CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5367

                        54th Legislature

                      1995 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate March 7, 1995   YEAS 49   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House April 5, 1995   YEAS 96   NAYS 1

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5367 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Secretary

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

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5367

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             Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Smith and Roach)

Read first time 02/22/95.

Clarifying penalties for failure to obey an officer.

    AN ACT Relating to the penalty for failing to obey an officer; amending RCW 46.61.015 and 46.61.020; and prescribing penalties.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 46.61.015 and 1975 c 62 s 17 are each amended to read as follows:

    No person shall wilfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any duly authorized flagman or any police officer or fire fighter invested by law with authority to direct, control, or regulate traffic.

A violation of this section is a misdemeanor.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 46.61.020 and 1989 c 353 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:

    It is unlawful for any person while operating or in charge of any vehicle to refuse when requested by a police officer to give his name and address and the name and address of the owner of such vehicle, or for such person to give a false name and address, and it is likewise unlawful for any such person to refuse or neglect to stop when signaled to stop by any police officer or to refuse upon demand of such police officer to produce his certificate of license registration of such vehicle, his insurance identification card, or his vehicle driver's license or to refuse to permit such officer to take any such license, card, or certificate for the purpose of examination thereof or to refuse to permit the examination of any equipment of such vehicle or the weighing of such vehicle or to refuse or neglect to produce the certificate of license registration of such vehicle, insurance card, or his vehicle driver's license when requested by any court.  Any police officer shall on request produce evidence of his authorization as such.

A violation of this section is a misdemeanor.

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