RCW 48.17.330
Nonresident agents and brokers -- Reciprocity. (Effective until July 1, 2009.)

(1) The commissioner may license as an agent or as a broker, a person who is not a resident of or domiciled in this state and who holds a corresponding license issued by the state or province of his or her residence or domicile, subject to RCW 48.17.530, if by the laws of the state or province of his or her residence or domicile a similar privilege is extended to residents of or corporations domiciled in this state. As used in this section, "state" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, any territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands; and "province" means a province of Canada.

     (2) Any such licensee shall be subject to the same obligations and limitations, and to the commissioner's supervision as though resident or domiciled in this state, subject to RCW 48.14.040.

     (3) No such person shall be so licensed unless he or she files the power of attorney provided for in RCW 48.17.340, and, if a corporation, it must have complied with the laws of this state governing the admission of foreign corporations.

[2001 c 56 § 2; 1973 1st ex.s. c 107 § 1; 1955 c 303 § 28; 1947 c 79 § .17.33; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 45.17.33.]

NOTES:

     Severability -- 1973 1st ex.s. c 107: "If any provision of this 1973 amendatory act, or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act, or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [1973 1st ex.s. c 107 § 5.]