RCW 46.10.050
Snowmobile dealers' registration -- Fee -- Dealer
number plates, use -- Sale or demonstration unlawful without
registration. (Effective until July 1, 2011. Recodified as RCW 46.10.420.)
(1) Each dealer of snowmobiles in this state shall
register with the department in such manner and upon such forms
as the department shall prescribe. Upon receipt of a dealer's
application for registration and the registration fee provided
for in subsection (2) of this section, such dealer shall be
registered and a registration number assigned.
(2) The registration fee for dealers shall be twenty-five
dollars per year, and such fee shall cover all of the snowmobiles
offered by a dealer for sale and not rented on a regular,
commercial basis: PROVIDED, That snowmobiles rented on a regular
commercial basis by a dealer shall be registered separately under
the provisions of RCW 46.10.020, 46.10.040, 46.10.060, and 46.10.070.
(3) Upon registration each dealer may purchase, at a cost to
be determined by the department, dealer number plates of a size
and color to be determined by the department, which shall contain
the registration number assigned to that dealer. Each snowmobile
operated by a dealer, dealer representative, or prospective
customer for the purposes of demonstration or testing shall
display such number plates in a clearly visible manner.
(4) No person other than a dealer, dealer representative, or
prospective customer shall display a dealer number plate, and no
dealer, dealer representative, or prospective customer shall use
a dealer's number plate for any purpose other than the purposes
described in subsection (3) of this section.
(5) Dealer registration numbers are nontransferable.
(6) It is unlawful for any dealer to sell any snowmobile at
wholesale or retail, or to test or demonstrate any snowmobile,
within the state, unless registered in accordance with the
provisions of this section.
[1990 c 250 § 26; 1982 c 17 § 5; 1971 ex.s. c 29 § 5.]
NOTES:
Severability -- 1990 c 250: See note following RCW 46.16.301.