Port Townsend, WA Fire Regulations: Brush Clearance (2026)

C. Accumulations of Garbage and Materials.

1. Any accumulation, stack, or pile of building or construction materials not associated with a current, in-progress project and not in a lawful storage structure or container.

2. Any accumulation of broken, discarded, inoperable, or neglected items or parts thereof, including, but not limited to, household furniture, furnishings, equipment, appliances, machinery, litter, salvage materials, or junk not in an approved enclosed structure, container, or waste receptacle.

3. Any garbage, waste, refuse, litter, debris, recyclables, rubble, or other materials, or combination thereof, not in an approved enclosed structure, container, or waste receptacle.

4. Any accumulation of materials or objects, including dry vegetation, in a manner that endangers property or safety, or constitutes a fire hazard as determined by the fire code official or East Jefferson Fire and Rescue.

D. The erecting, maintaining, using, placing, depositing, leaving or permitting to be or remain in or upon any private lot, building, structure or premises, or in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk, park, parkway, or other public or private place in the city, any one or more of the following disorderly, disturbing, unsanitary, disease-causing places, conditions or things:

1. Any unsound, putrid, or unwholesome bone, meat, hides, skin, or the whole or parts of any dead animal or fish or the offal, garbage, or other offensive parts of any animals.