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WA Rev Code § 47.32.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.32 - Obstructions on Right-of-Way.|47.32.130 - Dangerous objects and structures as nuisances—Logs—Abatement—Removal.

RCW 47.32.130 Dangerous objects and structures as nuisances—Logs—Abatement—Removal.(1) Whenever there exists upon the right-of-way of any state highway or off the right-of-way thereof in sufficiently close proximity thereto, any structure, device, or natural or artificial thing that threatens or endangers the state highway or portion thereof, or that tends to endanger persons traveling thereon, or obstructs or tends to obstruct or constitutes a hazard to vehicles or persons traveling thereon, the structure, device, or natural or artificial thing is declared to be a public nuisance, and the department is empowered to take such action as may be necessary to effect its abatement. Any such structure, device, or natural or artificial thing considered by the department to be immediately or eminently dangerous to travel upon a state highway may be forthwith removed, and the removal in no event constitutes a breach of the peace or trespass.(2) Logs dumped on any state highway roadway or in any state highway drainage ditch due to equipment failure or for any other reason shall be removed immediately. Logs remaining within the state highway right-of-way for a period of thirty days shall be confiscated and removed or disposed of as directed by the department.[ 1984 c 7 § 184; 1961 c 13 § 47.32.130. Prior: 1947 c 206 § 3; 1937 c 53 § 80; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 6400-80.]NOTES:Obstructing highway, public nuisance: RCW 9.66.010.Placing dangerous substances or devices on highway: RCW 9.66.050, 46.61.645, 70A.200.060.
WA Rev Code § 47.32.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.32 - Obstructions on Right-of-Way.|47.32.140 - Railroad grade crossings, obstructions—Hearing.

RCW 47.32.140 Railroad grade crossings, obstructions—Hearing.Each railroad company shall keep its right-of-way clear of all brush and timber in the vicinity of a railroad grade crossing with a state highway for a distance of one hundred feet from the crossing in such manner as to permit a person upon the highway to obtain an unobstructed view in both directions of an approaching train or other on-track equipment. The department shall cause brush and timber to be cleared from the right-of-way of a state highway in the proximity of a railroad grade crossing for a distance of one hundred feet from the crossing in such manner as to permit a person upon the highway to obtain an unobstructed view in both directions of an approaching train or other on-track equipment. It is unlawful to erect or maintain a sign, signboard, or billboard, except official highway signs and traffic devices and railroad warning or operating signs, outside the corporate limits of any city or town within a distance of one hundred feet from the point of intersection of the highway and railroad grade crossing unless, after thirty days notice to the Washington utilities and transportation commission and the railroad operating the crossing, the department determines that it does not obscure the sight distance of a person operating a vehicle or train approaching the grade crossing.When a person who has erected or who maintains such a sign, signboard, or billboard or when a railroad company permits such brush or timber in the vicinity of a railroad grade crossing with a state highway or permits the surface of a grade crossing to become inconvenient or dangerous for passage and who has the duty to maintain it, fails, neglects, or refuses to remove or cause to be removed such brush, timber, sign, signboard, or billboard, or maintain the surface of the crossing, the utilities and transportation commission upon complaint of the department or upon complaint of any party interested, or upon its own motion, shall enter upon a hearing in the manner now provided for hearings with respect to railroad-highway grade crossings, and make and enforce proper orders for the removal of the brush, timber, sign, signboard or billboard, or maintenance of the crossing. However, nothing in this section prevents the posting or maintaining of any legal notice or sign, signal, or traffic device required or permitted to be posted or maintained, or the placing and maintaining thereon of highway or road signs or traffic devices giving directions or distances for the information of the public when the signs are approved by the department. The department shall inspect highway grade crossings and make complaint of the violation of any provisions of this section.[ 2017 c 87 § 6; 1983 c 19 § 2; 1961 c 13 § 47.32.140. Prior: 1955 c 310 § 7; 1937 c 53 § 81; RRS § 6400-81; prior: 1923 c 129 §§ 1-6; RRS §§ 10510-1—10510-6.]NOTES:Railroad grade crossings, obstructions: RCW 36.86.100.
WA Rev Code § 47.32.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.32 - Obstructions on Right-of-Way.|47.32.150 - Approach roads, other appurtenances—Permit.

RCW 47.32.150 Approach roads, other appurtenances—Permit.No person, firm, or corporation may be permitted to build or construct on state highway rights-of-way any approach road or any other facility, thing, or appurtenance not heretofore permitted by law, without first obtaining written permission from the department.[ 1984 c 7 § 185; 1961 c 13 § 47.32.150. Prior: 1947 c 201 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 6402-50.]
WA Rev Code § 47.32.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.32 - Obstructions on Right-of-Way.|47.32.160 - Approach roads, other appurtenances—Rules—Construction, maintenance of approach roads.

