Title 9
PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE

Chapters:

I. Offenses By or Against Public Officers and Government

9.08 False Alarms

II. Offenses Against the Person (Reserved)
III. Offenses Against Public Decency

9.20 Cruelty to Animals

IV. Offenses Against the Public Peace

9.36 Public Disturbance Noises

V. Offenses Against Property

9.54 Repealed

VI. Consumer Protection (Reserved)
VII. Offenses By or Against Minors

9.64 Billiard, Pool, Card or Game Rooms

9.66 Intoxicating Liquor

VIII. Weapons

9.70 Firearms

IX. Miscellaneous

9.82 State Criminal Statutes

I. Offenses By or Against Public Officers and Government

Chapter 9.08
FALSE ALARMS

Sections:

9.08.010 False alarm prohibited.

9.08.010 False alarm prohibited.

A. Every person who has the right to possess or control any premises with an automatic alarm system shall maintain the system in good repair, and shall be liable for the fees provided in this chapter for failure to do so. Three false alarms from any such system in any calendar year shall be prima facie evidence of failure to comply with this section.

B. The city may charge and collect the following fees from the person in possession or control of the premises:

1. Twenty-five dollars for the fourth response to a false alarm within one calendar year;

2. Fifty dollars for the fifth response to a false alarm within one calendar year;

3. One hundred dollars for the sixth and each subsequent response to a false alarm within a calendar year.

C. Imposition of the fees provided above shall be the only penalties authorized for violation of this chapter. (Ord. 590 § 1, 1986).

II. Offenses Against the Person (Reserved)

III. Offenses Against Public Decency

Chapter 9.20
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

Sections:

9.20.010 Act designated – Penalty.

9.20.010 Act designated – Penalty.

Whoever in any manner is guilty of cruelty to any dumb animal, or is guilty of turning out and abandoning any old, decrepit or motherless animal upon the public streets, or alleys of the city is guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $25.00. (Ord. 9 § 14, 1903).

IV. Offenses Against the Public Peace

Chapter 9.36
PUBLIC DISTURBANCE NOISES

Sections:

9.36.010 Definition.

9.36.020 Public disturbance noises prohibited.

9.36.010 Definition.

A public disturbance noise is any sound which unreasonably either annoys, injures, interferes with or endangers the peace, comfort, tranquility, sleep or repose, health or safety of a community or neighborhood, although the extent of the damage or interference may be unequal. (Ord. 572 § 1, 1986).

9.36.020 Public disturbance noises prohibited.

A. With respect to public disturbance noises other than those emanating from construction activities as defined in subsection B of this section, it is unlawful between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m from Sunday evening through Friday morning, between 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. from Friday evening through Saturday morning, and between 10:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. from Saturday evening through Sunday morning:

1. For any person to cause by any means a public disturbance noise, whether emanating from public or private property;

2. For any person in possession and control of premises to cause the emission or permit the emission of any public disturbance noise from those premises; or

3. For any person operating or controlling any vehicle or mechanized equipment, other than vehicles or mechanized equipment subject to subsection B of this section, whether under contract to the city or other business or public or private entity, to cause a public disturbance noise perceived within any residence in the city.

B. Noises emanating from construction activities outside of the allowable hours as set forth in this subsection are hereby declared to constitute unlawful public disturbance noises, and shall be subject to the following provisions:

1. For purposes of this section, “construction activities” shall mean clearing, grading, excavating, and filling; road and utility construction and all activities of a similar nature; and the construction of buildings and structures; provided, it shall not include the repair of single-family homes by the owner or occupant thereof, which shall be governed by the provisions of subsection A of this section. This shall include but not be limited to noises emanating from vehicles and mechanized equipment used in conjunction with construction activities, regardless of whether actively engaged in construction activities, including noises emanating from the transport, idling or warming up of such vehicles and mechanized equipment.

2. The allowable hours for construction activities shall be between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, and between 9:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Sunday.

C. With respect to any business premises, the person in charge or control of such business shall be responsible for any public disturbance noise emanating therefrom.

D. Violation of this section shall be a civil infraction, subject to a penalty of not less than $150.00 nor more than $250.00 per occurrence per day. (Ord. 930 § 1, 2003; Ord. 858 § 1, 2000; Ord. 825 § 1, 1998; Ord. 572 § 1, 1986).

