Vehicle and Vessel - King County

flat-plate — Image courtesy Washington State Department of Licensing

Need to license your car, truck, or boat? Or renew expired tabs? King County partners with the State Department of Licensing to issue and renew vehicle and vessel licenses. King County offers in-person licensing service throughout the county, while the state offers many services online.

The exact amount of your vehicle title and registration fees depend on several factors:

Vehicle type
Vehicle weight
Where you live
License plate type

How Do I...

Note: All links on this page are external links to the Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL).

1. How to renew your tabs

- Renew your tabs

- Emissions testing

- Fees, taxes, and donations

2. Register your vehicle

- Moving? Get WA plates

- Transfer ownership into your name

- Off-road vehicles

- For military personnel

- Clean Car emission requirements

3. Change your name or address

- Change your address

- Change your name

4. Buying or selling a vehicle

- Report of a sale

- Transfer ownership into your name

- Tips for buying a vehicle

- Clean car emission requirements

5. Lost tabs, plates or titles

- Replace your vehicle tabs

- Replace our registration

- Replace your license plates

- Replace a title

6. License plates

- Get new license plates

- Replace your license plates

- Transfer plates to another vehicle

- Special plates

- For military personnel

- Off-road vehicles

- Moving? Get WA plates

7. Titles

- Transfer ownership into your name

- Replace a title

- Get a title if the lienholder is out of business

- Salvaged, abandoned, or contaminated vehicles

- Customs inspections

- Child support liens

8. Fees, taxes and donations

- Renewal and registration fee information

- Local transportation benefit district fees

9. For military personnel

- Nonresidents stationed in Washington

- WA residents stationed outside the state

- Temporary permits

- Tax exemptions

10. Disabled parking

- Who is eligible?

- Get or renew your disabled parking

- Using disabled parking

11. Commercial vehicles

- IRP (Prorate)

12. Fuel tax

- Fuel tax facts

- Fuel licenses

- Fuel tax refunds

- International Fuel Tax Agreements (IFTA)

- Prorate and fuel tax offices

13. Boats

- Register a boat

- Renew your boat registration

- Visiting Washington waters

- Report the sale of a boat

- Change your address

- Change your name

- Get a carbon monoxide warning sticker

- Resources for boaters

14. Vehicle licensing offices

- Office locations and hours

- Quick Title offices

- Prorate and fuel tax offices

	Vehicle & Vessel Licensing: (206) 477-4000
	Taxi, For-Hire & TNC Licensing: (206) 263-1982
	Email us: licensing@kingcounty.gov
	Hours of operation: M-F, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm