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Local transportation benefit district fees

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RCW 36.73.020 allows city or county governments to create transportation benefit districts and impose an additional vehicle registration fee to fund local transportation projects.

If you live in any of the following locations, you must pay an additional transportation benefit district fee when you renew your vehicle tabs. You may see this fee listed as "TBD" during renewal.

Transportation benefit districts and fees
Transportation benefit district Fee Effective date
(Tabs expiring on or after…)		 Location code
Bainbridge Island
206.780.8624		 $30 August 1, 2013 18-04
Black Diamond (blackdiamondwa.gov)
360.866.5713		 $20 April 1, 2016 17-05
Bremerton
360.473.5920		 $20 July 1, 2012 18-01
Bridgeport
509.686.4041 ext. 12 		$20 August 1, 2017 09-01
Buckley (cityofbuckley.com)
360.761.7801		 $20 February 1, 2014 27-02
Burien #1
206.241.4647		 $20 February 1, 2011 17-34
Carbonado
360.829.0125		 $20 November 1, 2013 27-03
Covington
253.480.2400		 $20 June 1, 2016 17-12
Des Moines
206.870.7586		 $40 September 1, 2009 17-09
DuPont
253.964.8121		 $20 September 1, 2013 27-04
East Wenatchee
509.884.9515		 $20 August 1, 2013 09-02
Eatonville
360.832.3361		 $20 March 1, 2013 27-05
Edmonds
425.771.0260		 $20 September 1, 2009 31-04
Electric City
509.633.1510		 $20 May 1, 2013 13-02
Elmer City
509.633.2872		 $20 August 1, 2016 24-04
Enumclaw
360.825.3593		 $20 September 1, 2014 17-11
Everett
425.257.7767		 $20 March 1, 2015 31-05 and 42-05
Fife
253.922.2489		 $20 January 1, 2017 27-06
George (cityofgeorge.org)
509.785.5081		 $20 July 1, 2018 13-04
Grandview
509.882.9200		 $20 February 1, 2012 39-01
Granite Falls $20 January 1, 2016 31-07
Kelso
360.423.0900		 $20 July 1, 2013 08-03
Kenmore
425.398.8900		 $20 June 1, 2013 17-38
Kittitas
509.968.0220		 $20 December 1, 2012 19-03
Lake Forest Park
206.368.5440		 $40 September 1, 2009 17-17
Lakewood $20 April 1, 2015 27-21
Longview (mylongview.com)
360.442.5200		 $20 August 1, 2017 08-04
Lynnwood (lynnwoodwa.gov)
425.670.5020		 $40 July 1, 2011 31-10
Mabton
509.894.4096		 $20 December 1, 2011 39-04
Maple Valley
425.413.8800		 $20 July 1, 2013 17-20
Mercer Island
206.275.7789
Email: mitbd@mercergov.org		 $20 June 1, 2015 17-19
Mountlake Terrace
425.744.6272		 $20 August 1, 2012 31-13
Normandy Park
425.744.6272		 $20 March 1, 2016 17-21
Olympia
360.570.3727		 $40 October 1, 2009 34-03
Orting
360.892.2219, ext. 133		 $20 February 1, 2013 27-10
Port Orchard
360.874.5535		 $20 February 1, 2017 18-02
Poulsbo (cityofpoulsbo.com)
360.394.9880		 $20 February 1, 2023 18-03
Prosser
509.786.2332		 $25 November 1, 2009 03-03
Richland (www.ci.richland.wa.us)
509.942.7500		 $20 January 1, 2018 03-04
Ridgefield (ridgefieldwa.us)
360.887.3557		 $20 July 1, 2019 06-04
Roy
253.843.1113		 $20 January 1, 2015 27-12
Royal City
509.346.2263		 $20 November 1, 2012 13-11
Seattle
206.684.7623		 $40 July 1, 2021 17-26
Sedro-Woolley #1
360.855.1661		 $20 July 1, 2015 29-08
Shoreline
206.801.2302		 $40 February 1, 2010 17-37
Soap Lake
509.246.1211		 $20 November 1, 2013 13-12
Spokane
509.625.6252		 $20 September 1, 2011 32-10
Tacoma
253.591.5681		 $20 June 1, 2013 27-17
Toppenish
509.865.4500		 $20 December 1, 2012 39-10
University Place
253.460.5447		 $10 June 1, 2021 27-19
Vancouver (cityofvancouver.us)
360.487.8488		 $40 July 1, 2016 06-05
Wapato
509.877.2334		 $20 April 1, 2013 39-12
Washougal
360.835.8501		 $20 June 1, 2019 06-06
Wenatchee
509.888.3600		 $20 August 1, 2012 04-05
Wilkeson
360.829.0790		 $20 January 1, 2015 27-18
Yakima
509.575.6111		 $20 July 1, 2018 39-13
Zillah
509.829.5151		 $20 July 1, 2012 39-14

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
  • Commercial trailers
  • Combination trucks that weigh 6,000 pounds or less
  • Combination trailers
  • Tow trucks
  • House moving dollies
  • Trucks used exclusively for hauling logs that weigh 6,000 pounds or less
  • Trailers used exclusively for hauling logs
  • 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
  • Motor homes
  • Neighborhood electric passenger vehicle and trucks that weigh 6,000 pounds or less
  • Medium-speed electric passenger vehicle and trucks that weigh 6,000 pounds or less

Exempt vehicles

  • All farm vehicles
  • Campers
  • Off-road vehicles
  • Snowmobiles, including vintage snowmobiles
  • Mopeds
  • ATVs
  • Personal use trailers with a single axle and less than 2,000 pounds scale weight
  • Antique, collector, and restored vehicles
  • Converter gear
  • Government vehicles
  • Federally owned vehicles and federal motorcycle trailers
  • Private school vehicles
  • Vehicles properly registered to disabled American veterans
  • Commercial passenger vehicles and trucks that weigh 6,001 pounds or more

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.

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Questions? Need help?

Call us: 360.902.3900 (TTY: Call 711)

If you're a transportation benefit district or want to set one up, email us: JFerris@dol.wa.gov.

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