RCW 19.16.390
Personal service of process outside state.
Personal service of any process in an action under this chapter may be made upon any person outside the state if such person has engaged in conduct in violation of this chapter which has had the impact in this state which this chapter reprehends. Such persons shall be deemed to have thereby submitted themselves to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state within the meaning of RCW 4.28.180 and 4.28.185. A holder of an out-of-state collection agency license is deemed to have appointed the director or the director's designee to be the licensee's true and lawful agent upon whom may be served any legal process against that licensee arising or growing out of any violation of this chapter.
[ 1994 c 195 § 9; 1971 ex.s. c 253 § 30.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 19 - Business Regulations—Miscellaneous
Chapter 19.16 - Collection Agencies.
19.16.120 - Unprofessional conduct—Support order, noncompliance.
19.16.130 - License—Application—Form—Contents.
19.16.140 - License—Application—Fees—Exemptions.
19.16.150 - Branch office certificate required.
19.16.160 - License and branch office certificate—Form—Contents—Display.
19.16.170 - Procedure upon change of name or business location.
19.16.180 - Assignability of license or branch office certificate.
19.16.190 - Surety bond requirements—Cash deposit or securities—Exception.
19.16.200 - Action on bond, cash deposit or securities.
19.16.210 - Accounting and payments by licensee to customer.
19.16.220 - Accounting and payments by customer to licensee.
19.16.230 - Licensee—Business office—Records to be kept.
19.16.240 - Licensee—Trust fund account—Exception.
19.16.245 - Financial statement.
19.16.250 - Prohibited practices.
19.16.260 - Licensing prerequisite to suit—Debt buyer—Prohibited acts.
19.16.270 - Presumption of validity of assignment.
19.16.280 - Board created—Composition of board—Qualification of members.
19.16.290 - Board—Initial members—Terms—Oath—Removal.
19.16.300 - Board meetings—Quorum—Effect of vacancy.
19.16.310 - Board—Compensation—Reimbursement of travel expenses.
19.16.320 - Board—Territorial scope of operations.
19.16.330 - Board—Immunity from suit.
19.16.351 - Additional powers and duties of board.
19.16.390 - Personal service of process outside state.
19.16.410 - Rules, orders, decisions, etc.
19.16.420 - Copy of this chapter, rules and regulations available to licensee.
19.16.430 - Violations—Operating agency without a license—Penalty—Return of fees or compensation.
19.16.450 - Violation of RCW 19.16.250 or 19.16.260—Additional penalty.
19.16.460 - Violations may be enjoined.
19.16.470 - Violations—Assurance of discontinuance—Effect.
19.16.480 - Violation of injunction—Civil penalty.
19.16.500 - Public bodies may retain collection agencies to collect public debts—Fees.
19.16.510 - Uniform regulation of business and professions act.
19.16.900 - Provisions cumulative—Violation of RCW 19.16.250 deemed civil.
19.16.930 - Effective date—1971 ex.s. c 253.
19.16.960 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.