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SENATE
BILL 5507
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Passed
Legislature - 1997 Regular Session
State
of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 01/29/97. Referred to Committee on Transportation.
Allowing the holder of a juvenile agricultural driving
permit to participate in school traffic safety classes.
AN
ACT Relating to traffic safety education for juvenile agricultural drivers; and
amending RCW 46.20.070.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
46.20.070 and 1985 ex.s. c 1 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
Upon
receiving a written application on a form provided by the director for
permission for a person under the age of eighteen years to operate a motor
vehicle over and upon the public highways of this state in connection with farm
work, the director may issue a limited driving permit containing a photograph
to be known as a juvenile agricultural driving permit, such issuance to be
governed by the following procedure:
(1)
The application must be signed by the applicant and by the applicant's father,
mother, or legal guardian.
(2)
Upon receipt of the application, the director shall cause an examination of the
applicant to be made as by law provided for the issuance of a motor vehicle
driver's license.
(3)
The director shall cause an investigation to be made of the need for the
issuance of such operation by the applicant. The permit also authorizes the
holder to participate in the classroom portion of any traffic safety education
course authorized under RCW 28A.220.030 that is offered in the community in
which the holder is a resident.
Such
permit authorizes the holder to operate a motor vehicle over and upon the
public highways of this state within a restricted farming locality which shall
be described upon the face thereof.
A
permit issued under this section shall expire one year from date of issue,
except that upon reaching the age of eighteen years such person holding a
juvenile agricultural driving permit shall be required to make application for
a motor vehicle driver's license.
The
director shall charge a fee of three dollars for each such permit and renewal
thereof to be paid as by law provided for the payment of motor vehicle driver's
licenses and deposited to the credit of the highway safety fund.
The
director may transfer this permit from one farming locality to another, but
this does not constitute a renewal of the permit.
The
director may deny the issuance of a juvenile agricultural driving permit to any
person whom the director determines to be incapable of operating a motor
vehicle with safety to himself or herself and to persons and property.
The
director may suspend, revoke, or cancel the juvenile agricultural driving
permit of any person when in the director's sound discretion the director has
cause to believe such person has committed any offense for which mandatory
suspension or revocation of a motor vehicle driver's license is provided by
law.
The
director may suspend, cancel, or revoke a juvenile agricultural driving permit
when in the director's sound discretion the director is satisfied the
restricted character of the permit has been violated.
Passed the Senate March 12, 1997.
Passed the House April 9, 1997.
Approved by the Governor
April 19, 1997.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State April 19, 1997.
