Revised Code of Washington
2023 Archive

Chapter 7.48 RCW
NUISANCES
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7.48.010Actionable nuisance defined.
7.48.020Who may sueJudgment for damagesWarrant for abatementInjunction.
7.48.030Issuance and execution of warrant.
7.48.040Stay of issuance of warrant.
7.48.110Houses of lewdness, assignation or prostitution may be abatedVoluntary abatement.
7.48.120Nuisance defined.
7.48.130Public nuisance defined.
7.48.140Public nuisances enumerated.
7.48.150Private nuisance defined.
7.48.155Unlawful use of firearm or deadly weaponArrest required.
7.48.160Authorized act not a nuisance.
7.48.170Successive owners liable.
7.48.180Abatement does not preclude action for damages.
7.48.190Nuisance does not become legal by prescription.
7.48.200Remedies.
7.48.210Civil action, who may maintain.
7.48.220Abatement, by whom.
7.48.230Public nuisanceAbatement.
7.48.240Certain places of resort declared nuisances.
7.48.250PenaltyAbatement.
7.48.260Warrant of abatement.
7.48.270Stay of warrant.
7.48.280Costs of abatement.
7.48.300Agricultural activities and forest practicesLegislative finding and purpose.
7.48.305Agricultural activities and forest practicesPresumed reasonable and not a nuisanceExceptionDamages.
7.48.310Agricultural activities and forest practicesDefinitions.
7.48.315Agricultural activities and forest practicesRecovering lawsuit costsFarmers.
7.48.320Agricultural activities and forest practicesRecovering costs to investigate complaintsState and local agencies.
7.48.330Firearm industryPublic nuisance.
7.48.905Severability1979 c 122.
NOTES:
Nuisances
criminal: Chapter 9.66 RCW.
drug, injunctions: Chapter 7.43 RCW.
jurisdiction of superior court: State Constitution Art. 4 § 6 (Amendment 28).