RCW 77.32.070
Information required from license applicants—Reports on taking/effort to harvest fish, shellfish, and wildlife—Administrative penalty.
(1) Applicants for a license, permit, tag, or stamp shall furnish the information required by the director. However, the director may not require the purchaser of a razor clam license under RCW 77.32.520 to provide any personal information except for proof of residency. The commission may adopt rules requiring licensees or permittees to keep records and make reports concerning the taking of or effort to harvest fish, shellfish, and wildlife. The reporting requirement may be waived where, for any reason, the department is not able to receive the report. The department must provide reasonable options for a licensee to submit information to a live operator prior to the reporting deadline.
(2) The commission may, by rule, set an administrative penalty for failure to comply with rules requiring the reporting of taking or effort to harvest wildlife. The commission may also adopt rules requiring hunters who have not reported for the previous license year to complete a report and pay the assessed administrative penalty before a new hunting license is issued.
(a) The total administrative penalty per hunter set by the commission must not exceed ten dollars.
(b) By December 31st of each year, the department shall report the rate of hunter compliance with the harvest reporting requirement, the administrative penalty imposed for failing to report, and the amount of administrative penalties collected during that year to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the senate and house of representatives.
(3) The commission may, by rule, set an administrative penalty for failure to comply with rules requiring the reporting of data from catch record cards officially endorsed for Puget Sound Dungeness crab. The commission may also adopt rules requiring fishers who possessed a catch record card officially endorsed for Puget Sound Dungeness crab and who have not reported for the previous license year to complete a report and pay the assessed administrative penalty before a new catch record card officially endorsed for Puget Sound Dungeness crab is issued.
(a) The total administrative penalty per fisher set by the commission must not exceed ten dollars.
(b) By December 31st of each year, the department shall report the rate of fisher compliance with the Puget Sound Dungeness crab catch record card reporting requirement, the administrative penalty imposed for failing to report, and the amount of administrative penalties collected during that year to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the senate and house of representatives.
[ 2008 c 244 § 1; 2005 c 418 § 1; 2004 c 248 § 3; 1998 c 191 § 11; 1995 c 116 § 3; 1987 c 506 § 79; 1981 c 310 § 18; 1980 c 78 § 108; 1955 c 36 § 77.32.070. Prior: 1947 c 275 § 99; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 5992-108.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1998 c 191: See note following RCW 77.32.410.
Legislative findings and intent—1987 c 506: See note following RCW 77.04.020.
Effective dates—Legislative intent—1981 c 310: See notes following RCW 77.12.170.
Effective date—Intent, construction—Savings—Severability—1980 c 78: See notes following RCW 77.04.010.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
77.32.007 - "Special hunting season" defined.
77.32.010 - Recreational license required—Activities—Pass or permit for parking.
77.32.155 - Hunter education training program—Certificate—Deferral—Adoption of rules—Fee.
77.32.240 - Scientific permit—Procedures—Penalties—Fees.
77.32.250 - Licenses nontransferable.
77.32.256 - Duplicate licenses, rebates, permits, tags, and stamps—Fees.
77.32.320 - Required licenses, tags—Transport tags for game.
77.32.350 - Migratory birds—Supplemental permit—Fees.
77.32.370 - Special hunting season permits—Fee.
77.32.430 - Catch record card—Disposition of funds.
77.32.440 - Enhancement programs—Funding levels—Rules—Deposit to warm water game fish account.
77.32.450 - Big game hunting license—Fees.
77.32.460 - Small game hunting license—Turkey tags—Fees.
77.32.480 - Reduced rate licenses.
77.32.500 - Saltwater, freshwater transition areas—Rule-making authority.
77.32.525 - Hunting and fishing contests—Field trials for dogs—Rules—Limitation.
77.32.530 - Hunting big game—Auction or raffle—Procedure.
77.32.535 - Private lands—Raffle authorization to hunt big game.
77.32.540 - Hunting and fishing contests—Field trials for dogs—Permit—Rules.
77.32.545 - Removal of trap—Identification of traps—Disclosure of identities.
77.32.550 - Group fishing permit.
77.32.555 - Surcharge to fund biotoxin testing and monitoring—Algal bloom program—Biotoxin account.
77.32.560 - Watchable wildlife decals.
77.32.570 - Master hunter permit program—Fee.
77.32.575 - Western Washington pheasant permit—Fee.
77.32.585 - Release of wild beavers.
77.32.590 - Hunting and fishing license donations—Resident disabled veterans—Rule-making authority.