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SENATE BILL 5799
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Senators Pelz, Rasmussen, Moore, Vognild and Owen.
Read first time February 21, 1991. Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance.
AN ACT Relating to automobile insurance; amending RCW 48.18.297; and adding a new section to chapter 48.18 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 48.18.297 and 1969 ex.s. c 241 s 24 are each amended to read as follows:
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private passenger automobile as used in ((RCW 48.18.291 through 48.18.297))
this chapter shall mean:
(1) An individually owned motor vehicle of the private passenger or station wagon type that is not used as a public or livery conveyance for passengers, nor rented to others.
(2) Any other individually owned four-wheel motor vehicle with a load capacity of fifteen hundred pounds or less which is not used in the occupation, profession, or business of the insured.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 48.18 RCW to read as follows:
No private passenger automobile liability insurer shall refuse to issue a private passenger liability insurance policy or increase the rate to be charged for a policy based on the grounds that the applicant has never purchased a policy or has not purchased or been covered by a policy during a specified time period immediately preceding the date of application.