(1) No person may operate a wheelchair conveyance on any public roadway with a posted speed limit in excess of thirty-five miles per hour.

(2) No person other than a wheelchair-bound person may operate a wheelchair conveyance on a public roadway.

(3) Every wheelchair-bound person operating a wheelchair conveyance upon a roadway is granted all the rights and is subject to all the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this chapter, except those provisions that by their nature can have no application.

(4) A violation of this section is a traffic infraction.

Severability—1983 c 200: See note following RCW 46.04.710.

Wheelchair conveyances

definitions: RCW 46.04.710.

operator's license: RCW 46.20.109.

registration: RCW 46.16A.405(3).

safety standards: RCW 46.37.610.