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                         SENATE BILL 6752

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Senator Haugen

Read first time 02/04/98.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.

Providing for an additional certification exemption for municipal transportation services.

    AN ACT Relating to the certification exemption for municipal transit services; and amending RCW 81.68.015.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 81.68.015 and 1989 c 163 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    This chapter does not apply to corporations or persons, their lessees, trustees, receivers, or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever insofar as they own, control, operate, or manage taxicabs, hotel buses, school buses, motor propelled vehicles operated exclusively in transporting agricultural, horticultural, dairy, or other farm products from the point of production to the market, or any other carrier that does not come within the term "auto transportation company" as defined in RCW 81.68.010.

    This chapter does not apply to persons operating motor vehicles when operated wholly within the limits of incorporated cities or towns, and for a distance not exceeding three road miles beyond the corporate limits of the city or town in Washington in which the original starting point of the vehicle is located, and which operation either alone or in conjunction with another vehicle or vehicles is not a part of any journey beyond the three-mile limit.

This chapter does not apply to the services of any municipality, as defined in RCW 35.58.020, that provides point-to-point service between the same two cities as an auto transportation company certificated under this chapter, as long as the municipality's services are provided along a different route, provide for numerous intermediate passenger stops, and that the service provides connections between municipalities.  Services provided by a municipality meeting these conditions are not considered to compete with or infringe upon services provided by a carrier certificated under this chapter.

    This chapter does not apply to commuter ride sharing or ride sharing for ((the elderly and the handicapped)) persons with special transportation needs in accordance with RCW 46.74.010, so long as the ride-sharing operation does not compete with nor infringe upon comparable service actually being provided before the initiation of the ride-sharing operation by an existing auto transportation company certificated under this chapter.

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