2017 Revised Code of Washington
Title 46 - MOTOR VEHICLES
46.29 Financial responsibility.
46.29.530 When bond constitutes a lien.
RCW 46.29.530 When bond constitutes a lien.
Before a bond with individual sureties is accepted by the department it shall be recorded as other instruments affecting real property in the county or counties wherein any real estate scheduled in such bond is located. Such bond shall constitute a lien from the date of such recording in favor of the state upon the real estate so scheduled of any surety, which lien shall exist in favor of any holder of a final judgment against the person who has filed such bond, for damages, including damages for care and loss of services, because of bodily injury to or death of any person, or for damage because of injury to or destruction of property, including the loss of use thereof, resulting from the ownership, maintenance, use or operation of a vehicle of a type subject to registration under the laws of this state after such bond was filed.
[ 1963 c 169 ยง 53.]
