CERTIFICATION
OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE
SENATE BILL 5367
Chapter
50, Laws of 1995
54th
Legislature
1995
Regular Session
Failure
to obey an officer‑-Penalties
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 7/23/95
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Passed by the Senate March 7, 1995
YEAS 49 NAYS 0
JOEL PRITCHARD
President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 5, 1995
YEAS 96 NAYS 1
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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.
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CLYDE BALLARD
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
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MARTY BROWN
Secretary
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Approved April 17, 1995 Place
Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
April 17, 1995 - 3:50 p.m.
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MIKE LOWRY
Governor of the State of
Washington
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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
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.
Passed
the Senate March 7, 1995.
Passed
the House April 5, 1995.
Approved by the Governor April 17, 1995.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 17, 1995.