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***Note: Many local criminal codes can now be located under Chapter 10.60 SMC while others are now cited under the Revised Code of Washington (RCW), which was incorporated into the municipal code in 2022. (See SMC 10.58.010). Code Enforcement, including Noise Control and Animal Regulations are located in Chapters 10.62 through 10.74.

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Title 18
Chapter 18.09
Section 18.09.020
 

Title 18 Human Rights

Chapter 18.09 Nuclear Weapons Free Zone

Section 18.09.020 Definitions

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:

  1. “Component of a nuclear weapon” is any device, radioactive substance or nonradioactive substance designed knowingly and intentionally to contribute to the operation, launch, guidance, delivery, or detonation of a nuclear weapon.
  1. “Nuclear weapon” is any device with the sole purpose of the destruction of human life and property by an explosion resulting from the energy released by a fission or fusion reaction involving atomic nuclei.
  1. “Nuclear weapons producer” is any person, firm, corporation, limited liability company, institution, facility, parent, or subsidiary thereof, engaged in the production of nuclear weapons or their components.
  1. “Production of nuclear weapons” includes the knowing or intentional research, design, development, testing, manufacture, evaluation, maintenance, storage, transportation, or disposal of nuclear weapons or their components.
  1. A “product produced by a nuclear weapons producer” is any product which is made wholly or primarily by a nuclear weapons producer, except that products which, prior to their intended purchase by the City, have been previously owned and used by an entity other than the manufacturer or distributor; such products shall not be considered produced by a nuclear weapons producer if, prior to their purchase by the City, more than 25% of the useful life of such product has been used or consumed, or within one year after it has been put into service by the previous nonmanufacturer owner. The “useful life of a product” shall be defined, where possible, by the applicable rules, regulations or guidelines of the United States Internal Revenue Service.

Date Passed: Monday, November 7, 2022

Effective Date: Wednesday, December 21, 2022

ORD C36299 Section 1