V. Offenses Against Property

Chapter 9.54
UNSAFE BUILDINGS

(Repealed by Ord. 859)

VI. Consumer Protection (Reserved)

VII. Offenses By or Against Minors

Chapter 9.64
BILLIARD, POOL, CARD OR GAME ROOMS

Sections:

9.64.010 Person under 18 years of age – Prohibited.

9.64.020 Violation – Penalty.

9.64.010 Person under 18 years of age – Prohibited.

No person under the age of 18 years shall be permitted to enter or remain in any room wherein are being conducted billiard, pool, card or gaming tables. (Ord. 160 § 1, 1920).

9.64.020 Violation – Penalty.

Any person under the age of 18 years who enters or remains in such room mentioned in SMC 9.64.010, or any person, owning, leasing or conducting a building or room in which billiard, pool, card or gaming tables are being used, who permits a violation of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $25.00. (Ord. 160 § 2, 1920).

Chapter 9.66
INTOXICATING LIQUOR

Sections:

9.66.010 Consumption, possession – Prohibited – Exception.

9.66.020 Supplying liquor to minor prohibited.

9.66.030 Violation – Penalty.

9.66.010 Consumption, possession – Prohibited – Exception.

It is unlawful for any person under the age of 21 years to acquire in any manner, consume, or have in his possession any intoxicating liquor as defined by RCW 66.04.010; provided, that the foregoing shall not apply in the case of liquor given or permitted to be given to such persons under the age of 21 years by his parent or guardian for medicinal purposes, or administered to him by his physician for medicinal purposes. (Ord. 269 § 1, 1953).

9.66.020 Supplying liquor to minor prohibited.

It is unlawful for any person to give or otherwise supply intoxicating liquor to any person under the age of 21 years or to permit any person under that age to consume intoxicating liquor on his premises or on any premises under his control, except as provided in SMC 9.66.010. (Ord. 269 § 2, 1953).

9.66.030 Violation – Penalty.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor as defined under the laws of the state, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $100.00, or by punishment in the county jail for not more than 30 days. (Ord. 269 § 3, 1953).

VIII. Weapons

Chapter 9.70
FIREARMS

Sections:

9.70.015 Disposition of firearms.

9.70.015 Disposition of firearms.

A. Except as provided in subsection (C) below, all firearms which are or have been either (1) judicially forfeited to the city after June 30, 1993, and no longer needed for evidence or (2) forfeited to the city after June 30, 1993, due to a failure to make a claim under RCW 63.32.010 or 63.42.010, may be either retained by the police department for official use or be traded. The police chief is hereby authorized and directed to either arrange for the trade of said firearms, or retain the same for official use.

B. Except for those firearms described in subsection (C) below, all firearms which were (1) judicially forfeited to the city on or before June 30, 1995, and no longer needed for evidence, or (2) forfeited to the city on or before June 30,1993, due to a failure to make a claim under RCW 63.32.010 or 63.40.010 shall be disposed of by destruction in the case if illegal firearms, or by trade in the case of all other firearms, as provided in RCW 9.41.098.

C. Antique firearms as defined by RCW 9.41.150 and firearms recognized as curios, relics, and firearms of particular historical significance by the United States Treasury Department Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms are exempt from destruction and shall be disposed of by auction of trade to commercial sellers. (Ord. 763 § 1, 1996).

IX. Miscellaneous

Chapter 9.82
STATE CRIMINAL STATUTES

Sections:

9.82.010 Adoption of state law by reference.

9.82.020 Penalties.

9.82.030 Disposition of fines and forfeitures and payment of expenses.

9.82.040 Official misconduct.

9.82.010 Adoption of state law by reference.

The following sections of the Revised Code of Washington as they now exist or may hereafter be amended or recodified are hereby adopted by reference as a part of the Snoqualmie criminal code which is established in all respects as though such sections were set forth herein in full; and further provided, the inclusion of section captions is for convenience in identifying the subject of code sections only, and any error therein shall not affect the validity of the adoption by reference of the section so adopted:

RCW

9.01.130 Sending letter, when complete.

9.03.010 Abandoning, discarding refrigeration equipment.

9.03.020 Permitting unused equipment to remain on premises.

9.03.040 Keeping or storing equipment for sale.

9.04.050 False, misleading, deceptive advertising.

9.04.070 False, misleading, deceptive advertising – Penalties – Other remedies and penalties not applicable.

9.08.020 Diseased animals.

9.08.070 Dogs – Taking, concealing, injuring, killing, etc. – Penalties.

9.16.040 Displaying goods with false trademark.

9.26A.120 Fraud in operating coin-box telephone or other receptacle.

