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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 3582

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Senators Goltz, Rasmussen, Owen and Barr

Read first time 2/5/85 and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

AN ACT Relating to watercraft registration; and amending RCW 88.02.030.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 16, chapter 7, Laws of 1983 as last amended by section 2, chapter 250, Laws of 1984 and RCW 88.02.030 are each amended to read as follows:

          Vessel registration is required under this chapter except for the following:

          (1) Military or public vessels of the United States, except recreational-type public vessels;

          (2) Vessels owned by a state or subdivision thereof, used principally for governmental purposes and clearly identifiable as such;

          (3) Vessels owned by a resident of a country other than the United States if the vessel is not physically located upon the waters of this state for a period of more than sixty days;

          (4) Vessels owned by a resident of another state if the vessel is registered in accordance with the laws of the state in which the owner resides, but only to the extent that a similar exemption or privilege is granted under the laws of that state for vessels registered in this state:  PROVIDED, That any vessel which is validly registered in another state and which is physically located in this state for a period of more than sixty days is subject to registration under this chapter;

          (5) Vessels used as a ship's lifeboat;

          (6) Vessels ((equipped with propulsion machinery of less than ten horse power that:

          (a) Are owned by the owner of a vessel for which a valid vessel number has been issued;

          (b) Display the number of that numbered vessel followed by the suffix "1" in the manner prescribed by the department; and

          (c) Are used as a tender for direct transportation between that vessel and the shore and for no other purpose)) for which the primary mode of propulsion is a motor of ten horsepower or less;

           (7) Vessels under sixteen feet in overall length which have no propulsion machinery of any type;

          (8) Vessels with no propulsion machinery of any type for which the primary mode of propulsion is human power;

          (9) Vessels which are temporarily in this state undergoing repair or alteration;

          (10) Vessels primarily engaged in commerce which have or are required to have a valid marine document as a vessel of the United States; and

          (11) Vessels primarily engaged in commerce which are owned by a resident of a country other than the United States.