RCW 7.48.068
Abatement of moral nuisance by owner—Effect on injunction.
The owner of any real or personal property to be closed or restrained, or which has been closed or restrained, may appear after the filing of the complaint and before the hearing on the application for a permanent injunction.
The court, if satisfied of the good faith of the owner of the real property and of the innocence on the part of any owner of the personal property of any knowledge of its use as a nuisance, and that with reasonable care and diligence such owner could not have known thereof shall, at the time of the hearing on the application for the temporary injunction and upon payment of all costs incurred and upon the filing of a bond by the owner of the real property with sureties to be approved by the clerk in the full value of the property to be ascertained by the court, conditioned that such owner will immediately abate the nuisance and prevent the same from being established or kept, refrain from issuing any order closing such real property or restraining the removal or interference with such personal property, and, if such temporary injunction has already been issued, shall cancel said order and shall deliver such real or personal property, or both, to the respective owners thereof. The release of any real or personal property under this section shall not release it from any judgment, lien, penalty, or liability to which it may be subjected by law.
[ 1979 c 1 § 10 (Initiative Measure No. 335, approved November 8, 1977).]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: As to the constitutionality of this section, see note following RCW 7.48.052.
Voluntary abatement: RCW 7.48.110.
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.