Ordinance 3730ORDINANCE NO. 3730
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS,
WASHINGTON, ALLOWING EMERGENCY EXEMPTIONS
FOR HOUSING FOR INDIGENT PERSONS; PROVIDING FOR
SEVERABILITY; AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME
SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE.
WHEREAS, nonprofit groups have inquired about providing temporary assistance
and emergency shelters to indigent persons;
WHEREAS, RCW 19.27.042 permits cities to allow emergency exemptions to the
State Building Code for housing for indigent persons; and
WHEREAS, WAC 51 -16 -030 establishes guidelines for approving said
exemptions; and
WHEREAS, the City wishes to support public and nonprofit agencies as they
prepare to provide needed services to indigent persons, NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO
Section 1. Pursuant to RCW 19.27.042 and WAC 51 -16 -030, the character of
use or occupancy of an existing building located in the City of Edmonds may be temporarily
changed in order to provide emergency temporary housing for indigent persons without
conforming to all of the requirements of the State Building Code; PROVIDED that the proponent
of an exemption applies and is approved for a compliance permit for the proposed exemption,
and complies with conditions thereto. Compliance permits for exemptions shall be reviewed and
approved by the City's Building Official, in consultation with the Fire Chief or his designee,
based on the following guidelines: (1) any code deficiencies to be exempted pose no threat to
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human life, health, or safety; (2) the building is owned or administered by a public agency or
nonprofit corporation; and (3) the proposed emergency temporary housing for indigent persons is
less hazardous than the existing use. A compliance permit for an exemption shall be valid for no
more than 180 days, except that the City's Building Official, in consultation with the Fire Chief
or his designee, may approve a renewal based on the same guidelines as the initial permit. As a
condition of approval, a building for which a compliance permit for exemption is issued shall not
be used to house indigent persons for more than fourteen days during any consecutive thirty day
period. Failure to comply with any condition of approval shall be cause to suspend or revoke the
permit.
Section 2. 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
section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance.
Section 3. 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.
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MAYOR G Y HAAKENSON
ATTEST /AUTHENTICATED:
ITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
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APPROVED AS
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W. SCOTT SNYDER
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: 03/20/2009
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: 03/24/2009
PUBLISHED: 04/02/2009
EFFECTIVE DATE: 04/07/2009
ORDINANCE NO. 3730
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SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 3730
of the City of Edmonds, Washington
On the 24th day of March, 2009, the City Council of the City of Edmonds,
passed Ordinance No. 3730. A summary of the content of said ordinance, consisting of
the title, provides as follows:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, ALLOWING
EMERGENCY EXEMPTIONS FOR HOUSING FOR INDIGENT PERSONS;
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 25th day of March, 2009.
'CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
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SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 3730
of the City of Edmonds, Washington
On the 24th day of March, 2009, the City Council of the City of
Edmonds, passed Ordinance No. 3730. A summary of the content
of said ordinance, consisting of the title, provides as follows:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON,
ALLOWING EMERGENCY EXEMPTIONS FOR HOUSING FOR
INDIGENT PERSONS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND
FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL BECOME EFFEC-
TIVE.
The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon request.
DATED this 25th day of March, 2009.
CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
Published: April 2, 2009.
Account Name: City of Edmonds
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
Summary of Ordinance NO. 3730
Allowing emergency Exceptions for Housing for Indigent Persons
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:
April 02, 2009
and that.said newspaper was regularly distributed
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
day of April, 2009
subscribers during all of said period.
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