CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5041

                    Chapter 95, Laws of 1991

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

   MOTORCYCLISTS‑-USE OF STATE PATROL APPROVED AUDIO HEADSETS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/28/91

Passed by the Senate February 8, 1991

  Yeas 45   Nays 0

           ELLEN CRASWELL          

President of the Senate

Passed by the House April 15, 1991

  Yeas 95   Nays 0

              JOE KING             

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Approved May 9, 1991

           BOOTH GARDNER           

Governor of the State of Washington

CERTIFICATE

I, Gordon Golob, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5041 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

           GORDON A. GOLOB            Secretary

                                     FILED         

                  May 9, 1991 - 11:31 a.m.

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington

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                                 SENATE BILL 5041

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senators Sellar, Owen, Patterson, West, Vognild, Bauer and Thorsness.

Read first time January 17, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.Permitting motorcyclists to use Washington state patrol approved audio headsets and earphones.

     AN ACT Relating to the use of Washington state patrol approved audio headsets and earphones by motorcyclists; and amending RCW 46.37.480.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 46.37.480 and 1988 c 227 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) No person shall drive any motor vehicle equipped with any television viewer, screen, or other means of visually receiving a television broadcast which is located in the motor vehicle at any point forward of the back of the driver's seat, or which is visible to the driver while operating the motor vehicle.

     (2) No person shall operate any motor vehicle on a public highway while wearing any headset or earphones connected to any electronic device capable of receiving a radio broadcast or playing a sound recording for the purpose of transmitting a sound to the human auditory senses and which headset or earphones muffle or exclude other sounds.  This subsection does not apply to students and instructors participating in a Washington state motorcycle safety program.

     (3) This section does not apply to authorized emergency vehicles or to motorcyclists wearing a helmet with built-in headsets or earphones as approved by the Washington state patrol.

     Passed the Senate February 8, 1991.

     Passed the House April 15, 1991.

Approved by the Governor May 9, 1991.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 9, 1991.