CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1262

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 11, 1991

  Yeas 97   Nays 0

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 11, 1991

  Yeas 46   Nays 0

President of the Senate

Approved

Governor of the State of Washington

CERTIFICATE

I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1262 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

Chief Clerk

                                     FILED         

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington  

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                                  HOUSE BILL 1262

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                             AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Representatives Zellinsky, Lisk, R. Meyers, Van Luven, Ferguson, Prentice, Chandler, Orr, Bowman, Prince, Day, Cooper, R. Fisher, Betrozoff, Cantwell, Forner, Paris, Wilson, P. Johnson, Fuhrman, Winsley, Hochstatter, Nealey, Wynne, D. Sommers, Broback, Wood, Morton, Horn, Mielke, Brough, Miller, Jacobsen and Silver.

Read first time January 25, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.

Lessening emergency service tow truck restrictions.

     AN ACT Relating to weight, height, and length exemptions for tow trucks operated by registered tow truck operators; and adding a new section to chapter 46.44 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 46.44 RCW to read as follows:

     The limitations of RCW 46.44.010, 46.44.020, 46.44.030, 46.44.034, 46.44.041, 46.44.042, 46.44.050, and 46.44.080 do not apply to the movement of a tow truck, as defined in RCW 46.55.010, if the tow truck is performing the initial tow truck service, as defined in RCW 46.55.010, regardless of the destination, for a vehicle disabled on the public streets and highways of this state:  PROVIDED, That an overweight permit has been obtained by the tow truck operator with such permit being available on a twenty-four hour basis by telephone.