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                                                      HOUSE BILL 1840

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representatives Orr, Padden, Brown and Mielke

Read first time 02/10/93.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.

Restricting the ringing of bells or sounding of whistles on locomotives.

          AN ACT Relating to railroads; and amending RCW 81.48.010.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  RCW 81.48.010 and 1961 c 14 s 81.48.010 are each amended to read as follows:

          Every engineer driving a locomotive on any railway who shall fail to ring the bell or sound the whistle upon such locomotive, or cause the same to be rung or sounded at least eighty rods from any place where such railway crosses a traveled road or street on the same level (except in cities or in counties that enact ordinances applying only to gated crossings located within urban areas), or to continue the ringing of such bell or sounding of such whistle until such locomotive shall have crossed such road or street, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

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