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RCW 46.37.215
Hazard warning lamps.
(1) Any vehicle may be equipped with lamps for the purpose of warning other operators of
other vehicles of the presence of a vehicular traffic hazard requiring the exercise of unusual
care in approaching, overtaking, or passing.
(2) After June 1, 1978, every motor home, bus, truck, truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer, or
pole trailer eighty inches or more in overall width or thirty feet or more in overall length shall be
equipped with lamps meeting the requirements of this section.
(3) Vehicular hazard warning signal lamps used to display such warning to the front shall
be mounted at the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, and shall display
simultaneously flashing amber light: PROVIDED, That on any vehicle manufactured prior to
January 1, 1969, the lamps showing to the front may display simultaneously flashing white or
amber lights, or any shade of color between white and amber. The lamps used to display such
warning to the rear shall be mounted at the same level and as widely spaced laterally as
practicable, and shall show simultaneously flashing amber or red lights, or any shade of color
between amber and red. These warning lights shall be visible from a distance of not less than
five hundred feet in normal sunlight.
[1977 ex. s. c 355 § 19.1
NOTES:
Severability -1977 ex.s. c 355: See note following RCW 46.37.010.
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RCW 46.37.300: Standards for lights on snow -removal or highway maintenance and servi... Page 1 of 1
RCW 46.37.300
Standards for lights on snow -removal or highway maintenance and service
equipment.
(1) The state patrol shall adopt standards and specifications applicable to head lamps,
clearance lamps, identification and other lamps on snow -removal and other highway
maintenance and service equipment when operated on the highways of this state in lieu of the
lamps otherwise required on motor vehicles by this chapter. Such standards and
specifications may permit the use of flashing lights for purposes of identification on snow -
removal and other highway maintenance and service equipment when in service upon the
highways. The standards and specifications for lamps referred to in this section shall correlate
with and, so far as possible, conform with those approved by the American association of
state highway officials.
(2) It shall be unlawful to operate any snow -removal and other highway maintenance and
service equipment on any highway unless the lamps thereon comply with and are lighted
when and as required by the standards and specifications adopted as provided in this section.
[1987 c 330 § 715; 1963 c 154 § 20, 1961 c 12 § 46.37.300. Prior: 1955 c 269 § 30.]
NOTES:
Construction—Application of rules—Severability-1987 c 330: See notes following
RCW 2813.12.050.
Effective date -1963 c 154: See note following RCW 46.37.010.
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