Ordinance 23-024 Establishing a Vehicle License Tab FeeCITY OF SPOKANE VALLEY
SPOKANE COUNTY, WASHINGTON
ORDINANCE NO.23-024
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SPOKANE VALLEY, SPOKANE COUNTY,
WASHINGTON, ESTABLISHING AN ANNUAL VEHICLE LICENSE FEE; ESTABLISHING
THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF FEE COLLECTION; ESTABLISHING SEVERABILITY AND AN
EFFECTIVE DATE; AND PROVIDING FOR CERTAIN MATTERS RELATED THERETO.
WHEREAS, the City Council (the "City Council" or "Council") of the City of Spokane Valley,
Spokane County, Washington (the "City") has the responsibility under the Constitution of the State of
Washington for the construction, improvement, maintenance, protection and operation of public ways
within the corporate limits of the City; and
WHEREAS, chapter 36.73 of the Revised Code of Washington ("RCW") enables cities and
counties to create transportation benefit districts to finance and carry out transportation improvements
necessitated by economic development and to improve the performance of transportation systems; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Ordinance No. 23-018 passed by the City Council on October 24, 2023,
the City created the Spokane Valley Transportation Benefit District (the "TBD") and adopted a new chapter
3.85 to the Spokane Valley Municipal Code ("SVMC") governing the same; and
WHEREAS, the City Council approved Ordinance No. 23-022 on November 21, 2023, wherein
the City Council assumed the rights, powers, functions, and obligations of the TBD; and
WHEREAS, RCW 36.73.065 authorizes a transportation benefit district to impose, by majority
vote, a twenty dollar ($20.00) annual vehicle license fee as authorized in RCW 82.80.140; and
WHEREAS, in accordance with RCW 82.80.140, the new vehicle license fee may not be collected
until six months after approval of this action by the City Council; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has established by resolution a fee schedule, and established fees
may be added to such fee schedule; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds it to be in the best interest of the City to establish an annual
vehicle license fee in the amount of twenty dollars ($20.00) for the purpose of preserving, maintaining,
operating, constructing, and/or reconstructing transportation facilities in the City in accordance with
Ordinance No. 23-018 and chapter 3.85 SVMC; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to create Fund 111 Transportation Benefit District Fund to account for
collections and expenditures of vehicle license fee revenues.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Spokane Valley ordains as follows:
Section I. Annual Vehicle License Fee Established. An annual vehicle license fee in the
amount of twenty dollars ($20.00) is hereby established. Consistent with RCW 36.73.065(4)(a)(i), as
written or hereafter amended, the annual license fee shall be collected by the Washington Department of
Licensing ("DOL") on qualifying vehicles as set forth in RCW 82,80,140, as written or hereafter amended.
Section 2. Revenue Restrictions. The revenues received from the annual vehicle license fee
established in Section 1 of this Ordinance shall only be expended on transportation improvements as
provided pursuant to chapter 3,85 SVMC and State law.
Section 3, Effective Date of Fee Collection. The annual vehicle license fee authorized in
Section I of this Ordinance shall take effect for notices mailed in 2024 for vehicle license renewals due oil
or after July 1, 2024, or as soon thereafter as IDOL is reasonably able to incorporate collection of the fee-,
but in, no event shall the vehicle license fee be collected sooner than one hundred and eighty (180) days
after approval of this Ordinance, as provided in RC W 82.80. 140(4). The vehicle license fee shall cease to
be collected upon dissolution of the TBD,
Section 4. Creatirm, Fund 111. There is hereby created Fund Ill Transportation Benefit
District Fund which will be used to account for collections and expenditures of vehicle license fee revenues.
Section 5. Notice to Department of Licensing. The City Council directs the Finance Director
to notify DOL of the vehicle license fee established in Section I of this Ordinance and to request that DOL
take all steps necessary to implement collection of this fee in accordance with RCW 82,80.140,
Section G. Mas " ter """ Fee Schedule, The Master Fee Schedule shall hereby automatically be
amended through this action to include the annual vehicle license fee authorized in Section I of this
Ordinance, effective as of the effective date of this Ordinance. A new "Schedule H — Spokane Valley
Annual Vehicle License Fees" shall be added to the Master Fee Schedule without any additional action
necessary by City Council with such information necessary to evidence the annual vehicle license fee
authorized pursuant to this Ordinance. The City Clerk is authorized to take such action necessary to revise
and publish the schedule in the Master Fee Schedule a manner consistent with this Ordinance.
Section 7. Severability. Should any section, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this
Ordinance, or its application to any person Or Cil-CU]"llstance, be declared unconstitutional or otherwise
invalid for any reason, or should any portion of this Ordinance be preempted by state or federal law or
regulation, such decision or preemption shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this
Ordinance, the vehicle license fee established herein, or its application to other persons or circumstances.
Section S. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect five days after
publication of this Ordinance or a summary thereof in the official newspaper of the City as provided by
law.
PASSED by the City Council this 12"' day of December 2023.
CITY OF SPOKANE VALLEY, WASHINGTON
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Pam Haley, Mayor
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Marci PAtterson, City Clerk
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