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Chapter 81.70 RCW: PASSENGER CHARTER AND EXCURSION CARRIERS
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Chapter 81.70 RCW
PASSENGER CHARTER AND EXCURSION CARRIERS
(Formerly: Passenger charter carriers)
81.70.010 Business affected with the public interest—Declaration of purpose.
81.70.020 Definitions.
81.70.030 Exclusions.
81.70.220 Certificate or registration required—Penalty.
81.70.230 Certificates—Application, issuance.
81.70.240 Certificates—Transfer restricted.
81.70.250 Certificates—Grounds for cancellation.
81.70.260 Unlawful operation after certificate or registration canceled, etc.—Penalty.
81.70.270 Scope of regulation.
81.70.280 Insurance or bond for liability and property damage.
81.70.290 Self-insurers exempt as to insurance or bond.
81.70.310 Application of Title 81 RCW.
81.70.320 Fees—Amounts, deposit.
81.70.330 Vehicle identification.
81.70.340 Application to interstate or foreign carriers.
81.70.350 Annual regulatory fee—Delinquent fee payments.
81.70.360 Excursion service companies—Certificate.
81.70.370 Federal authority and registration for compensatory services.
81.70.380 Party buses—Alcohol consumption requirements, penalty.
81.70.390 Passenger smoking on board prohibited.
RCW 81.70.010
Business affected with the public interest—Declaration of purpose.
The use of the public highways for the transportation of passengers for compensation is a business affected with the public interest. It is the purpose of this chapter to preserve for the public full benefit in use of public highways consistent with the needs of commerce, without unnecessary congestion or wear and tear upon such highways; to secure to the people safe, adequate and dependable transportation by carriers operating upon such highways; and to secure full and unrestricted flow of traffic by motor carriers over such highways which will adequately meet reasonable public demands by providing for the regulation of all transportation agencies with respect to safety of operations and accident indemnity so that safe, adequate and dependable service by all necessary transportation agencies shall be maintained, and the full use of the highway reserved to the public.
[ 1965 c 150 § 2.]
RCW 81.70.030
(1) Persons or their lessees, receivers, or trustees insofar as they own, control, operate, or manage taxicabs, hotel buses, or school buses, when operated as such;
(2) Passenger vehicles carrying passengers on a noncommercial enterprise basis; or
(3) Limousine charter party carriers of passengers under chapter 46.72A RCW.
[ 2015 c 233 § 2; 2007 c 234 § 56; 1989 c 283 § 17; 1965 c 150 § 4.]
RCW 81.70.230
Certificates—Application, issuance.
(1) Applications for certificates must be made to the commission in writing, verified under oath, and shall be in a form and contain information as the commission by regulation may require. Every application must be accompanied by a fee as the commission may prescribe by rule.
(2) A certificate must be issued to any applicant who establishes proof of safety fitness and insurance coverage under this chapter.
[ 2007 c 234 § 57; 1988 c 30 § 3.]
RCW 81.70.240
Certificates—Transfer restricted.
No certificate issued under this chapter or rights to conduct services under it may be leased, assigned, or otherwise transferred or encumbered, unless authorized by the commission.
[ 1988 c 30 § 4.]
RCW 81.70.250
Certificates—Grounds for cancellation.
The commission may cancel, revoke, or suspend any certificate issued under this chapter on any of the following grounds:
(1) The violation of any of the provisions of this chapter;
(2) The violation of an order, decision, rule, regulation, or requirement established by the commission under this chapter;
(3) Failure of a charter party carrier or excursion service carrier of passengers to pay a fee, under this chapter, imposed on the carrier within the time required by law; or
(4) Failure of a charter party carrier or excursion service carrier to maintain required insurance coverage in full force and effect.
[ 2007 c 234 § 58; 1989 c 163 § 8; 1988 c 30 § 5.]
RCW 81.70.260
Unlawful operation after certificate or registration canceled, etc.—Penalty.
[ 2015 c 233 § 4; 1989 c 163 § 9; 1988 c 30 § 6.]
RCW 81.70.270
It is the duty of the commission to regulate charter party carriers and excursion service carriers with respect to safety of equipment, driver qualifications, and safety of operations. The commission shall establish such rules and regulations and require such reports as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1989 c 163 § 10; 1988 c 30 § 7.]
RCW 81.70.280
Insurance or bond for liability and property damage.
(1) In issuing certificates under this chapter, the commission shall require charter party carriers and excursion service carriers to procure and continue in effect during the life of the certificate, liability and property damage insurance from a company licensed to make liability insurance in the state of Washington or a surety bond of a company licensed to write surety bonds in the state of Washington on each motor-propelled vehicle used or to be used in transporting persons for compensation, in the following amounts:
(a) Not less than one hundred thousand dollars for any recovery for personal injury by one person; and
(b) Not less than three hundred thousand dollars for any vehicle having a capacity of sixteen passengers or less; and
(c) Not less than five hundred thousand dollars for any vehicle having a capacity of seventeen passengers or more for all receiving personal injury by at least one act of negligence; and
(d) Not less than fifty thousand dollars for damage to property of any person other than the insured.
