Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 46 Motor Vehicles - Chapter 46.25 Uniform Commercial Driver's License Act

46.25.001 Short title
This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Commercial Driver's License Act.[1989 c 178 § 1.] ...

46.25.005 Purpose -- Construction
(1) The purpose of this chapter is to implement the federal Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 (CMVSA), Title XII, P.L. 99-570, and reduce ...

46.25.010 Definitions
The definitions set forth in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Alcohol" means any substance containing any form of alcohol, including but not limited ...

46.25.020 One license limit
No person who drives a commercial motor vehicle may have more than one driver's license.[1989 c 178 § 4.] ...

46.25.030 Duties of driver -- Notice to department and employer
(1)(a) A driver of a commercial motor vehicle holding a driver's license issued by this state who is convicted of violating a state law or ...

46.25.040 Duties of employer
(1) An employer shall require the applicant to provide the information specified in RCW 46.25.030(3). (2) No employer may knowingly allow, permit, or authorize a ...

46.25.050 Commercial driver's license required -- Exceptions, restrictions, reciprocity
(1) Drivers of commercial motor vehicles shall obtain a commercial driver's license as required under this chapter. Except when driving under a commercial driver's instruction ...

46.25.055 Medical examiner's certificate -- Required
A person may not drive a commercial motor vehicle unless he or she is physically qualified to do so and, except as provided in 49 ...

46.25.057 Medical examiner's certificate -- Failure to carry -- Penalty
(1) It is a traffic infraction for a licensee under this chapter to drive a commercial vehicle without having on his or her person the ...

46.25.060 Knowledge and skills test -- Instruction permit
(1)(a) No person may be issued a commercial driver's license unless that person is a resident of this state, has successfully completed a course of ...

46.25.070 Application -- Change of address -- Residency -- Hazardous materials endorsement
(1) The application for a commercial driver's license or commercial driver's instruction permit must include the following: (a) The full name and current mailing and ...

46.25.080 License contents, classifications, endorsements, restrictions, expiration -- Exchange of information
(1) The commercial driver's license must be marked "commercial driver's license" or "CDL," and must be, to the maximum extent practicable, tamperproof. It must include, ...

46.25.085 Hazardous materials endorsement
(1) The department may not issue, renew, upgrade, or transfer a hazardous materials endorsement for a commercial driver's license to any individual authorizing that individual ...

46.25.090 Disqualification -- Grounds for, period of -- Records
(1) A person is disqualified from driving a commercial motor vehicle for a period of not less than one year if a report has been ...

46.25.100 Restoration after disqualification
When a person has been disqualified from operating a commercial motor vehicle, the person is not entitled to have the commercial driver's license restored until ...

46.25.110 Driving with alcohol in system
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of Title 46 RCW, a person may not drive, operate, or be in physical control of a commercial motor vehicle ...

46.25.120 Test for alcohol or drugs -- Disqualification for refusal of test or positive test -- Procedures
(1) A person who drives a commercial motor vehicle within this state is deemed to have given consent, subject to RCW 46.61.506, to take a ...

46.25.123 Mandatory reporting of positive test
(1) All medical review officers or breath alcohol technicians hired by or under contract to a motor carrier or employer who employs drivers who operate ...

46.25.125 Disqualification for positive test -- Procedure
(1) When the department of licensing receives a report from a medical review officer, breath alcohol technician, employer, contractor, or consortium that a driver has ...

46.25.130 Report of violation, disqualification by nonresident
(1) Within ten days after receiving a report of the conviction of or finding that a traffic infraction has been committed by any nonresident holder ...

46.25.140 Rules
The department may adopt rules necessary to carry out this chapter.[1989 c 178 § 16.] ...

46.25.150 Agreements to carry out chapter
The department may enter into or make agreements, arrangements, or declarations to carry out this chapter.[1989 c 178 § 17.] ...

46.25.160 Licenses issued by other jurisdictions
Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a person may drive a commercial motor vehicle if the person has a commercial driver's license or commercial driver's ...

46.25.170 Civil and criminal penalties
(1) A person subject to RCW 81.04.405 who is determined by the utilities and transportation commission, after notice, to have committed an act that is ...

46.25.900 Severability -- 1989 c 178
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 ...

46.25.901 Effective dates -- 1989 c 178
Sections 25, 26, 28, and 32 of this act shall take effect on April 1, 1992. The remainder of this act shall take effect on ...