46.16A.500 – Liability of operator, owner, lessee for violations.

RCW 46.16A.500 Liability of operator, owner, lessee for violations. Both a person operating a vehicle with the express or implied permission of the owner and the owner of the vehicle are responsible for any act or omission that is declared unlawful in this chapter. The primary responsibility is the owner’s. If the person operating the […]

46.16A.510 – Immunity from liability for issuing a vehicle registration or license plates to nonroadworthy vehicle.

RCW 46.16A.510 Immunity from liability for issuing a vehicle registration or license plates to nonroadworthy vehicle. The director, the state of Washington, and its political subdivisions are immune from civil liability arising from the issuance of a vehicle registration or license plates to a nonroadworthy vehicle. [ 2011 c 171 § 51; 1986 c 186 […]

46.16A.520 – Allowing unauthorized person to drive—Penalty.

RCW 46.16A.520 Allowing unauthorized person to drive—Penalty. It is unlawful for any person in whose name a vehicle is registered knowingly to permit another person to drive the vehicle when the other person is not authorized to do so under the laws of this state. A violation of this section is a misdemeanor. [ 1987 […]

46.16A.530 – Unlawful to carry passengers for hire without vehicle registration.

RCW 46.16A.530 Unlawful to carry passengers for hire without vehicle registration. It is unlawful for the owner or operator of any vehicle not registered annually for hire or as an auto stage and for which additional seating capacity fee as required by this chapter has not been paid, to carry passengers therein for hire. [ […]

46.16A.540 – Overloading registered capacity—Additional registration—Penalties—Exceptions.

RCW 46.16A.540 Overloading registered capacity—Additional registration—Penalties—Exceptions. It is a traffic infraction for any person to operate, or cause, permit, or suffer to be operated upon a public highway of this state any bus, auto stage, motor truck, truck tractor, or tractor, with passengers, or with a maximum gross weight, in excess of that for which […]

46.16A.545 – Overloading registered capacity—Penalties.

RCW 46.16A.545 Overloading registered capacity—Penalties. Any person violating any of the provisions of RCW 46.16A.540 shall, upon a first offense, pay a penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars; upon a second offense pay a penalty of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and in […]