Local transportation benefit district fees

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.

Transportation benefit districts and fees

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

Transportation benefit district	Fee	Effective date (Tabs expiring on or after…)	Location code
Anacortes #1	$20	April 1, 2015	29-01
Bainbridge Island 206.780.8624	$20	August 1, 2013	18-04
Battle Ground 360.342.5000	$20	July 1, 2015	06-01
Black Diamond (blackdiamond.wa.us) 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 (covingtonwa.gov) 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
Edgewood 253.952.3299	$20	July 1, 2014	27-20
East Wenatchee 509.884.9515	$20	August 1, 2013	09-02
Eatonville 360.832.3361	$20	March 1, 2013	27-05
Electric City 509.633.1510	$20	May 1, 2013	13-02
Elmer City 509.633.2872	$20	August 1, 2016	24-04
Edmonds 425.771.0260	$20	September 1, 2009	31-04
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
Kalama 360.673.4561	$40	October 1, 2013	08-02
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
Moses Lake (cityofml.com) 509.764.3701	$20	October 1, 2017	13-09
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
Prosser 509.786.2332	$20 $25 (effective June 1, 2019)	November 1, 2009	03-03
Richland (www.ci.richland.wa.us) 509.942.7500	$20	January 1, 2018	03-04
Ridgefield 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	$80	June 1, 2015	17-26
Sedro-Woolley #1 360.855.1661	$20	July 1, 2015	29-08
Shoreline 206.801.2302	$40	February 1, 2010	17-37
Snoqualmie 425.888.1555, ext. 1135	$20	March 1, 2011	17-28
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	$20 $35 (effective April 1, 2019)	July 1, 2014	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

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.

Related laws

• RCW: 36.73: Transportation benefit districts
• RCW 82.80.140: Vehicle fee - Transportation benefit district - Exemptions

Questions? Need help?

• If you're a transportation benefit district or want to set one up, email us: DataContracts@dol.wa.gov.
• For consumer-related questions, email us: CustomerCare@dol.wa.gov