RCW 47.32.160 Approach roads, other appurtenances—Rules—Construction, maintenance of approach roads.The department is hereby authorized and empowered at its discretion to adopt reasonable rules governing the issuance of permits under RCW 47.32.150 for the construction of any approach road, facility, thing, or appurtenance, upon state highway rights-of-way. The rules shall be designed to achieve and preserve reasonable standards of highway safety and the operational integrity of the state highway facility. Any permit issued may contain such terms and conditions as may be prescribed. All such construction shall be under the supervision of the department and at the expense of the applicant. After completion of the construction of the particular approach road, facility, thing, or appurtenance, it shall be maintained at the expense of the applicant and in accordance with the directions of the department.[ 1987 c 227 § 1; 1984 c 7 § 186; 1961 c 13 § 47.32.160. Prior: 1947 c 201 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 6402-51.]
WA Rev Code § 47.32.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.32 - Obstructions on Right-of-Way.|47.32.170 - Approach roads, other appurtenances—Removal of installations from right-of-way for default.

RCW 47.32.170 Approach roads, other appurtenances—Removal of installations from right-of-way for default.Upon failure of the applicant to construct or maintain the particular approach road, facility, thing, or appurtenance in accordance with the conditions of the permit and in accordance with the rules of the department, the department may, after the expiration of thirty days following transmittal of a written notice to the applicant, remove all installations upon the right-of-way at the expense of the applicant, which expense may be recovered from the applicant by the department for the state in any court of competent jurisdiction.[ 1984 c 7 § 187; 1961 c 13 § 47.32.170. Prior: 1947 c 201 § 3; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 6402-52.]
WA Rev Code § 47.36.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices.|47.36.010 - Restoration of United States survey markers.

RCW 47.36.010 Restoration of United States survey markers.The department shall fix permanent monuments at the original positions of all United States government monuments at township corners, section corners, quarter section corners, meander corners, and witness markers, as originally established by the United States government survey whenever any such original monuments or markers fall within the right-of-way of any state highway, and aid in the reestablishment of any such corners, monuments, or markers destroyed or obliterated by the construction of any state highway by permitting inspection of the records in the department's office.[ 1984 c 7 § 188; 1961 c 13 § 47.36.010. Prior: 1937 c 53 § 42; RRS § 6400-42; 1931 c 117 § 1; RRS § 6830-1.]
WA Rev Code § 47.36.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices.|47.36.020 - Traffic control signals.

RCW 47.36.020 Traffic control signals.The secretary of transportation shall adopt specifications for a uniform system of traffic control signals consistent with the provisions of this title for use upon public highways within this state. Such uniform system shall correlate with and so far as possible conform to the system current as approved by the American Association of State Highway Officials and as set out in the manual of uniform traffic control devices for streets and highways.[ 1977 ex.s. c 151 § 60; 1961 c 13 § 47.36.020. Prior: 1937 c 53 § 50; RRS § 6400-50; prior: 1927 c 309 § 6; RRS § 6362-6.]
WA Rev Code § 47.36.022 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices.|47.36.022 - Traffic control signals—Duration of yellow change interval.

RCW 47.36.022 Traffic control signals—Duration of yellow change interval.The duration of a yellow change interval at any traffic control signal must be at least as long as the minimum yellow change interval identified in the manual of uniform traffic control devices for streets and highways as adopted by the department under this chapter.[ 2012 c 85 § 2.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—2012 c 85: See note following RCW 46.63.170.
WA Rev Code § 47.36.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices.|47.36.030 - Traffic control devices—Specifications to counties and cities—Signs, banners over highways.

