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The following specific acts, omissions, places, conditions and things are declared to be nuisances: the erecting, maintaining, using, placing, depositing, causing, allowing, leaving, or permitting to be or remain in or upon any private lot, building, structure, or premises, or in or upon any street, avenue, alley, park, parkway, or other public or private place in the City, any one or more of the following places, conditions, things or acts to the prejudice, danger, or annoyance of others:

A. Excavations or naturally occurring holes, including, but not limited to, privies, vaults, cesspools, sumps, pits, wells or cisterns or any other similar conditions which are not secure and which constitute a concealed danger or other attractive nuisance;

B. Any place where fighting between people or animals or birds is unlawfully conducted or allowed;

C. Filthy, littered or trash-covered premises, including all buildings and structures thereon and areas adjacent thereto;

D. Metal cans, steel or aluminum, bottles, glass, ashes, small pieces of scrap iron, wire, metal, articles, bric-a-brac, broken stone or cement, broken crockery, broken glass, broken plaster and all other trash or abandoned material unless the same are kept in covered bins or metal receptacles approved by the City; provided, that any such receptacles approved by the Pierce County Health Officer or designee shall be deemed approved by the City;

E. Trash, litter, rags, debris, accumulations of empty barrels, boxes, crates, packing cases, mattresses, bedding, furniture and appliances, excelsior, packing hay, straw, or other packing material, lumber or construction material not neatly piled, scrap iron, and other metal not neatly piled which provides harborage for rodents, or other pests;

F. Any unsightly and dangerous building, billboard or structure;

G. All places used or maintained as junkyards or dumping grounds, or for the wrecking, disassembling, repair or rebuilding of automobiles, trucks, tractors or machinery of any kind, or for the storing or leaving of worn-out, wrecked or abandoned automobiles, trucks, tractors or machinery of any kind or of any of the parts thereof, or for the storing or leaving of any machinery or equipment used by contractors or builders or by other persons, excluding properly zoned and licensed wrecking yards, junkyards or machinery being used;

H. The erection or use of any building, room, or other place in the City for exercise of any trade, employment, or manufacture which, by emitting noxious exhausts, particulate matter, offensive odors, or other related annoyances, is discomforting, offensive, or detrimental to the health of individuals or of the public;

I. Garbage disposed of in any manner other than provided in the Sanitary Code;

J. Garbage cans which are not impervious to rodent gnawing or do not have tight-fitting lids;

K. Animal parts, manure, excreta, or wastes including bones, meats, hides, skins, or any part of any dead animal, fish, or fowl, which are improperly handled, contained, or removed from a premises; placed in any watercourse, lake, or street; or allowed to become putrid, offensive, and injurious to the public health;

L. Storing or dumping of any poisonous or hazardous waste, material or substance in violation of federal, Washington State, or Pierce County law that may cause contamination of soil, groundwater or surface water, or so as to allow uncontrolled access to it by any animal or person;

M. Real property in violation of Washington State’s Hazardous Waste Cleanup – Model Toxics Control Act (MTCA), Chapter 70.105D RCW, excepting therefrom properties contaminated by the Asarco Tacoma Smelter Plume;

N. Blackberry vines or any tall grass or weeds over two feet in height which allow for rodent or pest infestation;

O. Grass clippings, cut brush or cut weeds which may create a fly or rodent harborage;

P. Nests, colonies, hives or apiaries of bees, Africanized honey bees, yellow jackets, hornets or wasps which are not in full compliance with Chapter 15.60 RCW or Chapter 16-602 WAC;

Q. Any accumulation of combustible, explosive or flammable substances which are stored in a way that poses a threat or danger to life or property;

R. The parking or storage of vehicles on residentially zoned lots in violation of the parking regulations in this code;

S. Any building or structure declared unsafe by the City Building Official, or that has been abandoned or unused for longer than 15 consecutive days and has deteriorated and become unsightly;

T. Any building or structure where construction was commenced and the exterior of the building or structure remains unfinished and the building permit has expired; or any building or structure that has been constructed or modified without permit;

U. Violation of any of the following City of Lakewood Municipal Codes: LMC Title 5, Chapter 5.60 LMC, Rental Housing Licensing; LMC Title 12, Public Works; LMC Title 14, Environmental Protection; LMC Title 15, Buildings and Construction; LMC Title 17, Subdivisions; LMC Title 18A, Land Use and Development Code, including all adopted subarea plans pursuant to the Washington Growth Management Act;

V. Any violation of the adopted Shoreline Management Code, Ordinance 718, or as hereafter amended;

W. Painting of vehicles unless conducted inside an approved spray booth and/or performed inside a structure or similarly enclosed area designed and approved for such purposes;

X. The production and/or processing of 15 or more marijuana or cannabis plants in any one housing unit other than a cooperative establishment pursuant to Chapter 69.51A RCW and/or the storage or growing of said plants if any portion of such activity can be readily seen by normal unaided vision or readily smelled from a public place or the private property of another housing unit;

Y. Causing or allowing any shopping cart to be abandoned on either public or private property. [Ord. 790 § 2 (Exh. A), 2023; Ord. 753 § 2 (Exh. A), 2021; Ord. 725 § 1, 2019; Ord. 32 § 1, 1996.]