Cienna mentioned this in Morning News, but let’s recap, stoners, shall we?

We finally know: If you get busted for smoking weed in public, you’ll soon be subject to a special City of Seattle ticket with a $27 fine—the same fine you’d pay for drinking in public. Thanks to a bill sponsored by city council member Nick Licata and passed yesterday, you’ll also be subject to a simple warning for your first infraction, instead of a ticket. (So learn the lesson the first time if you get stopped, huh?)

In addition, the bill requires that SPD track the demographics of all the citations they write, so that council can review the statistics and ensure the law is being enforced equitably—a remedy intended to address concerns about drug laws being enforced more heavily on people of color.

You may recall that this whole city-ticket-for-pot-smoking thing came straight from City Attorney Pete Holmes, who was pushing a similar ordinance on city council earlier this year (with about double the fine), saying he just wanted to support cops and give them some legal direction. But SPD didn’t seem like they were actually asking for it. As Dominic wrote in July, SPD hadn’t issued a single pot ticket under the state law so far, and Chief Jim Pugel said at the time, “I hope you don’t feel that the SPD is beating down the door to get this done.”

But Holmes—himself a sponsor of the pot-legalizing Initiative 502—seemed determined to draft some legislation, in part to signal that the city was as serious about enforcing the boundaries of the state pot laws as it was enthusiastic about the legalization side. He also admitted that revenue from the tickets—city ticket revenue goes into city coffers, unlike a ticket written up under state law—was “a factor” in the push for this new citation, though “not the main factor,” he assured us.

Regardless, this bill seems like a pretty chill way to go about enforcing pot laws—which are still the lowest law-enforcement priority in the city, a fact the bill mentions in its recital—and SPD has signaled repeatedly that they want to be as restrained and careful as possible when it comes to pot.

The fine goes into effect 30 days after the mayor signs it into law.