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2023 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 20 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).
(4) Cold water shock signs authorized in chapter 54, Laws of 2023 are subject to the provisions of this section.
[ 2023 c 54 § 7; 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.]
NOTES:
Short title—Intent—Finding—2023 c 54: See notes following RCW 35.21.095.
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.
2023 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.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.100 - Directional, caution, and stop signs.

RCW 47.36.100
Directional, caution, and stop signs.
Directional signs showing distance and direction to points of importance may be placed at all crossings and intersections of primary and secondary state highways. The department may place such directional signs as it deems necessary upon any city streets designated by it as forming a part of the route of any primary or secondary state highway through any incorporated city or town. Caution and warning signs or signals shall be placed wherever practicable on all primary and secondary state highways in a manner provided by law. Stop signs shall be placed, erected, and maintained by the department as follows: Upon all county roads at the point of intersection with any arterial primary or secondary state highway; upon all primary and secondary state highways at the point of intersection with any county road that has been designated by the department as an arterial having preference over the traffic on the state highway; and upon at least one state highway at the intersection of two state highways.
[ 1984 c 7 § 198; 1967 ex.s. c 145 § 38; 1961 c 13 § 47.36.100. Prior: 1947 c 206 § 1; 1937 c 53 § 56; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 6400-56.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.110 - Stop signs, "Yield" signs—Duties of persons using highway.

RCW 47.36.110
Stop signs, "Yield" signs—Duties of persons using highway.
In order to provide safety at intersections on the state highway system, the department may require persons traveling upon any portion of such highway to stop before entering the intersection, except as provided in RCW 46.61.190. For this purpose there may be erected a standard stop sign as prescribed in the state department of transportation's "Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways." All persons traveling upon the highway shall come to a complete stop at such a sign, except as provided in RCW 46.61.190, and the appearance of any sign so located is sufficient warning to a person that he or she is required to stop. A person stopping at such a sign shall proceed through that portion of the highway in a careful manner and at a reasonable rate of speed not to exceed twenty miles per hour. It is unlawful to fail to comply with the directions of any such stop sign, except as provided in RCW 46.61.190. When the findings of a traffic engineering study show that the condition of an intersection is such that vehicles may safely enter the major artery without stopping, the department or local authorities in their respective jurisdictions shall install and maintain a "Yield" sign.
[ 2020 c 66 § 5; 2010 c 8 § 10013; 1984 c 7 § 199; 1963 ex.s. c 3 § 49; 1961 c 13 § 47.36.110. Prior: 1955 c 146 § 6; 1937 c 53 § 59; RRS § 6400-59.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2020 c 66: See note following RCW 46.61.050.
Arterial highways designated—Stopping on entering: RCW 46.61.195.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.120 - City limit signs.

RCW 47.36.120
City limit signs.
The department shall erect wherever it deems necessary upon state highways at or near their point of entrance into cities and towns, signs of the standard design designating the city or town limits of the cities or towns.
[ 1984 c 7 § 200; 1961 c 13 § 47.36.120. Prior: 1937 c 53 § 58; RRS § 6400-58.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.130 - Meddling with signs prohibited.

RCW 47.36.130
Meddling with signs prohibited.
No person shall without lawful authority attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down, or remove any official traffic control signal, traffic device or railroad sign or signal, or any inscription, shield, or insignia thereon, or any other part thereof.
[ 1961 c 13 § 47.36.130. Prior: 1937 c 53 § 53; RRS § 6400-53.]
NOTES:
Defacing, injuring, or destroying signs: RCW 46.61.080.
Imitation of signs: RCW 46.61.075.
Structures concealing signs prohibited: RCW 46.61.075.
Unlawful erection of traffic devices: RCW 46.61.075.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.141 - Bus shelters—Advertising.

