Ordinance 984 p3-12or refusal of a person convicted of a violation of this ordinance to pay the fine,
together with the costs of the action, imposed by the Court or magistrate before
whom such conviction is had, such person shall be required to labor upon the
streets of the City of Edmonds or in any other place in said City, under the
direction and control of the City of Edmonds Police Chief, PROVIDED, that
one (1) day's labor shall be imposed for each $3.00 of the fine and costs aforesaid.
Section 5. BREAKING AND ENTERING. It shall be unlawful for any person
not the owner thereof,and without the express or implied permission of the owner
or owners thereof, to enter or attempt to enter into any building, dwelling or
• out -building within the city limits of the City of Edmunds.
It shall further be unlawful for any person to tamper with, force, or in
any way remove coins or other objects from any coin-oparated machine or its
attachments, without the express permission of the owner of said machine.
Violation of any provision of this section of this ordinance shall constitute
a misdemeanor.
Section 6. INJURY TO PROPERTY. Every persoi. shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor who shall willfully
1. Cut down, destroy or injure any wood, timber, grain, grass or
crop, standing or growing, or which has been cut down and is lying upon
the lands of another or of the City of Edmonds; or
2. Cut down, girdle or otherwise injure a fruit, shade or ornamental
tree standing on the land of another in the City of Edmonds, or along any
road or city street; or
3. Dig, take or carry away, without lawful authority or consent, from
any lot or land within the City of Edmonds, or from any lands included in
the City of Edmonds, any earth, soil or stone; or
4. Enter, without the consent of the owner or occupant, any orchard,
or damage or deface any building or part thereof, or throw any stone or
other missile at any building or part thereof; or
5. Throw, place or deposit, in any road, street, alley or highway in
the City of Edmonds any bottle, bottles, glass, glassware, tacks, nails,
garbage, rubbish, or discarded matter.
Section 7. ESCAPE. Any person confined in a prison or city jail, or
being in the lawful custody of an officer or other person, who *.-stapes or at-
tempts to escape from such prison or custody while being held on a charge,
conviction or sentence of a misdemeanor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 8. AIDING_ PRISONER TO ESCAPE. Any person who, with
intent to effect or facilitate the escape of a prisoner, whether suen escape shall
be effected or attempted or not, shall convey or send to a prisoner any informa-
tion or aid, or convey- or send into prison or jail any disguises, instrument,
weapon or other thing, or aid or assist a prisoner in escaping or attempting to
escape from thy: lawful custody of an officer or other person, shall be guilty of
• a misdemeanor.
Section 9. WARRANTS AND ARREST. ENFORCEMENT. The Police
Judge shall issue warrants for the arrest of any person or persons accused in
a written complaint of violating any of the provions of this Ordinance, provided,
that the police may arrest without a warrant any person violating any of the
provisions of this Ordinance in his or their presence. It shall be the duty of
the Edmonds City Police to strictly enforce the provisions of this Ordinance.
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Section 10. REGISTRATION OF FELONS. Anyone convicted of a felony,
or of any crime constituting a felony under the statutes of the State of Washington,
ror parole, who shall be withir the city limits of
Edmonds, or in transit, temporarily or otherwise, must within 48 hours after
arrival therein, or within 48 hours after the effective date of this ordinance, if
within the city on that date, report to and furnish the Chief of Police with it
written statement signed by such person, containing his true name and each other
name or alias by xhich he is or has been known, a full and complete personal
description, the name of each crime of which he has been convicted, the place
where committed, the name under which he was convicted, the date of each such
. conviction, the name and location of each prison, reformatory or other ,,enal
institution, if any, in which he was confined as punishment therefor, the location
or address of each of his actual or intended residence, stopping place or living
quarters in the City of Edmonds, together with a description of each such place,
whether hotel, apartment house, dwelling house or otherwise, giving the street
number, if any, or such description of the location as will identify the same, and
the length of time which he expects or intends to ::Nide within said City. At the
time of furnishing such statement said person shall be photographed and finger-
printed by the Chief of Police. All this shall be sd4ect to the follow-4 ig conditions:
1. Change of Address. Any such parson changing his place of residence,
stopping place or living quarters, shall within forty-eight hours there-
after notify said Chief of Police in a written and signed statement of such
change of address, and shall furnish the statement of such new address.
