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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.38 - Roadside Areas—Safety Rest Areas. › 47.38.070 - Electric vehicle infrastructure.

RCW 47.38.070
Electric vehicle infrastructure.
(1) As a necessary and desirable step to spur public and private investment in electric vehicle infrastructure in accordance with section 1, chapter 459, Laws of 2009, and to begin implementing the provisions of RCW 43.19.648, the legislature authorizes an alternative fuels corridor pilot project capable of supporting electric vehicle charging and battery exchange technologies.
(2) To the extent permitted under federal programs, rules, or law, the department may enter into partnership agreements with other public and private entities for the use of land and facilities along state routes and within interstate highway rights-of-way for an alternative fuels corridor pilot project. At a minimum, the pilot project must:
(a) Limit renewable fuel and vehicle technology offerings to those with a forecasted demand over the next fifteen years and approved by the department;
(b) Ensure that a pilot project site does not compete with existing retail businesses in the same geographic area for the provision of the same refueling services, recharging technologies, or other retail commercial activities;
(c) Provide existing truck stop operators and retail truck refueling businesses with an absolute right of first refusal over the offering of refueling services to class six trucks with a maximum gross vehicle weight of twenty-six thousand pounds within the same geographic area identified for a possible pilot project site;
(d) Reach agreement with the department of services for the blind ensuring that any activities at host sites do not materially affect the revenues forecasted from their vending operations at each site;
(e) Regulate the internal rate of return from the partnership, including provisions to reduce or eliminate the level of state support once the partnership attains economic self-sufficiency;
(f) Be limited to not more than five locations on state-owned land within federal interstate rights-of-way or state highway rights-of-way in Washington; and
(g) Be limited in duration to a term of years reasonably necessary for the partnership to recover the cost of capital investments, plus the regulated internal rate of return.
(3) The department is not responsible for providing capital equipment nor operating refueling or recharging services. The department must provide periodic status reports on the pilot project to the office of financial management and the relevant standing committees of the legislature not less than every biennium.
(4) The provisions of this section are subject to the availability of existing funds. However, capital improvements under this section must be funded with federal or private funds.
[ 2009 c 459 § 14.]
NOTES:
Finding—Purpose—2009 c 459: See note following RCW 47.80.090.
Regional transportation planning organizations—Electric vehicle infrastructure: RCW 47.80.090.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.38 - Roadside Areas—Safety Rest Areas. › 47.38.075 - Electrical outlets for electric vehicles at rest areas—Battery exchange and charging station installation and operation.

RCW 47.38.075
Electrical outlets for electric vehicles at rest areas—Battery exchange and charging station installation and operation.
(1) By December 31, 2015, the state must, to the extent practicable, install electrical outlets capable of charging electric vehicles in each state-operated highway rest stop.
(2) By December 31, 2015, the state must provide the opportunity to lease space for the limited purpose of installing and operating a battery exchange station or a battery charging station in appropriate state-owned highway rest stops.
(3) The department of transportation's obligations under this section are subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for the specific purpose identified in this section, unless the department receives federal or private funds for the specific purpose identified in this section.
(4) The definitions in this subsection apply throughout this section unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(a) "Battery charging station" means an electrical component assembly or cluster of component assemblies designed specifically to charge batteries within electric vehicles, which meet or exceed any standards, codes, and regulations set forth by chapter 19.28 RCW and consistent with rules adopted under RCW 19.27.540.
(b) "Battery exchange station" means a fully automated facility that will enable an electric vehicle with a swappable battery to enter a drive lane and exchange the depleted battery with a fully charged battery through a fully automated process, which meets or exceeds any standards, codes, and regulations set forth by chapter 19.28 RCW and consistent with rules adopted under RCW 19.27.540.
[ 2009 c 459 § 15.]
NOTES:
Finding—Purpose—2009 c 459: See note following RCW 47.80.090.
Regional transportation planning organizations—Electric vehicle infrastructure: RCW 47.80.090.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.38 - Roadside Areas—Safety Rest Areas. › 47.38.080 - Human trafficking informational posters at rest areas.

RCW 47.38.080
Human trafficking informational posters at rest areas.
The department may work with human trafficking victim advocates in developing informational posters for placement in rest areas. The department may adopt policies for the placement of these posters in rest areas and these policies must address, at a minimum, placement of the posters in bathroom stalls. The posters may be in a variety of languages and include toll-free telephone numbers a person may call for assistance, including the number for the national human trafficking resource center at (888)373-7888 and the number for the Washington state office of crime victims advocacy at (800)822-1067.
[ 2010 c 48 § 1.]
NOTES:
Model notice on human trafficking: RCW 43.280.110.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.38 - Roadside Areas—Safety Rest Areas. › 47.38.090 - Reconfiguration of maintenance operations—Planning process—Report.

