CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                   ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1271

 

 

 

 

 

                        53rd Legislature

                      1993 Regular Session

Passed by the House April 19, 1993

  Yeas 95   Nays 0

 

 

 

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate April 13, 1993

  Yeas 43   Nays 1

               CERTIFICATE

 

I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1271 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

President of the Senate

                               Chief Clerk

 

 

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                     FILED

          

 

 

Governor of the State of Washington

                        Secretary of State

                       State of Washington


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                                             ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1271

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                                                           AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

 

                                                       Passed Legislature - 1993 Regular Session

 

State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

 

By Representatives R. Fisher, Schmidt, R. Meyers, Brown, Jones, Horn and Wood; by request of Department of Transportation

 

Read first time 01/20/93.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.

 

Prescribing allowed vehicle lengths.


          AN ACT Relating to lawful vehicle lengths; and amending RCW 46.44.030.

 

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

 

        Sec. 1.  RCW 46.44.030 and 1991 c 113 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

          It is unlawful for any person to operate upon the public highways of this state any vehicle having an overall length, with or without load, in excess of forty feet.  This restriction does not apply to (1) a municipal transit vehicle, (2) auto stage, private carrier bus or school bus with an overall length not to exceed forty-six feet, or (((2))) (3) an articulated auto stage with an overall length not to exceed sixty-one feet.

          It is unlawful for any person to operate on the highways of this state any combination of vehicles that contains a vehicle in excess of forty-eight feet, with or without load.

          It is unlawful for any person to operate upon the public highways of this state any combination consisting of a tractor and semitrailer that has a semitrailer length in excess of forty-eight feet or a combination consisting of a tractor and two trailers in which the combined length of the trailers exceeds sixty-one feet, with or without load.

          It is unlawful for any person to operate on the highways of this state any combination consisting of a truck and trailer with an overall length, with or without load, in excess of seventy-five feet.  However, a combination of vehicles transporting automobiles or boats may have a front overhang of three feet and a rear overhang of four feet beyond this allowed length.

          These length limitations do not apply to vehicles transporting poles, pipe, machinery, or other objects of a structural nature that cannot be dismembered and operated by a public utility when required for emergency repair of public service facilities or properties, but in respect to night transportation every such vehicle and load thereon shall be equipped with a sufficient number of clearance lamps on both sides and marker lamps upon the extreme ends of any projecting load to clearly mark the dimensions of the load.

          The length limitations described in this section are exclusive of safety and energy conservation devices, such as mud flaps and splash and spray suppressant devices, refrigeration units or air compressors, and other devices that the department determines to be necessary for safe and efficient operation of commercial vehicles.  No device excluded under this paragraph from the limitations of this section may have, by its design or use, the capability to carry cargo.

 


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