Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 77.15 - Fish and Wildlife Enforcement Code.
77.15.198 - Violation of RCW 77.15.194 or 77.15.196—Penalty.

Revised Code of Washington

Title 77 - Fish and Wildlife

Chapter 77.15 - Fish and Wildlife Enforcement Code.

77.15.005 - Finding—Intent.

77.15.010 - Exemption for department actions.

77.15.020 - Authority to define violation of rule as infraction—Agreement to enforce certain civil infractions.

77.15.030 - Individual animal unlawfully taken—Separate offense.

77.15.040 - Jurisdiction.

77.15.050 - "Conviction" defined.

77.15.060 - Reference to chapters 7.84 and 9A.20 RCW.

77.15.065 - Authority of attorney general if prosecuting attorney defaults.

77.15.070 - Civil forfeiture of property used for violation of chapter.

77.15.075 - Enforcement authority of fish and wildlife officers—Volunteer chaplain.

77.15.080 - Fish and wildlife officers and ex officio fish and wildlife officers—Inspection authority.

77.15.085 - Seizure without warrant.

77.15.090 - Search, arrest warrant—Issuance—Execution.

77.15.092 - Arrest without warrant.

77.15.094 - Search without warrant—Seizure of evidence, property—Limitation.

77.15.096 - Inspection without warrant—Commercial fish and wildlife entities—Limitations.

77.15.098 - Willful misconduct/gross negligence—Civil liability.

77.15.100 - Seized fish, shellfish, wildlife, and covered animal species part or product—Forfeiture—Sale—Disposition of sale.

77.15.110 - Acting for commercial purposes—When—Proof.

77.15.120 - Endangered fish or wildlife—Unlawful taking—Penalty.

77.15.130 - Protected fish or wildlife—Unauthorized taking—Penalty—Criminal wildlife penalty assessment.

77.15.135 - Unlawful sale, purchase, trade, barter, or distribution of covered animal species part or product—Penalty—Report to the legislature—Adoption of rules.

77.15.150 - Poison or explosives—Unlawful use—Penalty.

77.15.160 - Infractions—Penalties.

77.15.170 - Waste of fish and wildlife—Penalty.

77.15.180 - Unlawful interference with fishing or hunting gear—Penalty.

77.15.190 - Unlawful trapping—Penalty.

77.15.191 - Revocation of trapper's license—Placement of unauthorized traps.

77.15.192 - Definitions.

77.15.194 - Unlawful traps—Penalty.

77.15.196 - Unlawful poison—Penalty.

77.15.198 - Violation of RCW 77.15.194 or 77.15.196—Penalty.

77.15.210 - Obstructing the taking of fish, shellfish, or wildlife—Penalty.

77.15.212 - Damages due to violation of RCW 77.15.210—Civil action.

77.15.230 - Department lands or facilities—Unlawful use—Penalty.

77.15.240 - Unlawful use of dogs—Penalty—Authority to take or destroy a dog—Certain hazing activities permitted.

77.15.245 - Unlawful practices—Black bear baiting—Exceptions—Illegal hunting—Use of dogs—Exceptions—Penalties.

77.15.250 - Unlawful release or possession of fish, shellfish, or wildlife—Penalty—Unlawful release of deleterious exotic wildlife—Penalty.

77.15.260 - Unlawful trafficking in fish, shellfish, or wildlife—Penalty.

77.15.265 - Unlawful possession of fish, shellfish, or wildlife knowingly taken in violation of another state's or country's laws—Penalty.

77.15.270 - Providing false information—Penalty.

77.15.280 - Reporting of fish or wildlife harvest—Rules violation—Penalty.

77.15.290 - Unlawful transportation of fish or wildlife—Penalty.

77.15.300 - Unlawful hydraulic project activities—Penalty.

77.15.310 - Unlawful failure to use or maintain approved fish guard on water diversion device—Penalty.

77.15.320 - Unlawful failure to provide, maintain, or operate fishway for dam or other obstruction—Penalty.

77.15.340 - Unlawful operation of a game farm—Penalty.

77.15.350 - Inspection and disease control of aquatic farms—Rules violation—Penalty.

77.15.360 - Unlawful interfering in department operations—Penalty.

77.15.370 - Unlawful recreational fishing in the first degree—Penalty—Criminal wildlife penalty assessment.

77.15.380 - Unlawful recreational fishing in the second degree—Penalty.

77.15.382 - Unlawful use of shellfish gear for personal use purposes—Penalty.

77.15.390 - Seaweed—Unlawful taking—Penalty.

77.15.395 - Hunter safety—Visible clothing requirement—Penalty.

