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City of Tukwila
Washington
Cover page to Ordinance 570
The full text of the ordinance follows this cover page.
AN ORDINANCE for the preservation of public
morality, peace safety and the good order
in the City of providing penalties
for violations thereof and repealing
Ordinances 260 and 22.
Ordinance 570 was amended or repealed by the
following ordinances.
AMENDED BY: REPEALED BY:
720, 727, 745, 1114 §1-3
760, 945, 1270 1115 §10
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CITY OF T
WASHINGTON
ORDINANCE NO. 457 v
AN ORDINANCE for the preservation of public
morality, peace, safety and the good order
in the City of Tukwila, providing penalties
for violations thereof and repealing
Ordinances 260 and 22.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE-CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON DO ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: FIGHTING, DRUNKENNESS, DISORDERLY CONDUCT, DISTRUB-
ING THE PEACE, PROFANE LANGUAGE, IMMORAL PRACTICES: It shall be
unlawful for any person to be guilty of fighting, drunkenness or of
riotous or disorderly conduct, or of any conduct tending to disturb
the public peace, or to use any profane or abusive language, or to
engage in any act or practice whereby the peace or quiet of the
City may be disturbed, or to use any obscene language or be guilty
of any indecent or immoral act, practice or conduct tending to
debauch the public morals.
SECTION 2: TRADUCING ANOTHER, DISTURBING THE PEACE: It shall
be unlawful for any person or persons to traduce or threaten to
traduce another, or to use any language or indulge in any conduct
toward another person tending to produce a disturbance of the peace
or to challenge another person to fight.
SECTION 3: FIGHTING: It shall be unlawful for any two, or
more persons to agree to fight or to fight by agreement.
SECTION 4: DISORDERLY PERSONS: It shall be unlawful for any
person to go begging, or to use any juggling or other unlawful
games or plays, or to be a run away, or pilferer, confidence man,
common drunkard, common night walker, or to be lewd, wanton or
lascivious in speech or behavior, or to be a common railer or
brawler, or to lodge in or be found in the night time in an outhouse
shed, barn, unoccupied building, car or vehicle and not give a
good account of himself.
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SECTION 5: KEEPING A DISORDERLY HOUSE: It shall be unlawful
for any person, who shall keep any house or place of business, to
suffer or permit any loud or boisterous noises to be made therein
after the hours of eleven (11) o'clock P.M., or to suffer or permit
therein, at any time, any riotous or disorderly conduct, drunkenness
or fighting to the annoyance of the public; and it shall be unlawful
for any person to keep any house or public resort wherein the
peace, comfort, quietude or decency of the public may be suffered
or permitted to be disturbed, or to keep any inn, hotel, lodging
house, boarding house, bar room or saloon in a disorderly manner.
SECTION 6: GAMBLING, BINGO OR SWINDLING GAMES: It shall be
unlawful for any person to engage in gambling, bingo or swindling
games, or to operate or have in his possession devices for the
purpose of swindling or defrauding others.
SECTION 7: PROWLING BY CRIMINALS: It shall be unlawful for
any person who is known to be a thief, burglar or pickpocket, either
by his own confession or otherwise, or having been convicted of
larceny, burglary or other crime against the laws of the State or
ordinances of this City punishable by imprisonment in the State
prison or in jail of any city or county, and having no lawful means
of support, to be habitually found prowling around any store,
banking institution, shop, depot, place of public amusement, gather-
ing or assemblage, or lounging obout any private dwelling house,
outhouse or any house of ill fame or saloon.
SECTION 8: WANDERING OR LOITERING DURING NIGHT TIME:
(a) It is unlawful for anyone to loiter or prowl in a place,
at a time, or in a manner, and under circumstances that manifest an
unlawful purpose or warrant alarm for the safety of persons or
property in the vicinity. Examples of circumstances which may be
considered in determining whether such unlawful purpose is manifested
or such alarm is warranted include but are not limited to the
following: flight by the actor upon appearance of a peace officer,
refusal to identify himself or manifestly endeavoring to conceal
himself or any object.
(b) No arrest shall be made under this section nor shall any
person be convicted of violating this section unless such person is
first afforded, if practicable under the circumstances, an
opportunity to dispel any alarm or suspicion of unlawful purposes
which would otherwise be warranted by identifying himself and
explaining his presence and conduct.