RCW 47.38.090
Reconfiguration of maintenance operations—Planning process—Report.
(1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the department is directed to reconfigure its maintenance operations to assure that its owned and operated safety rest areas are open for use except for seasonal closures or cleaning, maintenance, and repairs.
(2) The department may initiate a strategic planning process that addresses the maintenance, operation, and safety of its owned and operated safety rest areas. At a minimum, this plan shall evaluate operations, maintenance, safety, and commercial motor vehicle parking at safety rest areas. The department must engage members from the freight community and other stakeholders for recommendations and solutions. The department must also coordinate with the office of intergovernmental coordination on public right-of-way homeless encampments established in *Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill No. 5662 (right-of-way camping/housing). The plan must identify strategies that the department can employ to ensure commercial motor vehicle parking is available at state-owned and operated safety rest areas. The department shall prioritize the planning effort to conclude by the end of the 2021-2023 biennium.
(3) The department must report to the transportation committees of the legislature the changes that have been made to or are planned to be made to operation of the safety rest areas by January 15, 2023, including recommendations related to commercial vehicle parking.
[ 2022 c 262 § 2.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill No. 5662 was not enacted during the 2022 legislative session.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.39 - Scenic and Recreational Highway Act of 1967. › 47.39.010 - System created—Standards.

RCW 47.39.010
System created—Standards.
There is hereby created a scenic and recreational highway system. Highways in this system shall be developed and maintained in accordance with general standards for state highways of comparable classification and usage.
Recognizing that the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century establishes a national "scenic byway" program that could benefit state and local roadways, the Washington state scenic byway designation program is revised to address state and local transportation routes. Byways in this program must be designated and maintained in accordance with the criteria developed by the department under this chapter. However, a highway so designated under RCW 47.39.069 does not become part of the scenic and recreational highway system unless approved by the legislature. Corridors within the scenic and recreational highway system that showcase the state's historic agricultural areas and promote the maintenance and enhancement of agricultural areas may be designated as agricultural scenic corridors.
[ 2010 c 14 § 1; 1999 c 218 § 1; 1967 ex.s. c 85 § 1.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1999 c 218: "This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately [May 7, 1999]." [ 1999 c 218 § 9.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.39 - Scenic and Recreational Highway Act of 1967. › 47.39.030 - Development and maintenance of system by department of transportation and parks and recreation commission—Allocation of costs.

RCW 47.39.030
Development and maintenance of system by department of transportation and parks and recreation commission—Allocation of costs.
(1) The department shall pay from motor vehicle funds appropriated for construction of state highways, the following costs of developing and constructing scenic and recreational highways: (a) Acquisition of the right-of-way necessary for state highway purposes; (b) construction of the portion of the highway designed primarily for motor vehicle travel; (c) exit and entrance roadways providing access to scenic observation points; (d) safety rest areas; (e) roadside landscaping within the portion of the highway right-of-way acquired by the department for state highway purposes; (f) the uniform signs and markers designating the various features and facilities of the scenic and recreational highways; and (g) any additional costs of constructing and developing the scenic and recreational highways, including property acquisition adjacent to highways as authorized by RCW 47.12.250, for which the department shall receive reimbursement from the federal government or any other source.
(2) The parks and recreation commission shall pay the costs of developing and constructing the scenic and recreational highways not provided for in subsection (1) of this section from any funds appropriated for such purposes.
(3) The costs of maintaining the scenic and recreational highway system shall be allocated between the department and the parks and recreation commission in the same manner that costs of developing and constructing such highways are allocated in subsections (1) and (2) of this section.
(4) The city, town, county, regional transportation planning organization, federal agency, federally recognized tribe, or any other such party that nominates a roadway not located on a state-owned right-of-way for designation as a scenic byway shall bear all costs relating to the nomination and designation of the byway, such as costs for developing, maintaining, planning, designing, and constructing the scenic byway.
[ 1999 c 218 § 2; 1984 c 7 § 207; 1967 ex.s. c 85 § 3.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1999 c 218: See note following RCW 47.39.010.
Safety rest areas: Chapter 47.38 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.39 - Scenic and Recreational Highway Act of 1967. › 47.39.040 - Planning and design standards established by department of commerce.

