46.17.365 - Motor vehicle weight fee -- Motor home vehicle weight fee. - Washington Statutes

Motor vehicle weight fee — Motor home vehicle weight fee. (Effective July 1, 2011.)

(1) A person applying for a motor vehicle registration and paying the vehicle license fee required in RCW 46.17.350(1) (a), (d), (e), (h), (j), (n), and (o) shall pay a motor vehicle weight fee in addition to all other fees and taxes required by law. The motor vehicle weight fee:

     (a) Must be based on the motor vehicle scale weight;

     (b) Is the difference determined by subtracting the vehicle license fee required in RCW 46.17.350 from the license fee in Schedule B of RCW 46.17.355, plus two dollars; and

     (c) Must be distributed under RCW 46.68.415.

     (2) A person applying for a motor home vehicle registration shall, in lieu of the motor vehicle weight fee required in subsection (1) of this section, pay a motor home vehicle weight fee of seventy-five dollars in addition to all other fees and taxes required by law. The motor home vehicle weight fee must be distributed under RCW 46.68.415.

     (3) The department shall:

     (a) Rely on motor vehicle empty scale weights provided by vehicle manufacturers, or other sources defined by the department, to determine the weight of each motor vehicle; and

     (b) Adopt rules for determining weight for vehicles without manufacturer empty scale weights.

[2010 c 161 § 533.]

Notes: Effective date -- Intent -- Legislation to reconcile chapter 161, Laws of 2010 and other amendments made during the 2010 legislative session -- 2010 c 161: See notes following RCW 46.04.013.