The Department of Licensing (DOL) recently discovered that the State’s Model Traffic Ordinance (MTO) has not been updated to reflect new traffic laws since 2004.  This may lead to the dismissal of certain trafffic citations issued by municipalities with traffic codes based on the MTO.  For more information directly from DOL, see their July 15 blog posting.

For more information about the enabling statute for the MTO, see RCW 46.90.  To read the text of the MTO, see WAC 308-330.