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Wash. Rev. Code § 46.90.005 (2026)

Purpose

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The purpose of this chapter is to encourage highway safety and uniform traffic laws by authorizing the department of licensing to adopt a comprehensive compilation of sound, uniform traffic laws to serve as a guide which local authorities may adopt by reference or any part thereof, including all future amendments or additions thereto. Any local authority which adopts that body of rules by reference may at any time exclude any section or sections of those rules that it does not desire to include in its local traffic ordinance. The rules are not intended to deny any local authority its legislative power, but rather to enhance safe and efficient movement of traffic throughout the state by having current, uniform traffic laws available.
[ 1993 c 400 s 1; 1975 1st ex.s. c 54 s 1.]

Notes:

Effective dates—1993 c 400: "(1) Sections 3 through 5 of this act are necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately [May 15, 1993].
(2) Sections 1 and 2 of this act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1993.
(3) Section 6 of this act takes effect July 1, 1994." [ 1993 c 400 s 7.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases, 1981–2019 · leading case: State v. Brown, 454 P.3d 870 (Wash. 2019).
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State v. Brown, 454 P.3d 870 (Wash. 2019). “2d 574 (1999)(citing RCW 46.90.005); see also EDWARD C. Fisher, Vehicle Traffic Law 41 (Robert L.”
Jenkins v. Bellingham Mun. Court, 627 P.2d 1316 (Wash. 1981). “RCW 46.90.005. *577 The state laws relating to reckless driving, driving while intoxicated, and negligent homicide were not set forth verbatim in the statute but most of them were incorporated by reference to their section numbers.”
Pudmaroff v. Allen, 977 P.2d 574 (Wash. 1999). “, RCW 46.90.005 and WAC 308-330-005 (both authorizing DOL to adopt a compilation of uniform traffic laws to "encourage highway safety" and "enhance safe and efficient movement of traffic").”
Pudmaroff v. Allen, 138 Wash. 2d 55 (Wash. 1999). “005 and WAC 308-330-005 (both authorizing the Department of Licensing to adopt a compilation of uniform traffic laws to “encourage highway safety” and “enhance safe and efficient movement of traffic”). 5 Equally absurd would be practical application of *66 Allen’s proposed…”
Pudmaroff v. Allen, 951 P.2d 335 (Wash. Ct. App. 1998). “See RCW 46.90.005; Laws of 1993, ch. 400. The analogous DOL regulation is identical to the former statute.”
Davis v. Bellevue Dist. Court, 696 P.2d 25 (Wash. Ct. App. 1985). · cites it 2× “Though the method of adoption used by the Council was indirect, the procedure is authorized by the Legislature in RCW 46.90.005 which provides in part that: " [a]ny local authority which adopts this chapter by reference may at any time exclude any section or sections from this…”
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