2. Records Confidential. All reports, records, photographs and finger-
prints taken pursuant to this Ordinance shall be private records of the
Chief of Police, open to the inspection of police officers only, or persons
having official duties to perform in connection tnerewith, and it shall be
unlawful for anyone -aving access to such records to disclose to anyone
else, other than in the regular discharge of his duties, any information
contained therein.
3. Violation. It shall be unlawful to fail to furnish any statement,
report, information, photograph or fingerprint required by this ordinance
within the time required hereby or to furnish any such statement,
information, photograph or fingerprint which is false or misleading.
4. Exceptions. The requirements of this ordinance shall not apply to
any person five years after a full pardon or a final release or discharge
from a reformatory, penitentiary or other penal institution hus been
granted such person.
Section 11. CONTRIBUTING TO THE DELINQUENCY OF A MINOR. In
all cases where any child is dependent or delinquent as defined in RCW 13.04.010
the parent or parents, legal guardian or persons having custodj of such child, or
any other person who, by any act or omission, encourages, causes or contributes
• to the dependency or delinquency of such child, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 12. SUPPLYING LIQUOR TO MINORS. It shall be unlawful for
any person to give or otherwise supply intoxicating liquor, including beer, to
any person under the age of 21 years, or permit any person under that age to
consume intoxicating liquors or beer on his premises, or on any premises under
his control, except as provided by Ordina ce No. 766 of the City of Edmonds
passed on May 5, 1959.
Section 13. UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF ALCOHOL BY MINORS. It
shall be unlawful for any person under the age of twenty-one years to have in
his possession or control an opened or unsealed bottle of intoxicating liquor or
beer in a public place, public pla being as defined in Orduiance No. 588 of
the City of Edmonds, passed on July 5, 1949, (3)
Section 14. GAS BOMBS AND STINK BOM S. Any person other than a
Lawfully constituted peace officer of this city, or of the state, who shall deposit,
lme, place, spray, scatter, spread or throw in any building, or any place, or who
shall counsel, aid, assist, encourage, incite or direct any other person or persons
to deposit, leave, place, spray, scatter, spread or throw, in any building or place,
or who shall have in his possession for the purpose of, and with the intent of
depositing, 1 •aving, placing, spraying, scattering, spreading or throwing, in any
building or place, or of counseling, aiding, assisting, encouraging, inciting or
directing any other person or persons to deposit, leave, place, spray, scatter,
• spread or throw, any stink bomb, stink paint, tear bomb, tear shell, or any other
device, material, chemical or substance which, when exploded or opene(I or with-
out such exploding or opening, by reason of its offensive and pungent odor, roes or
will annoy, injure, endanger or inconvenience any person or persons, shall be
gui.LLY of a misdemeanor; provided, that this sect'on shall not apply to persons in
the military service, actually engaged in the perforrnance of military duties,
pursuant to orders from competent authority, nor to any property owner orpersons
acting under his authority providing protection against the commission of a felony.
Section 15. DRUNK IN PUBLIC. No intoxicated person shall be or remain
in any public place in the City of Edmonds, such public place being defined as in
Ordinance No. 588 of the City of Edmonds, passed on July 5, 1949. Every person
who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 16. LEAVING CHILDREN UNATTENDED IN PARKED AUTOMOBILE.
