Chapter 77.15. Fish and wildlife enforcement code.  


Section 77.15.005. Finding—Intent.
Section 77.15.010. Exemption for department actions.
Section 77.15.020. Authority to define violation of rule as infraction—Agreement to enforce certain civil infractions.
Section 77.15.030. Individual animal unlawfully taken—Separate offense.
Section 77.15.040. Jurisdiction.
Section 77.15.050. "Conviction" defined.
Section 77.15.060. Reference to chapters 7.84 and 9A.20 RCW.
Section 77.15.065. Authority of attorney general if prosecuting attorney defaults.
Section 77.15.070. Civil forfeiture of property used for violation of chapter.
Section 77.15.075. Enforcement authority of fish and wildlife officers—Volunteer chaplain.
Section 77.15.080. Fish and wildlife officers and ex officio fish and wildlife officers—Inspection authority.
Section 77.15.085. Seizure without warrant.
Section 77.15.090. Search, arrest warrant—Issuance—Execution.
Section 77.15.092. Arrest without warrant.
Section 77.15.094. Search without warrant—Seizure of evidence, property—Limitation.
Section 77.15.096. Inspection without warrant—Commercial fish and wildlife entities—Limitations.
Section 77.15.098. Willful misconduct/gross negligence—Civil liability.
Section 77.15.100. Seized fish, shellfish, wildlife, and covered animal species part or product—Forfeiture—Sale—Disposition of sale.
Section 77.15.110. Acting for commercial purposes—When—Proof.
Section 77.15.120. Endangered fish or wildlife—Unlawful taking—Penalty.
Section 77.15.130. Protected fish or wildlife—Unauthorized taking—Penalty—Criminal wildlife penalty assessment.
Section 77.15.135. Unlawful sale, purchase, trade, barter, or distribution of covered animal species part or product—Penalty—Report to the legislature—Adoption of rules.
Section 77.15.150. Poison or explosives—Unlawful use—Penalty.
Section 77.15.160. Infractions (as amended by 2014 c 202).
Section 77.15.170. Waste of fish and wildlife—Penalty.
Section 77.15.180. Unlawful interference with fishing or hunting gear—Penalty.
Section 77.15.190. Unlawful trapping—Penalty.
Section 77.15.191. Revocation of trapper's license—Placement of unauthorized traps.
Section 77.15.192. Definitions.
Section 77.15.194. Unlawful traps—Penalty.
Section 77.15.196. Unlawful poison—Penalty.
Section 77.15.198. Violation of RCW 77.15.194 or 77.15.196—Penalty.
Section 77.15.210. Obstructing the taking of fish, shellfish, or wildlife—Penalty.
Section 77.15.212. Damages due to violation of RCW 77.15.210—Civil action.
Section 77.15.230. Department lands or facilities—Unlawful use—Penalty.
Section 77.15.240. Unlawful use of dogs—Penalty—Authority to take or destroy a dog—Certain hazing activities permitted.
Section 77.15.245. Unlawful practices—Black bear baiting—Exceptions—Illegal hunting—Use of dogs—Exceptions—Penalties.
Section 77.15.250. Unlawful release or possession of fish, shellfish, or wildlife—Penalty—Unlawful release of deleterious exotic wildlife—Penalty.
Section 77.15.260. Unlawful trafficking in fish, shellfish, or wildlife—Penalty.
Section 77.15.265. Unlawful possession of fish, shellfish, or wildlife knowingly taken in violation of another state's or country's laws—Penalty.
Section 77.15.270. Providing false information—Penalty.
Section 77.15.280. Reporting of fish or wildlife harvest—Rules violation—Penalty.
Section 77.15.290. Unlawful transportation of fish or wildlife—Penalty.
Section 77.15.300. Unlawful hydraulic project activities—Penalty.
Section 77.15.310. Unlawful failure to use or maintain approved fish guard on water diversion device—Penalty.
Section 77.15.320. Unlawful failure to provide, maintain, or operate fishway for dam or other obstruction—Penalty.
Section 77.15.340. Unlawful operation of a game farm—Penalty.
Section 77.15.350. Inspection and disease control of aquatic farms—Rules violation—Penalty.
Section 77.15.360. Unlawful interfering in department operations—Penalty.
Section 77.15.370. Unlawful recreational fishing in the first degree—Penalty—Criminal wildlife penalty assessment.
Section 77.15.380. Unlawful recreational fishing in the second degree—Penalty.
Section 77.15.382. Unlawful use of shellfish gear for personal use purposes—Penalty.
Section 77.15.390. Seaweed—Unlawful taking—Penalty.
