CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6237

 

 

 

 

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate February 5, 1996

  YEAS 47   NAYS 0

 

 

 

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House February 26, 1996

  YEAS 95   NAYS 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6237 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

                            Secretary

 

 

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                FILED

          

 

 

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington


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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6237

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             Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

 

By Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Prince, Owen, Wood and Prentice)

 

Read first time 01/26/96.

 

 



    AN ACT Relating to vehicles using wireless communications and computer systems; and amending RCW 46.37.480.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 46.37.480 and 1991 c 95 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) No person shall drive any motor vehicle equipped with any television viewer, screen, or other means of visually receiving a television broadcast which is located in the motor vehicle at any point forward of the back of the driver's seat, or which is visible to the driver while operating the motor vehicle.  This subsection does not apply to law enforcement vehicles communicating with mobile computer networks.

    (2) No person shall operate any motor vehicle on a public highway while wearing any headset or earphones connected to any electronic device capable of receiving a radio broadcast or playing a sound recording for the purpose of transmitting a sound to the human auditory senses and which headset or earphones muffle or exclude other sounds.  This subsection does not apply to students and instructors participating in a Washington state motorcycle safety program.

    (3) This section does not apply to authorized emergency vehicles ((or to)), motorcyclists wearing a helmet with built-in headsets or earphones as approved by the Washington state patrol, or motorists using hands-free, wireless communications systems, as approved by the equipment section of the Washington state patrol.

 


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