RCW 47.36.141
Bus shelters—Advertising.
(1) Local transit authority bus shelters within the right-of-way of the state highway system may display and maintain commercial advertisements subject to applicable federal regulations, if any. Pursuant to RCW 47.12.120, the department may lease state right-of-way air space to local transit authorities for this purpose, unless there are significant safety concerns regarding the placement of certain advertisements.
(2) Advertisements posted on a local transit authority's bus shelter may not exceed twenty-four square feet on each side of the panel. Panels may not be placed on the roof of the shelter or on the forward side of the shelter facing oncoming traffic.
[ 2003 c 198 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.180 - Forbidden devices—Penalty.

RCW 47.36.180
Forbidden devices—Penalty.
(1) It is unlawful to erect or maintain at or near a city street, county road, or state highway any structure, sign, or device:
(a) Visible from a city street, county road, or state highway and simulating any directional, warning, or danger sign or light likely to be mistaken for such a sign or bearing any such words as "danger," "stop," "slow," "turn," or similar words, figures, or directions likely to be construed as giving warning to traffic;
(b) Visible from a city street, county road, or state highway and displaying any red, green, blue, or yellow light or intermittent or blinking light or rotating light identical or similar in size, shape, and color to that used on any emergency vehicle or road equipment or any light otherwise likely to be mistaken for a warning, danger, directional, or traffic control signal or sign;
(c) Visible from a city street, county road, or state highway and displaying any lights tending to blind persons operating vehicles upon the highway, city street, or county road, or any glaring light, or any light likely to be mistaken for a vehicle upon the highway or otherwise to be so mistaken as to constitute a danger; or
(d) Visible from a city street, county road, or state highway and flooding or intending to flood or directed across the roadway of the highway with a directed beam or diffused light, whether or not the flood light is shielded against directing its flood beam toward approaching traffic on the highway, city street, or county road.
(2) Any structure or device erected or maintained contrary to the provisions of this section is a public nuisance, and the department, the chief of the Washington state patrol, the county sheriff, or the chief of police of any city or town shall notify the owner thereof that it constitutes a public nuisance and must be removed, and if the owner fails to do so, the department, the chief of the Washington state patrol, the county sheriff, or the chief of police of any city or town may abate the nuisance.
(3) If the owner fails to remove any structure or device within fifteen days after being notified to remove the structure or device as provided in this section, he or she is guilty of a misdemeanor.
[ 2003 c 53 § 257; 1984 c 7 § 201; 1961 c 13 § 47.36.180. Prior: 1957 c 204 § 1; 1937 c 53 § 62; RRS § 6400-62.]
NOTES:
Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.200 - Signs or flaggers at thoroughfare work sites—Penalty.

RCW 47.36.200
Signs or flaggers at thoroughfare work sites—Penalty.
(1) When construction, repair, or maintenance work is conducted on or adjacent to a public highway, county road, street, bridge, or other thoroughfare commonly traveled and when the work interferes with the normal and established mode of travel on the highway, county road, street, bridge, or thoroughfare, the location shall be properly posted by prominently displayed signs or flaggers or both. Signs used for posting in such an area shall be consistent with the provisions found in the state of Washington "Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways" obtainable from the department of transportation.
(2) If the construction, repair, or maintenance work includes or uses grooved pavement, abrupt lane edges, steel plates, or gravel or earth surfaces, the construction, repair, or maintenance zone must be posted with signs stating the condition, as required by current law, and in addition, must warn motorcyclists of the potential hazard only if the hazard or condition exists on a paved public highway, county road, street, bridge, or other thoroughfare commonly traveled. For the purposes of this subsection, the department shall adopt by rule a uniform sign or signs for this purpose, including at least the following language, "MOTORCYCLES USE EXTREME CAUTION."
(3) Any contractor, firm, corporation, political subdivision, or other agency performing such work shall comply with this section.
(4) Each driver of a motor vehicle used in connection with such construction, repair, or maintenance work shall obey traffic signs posted for, and flaggers stationed at such location in the same manner and under the same restrictions as is required for the driver of any other vehicle.
(5) A violation of or a failure to comply with this section is a misdemeanor. Each day upon which there is a violation, or there is a failure to comply, constitutes a separate violation.
[ 2010 c 8 § 10014; 2006 c 331 § 1. Prior: 2003 c 355 § 1; 2003 c 53 § 258; 1984 c 7 § 202; 1961 c 13 § 47.36.200; prior: 1957 c 95 § 1.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2003 c 355: "This act takes effect January 1, 2004." [ 2003 c 355 § 3.]
Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.250 - Dangerous road conditions requiring special tires, chains, or traction equipment—Signs or devices—Penalty.

