CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 5050



63rd Legislature
2013 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate April 19, 2013
  YEAS 47   NAYS 0


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President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 9, 2013
  YEAS 92   NAYS 0


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Speaker of the House of Representatives


CERTIFICATE

I, Hunter G. Goodman, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5050 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.


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Secretary
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Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 5050
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AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

Passed Legislature - 2013 Regular Session
State of Washington63rd Legislature2013 Regular Session

By Senators Sheldon, King, Ericksen, and Litzow

Read first time 01/16/13.   Referred to Committee on Transportation.



     AN ACT Relating to the carrying of passengers in a vehicle attached to a flatbed tow truck; and amending RCW 46.61.625.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 46.61.625 and 1999 c 398 s 9 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) No person or persons shall occupy any trailer while it is being moved upon a public highway, except a person occupying a proper position for steering a trailer designed to be steered from a rear-end position.
     (2) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, no person or persons may occupy a vehicle while it is being towed by a tow truck as defined in RCW 46.55.010.
     (3)(a) A tow truck operator may allow passengers to ride in a vehicle that is carried on the deck of a flatbed tow truck only when the following conditions are met:
     (i) The number of people that need to be transported exceeds the seating capacity of the tow truck or a person needing to be transported has a disability that limits that person's ability to enter the tow truck;
     (ii) All passengers in the carried vehicle and in the tow truck comply with RCW 46.61.687 and 46.61.688;
     (iii) Any passenger under sixteen years of age is accompanied by an adult riding in the same vehicle; and
     (iv) There is a way for the passengers in the carried vehicle to immediately communicate, either verbally, audibly, or visually, with the tow truck operator in case of an emergency.
     (b) No passenger of such a carried vehicle may exit the carried vehicle, ride outside of the passenger compartment of the carried vehicle, or exhibit dangerous or distracting behaviors while in the carried vehicle.

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