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Chapter 77.15 RCW

FISH AND WILDLIFE ENFORCEMENT CODE

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HTMLPDF 77.15.005Finding—Intent.
HTMLPDF 77.15.010Exemption for department actions.
HTMLPDF 77.15.020Authority to define violation of rule as infraction—Agreement to enforce certain civil infractions.
HTMLPDF 77.15.030Individual animal unlawfully taken—Separate offense.
HTMLPDF 77.15.040Jurisdiction.
HTMLPDF 77.15.050"Conviction" defined.
HTMLPDF 77.15.060Reference to chapters 7.84 and 9A.20 RCW.
HTMLPDF 77.15.065Authority of attorney general if prosecuting attorney defaults.
HTMLPDF 77.15.070Civil forfeiture of property used for violation of chapter.
HTMLPDF 77.15.075Enforcement authority of fish and wildlife officers—Volunteer chaplain.
HTMLPDF 77.15.077Fish and wildlife officers—Private law enforcement off-duty employment—Guidelines.
HTMLPDF 77.15.080Fish and wildlife officers and ex officio fish and wildlife officers—Inspection authority.
HTMLPDF 77.15.085Seizure without warrant.
HTMLPDF 77.15.090Search, arrest warrant—Issuance—Execution.
HTMLPDF 77.15.092Arrest without warrant.
HTMLPDF 77.15.094Search without warrant—Seizure of evidence, property—Limitation.
HTMLPDF 77.15.096Inspection without warrant—Commercial fish and wildlife entities—Limitations.
HTMLPDF 77.15.098Willful misconduct/gross negligence—Civil liability.
HTMLPDF 77.15.100Seized fish, shellfish, wildlife, and covered animal species part or product—Forfeiture—Sale—Disposition of sale.
HTMLPDF 77.15.110Acting for commercial purposes—When—Proof.
HTMLPDF 77.15.120Endangered fish or wildlife—Unlawful taking—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.130Protected fish or wildlife—Unauthorized taking—Penalty—Criminal wildlife penalty assessment.
HTMLPDF 77.15.135Unlawful sale, purchase, trade, barter, or distribution of covered animal species part or product—Penalty—Report to the legislature—Adoption of rules.
HTMLPDF 77.15.150Poison or explosives—Unlawful use—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.160Infractions—Penalties.
HTMLPDF 77.15.170Waste of fish and wildlife—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.180Unlawful interference with fishing or hunting gear—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.190Unlawful trapping—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.191Revocation of trapper's license—Placement of unauthorized traps.
HTMLPDF 77.15.192Definitions.
HTMLPDF 77.15.194Unlawful traps—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.196Unlawful poison—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.198Violation of RCW 77.15.194 or 77.15.196—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.210Obstructing the taking of fish, shellfish, or wildlife—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.212Damages due to violation of RCW 77.15.210—Civil action.
HTMLPDF 77.15.230Department lands or facilities—Unlawful use—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.240Unlawful use of dogs—Penalty—Authority to take or destroy a dog—Certain hazing activities permitted.
HTMLPDF 77.15.245Unlawful practices—Black bear baiting—Exceptions—Illegal hunting—Use of dogs—Exceptions—Penalties.
HTMLPDF 77.15.250Unlawful release or possession of fish, shellfish, or wildlife—Penalty—Unlawful release of deleterious exotic wildlife—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.260Unlawful trafficking in fish, shellfish, or wildlife—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.265Unlawful possession of fish, shellfish, or wildlife knowingly taken in violation of another state's or country's laws—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.270Providing false information—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.280Reporting of fish or wildlife harvest—Rules violation—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.290Unlawful transportation of fish or wildlife—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.300Unlawful hydraulic project activities—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.310Unlawful failure to use or maintain approved fish guard on water diversion device—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.320Unlawful failure to provide, maintain, or operate fishway for dam or other obstruction—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.340Unlawful operation of a game farm—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.350Inspection and disease control of aquatic farms—Rules violation—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.360Unlawful interfering in department operations—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.370Unlawful recreational fishing in the first degree—Penalty—Criminal wildlife penalty assessment.