Any person having the care and custody, whether temporary or permanent,of minor
children under the age of 12 years, who shall leave such children in a parked
automobile unattended by an adult, while such person enters a tavern or other
premises where vinous, spirituous or malt liquors are dispensed for consumption
on the premises shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 17. OBSCENE LITERATURE. Any person shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor who shall
1. Sell, lend or give away, or have in his possession with intent to sell,
lend, give away or show, any obscene, pornographic or indecent book, magazine,
pamphlet, newspaper, story, paper, writing, picture drawing, drawing, photograph,
or any article or instrument of indec,•nt or immoral character, or who shall design,
copy, draw, photograph, print, publish or otherwise prepare such a book, picture,
drawing or paper or other article, or write or print any circular, advertisement
or notice of any kind, or give oral information statuig when, where or how or from
whom such an indecent or obscene article or thing can be purchased or obtained; or
2. Sell, lend, give away or have in his possession with intent to sell, lend,
give away- or to show any book, pamphlet, magazine, newspaper or other printed
paper devoted to the publication or largely made up of criminal news, police reports,
accowits of criminal deeds, or pictures or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or
crime; or
3. Exhibit within the view of any minor any books, palters or other things
hereinbefore enumerated; or
4. Hire, use or employ, or having custody or control of a minor, shall
permit aiiy minor to sell, give away or in any manner distribute any article
xereinbefore mentioned; or
5. Shall cause to be performed, exhibited or engage in the performance
of any obscene, indecent, or immoral show, act or performance.
e tion _18. FRAUD ON INNKEEPER. Any person who shall obtain any
food, lodging or accommodation at any hotel, restaurant, boarding house or
lodging house without paying therefore, with intent to defraud the proprietor
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or manager thereof, or who shall obtain credit at a hotel, motel, restaurant,
boarding; house or lodging house by color or aid of any false pretense, repre-
sentation, token, or writing or who, after obtaining board, lodging or accommodation
at a hotel, restaurant, motel, hoarding house or lodging house, shall abscond
surreptitiously, remove his baggage therefrom without paying for such food,
lodging or accommodation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
•Section 19. PICKETING, WHEN UNLAWF'U'L._ It shall be unlawful for any
person to walk back and forth, loiter or remain upon the xtreets or sidewalks in
• front of any business ]roused in the City of Edmonds for the purpose of persuading
or intimidating any periFr mom entering said place of business for the purpose of
transacting business therein; pre4dded, however, that this Ordinance shall not
apply to employees of said business ori any person who has been an employee of
said business within ninety days of engaging in such prohibited acts.
Section 20. LIBRARY, WILFULLY RETAINING_ HOOKS. Any person who
wilfully retains any book, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript, recording,
or other property belonging to or in any public library, reading room, or other
educational institution, for tldrty days after notice in writing to return the same,
given after the expiration of the time that by the rules of such institution such
article or other property may be kept, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 21. MAINTAINING OR PERMITTING PUBLIC NUISANCE. Any
person who shall commit or maintain a public nuisance, for which no special
punishment is prescribed, or who shall wiUully omit or refuse to perform any
legal duty relating to the removal of such nuisance, or any person who shall let
or permit to be used, any building or boat, or portion thereof, knowing that it
is intended to become or is being used for committing or maintaining any such
nuisance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 22. AA93ULANCES AND DRIVERS. Any person violating any of
the following provisions shall be gailty of a misdemeanor:
1. It shall be unlawful to drive an ambulance without first having
successfully completed the Advanced First Aid Course offered by the
American Red Cross.
2. All ambulances must be at all times equipped with 7irst Aid
equipment consisting of leg and arm splints, standard '24 unit First Aid Kit
as prescribed by the American Red Cross.
3. It shall be unlawful for the driver of an ambulance to have consumed,
within an eight hour period prior to his driving said emergency vehicle,
any quantity of any alcoholic beverage, or any narcotic or barbiturate,
whether said driver be under the influence of said alcohol, narcotic or
barbiturate or not.
Section 23. A13ANDONED REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT - ABANDONING.
