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Title 77 - FISH AND WILDLIFE (Formerly: Game and game fish)
77.15 Fish and wildlife enforcement code.
- 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 -- Violations of child support-based suspensions.
- 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.
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