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WA Rev Code § 47.52.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.010 - "Limited access facility" defined.

RCW 47.52.010 "Limited access facility" defined.For the purposes of this chapter, a "limited access facility" is defined as a highway or street especially designed or designated for through traffic, and over, from, or to which owners or occupants of abutting land, or other persons, have no right or easement, or only a limited right or easement of access, light, air, or view by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such limited access facility, or for any other reason to accomplish the purpose of a limited access facility. Such highways or streets may be parkways, from which vehicles forming part of an urban public transportation system, trucks, buses, or other commercial vehicles may be excluded; or they may be freeways open to use by all customary forms of street and highway traffic, including vehicles forming a part of an urban public transportation system.[ 1967 c 108 § 10; 1961 c 13 § 47.52.010. Prior: 1951 c 167 § 2; 1947 c 202 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 6402-60.]NOTES:Urban public transportation system defined: RCW 47.04.082.
WA Rev Code § 47.52.011 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.011 - "Existing highway" defined.

RCW 47.52.011 "Existing highway" defined.For the purposes of this chapter, the term "existing highway" shall include all highways, roads and streets duly established, constructed, and in use. It shall not include new highways, roads or streets, or relocated highways, roads or streets, or portions of existing highways, roads or streets which are relocated.[ 1961 c 13 § 47.52.011. Prior: 1951 c 167 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 47.52.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.020 - Powers of highway authorities—State facility, county road crossings.

RCW 47.52.020 Powers of highway authorities—State facility, county road crossings.The highway authorities of the state, counties, and incorporated cities and towns, acting alone or in cooperation with each other, or with any federal, state, or local agency, or any other state having authority to participate in the construction and maintenance of highways, may plan, designate, establish, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, construct, maintain, and provide limited access facilities for public use wherever the authority or authorities are of the opinion that traffic conditions, present or future, will justify the special facilities. However, upon county roads within counties, the state or county authorities are subject to the consent of the county legislative authority, except that where a state limited access facility crosses a county road the department may, without the consent of the county legislative authority, close off the county road so that it will not intersect such limited access facility.The department may, in constructing or relocating any state highway, cross any county road at grade without obtaining the consent of the county legislative authority, and in so doing may revise the alignment of the county road to the extent that the department finds necessary for reasons of traffic safety or practical engineering considerations.[ 1984 c 7 § 239; 1961 c 13 § 47.52.020. Prior: 1957 c 235 § 2; prior: 1953 c 30 § 1; 1951 c 167 § 4; 1947 c 202 § 2, part; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 6402-61, part.]
WA Rev Code § 47.52.026 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.026 - Rules—Control of vehicles entering—Ramp closure, metering, or restrictions—Notice.

RCW 47.52.026 Rules—Control of vehicles entering—Ramp closure, metering, or restrictions—Notice.(1) The department may adopt rules for the control of vehicles entering any state limited access highway as it deems necessary (a) for the efficient or safe flow of traffic traveling upon any part of the highway or connections with it or (b) to avoid exceeding federal, state, or regional air pollution standards either along the highway corridor or within an urban area served by the highway.(2) Rules adopted by the department pursuant to subsection (1) of this section may provide for the closure of highway ramps or the metering of vehicles entering highway ramps or the restriction of certain classes of vehicles entering highway ramps (including vehicles with less than a specified number of passengers), and any such restrictions may vary at different times as necessary to achieve the purposes mentioned in subsection (1) of this section.(3) Vehicle restrictions authorized by rules adopted pursuant to this section are effective when proper notice is given by any police officer, or by appropriate signals, signs, or other traffic control devices.[ 1984 c 7 § 240; 1974 ex.s. c 133 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 47.52.027 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.027 - Standards and rules for interstate and defense highways—Construction, maintenance, access.

RCW 47.52.027 Standards and rules for interstate and defense highways—Construction, maintenance, access.The secretary of transportation may adopt design standards, rules, and regulations relating to construction, maintenance, and control of access of the national system of interstate and defense highways within this state as it deems advisable to properly control access thereto, to preserve the traffic-carrying capacity of such highways, and to provide the maximum degree of safety to users thereof. In adopting such standards, rules, and regulations the secretary shall take into account the policies, rules, and regulations of the United States secretary of commerce and the federal highway administration relating to the construction, maintenance, and operation of the system of interstate and defense highways. The standards, rules, and regulations so adopted by the secretary shall constitute the public policy of this state and shall have the force and effect of law.[ 1977 ex.s. c 151 § 62; 1961 c 13 § 47.52.027. Prior: 1959 c 319 § 35. Formerly RCW 47.28.160.]NOTES:Nonmotorized traffic may be prohibited: RCW 46.61.160.
WA Rev Code § 47.52.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.040 - Design—Entrance and exit restricted—Closure of intersecting roads.

