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                                                     SENATE BILL 5118

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Senators Drew and von Reichbauer

Read first time 01/13/93.  Referred to Committee on Government Operations.

Changing provisions relating to municipal ordinances.

          AN ACT Relating to ordinances of cities and towns; amending RCW 35.27.320; adding a new section to chapter 35.21 RCW; and prescribing penalties.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 35.21 RCW to read as follows:

          (1) It is the purpose of this section to provide a means whereby all cities and towns may obtain, through a single source, information regarding ordinances of other cities and towns that may be of assistance to them in enacting appropriate local legislation.

          (2) For the purposes of this section, (a) "clerk" means the city or town clerk or other person who is lawfully designated to perform the recordkeeping function of that office, and (b) "municipal research council" means the municipal research council created by chapter 43.110 RCW.

          (3) The clerk of every city and town is directed to provide to the municipal research council or its designee, promptly after adoption, a copy of each of its regulatory ordinances and such other ordinances or kinds of ordinances as may be described in a list or lists promulgated by the municipal research council or its designee from time to time, and may provide such copies without charge.  The municipal research council may provide that information to the entity with which it contracts for the provision of municipal research and services, in order to provide a pool of information for all cities and towns in the state of Washington.

          (4) This section is intended to be directory and not mandatory.

        Sec. 2.  RCW 35.27.320 and 1965 c 7 s 35.27.320 are each amended to read as follows:

          The violation of an ordinance of a town shall be a misdemeanor or a civil violation subject to a monetary penalty, and may be prosecuted by the authorities thereof in the name of the people of the state of Washington or may be redressed by civil action.

          Any person sentenced to imprisonment may be imprisoned in the town jail, or if the council by ordinance shall so prescribe and if the county commissioners have consented thereto, he may be imprisoned in the county jail, the expense thereof to be a charge against the town and in favor of the county.

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