Drafter
Clerk 10/26/2011
Title
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:
1. The driver stops the vehicle in a safe and practicable position;
2. The driver activates four-way flashing lights; and
3. The driver stops at a portion of the highway with an unobstructed view, for an adequate distance so as to not create a hazard, for other drivers.
D. Subsection A. of this section and RCW 46.61.570 and 46.61.575 do not apply to the driver of a solid waste collection company or recycling company vehicle who temporarily stops the vehicle as close as practical to the right edge of the right-hand shoulder of the roadway or right edge of the roadway if no shoulder exists for the purpose of and while actually engaged in the collection of solid waste or recyclables, or both, under chapters 81.77, 35.21 and 35A.21 RCW or by contract under RCW 36.58.040.
E. Subsection A. of this section and RCW 46.61.570 and 46.61.575 do not apply to the driver of a commercial farm vehicle who temporarily stops the vehicle upon the roadway within an agricultural production district for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading agricultural crops, livestock production and farmland products only under the following circumstances:
1. the driver stops the vehicle in a safe and practicable position;
2. the driver stops the vehicle for a period of less than one hour;
3. the driver stops the vehicle as far from the traveled way as practicable and at all times a minimum of twenty feet must remain clear and open for two-way traffic, which includes maintaining a minimum of twelve feet wide emergency vehicle clearance at all times, regardless of actions of others;
4. the driver activates flashing lights; and
5. the driver stops at a portion of the highway with an unobstructed view, for an adequate distance so as to not create a hazard, for other drivers.
F. If the minimum twenty-foot traveled way referenced in subsection E.3 of this section cannot be maintained, the operator must provide temporary one-lane, two-way traffic control compliant with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. All activities performed under subsection E. are the sole responsibility of the operator, who
shall assume liability for all injuries to persons or real or personal property, as the result of conducting temporarily stopping the vehicle upon the roadway.
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