H-0244.1

HOUSE BILL 1532

ByRepresentatives Doglio and Duerr

AN ACT Relating to requiring the use of a turn signal to indicate that a vehicle is about to exit a circular intersection; and amending RCW 46.61.305.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 46.61.305 and 1975 c 62 s 30 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) No person shall turn a vehicle or move right or left upon a roadway unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety nor without giving an appropriate signal in the manner hereinafter provided.

(2)(a) A signal of intention to turn or move right or left when required shall be given continuously during not less than the last ((one hundred))100 feet traveled by the vehicle before turning, except as specified in (b) of this subsection.

(b) A signal of intention to exit a circular intersection shall be given continuously upon approaching the position to be used to exit the circular intersection.

(3) No person shall stop or suddenly decrease the speed of a vehicle without first giving an appropriate signal in the manner provided herein to the driver of any vehicle immediately to the rear when there is opportunity to give such signal.

(4) The signals provided for in RCW 46.61.310 ((subsection)) (2), shall not be flashed on one side only on a disabled vehicle, flashed as a courtesy or "do pass" signal to operators of other vehicles approaching from the rear, nor be flashed on one side only of a parked vehicle except as may be necessary for compliance with this section.

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