9.26A.130 Penalty for manufacture or sale of slugs to be used for coin.

9.40.100 Injuring or tampering with fire alarm apparatus or equipment or fire fighting equipment – Sounding false alarm of fire – Penalties.

9.41.010 Terms defined.

9.41.050 Carrying firearms.

9.41.060 Exceptions to restrictions on carrying firearms.

9.41.070 Concealed pistol license – Application – Fee – Renewal.

9.41.080 Delivery to ineligible persons.

9.41.100 Dealer licensing and registration required.

9.41.120 Firearms as loan security.

9.41.140 Alterations of identifying marks – Exceptions.

9.41.170 Alien’s license to carry firearms – Exceptions.

9.41.230 Aiming or discharging firearms, dangerous weapons.

9.41.240 Possession of pistol by person from eighteen to twenty-one.

9.41.250 Dangerous weapons – Penalty.

9.41.260 Dangerous exhibitions.

9.41.270 Weapons apparently capable of producing bodily harm – Unlawful carrying or handling – Penalty – Exceptions.

9.45.062 Failure to deliver leased property – Requisites for prosecution – Construction.

9.45.070 Mock auctions.

9.45.080 Fraudulent removal of property.

9.45.090 Knowingly receiving fraudulent conveyance.

9.61.230 Telephone harassment.

9.61.240 Telephone harassment – Permitting telephone to be used.

9.61.250 Telephone harassment – Offense, where deemed committed.

9.62.010 Malicious prosecution.

9.66.010 Public nuisance.

9.66.020 Unequal damage.

9.66.030 Maintaining or permitting nuisance.

9.66.040 Abatement of nuisance.

9.66.050 Deposit of unwholesome substance.

9.68.015 Obscene literature, shows, etc. – Exemptions.

9.68.030 Indecent articles, etc.

9.68.050 “Erotic material” – Definitions.

9.68.060 “Erotic material” – Determination by court – Labeling – Penalties.

9.68.070 Prosecution for violation of RCW 9.68.060 – Defense.

9.68.080 Unlawful acts.

9.68.090 Civil liability of wholesaler or wholesaler – Distributor.

9.68.100 Exceptions to RCW 9.68.050 through 9.68.120.

9.68.110 Motion picture operator or projectionist exempt, when.

9.68.120 Provisions of RCW 9.68.050 through 9.68.120 exclusive.

9.68.130 “Sexually explicit material” – Defined – Unlawful display.

9.73.020 Opening sealed letter.

9.86.010 “Flag,” etc., defined.

9.86.020 Improper use of flag prohibited.

9.86.030 Desecration of flag.

9.86.040 Application of provisions.

9.86.050 Penalty.

9.91.020 Operating railroad, steamboat, vehicle, etc., while intoxicated.

9.91.060 Leaving children unattended in parked automobile.

9A.04.100 Proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

9A.04.110 Definitions.

9A.08.010 General requirements of culpability.

9A.08.020 Liability for conduct of another – Complicity.

9A.12.101 Insanity.

9A.16.010 Defenses – Definition.

9A.16.020 Use of force – When lawful.

9A.16.060 Duress.

9A.16.070 Entrapment.

9A.16.080 Action for being detained on mercantile establishment or premises for investigation – “Reasonable grounds” as defense.

9A.16.090 Intoxication.

9A.16.100 Use of force on children – Policy – Actions presumed unreasonable.

9A.28.020 Criminal attempt.

9A.28.030 Criminal solicitation.

9A.28.040 Criminal conspiracy.

9A.36.041 Assault in the fourth degree.

9A.36.050 Reckless endangerment in the second degree.

9A.36.070 Coercion.

9A.46.020 Definitions – Penalties.

9A.46.030 Place where committed.

9A.46.040 Court-ordered requirements upon person charged with crime – Violation.

9A.46.050 Arraignment – No-contact order.

9A.46.060 Crimes included in harassment.

9A.46.070 Enforcement of order restricting contact.

9A.46.080 Order restricting contact – Violation.

9A.46.090 Nonliability of peace officer.

9A.46.100 “Convicted,” time when.

9A.46.910 Severability.

9A.48.090 Malicious mischief in the third degree.

9A.48.100 Malicious mischief – “Physical damage” defined.

9A.52.010 Definitions.

9A.52.060 Making or having burglar tools.

9A.52.070 Criminal trespass in the first degree.

