HomeMy WebLinkAbout3664 ORDINANCE NO. ~ ~ ~ .
AN ORDINANCE instituting monetary penalty
for failure to respond to any notice of
infraction for overtime parking viola-
~~ tions, and declaring an emergency~
WHEREAS, the State of Washington had enacted a statute
authorizing local legislative bodies, including the City of
Bremerton, to impose a penalty for all traffic infractions
including overtime parking violations and to impose penalties
for failure to respond to any notice of infraction, said statute
being codified in RCW 46.63.150; and
WHEREAS, the State Legislature has since repealed said
statute insofar as it applies to penalties for failure to re~pond
to any notice of infraction regarding overtime parking violations,
and has left said penalty for said violations up to local juris-
dictions, said repealing statute having been found in SB 3080,
Section 6(2); and
WHEREAS, it is now an emergency for the City to enact
its own ordinance imposing said penalty for failure to respond to
any notice of infraction for overtime parking violations, THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. There shall be a penalty of Twenty-five
dollars for failure to respond to any notice of traffic infraction
where the infraction relates to overtime parking as defined by
the Bremerton Municipal Code, or by other city ordinance or
regulation or resolution, as said 'enactments currently exist or
shall hereinafter be amended.
Section 2. It is hereby declared that there exists
an emergency and it is necessary in the public interest for this
ordinance to become effective immediately upon passage and
publication.
PASSED unanimously by the City Council of the City of
Bremerton, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in
authentication of such passage this /~% day of /~J¢~, 1981.
~JAR~--~T Mayor
ATTEST:
KA~H~EN L. MANDIO, City Clerk