(1) The keeping or harboring of any dog or cat which by frequent or habitual howling, yelping or barking annoys or disturbs the comfort or repose of any person or persons in the vicinity;

(2) The keeping of rabbits, chickens, goats, pigs, bees, mules, horses, mink, dogs, cats, muskrats, or any other animals within the City limits of the City that are of such nature as to create offensive smells, noises and conditions in the vicinity in which they are kept;

(3) Unnecessary tooting of automobile horns; unnecessarily loud playing radios in automobiles; or radios, phonographs, televisions or other sound equipment in other places so as to obstruct the reasonable and comfortable use of the adjoining property within the corporation limits of the City;

(4) Any putrid, unsound, or unwholesome bones, meat, hides, skins, or the whole or any part of any dead animal, fish, or fowl;

(5) Privies, vaults, cesspools, dumps, pits or like places which are not securely protected from flies or rats, or which are foul or malodorous;

(6) Filthy, littered or trash-covered cellars, house yards, barnyards, stable yards, factory yards, vacant areas in rear of stores, vacant lots, houses, buildings, alleyways, or premises; or placing, dropping, disposing, throwing away, or otherwise discarding litter, garbage, refuse, cans, bottles, paper or paper material, metal, organic or inorganic material, upon property other than in receptacles or areas as designated in Chapter 8.05 PMC;

(7) Animal manure in any quantity which is not securely protected from flies and the elements, or which is kept or handled in violation of any ordinance of the City;

(8) Poison oak, poison ivy, or poison sumac (whether growing or otherwise), liquid household waste, human excreta, garbage, butchers’ trimmings and offal, parts of fish or any waste vegetable or animal matter in any quantity; provided, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the temporary retention of waste in receptacles in the manner approved by the Health Officer of the City nor the dumping of nonputrifying waste in a place and manner approved by the Health Officer;

(9) Tin cans, bottles, glass, cans, ashes, small pieces of scrap iron, wire metal articles, bric-a-brac, broken stone or cement, broken crockery, broken glass, broken plaster, automobile bodies and/or parts, and all such trash or abandoned material, unless the same be kept in covered bins or galvanized iron receptacles approved by the Health Officer;

(10) Trash, litter, rags, accumulations of empty barrels, boxes, crates, packing cases, mattresses, bedding, excelsior, packing hay, straw, or other packing material, lumber not neatly piled, scrap iron, tin and other metal not neatly piled or anything which may be a fire danger;

(11) Any unsightly building, billboard, fence, excavation, or other structure; or any abandoned or partially destroyed building, fence, excavation or structure; or any building, fence, excavation or structure commenced and left unfinished;

(12) All places used or maintained as junkyards, or dumping grounds, or for the wrecking or disassembling of automobiles, trucks, tractors, or machinery of any kind; or for the storing or leaving of worn-out, wrecked or abandoned automobiles, trucks, tractors, or machinery of any kind; or of any of the parts thereof, or for the storing or leaving of any machinery or equipment used by contractors or builders or by other persons, which places are kept or maintained so as to essentially interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by others;

(13) The act of butchering of any animal or fowl unless such act is performed within a building or other enclosure which prohibits view or sound of such act from other private or public property; or to bring any live animal or live fowl to any lot, parcel or tract of land in any residential district for the purpose of slaughtering or butchering the animal or fowl; or to engage in the act of slaughtering or butchering any such live animal in a residential district; or to dry any meat of any animal or fowl unless such act is performed within a building or enclosure which prohibits the view of such act from other public or private property.

(14) The drying of any clothing, sheets, towels, or other laundry in any yard area of any property in any residential district of the City on any structure, vegetation or foliage, except on clotheslines specifically erected for that purpose in the rear yard area of the property as defined in PMC 25.15.270.

(15) Lawns, shrubs, trees or other plantings that have been dead for more than three frost-free months; and any front or rear yard areas on any lot, parcel or tract of land in a residential district of this City that has become populated with weeds to the extent that it subjects neighboring residential properties to weed growth.

(16) Weeds, noxious weeds, grass, and other vegetation which constitutes a fire hazard, encroaches on sidewalks or neighboring properties, is damaging public improvements, impairs the visibility of traffic signs or signals, and/or has reached a height of 12 inches.

(17) The possession or storage of amounts of cannabis or cannabis-infused products in any amount greater than allowed by Washington State statutes, or in amounts in violation of any provision of Washington State statutes.

(18) The indoor production or growing of cannabis or cannabis-infused products, in any amount without a state medical license, or with a state medical license and in amounts greater than restrictions placed in Washington State statutes.

(19) The production, growing, or any method of use of cannabis or cannabis products, with or without a state medical license, when any portion of such activity creates dust, glare, heat, noise, noxious gases, odor, smoke, traffic, vibration, or other impacts, or is hazardous due to use or storage of materials, processes, products or wastes, or when there is any evidence that such activities are visually observable or recognizable by odor from a public right-of-way or from any other private property, or when a reasonable person would ascertain that such activities are taking place.

(20) The outdoor storage, production, or growing of cannabis or cannabis products.

(21) The outdoor use of cannabis or cannabis products, with or without a state medical license, when any portion of such activity creates dust, glare, heat, noise, noxious gases, odor, smoke, traffic, vibration, or other impacts, or is hazardous due to use or storage of materials, processes, products or wastes, or when there is any evidence that such activities are visually observable or recognizable by odor from a public right-of-way or from any other private property, or when a reasonable person would ascertain that such activities are taking place. [Ord. 4670 § 1, 2023; Ord. 4304, 2016; Ord. 2980 § 1, 1994; Ord. 2274 § 1, 1981; Ord. 1972 § 8, 1978; Ord. 1806 § 1, 1976; Code 1970 § 9.60.030; Code 1954 § 10-4.12.]