RCW 47.52.040 Design—Entrance and exit restricted—Closure of intersecting roads.The highway authorities of the state, counties and incorporated cities and towns may so design any limited access facility and so regulate, restrict, or prohibit access as to best serve the traffic for which such facility is intended; and the determination of design by such authority shall be conclusive and final. In this connection such highway authorities may divide and separate any limited access facility into separate roadways by the construction of raised curbings, central dividing sections, or other physical separations, or by designating such separate roadways by signs, markers, stripes, and the proper lane for such traffic by appropriate signs, markers, stripes and other devices. No person shall have any right of ingress or egress to, from, or across limited access facilities to or from abutting lands, except at designated points at which access may be permitted by the highway authorities upon such terms and conditions as may be specified from time to time: PROVIDED, That any intersecting streets, roads or highways, not made a part of such facility, shall be deemed closed at the right-of-way line by the designation and construction of said facility and without the consent of any other party or the necessity of any other legal proceeding for such closing, notwithstanding any laws to the contrary.[ 1961 c 13 § 47.52.040. Prior: 1955 c 75 § 1; 1947 c 202 § 3; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 6402-62.]
WA Rev Code § 47.52.041 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.041 - Closure of intersecting roads—Rights of abutters.

RCW 47.52.041 Closure of intersecting roads—Rights of abutters.No person, firm or corporation, private or municipal, shall have any claim against the state, city or county by reason of the closing of such streets, roads or highways as long as access still exists or is provided to such property abutting upon the closed streets, roads or highways. Circuity of travel shall not be a compensable item of damage.[ 1961 c 13 § 47.52.041. Prior: 1955 c 75 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 47.52.042 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.042 - Closure of intersecting roads—Other provisions not affected.

RCW 47.52.042 Closure of intersecting roads—Other provisions not affected.RCW 47.52.040 and 47.52.041 shall not be construed to affect provisions for establishment, notice, hearing and court review of any decision establishing a limited access facility on an existing highway pursuant to chapter 47.52 RCW.[ 1961 c 13 § 47.52.042. Prior: 1955 c 75 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 47.52.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.050 - Acquisition of property.

RCW 47.52.050 Acquisition of property.(1) For the purpose of this chapter the highway authorities of the state, counties and incorporated cities and towns, respectively, or in cooperation one with the other, may acquire private or public property and property rights for limited access facilities and service roads, including rights of access, air, view and light, by gift, devise, purchase, or condemnation, in the same manner as such authorities are now or hereafter may be authorized by law to acquire property or property rights in connection with highways and streets within their respective jurisdictions. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section all property rights acquired under the provisions of this chapter shall be in fee simple. In the acquisition of property or property rights for any limited access facility or portion thereof, or for any service road in connection therewith, the state, county, incorporated city and town authority may, in its discretion, acquire an entire lot, block or tract of land, if by so doing the interest of the public will be best served, even though said entire lot, block or tract is not immediately needed for the limited access facility.(2) The highway authorities of the state, counties, and incorporated cities and towns may acquire by gift, devise, purchase, or condemnation a three dimensional air space corridor in fee simple over or below the surface of the ground, together with such other property in fee simple and other property rights as are needed for the construction and operation of a limited access highway facility, but only if the acquiring authority finds that the proposal will not:(a) impair traffic safety on the highway or interfere with the free flow of traffic; or(b) permit occupancy or use of the air space above or below the highway which is hazardous to the operation of the highway.[ 1971 ex.s. c 39 § 1; 1961 c 13 § 47.52.050. Prior: 1947 c 202 § 4; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 6402-63.]NOTES:Award of costs in air space corridor acquisitions: RCW 8.25.073.Right-of-way donations: Chapter 47.14 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 47.52.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.060 - Court process expedited.

