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RCWs > Title 77 > Chapter 77.15

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Chapter 77.15 RCW

FISH AND WILDLIFE ENFORCEMENT CODE

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RCW Sections

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, and wildlife -- 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 -- Unlawful taking -- Penalty -- Criminal wildlife penalty assessment.
77.15.150	Poison or explosives -- Unlawful use -- Penalty.
77.15.160	Infractions.
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 -- Public nuisance -- Penalty.
77.15.245	Unlawful practices -- Black bear baiting -- Exceptions -- Illegal hunting -- Use of dogs -- Exceptions -- Penalties.
77.15.250	Unlawful release of fish, shellfish, or wildlife -- Penalty -- Unlawful release of deleterious exotic wildlife -- Penalty.
77.15.253	Unlawful use of prohibited aquatic animal species -- Penalty.
77.15.260	Unlawful trafficking in fish, shellfish, or wildlife -- 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.
77.15.293	Unlawfully avoiding aquatic invasive species check stations -- 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.
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.
77.15.400	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 or retrieving hunted wildlife 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.
77.15.560	Commercial fish, shellfish harvest or delivery -- Failure to report -- Penalty.
77.15.565	Wholesale fish dealers -- 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 -- Unlicensed -- 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.
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 -- 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.
77.15.900	Short title.
77.15.901	Captions not law.
77.15.902	Savings -- 1998 c 190.