| Passed by the Senate April 19, 2013 YEAS 47 BRAD OWEN ________________________________________ President of the Senate Passed by the House April 9, 2013 YEAS 92 FRANK CHOPP ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives | 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. HUNTER G. GOODMAN ________________________________________ Secretary | |
| Approved May 7, 2013, 2:18 p.m. JAY INSLEE ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | May 7, 2013 Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 63rd Legislature | 2013 Regular Session |
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.