SB 5141 -
By Committee on Transportation
ADOPTED 03/05/2014
Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:
"NEW SECTION. Sec. 1 A new section is added to chapter 46.61 RCW
to read as follows:
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the operator
of a street legal motorcycle approaching an intersection, including a
left turn intersection, that is controlled by a triggered traffic
control signal using a vehicle detection device that is inoperative due
to the size of the street legal motorcycle shall come to a full and
complete stop at the intersection. If the traffic control signal,
including the left turn signal, as appropriate, fails to begin a change
in signal phase after ninety seconds, the operator may, after
exercising due care, proceed directly through the intersection or
proceed to turn left, as appropriate. It is not a defense to a
violation of RCW 46.61.050 that the driver of a motorcycle proceeded
under the belief that a traffic control signal used a vehicle detection
device or was inoperative due to the size of the motorcycle when the
signal did not use a vehicle detection device or that any such device
was not in fact inoperative due to the size of the motorcycle."
Correct the title.
EFFECT: Provides that an operator of a motorcycle may proceed through an intersection controlled by a traffic control signal that uses a vehicle detection device if that signal fails to begin a change in signal phase after ninety seconds, instead of requiring the signal to fail to operate after one cycle of the traffic signal.