Full text of Washington Revised Code of Washington § 88.02.720 — Exemptions., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 88.02.720. Exemptions.
(1) The department may exempt from compliance with the vessel dealer requirements of this chapter, any person who is engaged in the business of selling in this state at wholesale or retail, human-powered watercraft that is: (a) Under sixteen feet in length; (b) unable to be powered by propulsion machinery or wind propulsion as designed by the manufacturer; and (c) not designed for use on commonly-used navigable waters.
(2) Any person engaged in the business of selling at wholesale or retail, exempt and nonexempt watercraft under this section is only required to comply with this chapter in regard to the sale of nonexempt watercraft.
(3) An auction company licensed under chapter
18.11 RCW and licensed as a motor vehicle dealer under chapter
46.70 RCW may sell at auction, without being licensed as a vessel dealer, all vessels that a vessel dealer is authorized to sell, so long as the sale of vessels is incidental to the auction company's primary source of business and the length of any vessel being sold is no greater than twenty-five feet. The auction company shall comply with all other vessel dealer requirements of this chapter and rules adopted by the department if the vessel dealer license fees and surety bond requirements in RCW
88.02.710 are determined to not be due.
(4) A broker licensed under chapter
18.85 RCW may sell, without being licensed as a vessel dealer, floating on-water residences, as defined in RCW
90.58.270.
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.
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