RCW 47.39.040
Planning and design standards established by department of commerce.
The establishment of planning and design standards for items provided for in RCW 47.39.050 shall be coordinated by the department of commerce. The department of transportation, parks and recreation commission, and any other departments or commissions whose interests are affected shall prepare, submit, and file with the department of commerce standards relating to the scenic and recreational highway system. If varying planning and design standards are filed, the department of commerce shall consult with the submitting agencies on the merits of the several proposals and, based upon such consultation, establish a set of standards. Pursuant to the planning and design standards so established, the department of transportation and the parks and recreation commission shall develop the highways and areas adjacent thereto to accomplish the purposes of this chapter, but the department shall retain exclusive authority over the highway right-of-way.
Responsibility for construction and maintenance is hereby established between the department and the parks and recreation commission with the department responsible for activities financed with funds provided for under RCW 47.39.030(1) and the parks and recreation commission responsible for activities financed from other sources of funds. By mutual consent, responsibility for development and/or maintenance may be transferred between the two agencies.
[ 2023 c 470 § 2086; 1995 c 399 § 122; 1985 c 6 § 16; 1984 c 7 § 208; 1967 ex.s. c 85 § 4.]
NOTES:
Explanatory statement—2023 c 470: See note following RCW 10.99.030.
Department of commerce: Chapter 43.330 RCW.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.39 - Scenic and Recreational Highway Act of 1967. › 47.39.050 - Planning and design standards—Facilities and factors considered.

RCW 47.39.050
Planning and design standards—Facilities and factors considered.
Planning and design standards established for highways falling within the scenic and recreational highways system may include, but shall not be limited to, provision for the following:
(1) Hiking, bicycle, and bridle trails, including regulations for their use;
(2) Campsites and shelters;
(3) Boat launching sites;
(4) Access trails to lakes, rivers and streams, and easements along their shores;
(5) Safety rest areas;
(6) Historic and geologic interpretative facilities;
(7) Scenic observation facilities;
(8) Roadside landscaping, restoration and aesthetic enhancement;
(9) Specifically delineated highway corridors and means for the preservation of natural beauty, historic sites, or viewpoints;
(10) A uniform system of signs and markers designating the various features and facilities of the scenic and recreational highway systems.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 85 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.39 - Scenic and Recreational Highway Act of 1967. › 47.39.060 - Designation of system on maps or other descriptive material.

RCW 47.39.060
Designation of system on maps or other descriptive material.
The department and the parks and recreation commission may include, where appropriate, on any maps, or in any relevant descriptive material they may prepare at state expense, references to those portions of highways designated in RCW 47.39.020, and may include those designated byways by appropriate color or code designation.
[ 1999 c 218 § 3; 1984 c 7 § 209; 1967 ex.s. c 85 § 6.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1999 c 218: See note following RCW 47.39.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.39 - Scenic and Recreational Highway Act of 1967. › 47.39.069 - Designation and removal criteria.

RCW 47.39.069
Designation and removal criteria.
(1) The department, in consultation with the department of commerce, the department of natural resources, the parks and recreation commission, affected cities, towns, and counties, federally recognized tribes, regional transportation planning organizations, Washington-based automobile clubs, statewide bicycling organizations, and other interested parties, shall develop by December 31, 1999, criteria for assessing scenic byways and heritage tour routes and an appropriate method of nomination and application for the designation and removal of the designation of the byways. Factors the department may take into consideration, but is not limited by, are: (a) Scenic quality of the byway; (b) natural aspects, such as geological formations, water bodies, vegetation, and wildlife; (c) historic elements; (d) cultural features such as the arts, crafts, music, customs, or traditions of a distinct group of people; (e) archaeological features; (f) recreational activities; (g) roadway safety including accommodations for bicycle and pedestrian travel, tour buses, and automobiles; (h) scenic byway and local and regional byway management plans; and (i) local public involvement and support for the byway.
(2) The criteria developed in subsection (1) of this section must not impose nor require regulation of privately owned lands or property rights.
(3) Any person may nominate a roadway, path, or trail for inclusion in the scenic byway program. The department shall assess nominations in accordance with the criteria developed under subsection (1) of this section. The department shall submit its recommendations for scenic byway and heritage tour route designations to the commission for its approval and official designation of the roadway, path, or trail as a scenic byway or a heritage tour route. All decisions made by the commission relating to scenic byway and heritage tour route designations are final.
(4) The department shall apply the criteria in subsection (1) of this section to state highways that are currently not a part of the designated scenic and recreational highway system. The department shall respond to local requests for route evaluation as defined in subsection (3) of this section.
(5) Once the commission has designated a roadway as a scenic byway, the department may submit an individual nomination to the federal highway administration for its consideration of whether the roadway qualifies to be designated as a national scenic byway or an All-American Roadway.
[ 2023 c 470 § 2087; 1999 c 218 § 4.]
NOTES:
Explanatory statement—2023 c 470: See note following RCW 10.99.030.
Effective date—1999 c 218: See note following RCW 47.39.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.39 - Scenic and Recreational Highway Act of 1967. › 47.39.075 - Corridor management plan.