RCW 47.52.060 Court process expedited.Court proceedings necessary to acquire property or property rights for purposes of this chapter shall take precedence over all other causes not involving the public interest in all courts to the end that the provision for limited access facilities may be expedited.[ 1961 c 13 § 47.52.060. Prior: 1947 c 202 § 5; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 6402-64.]
WA Rev Code § 47.52.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.070 - Establishment of facility—Grade separation—Service roads.

RCW 47.52.070 Establishment of facility—Grade separation—Service roads.The designation or establishment of a limited access facility shall, by the authority making the designation or establishment, be entered upon the records or minutes of such authority in the customary manner for the keeping of such records or minutes. The state, counties and incorporated cities and towns may provide for the elimination of intersections at grade of limited access facilities with existing state or county roads, and with city or town streets, by grade separation or service road, or by closing off such roads and streets at the right-of-way boundary line of such limited access facility; and after the establishment of any such facility, no highway or street which is not part of said facility, shall intersect the same at grade. No city or town street, county road, or state highway, or any other public or private way, shall be opened into or connect with any such limited access facility without the consent and previous approval of the highway authority of the state, county, incorporated city or town having jurisdiction over such limited access facility. Such consent and approval shall be given only if the public interest shall be served thereby.[ 1961 c 13 § 47.52.070. Prior: 1951 c 167 § 10; 1947 c 202 § 6; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 6402-65.]
WA Rev Code § 47.52.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.080 - Abutter's right of access protected—Compensation.

RCW 47.52.080 Abutter's right of access protected—Compensation.No existing public highway, road, or street shall be constructed as a limited access facility except upon the waiver, purchase, or condemnation of the abutting owner's right of access thereto as herein provided. In cases involving existing highways, if the abutting property is used for business at the time the notice is given as provided in RCW 47.52.133, the owner of such property shall be entitled to compensation for the loss of adequate ingress to or egress from such property as business property in its existing condition at the time of the notice provided in RCW 47.52.133 as for the taking or damaging of property for public use.[ 1983 c 3 § 127; 1961 c 13 § 47.52.080. Prior: 1955 c 54 § 2; 1951 c 167 § 11; 1947 c 202 § 7; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 6402-66.]
WA Rev Code § 47.52.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.100 - Existing roads and streets as service roads.

RCW 47.52.100 Existing roads and streets as service roads.In connection with the development of any limited access facility the state, county or incorporated city or town highway authorities are authorized to plan, designate, establish, use, regulate, alter, improve, construct, maintain and vacate local service roads and streets, or to designate as local service roads and streets any existing road or street, and to exercise jurisdiction over service roads in the same manner as is authorized for limited access facilities under the terms of this chapter. If, in their opinion such local service roads and streets are necessary or desirable, such local service roads or streets shall be separated from the limited access facility by such means or devices designated as necessary or desirable by the proper authority.[ 1961 c 13 § 47.52.100. Prior: 1947 c 202 § 9; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 6402-68.]
WA Rev Code § 47.52.105 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.105 - Acquisition and construction to preserve limited access or reduce required compensation.

RCW 47.52.105 Acquisition and construction to preserve limited access or reduce required compensation.Whenever, in the opinion of the department, frontage or service roads in connection with limited access facilities are not feasible either from an engineering or economic standpoint, the department may acquire private or public property by purchase or condemnation and construct any road, street, or highway connecting to or leading into any other road, street, or highway, when by so doing, it will preserve a limited access facility or reduce compensation required to be paid to an owner by reason of reduction in or loss of access. The department shall provide by agreement with a majority of the legislative authority of the county or city concerned as to location, future maintenance, and control of any road, street, or highway to be so constructed. The road, street, or highway need not be made a part of the state highway system or connected thereto, but may upon completion by the state be turned over to the county or city for location, maintenance, and control pursuant to the agreement as part of the system of county roads or city streets.[ 1984 c 7 § 242; 1967 c 117 § 1; 1961 c 13 § 47.52.105. Prior: 1955 c 63 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 47.52.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.110 - Marking of facility with signs.

RCW 47.52.110 Marking of facility with signs.After the opening of any new and additional limited access highway facility, or after the designation and establishment of any existing street or highway, as included the particular highways and streets or those portions thereof designated and established, shall be physically marked and indicated as follows: By the erection and maintenance of such signs as in the opinion of the respective authorities may be deemed proper, indicating to drivers of vehicles that they are entering a limited access area and that they are leaving a limited access area.[ 1961 c 13 § 47.52.110. Prior: 1947 c 202 § 10; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 6402-69.]
WA Rev Code § 47.52.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.120 - Violations specified—Exceptions—Penalty.

