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                       ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6353

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senator McCaslin)

Read first time 02/11/92.Restricting the ringing of bells or sounding of whistles on locomotives.

     AN ACT Relating to railroads; amending RCW 81.48.010; and adding a new section to chapter 81.48 RCW.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 81.48.010 and 1961 c 14 s 81.48.010 are each amended to read as follows:

     Every engineer driving a locomotive on any railway who shall fail to ring the bell or sound the whistle upon such locomotive, or cause the same to be rung or sounded at least eighty rods from any place where such railway crosses a traveled road or street on the same level (except in cities or in counties that enact ordinances applying only to gated crossings located within urban areas), or to continue the ringing of such bell or sounding of such whistle until such locomotive shall have crossed such road or street, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.