(1) The department may authorize representatives to operate its inspection and decontamination stations and mandatory check stations. Department-authorized representatives may be department volunteers, other law enforcement agencies, or independent businesses.
(2) The department must adopt rules governing the types of services that department-authorized representatives may perform under this chapter.
(3) Department-authorized representatives must have official identification, training, and administrative capacity to fulfill their responsibilities under this section.
(4) By December 1, 2018, the department must provide the legislature with recommendations for a fee schedule that department-authorized representatives may charge users whose aquatic conveyances receive inspection and decontamination services.
[ 2017 3rd sp.s. c 17 § 306; 2014 c 202 § 118.]
NOTES:
Findings—2014 c 202: See note following RCW 77.135.010.