RCW 18.85.170
Licenses -- Restrictions as to use -- Exceptions. (Effective until July 1, 2010.)

No license issued under the provisions of this chapter shall authorize any person other than the person to whom it is issued to do any act by virtue thereof nor to operate in any other manner than under his or her own name except:

     (1) When a license is issued to a corporation it shall entitle one officer thereof, to be named by the corporation in its application, who shall qualify the same as any other broker, to act as a real estate broker on behalf of said corporation, without the payment of additional fees;

     (2) When a license is issued to a limited liability company it shall entitle one manager or member of the company, to be named by the limited liability company in its application, who shall qualify the same as any broker, to act as a real estate broker on behalf of the limited liability company, without the payment of additional fees;

     (3) When a license is issued to a limited liability partnership or partnership it shall entitle one partner thereof to be named in the application, who shall qualify to act as a real estate broker on behalf of the limited liability partnership or partnership, without the payment of additional license fees;

     (4) A licensed broker, associate broker, or salesperson may operate and/or advertise under a name other than the one under which the license is issued by obtaining the written consent of the director to do so;

     (5) A broker may establish one or more branch offices under a name or names different from that of the main office if the name or names are approved by the director, so long as each branch office is clearly identified as a branch or division of the main office. No broker may establish branch offices under more than three names. Both the name of the branch office and of the main office must clearly appear on the sign identifying the office, if any, and in any advertisement or on any letterhead of any stationery or any forms, or signs used by the real estate firm on which either the name of the main or branch offices appears.

[1997 c 322 § 14; 1972 ex.s. c 139 § 16; 1951 c 222 § 14; 1945 c 111 § 2; 1941 c 252 § 10; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 8340-33. Prior: 1925 ex.s. c 129 § 9.]