Chapter 46.12 RCW

CERTIFICATES OF TITLE

Sections

GENERAL PROVISIONS
HTMLPDF 46.12.520Certificate required to operate and sell vehicleManufacturer or dealer testingSecurity interest, how perfected.
HTMLPDF 46.12.530ApplicationContentsExamination of vehicle.
HTMLPDF 46.12.540Issuance of certificatesContents.
HTMLPDF 46.12.550Refusal or cancellation of certificateNoticePenalty for subsequent operationAppeals.
HTMLPDF 46.12.555Quick titleApplication requirementsLimitationSubagents.
HTMLPDF 46.12.560Inspection by state patrol or other authorized inspector.
HTMLPDF 46.12.570Stolen vehicle check.
HTMLPDF 46.12.580Duplicate for lost, stolen, mutilated, etc. certificate.
HTMLPDF 46.12.590Procedure on installation of new or different motorPenalty.
HTMLPDF 46.12.600Destruction of vehicleSurrender of certificate, penaltyReport of settlement by insurance companyMarket value threshold.
HTMLPDF 46.12.610Contaminated vehicles.
HTMLPDF 46.12.620Legal owner not liable for acts of registered owner.
HTMLPDF 46.12.630Lists of registered and legal owners of vehicles and vesselsFurnished for certain purposesContractFeesPenalty for unauthorized useDefinition.
HTMLPDF 46.12.635Disclosure of names and addresses of individual vehicle and vessel ownersVehicle and vessel informationAddress confidentiality program participants.
HTMLPDF 46.12.640Disclosure violations, penalties.
VEHICLE SALES, TRANSFERS, AND SECURITY INTERESTS
HTMLPDF 46.12.650Releasing interestReports of saleTransfer of ownershipRequirementsPenalty, exceptions.
HTMLPDF 46.12.652Fraudulent report of sale filedProcedure.
HTMLPDF 46.12.655Release of owner from liability.
HTMLPDF 46.12.660Transitional ownership record.
HTMLPDF 46.12.665Odometer disclosure statement requiredExemptions.
HTMLPDF 46.12.670Assigned certificates of title filedTransfer of interest in vehicle.
HTMLPDF 46.12.675Perfection of security interestProcedure.
HTMLPDF 46.12.680Ownership in doubtProcedure.
SPECIFIC VEHICLES
HTMLPDF 46.12.690Campers.
HTMLPDF 46.12.691Custom vehicles.
HTMLPDF 46.12.695Kit vehicles.
HTMLPDF 46.12.700Manufactured homesManufactured/mobile or park model homes.
HTMLPDF 46.12.711Street rod vehicles.
SERIAL NUMBERS
HTMLPDF 46.12.720Buying, selling, etc. with numbers removed, altered, etc.Penalty.
HTMLPDF 46.12.725Seizure and impoundmentNotice to interested personsRelease to owner.
HTMLPDF 46.12.730Disposition authorized, when.
HTMLPDF 46.12.735HearingAppealRemoval to courtRelease after ruling.
HTMLPDF 46.12.740Release without hearing.
HTMLPDF 46.12.745Assignment of new number.
VIOLATIONS
HTMLPDF 46.12.750Penalty for false statements, illegal transfers, alterations, or forgeriesException.
HTMLPDF 46.12.755Ownership of motor vehicle by person under eighteen prohibitedException.

NOTES:

Classification of manufactured homes: Chapter 65.20 RCW.
Hulk haulers and scrap processors: Chapter 46.79 RCW.