CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE
BILL 1561
Chapter 208, Laws of 1999
56th Legislature
1999 Regular Session
FARM MACHINERY--TIRES
EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/25/99
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Passed by the House March 8,
1999
Yeas 97 Nays 0
 CLYDE
BALLARD
Speaker of the House
of Representatives
 FRANK
CHOPP
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 14,
1999
Yeas 46 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 1561 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 - 3:49
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 1561
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Passed
Legislature - 1999 Regular Session
State
of Washington 56th Legislature 1999 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 01/28/1999. Referred to Committee on Transportation.
Allowing solid rubber tires on farm machinery.
AN
ACT Relating to tires on farm machinery; and amending RCW 46.37.420.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
46.37.420 and 1990 c 105 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
It is unlawful to operate a vehicle upon the public highways of this state
unless it is completely equipped with pneumatic rubber tires except vehicles
equipped with temporary-use spare tires that meet federal standards that are
installed and used in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions.
(2)
No tire on a vehicle moved on a highway may have on its periphery any block,
flange, cleat, or spike or any other protuberance of any material other than
rubber which projects beyond the tread of the traction surface of the tire,
except that it is permissible to use farm machinery equipped with pneumatic
tires or solid rubber tracks having protuberances that will not injure
the highway, and except also that it is permissible to use tire chains or metal
studs imbedded within the tire of reasonable proportions and of a type
conforming to rules adopted by the state patrol, upon any vehicle when required
for safety because of snow, ice, or other conditions tending to cause a vehicle
to skid. It is unlawful to use metal studs imbedded within the tire between
April 1st and November 1st. The state department of transportation may, from
time to time, determine additional periods in which the use of tires with metal
studs imbedded therein is lawful.
(3)
The state department of transportation and local authorities in their
respective jurisdictions may issue special permits authorizing the operation
upon a highway of traction engines or tractors having movable tracks with
transverse corrugations upon the periphery of the movable tracks or farm
tractors or other farm machinery, the operation of which upon a highway would
otherwise be prohibited under this section.
(4)
Tires with metal studs imbedded therein may be used between November 1st and
April 1st upon school buses and fire department vehicles, any law or regulation
to the contrary notwithstanding.
Passed the House March 8, 1999.
Passed the Senate April 14, 1999.
Approved by the Governor May
7, 1999.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State May 7, 1999.