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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1578

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By Representatives Zellinsky, Walk, Meyers, Baugher, Ebersole, Ballard, McLean, Miller, Sayan, B. Williams, Schmidt, Sanders, Vekich, Silver and Lewis

Read first time 1/20/88 and referred to Committee on Transportation.

AN ACT Relating to vehicles over forty years old; and amending RCW 46.37.500.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 46.37.500, chapter 12, Laws of 1961 as amended by section 41, chapter 355, Laws of 1977 ex. sess. and RCW 46.37.500 are each amended to read as follows:

          ((No person shall)) (1) Except as authorized under subsection (2) of this section, no person may operate any motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer that is not equipped with fenders, covers, flaps, or splash aprons adequate for minimizing the spray or splash of water or mud from the roadway to the rear of the vehicle.  All such devices shall be as wide as the tires behind which they are mounted and extend downward at least to the center of the axle.

(2) A motor vehicle that is not less than forty years old and is owned and operated primarily as a collector's item need not be equipped with fenders when the vehicle is used and driven during fair weather on well-maintained, hard-surfaced roads.