RCW 19.16.450
Violation of RCW 19.16.250 or 19.16.260—Additional penalty.
If an act or practice in violation of RCW 19.16.250 or 19.16.260 is committed by a licensee or an employee of a licensee in the collection of a claim, neither the licensee, the customer of the licensee, nor any other person who may thereafter legally seek to collect on such claim shall ever be allowed to recover any interest, service charge, attorneys' fees, collection costs, delinquency charge, or any other fees or charges otherwise legally chargeable to the debtor on such claim: PROVIDED, That any person asserting the claim may nevertheless recover from the debtor the amount of the original claim or obligation.
[ 2020 c 30 § 4; 1971 ex.s. c 253 § 36.]
NOTES:
Application—2020 c 30: See note following RCW 19.16.100.
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.