Registrations and filings required for businesses - Department of Licensing

To allow the purchase of non-taxed aircraft fuel for resale. This license includes both aviation gasoline and jet fuel.

To allow an organization dedicated to advancing the sport of amateur mixed martial arts to oversee amateur mixed martial arts events where an admission fee is charged and where the promoter, officials, and participants are licensed in Washington State.

To allow a facility that offers training in one or more of the mixed martial arts to hold amateur mixed martial arts exhibitions where an admission fee is charged.

To allow an appraisal management company to contract with Washington appraisers for appraisal services in Washington State.

To allow a business to manage, arrange, and sponsor the sale of goods and/or real estate at auction.

To allow a person to call bids at auction and allows a sole proprietor business to operate as an auction company whose sales do not exceed $25,000.

To authorize a business to operate a cemetery.

To allow bail bond agencies to operate in Washington state.

To apprehend criminal defendants for whom bail bonds have been posted.

To allow the operation of body art, body piercing, permanent cosmetics, and tattoo in Washington State. Conventions or events in Washington State must have an event license and meet the same requirements as shops and mobile units.

To allow a business that offers contracts for the use of a camping site for more than 30 days within a privately-owned camping resort.

To allow cemeteries to pre-sell a limited number of opening/closing, setting fees, liners, vaults, burial receptacles, markers, completion dates or markers, vases, cremation services, urns, undeveloped niches, crypts, lots or any other undelivered cemetery goods or services under certain circumstances.

To allow cemeteries to pre-sell opening/closing, setting fees, liners, vaults, burial receptacles, markers, completion dates or markers, vases, cremation services, urns, undeveloped niches, crypts, lots or any other undelivered cemetery goods or services.

To allow any business to solicit, collect, or attempt to collect debts on behalf of a third party (client). Or, to allow any business to purchase delinquent or charged off debts for collection purposes, whether it collects the debts itself, or hires a third party to collect the debts. Any individual to collect a debt, using any name other than their own when contacting a debtor, to collect a debt owned to the individual.

To allow any business that makes unsolicited commercial telephone calls and sells goods or products during the call or that offers free prizes by mail and invite a telephone response. Does not include businesses soliciting for educational, political, or charitable purposes; any business for which less than 60% of the prior year's sales were made by telephone solicitations; any business that sells businesses that either resell the product or use if for manufacturing.

To allow salon/shop, personal service, or mobile unit to provide cosmetology, barbering, manicuring, hair design, esthetics, or master esthetics that are performed for a fee.

To allow a business to offer instruction in cosmetology, barbering, esthetics, manicuring, hair design, master esthetics, or instructor-trainee to students in Washington state.

To authorize the business to provide driving instruction for a fee in Washington State.

To allow organizations to use dyed special fuel (diesel or biodiesel) when operating licensed motor vehicles on public roadways. Dyed diesel users are government agencies or organizations approved by DOL, such as: Public school districts, Nonprofit educational organizations, and Government agencies.

To allow a business that helps people get employment where the job seeker pays for the service to operate in Washington State. This includes business that provide verbal or written lists of available employment positions.

To allow any for-profit business that only provides written or verbal lists of employers, and doesn't include specified positions to operate in Washington state.

To authorize the business to dispose of cremated remains under RCW 68.50.160.

To allow the purchase and storage of motor fuel for sale, the tax deferred purchase of motor fuel for sale, import or export, or the blending of motor taxed fuel with another liquid that is not taxed to produce an end product that can be used to propel a motor vehicle. Applies to motor fuel suppliers, distributors, or blenders who blend motor fuel for sale.

To authorize funeral establishments licensed in states bordering Washington, with similar laws, to remove human remains from WA under certain circumstances.

To authorize the business to provide care, shelter, transportation, embalming, preparation and arrangements for the disposition of human remains.

Dealers selling heating oil. “Heating Oil” is defined as any petroleum product used for space heating in oil-fired furnaces, heaters, and boilers, including stove oil, diesel fuel, or kerosene

To allow a business to transports or sells wrecked vehicles to wreckers or motor vehicle salvage processors in Washington state.

To allow interstate truckers to travel in member jurisdictions and file one fuel use tax return to their base jurisdiction. Applies to trucking companies operating vehicles or combination vehicles over 26,000 gvw, or with 3 or more axles regardless of weight, and operating in 2 or more IFTA jurisdictions.

