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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5721

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Senators Vognild, McDonald, Warnke and Anderson

Read first time 2/6/87 and referred to Committee on Transportation.

AN ACT Relating to motor vehicle equipment; and amending RCW 46.37.480.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 46.37.480, chapter 12, Laws of 1961 as amended by section 40, chapter 355, Laws of 1977 ex. sess. and RCW 46.37.480 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) No person shall drive any motor vehicle equipped with any television viewer, screen, or other means of visually receiving a television broadcast which is located in the motor vehicle at any point forward of the back of the driver's seat, or which is visible to the driver while operating the motor vehicle.

(2) No person shall operate any motor vehicle on a public highway while wearing any headset or earphones connected to any electronic device capable of receiving a radio broadcast or playing a sound recording for the purpose of transmitting a sound to the human auditory senses and which headset or earphones muffle or exclude other sounds.

(3) This section does not apply to authorized emergency vehicles.