HTMLPDF 77.15.380Unlawful recreational fishing in the second degree—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.382Unlawful use of shellfish gear for personal use purposes—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.390Seaweed—Unlawful taking—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.395Hunter safety—Visible clothing requirement—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.400Unlawful hunting of wild birds—Violation of a rule requiring nontoxic shot—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.410Unlawful hunting of big game—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.420Illegally taken or possessed wildlife—Criminal wildlife penalty assessed.
HTMLPDF 77.15.425Fish and wildlife enforcement reward account.
HTMLPDF 77.15.430Unlawful hunting of wild animals—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.435Unlawful hunting on, retrieving hunted wildlife from, or collecting wildlife parts from the property of another—Defense—Penalty—Forfeiture and disposition of wildlife.
HTMLPDF 77.15.440Weapons, traps, or dogs on game reserves—Unlawful use—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.450Spotlighting big game—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.460Loaded rifle or shotgun in vehicle—Unlawful use or possession—Unlawful use of a loaded firearm—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.470Wildlife check stations or field inspections—Unlawful avoidance—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.480Certain devices declared public nuisances.
HTMLPDF 77.15.500Commercial fishing without a license—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.510Acting as a game fish guide, food fish guide, or chartering without a license—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.520Commercial fishing—Unlawful gear or methods—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.522Unlawful use of shellfish gear for commercial purposes—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.530Unlawful use of a nondesignated vessel—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.540Unlawful use of a commercial fishery license—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.550Violation of commercial fishing area or time—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.552Qualifying commercial fishing violations.
HTMLPDF 77.15.554License suspension review committee.
HTMLPDF 77.15.565Wholesale fish buyer a limited fish seller—Accounting of commercial harvest—Penalties.
HTMLPDF 77.15.568Secondary commercial fish receiver's failure to account for commercial harvest—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.570Participation of non-Indians in Indian fishery forbidden—Exceptions, definitions, penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.580Unlawful use of net to take fish—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.590Commercial fishing vessel—Unlawful use for recreational or charter fishing—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.600Engaging in commercial wildlife activity without a license—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.610Unlawful use of a commercial wildlife license—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.620Engaging in fish dealing activity without a license—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.630Unlawful fish and shellfish catch accounting—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.640Unlawful wholesale fish buying and dealing—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.650Unlawful purchase or use of a license—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.660Unlawful use of scientific permit—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.670Suspension of department privileges—Violation—Penalty—Violations of child support-based suspensions.
HTMLPDF 77.15.675Hunting while intoxicated—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.680Department authority to suspend privileges—Form and procedure.
HTMLPDF 77.15.690Department authority to revoke licenses.
HTMLPDF 77.15.700Grounds for department revocation and suspension of recreational license—Appeal.
HTMLPDF 77.15.710Conviction for assault—Revocation of licenses and suspension of privileges.
HTMLPDF 77.15.720Discharge 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.
HTMLPDF 77.15.730Wildlife violator compact citations and convictions.
HTMLPDF 77.15.732Citations from wildlife violator compact party state—Failure to comply.
HTMLPDF 77.15.740Protection of southern resident orca whales—Unlawful activities—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.750Unlawful use of a department permit—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.760Suspension of a master hunter permit—Appeal hearing.
HTMLPDF 77.15.770Unlawful trade in shark fins—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.780Disposition of judicially forfeited seized property.
HTMLPDF 77.15.790Negligently feeding, attempting to feed, or attracting large wild carnivores to land or a building—Infraction.
HTMLPDF 77.15.792Intentionally feeding or attempting to feed large wild carnivores or intentionally attracting large wild carnivores to land or a building—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.800Engaging in wildlife rehabilitation without a permit—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.803Inspection of aquatic conveyance.
HTMLPDF 77.15.805Violation of an invasive species law—Warrant.
HTMLPDF 77.15.807Invasive species in or on water body or property—Warrant.
HTMLPDF 77.15.809Unlawful use of invasive species in the second degree—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.811Unlawful use of invasive species in the first degree—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.813Unlawfully engaging in fishing guide activity—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.815Unlawfully engaging in commercial whale watching—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 77.15.900Short title.