Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 46 Motor Vehicles - Chapter 46.87 Proportional Registration

46.87.010 Applicability -- Implementation
This chapter applies to proportional registration and reciprocity granted under the provisions of the International Registration Plan (IRP). This chapter shall become effective and be ...

46.87.020 Definitions
Terms used in this chapter have the meaning given to them in the International Registration Plan (IRP), in chapter 46.04 RCW, or as otherwise defined ...

46.87.022 Rental trailers, converter gears
Owners of rental trailers and semitrailers over six thousand pounds gross vehicle weight, and converter gears used solely in pool fleets shall fully register a ...

46.87.023 Rental car businesses
(1) Rental car businesses must register with the department of licensing. This registration must be renewed annually by the rental car business. (2) Rental cars ...

46.87.025 Vehicles titled in owner's name
All vehicles being added to an existing Washington-based fleet or those vehicles that make up a new Washington-based fleet shall be titled in the name ...

46.87.030 Part-year registration -- Credit for unused fees
(1) When application to register an apportionable vehicle is made, the Washington prorated fees may be reduced by one-twelfth for each full registration month that ...

46.87.040 Purchase of additional gross weight
Additional gross weight may be purchased for proportionally registered motor vehicles to the limits authorized under chapter 46.44 RCW. Reregistration at the higher gross weight ...

46.87.050 Deposit of fees
Each day the department shall forward to the state treasurer the fees collected under this chapter, and within ten days of the end of each ...

46.87.060 Apportionment of fees, formula
The apportionment of fees to IRP member jurisdictions shall be in accordance with the provisions of the IRP agreement based on the apportionable fee multiplied ...

46.87.070 Reciprocity for trailers, semitrailers, pole trailers
Trailers, semitrailers, and pole trailers that are properly based in jurisdictions other than Washington, and that display currently registered license plates from such jurisdictions will ...

46.87.080 Cab cards, validation tabs, special license plates -- Design, procedures -- Issuance, refusal, revocation
(1) Upon making satisfactory application and payment of applicable fees and taxes for proportional registration under this chapter, the department shall issue a cab card ...

46.87.090 Apportioned vehicle license plates, cab card, validation tabs -- Replacement -- Fees
(1) To replace an apportioned vehicle license plate(s), cab card, or validation tab(s) due to loss, defacement, or destruction, the registrant shall apply to the ...

46.87.120 Mileage data for applications
(1) The initial application for proportional registration of a fleet shall state the mileage data with respect to the fleet for the preceding year in ...

46.87.130 Transaction fee
In addition to all other fees prescribed for the proportional registration of vehicles under this chapter, the department shall collect a vehicle transaction fee each ...

46.87.140 Application -- Filing, contents -- Fees and taxes -- Assessments, due date
(1) Any owner engaged in interstate operations of one or more fleets of apportionable vehicles may, in lieu of registration of the vehicles under chapter ...

46.87.150 Overpayment, underpayment -- Refund, additional charge
Whenever a person has been required to pay a fee or tax pursuant to this chapter that amounts to an overpayment of ten dollars or ...

46.87.190 Suspension or cancellation of benefits
The department may suspend or cancel the exemptions, benefits, or privileges granted under chapter 46.85 RCW or this chapter to any person or business firm ...

46.87.200 Refusal of registration -- Federal heavy vehicle use tax
The department may refuse registration of a vehicle if the applicant has failed to furnish proof, acceptable to the department, that the federal heavy vehicle ...

46.87.210 Refusal of application from nonreciprocal jurisdiction
The department may refuse to accept proportional registration applications for the registration of vehicles based in another jurisdiction if the department finds that the other ...

46.87.220 Gross weight computation
The gross weight in the case of a motor truck, tractor, or truck tractor is the scale weight of the motor truck, tractor, or truck ...

46.87.230 Responsibility for unlawful acts or omissions
Whenever an act or omission is declared to be unlawful under chapter 46.12, 46.16, or 46.44 RCW or this chapter, and if the operator of ...

46.87.240 Relationship of department with other jurisdictions
Under the provisions of the IRP, the department may act in a quasi-agency relationship with other jurisdictions. The department may collect and forward applicable registration ...

