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EdSane and Skeeter: Seattle, Bellevue, Burien (and likely other cities) all have form affidavits, usually titled something like “declaration of non-responsibility.” However, neither state law nor the municipal code require the registered owner to use those forms or to provide information about who was in control of the car. The affidavit can be in any form, so long as it includes the language from the statute. An owner could probably also just ignore those spaces where the city asks that the owner identify the “driver.”
This doesn’t have anything to do with whether people are “all cool with blowing through a school zone.” It is not immoral to not pay a fine for a traffic infraction when the law does not require it. The law requires the registered owner to pay a fine, or else to state under oath that he or she did not have custody and control of the car.