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Home My WebLink About2274 Ordinance• 4 ' \ fir \ ORDINANCE NO. 2274 AN ORDINANCE relating to public nuisances by amending P.M.C. Section 9.60.030. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Pasco has been receiving complaints and reports of persons slaughtering and butchering animals in plain view of the public; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the act of slaughtering or butchering of an animal in plain view of the public is offensive to the senses, offends decency, annoys the comfort, repose and health of others and, therefore, consitutes a public nuisance; NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. That P.M.C. 9.60.030 of the Pasco Municipal Code be amended to read as follows: P.M.C. 9.60.030 SPECIFIC NUISANCES. The following specific acts, omissions, places, conditions, and things are declared to be nuisances: The erecting, maintaining, using, placing, depositing, leaving or permitting to be or remain in or upon any private lot, building, structure or premises, or in or upon any sidewalk, street, avenue, alley, park, parkway, or other public or private place in the city, of any one or more of the following disordered, disturbing, unsanitary, fly and/or mosquito producing, rat-harboring, disease-causing places, conditions or things, that is to say: (1) The keeping or harboring of any dog or cat which by frequent or habitual howling, yelping or barking annoys or disturbs the comfort or repose of any person or persons in the vicinity; (2) The keeping of rabbits, chickens, goats, pigs, bees, mules, horses, mink, dogs, cats, muskrats, or any other animals within the city limits of the city that are of such nature as to create offensive smells, noises and conditions in the vicinity in which they are kept; (3) Unnecessary tooting of automobile horns; unnecessarily loud playing radios in automobiles; or radios, phonographs, televisions or other sound equipment in other places so as to obstruct the reasonable and comfortable use of the adjoining property within the corporation limits of the city; (4) Any putrid, unsound, or unwholesome bones, meat, hides, skins, or the whole or any part of any dead animal, fish, or fowl; (5) Privies, vaults, cesspools, dumps, pits or like places which are not securely protected from flies or rats, or which are foul or malodorous; (6) Filthy, littered or trash-covered cellars, house yards, barnyards, stable yards, factory yards, vacant areas in rear of stores, vacant lots, houses, buildings, alleyways, or premises; or placing, . Wells, City Clerk dropping, disposing, throwing away, or otherwise discarding litter, garbage, refuse, cans, bottles, paper or paper material, metal, organic or inorganic material, upon property other than in receptacles or areas as designated in Chapter 6.04; (7) Animal manure in any quantity which is not securely protected from flies and the elements, or which is kept or handled in violation of any ordinance of the city; (8) Poison oak, poison ivy, or poison sumac (whether growing or otherwise), liquid household waste, human excreta, garbage, butchers' trimmings and offal, parts of fish or any wastevegetable or animal matter in any quantity; provided nothing herein contained shall prevent the temporary retention of waste in receptacles in the manner approved by the health officer of the city nor the dumping of nonputrifying waste in a place and manner approved by the health officer; (9) Tin cans, bottles, glass, cans, ashes, small pieces of scrap iron, wire metal articles, bric a brac, broken stone or cement, broken crockery, broken glass, broken plaster, automobile bodies and/or parts, and all such trash or abandoned material, unless the same be kept in covered bins or galvanized iron receptacles approved by the health officer. (10) Trash, litter, rags, accumulations of empty barrels, boxes, crates, packing cases, mattresses, bedding, excelsior, packing hay, straw, or other packing material, lumber not neatly piled, scrap iron, tin and other metal not neatly piled or anything which may be a fire danger; (11) Any unsightly building, billboard, fence, excavation, or other structure, or any abandoned or partially destroyed building, fence, excavation or structure, or any building, fence, excavation or structure commenced and left unfinished; (12) All places used or maintained as junkyards, or dumping grounds, or for the wrecking or dissembling of automobiles, trucks, tractors, or machinery of any kind, or for the storing or leaving of wornout, 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, which places are kept or maintained so as to essentially interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by others. (13) The act of slaughtering or butchering of any animal or fowl unless such aq,;B u mfrformed within a building or other enclosure which prohibits viewAof such act from other private or p blic property. PASSED byby the City Council this /Sc--- of "71981. 4SRAir °.! N DER, Mayor APPROVED AS TO FORM: City AttorneyAttorney AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION COUNTY OF Franklin )ss STATE OF WASHINGTON Phyllis Graves , being first duly sworn on oath deposes she Principal Clerk and says is the of the Tr-City Herald, a daily newspaper That said newspaper is a legal newspaper and has been approved as a legal newspaper by order of the superior court in the county in which it is published and it is now and has been for more than six months prior to the date of the publication hereinafter referred to, published in the English language continually as a daily news- Franklin paper in County, Washington, and is now and during all of said time was printed in an office maintained at the aforesaid place of publication of said newspaper That the annexed is a true legal advertisement Ord. # 2274 as it was printed in the regular and entire issue of the Tr-City Herald itself and not in a copy of a supplement thereof, for a period of one time comcgkmweAggpcommencing on the 1 9th day of June ,1981 , and ending on the day of , 19 , and that said newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers during all of this period That the full amount of $ 4. 