It is the legislative intent in the adoption of this chapter in decriminalizing certain traffic offenses to promote the public safety and welfare on public highways and to facilitate the implementation of a uniform and expeditious system for the disposition of traffic infractions.
RCW 46.63.010
Legislative intent.
Applied in 20 court decisions — leading case 93 Wash. App. 453 - State v. Farr-Lenzini (1999)
Most recently applied in 199 Wash. 2d 236 - Williams v. City of Spokane (March 2022)
1979 ex.s. c 136 s 1.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.