File #: 2009-0558    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/21/2009 In control: Committee of the Whole
On agenda: 10/26/2009 Final action: 10/26/2009
Enactment date: 11/3/2009 Enactment #: 16682
Title: AN ORDINANCE related to the establishment of a Seattle-King County taxicab advisory commission; authorizing the executive to enter into an interlocal agreement related thereto; and adding a new chapter to K.C.C. Title 2.
Sponsors: Dow Constantine, Larry Gossett, Julia Patterson, Bob Ferguson, Jane Hague, Larry Phillips, Pete von Reichbauer
Indexes: Commissions, Taxicabs
Attachments: 1. 16682.pdf, 2. 2009-0558 REVISED Staff Report Taxi Advisory Commission from 10-12-09 COW.doc, 3. 2009-0558 Staff Report for 10-12-09 COW.pdf, 4. Amendment Package 10-26-09.pdf
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Clerk 10/26/2009
Title
AN ORDINANCE related to the establishment of a Seattle-King County taxicab advisory commission; authorizing the executive to enter into an interlocal agreement related thereto; and adding a new chapter to K.C.C. Title 2.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The city of Seattle has authority to issue taxicab licenses and to regulate taxicabs and drivers for the city.
2. King County has the authority to issue taxicab licenses and to regulate taxicabs and drivers for unincorporated King County, and through interlocal agreements, for some cities within King County.
3. In recent years, the city of Seattle and King County have changed their codes to modify how taxicab licenses are issued and modified regulations regarding taxicabs and drivers.
4. It is in the public interest that an advisory commission be formed to advise elected officials with the city of Seattle and King County regarding the rational provision of taxicab services throughout the county, and to help ensure the provision of high-quality taxicab service while ensuring the economic viability of owning and driving taxicabs.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Sections 2 through 6 of this ordinance should constitute a new chapter in K.C.C. Title 2.
NEW SECTION. SECTION 2. There is established a Seattle-King County taxicab advisory commission. The purpose of the commission is to study regulations, rules, policies and issues relevant to the provision of high-quality taxicab service in the city of Seattle and King County while ensuring the economic viability owning and driving taxicabs, and to make recommendations to the city of Seattle and King County on these matters. Recommendations to those jurisdictions shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
A. Changes in governmental taxicab regulations;
B. Changes in administrative rules;
C. Changes to the city of Seattle and King County taxicab codes and legislation that would ...

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