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19.30.045 | Claim for wages—Action upon surety bond or security. | (1) Any person, having a claim for wages pursuant to this chapter may bring suit upon the surety bond or security deposit filed by the contractor pursuant to RCW 19.30.040 , in any court of competent jurisdiction of the county in which the claim arose, or in which either the claimant or contractor resides. (2) The righ... |
19.30.050 | License—Grounds for denying. | A license to operate as a farm labor contractor shall be denied: (1) To any person who sells or proposes to sell intoxicating liquors in a building or on premises where he or she operates or proposes to operate as a farm labor contractor, or (2) To a person whose license has been revoked within three years from the dat... |
19.30.060 | License—Revocation, suspension, refusal to issue or renew. | Any person may protest the grant or renewal of a license under this section. The director may revoke, suspend, or refuse to issue or renew any license when it is shown that: (1) The farm labor contractor or any agent of the contractor has violated or failed to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter; (2) The ... |
19.30.070 | License—Contents. | Each license shall contain, on the face thereof: (1) The name and address of the licensee and the fact that he or she is licensed to act as a farm labor contractor for the period upon the face of the license only; (2) The number, date of issuance, and date of expiration of the license; (3) The amount of the surety bond... |
19.30.081 | License—Duration—Renewal. | Farm labor contractors may hold either a one-year license or a two-year license, at the director's discretion. The one-year license shall run to and include the 31st day of December next following the date thereof unless sooner revoked by the director. A license may be renewed each year upon the payment of the annual l... |
19.30.090 | License—Application for renewal. | All applications for renewal shall state the names and addresses of all persons financially interested either as partners, associates or profit sharers in the operation as a farm labor contractor.
[ 1955 c 392 s 9 .] |
19.30.110 | Farm labor contractor—Duties. | Every person acting as a farm labor contractor shall: (1) Carry a current farm labor contractor's license at all times and exhibit it to all persons with whom the contractor intends to deal in the capacity of a farm labor contractor prior to so dealing. (2) Disclose to every person with whom he or she deals in the capa... |
19.30.120 | Farm labor contractor—Prohibited acts. | No person acting as a farm labor contractor shall: (1) Make any misrepresentation or false statement in an application for a license. (2) Make or cause to be made, to any person, any false, fraudulent, or misleading representation, or publish or circulate or cause to be published or circulated any false, fraudulent, or... |
19.30.130 | Rules—Adjustment of controversies. | (1) The director shall adopt rules not inconsistent with this chapter for the purpose of enforcing and administering this chapter. (2) The director shall investigate and attempt to adjust equitably controversies between farm labor contractors and their workers with respect to claims arising under this chapter.
[ 1985 c... |
19.30.150 | Penalties. | Any person who violates any provisions of this chapter, or who causes or induces another to violate any provisions of this chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or both.
[ 1955 c 392 s 13 .] |
19.30.160 | Civil penalty—Hearing—Court action. | (1) In addition to any criminal penalty imposed under RCW 19.30.150 , the director may assess against any person who violates this chapter, or any rule adopted under this chapter, a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars for each violation. (2) The person shall be afforded the opportunity for a hearing, up... |
19.30.170 | Civil actions—Damages, costs, attorney's fees—Actions upon bond or security deposit. | (1) After filing a notice of a claim with the director, in addition to any other penalty provided by law, any person aggrieved by a violation of this chapter or any rule adopted under this chapter may bring suit in any court of competent jurisdiction of the county in which the claim arose, or in which either the plaint... |
19.30.180 | Injunctions—Costs—Attorney fee. | The director or any other person may bring suit in any court of competent jurisdiction to enjoin any person from using the services of an unlicensed farm labor contractor or to enjoin any person acting as a farm labor contractor in violation of this chapter, or any rule adopted under this chapter, from committing futur... |
19.30.190 | Retaliation against employee prohibited. | No farm labor contractor or agricultural employer may discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee because: (1) The employee has made a claim against the farm labor contractor or agricultural employer for compensation for the employee's personal services. (2) The employee has caused to be institut... |
19.30.200 | Unlicensed farm labor contractors—Liability for services. | Any person who knowingly uses the services of an unlicensed farm labor contractor shall be personally, jointly, and severally liable with the person acting as a farm labor contractor to the same extent and in the same manner as provided in this chapter. In making determinations under this section, any user may rely upo... |
19.30.902 | Effective date—1985 c 280. | This 1985 act shall take effect January 1, 1986.