9A.52.080 Criminal trespass in the second degree.

9A.52.090 Criminal trespass – Defenses.

9A.52.100 Vehicle prowling in the second degree.

9A.56.010 Definitions.

9A.56.020 Theft – Definitions, defenses.

9A.56.050 Theft in the third degree.

9A.56.060 Unlawful issuance of checks or drafts.

9A.56.100 Theft and larceny equated.

9A.56.170 Possession of stolen property in the third degree.

9A.56.180 Obscuring the identity of a machine.

9A.76.010 Definitions.

9A.76.020 Obstructing a law enforcement officer.

9A.76.030 Refusing to summon aid for a peace officer.

9A.76.040 Resisting arrest.

9A.76.050 Rendering criminal assistance – Definition of term.

9A.76.060 Relative defined.

9A.76.080 Rendering criminal assistance in the second degree.

9A.76.090 Rendering criminal assistance in the third degree.

9A.76.100 Compounding.

9A.76.130 Escape in the third degree.

9A.84.010 Riot.

9A.84.020 Failure to disperse.

9A.84.030 Disorderly conduct.

9A.84.040 False reporting.

9A.88.010 Indecent exposure.

9A.88.030 Prostitution.

9A.88.050 Prostitution – Sex of parties immaterial – No defense.

9A.88.090 Permitting prostitution.

10.99.020 Definitions.

10.99.030 Law enforcement officers – Training, powers, duties.

10.99.040 Restrictions upon and duties of court.

10.99.050 Restriction or prohibition of contact with victim – Violation, penalties, written order – Procedures.

10.99.055 Enforcement of orders against defendants.

10.99.070 Liability of peace officers.

10.99.900 Severability.

26.50.010 Definitions.

26.50.020 Commencement of action – Jurisdiction – Venue.

26.50.030 Petition for an order for protection – Availability of forms and instructional procedures – Filing fee – Bond not required.

26.50.040 Application for leave to proceed in forma pauperis.

26.50.050 Hearing – Service – Time.

26.50.060 Relief.

26.50.070 Ex parte temporary order for protection.

26.50.080 Issuance of order – Assistance of peace officer – Designation of appropriate law enforcement agency.

26.50.090 Order – Service.

26.50.100 Order – Transmittal to law enforcement agency – Record in law enforcement information system – Enforceability.

26.50.110 Violation of order – Penalties.

26.50.120 Violation of order – Prosecuting attorney or attorney for municipality may be requested to assist – Costs and attorneys fees.

26.50.130 Order – Modification – Transmittal.

26.50.140 Peace officers – Immunity.

26.50.200 Title to real estate – Effect.

26.50.210 Proceedings additional.

28A.635.020 Willfully disobeying school administrative personnel or refusing to leave public property, violations, when – Penalty.

28A.635.030 Disturbing school, school activities or meetings – Penalty.

28A.635.090 Interfering by force or violence with any administrator, teacher, classified employee or student unlawful.

28A.635.100 Intimidating any administrator, teacher, classified employee, or student by threat of force or violence unlawful.

28A.635.110 Violations under RCW 38A.635.090 and 28A.635.100 – Disciplinary authority exception.

28A.635.120 Violations under RCW 28A.635.090 and 28A.635.100 – Penalty.

66.44.010 Local officers to enforce law – Authority of board – Liquor enforcement officers.

66.44.040 Sufficiency of description of offenses in complaints, informations, process, etc.

66.44.050 Description of offense in words of statutes – Proof required.

66.44.060 Proof of unlawful sale establishes prima facie intent.

66.44.070 Certified analysis is prima facie evidence of alcoholic content.

66.44.080 Service of process on corporation.

66.44.090 Acting without license.

66.44.100 Opening or consuming liquor in public place – Penalty.

66.44.120 Unlawful use of seal.

66.44.130 Sales of liquor by drink or bottle.

66.44.140 Unlawful sale, transportation of spirituous liquor without stamp or seal – Unlawful operation, possession of still or mash.

66.44.150 Buying liquor illegally.

66.44.160 Illegal possession, transportation of alcoholic beverages.

66.44.170 Illegal possession of liquor with intent to sell – Prima facie evidence.

66.44.175 Violations of law.

66.44.180 General penalties – Jurisdiction for violations.

66.44.200 Sales to persons apparently under the influence of liquor.

66.44.210 Obtaining liquor for ineligible person.

66.44.240 Drinking in public conveyance – Penalty against carrier – Exception.

66.44.250 Drinking in public conveyance – Penalty against individual – Restricted application.

66.44.270 Furnishing liquor to minors – Possession, use – Exhibition of effects – Exceptions.

66.44.280 Minor applying for permit.

66.44.290 Minor purchasing or attempting to purchase liquor.

66.44.300 Treats, gifts, purchases of liquor for or from minor, or holding out minor as at least twenty-one, in public place where liquor sold.

