| Passed by the House April 18, 2009 Yeas 95 FRANK CHOPP ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 9, 2009 Yeas 40 BRAD OWEN ________________________________________ President of the Senate | I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1448 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth. BARBARA BAKER ________________________________________ Chief Clerk | |
| Approved May 7, 2009, 2:03 p.m. CHRISTINE GREGOIRE ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | May 8, 2009 Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 61st Legislature | 2009 Regular Session |
Read first time 01/21/09. Referred to Committee on State Government & Tribal Affairs.
AN ACT Relating to speed limits on nonlimited access state highways within tribal reservation boundaries; 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:
(1) Tribal authorities, within their reservation boundaries, may
determine based on an engineering and traffic investigation that the
maximum speed permitted under RCW 46.61.400 or 46.61.405 is greater or
less than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist
upon a nonlimited access state highway or part of a nonlimited access
state highway. Then, the tribal authority may determine and declare
a reasonable and safe maximum limit thereon which:
(a) Decreases the limit at intersections;
(b) Increases the limit, not exceeding sixty miles per hour; or
(c) Decreases the limit, not lower than twenty miles per hour.
(2) Any alteration by tribal authorities of maximum limits on a
nonlimited access state highway is not effective until the alteration
has been approved by the secretary of transportation and appropriate
signs giving notice of the alteration have been posted. In the case of
an alteration by tribal authorities of maximum limits on a nonlimited
access state highway that is also part of a city or town street or
county road within tribal reservation boundaries, the alteration is not
effective until that alteration has also been approved by the
applicable local authority.