CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5112

Chapter 378, Laws of 2007

60th Legislature
2007 Regular Session

AUCTIONING VESSELS

EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/22/07

Passed by the Senate April 16, 2007 YEAS 45 NAYS 0 BRAD OWEN ________________________________________ President of the Senate Passed by the House April 3, 2007 YEAS 96 NAYS 0 FRANK CHOPP ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives		CERTIFICATE I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5112 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. THOMAS HOEMANN ________________________________________ Secretary
Approved May 8, 2007, 4:25 p.m. CHRISTINE GREGOIRE ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington		FILED May 10, 2007 Secretary of State State of Washington

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ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5112
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AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
Passed Legislature - 2007 Regular Session

State of Washington

60th Legislature

2007 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research & Development (originally sponsored by Senators Schoesler, Kohl-Welles, Rasmussen, Pridemore, Clements, Sheldon, Morton, Hatfield and Honeyford)

READ FIRST TIME 02/05/07.

AN ACT Relating to auctioning vessels; and amending RCW 88.02.230.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 88.02.230 and 1990 c 250 s 90 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) The department may exempt from compliance with the vessel dealer requirements of this chapter, any person who is engaged in the business of selling in this state at wholesale or retail, human-powered watercraft which is: (a) Under sixteen feet in length; (b) unable to be powered by propulsion machinery or wind propulsion as designed by the manufacturer; and (c) not designed for use on commonly-used navigable waters.
     (2) Any person engaged in the business of selling at wholesale or retail, exempt and nonexempt watercraft under this section shall only be required to comply with the provisions of this chapter in regard to the sale of nonexempt watercraft.
     (3) An auction company licensed under chapter 18.11 RCW and licensed as a motor vehicle dealer under chapter 46.70 RCW may sell at auction, without registering as a vessel dealer, all vessels that a vessel dealer is authorized to sell, so long as the sale of vessels is incidental to the auction company's primary source of business and the length of any vessel being sold is no greater than twenty-five feet. The auction company shall comply with all other vessel dealer requirements of this chapter and rules adopted under this chapter if the registration fees and surety bond requirements in RCW 88.02.060 are waived.

         Passed by the Senate April 16, 2007.
         Passed by the House April 3, 2007.
         Approved by the Governor May 8, 2007.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 10, 2007.