Lamps, Side Marker Lamps, Back-Up Lamps, and
Reflectors.
8.37.110
Mounting of Reflectors, Clearance Lamps, Identification Lamps, and
Side Marker Lamps.
8.37.120
Visibility of Reflectors, Clearance Lamps, Identification Lamps, and
Side Marker Lamps
8.37.130
Obstructed Lights Not Required
8.37.140
Lamps, Reflectors, and Flags on Projecting Load
8.37.150
Lamps on Vehicles - Parked or Stopped Vehicles, Lighting
Requirements
8.37.160
Hazard Warning Lights and Reflectors on Farm Equipment - Slow-
Moving Vehicle Emblem
8.37.170
Lamps and Reflectors on Other Vehicles and Equipment - Slow-Moving
Vehicle Emblem on Animal-Drawn Vehicles
8.37.180
Spot Lamps and Auxiliary Lamps
8.37.184
Red Flashing Lights on Fire Department Vehicles
8.37.185
Firemen's Private Cars
8.37.190
Warning Devices on Vehicles - Other Drivers Yield and Stop
8.37.193
Signs on Buses
8.37.196
Red Lights on Emergency Tow Trucks
8.37.200
Stop Lamps and Electric Turn Signals
8.37.210
Additional Lighting Equipment
8.37.215
Hazard Warning Lamps
8.37.220
Multiple-Beam Road-Lighting Equipment
8.37.230
Use of Multiple-Beam Road-Lighting Equipment
8.37.240
Single-Beam Road-Lighting Equipment
8.37.260
Alternate Road Lighting Equipment
8.37.270
Number of Lamps Required - Number of Additional Lamps Permitted
8.37.280
Special Restrictions on Lamps
8.37.310
Selling or Using Lamps or Equipment
8.37.340
Braking Equipment Required
8.37.360
Maintenance of Brakes - Brake System Failure Indicator
8.37.369
Wheels and Front Suspension
8.37.375
Steering and Suspension Systems
8.37.380
Horns, Warning Devices, and Theft Alarms
8.37.390
Mufflers
8.37.400
Mirrors
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8.37.410
Windshields Required, Unobstructed and Equipped with Wipers
8.37.420
Tires - Restrictions
8.37.423
Pneumatic Tires
8.37.424
Regrooved Tires (Retreads)
8.37.425
Tires - Unsafe
8.37.430
Sunscreening or Coloring
8.37.440
Flares or Other Warning Devices Required on Certain Vehicles
8.37.450
Disabled Vehicle - Display of Warning Devices
8.37.460
Vehicles Transporting Explosives
8.37.465
Fuel System
8.37.467
Vehicle with Alternative Fuel Source
8.37.480
Television Viewers - Earphones
8.37.490
Safety Load Chains and Devices Required
8.37.500
Fenders or Splash Aprons
8.37.510
Seat Belts and Shoulder Harnesses
8.37.513
Bumpers
8.37.517
Body and Body Hardware
8.37.523
Motorcycles and Motor-Driven Cycles - Head Lamps
8.37.524
Motor-Driven Cycles - Head Lamps
8.37.525
Motorcycles and Motor-Driven Cycles - Tail Lamps, Reflectors, and
Stop Lamps
8.37.527
Motorcycles and Motor-Driven Cycles - Brake Requirements
8.37.528
Motorcycles and Motor-Driven Cycles - Performance Ability of Brakes
8.37.530
Motorcycles, Motor-Driven Cycles, or Mopeds - Helmets, Other
Equipment - Children - Rules
8.37.537
Motorcycles - Exhaust System
8.37.539
Motorcycles and Motor-Driven Cycles - Additional Requirements and
Limitations
8.37.540
Odometers - Disconnecting, Resetting, or Turning Back Prohibited
8.37.550
Odometers - Selling Motor Vehicle Knowing Odometer Turned Back
Unlawful
8.37.560
Odometers - Selling Motor Vehicle Knowing Odometer Replaced
Unlawful
8.37.570
Odometers - Selling, Advertising, Using, or Installing Device Which
Causes Other than True Mileage to Be Registered
8.37.590
Odometers - Purchaser Plaintiff to Recover Costs and Attorney's Fee,
When
8.37.600
Liability of Operator, Owner, Lessee for Violations
8.37.620
School Buses - Crossing Arms


8.37.010
Scope and Effect of Regulations - General Penalty

(a) It is a traffic infraction for any person to drive or move or for the owner to cause or
knowingly permit to be driven or moved on any highway any vehicle or combination of
vehicles which is in such unsafe condition as to endanger any person, or which does not
contain those parts or is not at all times equipped with the lamps and other equipment in
proper condition and adjustment as required in this Chapter or in regulations issued by the
Chief of Police of the Skokomish Tribe, or which is equipped in any manner in violation of
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this Chapter or the Chief of Police's regulations, or for any person to do any act forbidden or
fail to perform any act required under this Chapter or the Chief of Police's regulations.

