HomeMy WebLinkAbout02436terfering with the lawful efforts of any fireman, or company of fire-
men to extinguish the same, or of disorderly conduct likely to inter-
fere with the extinguishment thereof, or who shall forbid, prevent
or dissuade others from assisting to extinguish such fire, shall be
quilty of a misdemeanor.
(c) If any person shall maliciously or wantonly set on
fire any field or other grounds, other than his own or those of which
he is in lawful possession, or shall willfully or negligently permit
or suffer the fire to pass from his own grounds or premises to the
injury of another, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 7. Any person who shall cause to be fired or
discharged oiithin the corporate limits of the City of Port Townsend
any firearm, explosive charge, bomb, or other explosive device, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, provided, however, that blasting for
purposes of construction and excavation shall not he prohibited.
Section B. Any person who shall deliver a pistol to any
person under the age of eighteen (18) ?.ears or to one he has reason-
able cause to believe has been convicted of a crime of violence, or
is a drug addict, an habitual drunkard, or of unsound mind, or is at
the time and place under the influence of drugs or intoxicating
liquor, shall be quilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 9. Every person who shall intentionally, and in
the absence 6 �a need for self-defense, commit any assault, battery
or injury upon any other person, shall be guilty of the crime of
assault, and shall be punished in the manner provided in the ordi-
nances of this city.
Section 10. Every person who shall by word, sign or
gesture, wilfully provoke or attempt to provoke, another person to
commit an assault, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 11. (a) Every person having the care or custody
of any animal�Fnwn to possess any vicious or dangerous tendencies,
who shall allow the same to escape or run at large in any place or
manner liable to endanger the safety of any person, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor.
(b) Any person who shall wilfully and maliciously abuse,
torture, starve or neglect any animal in his care or custody shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 12. Every person who, by color or aid of any trick
or slight of hand performance, or by any fraud or fraudulent scheme,
cards, dice, or device, shall win for himself or for another any money
or property, or representative of either, shall be punished for swindel-
ing in the manner provided for misdemeanors.
Section 13. Every person who shall wilfully obstruct or
resist any police officer who is lawfully in the performance of his
duty, or who shall wilfully fail or refuse to abide by the orders
and directions of a police officer engaged in directing or controlling
vehicular or pedestrian traffic on a public right of way or on public
lands, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 14. Every person who shall injure or defraud an-
other by using, with knowledge that the same is false, a false weight,