CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5358

                   Chapter 275, Laws of 1999

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

MOTORCYCLE HANDLEBAR HEIGHT

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the Senate April 20, 1999   YEAS 47   NAYS 0                BRAD OWEN President of the Senate Passed by the House April 6, 1999   YEAS 91   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 5358 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives	TONY M. COOK                             Secretary
FRANK CHOPP Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Approved May 12, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                        May 12, 1999 - 5:18 p.m.

GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                  State of Washington

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                         SENATE BILL 5358

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                      AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Senators Benton, Snyder, Shin, Patterson, Costa, Rasmussen, Finkbeiner, Swecker, T. Sheldon, Sellar, Haugen, Hochstatter, Zarelli, Jacobsen, Heavey, Gardner, Prentice, Rossi, Horn and Stevens

Read first time 01/20/1999.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.

Eliminating motorcycle handlebar height restrictions. 

    AN ACT Relating to eliminating motorcycle handlebar height restrictions; and amending RCW 46.61.611.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 46.61.611 and 1967 c 232 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:

    No person shall operate on a public highway a motorcycle in which the handlebars or grips are more than ((fifteen)) thirty inches higher than the seat or saddle for the operator.

    Passed the Senate April 20, 1999.

    Passed the House April 6, 1999.

Approved by the Governor May 12, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 12, 1999.