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ENGROSSED
SENATE BILL 5534
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AS
AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
Passed
Legislature - 1993 Regular Session
State
of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993
Regular Session
By
Read
first time 02/02/93. Referred to Committee on Transportation.
Authorizing terminal safety audits of private carriers.
AN ACT Relating to terminal safety audits of
private carriers; and adding a new section to chapter 81.80 RCW.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A
new section is added to chapter 81.80 RCW to read as follows:
(1)(a) The commission has the authority to
conduct terminal safety audits of private carriers as defined in RCW
81.80.010(6). Only those private carriers operating vehicles with a gross vehicle
weight rating or gross combination weight rating of 26,001 or more pounds, or
those vehicles used in the transportation of hazardous materials in a quantity
requiring placarding are subject to the commission's terminal audits.
(b) For purposes of this section, only those
private carriers that have terminal operations in the state of Washington are
subject to commission jurisdiction.
(2)(a) Those motor vehicles normally owned and
operated by farmers in the transportation of their own farm, orchard, or dairy
products, including livestock and plant or animal wastes from point of
production to market, or in transporting farm machinery or farm supplies to or
from a farm owned by the farmer are exempt from this section, but only if the
vehicle is not used to transport hazardous materials of a type or quantity that
require the vehicle to be placarded or operated within one hundred fifty air
miles of the farmer's farm.
(b) Those motor vehicles that are owned and
operated by the United States government, Washington state, or any county,
city, or municipality are exempt from this section.
(3) Private carriers operating terminals in the
state of Washington and having motor vehicles with a gross weight rating or
gross combination weight rating of 26,001 pounds shall register with the
commission. The commission shall establish, by rule, a fee not to exceed fifty
dollars for an application filed by a private motor carrier who has not filed a
currently effective application for registration. The commission shall establish,
by rule, an annual regulatory fee not to exceed ten dollars per vehicle.
