Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 46 Motor Vehicles - Chapter 46.29 Financial Responsibility

46.29.010 Purpose
It is the purpose of this chapter to adopt in substance the provisions of the uniform vehicle code relating to financial responsibility in order to ...

46.29.020 Definitions
(1) The term "owner" as used in this chapter shall mean registered owner as defined in RCW 46.04.460. (2) The term "registration" as used in ...

46.29.030 Director to administer chapter
(1) The director shall administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter and may make rules and regulations necessary for its administration. (2) The director ...

46.29.040 Court review
Any order of the director under the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to review, at the instance of any party in interest, by ...

46.29.050 Furnishing driving record and evidence of ability to respond in damages -- Fees
(1) The department shall upon request furnish any person or his attorney a certified abstract of his driving record, which abstract shall include enumeration of ...

46.29.060 Application of sections requiring deposit of security and suspensions for failure to deposit security
The provisions of this chapter, requiring deposit of security and suspensions for failure to deposit security, subject to certain exemptions, shall apply to the driver ...

46.29.070 Department to determine amount of security required -- Notices
(1) The department, not less than twenty days after receipt of a report of an accident as described in the preceding section, shall determine the ...

46.29.080 Exceptions as to requirement of security
The requirements as to security and suspension in this chapter shall not apply: (1) To the driver or owner if the owner had in effect ...

46.29.090 Requirements as to policy or bond
(1) No policy or bond is effective under RCW 46.29.080 unless issued by an insurance company or surety company authorized to do business in this ...

46.29.100 Form and amount of security
(1) The security required under this chapter shall be in such form and in such amount as the department may require, but in no case ...

46.29.110 Failure to deposit security -- Suspensions
If a person required to deposit security under this chapter fails to deposit such security within sixty days after the department has sent the notice ...

46.29.120 Release from liability
(1) A person shall be relieved from the requirement for deposit of security for the benefit or protection of another person injured or damaged in ...

46.29.130 Adjudication of nonliability
A person shall be relieved from the requirement for deposit of security in respect to a claim for injury or damage arising out of the ...

46.29.140 Agreements for payment of damages
(1) Any two or more of the persons involved in or affected by an accident as described in RCW 46.29.060 may at any time enter ...

46.29.150 Payment upon judgment
The payment of a judgment arising out of an accident or the payment upon such judgment of an amount equal to the maximum amount which ...

46.29.160 Termination of security requirement
The department, if satisfied as to the existence of any fact which under RCW 46.29.120, 46.29.130, 46.29.140 or 46.29.150 would entitle a person to be ...

46.29.170 Duration of suspension
Unless a suspension is terminated under other provisions of this chapter, any order of suspension by the department under this chapter shall remain in effect ...

46.29.180 Application to nonresidents, unlicensed drivers, unregistered vehicles, and accidents in other states
(1) In case the driver or the owner of a vehicle of a type subject to registration under the laws of this state involved in ...

46.29.190 Authority of department to decrease amount of security
The department may reduce the amount of security ordered in any case if in its judgment the amount ordered is excessive. In case the security ...

46.29.200 Correction of action by department
Whenever the department has taken any action or has failed to take any action under this chapter by reason of having received erroneous information, then ...

46.29.210 Custody of security
The department shall place any security deposited with it under this chapter in the custody of the state treasurer.[1963 c 169 § 21.] ...

46.29.220 Disposition of security
(1) Such security shall be applicable and available only: (a) For the payment of any settlement agreement covering any claim arising out of the accident ...

46.29.230 Return of deposit
Upon the expiration of three years from the date of the accident resulting in the security requirement, any security remaining on deposit shall be returned ...

46.29.240 Certain matters not evidence in civil suits
The report required following an accident, the action taken by the department pursuant to this chapter, the findings, if any, of the department upon which ...

46.29.250 Application of sections requiring deposit of proof of financial responsibility for the future
The provisions of this chapter requiring the deposit of proof of financial responsibility for the future, subject to certain exemptions, shall apply with respect to ...

46.29.260 "Proof of financial responsibility for the future" defined
The term "proof of financial responsibility for the future" as used in this chapter means: Proof of ability to respond in damages for liability, on ...

46.29.270 "Judgment," "state" defined
The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall, for the purpose of this chapter, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in ...

46.29.280 Suspension continues until proof furnished
Whenever, under any law of this state, the license of any person is suspended or revoked by reason of a conviction, forfeiture of bail, or ...

46.29.290 Action in respect to unlicensed person
If a person has no license, but by final order or judgment is convicted of or forfeits any bail or collateral deposited to secure an ...

46.29.300 Action in respect to nonresidents
Whenever the department suspends or revokes a nonresident's driving privilege by reason of a conviction, forfeiture of bail, or finding that a traffic infraction has ...

46.29.310 When courts to report nonpayment of judgments
Whenever any person fails within thirty days to satisfy any judgment, then it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court, or of ...

46.29.320 Further action with respect to nonresidents
If the defendant named in any certified copy or abstract of a judgment reported to the department is a nonresident, the department shall transmit those ...

46.29.330 Suspension for nonpayment of judgments
The department upon receipt of the certificates provided for by RCW 46.29.310, on a form provided by the department, shall forthwith suspend the license and ...

46.29.340 Exception in relation to government vehicles
The provisions of RCW 46.29.330 shall not apply with respect to any such judgment arising out of an accident caused by the ownership or operation, ...