(2) The commission shall fix the amount of the insurance policy or policies or security deposit by giving consideration to the character and amount of traffic, the number of persons affected, and the degree of danger which the proposed operation involves. The liability and property damage insurance or surety bond must be maintained in force on each motor-propelled vehicle while in use. Each policy for liability or property damage insurance or surety bond required by this section must be filed with the commission and kept in effect. Failure to file and maintain the required insurance is cause for the revocation of the certificate.
[ 2007 c 234 § 59; 1989 c 163 § 11; 1988 c 30 § 8.]
RCW 81.70.290
Self-insurers exempt as to insurance or bond.
A charter party carrier or excursion service carrier of passengers, authorized to transport persons for compensation on the highways and engaging in interstate, or interstate and intrastate, operations within the state of Washington which is or becomes qualified as a self-insurer with the federal motor carrier safety administration of the United States department of transportation in accordance with the United States interstate commerce act applicable to self-insurance by motor carriers, is exempt from RCW 81.70.280 relating to the carrying or filing of insurance policies or bonds in connection with carrier operations as long as the qualification remains effective.
The commission may require the charter party carrier or excursion service carrier to prove the existence and continuation of qualification with the federal motor carrier safety administration by affidavit in a form the commission may prescribe.
[ 2007 c 234 § 60; 1989 c 163 § 12; 1988 c 30 § 9.]
RCW 81.70.310
Application of Title 81 RCW.
All applicable provisions of this title relating to procedure, powers of the commission, and penalties shall apply to the operation and regulation of persons under this chapter, except as those provisions may conflict with the provisions of this chapter and rules and regulations issued thereunder by the commission.
[ 1988 c 30 § 11.]
RCW 81.70.320
Fees—Amounts, deposit.
(3) It is the intent of the legislature that all fees collected under this chapter must reasonably approximate the cost of supervising and regulating charter party carriers and excursion service carriers subject thereto, and to that end the commission may decrease the schedule of fees provided for in RCW 81.70.350 by general order entered before March 1st of any year in which the commission determines that the moneys, then in the charter party carrier and excursion service carrier account of the public service revolving fund, and the fees currently owed will exceed the reasonable cost of supervising and regulating such carriers during the succeeding calendar year. Whenever the cost accounting records of the commission indicate that the schedule of fees previously reduced should be increased, the increase, not to exceed the schedule set forth in this chapter, may be effected by a similar general order entered before March 1st of any calendar year.
[ 2015 c 233 § 5; 2007 c 234 § 61; 1989 c 163 § 13; 1988 c 30 § 12.]
RCW 81.70.330
(1) It is unlawful for a charter party carrier or excursion service carrier to operate a motor vehicle upon the highways of this state unless there is firmly affixed to both sides of the vehicle, the name of the carrier and the certificate or permit number of the carrier. The characters composing the identification must be of sufficient size to be clearly distinguishable at a distance of at least fifty feet from the vehicle.
(2) A charter party carrier or excursion service carrier holding both intrastate and interstate authority may identify its vehicles with either the commission permit number or the federal vehicle marking requirement established by the United States department of transportation for interstate motor carriers.
[ 2007 c 234 § 62; 1989 c 163 § 14; 1988 c 30 § 13.]
RCW 81.70.340
Application to interstate or foreign carriers.
This chapter applies to persons and motor carriers engaged in interstate or foreign commerce to the full extent permitted by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
[ 2007 c 234 § 63; 1989 c 163 § 15; 1988 c 30 § 14.]
RCW 81.70.350
Annual regulatory fee—Delinquent fee payments.
(2) The fee prescribed under this section is due and payable on or before May 1st of each year, to cover operations during the calendar year in which the fee is paid.
[ 2015 c 233 § 6; 1994 c 83 § 3; 1989 c 163 § 16; 1988 c 30 § 15.]
RCW 81.70.360
Excursion service companies—Certificate.
A certificate shall be issued to any qualified applicant therefor, authorizing the whole or any part of the operations covered by the application, if it is found that the applicant is fit, willing, and able to properly perform the services proposed and conform to the provisions of this chapter and the rules of the commission adopted under this chapter, and that such operations will be consistent with the public interest. Any right, privilege, or certificate held, owned, or obtained by an excursion service company may be sold, assigned, leased, transferred, or inherited as other property only upon authorization by the commission. For good cause shown the commission may refuse to issue the certificate, or issue it for the partial exercise only of the privilege sought, and may attach to the exercise of the rights granted by the certificate such terms and conditions as, in its judgment, the public interest may require.
[ 2015 c 233 § 7; 1984 c 166 § 5. Formerly RCW 81.68.045.]
RCW 81.70.370
Federal authority and registration for compensatory services.
It is unlawful for any motor carrier to perform a transportation service for compensation upon the public highways of this state without first having secured appropriate federal authority from the United States department of transportation, if such authority is required, and without first having registered with the commission either directly or through a federally authorized uniform registration program.
[ 2007 c 234 § 54.]
RCW 81.70.390
Passenger smoking on board prohibited.
(2) For the purposes of this section, "smoke" has the same meaning as defined in RCW 70.160.020.
[ 2015 c 233 § 9.]