CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

HOUSE BILL 1321

56th Legislature

1999 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 24, 1999

Yeas 88 Nays 10

Speaker of the House of Representatives

Speaker of the House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 13, 1999

Yeas 49 Nays 0

CERTIFICATE

We, Dean R. Foster and Timothy A. Martin, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1321 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

Chief Clerk

President of the Senate

Approved

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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HOUSE BILL 1321

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Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

State of Washington 56th Legislature 1999 Regular Session

By Representatives Ericksen, Fisher, K. Schmidt, Mitchell, Rockefeller, Carrell and McDonald; by request of Department of Transportation and Washington State Patrol

Read first time 01/21/1999. Referred to Committee on Transportation.

AN ACT Relating to requiring stops at intersections with nonfunctioning signal lights; and adding a new section to chapter 46.61 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 46.61 RCW to read as follows:

Except when directed to proceed by a flagger, police officer, or fire fighter, the driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection controlled by a traffic control signal that is temporarily without power on all approaches or is not displaying any green, red, or yellow indication to the approach the vehicle is on, shall consider the intersection to be an all-way stop. After stopping, the driver shall yield the right of way in accordance with RCW 46.61.180(1) and 46.61.185.