RCW 47.36.250
Dangerous road conditions requiring special tires, chains, or traction equipment—Signs or devices—Penalty.
(1) If the department or its delegate determines at any time for any part of the public highway system that the unsafe conditions of the roadway require particular tires, tire chains, or traction equipment in addition to or beyond the ordinary pneumatic rubber tires, the department may establish the following recommendations or requirements with respect to the use of such equipment for all persons using such public highway:
(a) Traction advisory - oversize vehicles prohibited.
(b) Traction advisory - oversize vehicles prohibited. Vehicles over 10,000 GVW - chains required.
(c) Traction advisory - oversize vehicles prohibited. All vehicles - chains required, except all wheel drive.
(2) Any equipment that may be required by this section shall be approved by the state patrol as authorized under RCW 46.37.420.
(3) The department shall place and maintain signs and other traffic control devices on the public highways that indicate the tire, tire chain, or traction equipment recommendation or requirement determined under this section. Such signs or traffic control devices shall in no event prohibit the use of studded tires from November 1st to April 1st, but when the department determines that chains are required and that no other traction equipment will suffice, the requirement is applicable to all types of tires including studded tires. The Washington state patrol or the department may specify different recommendations or requirements for four wheel drive vehicles in gear.
(4) Failure to obey a requirement indicated under this section is a traffic infraction under chapter 46.63 RCW subject to a penalty of five hundred dollars including all statutory assessments.
[ 2003 c 356 § 1; 2003 c 53 § 259; 1987 c 330 § 747; 1984 c 7 § 203; 1975 1st ex.s. c 255 § 1; 1969 ex.s. c 7 § 2.]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: This section was amended by 2003 c 53 § 259 and by 2003 c 356 § 1, each without reference to the other. Both amendments are incorporated in the publication of this section under RCW 1.12.025(2). For rule of construction, see RCW 1.12.025(1).
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.
Restrictions as to tire equipment, metal studs: RCW 46.37.420.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.260 - Signs indicating proper lane usage.

RCW 47.36.260
Signs indicating proper lane usage.
The department shall erect signs on multilane highways indicating proper lane usage.
[ 1986 c 93 § 6.]
NOTES:
Keep right except when passing, etc: RCW 46.61.100.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.270 - Regional shopping center directional signs.

RCW 47.36.270
Regional shopping center directional signs.
Regional shopping center directional signs shall be erected and maintained on state highway right-of-way if they meet each of the following criteria:
(1) There shall be at least five hundred thousand square feet of retail floor space available for lease at the regional shopping center;
(2) The regional shopping center shall contain at least three major department stores that are owned by a national or regional retail chain organization;
(3) The shopping center shall be located within one mile of the roadway;
(4) The center shall generate at least nine thousand daily one-way vehicle trips to the center;
(5) There is sufficient space available for installation of the directional sign as specified in the Manual On Uniform Traffic Control Devices;
(6) Supplemental follow-through directional signing is required at key decision points to direct motorists to the shopping center if it is not clearly visible from the point of exit from the main traveled way.
The department shall collect from the regional shopping center a reasonable fee based upon the cost of erection and maintenance of the directional sign.
[ 1987 c 469 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.280 - Pavement marking standards.