(c) No person shall be convicted of violation this section if
it appears at trial that the explanation given by him of his presence
and conduct was true and if believed by the arresting officer at
the time, would have dispelled the alarm or suspicion of unlawful
purpose.
SECTION 9: UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY: It is unlawful for two or more
persons to assemble together, or, being assembled together, to act
in concert, to commit, or conspire to commit, any unlawful act.
SECTION 10: INDECENT EXPOSURE: It shall be unlawful for any
person to appear in a state of nudity, or in any indecent or lewd
dress, or make any indecent exposure of his person, or to expose his
private parts to public view, or be guilty of any lewd act or
behavior in any place exposed to public view.
SECTION 11: INJURY OR DISTRUCTION OF STRUCTURES: It shall be
unlawful for any person to wantonly destroy, cut, remove, deface,
mark or write upon, or in any manner injure any window, fence, gate,
bridge, dwelling house, engine house, building, awning, railing or
any other property, public or private, not his own.
SECTION 12: INJURY OR DISTRUCTION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY: It
shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully destroy, mutilate,
deface or in any manner injure any personal property of any kind
or character, public or private, not his own.
SECTION 13: INJURY OR REMOVAL OF STREET SIGNS: It shall be
unlawful for any person to remove, deface, injure or destroy any
street sign, or any sign erected or placed in or adjacent to any
street, indicating the name of such street, or any legal notice or
lawful signature or advertisement whatsoever.
SECTION 14: PERSONATING OFFICERS: It shall be unlawful for
any person, not being a member of a police force of the City of
Tukwila or a special policeman, appointed in accordance with
Ordinances of the City, to represent to any person that he is
a policeman, police officer, city detective or any member of the
police force of the City to the fear, annoyance or discomfort of
any person.
SECTION 15: RESISTING OFFICERS: It shall be unlawful for any
person to knowingly and wilfully resist, oppose, hinder or delay any
member of the police force of the City of Tukwila, or any peace
officer or deputy in any department of the City Government, in
discharge of any official act or duty, or to neglect or refuse to
obey any lawful order or direction of any peace officer in the
discharge of any lawful act or duty.
SECTION 16: FALSE ALARMS OF FIRE: It shall be unlawful for
any person to knowingly cause or make any false alarm of fire;
provided that this section shall not apply to the Chief of the Fire
Department when such alarm may be deemed proper for the purpose of
discipline of firemen, or in their training.
SECTION 17: THROWING ARTICLES: It shall be unlawful for any
person to rudely or mischievously throw anything at, or against,
or upon any house, building structure, vehicle, car, or any premises
or any person to the annoyance of any person.
SECTION 18: UNAUTHORIZED TAMPERING WITH FIXTURES: It shall be
unlawful for any person to cut, alter, change, remove, disconnect, or
connect with, or in any manner interfere, meddle or tamper with, any
water main, pipe, stopcock, hydrant, pump, meter or conduit, or any
gas pipe, main or meter, or any electric wire, cable, conduit or
meter, or to take or use any water, gas or electrical energy or
current, without the consent of the owner if the same be privately
owned, and without consent of the proper authorities if the same is
owned by the City of Tukwila.
SECTION 19: INJURING FLOWERS, FOLIAGE, SHRUBBERY: It shall be
unlawful for any person to pick, pull up or in any manner injure or
destroy any flower, foliage, flowering plant, foliage plant or
shrubbery in or upon any private property, not his own.
SECTION 20: PENALTY: Any person violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not to
exceed $500.00 or by imprisonment not exceeding ninety (90) days or
both such fine and imprisonment for each offense.
SECTION 21: CONFLICT: All ordinances or parts of ordinances
in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed.
SECTION 22: VALIDITY: If any section, paragraph, sentence,
clause or phrase of this Ordinance is declared unconstitutional or
invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity
of the remaining portions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 23: EFFECTIVE DATE: This Ordinance shall take effect
immediately upon its final passage and postion as required by law.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Tukwila,
Washington and APPROVED by the Mayor at a regular meeting
thereof this ,/he day of 1969.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Cit Attorney ecOPO.'
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Mayor