CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

HOUSE BILL 1448

Chapter 383, Laws of 2009

61st Legislature
2009 Regular Session



NONLIMITED ACCESS HIGHWAYS--SPEED LIMITS--TRIBAL AUTHORITY



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/26/09

Passed by the House April 18, 2009
  Yeas 95   Nays 2

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate April 9, 2009
  Yeas 40   Nays 5


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
 
CERTIFICATE

I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1448 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


BARBARA BAKER
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Chief Clerk
Approved May 7, 2009, 2:03 p.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
May 8, 2009







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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HOUSE BILL 1448
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AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

Passed Legislature - 2009 Regular Session
State of Washington61st Legislature2009 Regular Session

By Representatives Hurst, Roach, Simpson, McCoy, Sullivan, Hunt, Goodman, Appleton, Ormsby, and Nelson

Read first time 01/21/09.   Referred to Committee on State Government & Tribal Affairs.



     AN ACT Relating to speed limits on nonlimited access state highways within tribal reservation boundaries; 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:
     (1) Tribal authorities, within their reservation boundaries, may determine based on an engineering and traffic investigation that the maximum speed permitted under RCW 46.61.400 or 46.61.405 is greater or less than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist upon a nonlimited access state highway or part of a nonlimited access state highway. Then, the tribal authority may determine and declare a reasonable and safe maximum limit thereon which:
     (a) Decreases the limit at intersections;
     (b) Increases the limit, not exceeding sixty miles per hour; or
     (c) Decreases the limit, not lower than twenty miles per hour.
     (2) Any alteration by tribal authorities of maximum limits on a nonlimited access state highway is not effective until the alteration has been approved by the secretary of transportation and appropriate signs giving notice of the alteration have been posted. In the case of an alteration by tribal authorities of maximum limits on a nonlimited access state highway that is also part of a city or town street or county road within tribal reservation boundaries, the alteration is not effective until that alteration has also been approved by the applicable local authority.


         Passed by the House April 18, 2009.
         Passed by the Senate April 9, 2009.
         Approved by the Governor May 7, 2009.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 8, 2009.