2011 Washington Code
Title 46 Motor vehicles
46.16 Vehicle licenses.
46.16.715 Special license plates -- Processing -- Financial reports (as amended by 2010 1st sp.s. c 7).

(((1) The board shall meet periodically at the call of the chair, but must meet at least one time each year within ninety days before an upcoming regular session of the legislature. The board may adopt its own rules and may establish its own procedures. It shall act collectively in harmony with recorded resolutions or motions adopted by a majority vote of the members, and it must have a quorum present to take a vote on a special license plate application.

     (2) The board will be compensated from the general appropriation for the department of licensing in accordance with RCW 43.03.250. Each board member will be compensated in accordance with RCW 43.03.250 and reimbursed for actual necessary traveling and other expenses in going to, attending, and returning from meetings of the board or that are incurred in the discharge of duties requested by the chair. However, in no event may a board member be compensated in any year for more than one hundred twenty days, except the chair may be compensated for not more than one hundred fifty days. Service on the board does not qualify as a service credit for the purposes of a public retirement system.

     (3) The board shall keep proper records and is subject to audit by the state auditor or other auditing entities.

     (4))) The department of licensing shall ((provide administrative support to the board, which must include at least the following)):

     (((a) Provide general staffing to meet the administrative needs of the board;

     (b) Report to the board on the reimbursement status of any new special license plate series for which the state had to pay the start-up costs;

     (c))) (1) Process special license plate applications and confirm that the sponsoring organization has submitted all required documentation. If an incomplete application is received, the department must return it to the sponsoring organization; and

     (((d))) (2) Compile the annual financial reports submitted by sponsoring organizations with active special license plate series ((and present those reports to the board for review and approval)).

[2010 1st sp.s. c 7 § 93; 2005 c 319 § 118; 2003 c 196 § 102.]

Notes:

     Reviser's note: RCW 46.16.715 was amended twice during the 2010 legislative session, each without reference to the other. For rule of construction concerning sections amended more than once during the same legislative session, see RCW 1.12.025.

     Effective date -- 2010 1st sp.s. c 26; 2010 1st sp.s. c 7: See note following RCW 43.03.027.

     Findings--Intent--Part headings--Effective dates -- 2005 c 319: See notes following RCW 43.17.020.

     Part headings not law -- 2003 c 196: See note following RCW 46.16.700.