46.29.350 Exception when consent granted by judgment creditor
If the judgment creditor consents in writing, in such form as the department may prescribe, that the judgment debtor be allowed a license or nonresident's ...

46.29.360 Exception when insurer liable
No license or nonresident's driving privilege of any person shall be suspended under the provisions of this chapter if the department shall find that an ...

46.29.370 Suspension continues until judgments paid and proof given
Such license and nonresident's driving privilege shall remain so suspended and shall not be renewed, nor shall any such license be thereafter issued in the ...

46.29.390 Payments sufficient to satisfy requirements
(1) Judgments herein referred to are, for the purpose of this chapter only, deemed satisfied: (a) When twenty-five thousand dollars has been credited upon any ...

46.29.400 Installment payment of judgments -- Default
(1) A judgment debtor upon due notice to the judgment creditor may apply to the court in which such judgment was rendered for the privilege ...

46.29.410 Action if breach of agreement
In the event the judgment debtor fails to pay any installment as specified by such order, then upon notice of such default, the department shall ...

46.29.420 Proof required in addition to deposit of security after accident
Any person required to deposit security under RCW 46.29.070, for the benefit or protection of another person injured or damaged in an accident, shall in ...

46.29.430 Additional proof required -- Suspension or revocation for failure to give proof
If a person required to give proof of financial responsibility under RCW 46.29.420 fails to give such proof within sixty days after the department has ...

46.29.440 Additional proof required -- Suspension to continue until proof given and maintained
Such license or nonresident's driving privilege shall remain so suspended and shall not be renewed, nor shall any such license be thereafter issued in the ...

46.29.450 Alternate methods of giving proof
Proof of financial responsibility when required under this chapter, with respect to such a vehicle or with respect to a person who is not the ...

46.29.460 Certificate of insurance as proof
Proof of financial responsibility for the future may be furnished by filing with the department the written certificate of any insurance carrier duly authorized to ...

46.29.470 Certificate furnished by nonresident as proof
A nonresident may give proof of financial responsibility by filing with the department a written certificate or certificates of an insurance carrier authorized to transact ...

46.29.480 Default by nonresident insurer
If any insurance carrier not authorized to transact business in this state, which has qualified to furnish proof of financial responsibility, defaults in any said ...

46.29.490 "Motor vehicle liability policy" defined
(1) Certification. A "motor vehicle liability policy" as said term is used in this chapter means an "owner's policy" or an "operator's policy" of liability ...

46.29.500 Notice of cancellation or termination of certified policy
When an insurance carrier has certified a motor vehicle liability policy under RCW 46.29.460 or 46.29.470 the insurance so certified shall not be canceled or ...

46.29.510 Chapter not to affect other policies
(1) This chapter shall not be held to apply to or affect policies of automobile insurance against liability which may now or hereafter be required ...

46.29.520 Bond as proof
Proof of financial responsibility may be evidenced by the bond of a surety company duly authorized to transact business within this state, or a bond ...

46.29.530 When bond constitutes a lien
Before a bond with individual sureties is accepted by the department it shall be recorded as other instruments affecting real property in the county or ...

46.29.540 Action on bond
If a judgment, rendered against the principal on any bond described in RCW 46.29.520, shall not be satisfied within thirty days after it has become ...

46.29.550 Money or securities as proof
Proof of financial responsibility may be evidenced by the certificate of the state treasurer that the person named therein has deposited with him sixty thousand ...

46.29.560 Application of deposit
Such deposit shall be held by the state treasurer to satisfy, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, any execution on a judgment issued ...

46.29.570 Owner may give proof for others
The owner of a motor vehicle may give proof of financial responsibility on behalf of his employee or a member of his immediate family or ...

46.29.580 Substitution of proof
The department shall consent to the cancellation of any bond or certificate of insurance or the department shall direct and the state treasurer shall return ...

46.29.590 Other proof required, when
Whenever any proof of financial responsibility filed under the provisions of this chapter no longer fulfills the purposes for which required, the department shall, for ...

46.29.600 Duration of proof -- When proof may be canceled or returned
(1) The department shall upon request consent to the immediate cancellation of any bond or certificate of insurance, or the department shall direct and the ...

46.29.605 Suspension of registration, notice -- Surrender of license plates -- Penalties
(1) Whenever the involvement in a motor vehicle accident in this state results in the driving privilege of a person being suspended for failure to ...

46.29.610 Surrender of license -- Penalty
(1) Any person whose license shall have been suspended under any provision of this chapter, or whose policy of insurance or bond, when required under ...

46.29.620 Forged proof -- Penalty
Any person who shall forge, or, without authority, sign any evidence of proof of financial responsibility for the future, or who files or offers for ...

46.29.630 Self-insurers
(1) Any person in whose name more than twenty-five vehicles are registered in this state may qualify as a self-insurer by obtaining a certificate of ...

46.29.640 Chapter not to prevent other process
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing the plaintiff in any action at law from relying for relief upon the other processes provided ...

46.29.900 Construction -- 1963 c 169
RCW 46.29.010 through 46.29.640 shall be codified as a single chapter of the Revised Code of Washington. RCW 46.29.010 through 46.29.050 shall be captioned "ADMINISTRATION." ...

46.29.910 Severability -- 1963 c 169
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 ...

46.29.920 Repeals and saving
Sections 46.24.010 through 46.24.910 and sections 46.28.010 through 46.28.200, chapter 12, Laws of 1961 and RCW 46.24.010 through 46.24.910 and RCW 46.28.010 through 46.28.200 are ...