File #: 2019-0032    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 1/22/2019 In control: Metropolitan King County Council
On agenda: Final action: 1/22/2019
Enactment date: Enactment #: 18865
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to council rules and order of business; amending Ordinance 13880, Section 13, and K.C.C. 1.02.120, Ordinance 11683, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.035, Ordinance 11683, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.045, Ordinance 11683, Section 9, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.085 and Ordinance 11683, Section 10, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.095, Ordinance 11683, Section 15, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.145 and declaring an emergency.
Sponsors: Rod Dembowski, Claudia Balducci
Indexes: Council
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 18865.pdf, 2. 2019-0032 title Amendment 1-22-19.pdf
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to council rules and order of business; amending Ordinance 13880, Section 13, and K.C.C. 1.02.120, Ordinance 11683, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.035, Ordinance 11683, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.045, Ordinance 11683, Section 9, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.085 and Ordinance 11683, Section 10, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.095, Ordinance 11683, Section 15, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.145 and declaring an emergency.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. Section 220.40 of the King County Charter requires the council to adopt by ordinance rules of procedure governing the time, place and conduct of its meetings.
B. Consistent with the county charter, the council adopted by ordinance rules of procedure, which are codified in K.C.C. chapter 1.24, and passed motions related to the organization and administration of the council.
C. The rules ordinance and the organizational motion have been amended from time to time to reflect desired changes in the council's rules of procedure and organization.
D. Because the council is reorganizing the council and its committees by Motion 15298, effective January 7, 2019, including modifying committees, committee chair and vice-chair positions and duties, this ordinance must be enacted as an emergency ordinance in order to be effective and ensure that the regular meeting times of the council's committees are effective contemporaneously with the reorganization of the council.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 13880, Section 13, and K.C.C. 1.02.120 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
The time within which an act is to be done, as provided in this code or in the charter, is computed by excluding the first day and including the last unless the last day is a holiday, Saturday or Sunday, and then it is also excluded. When a period of time prescribed or allowed is less than seven days, intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays shall be exclud...

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