RCW 46.12.640
Disclosure violations, penalties.
(1) The department may review the activities of a person or entity that receives personal or identity information to ensure compliance with the limitations imposed on the use of the information. The department may suspend or revoke for up to five years the privilege of obtaining personal or identity information of a person found to be in violation of this chapter or a disclosure agreement executed with the department.
(2) In addition to the penalty in subsection (1) of this section:
(a) The unauthorized disclosure of personal or identity information; or
(b) The use of a false representation to obtain personal or identity information from the department; or
(c) The use of personal or identity information obtained from the department for a purpose other than what is stated in the request for information or in the disclosure agreement executed with the department; or
(d) The sale or other distribution of any personal or identity information to another person not disclosed in the request or disclosure agreement
is a gross misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in a county jail for up to three hundred sixty-four days, or by both such fine and imprisonment for each violation.
[ 2021 c 93 § 7; 2016 c 80 § 3; 2011 c 96 § 30; 2005 c 274 § 305; 1990 c 232 § 3. Formerly RCW 46.12.390.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—2011 c 96: See note following RCW 9A.20.021.
Legislative finding and purpose—1990 c 232: See note following RCW 46.12.635.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 46.12 - Certificates of Title.
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.
46.12.610 - Contaminated vehicles.
46.12.620 - Legal owner not liable for acts of registered owner.
46.12.640 - Disclosure violations, penalties.
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.
46.12.700 - 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.