Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 46.12 - Certificates of Title.
46.12.620 - Legal owner not liable for acts of registered owner.

RCW 46.12.620
Legal owner not liable for acts of registered owner.

A person shown as the legal owner on a certificate of title which has a different person shown as the registered owner does not incur liability and is not responsible for damage or any liability resulting from any act or contract made by the registered owner or by any other person acting for, or by or under the authority of, the registered owner.

[ 2010 c 161 § 318; 1961 c 12 § 46.12.190. Prior: 1937 c 188 § 10, part; RRS § 6312-10, part. Formerly RCW 46.12.190.]
NOTES:

Effective date—Intent—Legislation to reconcile chapter 161, Laws of 2010 and other amendments made during the 2010 legislative session—2010 c 161: See notes following RCW 46.04.013.

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 46 - Motor Vehicles

Chapter 46.12 - Certificates of Title.

46.12.520 - Certificate required to operate and sell vehicle—Manufacturer or dealer testing—Security interest, how perfected.

46.12.530 - Application—Contents—Examination of vehicle.

46.12.540 - Issuance of certificates—Contents.

46.12.550 - Refusal or cancellation of certificate—Notice—Penalty for subsequent operation—Appeals.

46.12.555 - Quick title—Application requirements—Limitation—Subagents.

46.12.560 - Inspection by state patrol or other authorized inspector.

46.12.570 - Stolen vehicle check.

46.12.580 - Duplicate for lost, stolen, mutilated, etc. certificate.

46.12.590 - Procedure on installation of new or different motor—Penalty.

46.12.600 - Destruction of vehicle—Surrender of certificate, penalty—Report of settlement by insurance company—Market value threshold.

46.12.610 - Contaminated vehicles.

46.12.620 - Legal owner not liable for acts of registered owner.

46.12.630 - Lists of registered and legal owners of vehicles and vessels—Furnished for certain purposes—Contract—Fees—Penalty for unauthorized use—Definition.

46.12.635 - Disclosure of names and addresses of individual vehicle and vessel owners—Vehicle and vessel information—Address confidentiality program participants.

46.12.640 - Disclosure violations, penalties.

46.12.650 - Releasing interest—Reports of sale—Transfer of ownership—Requirements—Penalty, exceptions.

46.12.652 - Fraudulent report of sale filed—Procedure.

46.12.655 - Release of owner from liability.

46.12.660 - Transitional ownership record.

46.12.665 - Odometer disclosure statement required—Exemptions.

46.12.670 - Assigned certificates of title filed—Transfer of interest in vehicle.

46.12.675 - Perfection of security interest—Procedure.

46.12.680 - Ownership in doubt—Procedure.

46.12.690 - Campers.

46.12.691 - Custom vehicles.

46.12.695 - Kit vehicles.

46.12.700 - Manufactured homes—Manufactured/mobile or park model homes.

46.12.711 - Street rod vehicles.

46.12.720 - Buying, selling, etc. with numbers removed, altered, etc.—Penalty.

46.12.725 - Seizure and impoundment—Notice to interested persons—Release to owner.

46.12.730 - Disposition authorized, when.

46.12.735 - Hearing—Appeal—Removal to court—Release after ruling.

46.12.740 - Release without hearing.

46.12.745 - Assignment of new number.

46.12.750 - Penalty for false statements, illegal transfers, alterations, or forgeries—Exception.

46.12.755 - Ownership of motor vehicle by person under eighteen prohibited—Exception.