10.28.010 Definitions.
The words and phrases used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, shall have the following meanings:
“Enforcement officer” means any police officer or the city code enforcement officer. It also means the fire chief, the directors of the departments of public works and planning and community development, and the director of the Bellingham and Whatcom County district department of health, or their respective delegated representatives.
“Nuisance” means any act, condition, omission, thing, or use of property which does the following:
A. Annoys, injures, or endangers the safety, health, comfort, or repose of the public;
B. Offends public decency;
C. Unlawfully interferes with, obstructs, or renders dangerous for passage a waterway, public park, street, sidewalk, alley, or highway; or
D. In any way renders the public insecure in life or in the use of property. [Ord. 2006-06-057; Ord. 9402 § 3, 1984; Ord. 8573 § 7(A), 1977].