6.05.020 Definitions.
For purposes of this chapter:
A. “Chief of police” means the city of Monroe chief of police or the chief’s designee.
B. A “chronic nuisance property” is:
1. A property that, within any sixty-day period:
a. Has had three or more nuisance activities occur or exist upon the property; or
b. Has had three or more nuisance activities occur within two hundred feet of the property that involve, at least in part, the person in charge of the property; or
c. Has had nuisance activities either occur or exist upon the property or within two hundred feet of the property that involve, at least in part, the person in charge of the property for a combined total of three or more times.
2. A property that, within any three-hundred-sixty-five-day period:
a. Has had seven or more nuisance activities occur or exist upon the property; or
b. Has had seven or more nuisance activities occur within two hundred feet of the property that involve, at least in part, the person in charge of the property; or
c. Has had nuisance activities either occur or exist upon the property or within two hundred feet of the property that involve, at least in part, the person in charge of the property for a combined total of seven or more times.
C. “City attorney” means the city of Monroe city attorney or the city attorney’s designee.
D. “Control” means the power or ability to direct or determine conditions and/or activities located on or occurring on a property.
E. “MMC” means the Monroe Municipal Code, as in effect at the date of enactment of the ordinance codified in this section or as thereafter amended.
F. “RCW” means the Revised Code of Washington, as in effect at the date of enactment of the ordinance codified in this section or as thereafter amended.
G. “Nuisance activity” means:
1. Any of the following activities, behaviors or conduct:
a. Harassment offenses as defined in MMC 9.04.060.
b. Assault as defined in MMC 9.04.010.
c. Reckless endangerment as defined in MMC 9.04.050.
d. Disorderly conduct as defined in MMC 9.08.050.
e. Lewd conduct as defined in Chapter 9.06 MMC.
g. Prostitution, prostitution loitering, patronizing a prostitute, permitting prostitution and/or promoting prostitution as defined in Chapter 9.06 MMC.
h. Liquor-related offenses as defined in Chapters 66.28 and 66.44 RCW and Chapter 9.24 MMC.
i. Fraud-related offenses as defined in MMC 9.03.180 and Chapter 9A.60 RCW.
j. Possession, manufacture, or delivery of a controlled substance or related offenses as defined in Chapter 9.20 MMC and Chapter 69.50 RCW.
k. Violations of anti-harassment, stalking, no-contact, drug off-limits and all other orders as defined in MMC 9.14.140.
l. Gambling-related offenses as defined in Chapters 9.46 and 9.47 RCW.
m. Firearms and dangerous weapons offenses as defined in MMC 9.03.330 and Chapter 9.41 RCW.
n. Possession of stolen property offenses as defined in MMC 9.03.170 and 9.10.130 and Chapter 9A.56 RCW.
o. Any attempt, solicitation or conspiracy to commit any of the above activities, behaviors or conduct, as defined in MMC 9.03.100 and Chapter 9A.28 RCW.
2. Activities, behavior or conduct that violates any of the following city of Monroe regulatory codes:
a. MMC Title 5 (Business Regulations and Licensing).
b. MMC Title 8 (Animals).
c. MMC Title 6 (Health and Sanitation).
d. MMC Title 22 (Unified Development Regulations).
e. MMC Title 15 (Buildings and Construction).
3. Nuisance-related activities as defined in Chapters 7.48, 7.48A, and 9.66 RCW.
4. Gang-related activity as defined in RCW 59.18.030.
H. “Owner” means one or more persons, jointly or severally, in whom is vested all or any part of the legal title to property, or all or part of the beneficial ownership and a right to present use and enjoyment of the property, including any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety of the whole or a part of such building or land.
I. “Person” means an individual, group of individuals, corporation, government or governmental agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity.
J. “Person in charge of the property” means any person in actual or constructive possession of the property, including but not limited to an owner, lessee, tenant or occupant with control of the property.
K. “Property” means any property, including land and that which is affixed, incidental or appurtenant to land, including but not limited to any business or residence, grounds, vacant lots, facilities, parking area, loading area, landscaping, building or structure or any separate part, unit or portion thereof, or any business equipment, whether or not permanent. (Ord. 026/2016 § 1)