Washington

Revised Code of Washington — Title 46, Motor Vehicles

1,677 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 46.16A.080 — Registration—Exemptions
• § 46.16A.090 — Registration—Voluntary and opt-out donations—Discover pass
• § 46.16A.100 — Registration—Federal heavy vehicle use tax
• § 46.16A.110 — Registration renewal—Exemptions
• § 46.16A.115 — Open safety recalls—Notice—Liability
• § 46.16A.120 — Forwarding and payment of standing, stopping, and parking violations and other infractions required before registration renewal
• § 46.16A.130 — Notice of liability insurance requirement
• § 46.16A.140 — "Resident" defined—Natural person residency requirements—Vehicle registration required
• § 46.16A.150 — Purchasing a vehicle with foreign plates
• § 46.16A.160 — Nonresident exemption—Reciprocity—Rules
• § 46.16A.170 — Exemptions from vehicle license fees—State and publicly owned vehicles
• § 46.16A.175 — Exemptions from vehicle license fees—Vehicles owned by Indian tribes—Conditions
• § 46.16A.180 — Registration certificates—Formats—Requirements—Penalty—Exception—Manual removal of registrant's address
• § 46.16A.185 — Requirement for commercial motor vehicle registration certificate
• § 46.16A.190 — Replacement registration certificates
• § 46.16A.200 — License plates
• § 46.16A.210 — Emblems—Material, display requirements
• § 46.16A.215 — Military emblems—Fees
• § 46.16A.220 — Rules
• § 46.16A.230 — Tribal license plates and vehicle registration—Compacts
• § 46.16A.300 — Temporary license plates—Authority—Dealer fees—Secure system
• § 46.16A.305 — Temporary license plates—Application form and contents—Display and duration—Application fee—Department may adopt rules
• § 46.16A.320 — Vehicle trip permits—Restrictions and requirements—Fee—Penalty—Rules
• § 46.16A.330 — Farm vehicle trip permits—Restrictions and requirements—Fee—Rules
• § 46.16A.340 — Temporary permits for nonresident members of armed forces—Fee—Rules
• § 46.16A.350 — Temporary letter of authority for movement of unregistered vehicle for special community activity
• § 46.16A.360 — Thirty, sixty, or ninety-day permits for registered out-of-state commercial vehicles
• § 46.16A.405 — Campers, mopeds, and wheelchair conveyances
• § 46.16A.410 — Commercial motor vehicles
• § 46.16A.420 — Farm vehicles—Farm exempt decal—Fee—Rules
• § 46.16A.425 — Farm vehicles based on gross weight—Farm tabs—Penalty
• § 46.16A.428 — Intermittent-use trailers—Permanent registration—Penalty—License plates—Definition—Rules
• § 46.16A.435 — Off-road motorcycles—Declaration required—Contents
• § 46.16A.440 — Private use, single-axle trailers—Reduced license fee
• § 46.16A.445 — Street rod or custom vehicles
• § 46.16A.450 — Trailers—Permanent license plates and registration—Penalty—Rules
• § 46.16A.455 — Trucks, buses, and for hire vehicles based on gross weight
• § 46.16A.460 — Motorcycles and snow bikes—Concurrent, separate registrations—Declaration required—Department may adopt rules
• § 46.16A.500 — Liability of operator, owner, lessee for violations
• § 46.16A.510 — Immunity from liability for issuing a vehicle registration or license plates to nonroadworthy vehicle
• § 46.16A.520 — Allowing unauthorized person to drive—Penalty
• § 46.16A.530 — Unlawful to carry passengers for hire without vehicle registration
• § 46.16A.540 — Overloading registered capacity—Additional registration—Penalties—Exceptions
• § 46.16A.545 — Overloading registered capacity—Penalties
• § 46.16A.550 — Illegible license plate—Penalty
• § 46.17.005 — Filing fees
• § 46.17.015 — License plate technology fee
• § 46.17.025 — License service fee
• § 46.17.030 — Parking ticket surcharge
• § 46.17.040 — Service fees
• § 46.17.050 — Fees associated with a report of sale
• § 46.17.060 — Fees associated with a transitional ownership record
• § 46.17.100 — Application fee
• § 46.17.110 — Emergency medical services fee
• § 46.17.120 — Stolen vehicle check fee—Exemption
• § 46.17.130 — Vehicle identification number inspection fee
• § 46.17.135 — Vehicle identification number reassignment fee
• § 46.17.140 — Late transfer of title penalty
• § 46.17.150 — Manufactured home title transfer fee
• § 46.17.155 — Manufactured home transaction fee
• § 46.17.160 — Quick title service fee
