Drafter
Clerk 10/26/2011
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AN ORDINANCE relating to traffic safety in the agricultural production districts; amending Ordinance 5292, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 46.04.020 and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 46.04.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 5292, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 46.04.020 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
The following sections of the MTO are not adopted by reference and are expressly deleted: RCW 46.61.560, 46.90.250, 46.90.500 through 46.90.540, 46.90.560 and 46.90.565, and those portions of RCW 46.90.406 ((which)) that adopt by reference sections of ((RCW)) chapter 46.55 RCW.
SECTION 3. There is hereby added to K.C.C. chapter 46.04 a new section to read as follows:
A. Outside of incorporated cities and towns no person may stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the roadway.
B. Subsection A. of this section and RCW 46.61.570 and 46.61.575 do not apply to the driver of any vehicle that is disabled in such manner and to such extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving the vehicle in such position. The driver shall nonetheless arrange for the prompt removal of the vehicle as required by RCW 46.61.590.
C. Subsection A. of this section does not apply to the driver of a public transit vehicle who temporarily stops the vehicle upon the roadway for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers at a marked transit vehicle stop zone approved by the state department of transportation or a county upon highways under their respective jurisdictions. However, public transportation service providers, including private, nonprofit transportation providers regulated under chapter 81.66 RCW, may allow the driver of a transit vehicle to stop upon the roadway momentarily to receive or discharge passengers at an unmarked stop zone only under the following circumstances:
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