RCW 47.36.280
Pavement marking standards.
The department of transportation shall, by January 1, 1992, adopt minimum pavement marking standards for the area designating the limits of the vehicle driving lane along the right edge for arterials that do not have curbs or sidewalks and are inside urbanized areas. In preparing the standards, the department of transportation shall take into consideration all types of pavement markings, including flat, raised, and recessed markings, and their effect on pedestrians, bicycle, and motor vehicle safety.
The standards shall provide that a jurisdiction shall conform to these requirements, at such time thereafter that it undertakes to (1) renew or install permanent markings on the existing or new roadway, and (2) remove existing nonconforming raised pavement markers at the time the jurisdiction prepares to resurface the roadway, or earlier, at its option. These standards shall be in effect, as provided in this section, unless the legislative authority of the local governmental body finds that special circumstances exist affecting vehicle and pedestrian safety that warrant a variance to the standard.
For the purposes of this section, "urbanized area" means an area designated as such by the United States bureau of census and having a population of more than fifty thousand. Other jurisdictions that install pavement marking material on the right edge of the roadway shall do so in a manner not in conflict with the minimum state standard.
[ 1991 c 214 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.290 - State park directional signs.

RCW 47.36.290
State park directional signs.
Directional signs for state parks within fifteen miles of an interstate highway shall be erected and maintained on the interstate highway by the department despite the existence of additional directional signs on primary or scenic system highways in closer proximity to such state parks.
[ 1985 c 376 § 7. Formerly RCW 47.42.160.]
NOTES:
Legislative intent—1985 c 376: See note following RCW 47.42.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.300 - Supplemental directional signs—Erection by local governments.

RCW 47.36.300
Supplemental directional signs—Erection by local governments.
(1) The legislative authority of any county, city, or town may erect, or permit the erection of, supplemental directional signs directing motorists to motorist service businesses qualified for motorist information sign panels pursuant to RCW 47.36.310 or 47.36.320 in any location on, or adjacent to, the right-of-way of any roads or streets within their jurisdiction.
(2) Appropriate fees may be charged to cover the cost of issuing permits, installation, or maintenance of such signs.
(3) Supplemental signs and their locations shall comply with all applicable provisions of this chapter, the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, and such rules as may be adopted by the department.
[ 1999 c 201 § 2; 1986 c 114 § 3. Formerly RCW 47.42.052.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.310 - Motorist information signs—Interstate highways—Contents, placement, fees.

RCW 47.36.310
Motorist information signs—Interstate highways—Contents, placement, fees.
The department is authorized to erect and maintain motorist information sign panels within the right-of-way of the interstate highway system to give the traveling public specific information as to gas, food, lodging, camping, or tourist-oriented business available on a crossroad at or near an interchange. Motorist information sign panels shall include the words "GAS," "FOOD," "LODGING," "CAMPING," or "TOURIST ACTIVITIES" and the letters "RV" next to a gas, food, lodging, camping, or tourist activity sign if the business or destination accommodates recreational vehicles, and directional information. Directional information may contain one or more individual business signs maintained on the panel. The "RV" logo for businesses or destinations that accommodate recreational vehicles shall be placed in the lower right corner of the gas, food, lodging, camping, or tourist activity sign and shall be in the form of a small yellow circle with the letters "RV" in black. In managing the number of individual business signs to be displayed, the department must ensure the use of available space on a panel is maximized. Motorist information sign panels are authorized within the corporate limits of cities and towns and areas zoned for commercial or industrial uses at locations where there is adequate distance between interchanges to ensure compliance with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. The erection and maintenance of motorist information sign panels shall also conform to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices and rules adopted by the state department of transportation. A motorist service or tourist-oriented business located within one mile of an interstate highway shall not be permitted to display its name, brand, or trademark on a motorist information sign panel unless its owner has first entered into an agreement with the department limiting the height of its on-premise [on-premises] signs at the site of its service installation to not more than fifteen feet higher than the roof of its main building measured to the bottom of the on-premise [on-premises] sign. The restriction for on-premise [on-premises] signs does not apply if the sign is not visible from the highway. The department may, on a case-by-case basis, waive the height restriction when an on-premise [on-premises] sign is visible from the rural interstate system. The department shall charge sufficient fees for the display of individual business signs to recover the costs of their installation and maintenance, and shall charge sufficient fees to recover costs for the erection and maintenance of the motorist information sign panels.
[ 2005 c 407 § 1; 1999 c 201 § 3; 1987 c 469 § 3; 1986 c 114 § 1; 1985 c 142 § 1; 1984 c 7 § 223; 1974 ex.s. c 80 § 2. Formerly RCW 47.42.046.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.330 - Motorist information signs—Maximum number and distance.

