined in RCW 46.04.620 and 46.04.623, including cars, sport utility vehicles, motorcycles, and motor homes. Trailers licensed under RCW 46.16.068 or 46.16.085 or as provided for in section 2 of this act and campers licensed under RCW 46.16.505 are not required to pay license tab fees under this section.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   A new section is added to chapter 46.16 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) In lieu of the fees provided in RCW 46.16.0621, trailers of less than one thousand five hundred pounds scale weight and used for noncommercial, personal use on the public highways may be licensed upon the payment of a license fee according to the following weight schedule:

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3   This act applies to registrations that are due or will become due September 1, 2005, and thereafter.