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Clerk 03/22/2011
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AN ORDINANCE relating to abatements; and amending Ordinance 13263, Section 33, as amended, and K.C.C. 23.24.140.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 13263, Section 33, as amended, and K.C.C. 23.24.140 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
All moneys collected from the assessment of civil penalties, from cleanup restitution payments to the agency, from the recovery of the costs of pursuing code compliance and abatement, and from the recovery of abatement costs, both retroactively and prospectively, except those moneys designated for the critical areas mitigation fund as set forth in K.C.C. chapter 21A.24, shall be allocated to support expenditures for abatement ((and code enforcement administrative costs, including, but not limited to, personnel costs)), and shall be accounted for through either creation of a fund or other appropriate accounting mechanism in the department issuing the citation or notice and order under which the abatement occurred. ((Withdrawals from the moneys collected under this section for the purpose of funding administrative costs within the code enforcement section of the department of development and environmental services shall not exceed one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars in a calendar year.))
SECTION 2. If any provision of this ordinance or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the ordinance or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.
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