[ 1985 c 280 s 19 .] |
19.31.010 | Short title. | This chapter shall be known and cited as "The Employment Agency Act".
[ 1969 ex.s. c 228 s 1 .] |
19.31.020 | Definitions. | Unless a different meaning is clearly required by the context, the following words and phrases, as hereinafter used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings: (1) "Applicant," except when used to describe an applicant for an employment agency license, means any person, whether employed or unemployed, seeking o... |
19.31.030 | Records. | Each employment agency shall keep records of all services rendered employers and applicants. These records shall contain the name and address of the employer by whom the services were solicited; the name and address of the applicant; kind of position ordered by the employer; dates job orders or job listings are obtaine... |
19.31.040 | Contract between agency and applicant—Contents—Notice. | An employment agency shall provide each applicant with a copy of the contract between the applicant and employment agency which shall have printed on it or attached to it a copy of RCW 19.31.170 as now or hereafter amended. Such contract shall contain the following: (1) The name, address, and telephone number of the em... |
19.31.050 | Approval of contract, fee schedule. | Prior to using any contract or fee schedule in the transaction of its business with applicants, each employment agency shall obtain the director's approval for the use of such contract or fee schedule.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 228 s 5 .] |
19.31.060 | Request from employer for interview required—Information to be furnished applicant. | No employment agency shall send any applicant on an interview with a prospective employer without having first obtained, either orally or in writing, a bona fide request from such employer for the interview: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That, it shall be the duty of every employment agency to give to each applicant for employmen... |
19.31.070 | Administration of chapter—Rules—Investigations—Inspections. | (1) The director shall administer the provisions of this chapter and shall issue from time to time reasonable rules and regulations for enforcing and carrying out the provisions and purposes of this chapter. (2) The director shall have supervisory and investigative authority over all employment agencies. Upon receiving... |
19.31.080 | License required—Penalty. | It shall be a misdemeanor for any person to conduct an employment agency business in this state unless he or she has an employment agency license issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
[ 2011 c 336 s 532 ; 1969 ex.s. c 228 s 8 .] |
19.31.090 | Bond—Cash deposit—Action on bond or deposit—Procedure—Judgment. | (1) Before conducting any business as an employment agency each licensee shall file with the director a surety bond in the sum of two thousand dollars running to the state of Washington, for the benefit of any person injured or damaged as a result of any violation by the licensee or his or her agent of any of the provi... |
19.31.100 | Application—Contents—Filing—Qualifications of applicants and licensees—Waiver—Exceptions. | (1) Every applicant for an employment agency's license or a renewal thereof shall file with the director a written application stating the name and address of the applicant; the street and number of the building in which the business of the employment agency is to be conducted; the name of the person who is to have the... |
19.31.110 | Expiration date of license—Reinstatement. | An employment agency license shall expire June 30th. Any such license not renewed may be reinstated if the employment agency can show good cause to the director for renewal of the license and present proof of intent to continue to act as an employment agency: PROVIDED, That no license shall be issued upon such applicat... |
19.31.120 | Transfer of license. | No license granted pursuant to this chapter shall be transferable without the consent of the director. No employment agency shall permit any person not mentioned in the license application to become connected with the business as an owner, member, officer, or director without the consent of the director. Consent may be... |
19.31.130 | License sanction—Grounds—Support order, noncompliance. | (1) In accordance with the provisions of chapter 34.05 RCW, the director may by order sanction the license of any employment agency under RCW 18.235.110 , if the director finds that the applicant or licensee has violated any provisions of this chapter, or failed to comply with any rule or regulation issued by the direc... |
19.31.140 | Fees for licensees. | The director shall determine the fees, as provided in RCW 43.24.086 , charged to those parties licensed as employment agencies for original applications, renewal per year, branch license, both original and renewal, transfer of license, and approval of amended or new contracts and/or fee schedules.
