CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

               SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5727

                        55th Legislature

                      1998 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate February 17, 1998   YEAS 47   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House March 3, 1998   YEAS 88   NAYS 9

CERTIFICATE I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5727 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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                SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5727

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             Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Wood, Haugen, Jacobsen, Hargrove, Finkbeiner, Deccio, Heavey, Goings, McAuliffe, Patterson, Prentice, Winsley, Kohl and Rasmussen)

Read first time 01/29/98.

Requiring backup alerts or crossview mirrors on delivery trucks. 

    AN ACT Relating to backup alert devices on delivery trucks; amending RCW 46.37.400; and providing an effective date.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 46.37.400 and 1977 ex.s. c 355 s 34 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) Every motor vehicle shall be equipped with a mirror mounted on the left side of the vehicle and so located to reflect to the driver a view of the highway for a distance of at least two hundred feet to the rear of such vehicle.

    (2) Every motor vehicle shall be equipped with an additional mirror mounted either inside the vehicle approximately in the center or outside the vehicle on the right side and so located as to reflect to the driver a view of the highway for a distance of at least two hundred feet to the rear of such vehicle.

    (3) Every truck registered or based in Washington that is equipped with a cube-style, walk-in cargo box up to eighteen feet long used in the commercial delivery of goods and services must be equipped with a rear crossview mirror or backup device to alert the driver that a person or object is behind the truck.

(4) All mirrors and backup devices required by this section shall be maintained in good condition.  Rear crossview mirrors and backup devices will be of a type approved by the Washington state patrol.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act takes effect September 30, 1998.

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