2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 15.54.362: Reports — Inspection fees — Confidentiality, exception.

(1) Every registrant or licensee who distributes commercial fertilizer in this state shall file a semiannual report on forms provided by the department setting forth the number of net tons of each commercial fertilizer so distributed in this state. The reports will cover the following periods: January 1 through June 30 and July 1 through December 31 of each year. Upon permission of the department, an annual statement under oath may be filed for the annual reporting period of July 1 through June 30 of any year by any person distributing within the state less than one hundred tons for each six-month period during any calendar year, and upon filing such statement, such person shall pay the inspection fee required under RCW 15.54.350. The department may accept sales records or other records accurately reflecting the tonnage sold and verifying such reports.

     (2) Each person responsible for the payment of inspection fees for commercial fertilizer distributed in this state shall include the inspection fees with the report on the same dates and for the same reporting periods mentioned in subsection (1) of this section. If in one year a registrant or licensee distributes less than eighty-three tons of commercial fertilizer or less than one hundred sixty-seven tons of commercial lime or equivalent combination of the two, the registrant or licensee shall pay the minimum inspection fee. The minimum inspection fee shall be twenty-five dollars per year.

     (3) The department may, upon request, require registrants or licensees to furnish information setting forth the net tons of commercial fertilizer distributed to each location in this state.

     (4) Semiannual or annual reports filed after the close of the corresponding reporting period shall pay a late filing fee of twenty-five dollars. Inspection fees which are due and have not been remitted to the department by the due date shall have a late-collection fee of ten percent, but not less than twenty-five dollars, added to the amount due when payment is finally made. The assessment of this late collection fee shall not prevent the department from taking any other action as provided for in this chapter.

     (5) It shall be a misdemeanor for any person to divulge any information provided under this section that would reveal the business operation of the person making the report. However, nothing contained in this subsection may be construed to prevent or make unlawful the use of information concerning the business operations of a person in any action, suit, or proceeding instituted under the authority of this chapter, including any civil action for the collection of unpaid inspection fees, which action is hereby authorized and which shall be as an action at law in the name of the director of the department.

[1993 c 183 § 7; 1987 c 45 § 14.]

Construction -- Severability -- 1987 c 45: See notes following RCW 15.54.270.