RCW 47.36.330
Motorist information signs—Maximum number and distance.
(1) Not more than six business signs may be permitted on motorist information sign panels authorized by RCW 47.36.310 and 47.36.320.
(2) The maximum distance that eligible service facilities may be located on either side of an interchange or intersection to qualify for a business sign are as follows:
(a) On interstate highways, gas, food, or lodging activities shall be located within three miles. Camping or tourist-oriented activities shall be within five miles.
(b) On noninterstate highways, gas, food, lodging, recreation, or tourist-oriented activities shall be located within five miles.
(3)(a) If no eligible services are located within the distance limits prescribed in subsection (2) of this section, the distance limits shall be increased until an eligible service of a type being considered is reached, up to a maximum of fifteen miles.
(b) The department may erect and maintain signs on an alternate route that is longer than fifteen miles if it is safer and still provides reasonable and convenient travel to an eligible service.
(c) The department may erect and maintain signs on a route up to a maximum of twenty miles if it qualifies as an eligible service and is within a distressed area as defined in RCW 43.168.020.
[ 2005 c 136 § 16; 1999 c 213 § 2; 1999 c 201 § 5; 1985 c 142 § 3. Formerly RCW 47.42.0475.]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: This section was amended by 1999 c 201 § 5 and by 1999 c 213 § 2, each without reference to the other. Both amendments are incorporated in the publication of this section under RCW 1.12.025(2). For rule of construction, see RCW 1.12.025(1).
Savings—Effective date—2005 c 136: See notes following RCW 43.168.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.340 - Motorist information signs—Lodging.

RCW 47.36.340
Motorist information signs—Lodging.
To be eligible for placement of a business sign on a motorist information sign panel a lodging activity shall:
(1) Be licensed or approved by the department of social and health services or county health authority;
(2) Provide adequate sleeping and bathroom accommodations available for rental on a daily basis; and
(3) Provide public telephone facilities.
[ 1999 c 201 § 6; 1985 c 376 § 8. Formerly RCW 47.42.170.]
NOTES:
Legislative intent—1985 c 376: See note following RCW 47.42.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.350 - Motorist information signs—Installation time.

RCW 47.36.350
Motorist information signs—Installation time.
The department shall ensure that motorist information sign panels are installed within nine months of receiving the request for installation.
[ 1999 c 201 § 7; 1991 c 94 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.360 - Motorist information signs—"RV" logo.

RCW 47.36.360
Motorist information signs—"RV" logo.
(1) The department of transportation shall not include the logo "RV" under RCW 47.36.310 and 47.36.320 unless a business or destination requests an "RV" logo and the department determines that the gas, food, or lodging business or the camping or tourist activity destination provides parking spaces, overhang clearances, and entrances and exits designed to accommodate recreational or other large vehicles.
(2) The department may charge a reasonable fee in accordance with RCW 47.36.310 or 47.36.320 to defray the costs associated with the installation and maintenance of signs with "RV" logos.
(3) The department may adopt rules necessary to administer this section.
[ 2005 c 407 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.400 - Adopt-a-highway signs.

