2009 Washington Code
Title 46 - Motor vehicles
Chapter 46.55 - Towing and impoundment.

TOW TRUCK OPERATORS -- REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS

• 46.55.020 - Registration required -- Penalty.
• 46.55.025 - Registration or insurance required -- Penalty.
• 46.55.030 - Application -- Contents, bond, insurance, fee, certificate.
• 46.55.035 - Prohibited acts -- Penalty.
• 46.55.037 - Compensation for private impounds.
• 46.55.040 - Permit required -- Inspections of equipment and facilities.
• 46.55.050 - Classification of trucks -- Marking requirements -- Time and place of inspection -- Penalty.
• 46.55.060 - Business location -- Requirements.
• 46.55.063 - Fees, schedules, contracts, invoices.

IMPOUNDING UNAUTHORIZED VEHICLES

• 46.55.070 - Posting requirements -- Exception.
• 46.55.075 - Law enforcement impound -- Required form, procedures.
• 46.55.080 - Law enforcement impound, private impound -- Master log -- Certain associations restricted.
• 46.55.085 - Law enforcement impound -- Unauthorized vehicle in right-of-way.
• 46.55.090 - Storage, return requirements -- Personal property -- Combination endorsement for tow truck drivers -- Viewing impounded vehicle.
• 46.55.100 - Impound notice -- Abandoned vehicle report -- Owner information, liability -- Disposition report.
• 46.55.105 - Responsibility of registered owner.
• 46.55.110 - Notice to legal and registered owners.
• 46.55.113 - Removal by police officer.
• 46.55.115 - State patrol -- Appointment of towing operators -- Lien for costs -- Appeal.
• 46.55.117 - Impounds under RCW 64.44.050.

REDEMPTION RIGHTS AND HEARING PROCEDURES

• 46.55.120 - Redemption of vehicles -- Sale of unredeemed property -- Improper impoundment.
• 46.55.130 - Notice requirements -- Public auction -- Accumulation of storage charges.
• 46.55.140 - Operator's lien, deficiency claim, liability.

RECORDS, INSPECTIONS, AND ENFORCEMENT

• 46.55.150 - Vehicle transaction file.
• 46.55.160 - Availability of records, equipment, and facilities for audit and inspection.
• 46.55.170 - Complaints, where forwarded.
• 46.55.180 - Presiding officer at licensing hearing.
• 46.55.190 - Rules.
• 46.55.200 - Penalties for certain acts or omissions.
• 46.55.210 - Cease and desist order.
• 46.55.220 - Refusal to issue license, grounds for.

JUNK VEHICLE DISPOSITION

• 46.55.230 - Junk vehicles -- Removal, disposal, sale -- Penalties -- Cleanup restitution payment.

LOCAL REGULATION

• 46.55.240 - Local ordinances -- Requirements.

VEHICLE IMMOBILIZATION

• 46.55.300 - Vehicle immobilization.

MISCELLANEOUS

• 46.55.900 - Severability -- 1985 c 377.
• 46.55.901 - Headings not part of law -- 1985 c 377.
• 46.55.902 - Effective date -- 1985 c 377.
• 46.55.910 - Chapter not applicable to certain activities of department of transportation.