WSR 23-08-052
PERMANENT RULES
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[Filed March 31, 2023, 1:48 p.m., effective May 1, 2023]
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: Previously adopted WAC regarding the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices contained minor errors. Correcting these errors will result in accurate language for the intended rules.
Citation of Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 468-95-085, 468-95-120, 468-95-131, and 468-95-280.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 47.36.030.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 22-19-002 on September 7, 2022.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at the Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, Amended 4, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 4, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: March 29, 2023.
Sam Wilson, Director
Business Support Services
OTS-4071.1
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 11-23-101, filed 11/18/11, effective 12/19/11)
WAC 468-95-085Two-way left turn only signs (R3-9a, R3-9b).
Pursuant to RCW 46.61.290(3), amend Paragraph 01 to Option and Paragraph ((03))02 Support in MUTCD Section 2B.24 with the following:
Option:
Two-way left turn only (R9-3a or R9-3b) signs (see Figure 2B-6) may be used in conjunction with the required pavement markings where a nonreversible lane is reserved for the exclusive use of left-turning vehicles in either direction, or turning into the roadway, and is not used for passing, overtaking, or through travel.
Support:
Upon a roadway where a center lane has been provided by distinctive pavement markings for the use of vehicles turning left from either direction, no vehicles may turn left from any other lane. No vehicle may travel further than three hundred feet within the lane. A signal, either electric or manual, for indicating a left turn movement, shall be made at least one hundred feet before the actual left turn movement is made.
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 11-23-101, filed 11/18/11, effective 12/19/11)
WAC 468-95-120Traffic signal signs.
Pursuant to RCW 46.61.055, amend the ((second)) Standard of MUTCD Section 2B.54 to read:
The NO TURN ON RED sign (R10-11a, R10-11b) shall be used to prohibit any right turn on red; or a left turn on red from a one-way or two-way street into a one-way street carrying traffic in the direction of the left turn.
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 11-23-101, filed 11/18/11, effective 12/19/11)
WAC 468-95-131Bridge ices before road sign.
Delete paragraph 05 from Section 2C.32 and sign W8-13 from the MUTCD.
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 11-23-101, filed 11/18/11, effective 12/19/11)
WAC 468-95-280Operation of lane-use control signals.
Pursuant to RCW 46.61.072, in MUTCD Section 4M.04, amend the first sentence of ((the first)) paragraph ((after item G in the first Standard))03 to read:
A moving condition in one direction shall be terminated either by the immediate display of a red x signal indication or by a yellow x signal indication followed by a red x signal indication or a flashing red x indication followed by a red x indication.