2011 Washington Code
Title 46 Motor vehicles
46.16 Vehicle licenses.
46.16.595 Personalized license plates -- Transfer or surrender upon sale or release of vehicle -- Penalty.

When any person who has been issued personalized license plates sells, trades, or otherwise releases ownership of the vehicle upon which the personalized license plates have been displayed, he or she shall immediately report the transfer of such plates to an acquired vehicle or camper eligible for personalized license plates, pursuant to *RCW 46.16.590, or he or she shall surrender such plates to the department forthwith and release his or her priority to the letters or numbers, or combination thereof, displayed on the personalized license plates. Failure to surrender such plates is a traffic infraction.

[2010 c 8 § 9017; 1979 ex.s. c 136 § 52; 1975 c 59 § 6; 1973 1st ex.s. c 200 § 9.]

Notes:

     *Reviser's note: RCW 46.16.590 was repealed by 2010 c 161 § 438, effective July 1, 2011.

     Effective date -- Severability -- 1979 ex.s. c 136: See notes following RCW 46.63.010.



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