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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1692

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By Representative Walk

Read first time 1/22/88 and referred to Committee on Transportation.

AN ACT Relating to names and addresses for drivers' licenses and indenticards; and amending RCW 46.20.205.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 18, chapter 121, Laws of 1965 ex. sess. as amended by section 13, chapter 170, Laws of 1969 ex. sess. and RCW 46.20.205 are each amended to read as follows:

          Whenever any person after applying for or receiving a driver's license ((shall)) or identicard moves from the address named in ((such)) the application or in the license or identicard issued to him or her or when the name of a licensee or holder of an identicard is changed by marriage or otherwise ((such)), the person shall within ten days thereafter notify the department in writing on a form provided by the department of his or her old and new addresses or of such former and new names and of the number of any license then held by him or her.  The written notification is the exclusive means by which the address of record maintained by the department concerning the licensee or identicard holder may be changed.  Any notice regarding the cancellation, suspension, revocation, probation, or nonrenewal of the driver's license, driving privilege, or identicard mailed to the address of record of the licensee or identicard holder is effective notwithstanding the licensee's or identicard holder's failure to receive the notice.