DISCARDING REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT. Any person who discards or
ahnndons or leaves in any place accessible to children any refrigerator, ice box,
or deep freeze locker having a capacity of one and one-half feet or mop, which
is no longer in use, and which has not had the door removed or a portion of the
latch : iechanism removed to prevent latching or locking of the door, is guilty
of a misdemeanor. Any owner, lessor, lessee, or manager who knowingly permits
such unused refrigerator, ice box or deep freeze locker to remain on the premises
under his control without having the door removed er a portion of the latch mechan-
ism removed to prevent latching or locking of the door is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Guilt of a violation of this paragraph of this section of this Ordinance shall not, in it
render any person guilty of any crime against a person who may suffer death or
injury from entrapment in such refrigerator, ice box or deep freeze locker. (5)
Any person who keeps or stores refrigerators, ice boxes, or deep freeze
lockers for the purpose of selling or offering them for sale shall not be guilty of
a violation of this ordinance if he takes reasonable precautions to effectively
secure the door of an\ refrigerator, ice box or deep freeze locker held for
purpose of sale so as to prevent ent ranee of any child or children small enough
to fit intbsuch articles.
Section 24. OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE. Any person violating any of the
• following provisiors shats be guilty of a misdemeanor:
1. Obstructing Public Officer. Every person who, after due notice, shall
refuse, neglect. to make or furnish any statement, report or information
lawfully required of him by any public officer, or who, in such statement,
report or information shall make any wifully untrue, misleading or
exaggerated statements, or who shall wilfully hinder, delay or obstruct
in the discharge of his official powers or duties, any public officer; or
2. Destroying evidence. Every person who, with intent to conceal the
commission of any crime, or to protect and conceal the identity of any
persom committing the same, or with intent to delay or hinder the ad-
ministration of the law or to prevent the production thereof at any time,
in any Court or before ani officer, tribuhal, judge or magistrate,
shall wilfully destroy, alter, erase, obliterate or conceal any book,
paper, record, writing, instrument or thing; or
3. Tampering with witnesses. Every person who shall wilfully- prevent
or attempt to prevent, by persuasion, threats or otherwise, any person
from appearing before any court, or officer authorized to subpoena
witnesses, as a witness in any action, proceeding or investigation, with
intent thereby to obstruct the coarse of justice.
Section 25. LOTTERY: SELLING TICKETS, ADVERTISING. Every person
who shall sell, give, or in any way whatever furnish or transfer to or for another,
tickets, shares, chances or interest, or any paper, certificate or instrument
purporting to be or to represent a ticket, chance, share or interest in, or de-
pendent upon the event of, a lottery, to be drawn within or without the City of
Edmonds; or who by writing, printing, circular, or letter, or any other way shall
advertise or pul,lish the account of the lottery in or out of the City, stating, how
or when or where the same is to be or has been drawn, what the prizes are therein,
or where or how it may be obtained, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 26. FALSE ADVERTISING. Any person, firm, corporation or
association, who, with intent to sell or otherwise dispose of merchandise, se-
curities or service, or anything offered by such person, firm, corporation or
association directly or indirectly, to the pul,lic for sale or distribution, or with
intent to increase the consumption thereof, or to induce the public, in any manner
to enter into any obLgat ion relating thereto, or to acquire a title thereto, or an
• interest therein, makes, publishes, disseminates, or circulates, or places before
the public, or causes, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated
or circulated, or placed before the public in this city, in a newspaper or other
publication, or in the form of a hook, notice, hand hill, poster, bill, circular,
pamphlet or letter, or in any other way an advertisement of any sort regarding
merchandise, securities, service, or anything so offered to the public:, which
advertisement contains aas assertion, representation or statement of fact which
is untrue, deceptive or misleading, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; PROVIDED,
that the provision of this section shall not apply to any owner, publisher, agent
or employee of a newspaper for the publication of such advertisement published
in good faith and without knowledge of the falsity thereof.
