RCW 7.48.010
Actionable nuisance defined.
The obstruction of any highway or the closing of the channel of any stream used for boating or rafting logs, lumber or timber, or whatever is injurious to health or indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to essentially interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of the life and property, is a nuisance and the subject of an action for damages and other and further relief.
[Code 1881 § 605; 1877 p 126 § 610; 1869 p 144 § 599; 1854 p 207 § 405; RRS § 943.]
NOTES:
Crimes
malicious mischief: Chapter 9.61 RCW.
public nuisance: RCW 9.66.010.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 7 - Special Proceedings and Actions
7.48.010 - Actionable nuisance defined.
7.48.020 - Who may sue—Judgment for damages—Warrant for abatement—Injunction.
7.48.030 - Issuance and execution of warrant.
7.48.040 - Stay of issuance of warrant.
7.48.050 - Moral nuisances—Definitions.
7.48.054 - Moral nuisance—Personal property—Effects of notice.
7.48.056 - Abate moral nuisance—Enjoin owner.
7.48.058 - Maintaining action to abate moral nuisance—Bond.
7.48.060 - Moral nuisance—Jurisdiction—Filing a complaint.
7.48.062 - Moral nuisance—Restraining order—Violations.
7.48.064 - Moral nuisance—Hearing—Notice—Consolidation with trial.
7.48.066 - Finding of moral nuisance—Orders.
7.48.068 - Abatement of moral nuisance by owner—Effect on injunction.
7.48.070 - Moral nuisance—Priority of action on calendar.
7.48.072 - Moral nuisance—Effects of admission or finding of guilt.
7.48.074 - Moral nuisance—Evidence of reputation—Admissibility.
7.48.076 - Moral nuisance—Trial—Costs—Dismissal—Judgment.
7.48.078 - Moral nuisance—Judgment—Penalties—Disposal of personal property.
7.48.080 - Moral nuisance—Violation of injunction—Contempt of court.
7.48.085 - Moral nuisance—Property owner may repossess.
7.48.090 - Moral nuisance—Contraband—Forfeitures.
7.48.100 - Moral nuisance—Immunity of certain motion picture theater employees.
7.48.110 - Houses of lewdness, assignation or prostitution may be abated—Voluntary abatement.
7.48.130 - Public nuisance defined.
7.48.140 - Public nuisances enumerated.
7.48.150 - Private nuisance defined.
7.48.155 - Unlawful use of firearm or deadly weapon—Arrest required.
7.48.160 - Authorized act not a nuisance.
7.48.170 - Successive owners liable.
7.48.180 - Abatement does not preclude action for damages.
7.48.190 - Nuisance does not become legal by prescription.
7.48.210 - Civil action, who may maintain.
7.48.220 - Abatement, by whom.
7.48.230 - Public nuisance—Abatement.
7.48.240 - Certain places of resort declared nuisances.
7.48.260 - Warrant of abatement.
7.48.280 - Costs of abatement.
7.48.300 - Agricultural activities and forest practices—Legislative finding and purpose.
7.48.310 - Agricultural activities and forest practices—Definitions.
7.48.315 - Agricultural activities and forest practices—Recovering lawsuit costs—Farmers.