77.15.400 - Unlawful hunting of wild birds—Violation of a rule requiring nontoxic shot—Penalty.

77.15.410 - Unlawful hunting of big game—Penalty.

77.15.420 - Illegally taken or possessed wildlife—Criminal wildlife penalty assessed.

77.15.425 - Fish and wildlife enforcement reward account.

77.15.430 - Unlawful hunting of wild animals—Penalty.

77.15.435 - Unlawful hunting on, retrieving hunted wildlife from, or collecting wildlife parts from the property of another—Defense—Penalty—Forfeiture and disposition of wildlife.

77.15.440 - Weapons, traps, or dogs on game reserves—Unlawful use—Penalty.

77.15.450 - Spotlighting big game—Penalty.

77.15.460 - Loaded rifle or shotgun in vehicle—Unlawful use or possession—Unlawful use of a loaded firearm—Penalty.

77.15.470 - Wildlife check stations or field inspections—Unlawful avoidance—Penalty.

77.15.480 - Certain devices declared public nuisances.

77.15.500 - Commercial fishing without a license—Penalty.

77.15.510 - Acting as a game fish guide, food fish guide, or chartering without a license—Penalty.

77.15.520 - Commercial fishing—Unlawful gear or methods—Penalty.

77.15.522 - Unlawful use of shellfish gear for commercial purposes—Penalty.

77.15.530 - Unlawful use of a nondesignated vessel—Penalty.

77.15.540 - Unlawful use of a commercial fishery license—Penalty.

77.15.550 - Violation of commercial fishing area or time—Penalty.

77.15.552 - Qualifying commercial fishing violations.

77.15.554 - License suspension review committee.

77.15.565 - Wholesale fish buyer a limited fish seller—Accounting of commercial harvest—Penalties.

77.15.568 - Secondary commercial fish receiver's failure to account for commercial harvest—Penalty.

77.15.570 - Participation of non-Indians in Indian fishery forbidden—Exceptions, definitions, penalty.

77.15.580 - Unlawful use of net to take fish—Penalty.

77.15.590 - Commercial fishing vessel—Unlawful use for recreational or charter fishing—Penalty.

77.15.600 - Engaging in commercial wildlife activity without a license—Penalty.

77.15.610 - Unlawful use of a commercial wildlife license—Penalty.

77.15.620 - Engaging in fish dealing activity without a license—Penalty.

77.15.630 - Unlawful fish and shellfish catch accounting—Penalty.

77.15.640 - Unlawful wholesale fish buying and dealing—Penalty.

77.15.650 - Unlawful purchase or use of a license—Penalty.

77.15.660 - Unlawful use of scientific permit—Penalty.

77.15.670 - Suspension of department privileges—Violation—Penalty—Violations of child support-based suspensions.

77.15.675 - Hunting while intoxicated—Penalty.

77.15.680 - Department authority to suspend privileges—Form and procedure.

77.15.690 - Department authority to revoke licenses.

77.15.700 - Grounds for department revocation and suspension of recreational license—Appeal.

77.15.710 - Conviction for assault—Revocation of licenses and suspension of privileges.

77.15.720 - Discharge of firearm, bow, or crossbow while hunting—In a manner that injures a person or that kills or causes substantial bodily harm to livestock—Suspension of hunting privileges—Appeal.

77.15.730 - Wildlife violator compact citations and convictions.

77.15.732 - Citations from wildlife violator compact party state—Failure to comply.

77.15.740 - Protection of southern resident orca whales—Unlawful activities—Penalty.

77.15.750 - Unlawful use of a department permit—Penalty.

77.15.760 - Suspension of a master hunter permit—Appeal hearing.

77.15.770 - Unlawful trade in shark fins—Penalty.

77.15.780 - Disposition of judicially forfeited seized property.

77.15.790 - Negligently feeding, attempting to feed, or attracting large wild carnivores to land or a building—Infraction.

77.15.792 - Intentionally feeding or attempting to feed large wild carnivores or intentionally attracting large wild carnivores to land or a building—Penalty.

77.15.800 - Engaging in wildlife rehabilitation without a permit—Penalty.

77.15.803 - Inspection of aquatic conveyance.

77.15.805 - Violation of an invasive species law—Warrant.

77.15.807 - Invasive species in or on water body or property—Warrant.

77.15.809 - Unlawful use of invasive species in the second degree—Penalty.

77.15.811 - Unlawful use of invasive species in the first degree—Penalty.

77.15.813 - Unlawfully engaging in fishing guide activity—Penalty.

77.15.815 - Unlawfully engaging in commercial whale watching—Penalty.

77.15.900 - Short title.