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AN ORDINANCE relating to council rules, amending Ordinance 11683, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.025, Ordinance 11683, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.035, Ordinance 11683, Section 9, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.085 and Ordinance 11683, Section 24, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.235, and declaring an emergency.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Finding: The council finds that because it is reorganizing its committees effective today, including eliminating some committees and establishing new committees, this ordinance must be effective immediately to ensure that the regular meeting times of the council and its committees are enacted and effective contemporaneously with the reorganization of the council.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 11683, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.025 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
A. There shall be two vice-chairs: the vice-chair of policy ((and administration)) and the vice-chair of ((council relations)) administration and finance. For the purposes of this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, "vice-chair" means the vice-chair of policy ((and administration)) and, in the absence of the vice-chair of policy ((and administration)), "vice-chair" means the vice-chair of ((council relations)) administration and finance.
B. The vice-chair of policy ((and administration)) shall exercise the duties, powers and prerogatives of the council chair in the event of the chair's absence.
C. If the chair and the vice-chair of policy ((and administration)) are both absent at a meeting of the council, the vice-chair of ((council relations)) administration and finance shall preside as acting chair.
D. If, after recommendation by the employment and administration committee, the chair is the subject of a motion that proposes to censure a councilmember for violating the council's antiharassment policy, the vice-chair of policy ((and administration)) shall intro...
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