{"data":{"id":"us-wa/rcw-70.62.260","jurisdiction":"us-wa","citation":"RCW 70.62.260","heading":"Licenses—Applications—Expiration—Renewal.","body":"(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.\n(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.\n(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.\n(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.\n(5) Each license shall be issued only for the premises and persons named in the application.","path":["Title 70","Chapter 70.62"],"source_url":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=70.62.260","current_through":"July 15, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T03:49:10Z","sha256":"2ea9ee23053450467cc55d99af39e96da61d67f32e731dbc99d2db15ff099c00","source_id":"us-wa","stale":false,"prev":"us-wa/rcw-70.62.250","next":"us-wa/rcw-70.62.270"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}