RCW 18.165.020
Exemptions.
The requirements of this chapter do not apply to:
(1) A person who is employed exclusively or regularly by one employer and performs investigations solely in connection with the affairs of that employer, if the employer is not a private investigator agency;
(2) An officer or employee of the United States or of this state or a political subdivision thereof, while engaged in the performance of the officer's official duties;
(3) A person engaged exclusively in the business of obtaining and furnishing information about the financial rating of persons;
(4) An attorney-at-law while performing the attorney's duties as an attorney;
(5) A licensed collection agency or its employee, while acting within the scope of that person's employment and making an investigation incidental to the business of the agency;
(6) Insurers, agents, and insurance brokers licensed by the state, while performing duties in connection with insurance transacted by them;
(7) A bank subject to the jurisdiction of the department of financial institutions or the comptroller of currency of the United States, or a savings and loan association subject to the jurisdiction of this state or the federal home loan bank board;
(8) A licensed insurance adjuster performing the adjuster's duties within the scope of the adjuster's license;
(9) A secured creditor engaged in the repossession of the creditor's collateral, or a lessor engaged in the repossession of leased property in which it claims an interest;
(10) A person who is a forensic scientist, accident reconstructionist, or other person who performs similar functions and does not hold himself or herself out to be an investigator in any other capacity;
(11) A person solely engaged in the business of securing information about persons or property from public records; or
(12) A certified public accountant regulated under chapter 18.04 RCW or the employee of a certified public accountant performing duties within the scope of public accountancy.
[ 2015 c 105 § 1; 2000 c 171 § 37; 1995 c 277 § 18; 1991 c 328 § 2.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 18 - Businesses and Professions
Chapter 18.165 - Private Investigators.
18.165.030 - Private investigator license—Requirements.
18.165.040 - Armed private investigator license—Requirements.
18.165.050 - Private investigator agency license—Requirements, restrictions—Assignment or transfer.
18.165.060 - Armed private investigator license authority—Registration of firearms.
18.165.070 - Investigation of applicants.
18.165.080 - License cards and certificates—Issuance and requirements.
18.165.090 - Preassignment training and testing.
18.165.100 - Agency license—Surety bond or certificate of insurance required.
18.165.110 - Regulatory provisions exclusive—Authority of the state and political subdivisions.
18.165.120 - Out-of-state private investigators operating across state lines.
18.165.130 - Required notice of certain occurrences.
18.165.140 - Out-of-state private investigators—Application—Fee—Temporary assignment.
18.165.155 - Transfer of license.
18.165.160 - Unprofessional conduct.
18.165.165 - Display of firearms while soliciting clients.
18.165.170 - Authority of director.
18.165.180 - Complaints—Investigation—Immunity.
18.165.220 - Unprofessional, unlawful conduct or inability to practice—Penalties.
18.165.230 - Enforcement of orders for payment of fines.
18.165.270 - Application of administrative procedure act to acts of the director.
18.165.290 - License suspension—Noncompliance with support order—Reissuance.
18.165.300 - Uniform regulation of business and professions act.