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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1107

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Long, Armstrong, Walk, Betrozoff, Brough, Tilly, Holland, Tanner, Silver, Schmidt, Wineberry, Taylor, Patrick, Cole, Walker, Sanders and May

 

 

Read first time 2/8/85 and referred to Committee on Transportation.

 

 


AN ACT Relating to prerequisites for the issuance of vehicle licenses; and amending RCW 46.12.020.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

        Sec. 1.  Section 46.12.020, chapter 12, Laws of 1961 as last amended by section 7, chapter 25, Laws of 1975 andRCW 46.12.020 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1) No vehicle license number plates or certificate of license registration, whether original issues or duplicates, ((shall)) may be issued or furnished by the department unless the applicant ((therefor shall)), at the same time, makes satisfactory application for a certificate of ownership or ((shall)) presents satisfactory evidence that such a certificate of ownership covering ((such)) the vehicle has been previously issued.

          (2) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no vehicle license number plates or certificate of license registration, whether original issues or duplicates, and no renewed vehicle license may be issued by the department unless the applicant possesses a valid driver's license.

          (3) Subsection (2) of this section applies only to applicants who are individual persons.

          (4) Subsection (2) of this section does not apply to any person for whom the department has determined that denial of license number plates or registration would be an undue hardship.  A determination that a hardship exists may be made if the applicant:

          (a) Has not had his or her driver's license suspended or revoked at any time; and

          (b) Has signed an affidavit describing in detail a physical, mental, or emotional disability of the applicant that prevents the applicant from obtaining a driver's license, and declaring that the applicant will not knowingly allow any person without a driver's license to drive any vehicle registered in the applicant's name.

          (5) It is unlawful for any person in whose name a vehicle is registered knowingly to allow another person to drive the vehicle when the other person is not authorized to do so under the laws of this state.

 

          NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.     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 of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.