Text of Ordinance 13633 --
King County Charter Amendment #1
November 2, 1999 Ballot
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NEW SECTION. SECTION 2. Section 230.45. Council-Submitted Referendum.
The metropolitan county council may by ordinance submit any proposed ordinance, except those excluded by this section, as a council-submitted referendum to the voters for their approval or disapproval, pursuant to this section. Council-submitted referendums may include proposed appropriation ordinances or objects of expense in an appropriation ordinance, including additional appropriations under Section 470, whether or not such ordinance or object of expense was proposed or requested by the county executive, and except, as otherwise provided in this section, may include other subjects excluded from referendum under Section 230.40. Council-submitted referendums shall not include proposed ordinances that are not subject to referendum by a county under state law. Council-submitted referendums shall not include proposed ordinances that provide for collective bargaining or approve a collective bargaining agreement. Ordinances providing for council-submitted referendums and proposed ordinances approved by voters pursuant to this sections hall not be subject to the veto power of the county executive or to referendum under Section 230.40. An ordinance submitting a proposed ordinance to the voters must comply with the requirements contained in Section 270.30 if the proposed ordinance adopts, repeals, or amends county-wide policies and plans relating tothe subject matter area for which a regional committee has been established.
Council-submitted referendums shall be placed on the ballot at the first special or general election occurring more than forty-five days after the ordinance providing for its submittal is enacted by the council, unless a later election is specified in the ordinance. However, the county council may by ordinance amend or repeal that ordinance at any time more than forty-five days prior to the election. Such amendatory or repealing ordinances shall not be subject to the veto power of the county executive or to referendum under Section 230.40.
SECTION 3. Section 230.70. Effective Date of Ordinances.
Except as provided herein, the effective date of an ordinance shall be tendays after its enactment unless a later date is specified in the ordinance. Ifan ordinance may be subjected to a referendum as provided in Section 230.40 and if a proposed referendum petition is submitted to the clerk of the county council as provided in ((Subsection)) Section 230.60 prior to the tenth day after its enactment, the effective date of the ordinance shall be forty-five days after its enactment unless a later date is specified inthe ordinance. If an ordinance is subjected to referendum, it shall not become effective until after it is approved by the voters. If it is approved by a majority of the voters voting on the issue, the effective date of an ordinance which is subjected to referendum or proposed by initiative, a substitute ordinance adopted by the county council as provided in ((Subsection))Section 230.50, or a proposed ordinance submitted to the voters pursuant to Section 230.45 shall be ten days after the results of the election are certified unless a later date is specified in the ordinance. The effective date of an emergency ordinance shall be the date of its enactment unless a later date is specified in the ordinance.
An ordinance which is subject to the veto power of the county executive and which is not vetoed, or the approved portions of an appropriation ordinance which has been partially vetoed, shall be deemed enacted on the date that it is approved by, or ten days after it is presented to, the county executive. An ordinance which is vetoed or the vetoed portions of an appropriation ordinance shall be deemed enacted on the date that the county council overrides the veto or partial veto. An ordinance which is not subject to the veto power of the county executive shall be deemed enacted on the date it is approved by the county council.
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