CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

HOUSE BILL 1358

Chapter 230, Laws of 2011

62nd Legislature
2011 Regular Session



MOTOR VEHICLES--COMBINATIONS



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/22/11

Passed by the House February 14, 2011
  Yeas 94   Nays 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate April 9, 2011
  Yeas 49   Nays 0


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 1358 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 3, 2011, 2:28 p.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington		 
FILED
May 4, 2011







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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HOUSE BILL 1358
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Passed Legislature - 2011 Regular Session
State of Washington62nd Legislature2011 Regular Session

By Representatives Klippert, Liias, and Sells; by request of Department of Transportation

Read first time 01/19/11.   Referred to Committee on Transportation.



     AN ACT Relating to combination of vehicles; and amending RCW 46.44.037.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 46.44.037 and 1991 c 143 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
     Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 46.44.036 and subject to such rules and regulations governing their operation as may be adopted by the state department of transportation, operation of the following combinations is lawful:
     (1) A combination consisting of a truck tractor, a semitrailer, and another semitrailer or a full trailer. In this combination a converter gear used to convert a semitrailer into a full trailer shall be considered to be a part of the full trailer and not a separate vehicle. A converter gear being pulled without load and not used to convert a semitrailer into a full trailer may be substituted in lieu of a full trailer or a semitrailer in any lawful combination;
     (2) ((A combination not exceeding seventy-five feet in overall length consisting of four trucks or truck tractors used in driveaway service where three of the vehicles are towed by the fourth in triple saddlemount position;
     (3))) A combination consisting of a truck tractor carrying a freight compartment no longer than eight feet, a semitrailer, and another semitrailer or full trailer that meets the legal length requirement for a truck and trailer combination set forth in RCW 46.44.030.


         Passed by the House February 14, 2011.
         Passed by the Senate April 9, 2011.
         Approved by the Governor May 3, 2011.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 4, 2011.