66.44.310 Minors frequenting off-limits area – Misrepresentation of age – Penalty – Classification of licensees.

66.44.316 Certain persons eighteen years and over permitted to enter and remain upon licensed premises during employment.

66.44.320 Sales of liquor to minors a violation.

66.44.325 Unlawful transfer to a minor of an identification of age.

66.44.328 Preparation or acquisition and supply to persons under age twenty-one of facsimile of official identification card – Penalty.

69.50.101 Definitions.

69.50.102 Drug paraphernalia – Definitions.

69.50.201 Enforcement of chapter – Authority to change schedules of controlled substances.

69.50.202 Nomenclature.

69.50.203 Schedule I tests.

69.50.204 Schedule I.

69.50.205 Schedule II tests.

69.50.206 Schedule II.

69.50.207 Schedule III tests.

69.50.208 Schedule III.

69.50.209 Schedule IV tests.

69.50.210 Schedule IV.

69.50.211 Schedule V tests.

69.50.212 Schedule V.

69.50.213 Republishing of schedules.

69.50.302 Registration requirements.

69.50.306 Records of registrants.

69.50.307 Order forms.

69.50.308 Prescriptions.

69.50.309 Containers.

69.50.401 Prohibited acts: A – Penalties.

69.50.402 Prohibited acts: B – Penalties.

69.50.403 Prohibited acts: C – Penalties.

69.50.404 Penalties under other laws.

69.50.405 Bar to prosecution.

69.50.406 Distribution to persons under age eighteen.

69.50.407 Conspiracy.

69.50.408 Second or subsequent offenses.

69.50.410 Prohibited acts: D – Penalties.

69.50.412 Prohibited acts: E – Penalties.

69.50.425 Misdemeanor violations – Minimum imprisonment.

69.50.500 Powers of enforcement personnel.

69.50.505 Seizure and forfeiture.

69.50.506 Burden of proof – Liabilities.

69.50.509 Search and seizure of controlled substances.

69.50.601 Pending proceedings.

69.50.605 Severability.

70.54.010 Polluting water supply – Penalty.

70.54.020 Furnishing impure water – Penalty.

70.54.030 Pollution of watershed of city in adjoining state – Penalty.

77.16.250 Loaded firearms in vehicles.

77.16.260 Shooting firearms from public highways.

(Ord. 751 § 1, 1995; Ord. 524 § 1, 1983).

9.82.020 Penalties.

A. Unless otherwise expressly classified as a civil infraction or gross misdemeanor, any act declared to be unlawful in this code shall be classified as a misdemeanor.

B. Unless another penalty is expressly provided in this code or in any state statute adopted by reference, any person who is convicted of any crime classified as a misdemeanor shall be punished by imprisonment for a maximum term fixed by the court of not more than 90 days, or by a fine in an amount fixed by the court of not more than $1,000, or by both such imprisonment and fine.

C. Unless another penalty is expressly provided in this code or in any state statute adopted by reference, any person who is convicted of any crime classified as a gross misdemeanor shall be punished by imprisonment for a maximum term fixed by the court of not more than one year, or by a fine in an amount fixed by the court of not more than $5,000, or by both such imprisonment and fine. (Ord. 699 § 1, 1992; Ord. 524 § 2, 1983).

9.82.030 Disposition of fines and forfeitures and payment of expenses.

All fines or forfeitures collected upon conviction or upon the forfeiture of bail of any person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of the Snoqualmie criminal code shall be paid into the general fund of the city. The expense of enforcement, prosecution, administration, public defense and incarceration shall be borne by the police department. (Ord. 524 § 3, 1983).

9.82.040 Official misconduct.

Failure, refusal or neglect on the part of any judicial or other officer or employee receiving or having custody of any such fine or forfeiture of bail, either before or after a deposit in the general fund, to comply with the provisions of SMC 9.82.030 shall constitute misconduct in office and shall be grounds for removal therefrom, provided appropriate removal action is taken pursuant to state law relating to removal of public officials. (Ord. 524 § 4, 1983).