CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1168
Chapter
295, Laws of 1993
53rd
Legislature
1993
Regular Session
SHELLFISH CULTIVATION‑-TIDELANDS
LEASES FOR‑-REVISIONS
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 7/25/93
|
Passed by the House April 20, 1993
Yeas 97
Nays 0
BRIAN
EBERSOLE
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 15, 1993
Yeas 40
Nays 4
|
CERTIFICATE
I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of
Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the
attached is HOUSE BILL 1168 as passed by the House of Representatives
and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
|
|
JOEL
PRITCHARD
President of the Senate
|
ALAN
THOMPSON
Chief Clerk
|
|
Approved May 12, 1993 Place
Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
|
FILED
May 12, 1993 - 10:20 a.m.
|
|
|
|
|
MIKE
LOWRY
Governor of the State of Washington
|
Secretary of State
State of Washington
|
_______________________________________________
HOUSE
BILL 1168
_______________________________________________
AS
AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed
Legislature - 1993 Regular Session
State
of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993
Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/20/93. Referred to Committee on
Fisheries & Wildlife.
Leasing beds of tidal waters.
AN ACT Relating to leasing beds of tidal
waters; and amending RCW 79.96.010 and 79.96.050.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1.
RCW 79.96.010 and 1982 1st ex.s. c 21 s 134 are each amended to read as
follows:
The beds of all navigable tidal waters in the
state lying below extreme low tide, except as prohibited by section 1, Article
XV, of the Washington state Constitution shall be subject to lease for the
purposes of planting and cultivating oyster beds, or for the purpose of
cultivating clams or other edible shellfish, or for other aquaculture use, for
periods not to exceed ((ten)) thirty years.
((Where the lands are used for the
cultivation and harvesting of oysters, the parcels leased shall not exceed
forty acres.
Where the lands are used for the cultivation
and harvesting of clams or other aquaculture use, the department of natural
resources may, in its discretion, grant leases for larger parcels.))
Nothing in this section shall prevent any
person from leasing more than one parcel, as offered by the department.
Sec. 2.
RCW 79.96.050 and 1982 1st ex.s. c 21 s 138 are each amended to read as
follows:
The department of natural resources may, upon
the filing of an application for a renewal lease, cause the tidelands or beds
of navigable waters to be inspected, and if he deem[s] it in the best interests
of the state to re-lease said lands, he shall issue to the applicant a renewal
lease for such further period not exceeding ((ten)) thirty years
and under such terms and conditions as may be determined by the department:
PROVIDED, That in the case of an application for a renewal lease it shall not
be necessary for the lands to be inspected and reported upon by the director of
fisheries.
Passed the House April 20, 1993.
Passed the Senate April 15, 1993.
Approved
by the Governor May 12, 1993.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 12,
1993.