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Clerk 01/26/2017
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AN ORDINANCE relating to roads and bridges; amending Ordinance 4461, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.22.040, adding new sections to K.C.C. chapter 14.01 and adding new chapters to K.C.C. Title 14.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS: The council determines that provisions included in or related to K.C.C. Title 46 (known as the traffic code) that do not pertain to compliance with traffic laws, including setting speed limits and placing and maintaining traffic control devices, should be codified in the appropriate titles, including K.C.C. Title 14 relating to roads and bridges.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
NEW SECTION. SECTION 1. Findings:
A. Under state law, in certain circumstances and only after an engineering and traffic investigation has been completed, a speed limit on a county road may be increased or decreased under the authority of the council.
B. In accordance with state law and under the direction of the council, the county road engineer supervises the establishing, laying out, constructing, altering, improving, repairing, and maintaining all county roads of the county.
C. The council finds that as part of those supervisory duties, the county road engineer shall have the authority to change speed limits in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance.
NEW SECTION. SECTION 2. There is hereby added to K.C.C. chapter 14.01 a new section to read as follows:
"Angle parking" means the direction of parking as follows:
A. "Back-in" angle parking means the parking of a vehicle with the front of the vehicle facing towards the main traveled portion of the road; and
B. "Front-in" angle parking means the parking of a vehicle with the rear of the vehicle facing toward the main traveled portion of the roadway.
NEW SECTION. SECTION 3. There is hereby added to K.C.C. chapter 14.01 a new section to read as follows:
"Bus" means every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than ten passengers and use...
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