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Section 27. COERCION._ Any person who, with intent to compel another to
do or abstain from doing an act which such other person has a right to do, or
abstain from doing, shall wrongfully and unlawfully
1. Use violence or inflict injury upon such other person or any of his
family, or upon his property, or threaten such violence or injury; or
2. Deprive such person of any tool, implement or clothing, or to
hinder him in the use of same; cr
3. Attempt to intimidate such person by threat or force;
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 28. MALICIOUS PROSECUTION. Every person who shall, maliciously
and without probable cause therefore, cause or attempt to cause another to be
arrested or proceeded against for any crime of which lie is innocent, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 29. COLLECTING FOR BENEFIT WITHOUT AUTHORITY. Any
person who shall sell a ticket to any ball, benefit or entertainment, or ask or
receive a subscription or promise therefor for the benefit or pretended benefit
of any person, association or order, or who shall otherwise solicit or obtain
money on behalf of any person or association or order, without being duly
authorized thereto by the person, association or order for whose benefit or
pretended benefit that the same is done, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 30. IMPERSONATING AN OFFICER. Any person who shall falsely
impersonate a public officer, civil or military, or a policeman, or a private
individual having special authority by law to perform an act affecting the right
or interest of another, or who, without authority, shall assume any uniform
or badge of which such an officer or person is lawfully distinguished by, and in
such assumed character shall do any act purporting to be official, whereby
another is injured or defrauded, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 31. CRIMINAL CONTEMPT. Any person who shall, by disorderly,
contempuous or insolent behavior, commit during the sitting of a Court, in its
immediate view and presence, contempt of court, and which conduct shall directly
tend to interrupt the proceedings or impair the respect due said court or its
authority; or who shall commit a breach of the peace, create nose or other
disturbances directly tending to interrupt the proceedings of the Court, shall
be in contempt of court and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 32. UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY. AM assembly shall, be unlawful,
and every person participating therein by his presence, aid or instigation shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, whenever three o: more persons shall assemble
with intent to
i. Carry out any purpose in such a manner as to disturb the public peace; or
2. To commit any unlawful act by force; or
3. Being assembled, shall attempt or threaten any act tending towards a
breach of the peace, or an injury to persons or property, or do any
unlawful act.
Section 33. _CONSPIRACY. Every such person shall be guilty of a mis-
demearor whenever two or more persons shall conspire to
1. Commit a crime; or
2. Falsely and maliciously procure another to be arrested or proceeded
against for a crime; or
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3. Falsely institute or maintain any action or proceeding; or
4. Cheat or defraud another out of any property by unlawful or fraudulent
means; or
Prevent another from exercising any lawful trade or calling, or from
doing any other lawful act, by force, threats or intimidation, or by
interfering or threatening to interfere with tools, implements or property
belonging to or used by another; or with the use or employment thereof; or
V. Commit any act injuriouL to the public health, public morals, or for the
perversion or corruption of puillic justice or the due administration of law; or
7. Accomplis:. any criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish a
• purpose, not in itself criminal or wi'_awful, by criminal or unlawful means.
In any proceedings against any persons for violation of the above section
of this Ordinance, it shall ,ot be necessary to prove that any overt act was done
pursuant to such unlawful conspiracy or combination.
Section 34. 131UBERY AND GRAFTING. Any person violating any of the
following provisions shall be guilty of a misdemeanor:
1. Bribery of Public Officer. Any person who shall give, offer or promise,
directly or indirectly, any compensation, gratuity or reward to any
executive or administrative officer of the City of Edmonds, with intent to
influence him with respect to any act, decision, vote, opinion or other
proceedings, as such officer, or who shall give, offer or promise, directly
or indirectly, any compensation, gratuity or reward to a member of the
City Council, or attempt, directly or indirectly, by means of menace,
deceit, suppression of truth or other corrupt means, to influence such
member to give or withhold his vote or to absent himself from the house
in which he is a member or from any committee thereof; or who shall give,
offer or promise, directly or indirectly, any compensation, gratuity,
or reward to any judi 'al officer or other person authorized by law to
hear or determine any question, matter, cause or proceedings or contro-