46.87.250 Authority of chapter
This chapter constitutes complete authority for the registration of fleet vehicles upon a proportional registration basis without reference to or application of any other statutes ...

46.87.260 Alteration or forgery of cab card or letter of authority -- Penalty
Any person who alters or forges or causes to be altered or forged any cab card, letter of authority, or other temporary authority issued by ...

46.87.270 Gross weight on vehicle
Every Washington-based motor vehicle registered under this chapter shall have the maximum gross weight or maximum combined gross weight for which the vehicle is licensed ...

46.87.280 Effect of other registration
Nothing contained in this chapter relating to proportional registration of fleet vehicles requires any vehicle to be proportionally registered if it is otherwise registered for ...

46.87.290 Refusal, cancellation of application, cab card -- Procedures, penalties
(1) If the department determines at any time that an applicant for proportional registration of a vehicle or a fleet of vehicles is not entitled ...

46.87.294 Refusal under federal prohibition, placement of out-of-service order
The department shall refuse to register a vehicle under this chapter if the registrant or motor carrier responsible for the safety of the vehicle has ...

46.87.296 Suspension, revocation under federal prohibition -- Placement of out-of-service order
The department shall suspend or revoke the registration of a vehicle registered under this chapter if the registrant or motor carrier responsible for the safety ...

46.87.300 Appeal of suspension, revocation, cancellation, refusal
The suspension, revocation, cancellation, or refusal by the director, or the director's designee, of a license plate(s), certificate(s) of registration, or cab card(s) provided for ...

46.87.310 Application records -- Preservation, contents, audit -- Additional assessments, penalties, refunds
Any owner whose application for proportional registration has been accepted shall preserve the records on which the application is based for a period of four ...

46.87.320 Departmental audits, investigations -- Subpoenas
The department may initiate and conduct audits and investigations as may be reasonably necessary to establish the existence of any alleged violations of or noncompliance ...

46.87.330 Assessments -- When due, penalties -- Reassessment -- Petition, notice, service -- Injunctions, writs of mandate restricted
An owner of proportionally registered vehicles against whom an assessment is made under RCW 46.87.310 may petition for reassessment thereof within thirty days after service ...

46.87.335 Mitigation of assessments
Except in the case of violations of filing a false or fraudulent application, if the department deems mitigation of penalties, fees, and interest to be ...

46.87.340 Assessments -- Lien for nonpayment
If an owner of proportionally registered vehicles liable for the remittance of fees and taxes imposed by this chapter fails to pay the fees and ...

46.87.350 Delinquent obligations -- Notice -- Restriction on credits or property -- Default judgments -- Lien
If an owner of proportionally registered vehicles for which an assessment has become final is delinquent in the payment of an obligation imposed under this ...

46.87.360 Delinquent obligations -- Collection by department -- Seizure of property, notice, sale
Whenever the owner of proportionally registered vehicles is delinquent in the payment of an obligation imposed under this chapter, and the delinquency continues after notice ...

46.87.370 Warrant for final assessments -- Lien on property
Whenever any assessment has become final in accordance with this chapter, the department may file with the clerk of any county within this state a ...

46.87.380 Delinquent obligations -- Collection by attorney general
Whenever an owner of proportionally registered vehicles is delinquent in the payment of an obligation under this chapter the department may transmit notices of the ...

46.87.390 Remedies cumulative
The remedies of the state in this chapter are cumulative, and no action taken by the department may be construed to be an election on ...

46.87.400 Civil immunity
(1) The director, the state of Washington, and its political subdivisions are immune from civil liability arising from the issuance of a vehicle license to ...

46.87.410 Bankruptcy proceedings -- Notice
A proportional registration licensee, who files or against whom is filed a petition in bankruptcy, shall, within ten days of the filing, notify the department ...

46.87.900 Severability -- 1985 c 380
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 ...

46.87.910 Short title
This chapter may be known and cited as "Proportional Registration."[1987 c 244 § 54.]Notes: Effective dates -- 1987 c 244: See note following RCW 46.12.020. ...