[ 1985 c 7 s 84 ; 197... |
19.31.150 | Employment condition precedent to charging fee—Exceptions. | (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, no employment agency shall charge or accept a fee or other consideration from an applicant without complying with the terms of a written contract as specified in RCW 19.31.040 , and then only after such agency has been responsible for referrin... |
19.31.160 | Charging fee or payment contrary to chapter—Return of excess. | Any employment agency which collects, receives, or retains a fee or other payment contrary to the provisions of this chapter or to the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter shall return the excessive portion of the fee within seven days after receiving a demand therefor from the director.
[ 1969 ex.s. ... |
19.31.170 | Limitations on fee amounts—Refunds—Exceptions. | (1) If an applicant accepts employment by agreement with an employer and thereafter never reports for work, the gross fee charged to the applicant shall not exceed: (a) Ten percent of what the first month's gross salary or wages would be, if known; or (b) ten percent of the first month's drawing account. If the employm... |
19.31.180 | Posting of fee limitation and remedy provisions. | Each licensee shall post the following in a conspicuous place in each office in which it conducts business: (1) The substance of RCW 19.31.150 through 19.31.170 ; and (2) a name and address provided by the director, in a form prescribed by him or her, of a person to whom complaints concerning possible violation of this... |
19.31.190 | Rules of conduct—Complaints. | In addition to the other provisions of this chapter the following rules shall govern each and every employment agency: (1) Every license or a verified copy thereof shall be displayed in a conspicuous place in each office of the employment agency; (2) No fee shall be solicited or accepted as an application or registrati... |
19.31.210 | Enforcement. | The director may refer such evidence as may be available to him or her concerning violations of this chapter or of any rule or regulation adopted hereunder to the attorney general or the prosecuting attorney of the county wherein the alleged violation arose, who may, in their discretion, with or without such a referenc... |
19.31.220 | Assurance of discontinuance of violation. | In the enforcement of this chapter, the attorney general and/or any said prosecuting attorney may accept an assurance of discontinuance from any person deemed in violation of any provisions of this chapter. Any such assurance shall be in writing and shall be filed with and subject to the approval of the superior court ... |
19.31.230 | Civil penalty. | Any person who violates the terms of any court order or temporary or permanent injunction issued pursuant to this chapter, shall forfeit and pay a civil penalty of not more than five thousand dollars. For the purpose of this section the superior court issuing any injunction shall retain continuing jurisdiction and in s... |
19.31.240 | Service of process outside state. | Personal service of any process in an action under this chapter may be made upon any person outside the state if such person has engaged in conduct in violation of this chapter which conduct has had impact in this state which this chapter reprehends. Such person shall be deemed to have thereby submitted himself or hers... |
19.31.245 | Registration or licensing prerequisite to suit by employment agency—Action against unregistered or unlicensed employment agency. | (1) No employment agency may bring or maintain a cause of action in any court of this state for compensation for, or seeking equitable relief in regard to, services rendered employers and applicants, unless such agency shall allege and prove that at the time of rendering the services in question, or making the contract... |
19.31.250 | Chapter provisions exclusive—Authority of political subdivisions not affected. | (1) The provisions of this chapter relating to the regulation of private employment agencies shall be exclusive. (2) This chapter shall not be construed to affect or reduce the authority of any political subdivision of the state of Washington to provide for the licensing of private employment agencies solely for revenu... |
19.31.260 | Administrative procedure act to govern administration. | The administration of this chapter shall be governed by the provisions of the administrative procedure act, chapter 34.05 RCW, as now or hereafter amended.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 228 s 26 .] |
19.31.270 | Uniform regulation of business and professions act. | The uniform regulation of business and professions act, chapter 18.235 RCW, governs unlicensed practice, the issuance and denial of licenses, and the discipline of licensees under this chapter.
[ 2002 c 86 s 271 .]
Effective dates — 2002 c 86: See note following RCW 18.08.340 .