versy, with intent to influence his action, vote, opinion. or decision thereon;
or who shall give, offer or promise, directly or indirectly, any compensation
gratuity or reward to a person executing any of the functions of apublic
officer other than as hereinbefore specified, with the intent to influence
him with respect to his powers or functions; or
'l. Asking or receiving bribe. Any member of the City Council who shall
ashreceive, c rec y or indirectly, any compensation, gratuity or
reward, or any promise thereof, upon the agreement or understanding
that his official vote, opinion, judgment or action shall be influenced
thereby, or shall he given in any particular manner, or upon any particular
side of any question or matter upon which he may be required to act in his
official capacity; and every judicial officer, and every person who executes
any of the functions of a public office not hereinbefore specified, and every
person employed by or acting for the City of Edmonds or for any public
officer ui the business of the City of Edmonds, who shall ask or receive,
directly or indirectly, any compensation, gratuity or reward, or any promise
• thereof, upon in agreement or understanding that his vote, opinion, judgment,
action, decision or other official proceedings shall be influenced thereby,
or that he will do or admit any •wt or proceedings or in any way neglect
or violate any official duty; or
3. Bribing witness. Every person who shall give, oi.k: , or promise,
directly or indirectly, any compensation, gratuity or reward to any
witness, or person who may be called as a witness, upon an agreement
or understanding that the testimony of said witness shall be thereby
influenced, or who shall wilfully attempt by any other means to induce
any witness or person who may lie cal'ed as a witness to give false
testimony, or to withhold true testimony; or
4. Witness asking or receiving bribe. Any person who is or may be a
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witness upon a trial, hearing, investigation or other proceeding for any
court, tribunal or officer authorized to hear evidence or take testimony,
who shall ask or receive, directly or indirectly, any compensation,
gratuity or reward, or any promise thereof, upon an agreement or under-
standing that his testimony shall be influenced thereby, or that he .:ll
absr,:t himself from the trial, hearing or other proceedings.
Section 35. CERTAIN PERSONS FORBIDDEN TO POSSESS ARMS. No
PERSON who has been convicted in this State or elsewhere of a crime of violence,
• shall own a pistol or have one in his possession or under his control. The
provisions of this section shall not apply to Marshalls, Sheriffs, Prison or Jail
Wardens or other deputies, policemen or other law enforcement officers, or to
any member of the Army, Navy or Marine Corps of the United States or the
National Guard, or organized Reserves, when on duty, or to regularly enrolled
members of any organization d•ti authorized to purchase or receive such weapons
in the United States from the State of Washington, or to regularly enrolled members
of clubs organized for the purpose of target shoiing and affiliated with the National
Shooting Organization; provided, such members are at or are going to or from their
place of assembly or target practice, or to officers or employees of the United
States who are authorized to carry concealed pistols, or to any person engaged in
the business of manufacturing, repairing or dealing in firearms or the agent or
representative of such person having in his possess, using, or carrying a pistol
in the usual or ordinary course of his business, or to any person carrying a
pistol unloaded in a secure wrapper from the place of purchase or place of
business or to a place of repair or back to his home or place of business or
in moving from one place of abode or business to another.
A chief of Police of the City of Edmonds shall, upon the application of any pers
issue a license to such person to carry, aipistol in a vehicle or concealed on or about
his person within this State for not more than one year from date of issue, if it
appears that the applicant has good reason to fear an injury to his person or property,
or has any other proper reason for carrying a pistol, and that he is a suitable Person
to be so licensed. The license shall be in the form prescribed by the State of
Washington.
No person shall deliver a pistol to any person under the age of twenty-one,
or to anyone whom he has reasonable cause to believe has been convicted of a
crime of violence, or is a drug addict, habitual drunkard, or of unsound mind.
No person shall, in the purchasing or securing delivery of 2 pistol or in
applying for a license to carry the same, give false information or other false
evidence of his identity.
No person shall change, alter, remove or obliterate the name of the maker,
the manufacturer's _umber, or any other mark of identification on any pistol.
. Possession of any pistol upon which such mark shall have been changed, altered,
removed or obliterated, shall be prima facie evidence that the possessor has
changed, altered, removed or obliterated the same.
This section of this ordinance shall not apply to any antique pistols unsuitable
for use as firearms and possessed as curiousities or ornaments.
