§ 8.48.170 — Host's liability

8.48.170 Host's liability.

A. Except as may be permitted by state law or authorized by this chapter, it is unlawful for any person to permit, allow, or promote any discharge of dangerous fireworks (including a public display) or unauthorized use of safe and sane fireworks if that person either knows or reasonably should know that an individual is discharging fireworks on his or her residential or other private property, city property, or in an adjacent public right of way, except as provided below in subsection B.2. B. The provisions this section shall not apply to: 1. The possession, manufacture, storage, display, sale, use, or discharge of fireworks as permitted under federal or state ; 2. A host who initiates contact with law enforcement or fire officials to assist in removing any person from the property terminating the activity in order to comply with this chapter if the request for assistance is made before any other person contacts law enforcement or fire officials to complain about the violation of this chapter. C. A person who permits, allows or promotes the discharge of dangerous fireworks or the unauthorized use of safe and sane fireworks on private property, city property, public right of way, or on a property under their possession shall be rebuttably presumed to have actual or constructive knowledge of such discharge, if either they are a host who did not take action in satisfaction of subsection B.2 above or they were present at the premises at any time when the discharge of fireworks occurred. D. Upon a violation of section 8.48.170.A, code enforcement or law enforcement may issue a written notice to all identifiable hosts that a violation of the fireworks ordinance has occurred and that further violations will result in citations, assessment of response costs, or both. E. No host shall aid or abet another person's violation of a provision of this chapter in a public right-of-way adjacent to the host's private property. A host aids and abets another person's violation of a provision of this chapter if he or she knows of the other person's unlawful purpose and the host specifically intends to and does, in fact, facilitate, promote, or instigate the other person's commission of that violation. (Ord. 2025-0014 § 15; Ord. 2021-0019 § 9)