46.96.180 - Exceptions. - Washington Statutes

Exceptions.

RCW 46.96.140 through 46.96.170 do not apply:

     (1) To the sale or transfer of the ownership or assets of an existing new motor vehicle dealer where the transferee proposes to engage in business representing the same line make at the same location or within two miles of that location;

     (2) To the relocation of an existing new motor vehicle dealer within the dealer's relevant market area, if the relocation is not at a site within eight miles of any new motor vehicle dealer of the same line make;

     (3) If the proposed new motor vehicle dealer is to be established at or within two miles of a location at which a former new motor vehicle dealer of the same line make had ceased operating within the previous twenty-four months;

     (4) Where the proposed relocation is two miles or less from the existing location of the relocating new motor vehicle dealer; or

     (5) Where the proposed relocation is to be further away from all other existing new motor vehicle dealers of the same line make in the relevant market area.

[1994 c 274 § 5.]