RCW 47.39.075
Corridor management plan.
The department shall participate with local communities to develop a corridor management plan for a state highway nominated to be part of the scenic byway program. Local, regional, or other governmental bodies shall develop a corridor management plan for nominated routes that are under their jurisdiction.
[ 1999 c 218 § 5.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1999 c 218: See note following RCW 47.39.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.39 - Scenic and Recreational Highway Act of 1967. › 47.39.080 - Funding priorities—Signage.

RCW 47.39.080
Funding priorities—Signage.
Recognizing that the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century establishes a national "Scenic Byways" grant program and a new apportionment program called "Transportation Enhancement Activities," the department of transportation shall place high priority on obtaining funds from those sources for further development of a scenic and recreational highways program, including enhancement projects on the designated scenic and recreational highway system. The department shall consider the use of the designated system by bicyclists and pedestrians in connection with nonmotorized routes in the state trail plan, and the state bicycle plan which are also eligible for TEA-21 funding. Appropriate signage may be used at intersections of nonmotorized and motorized systems to demonstrate the access, location, and the interconnectivity of various modes of travel for transportation and recreation. For the purposes of leveraging national scenic byway planning grant funds, the commission may designate eligible state highways as scenic byways on an interim basis.
[ 1999 c 218 § 6; 1993 c 430 § 8.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1999 c 218: See note following RCW 47.39.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.39 - Scenic and Recreational Highway Act of 1967. › 47.39.090 - Consultation with other agencies and parties—Identification of tourist routes.

RCW 47.39.090
Consultation with other agencies and parties—Identification of tourist routes.
In developing the scenic and recreational highways program, the department shall consult with the department of commerce, the department of natural resources, the parks and recreation commission, affected cities, towns, and counties, regional transportation planning organizations, statewide bicycling organizations, and other interested parties. The scenic and recreational highways program may identify entire highway loops or similar tourist routes that could be developed to promote tourist activity and provide concurrent economic growth while protecting the scenic and recreational quality surrounding state highways.
[ 2023 c 470 § 2088; 1995 c 399 § 123; 1993 c 430 § 9.]
NOTES:
Explanatory statement—2023 c 470: See note following RCW 10.99.030.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.39 - Scenic and Recreational Highway Act of 1967. › 47.39.100 - Removal of designation.

RCW 47.39.100
Removal of designation.
(1) The commission may remove the designation of a route if it no longer possesses the intrinsic qualities or fails to meet the criteria that supported its designation.
(2) The department shall determine whether a roadway designated as a national scenic byway or an All-American Roadway is being properly maintained in accordance with the roadway's byway management plan, including preserving the intrinsic qualities that originally supported the designation. When the department determines that the intrinsic qualities of a national scenic byway or All-American Roadway have not been maintained sufficiently to retain its designation, the department shall notify the party responsible for maintaining the designation of the finding and allow the party an opportunity, under federal regulations, for corrective action before formal removal of the designation of the roadway.
(3) Local, regional, or other governmental bodies may notify the commission of the removal of a designated route if they determine it no longer meets the designation criteria, or community support for the designation no longer exists, or it no longer possesses the intrinsic qualities that supported its original designation.
(4) State or local removal of a designated route will result in discontinued state support of the designated route and can include, but is not limited to, state matching assistance for grant applications, the removal of signs directly related to the byway, free promotional information in the state-owned safety rest areas, and inclusion in maps, brochures, and electronic media.
[ 1999 c 218 § 7.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1999 c 218: See note following RCW 47.39.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.39 - Scenic and Recreational Highway Act of 1967. › 47.39.900 - Short title.

RCW 47.39.900
Short title.
RCW 47.39.010 through 47.39.910 shall constitute a new chapter in Title 47 RCW and shall be known and may be cited as the "Scenic and Recreational Highway Act of 1967."
[ 1967 ex.s. c 85 § 7.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.39 - Scenic and Recreational Highway Act of 1967. › 47.39.910 - Severability—1967 ex.s. c 85.

RCW 47.39.910
Severability—1967 ex.s. c 85.
If any provision of this act, or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act, or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.
[ 1967 ex.s. c 85 § 8.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.40 - Roadside Improvement and Beautification. › 47.40.010 - Improvement and beautification a highway purpose.

