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The following acts and things are declared to be nuisances in the city:

A. Debris, rubbish, materials or other items resulting or accumulating from the alteration, construction, repair or demolition of any building or structure, being or remaining in public view in an unsightly or disorderly condition for any period exceeding thirty days;

B. Old, dilapidated or caved-in buildings or structures, junk, or other things which are allowed to remain upon or are placed or maintained on any property or premises where they are open to public view and are unsightly to such extent that they are unreasonably disagreeable and offensive to the view of the ordinary and reasonable public and detract from the appearance of the locality, taking into consideration the location of the premises and all the circumstances of each particular case;

C. Any thing or condition built, placed, maintained or allowed to remain on any premises and which, in the opinion of the chief of the fire department or of his assistant chief in charge in his absence, constitutes an undue fire hazard and which is maintained or allowed to remain on such premises beyond a reasonable time after either oral or written notice from the fire chief or his assistant chief or any city police officer of the existence of the fire hazard is given to the owner, occupant, or person in charge of premises, the notice to specify the reasonable time for removal of the fire hazard;

D. Any condition which causes to be freed or released any offensive or annoying odor, smoke, stench or smell which annoys, injures or endangers the safety, health, comfort or repose of any considerable number of persons;

E. Any loud or irritating noises caused or made at unreasonable times and places, the question of reasonableness to be determined in view of all the circumstances;

F. Interference with the use of or anything obstructing all or any part of any street, alley, avenue, commons, public highway, private way or the entrance to any public building, structure or property. Also, erecting or placing or causing to be erected or placed thereon any obstruction, structure, refuse, snow, water or other impediment or thing which interferes with the use of or obstructs or impedes such places;

G. Any business for which a city license is required or city tax is to be paid, which is operated without obtaining such license or paying such tax;

H. Any act or the failure to perform any duty, which act or omission (1) annoys, injures, or endangers the safety, health, comfort or repose of any considerable number of persons; or (2) offends public decency; or (3) unlawfully interferes with, befouls, obstructs, or tends to obstruct, or renders dangerous for passage any public park, square, street, alley, highway or public place; or (4) in any way renders a considerable number of persons insecure in life or the use of property;

I. Any place wherein and any act whereby any gambling, swindling game or device, bookmaking, pool selling, or bucket shop, or any agency therefor, is conducted, or any article, apparatus, or device useful therefor is kept;

J. A house of prostitution or any act of prostitution;

K. Illegal sale or possession of liquors or narcotics;

L. Any engine, motor or other machine or device which unduly interferes with radio, telephone or television reception to the annoyance or injury of the public;

M. Slums, blighted areas, and dilapidated or unsafe buildings;

N. Filthy and unsanitary buildings, structures or places;

O. Stagnant water, sewage, or other stagnant liquids which are allowed to stand or accumulate and are filthy or unsanitary or provide breeding places for mosquitoes and other insects;

P. Things offensive to public morals, decency, peace and order;

Q. Any liquid, solid or snow unlawfully allowed or caused to overflow or be deposited on lands or properties of the city or of the public;

R. Unsafe or insecure awnings, signs or other structures or trees and plants which overhang a street, sidewalk or other public place and which present a hazard to the public;

S. Storage of, or carrying on the business of manufacturing, gunpowder, nitroglycerin, or other highly explosive substance, or mixing or grinding the materials therefor, in any building within fifty rods of any valuable building erected at the time such business or storage may be commenced;

T. Slaughterhouses and stockyards;

U. Unmuzzled dogs or dogs without a city license running at large, or any bitch in heat running at large. If any dog or other animal attacks viciously, bites or viciously injures or attempts to injure any person without provocation, such animal may be summarily shot by any police officer witnessing such incident;

V. Snow, ice or water dripping or sliding or shoveled or moved from any roof or elevated place onto a street, alley, sidewalk or any other public place or city property. Such conditions shall be summarily abated at the wrongdoer’s expense by any city officer or employee upon failure of the wrongdoer to abate it immediately;

X. Knowingly doing any act which interferes with or impedes the carrying out and performance of city functions and business or the performance of the lawful duties of city policemen, firemen, employees and officials; or damaging or destroying city property;

Y. The practice of going in and upon private residences in the city, by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants or transient vendors of merchandise not having been requested or invited so to do by the owner or owners, occupants or occupants of the private residences for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares and merchandise and/or disposing of and/or peddling or hawking the same; provided, it is lawful for any farmer, gardener, or other person, without license, to sell, deliver, or peddle, any fruits, vegetables, berries, butter, eggs, fish, milk, poultry, meats, or any farm produce or edibles raised, caught, produced, or manufactured by such person, as provided by the Revised Code of Washington, Section 36.71.090;

Z. For an owner or occupier or person in charge of land, knowing of the existence of a wall, septic tank, cesspool, or other hole or excavation ten inches or more in width at the top and four feet or more in depth, to fail to cover, fence or fill the same, or provide other proper and adequate safeguards; provided, that this subsection shall not apply to a hole one hundred square feet or more in area or one that is open, apparent, and obvious.

(Ord. 517 § 1, 1956)