5141 AMH TR H4410.1

SB 5141  - H COMM AMD
     By Committee on Transportation

ADOPTED 03/05/2014

     Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:

"NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 46.61 RCW to read as follows:
     Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the operator of a street legal motorcycle approaching an intersection, including a left turn intersection, that is controlled by a triggered traffic control signal using a vehicle detection device that is inoperative due to the size of the street legal motorcycle shall come to a full and complete stop at the intersection. If the traffic control signal, including the left turn signal, as appropriate, fails to begin a change in signal phase after ninety seconds, the operator may, after exercising due care, proceed directly through the intersection or proceed to turn left, as appropriate. It is not a defense to a violation of RCW 46.61.050 that the driver of a motorcycle proceeded under the belief that a traffic control signal used a vehicle detection device or was inoperative due to the size of the motorcycle when the signal did not use a vehicle detection device or that any such device was not in fact inoperative due to the size of the motorcycle."

     Correct the title.

EFFECT:  Provides that an operator of a motorcycle may proceed through an intersection controlled by a traffic control signal that uses a vehicle detection device if that signal fails to begin a change in signal phase after ninety seconds, instead of requiring the signal to fail to operate after one cycle of the traffic signal.

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