RCW 47.40.010
Improvement and beautification a highway purpose.
The planting and cultivating of any shrubs, trees, hedges or other domestic or native ornamental growth, the improvement of roadside facilities and view points, and the correction of unsightly conditions, upon the right-of-way of any state highway is hereby declared to be a proper state highway purpose.
[ 1961 c 13 § 47.40.010. Prior: 1937 c 53 § 88; RRS § 6400-88.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.40 - Roadside Improvement and Beautification. › 47.40.020 - Use of funds authorized.

RCW 47.40.020
Use of funds authorized.
Whenever funds are available for the planting or cultivation of any shrubs, trees, hedges, or other domestic or native ornamental growth, the improvement of roadside facilities and view points, the correction of unsightly conditions upon the right-of-way of any state highway, and for roadside development and beautification, the department is empowered to expend such funds, either independently or in conjunction with the funds of any county, political subdivision, or any person, firm, corporation, association, or organization.
[ 1984 c 7 § 210; 1961 c 13 § 47.40.020. Prior: 1937 c 53 § 89; RRS § 6400-89.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.40 - Roadside Improvement and Beautification. › 47.40.030 - Permit to private persons.

RCW 47.40.030
Permit to private persons.
Any person, firm, corporation, association, or organization owning lands abutting upon any state highway and desiring to plant, cultivate, and grow any hedge, shade trees, or ornamental trees or shrubs along the right-of-way thereof, or to clear and cultivate a portion of the state highway right-of-way for the purpose of growing crops and destroying noxious weeds, or any person, firm, corporation, association, or organization interested in public improvement and desiring to improve and beautify any state highway right-of-way or any portion thereof by planting, cultivating, or growing any hedge or shade or ornamental trees or cultivate along or upon the right-of-way thereof, may upon application to the department, be granted a permit therefor as provided by law.
[ 1984 c 7 § 211; 1961 c 13 § 47.40.030. Prior: 1937 c 53 § 90; RRS § 6400-90; prior: 1927 c 242 § 1; RRS § 6437-1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.40 - Roadside Improvement and Beautification. › 47.40.040 - Application for permit, contents.

RCW 47.40.040
Application for permit, contents.
Each application for a permit to plant, cultivate and grow any hedge, shade or ornamental trees or shrubbery along or upon the right-of-way of any state highway or improve such right-of-way shall be in writing, signed by the applicant, and shall describe the state highway or portion thereof along or upon the right-of-way of which permit to plant, cultivate, grow or improve is sought, by name, number, or other reasonable description, and the lands bordering thereon by governmental subdivisions, and shall state the names, places or residence and post office addresses of the applicant or applicants owning the land abutting upon such state highway or the name of the person, firm, corporation, association or organization applying for the permit and the names of its officers and their places of residence and their post office addresses, and shall state definitely the purpose for which the permit is sought, giving a description of the kind of hedge, or variety of shrubbery or trees desired to be planted or the kinds of crops to be grown, or improvement to be made, with a diagram illustrating the location and number of hedges, trees or shrubs or the area of cultivation desired or plans of the improvement proposed to be made. Whenever possible, applicants should use native forage plants that are pollen-rich or nectar-rich and beneficial for all pollinators, including honey bees, in order to develop habitat beneficial for the feeding, nesting, and reproduction of pollinators.
[ 2019 c 353 § 10; 1961 c 13 § 47.40.040. Prior: 1937 c 53 § 91; RRS § 6400-91; prior: 1927 c 242 § 2; RRS § 6437-2.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—2019 c 353: See note following RCW 43.23.300.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.40 - Roadside Improvement and Beautification. › 47.40.050 - Survey—Report—Permit.

RCW 47.40.050
Survey—Report—Permit.
Upon the filing of such application, the department shall cause a survey of the state highway to be made with reference to the application and a report of the findings and recommendations as to the granting of the permit, and if it appears to the satisfaction of the department that the use of a portion of the state highway for the purpose set out in the application will not interfere with the use of the state highway for public travel and will beautify and improve the state highway, a permit may be granted and issued to the applicant to plant, cultivate, and grow any hedge, shade or ornamental trees, shrubbery, or crops, or make such improvement along or upon the right-of-way of such portion of the state highway as is definitely described in the permit, and to construct and maintain such temporary and substantial fence on and along the portion of the right-of-way of the state highway described in the permit as is specified in the permit. The permit shall specify the exact location of all hedges, shade or ornamental trees, or shrubbery to be planted and grown, or the area to be cultivated under the permit, or the area to be improved to which specified location the person, firm, corporation, association, or organization receiving the permit shall specifically conform. The department may in its discretion refuse to issue the permit, and any such permit that is granted is revocable at the will of the department and nothing in this title may be construed as in anywise affecting the title of the state to the lands included in the state highway, or the right to use the lands for state highway purposes, or to remove or destroy any of such hedges, trees, shrubbery, or crops for the purpose of construction, alteration, repair, improvement, or maintenance of the state highway, or for any other purpose and at any time.
[ 1984 c 7 § 212; 1961 c 13 § 47.40.050. Prior: 1937 c 53 § 92; RRS § 6400-92; prior: 1927 c 242 § 3, part; RRS § 6437, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.40 - Roadside Improvement and Beautification. › 47.40.060 - Agreement to maintain project.

