HomeMy WebLinkAbout3219 AN ORDINANCE providing for the collection
of a penalty assessment for the offenses
of Driving While Intoxicated and Being. in
Actual Physical Control of a Vehicle
While Intoxicated and creating separate
funds for the collection and maintenance
of said funds and for their payment to the
State Highway Fund.
WHEREAS R.C.W. 46.61.515 (2) requires that there be
levied and paid into the Highway Safety Fund of the State
Treasury a penalty assessment in the minimum amount of twenty-
five percent of, and which shall be in addition to, any fine,
bail forfeiture, or costs on all offenses involving a violation
of any State statute, or City or County ordinance relating to
Driving a Motor Vehicle While Under the Influence of Intoxicating
Liquor or Being in Actual Physical Control of a Motor Vehicle
While Under the Influence of Intoxicating Liquor.
WHEREAS R.C.W. 46.61.518 requires that the gross
proceeds from all such Highway Safety Fund assessment penalties
under R.C.W. 46.61.515 (2) be separately accounted for and
transmitted to the City or County Treasurer, as the case may
be, by the Court collecting the same, in the manner and at the
times that fines and bail forfeitures are transmitted to such
Treasurers and that the City and County Treasurers shall also
separately account for such monies, place them in a separate
fund, and shall transmit to the State Treasurer monthly and
without deduction the gross amount of such penalty assessments
received, which shall be credited forthwith to the Highway
Safety Fund of the State Treasury.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. That there be levied and collected a penalty
assessment in the minimum amount of 25 percent o~ which shall be
in addition t~ any fine, bail forfeiture or cost on all offenses
involving a violation of any State statute or City er Ccunty
ordinance relating to Driving a Motor Vehicle While Under the
Influence of Intoxicating Liquor or Being in Actual Physical
Control of a Motor Vehicle While Under the Influence of
Intoxicating Liquor in accordance with R.C.W. 46.61.515 (2).
Section 2. All such penalties assessed under
Section 1 hereof shall be separately accounted for and
transmitted to the City Treasurer's office by the Bremerton
Municipal Court in the same manner and at the time that the
fines and bail forfeitures are transmitted to such Treasurer's
Office. The separate funds so created shall be titled "The
Motor Vehicle Intoxication Fund".
Section 3. The Bremerton City Treasurer's Office
shall also separately account for such monies and shall place
them in a separate account to be titled "The Motor Vehicle
Intoxication Fund" and shall transmit to the State Treasurer's
Office monthly and without deduction the gross amount of such
penalty assessments received, to be credited forthwith to The
Highway Safety Fund of the State Treasury in accordance with
R.C.W. 46.61.518.
APPROVED by the City Council on the first reading
this _~ day of April, 1975.
PASSED 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
April, 1975.
°~LkNN K. JARSTA~Mayof-
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