00 1 1 has been paid in full, also at the rate of 19 in.@ 6.00 = 114.00 2 Notary Public in and for the State of Washington residing at Pasco Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of June , 19 81 Ordinance No 2274 An ot,timance relating to Public nuisances by amend' rng P M C Section 9 60 030 Whereas the City Council of the City of Pasco has been receiving complaints and reports of persons slaughtering and butchering animals in plain view of the public and Whereas, the City Council finds that the act of slough tering or butchering of an animal in plain view or.,the public is offensive to the senses, offends decency an noys the comfort repose and health of others and, therefore, constitutes a pub lic nuisance, now therefore The City Council of the City of Pasco does ordain as follows Sectloi 1 That P M C 9 60 030 çï the Pasco Munic ipal Cc i3 be amended to read as r"ollows P M C 9,60 030 Specific Nuisances The following specific acts omissions Places conditions, and things are declared to be nuisances The erecting maintaining, using placing depositing, leaving or permitting to be or remain in or upon any Private lot building, struc ture or premises or in or upon any sidewalk, street avenue alley park, park way or other public or on vete place in the city of any one or mere of the fol lowing disordered disturb- ing unsanitary, fly and/or mosquito producing rat bar boring, disease causing places conditions or things that is to say (s) The keeping or har boring of any dog or cot which by frequent or habit ual howling yelping or barking annoys or disturbs the comfort or repose of any person or persons in the vicinity, (2) The keeping of nab bits chickens goats, pigs, bees, mules , horses mink, dogs, cats, muskrats or any other animals within the city limits of the city that are of such nature as to create offensive smells, noises and conditions in the viEinity in which they are kept (3) Unnecessary tooting of automobile horns unneces sarlly loud playing radios in automobiles, or radios, Phonographs televisions or Other sound equipment in Other places so as to ob struct the reasonable and comfortable use of the ad- joining property within the corporation limits of the city, (4) Any putrid, unsound, or unwholesome bones meat hides, skins or the whole or any part of any dead animal, fish or fowl (5) Privies vaults ces spools, dumps, Pits or like places which are not secu rely protected from flies or rats or which are foul or malodorous (6) Filthy, littered or trash covered cellars house Yards, barnyards, stable Yards factory yards vacant areas in rear of stores, va cant lots houses buildings alleyways, or premises, or placing dropping disposing throwing away or otherwise discarding litter garbage refuse cans bottles, paper or paper material, metal organic or inorganic mate nal upon property other than in receptacles or areas as designated in Chapter 6 04 (7) Animal manure in any quantity which is not securely protected from flies and the elements, or which is kept or handled in violation of any ordinance of the city — _ (8) Poison oak, poison ivy , or poison sumac (whether growing or other wise), liquid household waste human excreta gar bage, butchers trimmings and offal parts of fish or any waste vegetable or am mal matter in any quantity Provided nothing herein con tamed shall prevent the temporary retention of waste in receptacles in the manner approved by the health officer of the city nor the dumping of non Putrifying waste in a place and manner approved by the health officer, (9) Tin cans, bottles, glass, cans, ashes, small pieces of scrap iron wire metal articles, bric a brac, broken stone or cement broken crockery, broken glass, broken plaster, au tomobile bodies and/or Parts and all such trash or abandoned material, unless the some be kept in coy ered bins or galvanized iron receptacles approved by the health officer (1) Trash, litter, rags, ac cumulations of empty bar rels boxes, crates, pocking cases mattresses bedding excelsior packing hay, straw or other packing ma tench, lumber not neatly piled, scrap Iron tin and other metal not neatly piled or anything which may be a fire danger (11) Any unsightly build ing, billboard fence exca yation or other structure or any abandoned or par tially destroyed building fence, excavation or struc ture, or any building , fence excavation or structure commenced and left unfinished (12) All places used or maintained as iunkyards, or dumping grounds, or for the wrecking or dissembling of automobiles, trucks frac tors, or machinery of any kind, or for the storing or leaving of wornout, wrecked or abandoned autmobiles, trucks tractors, or machin ery of any kind, or of any of the ports thereof or for the storing or leaving et any machinery or equip ment used by contractors or builders or by other per sons, which places are kepi or maintained so as to es sentially interfere with the comfortable enjoyment at life or property by t ethers (13) The act of slaughter Ina or butchering of any animal or fowl unless such act is performed within o building or other enclosure which prohibits view or sound of such act from - other private or public property Passed by the City Coun cil this -- day of MaV 1981 sE A Snider, Mayor Attest S Evelyn 0 Wells, City Clerk Approved as to form S Dennis J De Felice City Attorney Legal No 10869 — June 19 1981 I INAIN( E DEPAR I MFN I (509) i11 1101 Scan 726 3101 ., V P 0 BOX 293 412 WEST CLARK PAS( 0, WASHING1ON 99301 June 16, 1981 Tri City Herald P 0 Box 2608 Pasco, Washington 9930? Gentlemen Please publish the attached Ordinances on the following date June 19, 1981 Please send two (2) Affidavits of Publication for each Sincerely yours, Evelyn Wells City Clerk ew 4,