RCW 47.36.400
Adopt-a-highway signs.
The department may install adopt-a-highway signs, with the following restrictions:
(1) Signs shall be designed by the department and may only include the words "adopt-a-highway litter control facility" or "adopt-a-highway litter control next XX miles" and the name of the litter control area sponsor. The sponsor's name shall not be displayed more predominantly than the remainder of the sign message. Trademarks or business logos may be displayed;
(2) Signs may be placed along interstate, primary, and scenic system highways;
(3) Signs may be erected at other state-owned transportation facilities in accordance with RCW 47.40.100(1);
(4) For each litter control area designated by the department, one sign may be placed visible to traffic approaching from each direction;
(5) Signs shall be located so as not to detract from official traffic control signs installed pursuant to the manual on uniform traffic control devices adopted by the department;
(6) Signs shall be located so as not to restrict sight distance on approaches to intersections or interchanges;
(7) The department may charge reasonable fees to defray the cost of manufacture, installation, and maintenance of adopt-a-highway signs.
[ 1998 c 180 § 1; 1991 c 94 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.36 - Traffic Control Devices. › 47.36.410 - Bridge jumping hazard signs.

RCW 47.36.410
Bridge jumping hazard signs.
(1)(a) The executive officer, or a designated employee, with control of operations and maintenance of a bridge of any county, city, town, or state agency, subject to approval by the department pursuant to (d) of this subsection, may erect informational signs near or attached to bridges providing location-specific information about the hazards of diving or jumping from the location with the goal of preventing future deaths. These signs are meant to provide more information than just a "no jumping" sign so that people can better understand the hazards related to a particular location. Signs providing information on the hazard of cold-water shock that leads to drowning may be erected in locations where people might otherwise think a location is safe for swimming. Signs may include the statewide 988 suicide prevention hotline.
(b) Any county, city, town, or state agency responsible for the repair, replacement, and maintenance of bridges are encouraged to create a process where individuals may request the installation of an informational sign pursuant to this section in locations that do not have such signs erected.
(c) Signs created under this section may not conflict with provisions of the manual on uniform traffic control devices or existing state laws related to placement and design of signs that are placed along transportation corridors.
(d) If a sign is to be located along a state highway or the interstate system, the department must approve the sign and location prior to erecting the sign, but no permit or fee is necessary.
(e) State and local government agencies are authorized to accept gifts or donations to pay for the erection of signs under this section.
(2) This section applies prospectively.
(3) This section does not create a private right of action by, or a legal duty to, any party, and may not be used to impose liability on the owner of a government facility if a sign has or has not been erected on its property. The state of Washington, including all of its agencies, subdivisions, employees, and agents, shall not be liable in tort for any violation of chapter 54, Laws of 2023, notwithstanding any other provision of law.
[ 2023 c 54 § 8.]
NOTES:
Short title—Intent—Finding—2023 c 54: See notes following RCW 35.21.095.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.38 - Roadside Areas—Safety Rest Areas. › 47.38.010 - Rules governing use and control of rest areas, historic sites, viewpoints, etc.—Penalties.

RCW 47.38.010
Rules governing use and control of rest areas, historic sites, viewpoints, etc.—Penalties.
(1) Pursuant to chapter 34.05 RCW, the department and the Washington state patrol shall jointly adopt rules governing the conduct and the safety of the traveling public relating to the use and control of rest areas and other areas as designated in RCW 47.12.250. Nothing herein may be construed as limiting the powers of the department as provided by law.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any person violating this section or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(3)(a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, violation of such a rule or regulation relating to traffic including parking, standing, stopping, and pedestrian offenses is a traffic infraction.
(b) Violation of such a rule or regulation equivalent to those provisions of Title 46 RCW set forth in RCW 46.63.020 remains a misdemeanor.
[ 2003 c 53 § 260; 1993 c 116 § 1; 1984 c 7 § 204; 1967 ex.s. c 145 § 29.]
NOTES:
Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.
Roadside areas—Safety rest areas, provisions of scenic and recreational highway act concerning: Chapter 47.39 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.38 - Roadside Areas—Safety Rest Areas. › 47.38.020 - Limitations on use of rest areas.

