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CITY OF TUK
WASHINGTON
ORDINANCE NO. 745
SECTION 30 REPEALED BY 1095
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 570 AND
CHAPTER 8.04 OF THE TUKWILA MUNICIPAL CODE,
DEFINING ASSAULT, ASSAULT AND BATTERY, PRO-
VOKING ASSAULT, LARCENY, DEFRAUDING AN
INNKEEPER, AND UNLAWFUL ISSUANCE OF BANK
CHECKS OR DRAFTS AND DECLARING SAME TO BE
UNLAWFUL.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON,
DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
That Ordinance No. 570, as amended by Ordinance No. 727,
be further amended by adding thereto the following additional
sections:
Section 25. Assault.
An assault is an attempt in a rude, insolent and angry
manner unlawfully to touch, strike, beat or wound another person,
coupled with a present ability to carry such attempt into execution,
and every person committing such assault shall be in violation of
this Code.
Section 26. Assault and Battery.
Assault and battery is the unlawful beating of another
or a consummated attempt to unlawfully touch, strike, beat or
wound another person. Every person convicted of an assault and
battery shall be in violation of this Code.
Section 27, Provoking Assault.
It shall be unlawful for any person by word, sign or
gesture to wilfully provoke or attempt to provoke another person
to commit assault or breach of the peace. Every person provoking
an assault shall be in violation of this Code.
Section 28. Defrauding an Innkeeper.
It shall be unlawful for any person to obtain food,
lodging or accommodation at any hotel, restaurant, boardinghouse
or lodging house without paying therefor with intent to defraud
the proprietor or manager thereof and it shall be unlawful to
obtain credit at a hotel, restaurant, boardinghouse or lodging
house by color or aid of any false pretenses, representation,
token or writing, or for any person, after obtaining board,
lodging or accommodation at a hotel, restaurant, boardinghouse
or lodging house to abscond or surreptitiously remove his
baggage therefrom without paying for such food, lodging or
accommodation. Every person committing such acts shall be in
violation of this Code.
Section 29, Unlawful Issuance of Bank Checks or Drafts.
Any person who shall, with intent to defraud, make or
draw or utter or deliver to another person any check or draft
on a bank or other depository for the payment of money, knowing
at the time of such drawing or delivery that he has not sufficient
funds in or credit with said bank or depository to meet said
check in full upon its presentation, shall be guilty of larceny.
The word "credit" as used herein shall be construed to mean an
arrangement or understanding with the bank for the payment of
such check or draft and the uttering or delivering of such a
check or draft to another person without such funds or credit
to meet the same shall be prima facie evidence of an intent to
defraud. Any such acts shall constitute a violation of this
Code.
Section 30. Larceny.
Every person who, with intent to deprive or defraud the
owner thereof
(1) Shall take, lead or drive away the property of another;
or
(2) Shall obtain from the owner or another the possession
of or title to any property, real or personal, by color or aid
of any order for the payment or delivery of property or money or
any check or draft, knowing that the maker or drawer of such
order, check or draft was not authorized or entitled to make or
draw the same, or by color or aid of any fraudulent or false
representation, personation or pretense or by any false token
or writing or by any trick, device, bunco game or fortune
telling; or
(3) Having any property in his possession, custody or
control, as bailee, factor, pledgee, servant, attorney, agent,
employee, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian or officer
of any person, estate, association or corporation, or as a public
officer, or a person authorized by agreement or by competent
authority to take or hold such possession, custody or control, or
as a finder thereof, shall secrete, withhold or appropriate the
same to his own use or to the use of any person other than the
true owner or person entitled thereto; or
(4) Having received any property by reason of a mistake,
shall with knowledge of such mistake secrete, withhold or
appropriate the same to his own use or to the use of any person
other than the true owner or person entitled thereto; and
(5) Every person who, knowing the same to have been so
appropriated, shall bring into this state, or buy, sell, receive
or aid in concealing or withholding any property wrongfully
appropriated, whether within or outside of this state, in such
manner as to constitute larceny under the provisions of this
chapter
Steals such property and shall be guilty of larceny.
All such acts shall be in violation of this Code.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Tukwila,
Washington, and approved by the Mayor this aqL (day of77cL099j 1972.
Approved as to form:
City Attorney
Published: h�i�� /ime,,5
Mayor
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Attest:
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