2017 Revised Code of Washington
Title 46 - MOTOR VEHICLES
46.64 Enforcement.
46.64.025 Failure to appear—Notice to department.
RCW 46.64.025 Failure to appear—Notice to department.
Whenever any person served with, or provided notice of, a traffic infraction or a traffic-related criminal complaint willfully fails to appear at a requested hearing for a moving violation, or fails to comply with the terms of a notice of infraction for a moving violation or a traffic-related criminal complaint, the court with jurisdiction over the traffic infraction or traffic-related criminal complaint shall promptly give notice of such fact to the department of licensing. Whenever thereafter the case in which the defendant failed to appear or comply is adjudicated, the court hearing the case shall promptly file with the department a certificate showing that the case has been adjudicated. For the purposes of this section, "moving violation" is defined by rule pursuant to RCW 46.20.2891.
[ 2017 c 336 § 11; 2016 c 203 § 4; 2012 c 82 § 5; 2006 c 270 § 4; 1999 c 86 § 7; 1979 c 158 § 175; 1967 c 32 § 71; 1965 ex.s. c 121 § 23.]
NOTES:
Finding—2017 c 336: See note following RCW 9.96.060.
Effective date—Contingency—2012 c 82: See note following RCW 46.63.110.
Purpose—Construction—1965 ex.s. c 121: See note following RCW 46.20.021.