Part headings not law — Severability — 20... |
19.31.910 | Effective date—1969 ex.s. c 228. | This act shall become effective July 1, 1969.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 228 s 28 .] |
19.36.010 | Contracts, etc., void unless in writing. | In the following cases, specified in this section, any agreement, contract, and promise shall be void, unless such agreement, contract, or promise, or some note or memorandum thereof, be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or by some person thereunto by him or her lawfully authorized, that is t... |
19.36.020 | Deeds, etc., in trust for grantor void as to creditors. | That all deeds of gift, all conveyances, and all transfers or assignments, verbal or written, of goods, chattels or things in action, made in trust for the use of the person making the same, shall be void as against the existing or subsequent creditors of such person. For purposes of this section, a person shall not be... |
19.36.100 | "Credit agreement" defined. | "Credit agreement" means an agreement, promise, or commitment to lend money, to otherwise extend credit, to forbear with respect to the repayment of any debt or the exercise of any remedy, to modify or amend the terms under which the creditor has lent money or otherwise extended credit, to release any guarantor or cosi... |
19.36.110 | Enforceability of credit agreements—Effect of oral agreements and partial performance. | A credit agreement is not enforceable against the creditor unless the agreement is in writing and signed by the creditor. The rights and obligations of the parties to a credit agreement shall be determined solely from the written agreement, and any prior or contemporaneous oral agreements between the parties are supers... |
19.36.120 | Exempt agreements. | RCW 19.36.100 through 19.36.140 and 19.36.900 shall not apply to: (1) A promise, agreement, undertaking, document, or commitment relating to a credit card or charge card; or (2) a loan of money or extension of credit to a natural person that is primarily for personal, family, or household purposes and not primarily for... |
19.36.130 | Notice required. | If a notice complying with RCW 19.36.140 , is not given simultaneously with or before a credit agreement is made, RCW 19.36.100 through 19.36.140 and 19.36.900 shall not apply to the credit agreement. Notice, once given to a debtor, shall be effective as to all subsequent credit agreements and effective against the deb... |
19.36.140 | Notice—Form and contents. | The creditor shall give notice to the other party on a separate document or incorporated into one or more of the documents relating to a credit agreement. The notice shall be in type that is boldface, capitalized, underlined, or otherwise set out from surrounding written materials so it is conspicuous. The notice shall... |
19.36.900 | Effective date—Application—1990 c 211. | RCW 19.36.100 through 19.36.140 shall take effect July 1, 1990, and shall apply only to credit agreements entered into on or after July 1, 1990.
[ 1990 c 211 s 6 .] |
19.36.901 | Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521. | For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married person... |
19.40.011 | Definitions. | As used in this chapter: (1) "Affiliate" means: (a) A person that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote, twenty percent or more of the outstanding voting securities of the debtor, other than a person that holds the securities: (i) As a fiduciary or agent without sole discretionary power to ... |
19.40.021 | Insolvency. | (1) A debtor is insolvent if, at a fair valuation, the sum of the debtor's debts is greater than the sum of the debtor's assets. (2) A debtor that is generally not paying the debtor's debts as they become due other than as a result of a bona fide dispute is presumed to be insolvent. The presumption imposes on the party... |
19.40.031 | Value. | (1) Value is given for a transfer or an obligation if, in exchange for the transfer or obligation, property is transferred or an antecedent debt is secured or satisfied, but value does not include an unperformed promise made otherwise than in the ordinary course of the promisor's business to furnish support to the debt... |
19.40.041 | Transfers voidable as to present and future creditors. | (1) A transfer made or obligation incurred by a debtor is voidable as to a creditor, whether the creditor's claim arose before or after the transfer was made or the obligation was incurred, if the debtor made the transfer or incurred the obligation: (a) With actual intent to hinder, delay, or defraud any creditor of th... |
19.40.051 | Transfers voidable as to present creditors. | (1) A transfer made or obligation incurred by a debtor is voidable as to a creditor whose claim arose before the transfer was made or the obligation was incurred if the debtor made the transfer or incurred the obligation without receiving a reasonably equivalent value in exchange for the transfer or obligation and the ... |
19.40.061 | When transfer is made or obligation is incurred. | For the purposes of this chapter: (1) A transfer is made: (a) With respect to an asset that is real property other than a fixture, but including the interest of a seller or purchaser under a contract for the sale of the asset, when the transfer is so far perfected that a good-faith purchaser of the asset from the debto... |
