Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 46 Motor Vehicles - Chapter 46.63 Disposition Of Traffic Infractions

46.63.010 Legislative intent
It is the legislative intent in the adoption of this chapter in decriminalizing certain traffic offenses to promote the public safety and welfare on public ...

46.63.020 Violations as traffic infractions -- Exceptions
Failure to perform any act required or the performance of any act prohibited by this title or an equivalent administrative regulation or local law, ordinance, ...

46.63.030 Notice of traffic infraction -- Issuance -- Abandoned vehicles
(1) A law enforcement officer has the authority to issue a notice of traffic infraction: (a) When the infraction is committed in the officer's presence; ...

46.63.040 Jurisdiction of courts -- Jurisdiction of college and university governing bodies
(1) All violations of state law, local law, ordinance, regulation, or resolution designated as traffic infractions in RCW 46.63.020 may be heard and determined by ...

46.63.050 Training of judicial officers
All judges and court commissioners adjudicating traffic infractions shall complete such training requirements as are promulgated by the supreme court.[1979 ex.s. c 136 § 7.]Notes: ...

46.63.060 Notice of traffic infraction -- Determination final unless contested -- Form
(1) A notice of traffic infraction represents a determination that an infraction has been committed. The determination will be final unless contested as provided in ...

46.63.070 Response to notice -- Contesting determination -- Hearing -- Failure to respond or appear
(1) Any person who receives a notice of traffic infraction shall respond to such notice as provided in this section within fifteen days of the ...

46.63.073 Rental vehicles
(1) In the event a traffic infraction is based on a vehicle's identification, and the registered owner of the vehicle is a rental car business, ...

46.63.075 Toll evasion -- Presumption
(1) In a traffic infraction case involving an infraction detected through the use of a photo enforcement system under RCW 46.63.160, or detected through the ...

46.63.080 Hearings -- Rules of procedure -- Counsel
(1) Procedures for the conduct of all hearings provided for in this chapter may be established by rule of the supreme court. (2) Any person ...

46.63.090 Hearings -- Contesting determination that infraction committed -- Appeal
(1) A hearing held for the purpose of contesting the determination that an infraction has been committed shall be without a jury. (2) The court ...

46.63.100 Hearings -- Explanation of mitigating circumstances
(1) A hearing held for the purpose of allowing a person to explain mitigating circumstances surrounding the commission of an infraction shall be an informal ...

46.63.105 City attorney, county prosecutor, or other prosecuting authority -- Filing an infraction -- Contribution, donation, payment
A city attorney, county prosecutor, or other prosecuting authority may not dismiss, amend, or agree not to file an infraction in exchange for a contribution, ...

46.63.110 Monetary penalties
(1) A person found to have committed a traffic infraction shall be assessed a monetary penalty. No penalty may exceed two hundred and fifty dollars ...

46.63.120 Order of court -- Civil nature -- Waiver, reduction, suspension of penalty -- Community restitution
(1) An order entered after the receipt of a response which does not contest the determination, or after it has been established at a hearing ...

46.63.130 Issue of process by court of limited jurisdiction
Notwithstanding any other provisions of law governing service of process in civil cases, a court of limited jurisdiction having jurisdiction over an alleged traffic infraction ...

46.63.140 Presumption regarding stopped, standing, or parked vehicles
(1) In any traffic infraction case involving a violation of this title or equivalent administrative regulation or local law, ordinance, regulation, or resolution relating to ...

46.63.151 Costs and attorney fees
Each party to a traffic infraction case is responsible for costs incurred by that party. No costs or attorney fees may be awarded to either ...

46.63.160 Toll collection systems -- Photo enforcement systems
(1) This section applies only to infractions issued under RCW 46.61.690 for toll collection evasion. (2) Nothing in this section prohibits a law enforcement officer ...

46.63.170 Automated traffic safety cameras -- Definition
(1) The use of automated traffic safety cameras for issuance of notices of infraction is subject to the following requirements: (a) The appropriate local legislative ...