Washington Administrative Code › Title 468 - Transportation, Department of (See Title 88) › Chapter 468-400 - Bicycle racing › Section 468-400-040 - Bicycle race permit conditions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1)
			 Bicycle race permits shall be granted only under conditions that ensure
			 reasonable safety for participants, spectators, and other highway users.
			 Reasonable safety implies that race participants, spectators, and other highway
			 users have been accommodated during the planning process in a manner that
			 minimizes the possibility of placing one highway user in conflict with
			 another.
(2) Bicycle race permit
			 requests must include a race description stating all the pertinent information
			 required to understanding the bicycle race event. The request must include a
			 map showing the roadway on which the race will be held. Applications must
			 specify the number of escort vehicles on the roadway used to conduct the race,
			 starting and anticipated finishing time, maximum number of racers, number and
			 training of course marshals, types of signing, and communications
			 equipment.
(3) Approval of other
			 involved jurisdictions shall be obtained prior to formal issuance of a bicycle
			 race permit from the department.
(4) If the race only crosses a state highway,
			 the department region administrator may waive the need for a bicycle race
			 permit provided the permittee can show that reasonable traffic control and
			 safety are provided by the organizer and other road authority: Provided
			 further, That the permittee provide the indemnification and liability insurance
			 prescribed in subsections (6) and (7) of this section.
(5) Bicycle racing will not normally be
			 allowed on the Interstate Highway System.
(6) The permittee shall indemnify, defend and
			 save harmless the state of Washington for any claim, suit, action for injuries,
			 death or any other cause of personal injury or property damage arising from the
			 issuance of a bicycle race permit, including claims of race participants,
			 pedestrians, or other roadway users.
(7) The permittee shall obtain liability
			 insurance in an amount no less than two million dollars to cover the state of
			 Washington for any and all liabilities, including all costs, attorney fees,
			 judgments or other expenses, arising from the use of state highways for the
			 bicycle race event. The state shall be named as an additional insured on all
			 insurance policies. When motor vehicles participate during the event, liability
			 insurance for those vehicles is also required.
(8) When five or more vehicles are lined up
			 behind a bicycle race and delayed for more than five minutes, the bicycle race
			 shall be neutralized at a place of safety to allow the delayed vehicles to
			 pass.
(9) Requests for bicycle race
			 permits must comply with the latest edition of the department's
			 "
Washington State Bicycle Racing Guidelines.
"
(10) The original or certified copy of the
			 permit must be available at the bicycle race for the duration of the bicycle
			 race event.
The "
Washington State Bicycle Racing
				Guidelines
" may be obtained from the department's web
				site.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  47.36.030. 10-23-075, § 468-400-040,
				  filed 11/15/10, effective 12/16/10. Statutory Authority:
				  Chapters
				  34.05 and
				  34.08 RCW. 98-06-029 (Order 171),
				  § 468-400-040, filed 2/26/98, effective
				  3/29/98.