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A. Purpose: The purpose of this section is to prohibit the discharge of firearms within the City, pursuant to the authority delegated to the City in Revised Code of Washington 9.41.300.
B. Definitions: The City hereby adopts the provisions of Revised Code of Washington 9.41.010 by reference herein and as hereafter amended.
C. Prohibition; Gross Misdemeanor: Any person who discharges a firearm within the City of Orting is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
D. Exemptions: The provisions of this section shall not apply to the following:
1. The discharge of a firearm for the lawful defense of person, family, or property, as would otherwise be allowable under the laws of the State of Washington.
2. The discharge of a firearm by a law enforcement officer, employee of United States Department of Agriculture, or by an animal control officer, acting within the scope of employment.
3. The discharge of a firearm for the purposes of target practicing in a duly licensed shooting gallery or at a target range maintained and operated by a law enforcement agency or by an organized rifle or gun club affiliated with a national shooting organization. (Ord. 2017-1008, 3-8-2017)
A. Purpose: The purpose of this section is to prohibit hunting within the City.
B. Definitions: For the purpose of this section, the following terms are defined and understood to mean the following:
TO HUNT (And Its Derivatives): Means an effort to kill, injure, harass, harvest, or capture a wild animal or wild bird.
WILD ANIMALS: Means those species of the class Mammalia whose members exist in Washington in a wild state. The term "wild animal" does not include feral domestic mammals or old world rats and mice of the family Muridae of the order Rodentia.
WILD BIRDS: Means those species of the class Aves whose members exist in Washington in a wild state.
C. Hunting Prohibited: It is unlawful to hunt, or attempt to hunt, any wild animal or wild bird on property within the City of Orting; provided, that this section shall not apply to the following persons or activities:
1. The hunting of animals by law enforcement officers or Game Department personnel while engaged in the performance of their official duties;
2. The nonlethal trapping or capturing of animals or birds by means designed to ensure the safety and well-being of the animals; and
3. The hunting of animals on private property with the express permission of the owner or owners and not closer than five hundred feet (500') from any dwelling or access way on adjacent public or private property.
4. The operation of qualified "farm kill" businesses licensed by the Washington State Department of Agriculture, and are engaged in the performance of their official business.
D. Penalties: Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor, and shall be subject to the penalties stated in section 1-4-1 of this Code. (Ord. 2017-1007, 3-8-2017)
As used in this article:
EMERGENCY: An incident that requires a normal police, coroner, fire, rescue, emergency medical services, or utility response as a result of a violation of one of the statutes enumerated in section 6-1C-2 of this article.
EMERGENCY RESPONSE: A public agency's use of emergency services during an "emergency" or disaster as defined in this section.
EXPENSE OF AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE: Reasonable costs incurred by a public agency in reasonably making an appropriate emergency response to the incident, but shall only include those costs directly arising from the response to the particular incident. Reasonable costs shall include the costs of providing police, coroner, firefighting, rescue, emergency medical services, or utility response at the scene of the incident, as well as the salaries of the personnel responding to the incident.
PUBLIC AGENCY: The state, and a city, county, municipal corporation, district, town, or public authority located, in the whole or in part, within this state which provides or may provide firefighting, police, ambulance, medical, or other emergency services. (Ord. 966, 6-24-2015)
A. A person whose intoxication causes an incident resulting in an appropriate emergency response, and who, in connection with the incident, has been found guilty of or has had their prosecution deferred for: 1) driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, Revised Code Of Washington 46.61.502; 2) operating an aircraft under the influence of intoxicants or drugs, Revised Code Of Washington 47.68.220; 3) use of a vessel while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, Revised Code Of Washington 79A.60.040; 4) vehicular homicide while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, Revised Code Of Washington 46.61.520(1)(a); or 5) vehicular assault while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, Revised Code Of Washington 46.61.522(1)(b), is liable for the expense of an emergency response by a public agency to the incident.
B. The expense of an emergency response is a charge against the person liable for expenses under this section. The charge constitutes a debt of that person and is collectible by the public agency incurring those costs in the same manner as in the case of an obligation under a contract, expressed or implied. Following a conviction of an offense listed in this section, and prior to sentencing, the prosecution may present to the court information setting forth the expenses incurred by the public agency for its emergency response to the incident. Upon a finding by the court that the expenses are reasonable, the court shall order the defendant to reimburse the public agency. The cost reimbursement shall be included in the sentencing order as an additional monetary obligation of the defendant and may not be substituted for any other fine or cost required or allowed by statute. The court may establish a payment schedule for the payment of the cost reimbursement, separate from any payment schedule imposed for other fines and costs.
C. In no event shall a person's liability under this section for the expense of an emergency response exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) for a particular incident.
D. If more than one public agency makes a claim for payment from an individual for an emergency response to a single incident under the provisions of this section, and the sum of the claims exceeds the amount recovered, the division of the amount recovered shall be determined by an interlocal agreement consistent with the requirements of chapter 39.34 Revised Code Of Washington. (Ord. 966, 6-24-2015)
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