BILL · 2005–06 SESSION

HB 1481: Failure to yield

Increasing penalties for failure to yield to emergency vehicles or police vehicles.

Summary

Declares that a person is guilty of failure to yield the right of way in the first degree if he or she negligently obstructs or impedes the passage of any authorized emergency vehicle making use of audible and visual signals meeting the requirements of RCW 46.37.190, or of a police vehicle properly and lawfully making use of an audible signal.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to the duty to yield to emergency and police vehicles;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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