Revised Code of Washington

Wash. Rev. Code § 9.24.040 (2026)

Corporation doing business without license

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Every corporation, whether domestic or foreign, and every person representing or pretending to represent such corporation as an officer, agent or employee thereof, who shall transact, solicit or advertise for any business in this state, before such corporation shall have obtained from the officer lawfully authorized to issue the same, a certificate that such corporation is authorized to transact business in this state, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

[ 1909 c 249 s 389; RRS s 2641. Formerly RCW 9.45.130.]

Notes:

Application to mutual savings banks: RCW 32.04.120.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1973–2021 · leading case: Tagliani v. Colwell, 517 P.2d 207 (Wash. Ct. App. 1973).

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Tagliani v. Colwell, 517 P.2d 207 (Wash. Ct. App. 1973). · cites it 2× “) Criminal sanctions are imposed under RCW 9.24.040: Every corporation, whether domestic or foreign, and every person representing or pretending to represent such corporation as an officer, agent or employee thereof, who shall transact, solicit or advertise for any business in…”

Phil Larson, V. Jarritos Inc. (Wash. Ct. App. 2021). “He asserts that because the Respondents’ failures to obtain authorization to transact business in the state constitute gross misdemeanors under RCW 9.24.040, “it would be unconscionable to allow either Respondent to claim that service was untimely when they failed to follow…”

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