Provides single point of registration for commercial vehicles operating in more than one state or province.

To allow a business to transport passengers on a prearranged contract basis to a specific destination in these vehicle types in Washington state.

To allow a business to buy or sell new or used non-motorized mobile homes, manufactured homes, park trailers, or travel trailers wholesale or retail in Washington State.

To allow a manufactured home and travel trailer dealer to sell vehicles at more than one location.

To allow a business to sell motorcycles, neighborhood electric vehicles, off-road vehicles, utility, boat, tent, and horse trailers wholesale or retail in Washington State.

To allow a miscellaneous vehicle dealer to sell miscellaneous vehicles at more than one location.

To allow a business or auctioneer to buy or sell at retail of any new/used cars, trucks, and motor homes in Washington State.

To allow a motor vehicle dealer to sell vehicles at more than one location

To allow a motor vehicle dealer to sell vehicles at more than one location.

To allow a business with a hydraulic baler and shears or shredder to recycle salvage from wrecked titled or registered vehicles

To allow a wrecker business to open a branch office in Washington state.

To allow a business that buys or sells wrecked titled or registered motor vehicles for the purpose of dismantling them and second-hand motor vehicle parts in Washington State.

To allow a business to sell any motorized vehicles (other than snowmobiles or watercraft) intended for use on trails or cross-country for retail in Washington State.

Allows a registered performing rights society or music licensing agency to license the use of and/or collect compensation for the performance of music.

To authorize funeral establishments to sell prearrangement funeral service contracts.

To allow a business to provide investigation, escort, or bodyguard services and performs property loss prevention activities in Washington state.

To allow a business to provide security guard services on contract in Washington State.

To allow the promoting of professional boxing, wrestling, or martial arts events; amateur mixed martial arts events overseen by licensed sanctioning organization or DOL; and closed circuit telecast events in Washington State.

To allow a business conducting real estate brokerage services to open a branch office in Washington State.

To allow any approved school to offer a pre- or post-licensing, CORE, Continuing Education, or Secondary Provider real estate course in Washington State.

To allow a business conducting real estate brokerage services to use more than one assumed names in Washington State.

To allow a business conducting real estate brokerage services to operate in Washington State.

To allow a business to operate a real estate school.

To authorize the business to operate a reduction facility.

To allow a business to offer and provide architectural services in Washington state.

To allow any registered tow truck operator business to operate additional vehicle storage/impound areas located away from the main business location in Washington State.

To allow a business to transport, impound, or store unauthorized vehicles and dispose of abandoned vehicles in Washington State.

To register tow trucks used by Registered tow truck companies.

To allow a business to buy or receive non-vehicle scrap metal and to maintain a shredder or a hydraulic baler and shears to process scrap metal at a fixed location in Washington State. This license doesn't allow handling scrap metal from titled or registered vehicles.

To allow a business to buy or receive non-vehicle scrap metal to sell it to another scrap metal business and have a fixed location in Washington State. This license doesn't allow handling scrap metal from titled or registered vehicles.

To allow a business to buy or receive non-vehicle scrap metal to sell to processors or recycles and don't have a fixed business location in Washington State. Vehicles used to conduct business must have scrap metal business license plates. This license doesn't allow handling scrap metal from titled or registered vehicles.

To allow an in or out of state businesses to sell, or advertises to sell, travel services or travel-related benefits to Washington State consumers.

To allow a business to sell motorized snowmobiles for recreational use.

Allows a facility that offers training in theatrical wrestling, where 80 percent of the participants are amateurs, to hold wrestling shows for training purposes only at the facility location and a limited number of shows at an off-site location where an admission fee is charged.

To allow a business to offer a timeshare or the right to occupy a unit in 3 or more separate periods over at least 3 years.

To allow a business to manufacture or assemble new vehicles or remanufacture used vehicles for transfer to Washington dealerships for resale.

To allow a business to transport motor vehicles that aren't owned by you or your company over any roads in Washington state.

To allow a business or an individual to transport people for a fee in a for hire vehicle, such as a taxi, cabulance, and any other vehicle used for transporting passengers for payment.

To allow a business to sell watercraft unless you sell human-powered watercraft that is under 16 feet in length, unable to be powered by a motor or the wind and not designed for use on commonly-used navigable waters.

To allow a business to carry, or advertises to carry, for-hire passengers on whitewater sections of Washington rivers.