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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.
• 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 -- 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 - Forfeited wildlife and articles -- Disposition -- Department authority -- 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.
• 77.15.140 - Unclassified fish or wildlife -- Unlawful taking -- Penalty.
• 77.15.150 - Poison or explosives -- Unlawful use -- Penalty.
• 77.15.160 - Infractions -- Record catch -- Barbed hooks -- Other rule violations.
• 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.
• 77.15.220 - Unlawful posting -- Penalty.
• 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 -- Unlawful transport of aquatic plants -- 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.
• 77.15.330 - Unlawful hunting or fishing contests -- 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.
• 77.15.440 - Weapons, traps, or dogs on game reserves -- Unlawful use -- Penalty.
• 77.15.450 - Spotlighting big game -- Penalty.
• 77.15.460 - Loaded firearm in vehicle -- Unlawful use or possession -- 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 - Fish buying and dealing licenses -- Unlawful use -- Penalty.
• 77.15.640 - Wholesale fish buying and dealing -- Rules violations -- 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 privileges.
• 77.15.710 - Conviction for assault -- Revocation of licenses and suspension of privileges.
• 77.15.720 - Shooting another person, livestock -- Director's authority to suspend privileges.
• 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.
• 77.15.900 - Short title.
• 77.15.901 - Captions not law.
• 77.15.902 - Savings -- 1998 c 190.