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ORDINANCE NO. 3366
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS,
WASHINGTON, AMENDING SECTION 6.40.130 OF THE
EDMONDS CITY CODE TO CLARIFY A PROHIBITION
AGAINST PLACING COMMERCIAL HANDBILLS ON
VEHICLES, AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL
BECOME EFFECTIVE.
WHEREAS, the current provisions of ECC 6.40.130 prohibit non - commercial
handbills from being placed on vehicles, and
WHEREAS, recent case law calls into question the City's ability to restrict
placement of non - commercial handbills on vehicles, NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY -OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Edmonds City Code, Section 6.40.130 relating to a prohibition
against placing handbills on vehicles for a commercial purpose is hereby amended to read as
follows:
6.40.130 Placing handbills on vehicles for a commercial
purpose.
No person shall throw or deposit a handbill or other written
material in or upon any vehicle for a commercial purpose;
provided, however, that it is not unlawful in any public place for a
person to hand out or distribute without charge to the receiver
thereof, a commercial handbill or to place upon any vehicle a
handbill distributed for a non - commercial purpose upon any
vehicle.
Section 2. Effective Date. This ordinance, being an exercise of a power specifi-
cally delegated to the City legislative body, is not subject to referendum, and shall take effect
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five (5) days after passage and publication of an approved summary thereof consisting of the
title.
APPROVED:
M OR G Y HAAKENSON
ATTEST /AUTHENTICATED:
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CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
OFFICE OF THE C1JY ATTORNEY:
BY ( &
W. SCOTT SNYDER
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: 06/15/2001
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: 06/19/2001
PUBLISHED: 06/24/2001
EFFECTIVE DATE: 06/29/2001
ORDINANCE NO. 3366
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SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 3366
of the City of Edmonds, Washington
On the 19th day of June., 2001, the City Council of the City of Edmonds, passed
Ordinance No. 3366. A summary of the content of said ordinance, consisting of the title,
provides as follows:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, AMENDING SECTION
6.40.130 OF THE EDMONDS CITY CODE TO CLARIFY A PROHIBITION AGAINST
PLACING COMMERCIAL HANDBILLS ON VEHICLES, AND FIXING A TIME WHEN
THE SAME SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE.
The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon request.
DATED this 20th day of June, 2001.
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ITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
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Affidavit of Publication
STATE OF WASHINGTON. cs
COUNTY OF SNOHOr4ISH.
SUMMARY OF
ORDINAN ENO.3366
The undersigned, being first duly sworn on oath deposes and says
OT the City of dmonds,
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On the 19th day of June, 2001,
that she is Principal Clerk of THE HERALD, a daily newspaper
I c ty council of the city of
Edmonds,
P ranted and published in the City of Everett, County of Snohomish,
passed Ordinance No.
3366. A summary of the content
of said ordinance, consisting of
and State of Washington; that said newspaper is a newspaper of
the title, provides as follows:
AN OR OF THE CITY
general circulation in said County and State; that said newspaper
OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON,
AMENDING SECTION 6.40.
has been approved as a legal newspaper by order of the Superior
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TO CLARIFY A PROHIBITION
AGAINST PLACING COMMER-
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WHEN THE SAME SHALL
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Summary of Ordinance No. 3366
Ordinance
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will be mailed upon request.
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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:
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and that said newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers
during all of said peri d.
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