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ORDINANCE NO. B-2208 Pa-1
PIEP4ALC,Z BY ORCINAkICE:
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AN ORDINANCE fixing the salary of the Police Judge or Municipal Judge
and. supplementing Ordinance No. B-194 providing for appoin-
tive officers of the City of Yakima.
WHEREAS, the ordinances of the City of Yakima (No. 9-194)
provide for certain appointive officers thereof, among them a Police Judge
and further provide that they "....." shall receive such salaries as comp-
ensation as the city commission shall from time to time fix bN ordinance
or resolution" and
WHEREAS, the statutes of the State of Washington (R.C.W.
35.22.430) provide that "„.... the salary of a police judge to be paid
in addition tothe salary,paid to justices of the peace in cities of the
first class shall be fixed by the City Council by ordinance sria such
additional salary shall be paid wholly out of the funds of the city, in
equal monthly installments ......", and
WHEREAS, the- of the - State of Washington
(Article II, Section 25 ) provides" npr sylajl the compensation of
any public.officer be increased or diminished during his term of office"
and further provides (Article XI, Section 8): ", the salary of any
county, city, town or municipal officer shall not be increased or dimin-
ished after his election or during his .term of office; ......." and,
this having been held by the courts to be applicable to appointive as
well as-elective Officers, it is therefore imperative that any increase
in salary to be effective must be accomplished by passage of legislation
thereon prior to election,
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• NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. The salary of the Police Judge or Municipal
Judge shall be five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) per annum, payable
monthly.
Section 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and.effect
thirty (30) days after its passage, approval and publication as provided
by law and the City Charter, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that this ordinance shall
-apply only to salaries earned after the commencement of the next term of
office of the office holder, in January of 1959.
PASSED BY THE CITY COMMISSION, signed and approved this 15th
day of October, 1958.
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ATTEST: J.A. SMITH (SEAL) JOE K. ALDERSON
CITY CLERK MAYOR
I 1 Certify that the foregoing is a true, full and correct
copy of Ordinance IN0. B-2208 entitled "AN ORDINANCE fixing the aalary of
the Police Judge or Municipal Judge and supplementing Ordinance No.
194 prpviding for appointive officers of the City of Yakima." as passed
on the 15th. day of October, 1958, and that the same has been published as
required by law.
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/ 4TY CLERK
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