§ 8.22.040. Unlawful acts.

(a)

Every person who causes, maintains, allows, permits, procures, aids, fosters, promotes or solicits a public nuisance or chronic nuisance, or who wilfully omits or refuses to abate such a nuisance, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b)

Every person who deliberately ignores the establishment or continuation of a public nuisance or chronic nuisance involving or upon property under the person's control is guilty of a misdemeanor if done either intentionally or in a criminally negligent manner.

(1)

For purposes of this section, deliberate ignorance is done in a criminally negligent manner if it jeopardizes another's health, safety or welfare; interferes with the objectively reasonable use and enjoyment of adjacent property or any public property; or has a detrimental effect upon adjacent property values.

(c)

Each day that a violation continues constitutes a separate violation for purposes of criminal prosecution.

(d)

Criminal prosecution is a separate action to any civil action that may be taken to address a nuisance or chronic nuisance in chapter 1.05 of the Code.

(Ord. No. 6448, § 1, 1-10-18)