Section 77.15.400. Unlawful hunting of wild birds—Violation of a rule requiring nontoxic shot—Penalty.
Section 77.15.410. Unlawful hunting of big game—Penalty.
Section 77.15.420. Illegally taken or possessed wildlife—Criminal wildlife penalty assessed.
Section 77.15.425. Fish and wildlife enforcement reward account.
Section 77.15.430. Unlawful hunting of wild animals—Penalty.
Section 77.15.435. Unlawful hunting on, retrieving hunted wildlife from, or collecting wildlife parts from the property of another—Defense—Penalty—Forfeiture and disposition of wildlife.
Section 77.15.440. Weapons, traps, or dogs on game reserves—Unlawful use—Penalty.
Section 77.15.450. Spotlighting big game—Penalty.
Section 77.15.460. Loaded rifle or shotgun in vehicle—Unlawful use or possession—Unlawful use of a loaded firearm—Penalty.
Section 77.15.470. Wildlife check stations or field inspections—Unlawful avoidance—Penalty.
Section 77.15.480. Certain devices declared public nuisances.
Section 77.15.500. Commercial fishing without a license—Penalty.
Section 77.15.510. Acting as a game fish guide, food fish guide, or chartering without a license—Penalty.
Section 77.15.520. Commercial fishing—Unlawful gear or methods—Penalty.
Section 77.15.522. Unlawful use of shellfish gear for commercial purposes—Penalty.
Section 77.15.530. Unlawful use of a nondesignated vessel—Penalty.
Section 77.15.540. Unlawful use of a commercial fishery license—Penalty.
Section 77.15.550. Violation of commercial fishing area or time—Penalty.
Section 77.15.552. Qualifying commercial fishing violations.
Section 77.15.554. License suspension review committee.
Section 77.15.565. Wholesale fish dealers—Accounting of commercial harvest—Penalties.
Section 77.15.568. Secondary commercial fish receiver's failure to account for commercial harvest—Penalty.
Section 77.15.570. Participation of non-Indians in Indian fishery forbidden—Exceptions, definitions, penalty.
Section 77.15.580. Unlawful use of net to take fish—Penalty.
Section 77.15.590. Commercial fishing vessel—Unlawful use for recreational or charter fishing—Penalty.
Section 77.15.600. Engaging in commercial wildlife activity without a license—Penalty.
Section 77.15.610. Unlawful use of a commercial wildlife license—Penalty.
Section 77.15.620. Engaging in fish dealing activity—Unlicensed—Penalty.
Section 77.15.630. Unlawful fish and shellfish catch accounting—Penalty.
Section 77.15.640. Unlawful wholesale fish buying and dealing—Penalty.
Section 77.15.650. Unlawful purchase or use of a license—Penalty.
Section 77.15.660. Unlawful use of scientific permit—Penalty.
Section 77.15.670. Suspension of department privileges—Violation—Penalty—Violations of child support-based suspensions.
Section 77.15.675. Hunting while intoxicated—Penalty.
Section 77.15.680. Department authority to suspend privileges—Form and procedure.
Section 77.15.690. Department authority to revoke licenses.
Section 77.15.700. Grounds for department revocation and suspension of recreational license—Appeal.
Section 77.15.710. Conviction for assault—Revocation of licenses and suspension of privileges.
Section 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.
Section 77.15.730. Wildlife violator compact citations and convictions.
Section 77.15.732. Citations from wildlife violator compact party state—Failure to comply.
Section 77.15.740. Protection of southern resident orca whales—Unlawful activities—Penalty.
Section 77.15.750. Unlawful use of a department permit—Penalty.
Section 77.15.760. Suspension of a master hunter permit—Appeal hearing.
Section 77.15.770. Unlawful trade in shark fins—Penalty.
Section 77.15.780. Disposition of judicially forfeited seized property.
Section 77.15.790. Negligently feeding, attempting to feed, or attracting large wild carnivores to land or a building—Infraction.
Section 77.15.792. Intentionally feeding or attempting to feed large wild carnivores or intentionally attracting large wild carnivores to land or a building—Penalty.
Section 77.15.800. Engaging in wildlife rehabilitation without a permit—Penalty.
Section 77.15.803. Inspection of aquatic conveyance.
Section 77.15.805. Violation of an invasive species law—Warrant.
Section 77.15.807. Invasive species in or on water body or property—Warrant.
Section 77.15.809. Unlawful use of invasive species in the second degree—Penalty.
Section 77.15.811. Unlawful use of invasive species in the first degree—Penalty.
Section 77.15.813. Unlawfully engaging in fishing guide activity—Penalty.
Section 77.15.900. Short title.
Section 77.15.902. Savings—1998 c 190.