RCW 47.38.020
Limitations on use of rest areas.
(1) Except where specifically authorized by the department, it is unlawful for any person or persons to stop, stand, or park any vehicle, including but not limited to trailers, campers, and motorcycles, for more than eight hours within a twenty-four hour period, or for any person or persons to camp or to maintain a camp, tent, or other sleeping accommodation or facility, in any safety rest area within the limits of the right-of-way of interstate highways or other state highways or in other areas of state or interstate highways as designated in RCW 47.12.250. The department may also designate zones within a safety rest area with shorter parking time limits for the purposes of maximum efficiency and safety. Commercial vehicles may park up to an hour beyond federally mandated rest periods.
(2) Except where specifically authorized by the department, it is unlawful for any person or persons to stop, stand, or park any disabled vehicle, including but not limited to trailers, campers, and motorcycles, in any safety rest area for more than forty-eight hours, after which time the vehicle is subject to mandatory impoundment under RCW 46.55.080(1).
(3) The department shall post appropriate signage consistent with RCW 46.55.070(1) at all safety rest areas regarding the parking time limits in this section.
(4) The Washington state patrol shall enforce this section consistent with RCW 46.55.080(1), and to the maximum extent practicable.
[ 2019 c 436 § 1; 1984 c 7 § 205; 1967 ex.s. c 145 § 30.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.38 - Roadside Areas—Safety Rest Areas. › 47.38.040 - Information centers.

RCW 47.38.040
Information centers.
In order to provide information in the specific interest of the traveling public, the department may establish information centers at safety rest areas and permit maps, informational directories, and advertising pamphlets to be made available there for the purpose of informing the public of places of interest within the state and providing such other information as the department deems desirable.
[ 1984 c 7 § 206; 1967 ex.s. c 145 § 32.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.38 - Roadside Areas—Safety Rest Areas. › 47.38.050 - Recreational vehicle sanitary disposal systems.

RCW 47.38.050
Recreational vehicle sanitary disposal systems.
The department of transportation shall construct and maintain recreational vehicle sanitary disposal systems in the following safety rest areas lying along highways which are a part of the interstate highway system:
(1) Gee Creek safety rest area, northbound and southbound on Interstate 5 in Clark county;
(2) SeaTac safety rest area, northbound on Interstate 5 in King county;
(3) Silver Lake safety rest area, southbound on Interstate 5 in Snohomish county;
(4) Winchester Wasteway safety rest area, eastbound and westbound on Interstate 90 in Grant county;
(5) Sprague safety rest area, eastbound on Interstate 90 in Lincoln county;
(6) Selah Creek safety rest area, northbound and southbound on Interstate 82 in Yakima county;
(7) Indian John Hill safety rest area, eastbound and westbound on Interstate 90 in Kittitas county;
(8) Smokey Point safety rest area, northbound and southbound on Interstate 5 in Snohomish county;
(9) Schrag safety rest area, westbound on Interstate 90 in Adams county.
[ 1996 c 237 § 3; 1980 c 60 § 1.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1980 c 60: "This act shall take effect July 1, 1980." [ 1980 c 60 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.38 - Roadside Areas—Safety Rest Areas. › 47.38.060 - Dedication of memorial signs at rest areas.

RCW 47.38.060
Dedication of memorial signs at rest areas.
The department may designate interstate safety rest areas, as appropriate, as locations for memorial signs to prisoners of war and those missing in action. The department shall adopt policies for the placement of memorial signs on interstate safety rest areas and may disapprove any memorial sign that it determines to be inappropriate or inconsistent with the policies. The policies shall include, but are not limited to, guidelines for the size and location of and inscriptions on memorial signs. The secretary shall adopt rules for administering this program. Nonprofit associations may have their name identified on a memorial sign if the association bears the cost of supplying and maintaining the memorial sign.
[ 2006 c 334 § 24; 1996 c 172 § 1.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2006 c 334: See note following RCW 47.01.051.