19.40.071 | Remedies of creditors. | (1) In an action for relief against a transfer or obligation under this chapter, a creditor, subject to the limitations in RCW 19.40.081 , may obtain: (a) Avoidance of the transfer or obligation to the extent necessary to satisfy the creditor's claim; (b) An attachment or other provisional remedy against the asset tran... |
19.40.081 | Defenses, liability, and protection of transferee. | (1) A transfer or obligation is not voidable under RCW 19.40.041 (1) or 19.40.051 (1) against a person that took in good faith and for a reasonably equivalent value whether or not given to the debtor or against any subsequent transferee or obligee. (2) To the extent a transfer is avoidable in an action by a creditor un... |
19.40.091 | Extinguishment of claim for relief. | A claim for relief with respect to a transfer or obligation under this chapter is extinguished unless action is brought: (1) Under RCW 19.40.041 (1)(a), not later than four years after the transfer was made or the obligation was incurred or, if later, not later than one year after the transfer or obligation was or coul... |
19.40.101 | Governing law. | (1) In this section, the following rules determine a debtor's location: (a) A debtor who is an individual is located at the individual's principal residence. (b) A debtor that is an organization and has only one place of business is located at its place of business. (c) A debtor that is an organization and has more tha... |
19.40.111 | Application to series organization. | (1) In this section: (a) "Protected series" means an arrangement, however denominated, created by a series organization that, pursuant to the law under which the series organization is organized, has the characteristics set forth in (b) of this subsection. (b) "Series organization" means an organization that, pursuant ... |
19.40.121 | Relation to electronic signatures in global and national commerce act. | This chapter modifies, limits, or supersedes the electronic signatures in global and national commerce act, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 7001 et seq., but does not modify, limit, or supersede section 101(c) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 7001(c), or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in section 103(b) of that... |
19.40.900 | Short title. | This chapter, which was formerly cited as the uniform fraudulent transfer act, may be cited as the uniform voidable transactions act.
[ 2017 c 57 s 13 ; 1987 c 444 s 12 .]
Effective date — 1987 c 444: See note following RCW 19.40.011 . |
19.40.902 | Supplementary provisions. | Unless displaced by the provisions of this chapter, the principles of law and equity, including the law merchant and the law relating to principal and agent, estoppel, laches, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, insolvency, or other validating or invalidating cause, supplement its provisions.
[ 1987 c ... |
19.40.903 | Uniformity of application and construction. | This chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among states enacting it.
[ 1987 c 444 s 11 .]
Effective date — 1987 c 444: See note following RCW 19.40.011 . |
19.40.904 | Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521. | For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married person... |
19.40.905 | Effect on prior transfers and obligations—2017 c 57. | (1) Chapter 57, Laws of 2017 applies to a transfer made or obligation incurred on or after July 23, 2017. (2) Chapter 57, Laws of 2017 does not apply to a transfer made or obligation incurred before July 23, 2017. (3) Chapter 57, Laws of 2017 does not apply to a right of action that has accrued before July 23, 2017. (4... |
19.48.010 | Definitions. | Any building held out to the public to be an inn, hotel or public lodging house or place where sleeping accommodations, whether with or without meals, or the facilities for preparing the same, are furnished for hire to transient guests, in which three or more rooms are used for the accommodation of such guests, shall f... |
19.48.020 | Record of guests—Hotels and trailer camps. | Every hotel and trailer camp shall keep a record of the arrival and departure of its guests in such a manner that the record will be a permanent one for at least one year from the date of departure: PROVIDED, That this requirement shall not apply with respect to guests of tenants in mobile home parks, as defined in RCW... |
19.48.030 | Liability for loss of valuables when safe or vault furnished—Limitation. | Whenever the proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee, or manager of any hotel, lodging house or inn shall provide a safe or vault for the safekeeping of any money, bank notes, jewelry, precious stones, ornaments, railroad mileage books or tickets, negotiable securities or other valuable papers, bullion, or other va... |
19.48.070 | Liability for loss of baggage and other property—Limitation—Storage—Disposal. | Except as provided for in RCW 19.48.030 , the proprietor, keeper, owner, operator, lessee, or manager, whether individual, partnership, or corporation, of a hotel, lodging house, or inn, shall not be liable for the loss or destruction of, or damage to any personal property brought or sent into such hotel, lodging house... |
