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ENGROSSED
HOUSE BILL 1271
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AS
AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed
Legislature - 1993 Regular Session
State of Washington 53rd
Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 01/20/93. Referred to Committee on Transportation.
Prescribing allowed vehicle lengths.
AN ACT Relating to lawful vehicle lengths; and
amending RCW 46.44.030.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1.
RCW 46.44.030 and 1991 c 113 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
It is unlawful for any person to operate upon
the public highways of this state any vehicle having an overall length, with or
without load, in excess of forty feet. This restriction does not apply to (1)
a municipal transit vehicle, (2) auto stage, private carrier bus or school
bus with an overall length not to exceed forty-six feet, or (((2))) (3)
an articulated auto stage with an overall length not to exceed sixty-one feet.
It is unlawful for any person to operate on the
highways of this state any combination of vehicles that contains a vehicle in
excess of forty-eight feet, with or without load.
It is unlawful for any person to operate upon
the public highways of this state any combination consisting of a tractor and
semitrailer that has a semitrailer length in excess of forty-eight feet or a
combination consisting of a tractor and two trailers in which the combined
length of the trailers exceeds sixty-one feet, with or without load.
It is unlawful for any person to operate on the
highways of this state any combination consisting of a truck and trailer with
an overall length, with or without load, in excess of seventy-five feet.
However, a combination of vehicles transporting automobiles or boats may have a
front overhang of three feet and a rear overhang of four feet beyond this
allowed length.
These length limitations do not apply to
vehicles transporting poles, pipe, machinery, or other objects of a structural
nature that cannot be dismembered and operated by a public utility when
required for emergency repair of public service facilities or properties, but
in respect to night transportation every such vehicle and load thereon shall be
equipped with a sufficient number of clearance lamps on both sides and marker
lamps upon the extreme ends of any projecting load to clearly mark the
dimensions of the load.
The length limitations described in this
section are exclusive of safety and energy conservation devices, such as mud
flaps and splash and spray suppressant devices, refrigeration units or air
compressors, and other devices that the department determines to be necessary
for safe and efficient operation of commercial vehicles. No device excluded
under this paragraph from the limitations of this section may have, by its
design or use, the capability to carry cargo.