• § 46.17.200 — Original issue fees—Reflectivity fee—Replacement fees—Moped fee—Retention fee—Transfer fees—Recovery fee for nonvehicular use
• § 46.17.210 — Personalized license plate fees
• § 46.17.220 — Special license plate fees
• § 46.17.230 — Replacement license tab and windshield emblem fee
• § 46.17.240 — Government vehicle license plate fee
• § 46.17.250 — Combination trailer license plate fee
• § 46.17.260 — Defective license plates—Replacement
• § 46.17.305 — Boat trailer fee
• § 46.17.310 — Change of class fee
• § 46.17.315 — Commercial vehicle safety enforcement fee
• § 46.17.320 — Duplicate registration fees
• § 46.17.323 — Electric vehicle registration renewal fees—Electric motorcycles
• § 46.17.324 — Transportation electrification fee
• § 46.17.325 — Farm exempt decal fee
• § 46.17.330 — Farm vehicle reduced gross weight license fee
• § 46.17.335 — Fixed load motor vehicle registration fees
• § 46.17.340 — For hire vehicle and auto stage seating capacity fee
• § 46.17.345 — Intermittent-use trailer registration fee
• § 46.17.350 — License fees by vehicle type
• § 46.17.355 — License fees by weight
• § 46.17.360 — Monthly declared gross weight license fees
• § 46.17.365 — Motor vehicle weight fee—Motor home vehicle weight fee
• § 46.17.375 — Recreational vehicle sanitary disposal fee
• § 46.17.380 — Abandoned recreational disposal fee
• § 46.17.400 — Permit fees by permit or temporary license plate type
• § 46.17.410 — Off-road vehicle registration transfer fee
• § 46.17.420 — Snowmobile registration transfer fee
• § 46.18.005 — Intent
• § 46.18.010 — Application
• § 46.18.020 — Rules
• § 46.18.050 — Department duties—Applications, financial reports
• § 46.18.060 — Department duties continued
• § 46.18.100 — Sponsoring organization requirements
• § 46.18.110 — Application requirements
• § 46.18.120 — Written agreement—Financial report
• § 46.18.130 — Disposition of revenues
• § 46.18.140 — Nonreviewed special license plates
• § 46.18.150 — Design services—Fees
• § 46.18.200 — Department-approved plate types
• § 46.18.205 — Amateur radio license plates
• § 46.18.210 — Armed forces license plates
• § 46.18.212 — Armed forces decals
• § 46.18.220 — Collector vehicle license plates
• § 46.18.2201 — Collector vehicle license plates—Vehicle information and identification
• § 46.18.225 — Collegiate license plates
• § 46.18.230 — Medal of Honor license plates
• § 46.18.235 — Disabled American veteran or former prisoner of war license plates
• § 46.18.245 — Gold star license plates
• § 46.18.255 — Horseless carriage license plates
• § 46.18.265 — Military affiliate radio system license plates
• § 46.18.270 — Pearl Harbor survivor license plates
• § 46.18.275 — Personalized license plates
• § 46.18.277 — Personalized special license plates
• § 46.18.280 — Purple Heart license plates
• § 46.18.285 — Ride share license plates
• § 46.18.290 — Square dancer license plates
• § 46.18.295 — Veterans and military personnel emblems
• § 46.18.300 — Veteran suicide emblems
• § 46.18.310 — Keep Washington evergreen license plates
• § 46.19.010 — Criteria for natural persons (as amended by 2025 c 295)
• § 46.19.020 — Eligible organizations—Rules
• § 46.19.030 — Display and design of placards, license plates, and year tabs
• § 46.19.040 — Renewal—Rules—Report
• § 46.19.050 — Restrictions—Prohibitions—Violations—Penalties
• § 46.19.060 — Special license plates for persons with disabilities, special license plates with a special year tab for persons with disabilities—Fees—Renewal—Transfer
• § 46.19.070 — Special plate or card issued by another jurisdiction
• § 46.19.080 — Special parking privileges for persons with disabilities—Application—Temporary placard—Identification card
• § 46.19.090 — Blue envelope program
• § 46.20.001 — License required—Rights and restriction
• § 46.20.005 — Driving without a license—Misdemeanor, when
• § 46.20.015 — Driving without a license—Traffic infraction, when
• § 46.20.017 — Immediate possession and displayed on demand
• § 46.20.021 — New residents
• § 46.20.022 — Unlicensed drivers—Subject to Title 46 RCW
• § 46.20.024 — Unlawful to allow unauthorized minors to drive
• § 46.20.025 — Exemptions
• § 46.20.027 — Armed forces, dependents
• § 46.20.031 — Ineligibility
• § 46.20.035 — Proof of identity
