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HOUSE BILL NO. 271
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C 149 L 85
State of Washington 49th Legislature 1985 Regular Session
By Representatives Patrick, Walk, Betrozoff, Wineberry, Hankins, Valle, Van Luven, Gallagher, J. Williams, Prince, Baugher, Thomas, Kremen, Schmidt, McMullen, Bond, Zellinsky, Sutherland, S. Wilson, Winsley, May, van Dyke, Silver, Fisher and Day
Read first time 1/28/85 and referred to Committee on Transportation.
AN ACT Relating to assistance vans; and amending RCW 47.52.120.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 47.52.120, chapter 13, Laws of 1961 and RCW 47.52.120 are each amended to read as follows:
After the
opening of any limited access highway facility, it shall be unlawful for any
person (1) to drive a vehicle over, upon, or across any curb, central dividing
section, or other separation or dividing line on limited access
facilities; (2) to make a left turn or semicircular or U-turn except through an
opening provided for that purpose in the dividing curb section, separation,
or line; (3) to drive any vehicle except in the proper lane provided for that
purpose and in the proper direction and to the right of the central dividing
curb, separation section, or line; (4) to drive any vehicle into the limited
access facility from a local service road except through an opening provided
for that purpose in the dividing curb, ((or)) dividing section,
or dividing line which separates such service road from the limited access
facility proper; (5) to stop or park any vehicle or equipment within the right
of way of such facility, including the shoulders thereof, except at points
specially provided therefor, and to make only such use of such specially
provided stopping or parking points as is permitted by the designation
thereof: PROVIDED, That this subsection shall not apply to authorized
emergency vehicles, law enforcement vehicles, assistance vans, or to
vehicles stopped for emergency causes or equipment failures; (6) to travel to
or from such facility at any point other than a point designated by the establishing
authority as an approach to ((said)) the facility or to use an
approach to such facility for any use in excess of that specified by the
establishing authority. For the purposes of this section, an assistance van
is a vehicle rendering aid free of charge to vehicles with equipment or fuel
problems. The commission on equipment shall establish by rule additional
standards and operating procedures, as needed, for assistance vans.
Any person
who violates any of the provisions of this section ((shall be)) is
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon arrest and conviction therefor shall be
punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred
dollars, or by imprisonment in the city or county jail for not less than five
days nor more than ninety days, or by both fine and imprisonment. Nothing
contained ((herein shall)) in this section prevents the
highway authority from proceeding to enforce the prohibitions or limitations of
access to such facilities by injunction or as otherwise provided by law.