Chapter 9.32
CRIMES RELATING TO PUBLIC PEACE

Sections:

9.32.010    Riot, failure to disperse and obstruction.

9.32.020    Acts prohibited.

9.32.030    Privacy.

9.32.040    Libel and slander.

9.32.050    Malicious prosecution--Abuse of process.

9.32.010 Riot, failure to disperse and obstruction.

The following statutes of the state are adopted by reference:

RCW 9A.84.010(1), (2)(b)    Riot.

RCW 9A.84.020    Failure to disperse.

RCW 9A.84.030    Disorderly conduct.

RCW 9.27.015    Interference and obstruction.

(Ord. 1457 §33(A), 1999).

9.32.020 Acts prohibited.

A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if he or she, while in the city of Colfax, does any of the following:

A.  Uses abusive language and thereby intentionally creates a risk of assault;

B.  Intentionally disrupts any lawful assembly or meeting of persons without lawful authority;

C.  Intentionally obstructs vehicular or pedestrian traffic without lawful authority;

D.  Organizes, operates, provides space for, permits or allows to continue any gathering of people, when such gathering creates such noise as annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, peace or safety of others;

E.  Makes, allows or continues any excessive, unnecessary or unusually loud noise, or any noise which annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others;

F.  Wilfully and maliciously annoys, bothers, molests, insults or offers an affront or indignity to any person;

G.  Congregates with other persons in a public place and refuses to comply with the lawful order of the police to disperse, if done with the intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof;

H.  Shall cause, provoke, or engage in any fight, brawl or riotous conduct so as to endanger the life, limb, health or property of another;

I.  Congregates with another or others in or on any public way so as to halt the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic and to refuse to clear such public way when ordered by the police or other lawful authority to disperse;

J.  Loiters in or about any school buildings or grounds without written permission from the respective school administrator, principal or vice principal, if such person is not the parent or legal guardian of a pupil at the school; or

K.  Stations himself or herself in any public place, or follows or accosts any person for the purpose of obtaining money or other property from the person by any trick, artifice, swindle, confidence game or in any other illegal manner.  (Ord. 1457 §33(B), 1999; Ord. 1076 §1, 1981.  Formerly 9.12.010).

9.32.030 Privacy.

The following statutes of the state are adopted by reference:

RCW 9.73.010    Divulging telegram.

RCW 9.73.020    Opening sealed letter.

RCW 9.73.030    Divulging private communication.

RCW 9.73.070    Persons and activities excepted.

RCW 9.73.090    Police and fire personnel exempted.

RCW 9.73.100    Recordings available to defense counsel.

(Ord. 1457 §34, 1999).

9.32.040 Libel and slander.

The following statutes of the state are adopted by reference:

RCW 9.58.010    Libel, what constitutes.

RCW 9.58.020    Malice, when presumed.

RCW 9.58.030    Publication defined.

RCW 9.58.040    Liability of editors and others.

RCW 9.58.050    Report of proceedings privileged.

RCW 9.58.070    Privileged communications.

RCW 9.58.080    Furnishing libelous information.

RCW 9.58.090    Threatening to publish libel.

(Ord. 1457 §35, 1999).

9.32.050 Malicious prosecution--Abuse of process.

The following statutes of the state are adopted by reference:

RCW 9.62.010    Malicious prosecution.

RCW 9.62.020    Instituting suit in name of another.

(Ord. 1457 §36, 1999).