RCW 47.40.060
Agreement to maintain project.
If any such permit is granted, the department shall enter into an agreement with the person, firm, corporation, association, or organization agreeing that such roadside development or beautification shall be maintained and kept up by the state through the department or by the person, firm, corporation, association, or organization. If any such person, firm, corporation, association, or organization so agreeing fails or neglects to maintain the roadside development or beautification, the department is empowered to do so, and the expense thereof shall be a charge against the person, firm, corporation, association, or organization.
[ 1984 c 7 § 213; 1961 c 13 § 47.40.060. Prior: 1937 c 53 § 93; RRS § 6400-93; prior: 1927 c 242 § 3, part; RRS § 6437-3, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.40 - Roadside Improvement and Beautification. › 47.40.070 - Damaging project unlawful.

RCW 47.40.070
Damaging project unlawful.
It is unlawful for any person to injure, destroy, or remove any hedge, shade or ornamental trees, shrubbery, or crops, planted, cultivated, and grown or improvement made upon or along any portion of any state highway under permit from the department or otherwise, or to injure, destroy, or remove any fence erected under any such permit or otherwise. However, nothing in this section may be construed to prevent any person with the department to do so or the officers of the state charged with the duty of constructing and maintaining any such state highway, from removing any hedges, trees, shrubbery, or crops planted or improvements or fences built under permit, where in their judgment they interfere with or are detrimental to, the use of the state highway for public travel, or such removal is necessary for the construction, alteration, repair, improvement, or maintenance of the state highway.
[ 1984 c 7 § 214; 1961 c 13 § 47.40.070. Prior: 1937 c 53 § 94; RRS § 6400-94; prior: 1927 c 242 § 4; RRS § 6437-4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.40 - Roadside Improvement and Beautification. › 47.40.080 - Penalty for destroying native flora on state lands, highways, parks.

RCW 47.40.080
Penalty for destroying native flora on state lands, highways, parks.
Any person who shall break or cut from any lands owned by the state of Washington or shall cut down, remove, destroy or uproot any rhododendron, evergreen, huckleberry, native dogwood or any other native tree, shrub, fern, herb, bulb or wild plants, or any part thereof, within three hundred feet of the center line of any state or county road, or who shall cut down, remove or destroy any flowering or ornamental tree or shrub, or any native flowering plant, fern, herb or bulb, either perennial or annual, situate, growing or being on any public street or highway, state or city park, in the state of Washington, unless such person be engaged in the work of constructing or repairing such highway or street under authority and direction of the legally constituted public officials being charged by law with the duty of constructing or repairing such highways or streets, state or city parks, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[ 1961 c 13 § 47.40.080. Prior: 1933 c 133 § 1; 1925 ex.s. c 59 § 1; RRS § 2787-1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.40 - Roadside Improvement and Beautification. › 47.40.090 - Glass bottles along highways—Collection and removal.

RCW 47.40.090
Glass bottles along highways—Collection and removal.
The department and any other governmental subdivision shall, with the staff, equipment, and material under their control, or by contract with others, take all necessary actions to collect and remove any or all glass bottles or glass containers along the right-of-way of any public road or public highway.
[ 1984 c 7 § 215; 1969 ex.s. c 281 § 48.]
NOTES:
Deposit of unwholesome substance: RCW 9.66.050.
Removal of glass after accident: RCW 46.61.645.
Throwing glass on highway: RCW 46.61.645, 70A.200.060.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.40 - Roadside Improvement and Beautification. › 47.40.105 - Local adopt-a-highway programs.

RCW 47.40.105
Local adopt-a-highway programs.
Local government legislative authorities may enact local "adopt-a-highway sign" programs which are not inconsistent with state or federal law.
[ 1990 c 258 § 3.]
NOTES:
Legislative findings and intent—1990 c 258: See note following RCW 47.40.100.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.41 - Junkyards Adjacent to Interstate and Primary Highways. › 47.41.010 - Legislative declaration—Purpose.

