CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE
BILL 1321
Chapter 200, Laws of 1999
56th Legislature
1999 Regular Session
NONFUNCTIONING SIGNAL
LIGHTS--ALL-WAY STOPS
EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/25/99
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Passed by the House February 24,
1999
Yeas 88 Nays 10
 CLYDE
BALLARD
Speaker of the House
of Representatives
 FRANK
CHOPP
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 13,
1999
Yeas 49 Nays 0
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CERTIFICATE
We, Dean R. Foster and Timothy
A. Martin, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of
Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1321 as
passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set
forth.
 DEAN
R. FOSTER
Chief
Clerk
TIMOTHY
A. MARTIN
Chief
Clerk
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BRAD
OWEN
President
of the Senate
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Approved May 7, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes
below.
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FILED
May 7, 1999 - 3:39
p.m.
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GARY
LOCKE
Governor
of the State of Washington
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Secretary of
State
State of
Washington
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HOUSE
BILL 1321
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Passed
Legislature - 1999 Regular Session
State
of Washington 56th Legislature 1999 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 01/21/1999. Referred to Committee on Transportation.
Requiring stops at intersections with nonfunctioning
signal lights.
AN
ACT Relating to requiring stops at intersections with nonfunctioning signal
lights; and adding a new section to chapter 46.61 RCW.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 1. A
new section is added to chapter 46.61 RCW to read as follows:
Except
when directed to proceed by a flagger, police officer, or fire fighter, the
driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection controlled by a traffic control
signal that is temporarily without power on all approaches or is not displaying
any green, red, or yellow indication to the approach the vehicle is on, shall
consider the intersection to be an all-way stop. After stopping, the driver shall
yield the right of way in accordance with RCW 46.61.180(1) and 46.61.185.
Passed the House February 24, 1999.
Passed the Senate April 13, 1999.
Approved by the Governor May
7, 1999.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State May 7, 1999.