RCW 46.16A.540 Overloading Registered Capacity-Additional Registration-Penalties-Exceptions

• Library: Washington Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through Chapter 1 of the 2023 1st Special Session

It is a traffic infraction for any person to operate, or cause, permit, or suffer to be operated upon a public highway of this state any bus, auto stage, motor truck, truck tractor, or tractor, with passengers, or with a maximum gross weight, in excess of that for which the motor vehicle or combination is registered.

Any person who operates or causes to be operated upon a public highway of this state any motor truck, truck tractor, or tractor with a maximum gross weight in excess of the maximum gross weight for which the vehicle is registered shall be deemed to have set a new maximum gross weight and shall, in addition to any penalties otherwise provided, be required to purchase a new regist...

Cite as RCW 46.16A.540

History: Amended by 2011 c 171,§ 53, eff. 7/1/2011.

History: Recodified from 46.16.140 by 2010 c 161, § 1218, eff. 7/1/2011.