§ 46.16.216. Payment of parking fines required for renewal
(1) To renew a vehicle license, an applicant shall satisfy all listed standing, stopping, and parking violations, and other infractions issued under RCW 46.63.030(1)(d) for the vehicle incurred while the vehicle was registered in the applicant's name and forwarded to the department pursuant to RCW 46.20.270(3). For the purposes of this section, "listed" standing, stopping, and parking violations, and other infractions issued under RCW 46.63.030(1)(d) include only those violations for which notice has been received from state or local agencies or courts by the department one hundred twenty days or more before the date the vehicle license expires and that are placed on the records of the department. Notice of such violations received by the department later than one hundred twenty days before that date that are not satisfied shall be considered by the department in connection with any applications for license renewal in any subsequent license year. The renewal application may be processed by the department or its agents only if the applicant:
(a) Presents a preprinted renewal application showing no listed standing, stopping, or parking violations, or other infractions issued under RCW 46.63.030(1)(d), or in the absence of such presentation, the agent verifies the information that would be contained on the preprinted renewal application; or
(b) If listed standing, stopping, or parking violations, or other infractions issued under RCW 46.63.030(1)(d) exist, presents proof of payment and pays a fifteen dollar surcharge.
(2) The surcharge shall be allocated as follows:
(a) Ten dollars shall be deposited in the motor vehicle fund to be used exclusively for the administrative costs of the department of licensing; and
(b) Five dollars shall be retained by the agent handling the renewal application to be used by the agent for the administration of this section.
(3) If there is a change in the registered owner of the vehicle, the department shall forward the information regarding the change to the state or local charging jurisdiction and release any hold on the renewal of the vehicle license resulting from parking violations or other infractions issued under RCW 46.63.030(1)(d) incurred while the certificate of license registration was in a previous registered owner's name.
(4) The department shall send to all registered owners of vehicles who have been reported to have outstanding listed parking violations or other infractions issued under RCW 46.63.030(1)(d), at the time of renewal, a statement setting out the dates and jurisdictions in which the violations occurred as well as the amounts of unpaid fines and penalties relating to them and the surcharge to be collected.
[2004 c 231 § 4; 1990 2nd ex.s. c 1 § 401; 1984 c 224 § 1.]
Notes:
Severability -- 1990 2nd ex.s. c 1: See note following RCW 82.14.300.
Severability -- 1984 c 224: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [1984 c 224 § 5.]
Effective date -- 1984 c 224: "This act shall take effect on July 1, 1984." [1984 c 224 § 6.]
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