Ordinance 27710006.040.014
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08/30/88,
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ORDINANCE NO. 2771
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON,
AMENDING THE PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 19.20 TO ADD
A NEW SECTION 19.20.010, THEREBY AMENDING THE
PROVISIONS TO THE DANGEROUS BUILDING CODE TO
DEFINE A DANGEROUS BUILDING AS INCLUDING A
STRUCTURE CONTAMINATED WITH TOXIC CHEMICALS, AND
FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL BECOME
EFFECTIVE.
WHEREAS, the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine
poses a serious health risk to the citizens of the City of
Edmonds, to public safety officers and to others; and
WHEREAS, said risk is associated with such illegal
activities due to the potentially toxic chemicals in the
manufacturing process and because said manufacture of
methamphetamine creates unstable and toxic byproducts as a part
of the manufacturing process; and
WHEREAS, structures in which such manufacturing process
occurs may themselves become contaminated with said toxic
substances such that the structure may require abatement in
accordance with the provisions of the Dangerous Building Code;
NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Chapter 19.20 Dangerous Buildings of the
Edmonds Community Development Code is hereby amended by the
addition of a new section 19.20.010 to read as follows:
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19.20.010 Structures Contaminated by Toxic
Substances. The Dangerous Building Code,
section 302 Dangerous Building, is hereby
amended by the addition of a new subparagraph
19 to read as follows:
19. Whenever a building or portion thereof is
determined to be contaminated with toxic
chemicals. A rebuttable presumption is
hereby created that a building is
contaminated with toxic chemicals if such
a determination is made by the Snohomish
County Health District, by the Washington
State Department of Ecology, or by the
U.S. Environmental Protection Aaency, in
accordance with such criteria and
standards as such public agencies shall
establish.
Section 2. The City Clerk is hereby instructed to
prepare a certified copy of such ordinance and to forward the
same to the Washington State Building Code Council. The City
Attorney is authorized to take such steps that shall be necessary
in order to obtain approval of this Code change.
Section 3. 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 the ordinance or a summary thereof
consisting of the title, or until such time as this revisions has
been approved by the Washington State Building Code Council.
APPROVED:
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ATTEST/AUTHENTICATED:
ITY CLERK, JACQ ELINE G. PARRETT
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
OFFICE OF --)THE CITY ATTORNEY:
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK- eptember 9, 1988
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNC . • April 24, 1990
PUBLISHED: May 6, 1990
EFFECTIVE DATE: May 11, 1990
ORDINANCE NO. 2771
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Affidavit of Publication
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. 2 1
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 period.
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Principal Clerk
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Notary u is in a for a State of Washington,
I esidi at verett, Snohomish County.
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