Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 77.15 - Fish and Wildlife Enforcement Code.
77.15.750 - Unlawful use of a department permit—Penalty.

RCW 77.15.750
Unlawful use of a department permit—Penalty.

(1) A person is guilty of unlawful use of a department permit if the person:
(a) Violates any terms or conditions of the permit issued by the department or the director; or
(b) Violates any rule of the commission or the director applicable to the requirement for, issuance of, or use of the permit.
(2)(a) Permits covered under subsection (1) of this section include, but are not limited to, master hunter permits, crab pot removal permits and shellfish pot removal permits under RCW 77.70.500, depredation permits, landowner hunting permits, commercial carp license permits, permits to possess or dispense beer or malt liquor pursuant to RCW 66.28.210, and permits to hold, sponsor, or attend an event requiring a banquet permit from the *liquor control board.
(b) Permits excluded from subsection (1) of this section include the discover pass created in RCW 79A.80.020, the vehicle access pass created in RCW 79A.80.040, the day-use permit created in RCW 79A.80.030, commercial use or activity permits, noncommercial use or activity permits, parking permits, experimental fishery permits, trial commercial fishery permits, and scientific collection permits.
(3) Unlawful use of a department permit is a misdemeanor.
(4) A person is guilty of unlawful use of an experimental fishery permit or a trial commercial fishery permit if the person:
(a) Violates any terms or conditions of the permit issued by the department or the director; or
(b) Violates any rule of the commission or the director applicable to the issuance or use of the permit.
(5) Unlawful use of an experimental fishery permit or a trial commercial fishery permit is a gross misdemeanor.
(6) The definitions in this subsection apply throughout this section unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(a) "Experimental fishery permit" means a permit issued by the director for either:
(i) An "emerging commercial fishery," defined as a fishery for a newly classified species for which the department has determined that there is a need to limit participation; or
(ii) An "expanding commercial fishery," defined as a fishery for a previously classified species in a new area, by a new method, or at a new effort level, for which the department has determined that there is a need to limit participation.
(b) "Trial commercial fishery permit" means a permit issued by the department for trial harvest of a newly classified species or harvest of a previously classified species in a new area or by a new means.

[ 2011 c 320 § 20; 2010 c 193 § 9; 2009 c 333 § 14.]
NOTES:

*Reviser's note: The "state liquor control board" was renamed the "state liquor and cannabis board" by 2015 c 70 § 3.


Effective date—2011 c 320: See note following RCW 79A.80.005.


Findings—Intent—2011 c 320: See RCW 79A.80.005.

Structure Revised Code of Washington

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.