After February 24, 1937, no building, loading
platform, or other structure which will tend to obstruct the
vision of travelers on a highway or parkway, of approaching
railway traffic, shall be erected or placed on railroad or public
highway rights-of-way within a distance of one hundred feet of
any grade crossing located outside the corporate limits of any
city or town unless authorized by the commission, and no trains,
railway cars or equipment shall be spotted less than one hundred
feet from any grade crossing within or without the corporate
limits of any city or town except to serve station facilities and
existing facilities of industries.
The commission shall have the power to specify the minimum
vertical and horizontal clearance of under-crossings constructed,
repaired or reconstructed after February 24, 1937, except as to
primary state highways.
[1969 ex.s. c 210 § 9; 1961 c 14 §81.53.080 . Prior: 1937 c 22 § 2, part; 1921 c 138 § 1, part; 1913 c 30 § 4, part; RRS § 10514, part. Formerly RCW 81.52.150.]