AN ORDINANCE relating to the City’s traffic code; amending Sections 11.14.055, 11.14.184, 11.23.380, 11.23.400, 11.31.020, 11.34.020, 11.56.020, 11.56.025, 11.56.320, 11.56.350, 11.56.355, 11.57.310, 11.72.065, and 11.84.380 of the Seattle Municipal Code, adding Section 11.58.435 to the Seattle Municipal Code, and repealing Section 11.14.185 of the Seattle Municipal Code to conform the Seattle Municipal Code with changes in state law and make technical corrections.
Agenda Item ten Council Bill 118577 relating to the city's traffic code. Thank you, Councilmember Harrell. Thank you again. Like the last bill, this is an adoption of the state law into our city code. And I think Councilmember Gonzalez makes an excellent point that as we look at the changes in municipal law and those officers who are charged with carrying out both the criminal and citation schemes that there needs be clear communication on what changes occur and how we are implementing that in a in a fair and consistent manner. These particular changes again are to the traffic code and specifically I'll just describe sort of the highlights. We changed the definition of electric assisted bicycle and modified the definition of an electric personal assisted assistive mobility device. I'm sure all of you know what those are. With respect to disabled parking, it defines an unauthorized use of a disabled parking placard and increases the classic classification of improper obtaining of disabled parking placard from an infraction to a crime. With respect to the crime of driving under the influence or a DUI, this legislation expands the safely off the roadway defense to physical control, to the crime of minor physical control, and authorizes a court to order a defendant to pay for the costs of pretrial electronic home monitoring. And it also expands the crime of driving while license suspended third degree to ex to include driving after being suspended for failing to pay child support, it expands to crime of circumventing an ignition ignition interlock device and ID to include requesting another person to start the car and requires that a sentence for circumventing the idea run consecutively with a sentence for DUI. So that would be consecutive sentencing. It creates the traffic infraction of keeping smoking or secreting marijuana in passenger compartment of the car. And last, it allows bicycle or mopeds to disregard a traffic control light that fails to activate because of the weight of the bicycle or moped. So again, those are changes in on the state law that were made last year that are now incorporated into our city code. Thank you. Questions or comments? Please call the rule on the passage of the bill. Back shot. By. Gordon Gonzalez, Harrell. Licata, I. Rasmussen and President Burgess seven in favor and unopposed. The bill passes in the. Chair will sign it. Please read item 11. Agenda item 11 Council Bill 118549. Related to cable television authorizing the mayor or the mayor's designee to enter into a renewed cable television franchise agreement with Comcast Cable Communications Management LLC, and authorizing the chief technology officer to enter into other agreements for the purpose of implementing or administering the renewed franchise.