(b) Nothing contained in this Chapter or the Chief of Police's regulations shall be construed
to prohibit the use of additional parts and accessories on any vehicle not inconsistent with the
provisions of this Chapter or the Chief of Police's regulations.

(c) The provisions of this Chapter and the Chief of Police's regulations with respect to
equipment on vehicles do not apply to implements of husbandry, road machinery, road rollers,
or farm tractors except as made applicable.

(d) No owner or operator of a farm tractor, self-propelled unit of farm equipment, or
implement of husbandry is guilty of a crime or subject to penalty for violation of 8.37.160
unless the violation occurs on a public highway.

(e) The provisions of this Chapter with respect to equipment required on vehicles shall not
apply to motorcycles or motor-driven cycles except as specifically made applicable.

(f) Whenever a traffic infraction is chargeable to the owner or lessee of a vehicle under
subsection (a) of this section, the driver shall not be arrested or issued a notice of traffic
infraction unless the vehicle is registered in a jurisdiction other than Washington state, or
unless the infraction is for an offense that is clearly within the responsibility of the driver.

(g) Whenever the owner or lessee is issued a notice of traffic infraction under this section the
court may, on the request of the owner or lessee, take appropriate steps to make the driver of
the vehicle, or any other person who directs the loading, maintenance, or operation of the
vehicle, a codefendant. If the codefendant is held solely responsible and is found to have
committed the traffic infraction, the court may dismiss the notice against the owner or lessee.

8.37.020
When Lighted Lamps and Signaling Devices Are Required

Every vehicle upon a highway at any time from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise
and at any other time when, due to insufficient light or unfavorable atmospheric conditions, persons
and vehicles on the highway are not clearly discernible at a distance of one thousand feet ahead shall
display lighted head lights, other lights, and illuminating devices as required for different classes of
vehicles, subject to exceptions with respect to parked vehicles. The stop lights, turn signals, and other
signaling devices shall be lighted as prescribed for the use of the devices.

8.37.030
Visibility Distance and Mounted Height of Lamps

(a) Whenever a requirement is declared as to distance from which certain lamps and devices
shall render objects visible or within which the lamps or devices shall be visible, these
provisions shall apply during the times that lights are required in respect to a vehicle without
load, on a straight, level, unlighted highway under normal atmospheric conditions unless a
different time or condition is expressly stated.

(b) The mounted height of lamps or devices means from the center of the lamp or device to
the level ground when the vehicle is without a load.

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(c) No additional lamp, reflective device, or other motor vehicle equipment shall be added
which impairs the effectiveness of this standard.

8.37.040
Head Lamps on Motor Vehicles

(a) Every motor vehicle shall be equipped with at least two head lamps, with at least one on
each side of the front of the motor vehicle, which comply with the requirements and
limitations in this chapter.

(b) Every head lamp upon every motor vehicle shall be located at a height of not more than
fifty-four inches nor less than twenty-four inches.

8.37.050
Tail Lamps

(a) Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer, and any other vehicle being drawn at
the end of a combination of vehicles, shall be equipped with at least two tail lamps mounted
on the rear, which, when lighted during the time that lights are required, shall emit a red light
plainly visible from a distance of one thousand feet to the rear, except that passenger cars
manufactured or assembled prior to January 1, 1939, shall have at least one tail lamp. On a
combination of vehicles only the tail lamps on the rearmost vehicle need actually be seen from
the distance specified. On vehicles equipped with more than one tail lamp, the lamps shall be
mounted on the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable.

(b) Every tail lamp upon every vehicle shall be located at a height of not more than seventy-
two inches nor less than fifteen inches.

(c) Either a tail lamp or a separate lamp shall be so constructed and placed as to illuminate
with a white light the rear registration plate and render it clearly legible from a distance of
fifty feet to the rear. Any tail lamp or tail lamps, together with any separate lamp or lamps for
illuminating the rear registration plate, shall be lighted whenever the head lamps or auxiliary
driving lamps are lighted.

8.37.060
Reflectors

(a) Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, and pole trailer shall carry on the rear, either as a
part of the tail lamps or separately, two or more red reflectors.

(b) Every refle