Ordinance 34390006.90000
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ORDINANCE NO. 3439
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS,
WASHINGTON, AMENDING ECC 4.72.010 DEFINITIONS,
SECTION (B) RELATING TO BUSINESS; TO CONFIRM
EXCLUSION OF OCCUPATIONS LICENSED PURSUANT TO
CHAPTER 3.20, AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME
SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE.
WHEREAS, the City licenses businesses and/or occupations under a number of
different structures; and
license; and
WHEREAS, the majority of businesses within the City pay a fee for a business
WHEREAS, certain utilities are licensed under ECC Chapter 3.20 as
"occupations "; and
WHEREAS, ECC 4.72.010(B) exempts certain occupations which pay franchise
or other significant fees to the City under regulatory structures other than business license
requirements; and
WHEREAS, garbage collection regulated pursuant to repealed Chapter 4.64 was
previously specifically exempted; and
WHEREAS, the City Council deems it to be in the public interest to clarify that
"occupations" regulated pursuant to ECC Chapter 3.20 are not required to obtain a business
license pursuant to Chapter 4.72, NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
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Section 1. The Edmonds City Code Section 4.72.010 Definitions, subsection B
Business is hereby amended to read as follows:
4.72.010 Definitions.
B. Business. The term "business" includes all services and
activities engaged in with the object of pecuniary gain, benefit or
advantage to the person, or to any other person or class, directly or
indirectly, whether part time or full time, except for those
businesses or occupations which are regulated pursuant to, or for
which licenses or franchises are required by the following chapters
of the Edmonds City Code.
3.20 (Business License and Occupation Tax);
4.04 (Advertising License);
4.10 (Tow Truck Operators);
4.11 (Motor Vehicle Wreckers);
4.12 (Peddlers, Solicitors and Street Vendors);
4.20 (Liquor Licenses);
4.48 (Cabaret Dances);
4.50 (Public Message parlors and Public Bathhouses);
4.56 (Sound Trucks);
4.60 (Taxicabs);
4.68 (Community Antenna Television Systems);
4.75 (Pawnbrokers);
and except nonbusiness activities carried on by a religious,
charitable, benevolent, fraternal or social organization and persons
leasing one rental unit or one private residence.
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
five (5) days after passage and publication of an approved summary thereof consisting of the
title.
APPROVE
MAY R G HAAKENSON
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ATTEST /AUTHENTICATED:
CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY:
BY
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: 02/14/2003
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: 02/18/2003
PUBLISHED: 02/23/2003
EFFECTIVE DATE: 02/28/2003
ORDINANCE NO. 3439
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SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 3439
of the City of Edmonds, Washington
On the 18th day of February, 2003, the City Council of the City of Edmonds,
passed Ordinance No. 3439. A summary of the content of said ordinance, consisting of the title,
provides as follows:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, AMENDING ECC
4.72.010 DEFINITIONS, SECTION (B) RELATING TO BUSINESS; TO CONFIRM
EXCLUSION OF OCCUPATIONS LICENSED PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 3.20, AND
FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE.
The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon request.
DATED this 19th day of February, 2003.
CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
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STATE OF WASHINGTON,
COUNTY OF SNOHONHSH
SUMMARY OE
ORDILJANCENO 34.39
of the City of Edmonds,
Washington
On the 18th day of Febru-
ary, 2003, the City Council of
the City of Edmonds, passed
Ordinance No. 3439. Ai
summary of the content of
said ordinance, consisting of
the title, provides as follows:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE
CITY OF EDMONDS, WASH -
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TONS LICENSED PUR-
SUANT TO CHAPTER 3.20,
AND FIXING A TIME WHEN
THE SAME SHALL BE -'
COME EFFECTIVE.
The full text of this Ordi-
nance will be mailed upon
request.
DATED this 19th day of
February, 2003.
SANDRA S. CHASE
CITY CLERK
Published: February 23,
2003.
Affidavit of Publication
S.S.
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
City of Edmonds
Summary of Ordinance No. 3439
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:
February 23, 2003
and that said newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers during all of said period.
Subscribed and sworn to before me thig-
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