Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 46 Motor Vehicles - Section 46.38.020 Legislative findings

§ 46.38.020. Legislative findings

The legislature finds that:

(1) The public safety necessitates the continuous development, modernization and implementation of standards and requirements of law relating to vehicle equipment, in accordance with expert knowledge and opinion.

(2) The public safety further requires that such standards and requirements be uniform from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, except to the extent that specific and compelling evidence supports variation.

(3) The state patrol, acting upon recommendations of the vehicle equipment safety commission and pursuant to the vehicle equipment safety compact provides a just, equitable and orderly means of promoting the public safety in the manner and within the scope contemplated by this chapter.

[1987 c 330 § 735; 1963 c 204 § 2.]

Notes:
     Construction -- Application of rules -- Severability -- 1987 c 330: See notes following RCW 28B.12.050.

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