RCW 47.41.010
Legislative declaration—Purpose.
For the purpose of promoting the public safety, health, welfare, convenience, and enjoyment of public travel, to protect the public investment in public highways, and to preserve and enhance the scenic beauty of lands bordering public highways, it is hereby declared to be in the public interest to regulate and restrict the establishment, operation, and maintenance of junkyards in areas adjacent to the interstate and federal-aid primary systems within this state. The legislature hereby finds and declares that junkyards which do not conform to the requirements of this chapter are public nuisances.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 101 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.41 - Junkyards Adjacent to Interstate and Primary Highways. › 47.41.020 - Definitions.

RCW 47.41.020
Definitions.
The definitions set forth in this section apply throughout this chapter.
(1) "Junk" means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, or junked, dismantled, or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material.
(2) "Automobile graveyard" means any establishment or place of business that is maintained, used, or operated by storing, keeping, buying, or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined, or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts.
(3) "Junkyard" means an establishment or place of business that is maintained, operated, or used for storing, keeping, buying, or selling junk or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard, and the term includes garbage dumps and sanitary fills.
(4) "Interstate system" means that portion of the national system of interstate and defense highways located within this state, as officially designated or as may hereafter be so designated by the department and approved by the United States secretary of transportation under Title 23 United States Code.
(5) "Federal-aid primary system" means that portion of connected main highways as officially designated or as may hereafter be so designated by the department and approved by the United States secretary of transportation as the federal-aid primary system pursuant to the provisions of Title 23 United States Code.
(6) "Department" means the Washington state department of transportation.
[ 1984 c 7 § 216; 1971 ex.s. c 101 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.41 - Junkyards Adjacent to Interstate and Primary Highways. › 47.41.030 - Junkyards adjacent to highways prohibited—Exceptions.

RCW 47.41.030
Junkyards adjacent to highways prohibited—Exceptions.
No person may establish, operate, or maintain a junkyard any portion of which is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of any interstate or federal-aid primary highway, except the following:
(1) Those which are screened by natural objects, plantings, fences, or other appropriate means so as not to be visible from the main-traveled way of the system or otherwise removed from sight;
(2) Those located within areas which are zoned for industrial use under authority of law;
(3) Those located within unzoned industrial areas, which areas shall be determined from actual land uses and defined by rules adopted by the department and approved by the United States secretary of transportation; and
(4) Those which are not visible from the main-traveled way of the system.
[ 1984 c 7 § 217; 1971 ex.s. c 101 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.41 - Junkyards Adjacent to Interstate and Primary Highways. › 47.41.040 - Screening or removal of junkyard.

RCW 47.41.040
Screening or removal of junkyard.
Before July 1, 1971, the department shall determine whether or not the topography of the land adjoining the highway will permit adequate screening of any junkyard lawfully in existence located outside of a zoned industrial area or an unzoned industrial area as defined under RCW 47.41.030 on August 9, 1971, that is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the main traveled way of any highway on the interstate and primary system and whether screening of the junkyard would be economically feasible. Within thirty days thereafter the department shall notify by certified mail the record owner of the land upon which the junkyard is located, or the operator thereof, of its determination.
If it is economically feasible to screen the junkyard, the department shall screen the junkyard so that it will not be visible from the main-traveled way of the highway. The department is authorized to acquire by gift, purchase, exchange, or condemnation such lands or interest in lands as may be required for these purposes.
If it is not economically feasible to screen the junkyard, the department shall acquire by purchase, gift, or condemnation an interest in the real property used for junkyard purposes that is visible from the main traveled way of the highway, restricting any owner of the remaining interest to use of the real estate for purposes other than a junkyard. In addition to compensation for the real property interest, the operator of a junkyard shall receive the actual reasonable expenses in moving his or her business personal property to a location within the same general area where a junkyard may be lawfully established, operated, and maintained. This section shall be interpreted as being in addition to all other rights and remedies of a junkyard owner or operator and shall not be interpreted as a limitation on or alteration of the law of compensation in eminent domain.
[ 2010 c 8 § 10015; 1984 c 7 § 218; 1971 ex.s. c 101 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.41 - Junkyards Adjacent to Interstate and Primary Highways. › 47.41.050 - Administrative rules—Review of action.

RCW 47.41.050
Administrative rules—Review of action.
The department shall adopt rules for the administration of this chapter consistent with the policy of this chapter and the national policy set forth in 23 U.S.C. Sec. 136, and the regulations promulgated thereunder by the United States secretary of transportation. Proceedings for review of any action taken by the department pursuant to this chapter shall be instituted by filing a petition only in the superior court of Thurston county.
[ 1984 c 7 § 219; 1971 ex.s. c 101 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.41 - Junkyards Adjacent to Interstate and Primary Highways. › 47.41.060 - Other laws not affected.

