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SENATE BILL 5042
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Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995
Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/09/95. Referred to Committee
on Government Operations.
Directing cities and towns to
deliver copies of new ordinances to the municipal research council.
AN ACT Relating to
ordinance information pooling; amending RCW 35A.39.010; and adding a new
section to chapter 35.21 RCW.
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 35A.39.010 and 1967
ex.s. c 119 s 35A.39.010 are each amended to read as follows:
Every code
city shall keep a journal of minutes of its legislative meetings with orders,
resolutions and ordinances passed, and records of the proceedings of any city
department, division or commission performing quasi judicial functions as
required by ordinances of the city and general laws of the state and shall keep
such records open to the public as required by RCW 42.32.030 and shall keep and
preserve all public records and publications or reproduce and destroy the same
as provided by Title 40 RCW. Each code city ((shall provide three copies of
each of its ordinances of general application to the association of Washington
cities without charge and)) may duplicate and sell copies of its ordinances
at fees reasonably calculated to defray the cost of such duplication and
handling.
