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Clerk 11/09/2004
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AN ORDINANCE establishing the designation of stay-out-of-drug-area emphasis areas within King County; and establishing the violation of court ordered conditions related to the stay-out-of-drug-area emphasis areas as a new offense.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the King County council to establish in King County areas that have been identified by law enforcement through a history of arrests and observation to be locales where illicit drug sales, possession of drugs, pedestrian or vehicular traffic attendant to drug activity, or other activity associated with drug offenses confirms a pattern associated with drug trafficking as designated by state law. The following sections identify those areas of drug trafficking that have been identified as meeting the criteria for being protected against drug trafficking areas.
SECTION 2. The following described areas of King County are designated to be stay-out-of-drug areas, which are as emphasis areas where there has been a history of identified illegal drug sales and penalties shall be applied in event of conviction of acts in violation of the Uniform Code for Substance Abuse, within the areas, in accordance with this, to assure elimination of all illegal drug posession, use and sales-related activity within these areas:
A. The area of Pacific Highway South between South 116th and 128th Street boundary, Military Road South and South 140th and South 152nd, 42nd South and South 139th to South 144th, including the motels and hotels within these areas, and including the area one block to the east and west of Pacific Highway South, Military Road South and 42nd South within the boundaries;
B. Des Moines Way South from 96th Avenue South to South 128th Street and a block on either side. Military Road South from Des Moines Way South to South 128th Street and 14th Ave. S. from 96th Avenue S. to the South Park Bridge; and
C. The Southwest Roxbury from 4th Avenue SW to 17th Avenue SW and from Roxbury Avenue SW to 107th Avenue SW on 14th Avenue SW and 15th Avenue SW and 16th Avenue SW and 17th Avenue SW.
SECTION 3. The presence of any person within a stay-out-of-drug-area emphasis area in violation of court-imposed conditions of release or conditions of suspension or deferral of any sentence shall constitute a separate crime hereby designated a misdemeanor and any such person may be apprehended and arrested without the necessity for any warrant or additional court order. Upon conviction, any person so violating the conditions of release or conditions of suspension or deferral shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for a maximum term fixed by the court of not more than
ninety days, or by a fine in an amount set by the court of not more than one thousand dollars, or by both such an imprisonment and fine.
SECTION 4. This ordinance expires December 31, 2006.
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