RCW 20.01.484
Civil infractions—Response to notice.
(1) Any person who receives a notice of infraction shall respond to such notice as provided in this section within fifteen days of the date of the notice.
(2) Any employee or agent of a licensee under this chapter is fully authorized to accept a notice of infraction on behalf of the licensee. The director shall also furnish a copy of the notice of infraction to the licensee by certified mail within five days of issuance.
(3) If the person determined to have committed the infraction does not contest the determination, that person shall respond by completing the appropriate portion of the notice of infraction and submitting it, either by mail or in person, to the court specified on the notice. A check or money order in the amount of the penalty prescribed for the infraction must be submitted with the response. When a response, which does not contest the determination, is received, an appropriate order shall be entered into the courts record and a record of the response shall be furnished to the director.
(4) If a person determined to have committed the infraction wishes to contest the determination, that person shall respond by completing the portion of the notice of the infraction requesting a hearing and submitted either by mail or in person to the court specified in the notice. The court shall notify the person in writing of the time, place, and the date of the hearing which shall not be sooner than fifteen days from the date of the notice, except by agreement.
(5) If the person determined to have committed the infraction does not contest the determination, but wishes to explain mitigating circumstances surrounding the infraction, the person shall respond by completing the portion of the notice of infraction requesting a hearing for that purpose and submitting it either by mail or in person to the court specified in the notice. The court shall notify the person in writing of the time, place and date of the hearing.
(6) If a person issued a notice of infraction fails to respond to the notice of infraction or fails to appear at the hearing requested pursuant to this section, the court shall enter an appropriate order in assessing the monetary penalty prescribed in the schedule of penalties submitted to the court by the director and shall notify the director of the failure to respond to the notice of infraction or to appear at a requested hearing.
[ 1986 c 178 § 2.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 20 - Commission Merchants—Agricultural Products
Chapter 20.01 - Agricultural Products—Commission Merchants, Dealers, Brokers, Buyers, Agents.
20.01.020 - Rules and regulations—Enforcement of chapter—Interference prohibited.
20.01.038 - License required of persons dealing in livestock, hay, grain, or straw.
20.01.040 - License—Generally.
20.01.060 - Licensee in one class may obtain license in another—Additional fee.
20.01.070 - Application for license—Contents.
20.01.080 - Commission merchant's schedule of commissions and charges—Changes, posting.
20.01.086 - Waiver of reporting, accounting, and recordkeeping requirements prohibited.
20.01.090 - Agent to disclose principal licensee and his endorsement.
20.01.110 - Publication of list of licensees and rules—Posting license.
20.01.120 - Vehicle license plates.
20.01.125 - Hay or straw—Certified vehicle tare and load weights—Violations.
20.01.130 - Disposition of moneys.
20.01.140 - Change in organization of firm to be reported.
20.01.150 - Denial, suspension, revocation of licenses, probationary orders—Authority.
20.01.160 - Denial, suspension, revocation of licenses, probationary orders—Procedure.
20.01.200 - Denial, suspension, revocation of licenses, probationary orders—Appellate review.
20.01.205 - License suspension—Noncompliance with support order—Reissuance.
20.01.210 - Commission merchants, dealers—Bonds.
20.01.211 - Alternative bonding provision for certain dealers.
20.01.212 - Livestock dealers bonded under federal law.
20.01.214 - Appeal from rejected bond claim.
20.01.220 - Action on bond for fraud.
20.01.230 - Action on bond for failure to comply with chapter.
20.01.240 - Claims against commission merchant, dealer.
20.01.250 - Failure of consignor to file claim, time limitation.
20.01.260 - Director not liable if circumstances prevent ascertainment of creditors—Demand on bond.
20.01.270 - Demand on bond after claims ascertained—Power of director to settle, compromise.
20.01.280 - Action on bond after refusal to pay—New bond, failure to file.
20.01.300 - Verified complaints of consignor—Investigations.
20.01.310 - Oaths, testimony, witnesses, subpoenas—Contempt proceedings—Records as evidence.
20.01.320 - Investigations, examinations, inspections—Search warrants—Subpoenas.
20.01.330 - Denial, revocation, suspension, or condition of licenses, probationary orders—Grounds.
20.01.360 - Order of revocation, suspension.
20.01.370 - Commission merchants—Recordkeeping.
20.01.385 - Failure to comply—Construction of transaction.
20.01.390 - When dealer must pay for products delivered to him or her.
20.01.400 - Broker's memorandum of sale.
20.01.410 - Manifest of cargo—Bill of lading.
20.01.420 - Commission merchant's report of sale to consignor.
20.01.430 - Commission merchant's remittance to consignor.
20.01.460 - Prohibited acts—Penalties.
20.01.465 - Time of sale requirement—Unlawful practice.
20.01.470 - Action to enjoin violation of chapter.
20.01.480 - Violations resulting in improper or nonpayment—Charges.
20.01.482 - Civil infractions—Notice—Misdemeanors.
20.01.484 - Civil infractions—Response to notice.
20.01.486 - Civil infractions—Hearing to contest charge—Order—Appeal.
20.01.488 - Civil infractions—Informal hearing on mitigating circumstances—Order—No appeal.
20.01.490 - Civil infractions—Monetary penalty—Failure to pay, misdemeanor.
20.01.500 - "Grower," "processor" defined—Application of exemption contained in RCW 20.01.030(1).
20.01.510 - Processor's form showing maximum processing capacity.
20.01.520 - Processor to have grower contracts and commitments on file.
20.01.530 - Grower may file form showing crops processor is committed to purchase.
20.01.540 - Committing to purchase more crops than plants can process—Violation.
20.01.550 - Discrimination by processor.
20.01.560 - Effective date of RCW 20.01.500 through 20.01.550.
20.01.570 - Cash or other security in lieu of surety bond.
20.01.610 - Authority to stop vehicle violating chapter—Failure to stop, civil infraction.
20.01.900 - Chapter cumulative and nonexclusive.