Revised Code of Washington
2024 Archive

Chapter 46.12 RCW
CERTIFICATES OF TITLE
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
46.12.520Certificate required to operate and sell vehicleManufacturer or dealer testingSecurity interest, how perfected.
46.12.530ApplicationContentsExamination of vehicle.
46.12.540Issuance of certificatesContents.
46.12.550Refusal or cancellation of certificateNoticePenalty for subsequent operationAppeals.
46.12.555Quick titleApplication requirementsLimitationSubagents.
46.12.560Inspection by state patrol or other authorized inspector.
46.12.570Stolen vehicle check.
46.12.580Duplicate for lost, stolen, mutilated, etc. certificate.
46.12.590Procedure on installation of new or different motorPenalty.
46.12.600Destruction of vehicleSurrender of certificate, penaltyReport of settlement by insurance companyMarket value threshold.
46.12.610Contaminated vehicles.
46.12.620Legal owner not liable for acts of registered owner.
46.12.630Lists of registered and legal owners of vehicles and vesselsFurnished for certain purposesContractFeesPenalty for unauthorized useDefinition.
46.12.635Disclosure of names and addresses of individual vehicle and vessel ownersVehicle and vessel informationAddress confidentiality program participants.
46.12.640Disclosure violations, penalties.
VEHICLE SALES, TRANSFERS, AND SECURITY INTERESTS
46.12.650Releasing interestReports of saleTransfer of ownershipRequirementsPenalty, exceptions.
46.12.652Fraudulent report of sale filedProcedure.
46.12.655Release of owner from liability.
46.12.660Transitional ownership record.
46.12.665Odometer disclosure statement requiredExemptions.
46.12.670Assigned certificates of title filedTransfer of interest in vehicle.
46.12.675Perfection of security interestProcedure.
46.12.680Ownership in doubtProcedure.
SPECIFIC VEHICLES
46.12.690Campers.
46.12.691Custom vehicles.
46.12.695Kit vehicles.
46.12.700Manufactured homesManufactured/mobile or park model homes.
46.12.711Street rod vehicles.
SERIAL NUMBERS
46.12.720Buying, selling, etc. with numbers removed, altered, etc.Penalty.
46.12.725Seizure and impoundmentNotice to interested personsRelease to owner.
46.12.730Disposition authorized, when.
46.12.735HearingAppealRemoval to courtRelease after ruling.
46.12.740Release without hearing.
46.12.745Assignment of new number.
VIOLATIONS
46.12.750Penalty for false statements, illegal transfers, alterations, or forgeriesException.
46.12.755Ownership of motor vehicle by person under eighteen prohibitedException.
NOTES:
Classification of manufactured homes: Chapter 65.20 RCW.
Hulk haulers and scrap processors: Chapter 46.79 RCW.