H-1441.1

HOUSE BILL 1575

ByRepresentatives Dufault, Walsh, Boehnke, Chambers, Robertson, McCaslin, Griffey, Graham, Corry, and Hoff

AN ACT Relating to modifying the offense of disorderly conduct; and amending RCW 9A.84.030.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1. RCW 9A.84.030 and 2007 c 2 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if the person:

(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; ((or))

(d)(i) Intentionally engages in fighting or in tumultuous conduct or makes unreasonable noise, within five hundred feet of:

(A) The location where a funeral or burial is being performed;

(B) A funeral home during the viewing of a deceased person;

(C) A funeral procession, if the person described in this subsection (1)(d) knows that the funeral procession is taking place; or

(D) A building in which a funeral or memorial service is being conducted; and

(ii) Knows that the activity adversely affects the funeral, burial, viewing, funeral procession, or memorial service; or

(e) Uses abusive language towards a peace officer or insults or taunts a peace officer with offensive or derisive words in a manner that would alarm a reasonable and prudent peace officer or place him or her in reasonable fear of his or her safety or the safety of others.

(2) Disorderly conduct is a misdemeanor.

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