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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2932

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By House Committee on Transportation Policy & Budget (originally sponsored by Representatives Zellinsky, O'Brien, Talcott and Wensman)

Read first time 02/02/98.  Referred to Committee on .

Requiring stops at intersections with nonfunctioning signal lights.

    AN ACT Relating to requiring stops at intersections with nonfunctioning signal lights; and adding a new section to chapter 46.61 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 46.61 RCW to read as follows:

    Except when directed to proceed by a flagger, police officer, or fire fighter, the driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection controlled with a traffic control signal that is not displaying a green, red, or yellow indication to that approaching vehicle, shall stop and yield the right of way in accordance with RCW 46.61.180(1) and 46.61.185.

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