46.93.160 - Relocation requirements -- Exceptions.

Relocation requirements — Exceptions.

RCW 46.93.120 through 46.93.150 do not apply:

     (1) To the sale or transfer of the ownership or assets of an existing dealer where the transferee proposes to engage in business representing the same line make at the same location or within two miles of that location;

     (2) To the relocation of an existing dealer within the dealer's relevant market area, if the relocation is not at a site within eight miles of any dealer of the same line make;

     (3) If the proposed dealer is to be established at or within two miles of a location at which a former dealer of the same line make had ceased operating within the previous twenty-four months;

     (4) Where the proposed relocation is two miles or less from the existing location of the relocating dealer; or

     (5) Where the proposed relocation is to be further away from all other existing dealers of the same line make in the relevant market area.

[2003 c 354 § 16.]