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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5277

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Senators Peterson, Patterson, Hansen and Conner

Read first time 1/22/87 and referred to Committee on Transportation.

AN ACT Relating to reflectorized license plates; and amending RCW 46.16.237.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 60, chapter 145, Laws of 1967 ex. sess. and RCW 46.16.237 are each amended to read as follows:

          All vehicle license number plates issued after January 1, 1968, or such earlier date as the director may prescribe with respect to plates issued in any county, shall be treated with fully reflectorized materials designed to increase the visibility and legibility of such plates at night.  In addition to all other fees prescribed by law, there shall be paid and collected for each vehicle license number plate treated with such materials, the sum of fifty cents and for each set of two plates, the sum of one dollar:  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, One plate is available only to those vehicles that by law require only one plate.  Such fees shall be deposited in the motor vehicle fund.