RCW 7.48.085 Moral nuisance—Property owner may repossess. If a tenant or occupant of a building or tenement, under a lawful title, uses such place for the purposes of maintaining a moral nuisance, such use makes void at the option of the owner the lease or other title under which he or she holds, and without […]
RCW 7.48.090 Moral nuisance—Contraband—Forfeitures. Lewd matter is contraband, and there are no property rights therein. All personal property declared to be a moral nuisance in RCW 7.48.052 and 7.48.054 and all moneys and other consideration declared to be a moral nuisance under RCW 7.48.056 are the subject of forfeiture to the local government and are […]
RCW 7.48.100 Moral nuisance—Immunity of certain motion picture theater employees. The provisions of any criminal statutes with respect to the exhibition of, or the possession with the intent to exhibit, any obscene film shall not apply to a motion picture projectionist, usher, or ticket taker acting within the scope of his or her employment, if […]
RCW 7.48.110 Houses of lewdness, assignation or prostitution may be abated—Voluntary abatement. If the owner of the building in which a nuisance is found to be maintained, appears and pays all costs of the proceeding, and files a bond with sureties to be approved by the clerk in the full value of the property to […]
RCW 7.48.120 Nuisance defined. Nuisance consists in unlawfully doing an act, or omitting to perform a duty, which act or omission either annoys, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of others, offends decency, or unlawfully interferes with, obstructs or tends to obstruct, or render dangerous for passage, any lake or navigable river, […]
RCW 7.48.130 Public nuisance defined. A public nuisance is one which affects equally the rights of an entire community or neighborhood, although the extent of the damage may be unequal. [Code 1881 § 1236; 1875 p 79 § 2; RRS § 9912.] NOTES: Crimes, nuisances: Chapter 9.66 RCW.
RCW 7.48.140 Public nuisances enumerated. It is a public nuisance: (1) To cause or suffer the carcass of any animal or any offal, filth, or noisome substance to be collected, deposited, or to remain in any place to the prejudice of others; (2) To throw or deposit any offal or other offensive matter, or the […]
RCW 7.48.150 Private nuisance defined. Every nuisance not included in the definition of RCW 7.48.130 is private. [Code 1881 § 1237; 1875 p 79 § 3; RRS § 9915.]
RCW 7.48.155 Unlawful use of firearm or deadly weapon—Arrest required. The unlawful use of a firearm or other deadly weapon by a person in, or adjacent to his or her dwelling, that imminently threatens the physical safety of other people in the adjacent area, so as to essentially interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of their […]
RCW 7.48.160 Authorized act not a nuisance. Nothing which is done or maintained under the express authority of a statute, can be deemed a nuisance. [Code 1881 § 1238; 1875 p 79 § 4; RRS § 9916.]
RCW 7.48.170 Successive owners liable. Every successive owner of property who neglects to abate a continuing nuisance upon, or in the use of such property caused by a former owner, is liable therefor in the same manner as the one who first created it. [Code 1881 § 1239; 1875 p 79 § 5; RRS § […]
RCW 7.48.180 Abatement does not preclude action for damages. The abatement of a nuisance does not prejudice the right of any person to recover damages for its past existence. [Code 1881 § 1240; 1875 p 79 § 6; RRS § 9918.]
RCW 7.48.190 Nuisance does not become legal by prescription. No lapse of time can legalize a public nuisance, amounting to an actual obstruction of public right. [Code 1881 § 1241; 1875 p 80 § 7; RRS § 9919.]
RCW 7.48.200 Remedies. The remedies against a public nuisance are: Indictment or information, a civil action, or abatement. The remedy by indictment or information shall be as regulated and prescribed in this chapter. When a civil action for damage is resorted to, the practice shall conform to RCW 7.48.010 through 7.48.040. [ 1957 c 51 […]
RCW 7.48.210 Civil action, who may maintain. A private person may maintain a civil action for a public nuisance, if it is specially injurious to himself or herself but not otherwise. [ 2011 c 336 § 218; Code 1881 § 1243; 1875 p 80 § 9; RRS § 9921.]
RCW 7.48.220 Abatement, by whom. A public nuisance may be abated by any public body or officer authorized thereto by law. [Code 1881 § 1244; 1875 p 80 § 10; RRS § 9922.]
RCW 7.48.230 Public nuisance—Abatement. Any person may abate a public nuisance which is specially injurious to him or her by removing, or if necessary, destroying the thing which constitutes the same, without committing a breach of the peace, or doing unnecessary injury. [ 2011 c 336 § 219; Code 1881 § 1245; 1875 p 80 […]
RCW 7.48.240 Certain places of resort declared nuisances. Houses of ill fame, kept for the purpose, where persons are employed for purposes of prostitution; all public houses or places of resort where gambling is carried on, or permitted; all houses or places within any city, town, or village, or upon any public road, or highway […]
RCW 7.48.250 Penalty—Abatement. Whoever is convicted of erecting, causing or contriving a public or common nuisance as described in this chapter, or at common law, when the same has not been modified or repealed by statute, where no other punishment therefor is specially provided, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, […]
RCW 7.48.260 Warrant of abatement. When, upon indictment or information, complaint or action, any person is adjudged guilty of a nuisance, if it be in superior court the court may in addition to the fine imposed, if any, or to the judgment for damages or costs, for which a separate execution may issue, order that […]
