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ORDINANCE NO. 2464
AN ORDINANCE imposing a penalty fee for checks returned
for insufficient funds.
WHEREAS, the return of bank checks to the finance depart-
ment for insufficient funds is a continuing problem that
causes the expenditure of employee time and city funds to
correct, NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO, WASHINGTON, DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section One. Any person, corporation, business, partner-
ship or other entity or association, issuing a bank check or
draft to the City of Pasco, or any of its departments, shall
be assessed by the city finance department a penalty fee of
ten dollars ($10.00), if the bank check or draft is returned
to the city by a bank because of insufficient funds in the
account of the payor or because the account of the payor is
closed.
Section Two. The city finance department and any other
city department is authorized not to accept the bank check
or draft of a person, corporation, business, partnership, or
other entity or association assessed the above penalty fee until
the penalty fee has been paid along with the amount of the
underlying bank check or draft by cash, cashier's check or
money order.
Section Three. Notice of the penalty fee imposed by
Section One of this ordinance and the authority imposed by
Section Two of this ordinance shall be posted in the city
finance department at a place or places that is open to the
view of the general public at city hall.
Section Four. This ordinance shall take effect five (5)
days after passage and publication according to law.
PASSED this /K5 -- day of August, 1983 and approved by
the Mayor.
ve le1 s, City Clerk
VED AS TO FORM -
re Rubstello, City torney
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ORDINANCE NO 2464
AN ORDINANCE impos
ing a penalty fee for checks1
returned for insufficient'
funds
WHEREAS the return of
bank checks to the finance
department for insufficient' 1
1 funas is a continuing prob-I
lem that causes the expen-
' diture of employee time and
city funds to correct NOW
THEREFORE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF PASCO
WASHINGTON DO OR-
DAIN AS FOLLOWS
Section One Any per-
son corppration business
partnership or other entity
or assodation issuing a
bank chlk or draft to the
City of Psco or any of its
departme ts shall be as-
sessed by the city finance
department a penalty fee of
ten dollars ($10 00) if the
bank check or draft is re
turned to the city by a bank
because of insufficient
funds in the account of the
payor or because the ac
count of the payor is
closed
Section Two The city
nance department and any
other city department is au-
thorized not to accept the
bank check or draft of a
person corporation busi-
ness, partnership or other
entity or association as
sessed the above penalty
fee until the penalty fee has
been paid along with the
amount of the underlying
bank check or draft by
cash cashier s check or
money order
Section Three Notice of
the penalty fee imposed by
Section One of this ordi
nance and the authority im-
posed by Section Two of
this ordinance shall be
posted in the city finance
department at a place or
places that is open to the
view of the general public
at city hall
Section Four This ordi-
nance shall take effect five
(5) days after passage and
publication according to
II law
PASSED this 15 day of
August 1983 and ap-
proved by the Mayor
s-E A Snider
Mayor
ATTEST
s Evelyn Wells
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM
-s Greg A Rubstello
City Attorney
Legal No 15690 August
19 198 3
STATE OF WASHINGTON
Eileen Scott , being first duly sworn on oath deposes
and says she is the princ ipal 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
copy of a legal advertisement "Ordinance No 2464....”
as It was printed in the regular and entire issue of the Tri-City Herald itself and not in a
supplement thereof, for a period of 1 tlme Ecoorcirtommeedos 7 commencing
on the 19th d ay o f August , 19 8 3 , and
19th August ending on the day of 7 19 83 , and that said
newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers during all of this period
That the full amount of $ 46.20 has been paid in full, also at the rate of
7 inches @ $6.60 =$46,2o
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22nd day of AlAg118t ,19 83
Notary Public in and for the State of Washington residing at Pasco
FINANCE DEPARTMEN1
13091 545.3401
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P 0 BOX 293 412 WEST CLARK PASCO, WASHINGTON 99301
August 16, 1983
In City Herald
P.O. Box 2608
Pasco, Washington 99302
Gentlemen:
Please publish Ordinance Nos. 2462, 2463 and 2464 on the
following date:
August 19, 1983
Please send two (2) Affidavits of Publication for each.
Sincerely yours,
/7
Evelyn Wells
City Clerk
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