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Chapter 7.48 RCW

NUISANCES

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RCW dispositions

Sections

HTMLPDF 7.48.010Actionable nuisance defined.
HTMLPDF 7.48.020Who may sue—Judgment for damages—Warrant for abatement—Injunction.
HTMLPDF 7.48.030Issuance and execution of warrant.
HTMLPDF 7.48.040Stay of issuance of warrant.
HTMLPDF 7.48.110Houses of lewdness, assignation or prostitution may be abated—Voluntary abatement.
HTMLPDF 7.48.120Nuisance defined.
HTMLPDF 7.48.130Public nuisance defined.
HTMLPDF 7.48.140Public nuisances enumerated.
HTMLPDF 7.48.150Private nuisance defined.
HTMLPDF 7.48.155Unlawful use of firearm or deadly weapon—Arrest required.
HTMLPDF 7.48.160Authorized act not a nuisance.
HTMLPDF 7.48.170Successive owners liable.
HTMLPDF 7.48.180Abatement does not preclude action for damages.
HTMLPDF 7.48.190Nuisance does not become legal by prescription.
HTMLPDF 7.48.200Remedies.
HTMLPDF 7.48.210Civil action, who may maintain.
HTMLPDF 7.48.220Abatement, by whom.
HTMLPDF 7.48.230Public nuisance—Abatement.
HTMLPDF 7.48.240Certain places of resort declared nuisances.
HTMLPDF 7.48.250Penalty—Abatement.
HTMLPDF 7.48.260Warrant of abatement.
HTMLPDF 7.48.270Stay of warrant.
HTMLPDF 7.48.280Costs of abatement.
HTMLPDF 7.48.300Agricultural activities and forest practices—Legislative finding and purpose.
HTMLPDF 7.48.305Agricultural activities and forest practices—Presumed reasonable and not a nuisance—Exception—Damages.
HTMLPDF 7.48.310Agricultural activities and forest practices—Definitions.
HTMLPDF 7.48.315Agricultural activities and forest practices—Recovering lawsuit costs—Farmers.
HTMLPDF 7.48.320Agricultural activities and forest practices—Recovering costs to investigate complaints—State and local agencies.
HTMLPDF 7.48.330Firearm industry—Public nuisance.
HTMLPDF 7.48.905Severability—1979 c 122.

Notes:

Nuisances
criminal: Chapter 9.66 RCW.
drug, injunctions: Chapter 7.43 RCW.
jurisdiction of superior court: State Constitution Art. 4 s 6 (Amendment 28).