Effective July 1 2024, House Bill 1964 authorizes the Department of Transportation to apply to subpoena corporate fuel tax proration records through Superior Court. Per statute, the entire court file of any proceeding must be sealed and is not open to public inspection by any person except upon order of the court as authorized by law, which resulted in the development of a new case and event/docket code to accompany the following business processes:
- Cases will be filed under the Civil (S2) case type PFT- Prorate Fuel Tax.
- PFT cases are configured to default to sealed case security and auto-generate the newly established event/docket code CPIS- Closed to Public Inspection per Statute. This event code is intended for use in PFT cases only. CPIS is a non-docketable, administrative event code without a corresponding index (sub) number.
- Per RCW 36.18.020, PFT cases are subject to a $240.00 Civil filing Fee using Transaction Code 1100.
- In accordance with RCWs 36.18.012 and 36.18.050, it is also appropriate to asses a $20.00 Writ fee for subpoenas granted under this cause of action.