RCW 47.36.030 Traffic control devices—Specifications to counties and cities—Signs, banners over highways.(1) The secretary of transportation shall have the power and it shall be its duty to adopt and designate a uniform state standard for the manufacture, display, erection, and location of all signs, signals, signboards, guideposts, and other traffic devices erected or to be erected upon the state highways of the state of Washington for the purpose of furnishing information to persons traveling upon such state highways regarding traffic regulations, directions, distances, points of danger, and conditions requiring caution, and for the purpose of imposing restrictions upon persons operating vehicles thereon. Such signs shall conform as nearly as practicable to the manual of specifications for the manufacture, display, and erection of uniform traffic control devices for streets and highways and all amendments, corrections, and additions thereto.(2) The department of transportation shall prepare plans and specifications of the uniform state standard of traffic devices so adopted and designated, showing the materials, colors, and designs thereof, and shall upon the issuance of any such plans and specifications or revisions thereof and upon request, furnish to the boards of county commissioners and the governing body of any incorporated city or town, a copy thereof. Signs, signals, signboards, guideposts, and other traffic devices erected on county roads shall conform in all respects to the specifications of color, design, and location approved by the secretary. Traffic devices hereafter erected within incorporated cities and towns shall conform to such uniform state standard of traffic devices so far as is practicable. The uniform system must allow local transit authority bus shelters located within the right-of-way of the state highway system to display and maintain commercial advertisements subject to applicable federal regulations, if any.(3) The uniform system adopted by the secretary under this section may allow signs, banners, or decorations over a highway that:(a) Are in unincorporated areas;(b) Are at least twenty vertical feet above a highway; and(c) Do not interfere with or obstruct the view of any traffic control device.The department shall adopt rules regulating signs, banners, or decorations installed under this subsection (3).[ 2005 c 398 § 1; 2003 c 198 § 3; 1977 ex.s. c 151 § 61; 1961 c 13 § 47.36.030. Prior: 1945 c 178 § 1, part; 1937 c 53 § 48, part; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 6400-48, part; prior: 1931 c 118 § 1, part; RRS § 6308-1, part; 1923 c 102 § 1, part; 1917 c 78 § 1, part; RRS § 6303, part.]
WA Rev Code § 47.36.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices.|47.36.040 - Furnished by department, paid for by counties and cities.

RCW 47.36.040 Furnished by department, paid for by counties and cities.The department, upon written request, shall cause to be manufactured, painted, and printed, and shall furnish to any county legislative authority or the governing body of any incorporated city or town, directional signboards, guide boards, and posts of the uniform state standard of color, shape, and design for the erection and maintenance thereof by the county legislative authority or the governing body of any incorporated city or town upon the roads and streets within their respective jurisdictions. The directional signboards, guide boards, and posts shall be manufactured and furnished, as aforesaid, pursuant to written request showing the number of signs desired and the directional or guide information to be printed thereon. The department shall fix a charge for each signboard, guide board, and post manufactured and furnished as aforesaid, based upon the ultimate cost of the operations to the department, and the county legislative authority, from the county road fund, and the governing body of any incorporated city or town, from the street fund, shall pay the charges so fixed for all signboards, guide boards, and posts so received from the department.[ 1984 c 7 § 189; 1961 c 13 § 47.36.040. Prior: 1945 c 178 § 1, part; 1937 c 53 § 48, part; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 6400-48, part; prior: 1931 c 118 § 1, part; RRS § 6308-1, part; 1923 c 102 § 1, part; 1917 c 78 § 1, part; RRS § 6303, part.]
WA Rev Code § 47.36.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices.|47.36.050 - Duty to erect traffic devices on state highways and railroad crossings.

RCW 47.36.050 Duty to erect traffic devices on state highways and railroad crossings.The department shall erect and maintain upon every state highway in the state of Washington suitable and proper signs, signals, signboards, guideposts, and other traffic devices according to the adopted and designated state standard of design, erection, and location, and in the manner required by law. The department shall erect and maintain upon all state highways appropriate stop signs, warning signs, and school signs. Any person, firm, corporation, or municipal corporation, building, owning, controlling, or operating a railroad that crosses any state highway at grade shall construct, erect, and maintain at or near each point of crossing, or at such point or points as will meet the approval of the department, a sign of the type known as the saw buck crossing sign with the lettering "railroad crossing" inscribed thereon and also a suitable inscription indicating the number of tracks. The sign must be of standard design that will comply with the plans and specifications furnished by the department. Additional safety devices and signs may be installed at any time when required by the utilities and transportation commission as provided by laws regulating railroad-highway grade crossings.[ 1984 c 7 § 190; 1961 c 13 § 47.36.050. Prior: 1937 c 53 § 49; RRS § 6400-49; prior: 1931 c 118 § 1, part; RRS § 6308-1, part; 1923 c 102 § 1, part; RRS § 6303, part; 1919 c 146 § 1; 1917 c 78 § 2; RRS § 6304. FORMER PART OF SECTION: 1937 c 53 § 51 now in RCW 47.36.053.]
WA Rev Code § 47.36.053 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices.|47.36.053 - General duty to place and maintain traffic devices on state highways and railroad crossings.

RCW 47.36.053 General duty to place and maintain traffic devices on state highways and railroad crossings.The department shall place and maintain such traffic devices conforming to the manual and specifications adopted upon all state highways as it deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this title or to regulate, warn, or guide traffic.[ 1984 c 7 § 191; 1961 c 13 § 47.36.053. Prior: 1937 c 53 § 51; RRS § 6400-51. Formerly RCW 47.36.050, part.]
WA Rev Code § 47.36.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices.|47.36.060 - Traffic devices on county roads and city streets.

