Auburn, WA Public Conduct: Public Urination (2026)

8 specifically makes it unlawful to urinate or defecate in any place open to the public view, other than in a restroom or toilet facility. The provision requires no proof of intent to offend or of intoxication; the act being visible to the public is enough. It sits alongside other disorderly-conduct clauses banning public fighting, willfully damaging another person's property, obstructing vehicle or pedestrian traffic without authority, disrupting a lawful assembly, and peeping into a residence window, all under the same penalty in subsection B: disorderly conduct is a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of 90 days in jail and/or a $1,000 fine.

The current language traces to Ordinance 6781 (2020), which amended the section originally adopted by Ordinance 5682 in 2002 and revised again by Ordinance 6503 in 2014. Auburn Police enforce the section directly, and charges are filed in Auburn Municipal Court. 010(A)(8) does not impose. 900, separately incorporates state riot, failure-to-disperse and false-reporting statutes by reference, but those are distinct offenses from the public urination/defecation clause.