Chapter 9.32
CRIMES RELATING TO PUBLIC PEACE
Sections:
9.32.010 Riot, failure to disperse and obstruction.
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).