• § 46.20.036 — Other forms of identification, use—Department to develop in consultation with the department of children, youth, and families, office of the superintendent of public instruction, and office of homeless youth prevention and protection programs
• § 46.20.037 — Facial recognition matching system
• § 46.20.041 — Persons with physical or mental disabilities or diseases
• § 46.20.045 — School bus, for hire drivers—Age
• § 46.20.049 — Commercial driver's license—Additional fee, disposition
• § 46.20.055 — Instruction permit
• § 46.20.065 — Temporary permit
• § 46.20.070 — Juvenile agricultural driving permit
• § 46.20.075 — Intermediate license
• § 46.20.091 — Application—Penalty for false statement—Driving records from and to other jurisdictions
• § 46.20.0921 — Violations—Penalty
• § 46.20.093 — Bicycle safety
• § 46.20.095 — Instructional publication information
• § 46.20.100 — Persons under 18
• § 46.20.105 — Identifying types of licenses and permits
• § 46.20.109 — Wheelchair conveyances
• § 46.20.111 — Registration with selective service system for males under twenty-six upon application—Opportunity to consent or decline
• § 46.20.113 — Anatomical gift statement
• § 46.20.1131 — Information for organ donor registry
• § 46.20.1132 — Information for bone marrow donation—Registry—Organizations and third parties may not utilize information obtained for fund-raising or other commercial purposes
• § 46.20.114 — Preventing alteration or reproduction
• § 46.20.117 — Identicards
• § 46.20.118 — Negative file
• § 46.20.119 — Reasonable rules
• § 46.20.1191 — Driver training education course—Motorcycle safety education course—Driver work zone and first responder safety—Exemption—Waiver—Report—Safe driving course
• § 46.20.1192 — Electronic translation devices
• § 46.20.120 — Examinations—Waiver—Fees—Renewals—Administration
• § 46.20.1201 — Fee
• § 46.20.125 — Waiver—Agreement with other jurisdictions
• § 46.20.126 — Rules
• § 46.20.130 — Content and conduct of examinations
• § 46.20.132 — Blood type documentation
• § 46.20.1321 — Education on including blood type information—Coordination with health care providers, emergency responders, blood donation organizations
• § 46.20.1322 — Blood type documentation—Updating existing systems—Department authorized to adopt rules
• § 46.20.134 — Sex designation changes—Confidentiality
• § 46.20.153 — Voter registration—Posting signs
• § 46.20.155 — Voter registration, update—Services (as amended by 2023 c 361)
• § 46.20.156 — Voter registration—Automatic—Enhanced driver's licenses and identicards
• § 46.20.157 — Data to Washington technology solutions—Confidentiality
• § 46.20.161 — Issuance—Contents—Fee—Veterans, individuals meeting criteria for veterans—Medical alert designation, developmental disability designation, or deafness designation—Self-attestation
• § 46.20.181 — Expiration date—Renewal—Fees—Penalty
• § 46.20.185 — Photograph during renewal
• § 46.20.187 — Registration of sex offenders
• § 46.20.191 — Compliance with federal REAL ID Act of 2005 requirements—Department safeguards
• § 46.20.1911 — Costs and burdens of compliance with federal REAL ID Act of 2005 requirements—Legal challenge
• § 46.20.192 — Compliance with federal REAL ID Act of 2005 requirements—Driver's license and identicard markings—Rules
• § 46.20.1921 — Compliance with federal REAL ID Act of 2005 requirements—Design feature restrictions
• § 46.20.195 — Identicard program for homeless individuals
• § 46.20.198 — Older driver reduced fee identicard program
• § 46.20.200 — Lost, destroyed, or corrected licenses, identicards, or permits
• § 46.20.202 — Enhanced drivers' licenses and identicards for Canadian border crossing—Border-crossing initiative—Fee amount, distribution
• § 46.20.2021 — Statewide education campaign for border-crossing initiative
• § 46.20.205 — Change of address or name
• § 46.20.207 — Cancellation
• § 46.20.215 — Nonresidents—Suspension or revocation—Reporting offenders
• § 46.20.220 — Vehicle rentals—Records
• § 46.20.245 — Mandatory revocation—Persons subject to suspension, revocation, or denial who are eligible for certain full credit—Notice—Administrative, judicial review—Rules—Application
• § 46.20.265 — Juvenile driving privileges—Revocation for alcohol or drug violations
• § 46.20.267 — Intermediate licensees
• § 46.20.270 — Driving offenses—Procedures—Definitions