Ordinance 27820006.160.003B
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06/08/90
ORDINANCE NO. 2782
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON,
ADDING A NEW SECTION 5.05.128.1 TO THE EDMONDS
CITY CODE TO ADOPT BY REFERENCE THE STATE LAW
PROHIBITING THE USE OF DOMESTIC DOGS AND CATS AS
BAIT FOR THE PURPOSE OF TRAINING OTHER ANIMALS;
CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND SETTING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the Edmonds City Council recognizes that the
Washington State Legislature created new crimes prohibiting the
use of "domestic dogs or cats as bait, prey, or targets for the
purpose of training dogs, or other animals to track, fight, or
hunt, in such a fashion as to torture, torment, deprive of
necessary sustenance, cruelly beat, or mutilate such animals,"
and
WHEREAS, the Edmonds City Council finds that the
adoption by reference of this new law is in the interest of
public health, safety and welfare, NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. There is hereby added to the Edmonds City
Code a new section 5.05.128.1 to read as follows:
5.05.128.1 Use of domestic dogs and cats as
bait. Chapter 226, Section 1, Laws of 1990,
including all future amendments, is hereby
adopted by reference .
Section 2. If any section, sentence, clause or phrase
of this ordinance should be held to be invalid or unconstitutional
by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or
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unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or
constitutionality of any other section, sentence, clause or phrase
of this ordinance.
Section 3. This ordinance, being an exercise of a
power specifically delegated to the City legislative body, is not
subject to referendum, and shall take effect five (5) days after
passage and publication of the ordinance or a summary thereof
consisting of the title.
APPROVED:
MAYO , . NAUGHTEN
ATTEST/AUTHENTICATED:
ITY CLERK, JACQUELINE G. PARRETT
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY:
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FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: June 8, 1990
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: June 26, 1990
PUBLISHED: July 1, 1990
EFFECTIVE DATE: yl j 6, 1990
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STATE OF WASHINGTON,
COUNTY OF SNOH0IVISH,
t W"on[i9, posSed .OrrAnallce No.
2702. A ilmnury at the consent
of Sold ordinonC@, consl5tlnp at
file FIlle, eravldes as 1d11aW5_
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY
OF ANG OAOS (4EWW S 5EC H) DO4
511Tp THE EDMONDS
CITY LffFSC` TO ADOPT BY
RCFERENCE THE STATE LAW
PRO" ISITING MC FAILURE TO
STOP A VESSEC--WPOW THE
REQIJEST OF A LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER -
CONTAINING A SEVERABILITJ
CLAUSE AND SETTING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
The lull te:l of ibis Ordinance
Will he reel lod upon rectu CSt.
DATED thl5 ?41h duy of June.
190,
JACOUFxLINE G. PARRETT
City £I-
Publ"nd;)tt ly 1, 1990.
Affidavit of Publication
The undersigned, being first duly sworn on oath deposes and says
that she is Principal Clerk of THE HERALD, a daily newspaper
printed and published in the City of Everett, County of Snohomish,
and State of Washington; that said newspaper is a newspaper of
general circulation in said County and State; that said newspaper
has been approved as a legal newspaper by order of the Superior
Court of Snohomish County and that the notice ........................................
Summary _of .Ordinance No. 2782
a printed copy of which is hereunto attached, was published in said
newspaper proper and not in supplement form, in the regular and
entire edition of said paper on the following days and times, namely:
July 1, 1990
and that said newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers
during all of said period.
Principal Clerk
Subscribed and sworn to before me this.........2th
day of.......... ::... u l .._.........y `...................... 19..90
y.
Notary Public in grid for the State of Washington,
reesidixig at Everett, Snohomish County.
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