Washington requires jurisdictions over 25,000 to provide organics collection and bans certain organic waste disposal under RCW 70A.205.545.
Under Washington's Organics Management Law (2022, HB 1799, codified at RCW 70A.205.540 through .550), jurisdictions with a population of 25,000 or more must provide residential organics collection service (RCW 70A.205.540), and businesses generating threshold volumes of organic waste must arrange organics diversion (RCW 70A.205.545), phased in from July 2024. Backyard composting is broadly permitted statewide and not prohibited by state law. The Department of Ecology administers compost facility permitting under chapter 173-350 WAC and oversees compliance.
Businesses failing to subscribe to required organics service face local enforcement; facility permit violations may incur Ecology penalties.
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YMC 5.57.040 sets buffers and zone restrictions. Mobile or street vendors may not operate in any vehicle travel lane (YMC 5.57.040(2)) and may not sell from ...
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YMC Chapter 5.57 (Mobile Food Vendors) — adopted by Ord. 2015-029 and amended by Ord. 2020-006 — requires every mobile or street vendor to obtain a city busi...
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Federal law preempts local regulation of the navigable airspace over Yakima. Recreational flyers operate under 49 U.S.C. § 44809 (visual line of sight, ≤ 400...
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Yakima does not require a city permit or business license for an occasional residential garage sale of personal household items. Mobile/street vendor licensi...
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YMC Chapter 8.88 (Snow and Ice Removal) requires every owner or occupant of property adjacent to a public sidewalk to clear the sidewalk 'immediately adjacen...
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Under YMC 11.40.302.4 (adopting 2018 IPMC §302.4 as amended), 'Premises and exterior property shall be maintained free from hazardous vegetation in excess of...
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