Chapter 8.16
Offenses Against the Person
Sections:
8.16.030 Reckless endangerment.
8.16.010 Assault.
Any person who, with intent to inflict bodily harm, attempts, threatens or offers, with force or violence, to do a corporeal harm to another, shall be guilty of assault; provided, that, the use of force pursuant to the provisions of RCW 9A.16.020, as now existing or as hereafter amended, shall constitute a defense. (Ord. 1204 §1(A), 1984).
8.16.020 Assault and battery.
Assault and/or battery shall be the unlawful beating of another or a completed attempt to unlawfully touch, strike, beat, wound, or otherwise physically harm another person. (Ord. 1204 §1(B), 1984).
8.16.030 Reckless endangerment.
Any person who recklessly engages in conduct which constitutes or creates a substantial risk of death or serious physical injury to another person shall be guilty of reckless endangerment. (Ord. 1204 §1(C), 1984).
8.16.040 Coercion.
Any person who, by use of a threat, compels or induces a person to engage in conduct which the latter has a legal right to abstain from or to abstain from conduct which he has a legal right to engage in shall be guilty of coercion. For purposes of this section, the term "threat" means either to communicate directly or indirectly the intent immediately to use force against any person who is present at the time or as that term is defined at this time or hereafter in RCW 9A.04.110(25(a), (b), or (c). (Ord. 1204 §1(D), 1984).