RCW 46.04.305
Motor homes. 

"Motor homes" means motor vehicles originally designed, reconstructed, or permanently altered to provide facilities for human habitation, which include lodging and cooking or sewage disposal, and is enclosed within a solid body shell with the vehicle, but excludes a camper or like unit constructed separately and affixed to a motor vehicle.

[1990 c 250 § 19; 1971 ex.s. c 231 § 3.]
Robert1982 Westflalia

 
      From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
 To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
 Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 1:08 PM
 Subject: titling and registering camper in Washington
   
I have run into something unexpected in moving my camper to Washington.  The clerk at the registration office asked me if my camper is a motor home.  I said "No," because it is not.  She agreed, saying that her computer registration program identified it, by its vin, as a passenger car.  But another lady, at a different booth, spoke up, saying that it is a motor home. The two disagreed, so they called someone else, saying that they can always rely on him for correct information. He said it was a passenger car.

OK, everything was cool.  But the other woman intervened again, asking me if the van had a bed.  It does.  She then asked if it had a sewage holding tank.  It does not.  She asked then if it has cooking facilities or a refrigerator.  It has both.  She declared it to be a motor home.  The first woman was non-plussed.  I told her that I would title and license the vehicle "later," and she said she thought that was a good idea, and that she would check further for me, and let me know what she found out.

It seems to me that if the registration program recognizes it as a passenger vehicle, and the departmental expert, consulted because he is the expert, agrees, then the second woman is just butting in, but what do I know.

So, fellow VW Campmobile owning Washingtonians, how are yor camper's titled and registered, as passenger vehicles or motor homes?

Thanks,David McNeely