HomeMy WebLinkAbout2458 OrdinanceORDINANCE NO. 2458
AN ORDINANCE relating to penalties for traffic offenses
and infractions; amending § 10.05.010 of
the PMC; repealing § 10.05.060 of the PMC;
declaring an emergency; and providing an
effective date.
WHEREAS, the state legislature has specifically
provided by passage of laws 1983 Chapter 165 5 49 that
"Except as limited by the maximum penalties authorized by
law, no city or town may establish a penalty for an act
that constitutes the crime of driving while under the
influence of intoxicating Liquor or any drug, as provided
in RCW 46.61.502, or the crime of being in actual physical
control of a motor vehicle while under the Influence of
intoxicating liquor or any drug, as provided in RCW 46.61.504,
that is less than the penalties prescribed for those crimes
in RCW 46.61.515; and
WHEREAS, thd City of Pasco has prescribed penalties less
than the penalties prescribed for those crimes through the
exception of the penalty provisions of the Model Traffic
Ordinance in § 10.05.010 PMC and by specific Penalties set
forth in § 10.05.060 PMC; and
WHEREAS, the effective date of the above state legislation
is July 1, 1983, and the City of Pasco must in the furtherance
of law comply with the above stated state legislation, now,
therefore,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO, WASHINGTON DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section One. § 10.05.010 of the Pasco Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows (deletions in text are
indicated by strikeouts AW4000Y):
10.05.010 ADOPTION BY REFERENCE. The "Washington
Model Traffic Ordinance," RCW Chapter 46.90, herein-
after referred to as the "MTO," and RCW 46.52.088,
46.61.202, 46.61.215, 46.61.261, 46 61.264, 46.61.266,
46.61.269 with exception of paragraph (1) thereof,
46.61.540, 46.61.606, 46.61.608, 46.61.614, 46.61.017,
and as are presently or are hereinafter amended or
repealed are adopted by reference as and for the
traffic ordinance of this city as if set forth in full
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APP
Section Two. § 10.05.060 of the Pasco Municipal Code
is hereby repealed in its entirety
Section Three. §§ 1 and 2 of this ordinance shall take
effect immediately for all traffic offenses and infractions
occurring subsequent to the passage of this ordinance. This
is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace,
health, and safety, support of state government and its
existing public institutions, and compliance with the law.
PASSED this S — day of July, 1983.
E. A Snider, Mayor
ATTEST- --
Evelyn 0 ells, City Clerk
COUNTY OF
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
Franklin
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STATE OF WASHINGTON
Bileen Scott , being first duly sworn on oath deposes
and says she is the Principal clerk of the Tr-City Herald,
a daily newspaper That said newspaper is a legal newspaper and has been approved as a
legal newspaper by order of the superior court in the county in which it is published and
it is now and has been for more than six months prior to the date of the publication
hereinafter referred to, published in the English language continually as a daily news-
Franklin paper in County,
Washington, and is now and during all of said time was printed in an office maintained
at the aforesaid place of publication of said newspaper That the annexed is a true
copyofa legal advertisement "Ordinance No. 2458 soego
as it was printed in the regular and entire issue of the Tr-City Herald itself and not in a
supplement thereof, for a period of One time XIMEERNWPWrcommencing
8th y on the 8 day of Jul , 19 83 , and
ending on the 8th day of July , 19 83 — , and that said
newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers during all of this period
That the full amount of $ 66 -00 has been paid in full, also at the rate of
10 inches @ k. .60 is $66.00
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 32thday of
Notary Public in and for the State of Washington, residing at Pasco
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FINANCE DI TIARTMENT
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P. O. BOX 293 412 WEST CLARK PASCO, WASHINGTON 99301
July 6, 1983
In City Herald
P.O. Box 2608
Pasco, Washington 99302
Gentlemen:
Please publish Ordinance No 2458 on the following
date:
July 8, 1983
Please send two (2) Affidavits of Publication.
Sincerely yours,
Evelyn Wells
City Clerk
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