Kent, WA Building Safety: Lead Paint (2026)

080's lead-based-paint certification rule into city law. The statute bars any individual or firm from performing, offering, or claiming to perform lead-based paint activities or renovation activities without certification from the state department administering Washington's lead-based paint activities program and the EPA's renovation, repair, and painting program. The department may deny, suspend, or revoke a certificate for violating federal work-practice standards, for obtaining the certificate through error, misrepresentation, or fraud, or for failing to maintain the certificate's required qualifications, and anyone whose certificate is revoked cannot reapply for one year.

Subsection (4) makes intentional violations, including falsifying documents, a misdemeanor; the statute lists specific violations covered, including failing to comply with any chapter requirement, refusing to provide required records or reports, obtaining certification through fraud, performing certification-required work without ever obtaining certification, and fraudulently obtaining certification to perform the work. The department cannot double-penalize a contractor if the EPA has already brought its own enforcement action for the same violation. 010(D)'s jurisdictional-assumption clause and Kent Municipal Court.