CITY OF SEATTLE
ORDINANCE __________________
COUNCIL BILL __________________
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AN ORDINANCE relating to regulatory business and professional license fees; adjusting business and professional license and registration fees associated with the regulated activities of alarm monitoring, trade shows, residential sales, tow companies, used and recycled goods, adult entertainment, and price scanning; and amending Seattle Municipal Code Sections 6.08.010, 6.10.010, 6.20.040, 6.204.030, 6.204.080, 6.214.270, 6.250.060, 6.270.060, and 7.04.645.
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WHEREAS, The City of Seattle is authorized under RCW 35.22.280(32) to grant licenses for any lawful purpose, and to fix by ordinance the amount to be paid therefor; and
WHEREAS, The City of Seattle periodically reviews its license and registration fees, among other reasons, to determine whether existing licenses and registrations appropriately reflect the regulated activities, whether fee revenues are covering the cost of oversight and enforcement of the regulated service, and whether those license fees designated as revenue producing fees are set appropriately; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF SEATTLE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Seattle Municipal Code Section 6.08.010, last amended by Ordinance 118395, is amended to read as follows:
6.08.010 License required ((.))
It is unlawful for any person to engage in, or to represent ((himself or herself)) themselves as being engaged in, the business of selling, leasing, renting, servicing, inspecting, installing, maintaining, or repairing alarms or alarm systems for the purposes of preventing or detecting burglaries or robberies without complying with the provisions of this ((chapter)) Chapter 6.08 and without first obtaining a valid and subsisting license so to do, to be known as a "burglar alarm dealer's license," the fee for which shall be ((Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00))) $79 per year. ((; provided, that such)) Such license shall not be required of any person f...
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