CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 6219

Chapter 205, Laws of 2014

63rd Legislature
2014 Regular Session



COUNTIES--PRIMITIVE ROADS--LIABILITY



EFFECTIVE DATE: 06/12/14

Passed by the Senate February 14, 2014
  YEAS 48   NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 7, 2014
  YEAS 97   NAYS 0

FRANK CHOPP
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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 6219 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

HUNTER G. GOODMAN
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Secretary
Approved April 2, 2014, 4:12 p.m.








JAY INSLEE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
April 4, 2014







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 6219
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Passed Legislature - 2014 Regular Session
State of Washington63rd Legislature2014 Regular Session

By Senators Dansel, Sheldon, Hatfield, and Hobbs

Read first time 01/17/14.   Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.



     AN ACT Relating to actions for damage arising from vehicular traffic on a primitive road; and amending RCW 36.75.300.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 36.75.300 and 1985 c 369 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
     The legislative authority of each county may by resolution classify and designate portions of the county roads as primitive roads where the designated road portion:
     (1) Is not classified as part of the county primary road system, as provided for in RCW 36.86.070;
     (2) Has a gravel or earth driving surface; and
     (3) Has an average annual daily traffic of one hundred or fewer vehicles.
     Any road designated as a primitive road shall be marked with signs indicating that it is a primitive road, as provided in the manual of uniform traffic control devices, at all places where the primitive road portion begins or connects with a highway other than another primitive road. No design or signing or maintenance standards or requirements, other than the requirement that warning signs be placed as provided in this section, apply to primitive roads.
     The design of a primitive road, any discretionary maintenance, and the location, placing, or failing to place road signs, other than the requirement that warning signs be placed as provided in this section, shall not be considered in any action for damages brought against a county, or against a county employee or county employees, or both, arising from vehicular traffic on the primitive road.


         Passed by the Senate February 14, 2014.
         Passed by the House March 7, 2014.
         Approved by the Governor April 2, 2014.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 4, 2014.