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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1645

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1986 Regular Session

By Representatives Nutley, May, Leonard, Winsley, Hine, Rayburn and Barrett

Read first time 1/21/86 and referred to Committee on Transportation.

AN ACT Relating to stop signs; and amending RCW 46.61.435.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 46.48.046, chapter 12, Laws of 1961 as amended by section 33, chapter 62, Laws of 1975 and RCW 46.61.435 are each amended to read as follows:

          The governing body or authority of any such city or town or political subdivision shall place and maintain upon each and every highway intersecting a highway where an increased speed is permitted, as provided in this chapter, appropriate stop or yield signs, sufficient to be read at any time by any person upon approaching and entering the highway upon which such increased speed is permitted and such city street or such portion thereof as is subject to the increased speed shall be an arterial highway.  At multiway stop intersections a supplementary plate indicating the number of approach routes shall be mounted immediately below the stop sign.