Ordinance 3858AN ORDINANCE OF OF r • r
WASHINGTON, AMENDING THE ANIMAL BENEFIT FUND
PROVISIONS iPROVIDING
DATE.SEVERABILITY; AND SETTING AN EFFECTIVE
WHEREAS, the City of Edmonds by ordinance created an Animal Benefit Fund,
set forth in Edmonds City Code Chapter 5.05.172.2, for the purpose of granting financial
assistance towards the cost of obtaining spay or neuter services by the Czty's designated
NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO
Section ECC 5.05.127.2 Animal benefit fund established is hereby amended
_ Citv council mav from time to time op Mx0giate i a rrocess
e purpose of financially assistin•
low-income oEdmonds residents t i - i i its i i i + i .' • i r i i
service area that are placed at i • _ designatedand dogs and cat
i { -r r .surrendered
the city designatedshelter adoption i i Application i'made to the city of Edmonds animal benefit gppro-priation4ind to effectuate this purpose.
B. The city may grant financial assistance voucher to a resident in the amount of $30.00 to be
applied toward the costs of obtainingspay or neuter services for an animal by the city's
designated veterinarian(s); provided, that except in cases involving the spay or neuter of owner
surrendered or stray animals that will be returned to the city's designated animal shelter, proof of
the animal owner's city of Edmonds residency, as well as a statement of financial need, shall be
required as a prerequisite to receiving said financial assistance voucher.
C. lifter performing the necessary spay or neuter surgery upon an animal, the city's designated
veterinarian(s) may :submit an invoice to the city of Edmonds requesting_ reimbursement. The
invoice will be paid at full cost of agreed upon prevailing industry standards for spay and neuter
services for stray dogs and cats from the city's animal control service area that are placed at and
retained by the city designated shelter, and dogs and cats owned by citizens residing within the
city's animal control service area that are surrendered at the city designated shelter.
D._After performing the necessary spay or neuter surgeries upon an animal, the city's designated
veterinarian(s) may submit an invoice for $30.00 for the financial assistance voucher.For the
financial assistance voucher, the invoice shall be submitted with a photocopy of said voucher
attached, shall be signed by a veterinarian, and shall contain the following information:
1. Identification of the animal,
3; Identification of the specific type of spay or neuter services performed,
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E. Within 30 days of receiving an invoice for spay or neuter services performed by the city's
designated veterinarian(s), the city shall provide payment to the designated veterinarian in the
amount of $30.00 per financial assistance voucher or paid at full cost of agreed, upon, prevailing
industry standards forspayand neuter services for stray dogs and cats from the city's animal
control' service area that are placed at and retained by the city designated shelter, and dogs and
cats owned by citizens residing within the city's animal control service area that are surrendered_
at the city designated shelter. Said amount shall be drawn exclusively from the city's animal
benefit a nation d.
Section 1 .bsentence,or of
unconstitutionalitysuch invalidity or •
section, sentence clause or phrase of this ordinance.
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ection . I'll-'ective Date. This ordinance, being an, exercise of a power S3
specifically delegated to the City legislative body, is not su*ct to referendum, and shall take
effect five (5) clays after passage and publication or an approved summary thereof consisting of
A'I-lTS'['/AUTl
CITYCLII''RK. SANDRA S. CHASE
APPROVED ASTO FORM;
OFT�'ICE' OFTHE CITY AT"FORNEY:
...... . ... BY
JE B. TARADAY
F111"'D WITH TI 11', CTI'Y (1,111�"RK:
PASSFJ) BYTHI�*' Cl"I'Y COUNCIL
PUBLISHI'M:
EIFFE"CTIVI" DATE:
ORDINANCE NO,
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MIA OR MIKE (1100111.
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of the it ol'l,,-,dii-ionds,'Wasliliigtoll
On the 16'�' day of November, 2011, the City Council of the City of Edmonds,
passed Ordinance Ira.' A sumniary of the content of said ordinance, consisting of the title,
provides as follows:
48524429-9661,v, I
AN ORDINANCE OF "ITIE CITY OF EDMONDS,
WASIUNGTON, AMENDING '1111" ANWAL BENEFIT FUND
PIZOVISIONS OF ACC 5,05.127.2; PROVIDING FOR
SEVEIZABILITY; AND SI`,TTl'NG AN DA'171-
TheIlull text fthis Ordinancewill be mailed upon request,
DATL"D this 16"'day of Noveniber, 2011
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ClrrY �CLE�RK, S�ANDI��.AS. �CILI�,S�E-�
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STATE OF i
COUNTY OF i i
S.S.
The undersigna—b" first dulp sworn on oath dqoses and saL%s thatshe is Princilial Clerk of
THE HERALD, a daily newspaper printed and published in the City Of Everett, County 0
Snohomish, and State of
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
S smmazv of Ordinance No. 3958
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:
November 20, 2011
and that said newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers during all of said period,
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st
day of N veinb'14. (011 .. _ .
othryry ('tI II in and fo, lie Statea h%t r siding at Everett, Snohomish
County
Account Name: City of Edmonds Account Number 101416 Order Number: 0001758355