RCW 47.52.120 Violations specified—Exceptions—Penalty.(1) After the opening of any limited access highway facility, it shall be unlawful for any person to: (a) Drive a vehicle over, upon, or across any curb, central dividing section, or other separation or dividing line on limited access facilities; (b) make a left turn or semicircular or U-turn except through an opening provided for that purpose in the dividing curb section, separation, or line; (c) drive any vehicle except in the proper lane provided for that purpose and in the proper direction and to the right of the central dividing curb, separation section, or line; (d) drive any vehicle into the limited access facility from a local service road except through an opening provided for that purpose in the dividing curb, dividing section, or dividing line which separates such service road from the limited access facility proper; (e) stop or park any vehicle or equipment within the right-of-way of such facility, including the shoulders thereof, except at points specially provided therefor, and to make only such use of such specially provided stopping or parking points as is permitted by the designation thereof: PROVIDED, That this subsection (1)(e) shall not apply to authorized emergency vehicles, law enforcement vehicles, assistance vans, or to vehicles stopped for emergency causes or equipment failures; (f) travel to or from such facility at any point other than a point designated by the establishing authority as an approach to the facility or to use an approach to such facility for any use in excess of that specified by the establishing authority.(2) For the purposes of this section, an assistance van is a vehicle rendering aid free of charge to vehicles with equipment or fuel problems. The state patrol shall establish by rule additional standards and operating procedures, as needed, for assistance vans.(3) Any person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon arrest and conviction therefor shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the city or county jail for not less than five days nor more than ninety days, or by both fine and imprisonment.(4) Nothing contained in this section prevents the highway authority from proceeding to enforce the prohibitions or limitations of access to such facilities by injunction or as otherwise provided by law.[ 2003 c 53 § 262; 1987 c 330 § 748; 1985 c 149 § 1; 1961 c 13 § 47.52.120. Prior: 1959 c 167 § 1; 1947 c 202 § 11; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 6402-70.]NOTES:Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.Construction—Application of rules—Severability—1987 c 330: See notes following RCW 28B.12.050.
WA Rev Code § 47.52.121 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.121 - Prior determinations validated.

RCW 47.52.121 Prior determinations validated.Any determinations of an authority establishing a limited access facility subsequent to March 19, 1947, and prior to March 16, 1951, in connection with new highways, roads or streets, or relocated highways, roads or streets, or portions of existing highways, roads or streets which are relocated, and all acquirements of property or access rights in connection therewith are hereby validated, ratified, approved and confirmed, notwithstanding any lack of power (other than constitutional) of such authority, and notwithstanding any defects or irregularities (other than constitutional) in such proceedings.[ 1961 c 13 § 47.52.121. Prior: 1951 c 167 § 12.]
WA Rev Code § 47.52.131 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.52 - Limited Access Facilities.|47.52.131 - Consideration of local conditions—Report to local authorities—Conferences—Proposed plan.

RCW 47.52.131 Consideration of local conditions—Report to local authorities—Conferences—Proposed plan.When the department is planning a limited access facility through a county or an incorporated city or town, the department or its staff, before any hearing, shall give careful consideration to available data as to the county or city's comprehensive plan, land use pattern, present and potential traffic volume of county roads and city streets crossing the proposed facility, origin and destination traffic surveys, existing utilities, the physical appearance the facility will present, and other pertinent surveys and, except as provided in RCW 47.52.134, shall submit to the county and city officials for study a report showing how these factors have been taken into account and how the proposed plan for a limited access facility will serve public convenience and necessity, together with the locations and access and egress plans, and over and under crossings that are under consideration. This report shall show the proposed approximate right-of-way limits and profile of the facility with relation to the existing grade, and shall discuss in a general manner plans for landscaping treatment, fencing, and illumination, and shall include sketches of typical roadway sections for the roadway itself and any necessary structures such as viaducts or bridges, subways, or tunnels.Conferences shall be held on the merits of this state report and plans and any proposed modification or alternate proposal of the county, city, or town in order to attempt to reach an agreement between the department and the county or city officials. As a result of the conference, the proposed plan, together with any modifications, shall be prepared by the department and presented to the county or city for inspection and study.[ 1987 c 200 § 1; 1984 c 7 § 243; 1965 ex.s. c 75 § 1.]