Ordinance 3633ORDINANCE NO. 3633
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS,
WASHINGTON, ADOPTING A NEW SUBSECTION D INTO
ECC 8.51.020 DEFINING TEMPORARY EMPLOYEE
PARKING PERMIT; ADDING A NEW SECTION 8.51.042 TO
CHAPTER 8.51 ECC ENTITLED TEMPORARY EMPLOYEE
PARKING PERMIT - VALIDATION REQUIRED; PROVIDING
FOR SEVERABILITY; AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE
SAME SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE.
WHEREAS, serving jury duty is not only required by law, but it is also a civic
obligation for all qualifying and nonexempt US citizens; and
WHEREAS, said citizens are summoned during certain weekdays for jury duty at
the Municipal Court of the city of Edmonds (the "Court"); and
WHEREAS, serving jury duty at the Court can take longer than three hours for
those selected to sit in the jury; and
WHEREAS, jurors seated for trial who drive to Court and park in surrounding
streets end up committing traffic infractions because street parking around the Court is limited to
three hours; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that those fulfilling their civic duty by serving
on a jury should not be penalized because they have exceeded the above referenced three hour
parking limit when they are otherwise legally parked; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that parking permits should be issued to jurors
seated for trial at the Court to permit them to park for the entire duration of the trial without
committing a traffic infraction; NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
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Section 1. A new Subsection D is hereby adopted into Section 8.51.020
Definitions. to read as follows:
8.51.020 Definitions.
D. "Temporary employee parking permit" means a permit that
authorizes jurors seated for trial at the Municipal Court of the city
of Edmonds to park for more than three hours in three -hour
parking areas as provided in this chapter. The temporary employee
parking permit shall not guarantee a parking space, nor shall it
exempt the vehicle or operator from observing other applicable
traffic regulations in state and local laws.
Section 2. A new section ECC 8.51.042 entitled Temporary Employee
Parking Permit - Validation Required. is hereby adopted to read as follows:
8.51.042 Temporary Employee Parking Permit -
Validation Required.
A. The Administrator of the Municipal Court of the city of
Edmonds shall issue, free of charge, temporary employee parking
permits to potential jurors summoned for jury duty at the Court.
Said permits shall not be valid until they are validated by the
Administrator on the day of jury duty. Permits shall be valid only
for the day on which they are validated.
B. The Administrator shall validate only temporary employee
parking permits for jurors seated for trial, and shall notify parking
enforcement which temporary employee parking permits are
validated on any given day when the Court is presiding over a jury
trial.
C. Temporary employee parking permits shall be valid only in
spaces designated for public parking in the Public Safety Building
parking lot and in the three -hour parking areas set forth in ECC
8.51.030(B).
Section 3. Severability. 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 unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of any other
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section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance.
Section 4. Effective Date. 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 an approved summary thereof consisting of
the title.
APPROVED:
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MA OR V��AAKENSON
ATTEST /AUTHENTICATED:
CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
APPROVED AS TO ORM:
OFFICE OF E Y A O EY:
BY
W. SCOTT SNYDER
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: 03/23/2007
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: 03/27/2007
PUBLISHED: 04/01/2007
EFFECTIVE DATE: 04/06/2007
ORDINANCE NO. 3633
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SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 3633
of the City of Edmonds, Washington
On the 27th day of March, 2007, the City Council of the City of Edmonds, passed
Ordinance No. 3633. A summary of the content of said ordinance, consisting of the title,
provides as follows:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS,
WASHINGTON, ADOPTING A NEW SUBSECTION D INTO
ECC 8.51.020 DEFINING TEMPORARY EMPLOYEE
PARKING PERMIT; ADDING A NEW SECTION 8.51.042 TO
CHAPTER 8.51 ECC ENTITLED TEMPORARY EMPLOYEE
PARKING PERMIT - VALIDATION REQUIRED; PROVIDING
FOR SEVERABILITY; AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE
SAME SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE.
The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon request.
DATED this 28th day of March, 2007.
ITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
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Affidavit of Publication
STATE OF WASHINGTON, )
COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH 3
On the 27th day o{ March, 2007, the City Council of the
City of Edmonds, passed Ordinance No. 3633. A summary ,
of the content of said ordinance, consisting of the title, pro-]
vides as follows:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WA-
SHINGTON, ADOPTING A NEW SUBSECTION D INTO
ECC 8.51.020 DEFINING TEMPORARY EMPLOYEE
PARKING PERMIT; ADDING A NEW SECTION
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
Summary of Ordinance No. 3633
City of Edmonds
8.51.042 TO CHAPTER 8.51 ECC ENTITLED TEMPOR-
ARY EMPLOYEE PARKING PERMIT- VALIDATION RE-
QUIRED; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND FIX-
ING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL BECOME EF-
a printed copy of which is hereunto attached, was published in said newspaper proper and not
FECTIVE.
The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon request.
in supplement form, in the regular and entire edition of said paper on the following days and
DATED this 28th day of March, 2007.
CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
times, Hamel y:
Published: April 1, 2007.
RECEIVED
APR 0 9 2007
EDMONDS CITY CLERK
Account Name: City of Edmonds
April 01, 2007
and that said newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers during all of said period.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
Account Number. 101416 T Order Number 0001491489