HomeMy WebLinkAbout02435ORDINANCE NO. ; o
AN ORDINANCE ENACTING AND PROVIDING A CRIMINAL CODE
FOR THE CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND, DEFINING OFFENSES AND
ENACTING REGULATIONS FOR TIIE PRESERVATION OFTHE PRO-
TECTION OF THE PUBLIC PLACE, HEALTH, WELFARE AND
PROPERTY, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES THEREFOR.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND, IN REGULAR SESSION
ASSEMBLED, DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. For the protection of the public health,
peace, morals, and welfare, and for the protection of the property of
the citizens of the City of Port Townsend, and for the purpose of
establishing rules of conduct and regulation thereof, there is here and
hereby adopted, the following code for the purpose of defining, pro-
hibiting and establishing that conduct and those acts and omissions
which shall be punishable in the manner provided in the City Ordi-
nances of. the City of Port Townsend for violation of said city ordi-
nances, upon conviction by the duly constituted court.
Section 2. Every person who, with intent to deprive or
defraud the owner thereof, shall take, lead or drive away the property
of another, or shall obtain from the owner or another the possession
or title to any property by color or aid of fraud or misrepresentation,
or, who having any property in his possession, custody or control
properly, shall wrongfully convert the same to his own use, or any
person who, knowing the same to have been so appropriated, shall buy,
sell, receive or aid in concealing or withholding any property wrong-
fully appropriated, and provided that the value of the property thus
involved shall amount to less than Seventy -Five Dollars ($75.00), shall
be guilty of the crime of petty theft.
Section 3. Every person who shall wilfully or maliciously
destroy or injure any real or personal property of another, without
permission or justification therefor, shall be guilty of the crime of
malicious injury to property.
Section 4. Any person or persons, corporation or cor-
porations, who shall throw, place or deposit, in any road, street,
alley, highway, or upon the property of another, any bottle, bottles,
glass, glassware, tacks, nails, cans, garbage, rubbish or discarded
matter, shall be guilty of the crime of malicious mischief.
Section 5. (a) Every person who, without authority of law,
shall wilfully— d sturb any assembly or meeting, not unlawful in its
character, or by his conduct shall be guilty of disturbing the public
peace, and
(b) Every person who shall remain present at the place of
an unlawful meeting or,after having been warned to disperse by a magi-
strate or a public officer, shall remain present at the site of an
unlawful disturbance as herein provided, and every person participat-
ing therein by his presence, shall be guilty of disturbing the peace.
Section 6. (a) Every person who, with intent to prevent
or obstruct the extinguishment of any fire, shall remove any apparatus
from fire -fighting equipment or shall otherwise prevent or obstruct
the extinguishment of any fire, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) Every person who, at the burning of any building or
other uncontrolled fire, shall be guilty of any disobedience to the
lawful orders of a public officer or fireman or resistance to or in-
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