Ordinance 21-003 amending SVMC 8.25.025 solicitation from vehicle occupantsCITY OF SPOKANE VALLEY
SPOKANE COUNTY, WASHINGTON
ORDINANCE NO. 21-003
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SPOKANE VALLEY, SPOKANE COUNTY,
WASHINGTON, AMENDING SECTION 8.25.025 OF THE SPOKANE VALLEY
MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO SOLICITATIONS FROM VEHICLE OCCUPANTS;
AND OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO.
WHEREAS, the City of Spokane Valley previously adopted Spokane Valley Municipal Code
(SVMC) 8.25.025 in order to promote the City's fundamental interest in public health and safety by
regulating interactions between pedestrians and automobiles that occur at locations and under
circumstances which pose substantial risks to vehicular and pedestrian safety; and
WHEREAS, various Code provisions adopted by the City may be impacted by court decisions not
involving the City, where such decisions alter the underlying legal premise upon which City Code
provisions are drafted; and
WHEREAS, when these types of decisions alter the law, the City should amend its Code provisions
accordingly; and
WHEREAS, these amendments will ensure the City maintains and enforces laws relating to these
traffic safety issues that protect the public as well as protecting individual citizen rights protected by the
United States and Washington Constitutions.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Spokane Valley, Washington ordains as
follows:
Section 1. Amending Spokane Valley Municipal Code 8.25.025. Spokane Valley Municipal Code
section 8.25.025 is hereby amended as follows:
8.25.025 Interference with vehicular traffic.
A. The purpose of this section is to promote the City's fundamental interest in public peace, health, and
safety, by regulating acts of interference with vehicular traffic that occur at locations and under
circumstances specified herein which pose substantial risks to vehicular and pedestrian safety.
B. No person shall interfere with vehicular traffic by being physically present within or entering a
prohibited roadway.
C. No person or occupant of any vehicle shall induce another person to be physically present within or
enter a prohibited roadway and therefore interfere with vehicular traffic.
D. As used in this section:
1. "Enter" means to cross the vertical plane of the edge of a prohibited roadway. It includes crossing
the vertical plane by any part of a person's body or any extension thereof.
2. "Prohibited roadway" means a state route, on ramp or off ramp to Interstate 90, or principal
arterial, and also the first 100 feet of a road that intersects a state route, on ramp or off ramp to
Interstate 90, or principal arterial, as measured from the edge of the state route, on ramp or off ramp
to Interstate 90, or principal arterial. "Prohibited roadway":
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a. Includes any portion of a road traveled by vehicles;
b. Includes paved shoulders and bike lanes;
c. Includes medians, which may be denoted by a physical barrier or solid yellow pavement
markings;
d. Excludes all sidewalks and curbs.
E. Prohibited roadways are delineated upon the official map, entitled "Prohibited Roadways as defined by
SVMC 8.25.025(D)(2) and referenced in SVMC 8.25.025(E)" and are adopted as part of chapter 8.25
SVMC as if contained herein.
The official map shall be filed in the office of the city clerk.
F. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
G. A person summoning aid in an emergency situation is not in violation of this section.
Section 2. Remainder of SVMC 8.25 Unchanged. The remaining provisions of SVMC 8.25 are
unchanged by this amendment.
Section 3. Severability. If any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance should be held to
be invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality
shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of any other section, sentence, clause or phrase of this
Ordinance.
Section 4. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect five days after the date of
publication of this Ordinance or a summary thereof in the official newspaper of the City.
Passed this 9th day of February, 2021.
ATTEST:
Ben Wick, Mayor
City Clerk, Christine Bainbridge
Approved As To Form:
Offic4f the pity Attorney
Date Publication: 2 • l9.2
Effective Date: 2.2'I .2-4
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