2629-S AAS 3/3/94 S5687.1

SHB 2629 - S AMD - 000290

By Senators Vognild and Nelson

                                                    ADOPTED 3/3/94

    On page 5, after line 15, insert the following:

    "Sec. 3.  RCW 46.63.030 and 1987 c 66 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) A law enforcement officer has the authority to issue a notice of traffic infraction:

    (a) When the infraction is committed in the officer's presence;

    (b) When the officer is acting upon the request of a law enforcement officer in whose presence the traffic infraction was committed; or

    (c) If an officer investigating at the scene of a motor vehicle accident has reasonable cause to believe that the driver of a motor vehicle involved in the accident has committed a traffic infraction.

    (2) A court may issue a notice of traffic infraction upon receipt of a written statement of the officer that there is reasonable cause to believe that an infraction was committed.

    (3) If any motor vehicle without a driver is found parked, standing, or stopped in violation of this title or an equivalent administrative regulation or local law, ordinance, regulation, or resolution, the officer finding the vehicle shall take its registration number and may take any other information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its user, and shall conspicuously affix to the vehicle a notice of traffic infraction.

(4) In the case of failure to redeem an abandoned vehicle under RCW 46.55.120 an officer shall send a notice of infraction by certified mail to the last known address of the registered owner of the vehicle."

SHB 2629 - S AMD

By Senators Vognild and Nelson

                                                    ADOPTED 3/3/94

    In line 1 of the title, after "46.55.010" strike "and 46.55.240" and insert ", 46.55.240, and 46.63.030."

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