RCW 70.62.260
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(1)No person shall operate a transient accommodation as defined in this chapter without having a valid license issued by the department. Applications for a transient accommodation license shall be filed with the department sixty days or more before initiating business as a transient accommodation. All licenses issued under the provisions of this chapter shall expire one year from the effective date.
(2)All applications for renewal of licenses shall be either:
(a)Postmarked no later than midnight on the date the license expires; or
(b)if personally presented to the department or sent by electronic means, received by the department by 5:00 p.m. on the date the license expires.
(3)A licensee that submits a license renewal application in accordance with this section and the rules and fee schedule adopted under this chapter shall be deemed to possess a valid license for the year following the expiration date of the expiring license, or until the department suspends or revokes the license pursuant to RCW 70.62.270 .
(4)The license of a licensee that fails to submit a license renewal application in accordance with this section, and the rules and fee schedule adopted under this chapter, shall become invalid on the thirty-fifth day after the expiration date, unless the licensee shall have corrected any and all deficiencies in the renewal application and paid a penalty fee as established by rule by the department before the thirty-fifth day following the expiration date. An invalid license may be reinstated upon reapplication as an applicant for a new license under subsection
(1)of this section.
(5)Each license shall be issued only for the premises and persons named in the application.
[ 2004 c 162 s 1 ; 1994 c 250 s 6 ; 1971 ex.s. c 239 s 7 .]