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AN ORDINANCE regarding the operation and maintenance of county-owned or operated park and ride facilities; authorizing the Metro transit department to impose fees for use of park and ride facilities; amending Ordinance 12643, Section 23, as amended, and K.C.C. 28.94.265 and Ordinance 11950, Section 14, as amended, and K.C.C. 28.96.010, adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 4A.700 and prescribing penalties.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Under chapter 36.56 RCW, King County Ordinances 10530 in 1992 and 11032 in 1993, Section 230.10.10 of the King County Charter, K.C.C. Title 2.16, K.C.C. 4.56.060.C. and K.C.C. Title 28, King County is the successor in interest to the Metropolitan Municipality of Seattle, and the Metro transit department exercises the public transportation functions and authorities formerly exercised by the Metropolitan Municipality of Seattle under chapter 35.58 RCW.
2. RCW 35.58.240 authorizes the county, as successor in interest to the Metropolitan Municipality of Seattle, to charge fees for use of its public transportation related facilities.
3. K.C.C. 2.99.030.G.2. requires that enterprise fund fees and the amount of fees be established by ordinance unless specific administrative fee-setting authority is granted by ordinance to a county agency.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
NEW SECTION. SECTION 1. There is hereby added to King County code chapter 4A.700 a new section to read as follows:
A.1. User fees are established for public use of vehicle parking stalls at park and ride lots and garages located on property owned, managed or leased by the Metro transit department. For the purposes of this section, "department" means the Metro transit department, and "parking facilities" means vehicle parking stalls at park and ride lots and garages.
2. The department's parking management goals include: encouraging use of transit; spreading peak-of-the-peak demand for transit; increasing ridership in the region; improving ...
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