WSR 00-11-176

PERMANENT RULES

DEPARTMENT OF

FISH AND WILDLIFE

[ Order 00-81 -- Filed May 24, 2000, 11:06 a.m. ]

Date of Adoption: April 7, 2000.

Purpose: Temporarily reduces the amount charged as a transaction fee from 10% to 9.5% to correspond with the transaction fee costs needed to reimburse the contractor for providing automated license vending services to the Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 220-55-180.

Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 77.32.050.

Adopted under notice filed as WSR 00-06-043 on February 28, 2000.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0. Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.

May 24, 2000

Debbie Nelson

for Kelly White, Chair

Fish and Wildlife Commission

OTS-4074.1


AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending Order 99-234, filed 12/30/99, effective 1/30/00)

WAC 220-55-180
Point-of-sale transaction fee.

The point-of-sale transaction fee shall be used to operate an automated recreational licensing system.      This fee shall be applied to all automated licensing system purchases of recreational hunting and fishing licenses and if authorized by the commission pursuant to RCW 77.32.450(2), automated license system fees paid for second animals ((if authorized by the commission pursuant to RCW 77.32.450(2))).      The transaction fee shall be ten percent of the value of the license transaction, excluding any applicable dealer fees except that for the period July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2006, the transaction fee shall be nine and one-half percent of the value of the license transaction, excluding any applicable dealer fee.

[Statutory Authority: RCW 77.12.040 and 77.32.050.      00-02-049 (Order 99-234), § 220-55-180, filed 12/30/99, effective 1/30/00.]

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