Ordinance 1748ORDINANCE NO. 1748
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON,
AMENDING SECTION 5.12.170 OF THE EDMONDS CITY CODE,
ELIMINATING IMPRISONMENT IN JAIL FROM THE PENALTIES
FOR VIOLATION OF CERTAIN ORDINANCES AND CODE SECTIONS
OF SAID CITY AND SETTING AN EFFECTIVE DATE FOR SAID
ORDINANCE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 5.12.170 of the Edmonds City Code is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"5.12.170 Penalties:
(1) Notwithstanding any other City Ordinance or
provision of the City Code regarding violations
and penalties therefor (with the exception of those
sections of the City Code hereinafter specifically
excluded from the operation of this subsection),
any person or persons who shall violate or fail to
comply with any of the provisions of the Ordinances
of the City, including the City Code, or any part
thereof, shall, upon conviction of the violation,
be punished by a fine in any sum not exceeding the
sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250.00) or
by imprisonment in jail for a term of not exceeding
ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprison-
ment. Each separate day during which any violation
occurs or continues shall be deemed to constitute
a separate violation thereof and a separate offense
thereunder, and upon conviction thereof shall be
punished as herein provided. This section is in-
tended to supersede the penalty provisions of any and
all previously adopted City Ordinances in conflict
herewith, except as otherwise herein provided,, and
in the event of conflict herewith, the previously
adopted ordinances shall be deemed amended to conform
with the penalty provisions of this section.
(2) Provided, however, the following sections of the
City Code are specifically excluded from the operation
of the above section, and any violation or failure to
comply with any of the provisions of those sections
shall upon conviction of the violation be punished
by a fine in any sum not exceeding the sum of Five
Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in jail
for a term not exceeding ninety (90) days, or by both
such fine and imprisonment:
(a) RCW 46.52.010 Duty on striking unattended
car or other property (adopted by reference as part of
Section 8.02.010 of the Edmonds City Code).
(b) RCW 46.52.020 Duty in case of injury to or
death of person or damage to attended vehicle (adopted
by reference as part of Section 8.02.010 of the Edmonds
City Code).
(c) 1965 Ex.Sess., Ch. 155, Sec. 59 Reckless driving
(adopted by reference as part of Section 8.02.010 of the
Edmonds City Code).
(d) Section 8.32.100 of the Edmonds City Code,
Presumptions of Blood Test.
"(3) That the penalties for violation of those portions of
the Edmonds City Code as set forth hereinafter shall, upon
conviction, be punished solely by fine in a sum not exceeding
Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) and shall not be subject
to imprisonment in jail except as provided hereinbelow in
subsection (4).
(a) Edmonds City Code, Shapter 5.36 Liquor -Minors;
(b) First conviction for an offense that would be a
violation of the Edmonds City Code, Chapter 5.60 Dangerous
Drugs;
(c) First conviction of an offense that would be a
violation of Edmonds City Code, Section 5.12.020 Larceny;
(d) First conviction of an offense that would be a
violation of Edmonds City Code, Section 5.12.020 Shoplifting;
(e) First conviction of an offense that would-be a
violation of Edmonds City Code, Section 5.20.040 Disorderly
Persons Enumerated;
(f) First conviction of an offense that would be a
violation of Edmonds City Code, Section 5.20.070 Loitering
or Prowling;
(g) All of Edmonds City Code Title 8, except as pro-
vided in subsection (2) hereinabove.
"(4) Upon a second or subsequent conviction for an offense
that is a violation of those portions of the Edmonds City
Code set forth hereinabove in subsection (3), paragraphs (a)
through (f), such offense shall be punishable, upon said
conviction, by a fine in a sum not exceeding Two Hundred
Fifty Dollars ($250.00) or by imprisonment in jail for a
term not exceeding ninety (90) days or by both .such fine
and imprisonment.
Section 2.
This ordinance shall be effective on the 30th
day of December 1974.
APPROVED:
MAYOR
ATTEST:
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PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: December 17, 1974
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: November 26, 1974
PUBLISHED: December 25, 1974