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RCW Sections

• 46.55.010  Definitions.

TOW TRUCK OPERATORS -- REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS

• 46.55.020  Registration required -- Penalty.
• 46.55.025  Registration or insurance required -- Penalty.
• 46.55.030  Application -- Contents, bond, insurance, fee, certificate.
• 46.55.035  Prohibited acts -- Penalty.
• 46.55.037  Compensation for private impounds.
• 46.55.040  Permit required -- Inspections of equipment and facilities.
• 46.55.050  Classification of trucks -- Marking requirements -- Time and place of inspection -- Penalty.
• 46.55.060  Business location -- Requirements.
• 46.55.063  Fees, schedules, contracts, invoices.

IMPOUNDING UNAUTHORIZED VEHICLES

• 46.55.070  Posting requirements -- Exception.
• 46.55.075  Law enforcement impound -- Required form, procedures.
• 46.55.080  Law enforcement impound, private impound -- Master log -- Certain associations restricted.
• 46.55.085  Law enforcement impound -- Unauthorized vehicle in right of way.
• 46.55.090  Storage, return requirements -- Personal property -- Combination endorsement for tow truck drivers -- Viewing impounded vehicle.
• 46.55.100  Impound notice -- Abandoned vehicle report -- Owner information, liability -- Disposition report.
• 46.55.105  Responsibility of registered owner.
• 46.55.110  Notice to legal and registered owners.
• 46.55.113  Removal by police officer.
• 46.55.115  State patrol -- Appointment of towing operators -- Lien for costs -- Appeal.

REDEMPTION RIGHTS AND HEARING PROCEDURES

• 46.55.120  Redemption of vehicles -- Sale of unredeemed property -- Improper impoundment.
• 46.55.130  Notice requirements -- Public auction -- Accumulation of storage charges.
• 46.55.140  Operator's lien, deficiency claim, liability.

RECORDS, INSPECTIONS, AND ENFORCEMENT

• 46.55.150  Vehicle transaction file.
• 46.55.160  Availability of records, equipment, and facilities for audit and inspection.
• 46.55.170  Complaints, where forwarded.
• 46.55.180  Presiding officer at licensing hearing.
• 46.55.190  Rules.
• 46.55.200  Penalties for certain acts or omissions.
• 46.55.210  Cease and desist order.
• 46.55.220  Refusal to issue license, grounds for.

JUNK VEHICLE DISPOSITION

• 46.55.230  Junk vehicles -- Removal, disposal, sale -- Penalties -- Cleanup restitution payment.

LOCAL REGULATION

• 46.55.240  Local ordinances -- Requirements.

VEHICLE IMMOBILIZATION

• 46.55.300  Vehicle immobilization.

MISCELLANEOUS

• 46.55.900  Severability -- 1985 c 377.
• 46.55.901  Headings not part of law -- 1985 c 377.
• 46.55.902  Effective date -- 1985 c 377.
• 46.55.910  Chapter not applicable to certain activities of department of transportation.

Notes:

Removal of unattended vehicle from highway: RCW 46.61.590. Riding in towed vehicles: RCW 46.61.625. Safety chains for towing: RCW 46.37.495.