Local transportation benefit district fees
A law passed in 2007 allows city or county governments to create local transportation benefit districts and impose a local vehicle registration fee to fund local transportation projects.
Transportation benefit districts and fees
If you live in any of the following locations, you must pay an additional local transportation benefit district fee when you renew your vehicle tabs:
| District | Fee | Effective date (Tabs expiring on or after…) |
Location code | Contact phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bremerton | $20 | July 1, 2012 | 18-01 | 360-473-5920 |
| Burien No. 1 | $10 | February 1, 2011 | 17-34 | 206-241-4647 |
| Des Moines | $20 | September 1, 2009 | 17-09 | 206-870-7586 |
| Edmonds | $20 | September 1, 2009 | 31-04 | 425-771-0260 |
| Grandview | $20 | February 1, 2012 | 39-01 | 509-882-9200 |
| Lake Forest Park | $20 | September 1, 2009 | 17-17 | 206-368-5440 |
| Lynnwood | $20 | July 1, 2011 | 31-10 | 425-670-5020 |
| Mabton | $20 | December 1, 2011 | 39-04 | 509-894-4096 |
| Mountlake Terrace | $20 | August 1, 2012 | 31-13 | 425-744-6272 |
| Olympia | $20 | October 1, 2009 | 34-03 | 360-570-3727 |
| Prosser | $20 | November 1, 2009 | 03-03 | 509-786-2332 |
| Seattle | $20 | May 1, 2011 | 17-26 | 206-233-5005 |
| Shoreline | $20 | February 1, 2010 | 17-37 | 206-801-2302 |
| Snoqualmie | $20 | March 1, 2011 | 17-28 | 425-888-1555, Ext. 1135 |
| City of Spokane | $20 | September 1, 2011 | 32-10 | 509-625-6252 |
| Zillah | $20 | July 1, 2012 | 39-14 | 509-829-5151 |
Vehicles subject to fees
- Passenger vehicles
- Trucks that weigh 6,000 pounds or less
- Motorcycles
- Commercial passenger vehicles and trucks that weigh 6,000 pounds or less
- Combination trucks that weigh 6,000 pounds or less
- Tow trucks
- House moving dollies
- Trucks used exclusively for hauling logs that weigh 6,000 pounds or less
- Taxicabs
- For-hire or stage vehicles with 6 seats or less
- For-hire or stage vehicles with 7 or more seats that weigh 6,000 pounds or less
- Private use trailers over 2,000 pounds
- Motorcycle trailers
- Travel trailers
- Fixed load vehicles that weigh 6,000 pounds or less
- Mobile homes licensed as vehicles
Exempt vehicles
- All farm vehicles
- Campers
- Off-road vehicles
- Snowmobiles
- Mopeds
- Personal use trailers with a single axle and less than 2,000 pounds scale weight
- Commercial trailers
- Combination trailers
- Trailers used exclusively for hauling logs
- Horseless carriage, collector, or restored-plate vehicles
- Converter gear
- Government vehicles
- Private school vehicles
- Vehicles properly registered to disabled American veterans
How a transportation benefit district works
Once a local transportation benefit district is set up, the district’s board of directors may vote to charge a local vehicle licensing fee due when a vehicle owner buys new tabs.
- The transportation benefit district board has the authority to impose a fee of up to $20 per vehicle without voter approval.
- A transportation benefit district may impose a vehicle renewal fee of up to $100 per vehicle or seek other sources of funding if approved by voters.