RCW 47.36.060 Traffic devices on county roads and city streets.Local authorities in their respective jurisdictions shall place and maintain such traffic devices upon public highways under their jurisdiction as are necessary to carry out the provisions of the law or local traffic ordinances or to regulate, warn, or guide traffic. Cities and towns, which as used in this section mean cities and towns having a population of over fifteen thousand according to the latest federal census, shall adequately equip with traffic devices, streets that are designated as forming a part of the route of a primary or secondary state highway and streets which constitute connecting roads and secondary state highways to such cities and towns. The traffic devices, signs, signals, and markers shall comply with the uniform state standard for the manufacture, display, direction, and location thereof as designated by the department. The design, location, erection, and operation of traffic devices and traffic control signals upon such city or town streets constituting either the route of a primary or secondary state highway to the city or town or connecting streets to the primary or secondary state highways through the city or town shall be under the direction of the department, and if the city or town fails to comply with any such directions, the department shall provide for the design, location, erection, or operation thereof, and any cost incurred therefor shall be charged to and paid from any funds in the motor vehicle fund of the state that have accrued or may accrue to the credit of the city or town, and the state treasurer shall issue warrants therefor upon vouchers submitted and approved by the department.[ 1984 c 7 § 192; 1961 c 13 § 47.36.060. Prior: 1955 c 179 § 4; 1939 c 81 § 1; 1937 c 53 § 52; RRS § 6400-52.]
WA Rev Code § 47.36.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices.|47.36.070 - Failure to erect signs, procedure.

RCW 47.36.070 Failure to erect signs, procedure.Whenever any person, firm, corporation, municipal corporation, or local authorities responsible for the erection and maintenance, or either, of signs at any railroad crossing or point of danger upon any state highway fails, neglects, or refuses to erect and maintain, or either, the sign or signs as required by law at highway-railroad grade crossings, the utilities and transportation commission shall upon complaint of the department or upon complaint of any party interested, or upon its own motion, enter upon a hearing in the manner provided by law for hearings with respect to railroad-highway grade crossings and make and enforce proper orders for the erection or maintenance of the signs, or both.[ 1984 c 7 § 193; 1961 c 13 § 47.36.070. Prior: 1937 c 53 § 54; RRS § 6400-54.]
WA Rev Code § 47.36.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices.|47.36.080 - Signs at railroad crossings.

RCW 47.36.080 Signs at railroad crossings.Wherever it is considered necessary or convenient the department may erect approach and warning signs upon the approach of any state highway to a highway-railroad grade crossing situated at a sufficient distance therefrom to make the warning effective. The department may further provide such additional or other highway-railroad grade crossing markings as may be considered to serve the interests of highway safety.[ 1984 c 7 § 194; 1961 c 13 § 47.36.080. Prior: 1937 c 53 § 57; RRS § 6400-57.]
WA Rev Code § 47.36.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices.|47.36.090 - Cooperation with United States on road markers.

RCW 47.36.090 Cooperation with United States on road markers.Standard federal road markers shall be placed on state highways in the manner requested by the department of transportation of the United States. The department of transportation of the state of Washington is authorized and empowered to cooperate with the several states and with the federal government in promoting, formulating, and adopting a standard and uniform system of numbering or designating state highways of an interstate character and in promoting, formulating, and adopting uniform and standard specifications for the manufacture, display, erection, and location of road markers and signs, for the information, direction, and control of persons traveling upon public highways.[ 1984 c 7 § 195; 1961 c 13 § 47.36.090. Prior: 1937 c 53 § 55; RRS § 6400-55; prior: 1925 c 24 § 1; RRS § 6303-1.]
WA Rev Code § 47.36.095 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices.|47.36.095 - Highway designation system—Signs.

RCW 47.36.095 Highway designation system—Signs.The department is hereby authorized to establish a continuing system for the designating of state highways and branches or portions thereof, heretofore established by the legislature of the state of Washington, to give designations to such state highways and branches, or portions thereof, in accord with that system, and to install signs in accord therewith on such state highways and branches, or portions thereof. The system may be changed from time to time and shall be extended to new state highways and branches, or portions thereof, as they are hereafter established by the legislature.[ 1984 c 7 § 196; 1967 ex.s. c 145 § 43; 1963 c 24 § 1.]NOTES:Classification of highways: RCW 47.04.020.
WA Rev Code § 47.36.097 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation|Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices.|47.36.097 - Highway designation system—Filing.

RCW 47.36.097 Highway designation system—Filing.Designations or redesignations assigned under the system by the department pursuant to RCW 47.36.095 as each is made, shall be filed with the secretary of state and with the auditor of each county. Thereafter such highways shall be so designated for all purposes.[ 1984 c 7 § 197; 1967 ex.s. c 145 § 46.]