19.48.110 | Obtaining hotel, restaurant, lodging house, ski area, etc., accommodations by fraud—Penalty. | (1)(a) Any person who willfully obtains food, money, credit, use of ski area facilities, lodging or accommodation at any hotel, inn, restaurant, commercial ski area, boarding house or lodging house, without paying therefor, with intent to defraud the proprietor, owner, operator or keeper thereof; or who obtains food, m... |
19.52.005 | Declaration of policy. | RCW 19.52.005 , 19.52.020 , 19.52.030 , 19.52.032 , 19.52.034 , and 19.52.036 are enacted in order to protect the residents of this state from debts bearing burdensome interest rates; and in order to better effect the policy of this state to use this state's policies and courts to govern the affairs of our residents an... |
19.52.010 | Rate in absence of agreement—Exception for prejudgment interest—Application to consumer leases. | (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, every loan or forbearance of money, goods, or thing in action shall bear interest at the rate of twelve percent per annum where no different rate is agreed to in writing between the parties: PROVIDED, That with regard to any transaction heretofore or hereafter e... |
19.52.020 | Highest rate permissible—Setup charges. | (1) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, any rate of interest shall be legal so long as the rate of interest does not exceed the higher of: (a) Twelve percent per annum; or (b) four percentage points above the equivalent coupon issue yield (as published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve ... |
19.52.025 | Computation of rates—Publication in the Washington State Register. | Each month the state treasurer shall compute the highest rate of interest permissible under RCW 19.52.020 (1), and the rate of interest required by RCW 4.56.110 (3) and 4.56.115 , for the succeeding calendar month. The treasurer shall file these rates with the state code reviser for publication in the next available is... |
19.52.030 | Usury—Penalty upon suit on contract—Costs and attorneys' fees. | (1) If a greater rate of interest than is allowed by statute shall be contracted for or received or reserved, the contract shall be usurious, but shall not, therefore, be void. If in any action on such contract proof be made that greater rate of interest has been directly or indirectly contracted for or taken or reserv... |
19.52.032 | Declaratory judgment action to establish usury—Time limitations for commencing. | The debtor, if a natural person, or the creditor may bring an action for declaratory judgment to establish whether a loan or forbearance contract is or was usurious, and such an action shall be considered an action on the contract for the purposes of applying the provisions of RCW 19.52.030 . Such an action shall be br... |
19.52.034 | Application of chapter19.52RCW to loan or forbearance made outside state. | Whenever a loan or forbearance is made outside Washington state to a person then residing in this state the usury laws found in chapter 19.52 RCW, as now or hereafter amended, shall be applicable in all courts of this state to the same extent such usury laws would be applicable if the loan or forbearance was made in th... |
19.52.036 | Application of consumer protection act. | Entering into or transacting a usurious contract is hereby declared to be an unfair act or practice in the conduct of commerce for the purpose of the application of the consumer protection act found in chapter 19.86 RCW.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 23 s 7 .]
Severability — Savings — 1967 ex.s. c 23: See notes following RCW 19.52.00... |
19.52.060 | Interest on charges in excess of published rates. | Any corporation, partnership or individual who furnishes the public any goods, wares, merchandise, pledge, security, insurance or transportation of which the price, rate or tariff is by law required to be published, shall, when any price, rate or tariff is charged in excess of the existing and established price, rate o... |
19.52.080 | Defense of usury or maintaining action thereon prohibited if transaction primarily agricultural, commercial, investment, or business—Exception. | Profit and nonprofit corporations, Massachusetts trusts, associations, trusts, general partnerships, joint ventures, limited partnerships, and governments and governmental subdivisions, agencies, or instrumentalities may not plead the defense of usury nor maintain any action thereon or therefor, and persons may not ple... |
19.52.090 | Defense of usury or maintaining action thereon prohibited for certain types of transactions after May 1, 1980, and prior to March 1, 1981. | No person may plead the defense of usury or maintain any action thereon or therefor for the interest charged on the unpaid balance of a contract for the sale and purchase of personal property which was not purchased primarily for personal, family or household use or real property if the purchase was made after May 1, 1... |
19.52.100 | Chapter not applicable to retail installment transactions. | This chapter shall not apply to a retail installment transaction, as defined by RCW 63.14.010 , whether or not it is construed to be a loan or forbearance of any money, goods, or things in action.