Section 36. AIMING OR DISCHARGING FIREARMS. Any person who shall
aim any gun, pistol, revolver or other firearm, whether loaded or not, at or
towards any human being, or who shall wilfully discharge a firearm, air gut, or
other weapon, or throw any deadly misAc in a public place, or in any place where
anyperson might he endangered thereby, although no injury results, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor.
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Section 37, USE OF FIREARMS BY MINOR. No minor under the age of
sixteen )ears shall handle or have in his possession, or under his contru., except
while accompanied by or under the immediate charge of his parent or guardian,
any firearm of any kind, for hunting or target practice, or for other purposes.
Every person violating any of the foregoing provisions, or aiding or knowingly
permitting any such part to violate the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 38. DA_N_GEROti1[ WEAPONS -EVIDENCE. Any person who shall
manufacture, sell, or dispose_of, or have in his possession any instrument or
• weapon of the kind usually known as black -jack, sand club, or metal knuckles,
or who shall f. rtively carry or conceal any dagger, dirk, stiletb, knife, pistol
or other dangerous weapon, or who shall use any contrivance or device for
suppressing the noise of any firearm, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 39. SMOKING, WHERE PROHIBITED. Any person who shall
light a pipe, cigar, or cigarette or who shall enter with a lighted pipe, cigar
or cigarette, any mill or other building in which is posted in a conspicuous place
over or near such principal entrance a notice in plain, legible characters
stating that no smoking i.- allowed in such building, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 40. MALICIOUSLY SETTING FIRE OR P_E_RMITTIN_G THE SPREAD
THEREOF. If any person shall maliciously or wantonly set on fire any ground other
than his own or those in which he is in lawful possession, or shall willfully or
negligently permit or suffer a fire to pass from his own grounds or premises
to the injury of another, such person shall be guilty of a misdr-meanor.
Section 41_. OBSTRUCTING FIRE_M_EN. Any person who, at the burning
of any building, shall bt gui_lty of any disobedience to the lawful orders of the
public officer of fireman or of resistance to or interference with any lawful
efforts of any fireman, or company of firemen to extinguish the same or of
disorderly conduct likely to interfere with the ext; ,igui shment thereof, or who
shall forbid, prevent or dissuade others from assisting t� extinguish such fire,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 4E. OBS7 K_b
UCTING THE_EXT_I_NGUISH_MENT OF _FIRE. Any person
who, with the intent to revent or ostruct the extinguishment of any fire, shall cut
or remove any bell rope, wire or other apparatus for communication of alarms or
to cut, injure or destroy any ua6ine, hose or other fire apparatus, or othE.•wis-
prevent or obstruct the extinguishment of any fire, shall be guilty of a misdemea.ior.
_Section 43. FALSE_ FIRE ALARMS. It shall be a misdemeanor for any
person to knowingly cause or make any false fire alarm of fire within the City
of Edmonds; provided, that this Ordinance shall not apply to the Chief of the Fire
Department when he shall deem it expedient to give such false alarm for the
discipline of Fire Department personnel.
Section 44. PENALTIES. Anyone vho shall violate or fail to comply with
any provision of this ordinance, shall upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine
in any sum not exceeo.:t; Three Hundred ($300. 00) Dollars, or by im )risonment
for a term not exceeding ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Each separate day or portion thereof during which any violation of this ordinance
occurs or continues shall be deemed to constitute a separate violation hereof
and a separate offense hereunder, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished
as herein provided.
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Section _45. ORDINANCE IN CONFLICT REPEALED. Any and all
sections of Ordinance No. 25 of the City of Edmonds, passed on June 21,
1892, as codified under Chapter 5.12, Section 5. 12.020 of the Edmonds
City Code, in conflict with the provisions of this Ordinance, are hereby
repealed.
Section 46. EFFECTIVE DA "E. This Ordinance shall be in full
arid and effect from and after five days after its passage and publication
according to law. ,
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� MAYOR
ATTEST.
CITY CLERK
Passed:_ _April 2--------------
1963
Published. _April 11, 1963 _
Filed with City Clerk: April 2, It 63