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                                  HOUSE BILL 2518

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State of Washington              54th Legislature             1996 Regular Session

By Representatives Skinner, Blanton, Radcliff, Hankins, Delvin, Dickerson, Mitchell, Morris, Silver and Chandler

Read first time 01/12/96.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.

Doubling the fine for speeding in school or playground zones.

     AN ACT Relating to penalties for speed infractions in school or playground zones; amending RCW 46.61.440; and declaring an emergency.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 46.61.440 and 1975 c 62 s 34 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Subject to RCW 46.61.400(1), and except in those instances where a lower maximum lawful speed is provided by this chapter or otherwise, it shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to operate the same at a speed in excess of twenty miles per hour when operating any vehicle upon a highway either inside or outside an incorporated city or town when passing any marked school or playground crosswalk when such marked crosswalk is fully posted with standard school speed limit signs or standard playground speed limit signs.  The speed zone at the crosswalk shall extend three hundred feet in either direction from the marked crosswalk.

(2) A person found to have committed any infraction relating to speed restrictions within a school or playground speed zone shall be assessed a monetary penalty equal to twice the penalty assessed under RCW 46.63.110.  This penalty may not be waived, reduced, or suspended.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately.

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