CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1594

 

 

                   Chapter 191, Laws of 1997

 

 

 

 

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

 

 

GARBAGE AND RECYCLING TRUCKS--FRONT-END LENGTH LIMITS RELAXED

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/27/97

Passed by the House March 10, 1997

  Yeas 95   Nays 0

 

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate April 11, 1997

  Yeas 42   Nays 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1594  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

Approved April 24, 1997 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.    

                                FILED          

 

 

           April 24, 1997 - 4:14 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington


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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1594

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Transportation Policy & Budget (originally sponsored by Representatives Zellinsky, Scott and Sheldon)

 

Read first time 02/13/97.

  Relaxing front end length limits on garbage trucks.   


    AN ACT Relating to garbage and recycling trucks; and amending RCW 46.44.034.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 46.44.034 and 1991 c 143 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) The load, or any portion of any vehicle, operated alone upon the public highway of this state, or the load, or any portion of the front vehicle of a combination of vehicles, shall not extend more than three feet beyond the front wheels of such vehicle, or the front bumper, if equipped with front bumper.  This subsection does not apply to a front-loading garbage truck or recycling truck while on route and actually engaged in the collection of solid waste or recyclables at speeds of twenty miles per hour or less.

    (2) No vehicle shall be operated upon the public highways with any part of the permanent structure or load extending in excess of fifteen feet beyond the center of the last axle of such vehicle.  This subsection does not apply to "specialized equipment" designated under 49 U.S.C. (([Sec.])) Sec. 2311 that is operated on the interstate highway system, those designated portions of the federal-aid primary system, and routes constituting reasonable access from such highways to terminals and facilities for food, fuel, repairs, and rest.


    Passed the House March 10, 1997.

    Passed the Senate April 11, 1997.

Approved by the Governor April 24, 1997.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 24, 1997.