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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5543

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Senators Owen, Kreidler and Rasmussen

Read first time 2/4/87 and referred to Committee on Natural Resources.

AN ACT Relating to lowland game trapping; and adding a new section to chapter 77.16 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 77.16 RCW to read as follows:

          Except as provided in RCW 77.12.265, the commission shall adopt reasonable rules requiring the use of only live traps and prohibiting the use of snare, leg hold, or coni-bear type traps below the elevation of five hundred feet above mean sea level in King, Pierce, and Thurston counties.