RCW 47.41.060
Other laws not affected.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to permit a person to maintain any junkyard that is otherwise prohibited by statute or by the resolution or ordinance of any county, city, or town, nor to abrogate or affect the lawful provisions of any statute, ordinance, regulation, or resolution which are more restrictive than the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 101 § 6.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.41 - Junkyards Adjacent to Interstate and Primary Highways. › 47.41.070 - Violations—Penalty—Abatement as public nuisance.

RCW 47.41.070
Violations—Penalty—Abatement as public nuisance.
(1) If the owner of the land upon which any such junkyard is located, or the operator thereof, as the case may be, fails to comply with the notice or remove any such junk within the time provided in this chapter after being so notified, he or she is guilty of a misdemeanor. In addition to the penalties imposed by law upon conviction, an order may be entered compelling compliance with this chapter. Each day the junkyard is maintained in a manner so as not to comply with this chapter constitutes a separate offense.
(2) If the operator of the junkyard or the owner of the property upon which it is located, as the case may be, is not found or refuses receipt of the notice, the department, the chief of the Washington state patrol, the county sheriff, or the chief of police of any city or town shall post the property upon which it is located with a notice that the junkyard constitutes a public nuisance and that the junk thereon must be removed as provided in this chapter. If the notice is not complied with, the department, the chief of the Washington state patrol, the county sheriff, or the chief of police of any city or town shall abate the nuisance and remove the junk, and for that purpose may enter upon private property without incurring liability for doing so.
[ 2003 c 53 § 261; 1984 c 7 § 220; 1971 ex.s. c 101 § 7.]
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 47.41 - Junkyards Adjacent to Interstate and Primary Highways. › 47.41.080 - Agreements with United States secretary of transportation.

RCW 47.41.080
Agreements with United States secretary of transportation.
The department is authorized to enter into agreements with the United States secretary of transportation as provided in Title 23 United States Code, relating to the control of junkyards in areas adjacent to the interstate and primary systems, and to take action in the name of the state to comply with the terms of the agreement.
[ 1984 c 7 § 221; 1971 ex.s. c 101 § 8.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.42 - Highway Advertising Control Act—Scenic Vistas Act. › 47.42.010 - Declaration of purpose.

RCW 47.42.010
Declaration of purpose.
The control of signs in areas adjacent to state highways of this state is hereby declared to be necessary to promote the public health, safety, welfare, convenience and enjoyment of public travel, to protect the public investment in the interstate system and other state highways, and to attract visitors to this state by conserving the natural beauty of areas adjacent to the interstate system, and of scenic areas adjacent to state highways upon which they travel in great numbers, and to insure that information in the specific interest of the traveling public is presented safely and effectively.
[ 1961 c 96 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.42 - Highway Advertising Control Act—Scenic Vistas Act. › 47.42.025 - Exclusions from scenic system.

RCW 47.42.025
Exclusions from scenic system.
The following sections of the scenic and recreational highway system are excluded from the scenic system as defined in subsection (7) of *RCW 47.42.020:
(1) Beginning on state route number 101 at the junction with Airport Road north of Shelton, thence north to a point two thousand feet north of Airport Road.
(2) Beginning on state route number 101 at the junction with Mill Creek Road south of Forks, thence north two and four-tenths miles to the Calawah River bridge.
(3) Beginning on state route number 105 at a point one-half mile southwest of the boundary of Aberdeen, thence northeast to the boundary of Aberdeen.
(4) Beginning on state route number 17 at a point nine-tenths of a mile west of Grape Drive in the vicinity of Moses Lake, thence easterly to a junction of Grape Drive.
(5) Beginning on state route number 12 at a point one-half mile south of the south boundary of Dayton, thence northerly to the south boundary of Dayton.
(6) Beginning on state route number 14 one-half mile west of the west boundary of Bingen, thence east to a point one-half mile east of the east boundary of Bingen.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 62 § 2.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 47.42.020 was alphabetized pursuant to RCW 1.08.015(2)(k), changing subsection (7) to subsection (9).
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 47 - Public Highways and Transportation › Chapter 47.42 - Highway Advertising Control Act—Scenic Vistas Act. › 47.42.030 - Signs visible from interstate, primary, or scenic systems restricted.

RCW 47.42.030
Signs visible from interstate, primary, or scenic systems restricted.
Except as permitted under this chapter, no person shall erect or maintain a sign which is visible from the main traveled way of the interstate system, the primary system, or the scenic system. In case a highway or a section of highway is both a part of the primary system and the scenic system, only those signs permitted along the scenic system shall be erected or maintained.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 62 § 3; 1961 c 96 § 3.]