[ 1981 c 78 s 3 .]
Severability — 1981 c 78: See note following RCW 19.52.020 . |
19.52.110 | Limitations in chapter not applicable to interest charged by broker-dealers—When. | The interest charged by any broker-dealer registered under chapter 21.20 RCW and under the federal securities and exchange act of 1934, as amended, shall not be subject to the limitations imposed by this chapter if the underlying loans (1) may be paid in full at the option of the borrower and (2) are subject to the cre... |
19.52.120 | Sales contract providing for deferred payment of purchase price not subject to chapter. | A sales contract for goods or services providing for the deferred payment of the purchase price shall not be subject to this chapter, regardless of who seeks to enforce the contract, notwithstanding the existence or occurrence of any one or more of the following events: (1) That the seller may have arranged to sell, pl... |
19.52.130 | Charge made by assignee of retail installment contract or charge agreement to seller-assignor not limited by chapter—No agreement between credit card issuing bank and retailer shall prohibit discounts for cash payment. | (1) Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to limit any charge made by an assignee of a retail installment contract or charge agreement to the seller-assignor upon the sale, transfer, assignment, or discount of the contract or agreement, notwithstanding retention by the assignee of recourse rights and notwit... |
19.52.140 | Chapter not applicable to interest, penalties, or costs on delinquent property taxes. | This chapter does not apply in respect to interest, penalties, or costs imposed on delinquent property taxes under chapter 84.64 RCW.
[ 1981 c 322 s 8 .] |
19.52.160 | Chapter not applicable to mobile homes. | This chapter shall not apply to the financing of mobile homes which meets the definition of real property contained in RCW 84.04.090 , and which financing is insured by a federal instrumentality.
[ 1985 c 395 s 6 .] |
19.52.170 | Chapter not applicable to certain loans from tax-qualified retirement plan. | This chapter does not apply to any loan permitted under applicable federal law and regulations from a tax-qualified retirement plan to a person then a participant or a beneficiary under the plan. This section affects loans being made, negotiated, renegotiated, extended, renewed, or revised on or after April 20, 1989.
[... |
19.52.900 | Application—Construction—1981 c 78. | Chapter 78, Laws of 1981 shall apply only to loans or forbearances or transactions which are entered into after May 8, 1981, or to existing loans or forbearances, contracts or agreements which were not primarily for personal, family, or household use to which there is an addition to the principal amount of the credit o... |
19.56.010 | Newspaper mailed without authority is gift. | Whenever any person, company or corporation owning or controlling any newspaper or periodical of any kind, or whenever any editor or proprietor of any such newspaper or periodical shall mail or send any such newspaper or periodical to any person or persons in this state without first receiving an order for said newspap... |
19.56.020 | Unsolicited goods or services as gifts. | If unsolicited goods or services are provided to a person, the person has a right to accept the goods or services as a gift only, and is not bound to return the goods or services. Goods or services are not considered to have been solicited unless the recipient specifically requested, in an affirmative manner, the recei... |
19.56.030 | Violation—Application of consumer protection act. | Violation of RCW 19.56.020 is a matter affecting the public interest for the purpose of applying chapter 19.86 RCW. Failure to comply with this chapter is not reasonable in relation to the development and preservation of business. A violation of RCW 19.56.020 constitutes an unfair or deceptive act or practice in trade ... |
19.58.010 | Purpose. | The purpose of this chapter is to establish fair and open procedures for bidding and negotiation for the right to exhibit motion pictures in the state in order to prevent unfair and deceptive acts or practices and unreasonable restraints of trade in the business of motion picture distribution and exhibition within the ... |
19.58.020 | Definitions. | The definitions contained in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Bid" means a written or oral offer or proposal to buy made by an exhibitor to a distributor in response to an invitation to bid for the license or right to exhibit a motion picture, the license st... |
19.58.030 | Blind bidding or blind selling prohibited—Trade screening required—Notice. | (1) The buying or selling of the right to exhibit a feature motion picture by blind bidding or blind selling is prohibited within the state. (2) No bids may be returnable, no negotiations for the exhibition or licensing of a motion picture may take place, and no license agreement or any of its terms may be agreed upon,... |
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