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                         SENATE BILL 6248

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By Senators Heavey, Johnson, McCaslin and Costa

Read first time 01/12/2000.  Referred to Committee on State & Local Government.

Requiring certification of parking meters.

    AN ACT Relating to parking meter violations in cities over four hundred thousand population; and adding a new section to chapter 35.20 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 35.20 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) The mayor of a city with a population over four hundred thousand that prosecutes or enforces parking meter violations shall, by July 1st of each calendar year, certify under oath or affirmation that all parking meters under the jurisdiction of the city have been inspected within the past ninety days and were either (a) working properly upon inspection or (b) repaired and working properly after the inspection.

    (2) If in any year the mayor fails to make the certification required by subsection (1) of this section, no tickets or citations for parking meter violations may be issued after July 1st of that year.

    (3) If the mayor makes the certification required in subsection (1) of this section after July 1st of any year, no tickets or citations for parking meter violations may be issued until fourteen days have elapsed from the time of certification.

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